So changes are good and all that so I am going to do it!!!

My new LJ is michaelman333

Feel free to add me or not it is all up to you :)

I am alive and pumped for a Great show by my friend and mentor ERIC HIMAN!!!!

WOOHOO!!!! So here is the deal I hope to see all my Seattle friends out and about on Tuesday
Aug 23
Seattle, WA
Sunset Tavern
8:00 PM
5433 Ballard Ave
Seattle, WA Cover $8.00 21+ show

I look forward to seeing and meeting many of you out there :)

www.erichiman.com

I have also taken some time and decided to start a new journal more on that later :)

So much thoughts passing through my brain. I call it swirling... I am worn to the edges with thoughts and feeling of restlessness and feeling bit lost.

I feel like I dont recognize my freinds anymore... I feel as if I am taking up space and that I am alone in the world .... I dont wanna go to work tomorrow I HATE IT!!!!!

So now i am beating around the bush ....

This will be my last journal entry in this journal... Musiklovr3 will no longer be here... I will have the journal here for a while longer... I wont delete for a while but I have found it odd to share so many things that are becoming increasingly personal in such an open forum.I will be working at keeping all people updated through other means. I am still finding it hard to get past the idea that when I talk to people that they say didnt you read my LJ... well no I want people to get a hold of me through other means ...

I do have email...michael_man333@comcast.net
a phone
IM--- AIM-michelman333
MSN-michael_man333@hotmail
Yahoo-mmichael_man333

I am actually working on getting a website ...
www.michaelleehoward.com
I will keep it up to date with all sorts of stuff it should be fun :)

I know that I may pop in to check on people but I just need some changes... and just for the RECORD this is all my own thinking and not what some people may assume it is ...

I am enjoying my space and enjoying it means getting closer to the REAL ME ...

I enjoy you and all and look forward to more direct contact :)

Last week HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME was the best yet… I thought the artists were great the audience loved the performances and there was a good time being had!!!!

So to recap last week… I know this is the stupidest entries ever but I am a fan LOL

CAMEO—I don’t really remember them from the 80’s but the reminded me a bit of OUTCAST.
"Word Up" -- What a way to kick the show off, very enjoyable
"1985" (Bowling for Soup) — this was OK but a bit bland…
WANG CHUNG — One of those bands I think never really got a ful break and kept making great albums through the 90’s
"Everybody have fun tonight" – sounded great took me back …
"Hot in Herre" (Nelly) – OK I was skeptical but the British really have a great way of making things fun and this was no exception.
SOPHIE B HAWKINS – I love Sophie and was so excited to see her getting out there and enjoying herself.
"Damn, I Wish I was Your Lover"—she crawled on the floor and threw her arms around … seemed to really being enjoying herself.
"100 Years" (Five for Fighting) — she turned this into a standard and it was great a def highlight of the evening and she looked fabulous
HOWARD JONES – I love HoJo and have for a years. I saw him in concert and met him about 12 years ago and I was so excited to see him. I guess on the online poll after the show Howard won the poll and the show prompted 4500 unique hits to his website www.howardjones.com, now that is kewl.
"No one is To Blame" – Loved the song great performance!!!
"White Flag" (Dido) – I had seen a clip of this form the UK version of this show but it was great to see him do it for audience here in the States.
IRENE CARA – I am not a HUGE fan but she was good despite the fact that her second song she came out with her girl group Hot Caramel…
"What a Feeling" – No surprises… unless you count here flashdance twirl which was kinda funny
"I’m All Outta Love" (Anastacia)- Done wither “Girl Group” I personally thought this one sucked ass…

AND THE WINNER WAS: Irene Cara … damn she sucked but HOJO won the online poll so some people know good talent heheheh

So this week we have
BILLY VERA – “At This Moment” & No Cover listed yet
CLUB NOUVEAU – “Lean On Me” & No Cover listed yet
GLASS TIGER (Love them!!) – “Don’t forget me when I’m Gone” & “Everything You want” (Vertical Horizon)
GREH KIHN – “The Breakup Song” & “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”(Green Day)
THELMA HOUSTON – “Don’t Leave me this way” & No Cover listed yet

ALSO:: There is a new show on FX afterwards at 10. It is called 30days and it is the Morgan Spreelock that did SUPER SIZE ME. It is a great show… check it out 
Hugs everyone
M

I got tagged by 1982splash so here's the 10 celebrities that I think are hot. Which is not easy, since I really don’t think in terms of hotness but talent … but I will try. In no particular Order

10. Rob Thomas
9. Ashley Judd
8. Darren Hayes
7. Sarah Mclachlan
6.Natalie Portman
5. Eric Himan
4. Kevin Spacey
3. Christian Bale
2. Elijah Wood
1.

and to continue this tradition, I'm tagging divine_flux, duckylick, grubbybastard, twisting_path, & xjennersonx

IN honor of one of my fave singer's I have a new page layout with Eric on it thanx to BF he is the kewlest :)

Check it out :)

Hugs
m

YAY!!! I am excited i just read the new Cure lineup will be a Quartet....

Robert/Simon/Jason / and PORL will be back in the fold...

No keyboardist I guess.. I am excited :)

M

That is right I am actually keeping track of HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME!!!!

So Last week was as follows :

THE KNACK:
My Sharona-- Was actuallt good sounded about the same
Are You Gonna Be My Girl (Jet)- This was interesting and I thought it was ok

TOMMY TUTONE:
867-5309/Jenny-- Not bad sounded about the same as well ..
All The Small Things (Blink 182)-- The lead singer looked like his eyes were going to pop outta his hhead ,... very scary :)

THE MOTELS:
Only The Lonely - I love this song and iot was great
Don’t Know Why (Norah Jones)- Didnt realize that the lead singer lives in seattle and works at Teatra Zinzabni. Well they made this lsong so likable ... I was very happy

HADDAWAY:
What is Love?-- Yeah poor guy has lost it... not that great
Toxic (Britney Spears)- OPMG a 30 some old guy rolling on the floor just looks sad... not good at all ..

VANILLA ICE:
Ice Ice Baby -- he looked like he was seriously having a blast
Survivor (Destiny’s Child)-- OK he turned into a rap song about him ... it was ok

AND THE WINNER WAS....VANILLA ICE

I am particularly excited about tonight's show for those of you who know me and my Howard Jones story ... he is great and the show has 5 great people on it :) YAY!!!
Here is the line-up ... latz :)

CAMEO-- "Word Up" & "1985" (Bowling for Soup)
HOWARD JONES -- "Noone is To Blame" & "White Flag" (Dido)
IRENE CARA -- "What a Feeling" & "Im All Outta Love" (Anastacia)
WANG CHUNG--"Everybody have fun tonight" and "Hot in Herre" (Nelly)
SOPHIE B HAWKINS -- "Damn,I Wish I was Your Lover" & "100 Years" (Five for Fighting)

So tonight is week two of
HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME
Last week was great 
In case you haven’t heard of the show … take artists from the 80’s and early 90’s and have they come on a show and sing one of their hits and then something new by a modern artist. Then the audience votes and someone wins

RECAP WEEK ONE:
LOVERBOY: They looked like potatoes in jeans LOL
Working for the Weekend: (sounded ok I guess not same lead singer from the 80’s)
Hero (Enrique Iglesias): Can we say painful!!!

CECE PENISTON: I guess she will be at Seattle pride so kinda a preview
Finally: sounded great and CECE looked very good
There You’ll Be (Faith Hill): Not the best choice but it was ok …

A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS: One of my faves from the 80’s I loved them and was a fan of more than I Ran. Lets just say the hair is gone.
I Ran: They are probably tired of this song and it seemed very rushed and forced.
On The Way Down (Ryan Cabrerro):Now lets be honest and say I would never have thought of this combination … but AFOS actually really reinvented the song and I actually really like it 

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: I was never a HUGE fan, but I liked the tunes, and thought there were fun and different.
Tennessee: Their big hit sounds great and nice to see them still around
Heaven (Los Lonely Boys):I hate this song … that is until Arrested Development did … they made it fun and different and it was great to see 

TIFFANY: OK Anyone who know me knows I love her. My first concert and I saw her a few years ago. She has a new dance album out on CDBABY and put out a great album a few years back called the Color of Silence. She also won the UK version of the show.
I Think Were Alone Now: Her voice stronger and that audience loved her … though I later found out she was just recovering from Bronchitis.
Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson):I though she did a good job .. it is a hard song to sing 

And the winner was ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT 

So tonight is WEEK TWO and here are the performers:
THE KNACK: My Sharona & Are You Gonna Be My Girl (Jet)
TOMMY TUTONE: 867-5309/Jenny & All The Small Things (Blink 182)
THE MOTELS: Only The Lonely & Don’t Know Why (Norah Jones)
HADDAWAY: What is Love? & Toxic (Britney Spears)
VANILLA ICE: Ice Ice Baby & Survivor (Destiny’s Child)

Sounds like an interesting nite 
I promise an actuall update soon 
Hugs
M

You Are Blood
"and you remind me of my sanity doctor
teleport me out of your design
this is fear- welcome to my little flood
and now-give me a little of your blood "
Strong and independent, you can be a bit vengeful when someone hurts you. When you make mistakes, you learn from them and you tend to use your pain to get over the situation. No one could ever accuse you of being docile and timid. You are an intense and mercurial person who doesn't shy away from conflict and will never go unnoticed in a crowd!


Which Standing at the Edge song are you?
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I just wanted to share my excitement with the world...

tonight at 9 is the new show from the UK... HIT ME ONE MORE TIME ... it is a show where 80's artists play an older song and a song fomr recent days ...
tonight is
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
CECE PENNISTON
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
LOVERBOY
AND TIFFANY (One of my faves)

There is supposed to be other people as the seasons goes on :)(
Hugs
M

It is with great sadness that I heard that THE CURE has let two members and thier longtime tour manager go this past week. 

So I say thank you for 10 years of great work and you will be missed :(

Thank you Perry Bamonte Roger O'Donnel and Daryl Bamonte for all your hard work :) <

On a good side I just have been enjoying new artist MISSY HIGGINS and she will be in Seattle on the 19 of JUme and I am going YAY!!!

“All the fear has left me now/ I’m not frightened anymore/It’s my heart that pounds beneath this flesh/It’s my mouth that pushes out this breathe”

 

I am not exactly sure why this sing is sitting in my head at all… it has been there since last night… I am adjusting to a new life away from the people and thing I know. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing either. Dusty had a great analogy last night…

In life there are 4 main arenas (that is what I will call them) to maintain:

 

RELATIONSHIPS: there have been so many changes in this category for me… one of my best friends moved across the country, I moved away from most of my friends... mostly for my sanity but it is still a bit hard….

 

HOME: Um can we say chaotic… It has been a crazy trying to get settled… I worked at moving stuff this past weekend and all it went well except for the fact that the couch I got didn’t fit into the apt., so I am working on that one now… seeing what I can do for something new on a budget LOL!!! I took the last week to just get away from a lot of things… so I have spent a great deal of time at Dusty’s so I haven’t really established a home yet…

 

WORK: Well this turned into a fiasco but yesterday I started my new job, Medical Billing in Olympia. I worked doing some billing but this is a whole new ballgame… it is way too soon to tell if I will like it or not but I was just told that I am catching on pretty fast… shock shock… but it is still a HUGE adjustment.

 

INTERESTS/HOBBIES: Well I haven’t really figured out the lay of the land yet so I am not sure what all is here in Oly to occupy my time… But I don’t have my computer here yet so I haven’t been doing huge amounts of writing… I need to play on my guitar though, maybe some time tonite… I am hoping soon to get a bit more acclimated to my surroundings…

 

Dusty said that these are 4 areas of life are like car tires. Usually when one is blown at least you have the other three to help you out… well the thing is that I have all four tires blown… hehehehe that is an adjustment that scared and terrified me the other night… but I am doing better… just trying to get into a routine.. an adjustment…

 

I also have stepped away form a few things… some people have questions my motives and lied about some things in a group I was very active in … I have stepped away and I feel pretty good about that… I am hoping that I can eventually get people to know the truth… but at least I know the truth….

 

Aside from that I have just been busy with ME and I am enjoying that… Olympia is treating me well so far… and soon I know I will be back on my feet and life will smooth out a bit J

 

“If I shed a tear I won’t cage it/I won’t fear love/and if I feel a rage I won’t deny it/ I won’t fear love”

“Peace in the struggle to find peace comfort on the way to comfort”

 

Huge hugs

M

 

Sometimeswe are just shadows drifting and moving and not wanting to be right in front of everyone...

I did just that :) I am currently a shadow and enjoying it :) Well lets see .. I ended up getting so mad at my boss that I told her off ... in a nice way but I do feel good about it!!! So I decided this week before I start my new job to take a sabbatical... I feel oretty good about that decision... Though it makes me poor as hell....

I am taking donations LOL... Just ask how :)

IN all seriousness.. I am broke and not sure how i am going to make it for the next couple of weeks but i am sure it will work out somehow. I feel very good about my decision and gives me some time to spend with Dusty for the next wfew days...and get settled...

It actually looks as if I will be finishing my move this weekend and that will put me in heaven :)

anyway more to update later :) i am back to my self induced sabbatical :)

Huge hugs

1. Take the lyrics to a favourite song.
2. Go to Google Language Tools: translate the lyrics into German, then from German to French, and finally from French back into English. http://www.google.com/language_tools
3. Post the results verbatim.
4. Invite friends to guess the song based on the interesting new lyrics.

I picked "From the Edge Of The Deep Green Sea" - The Cure

Each time if we do that me, you fall for their vagueness, after the wave, after the wave is, all for it that I know that this one injustice I (and I am to hold his happy) cannot be known as so a long time, as I know it that you know that today, me belong towards the line here with you right here with you..., And thus, we pay attention the sun to come in top from the edge from the sea tiefgruenen and let us hear them as their head on fires how she would like to believe in me, me thus use your hands in the delivery of sky me recall test that we are here for always and we never say on re-examining..., I never was, but Colourfully-sehen-durch-Kopf, before I never was, should not consider it more thus and all them that I wish, this one can you and myself only the kiss has secret and will not let at the house leave this fine asks as the current day not to remain right to let me go them says thus regards me as million days miles hundred, but it slows down suddenly and considers to the bottom my breakable face, why you cry? what do I have says? But it is far sweeping straight lines with the rains which I mouse, my tears..., I wish that I could precisely stop me know me that another moment breaks my heart much much tears with the mark much of years that I cried rueber you, how much of with more uses us can to him in top? Do you drink it dry? do you take this drug? Slightly however seeking after something for always we always wish gone? Why why, why, you let to me go? it says that I believe that you believe myself me withdrawing to deform you..., And precisely I break freely, hangs to me their before me evidence his behaviour like a flag of marking to the floor and hands in the sky transmit him to all..., me wishes that I could precisely stop me know me that another moment breaks my heart much much tears with the mark much of years that I cried for you, him it even always awakes in the head of rain in the pain hung in the names different from dishonour has those same old men loves of play in futile and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of the house... is again distant

This was posted today by Dusty... you know sometimes we get caught up in our own self induced muck....We forget about the simple things in life and the blessings we all have in this life time... 10 years ago Dusty lost someone close to him... a friend named Bill---
Thanks Baby fo sharing

"bill dealt with his own depression as well as the hate and fear that homophobia throws your way for a number of years before he grew too tired to take anymore. years ago, bill's mother created a website for her son and his story which you can view at: http://www.youth-guard.org/gabi/index.html if you are interested in hearing more.

i wanted to suggest though, that you take just a moment to remember those you have loved and those you have lost. and to remember to cherish what you have with those who are still here.

so to bill… who was sensitive and funny. who didn't always bathe (haha) and had a tendency to make all the wrong decisions with regards to his heart. whom i love, and i miss..."

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me" or something equivalent.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions, and believe me they may be in depth, so you are forewarned.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post, optional.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

These are the questions from  forrestunknown

 

Your Birthdate: March 19

Your birth on the 19th day of the month adds a tone of independence and extra energy to your life path. But at the same time, it poses a number of obstacles to overcome before you are able to be as independent as you would like. The number 1 energy suggests more executive ability and leadership qualities than your path may have indicated. A birthday on the 19th of any month gives greater will power and self-confidence, and very often a rather original approach. However, a somewhat self-centered approach to life that may be in conflict with some of the other influences in your life. This 1 energy may diminish your ability and desire to handle details, preferring instead to paint with a broad brush. You are sensitive, but your feeling stay somewhat repressed. You have a compelling manner that can be dominating in many situations. You do not tend to follow convention or take advice very well. Consequently, you tend to learn through experience; sometimes hard experiences. The 19/1 is a loner number and you may experience feelings of being alone even if you are married. You may take on a tendency to be nervous and angry.

After speaking with my freindly duckylick I realized that I havent posted much about some of the great music communities i am a part of.

**First off I will start with a new site that Dusty (and a tiny bit from me) worked on MY LITTLE FLOOD: This is a new site for Casey Stratton that is very extensive-- make sure to check out the fun forum and the purple couch.

**Another Great community that I belong to is the CASEY STRATTON YAHOO group... the people on this group are incredible and are very close knit ... I feel very lucky to be a part of such a great group.

** violetsuede and I co-moderate the new ERIC HIMAN YAHOO group... I hope this one to be good since Eric is just starting his great sumer tour.

**I also have a LJ group that I started a while back called singrsongwritr

Just a few of the many places I have worked on or use to supprt my fave artists :)

 

HAPPY BDAY GRESO2!!!!! HOPE THE NEXT YEARS IS A BLAST :)