Words cannot express how impressed I am with Coheed & Cambria. 

Now if anyone knows anything about me, I am very obsessed with music, all genres.  I know a shit ton about a lot of music, and can hold an intellectual conversation about most bands/singers.  I am very passionate about music and believe it does something to the soul in ways that sometimes normal words or emotions can't touch.  There is nothing like an amazing melody with deep lyrics that just reaches out, grabs you, and says "this song is about you, listen."  Especially when you can hear the music live, and see the musicians feeding off the energy of the crowd...

With all that being said, I liked Coheed and Cambria before, they were pretty okay.  I never REALLY gave them much attention.  My boyfriend is such a huge fan of theirs, mostly because he's a comic book nerd and all of the discography from Coheed is directly related to a story from a comic book that Claudio Sanchez, the lead singer, writes.  You can think of all of Coheed's songs as soundtracks that tell the story of the comic books.  The album they just released a week or two weeks ago will be their last album, because Claudio just released the last comic book with it.  This is supposedly their last tour as well, but after seeing all of their diehard fans last night, and the way that band performs; the demand will probably be too great to just stop touring.

I've never cried at a show, and I've been to plenty.  PLENTY.  I may have gotten a bit misty eyed, but never dropped tears.  I cried last night at their show.  Twice.  That's how touched I was at how passionate this band is.  During this song:

I'm not sure if the video will post or not, but it's called "Pearl of the Stars".  PLEASE listen to it.  Jeff turned me around and put his arms around me during this song, almost like he was waiting to hear that song with me in his arms.  He would squeeze me just a little at a few different parts, I remember each part too.

"She's my angel from the west.  There will never be a one to take her place."

"When you go, I will know.  Follow you to the stars..."

"I'd give you everything, if only I'd known you'd take it.  But you don't, cause you're you.  That's why I'll always love you....my pearl in the stars."

So, obviously hearing those lyrics and feeling him hold onto me so tight, I had chill bumps and was already way into everything that was happening on the stage.  Then when Claudio plays that guitar solo in the song, a tear just dropped and I couldn't help it.  I have never been so touched during a song.

Then the last song they played before the encore was called "In Keeping Secrets" and of course it was awesome. 

But the part that left me standing completely still, came at 6:32. They had the Jesus beams of light coming up behind Claudio while he played the crazy guitar solo, and then he'd lift his arms in the air when the audience was supposed to scream the lyrics to him.  They had strobe lights going over the audience and literally EVERYONE'S fists were in the air.  It was powerful shit.  I really welled up just from the feeling of the energy in the crowd, I've never seen anything like that before.  And I knew it was actually amazing because granted, I was rendered speechless- I still knew I wanted to talk about how awesome it was right after it was done.

Before the show started, Jeff and I were debating about the best guitarist ever, that's alive.  And he said Claudio.  I said it was a three way tie for me with Michael Einziger (Incubus) Randy Rhoades (Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist) or Adam Dutkiewicz (Killswitch Engage).  Now, after seeing that show...I think it's just a two way tie between Mikey and Claudio.  The man pulled out a violin bow and played his electric guitar with it, played his guitar with his teeth, shredded with the guitar behind his head...and it was all REALLY GOOD playing!!  And don't even get me started on his vocals...with his different style of singing, his vocal range was seriously perfect and insane and he hit every note with precision.  I fell in love with this band last night. 

GO SEE COHEED &CAMBRIA ON THIS TOUR IF YOU CAN!! You won't regret it.

I'm not even sure when I last updated, I didn't check...but dang it feels like it's been a minute since I've written in here!  This will be a huge mondo post with pictures because I have many.

*blows off the dust*

Well much has happened since I last updated and I would like to remember most of what I can by putting in here, as usual.  Yes, I will be mentioning Jeff and I boning more than once in here.  Don't say I never warned ya.

Vanessa and I threw J Bails a surprise birthday party because it just so happened that her birthday landed on the same day as Vanessa's wedding rehearsal day.  Jenn was a trooper though, barely making it known that she felt like her birthday wasn't as important or would've been looked over.  So Ryan initially came up with the idea that we throw her a surprise party at their apartment.  I decided to take her out to dinner, Taylor joined and we went to the restaurant that she works at.  Some french place called Le Chalet or something.  As an appetizer we had these little pieces of bread with a crazy assorted cheese and white wine fondue thing. 

 Jenn hated it, I thought it was pretty okay.  Then for dinner I had a crepe filled with chicken, mushrooms, and onions:

 Jenn had some pizza type crepe, and I don't remember what Tay had.  Then for dessert we had this orgasm on a plate Nutella crepe with powdered sugar and cream.  Basically any woman PMSing would stampede toward this dessert, it was delicious.

  Little did Miss Bailey know, Ness was putting the final decorations and food that we put together earlier in the week, and her friends were gathering together to surprise her.  We forced Jenn to drink a drink to buy more time, then we were on our way. 

When we showed up, Jenn opened the door to a dark apartment (which she commented on initially), then walked in to everyone shouting "SURPRISE!" and Jenn saw AAAAAALL of the Little Mermaid decorations we put together for her.  It's her favorite so we knew she'd get a kick out of it.  Pretty sure the chick at Party City thought I was some child molester with the big basket full of Little Mermaid decorations I was hauling off with. 

We had a great time, playing crazy games of Bullshit, Spoons, and the epitome of everything was the automated Truth or Dare.  The videos of myself doing the worm and Vanessa doing the running man will be left out, thank you.

 It turned out awesome, in my opinion.  I hope J Bails had a good time as well.

And then of course there is Vanessa finally tying the knot with Ryan.  What a crazy time, man.  Chaotic, surreal, sereane, as well as memorable is how I can best describe it.  It is hard to comprehend the fact that I actually witnessed someone whom I love and care about so much make that huge leap into a new chapter in her life.  I do feel very honored to have even been involved, none the less to be 1/2 of a maid of honor with J Bails.  The wedding took place in Sedona; red rocks and blue skies abound.  It was beautiful.  The sun was shining, the breeze (or should I say hurricane-like winds), flowers, and smiles were clearly evident to everyone.  Their vows to each other were truly just that.  They defined what a vow should be...emotion and love turned into words.  Everyone present was impacted by their promises to each other, which was again- beautiful. 

I digress on to how the whole weekend was through my eyes:

For me, everything really started rolling when we did Vanessa's bachelorette party. 

I was BEYOND nervous about how that would pan out.  I didn't want to piss off Ryan because he's so freaked out at the idea of anyone having their eyes on Vanessa (haha, just exaggerating.), I wanted Nessa to feel like we put a lot of time and effort into it, because we really wanted it to be perfect for her.  So Jenn and I were feverishly running around all morning/afternoon, getting everything together and ready for the evening/weekend.  We got ready ahead of time

and we picked up Nessa in the decked out Bachelorette decorated car (R.I.P. bachelorette flag)

and headed off to dinner.  All of her bridal party was there:  Jenn, Me, Jen O, and Dianne.  We rode around listening to Beyonce and Kesha, or Ke$ha whatevs.  That was a lot of fun.  Went to Los Olivos and had some mexican food that was pretty good.  Not as great as I thought it would be.  Ness started her drinking there though which was awesome, hello tequila. 

Made her some penis cupcakes.

Then we went off to the club.  It was a good time, dancing with a bunch of gay men and stripper poles.  To appease Ryan, figured it'd be best to instead of have gay male strippers give Ness lap dances, to just have Ness  dance with a bunch of gay guys.  She got beyond drunk, we all lost count of how many shots we bought her/the people at the club bought her.  Some pictures of those events..

I don't have all of the good pictures :( Just a few.  But let it be known, girl got on the stripper pole, was sandwiched between two gay men and they were all dry humping, we danced our asses off, mingled a little, Ness danced like an Oakland stripper, and I'm pretty sure she smacked every man's ass in there.  Girl was lit.

Then the next day J Bails, Abram and I drove up to Sedona.  We checked into our hotel rooms and got ready as fast as we could for the wedding rehearsal dinner.

Then we went back to the hotel to chill for a bit, and Jeffrey finally got there.  He couldn't take the day off work so he came up after.  We sleep in the same bed every night but with how busy I was the previous two days, I didn't see him at all because by the time I'd get home he'd be sleeping, and by the time he got up for work, I was sleeping.  So when he pulled up, I was like a kid on christmas seeing him.  I ran up to him and gave him this big ole hug and kiss and showed him to our room.  Not gonna lie, with it being two days since we had had any interaction, I was ready for some..ya know.  But anyway, all of Nessa's bridal party and all of Ryan's friends went out for drinks, except Ryan.  They decided to wear plaid, so I jumped in on that as well.

We played some pool, drank some drinks, had a few laughs.

Freaking Mark, that dude was cool.  Jeffrey bought everyone (I think all in all there was like 10 or 11 of us there) a round of shots, never having met any of them before besides Jenn and Ness.  I was soooo gaga over him when he did that, he did a toast to Ryan and Vanessa too.  He was mingling and having a good time with everyone which was really cool.

He looks creepy in this picture haha but awww us!

Then we rounded up shop and all headed back to the hotel (we won't go into why we left).  Anyway, after about two hours of stuff Jeff and I headed back to our room for some "I-haven't-seen-you-in-two-days-lets-have-crazy-buck-wild-sex" love.  SO good.  Apparently Ryan and his buddies in the room next to us kept banging on the wall but we didn't hear anything, ha.  Then we passed out, I woke up early to start getting ready for the day.  Jenn joined me and we went and got some breakfast (subway lol) then back to the hotel to start preparing.  All of the bridesmaids got ready in my room while Jeff ate the subway I brought back for him and watched TV lol.  Didn't complain not once for having 4 chicks in his room talking all loudly and giggling and doing our hair and makeup, he's so awesome.  Anyway, we headed down to the wedding site and of course it was beautifully set up.  Vanessa and all four of us were running around frantically to get the place set up, up until about 15 minutes of the actual wedding beginning.  Thank goodness we all had our hair and makeup done before we got there, so all we had to do was put on all of our dresses.  Then the wedding began :]

(Getting through our toast was so hard, I cried in front of all of those people.  Yes, even that man with the obscene bald spot.)

(LOL at Abe looking like he's levitating)

There was a dance floor where we had a total blast for a few hours.  The DJ was multifunctional- he was the minister, party host, DJ, and got on the dance floor with all of us.  He did Thriller for petes sake! Among many other dances, cool dude.  Jeff and I did our first slow dance together, so romantic.  That's about all he would do with me lol he wouldn't dance dance.  Then we did the money dance which myself and the best man did.  That was cool.  Lordy I got a wee bit too drunk, but it was still so much fun.  Then Jeff and I headed back to our hotel room.  Again, more lovings.  This time, not so much buck wild type stuff, but it was passionate and long and great.  He knew how tired and relieved everything was over and done with so he took care of me for sure that night.  Loooooooooooovelyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :]

Then the next morning everyone got all packed up and we all went out to breakfast.  I LOVE this picture of Ryan and Vanessa, I just think it's so funny as a "day after the wedding" photo:

Jeff and I at our table for breakfast :]

Then we made the drive back home.  We always have so much fun, we were singing at the top of our lungs to Coheed and Cambria's "Mother Superior" over and over, I freestyle, he tried.  He's white, he can't do much but ya know.  A for effort.  We had all of the windows down and the sun roof open, it was such a beautiful day.  It was so awesome picking up Jasper from my pops too, I missed him so much.  And even though he's my dog, he was totally way happier to see Jeff which is way gay.  Then we came home and chilled for the rest of the night doing what we do best.

Then it was back to reality, work as usual.  Gym, running, all that.  It was awesome to see Jennalove. 

Yesterday Jeff and I went on a double date with Josh, my ex-boss from DeVry which is his best friend since they were like 7 or something and his girlfriend. 

We saw Remember Me with the Twilight dude and Claire from Lost.  It was okay, John Jay and Rich gave away the ending already so I knew what was coming instead of being shocked by the big twist at the end.  Jeff LOVES girl movies, but when he heard how seriously sad this movie was from other people, he was not too thrilled because he knew he'd cry in front of me.  Anyway, when the big twist happened, he cried lol he was the only one that cried out of the four of us.  My man is so adorable, no one else knew he cried except me. 

Then we went to eat at some place called BJ's, which was good.  Expensive, but good.  I had broccoli and cheese soup, Jeff had a turkey club, Josh had spaghetti with meat sauce and Sarah had salmon salad with mozzerella.  Jeff and Josh are so funny together, they had Sarah and I cracking up.  I dunno if I really get along with Sarah so much.  She kind of seems like an arrogant, valley girl, barbie type.  Which I'm not knocking the chick, I'm cool to her and she wasn't mean or anything but she just seemed so disinterested in what we were all talking about and would always change the subject to something else.  But eh, what can you do. 

Aaaaanyways, we went back to Josh's place and we played this questions game which was like a book of random questions pertaining towards Love and Sex.  It was very interesting and funny to see what each couple thought about their significant other.  Jeff didn't surprise me at all with his answers, and same with me to him.  But Josh and Sarah were kind of bugging out on each other the whole time when they'd answer about each other.  And Josh is planning on asking Sarah to marry him in May...yikes.  Good luck.  That's why I don't wanna get married ever!

Then we came home and went to bed, we were so tired.

Today was awesome.  Woke up, took a shower and got dressed.  Jeff woke up not long after I was done with my hair and we went out to lunch at Ihop.  Then we went to the store and came home.  Jeff surprised me and told me he was taking me to Laughlin this coming weekend so we also got some cards so he could teach me how to play Deuces Wild.  Hearing him talk about strategies and all this stuff just really got me going, I dunno why.  But he taught me and we played for a while, then went outside to smoke because he was about to sit down and do some school work for a while.  Buuuut I had my mind elsewhere.  So when we were outside we were just talking and I *skip past this if you don't wanna read sexy time stuff* started rubbing him and kissing him and he was like "wwwwhat are YOU doing" and I just kinda looked at him and he was like "you're distracting me from my school work that's what you're doing....wanna...go...do stuff?"

WHEW!!! And did we ever.  We put Jasper in his kennel and went to the bedroom and just started going at it, such good afternoon love makins.  It was so good, like...I wanted him so bad.  In the most primal, sexual, and intense way. 

So after THAT was done, we come back to the living room and he starts doing school work.  I check out facebook, and I see all these people talk about an earthquake today, asking if other people felt it.  I had no idea that one even happened but Jeff had me turn on the news and there it was.  7.2 earthquake in Baja California.  Pretty crazy.  People right down the street saying they felt rolling motions and chandeliers shaking and pools sloshing and all that stuff.  So crazy.  Jeff and I humped our way through an earthquake lol that's nuts.  But yea so, basically it's looking like the world is going to end, being that that's like the third big earthquake that's happened in like what, 3 months.  Yea shit's going down.

But if we can just do like we did today, make some good love through the whole thing, happy and oblivious....I might be okay with it ;]  KIDDING!

But yea, next weekend Jeff and I are taking a vacation to Laughlin.  I can't wait.  I plan on taking lots of pictures =]