I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes

I'm listening to the Intruder Alert! cd I bought the other night. and I can feel it. I LOVE that feeling. it's one of my all time favorite feelings in the world. just, oh my goodness I love it.

this cd makes me want to cry almost. it feels like something you should listen to after a breakup or something. but I really really like it. it's a strange sensation.

Kill Paradise @ Club Retro

so yesterday was Kill Paradise @ Club Retro in Orangevale. Talia, Olivia, and I went. we went to some store where people take their old clothes. we weren't in the mood to shop so we decided to eat at Panera. then we went to Target to get Nick some Jolly Ranchers. then we went to Club Retro where we waited forever to finally go inside. we saw Nick a few times randomly outside and we got really super excited. Intruder Alert! opened and the singer was really freaking cute. he was wearing a v-neck so we called him Clavicle Boy. :) then Portrait of a Friend played. during both bands a tranvestite was dancing next to us. before Second Day Crush played, we gave Nick his Jolly Ranchers and the little note on my wrestling room Kill Paradise picture. we also talked to Intruder Alert!. after Second Day Crush was the loverly Kill Paradise. but he only played 4 songs!!! it was an outrage! and he didn't even play Candy Land Wedding. very sad. but on the last song (R.C.N.K.) we went onstage and danced. it was fabulous. then some lame band called Vincent Flaw or something played. it was crap. but we stayed after the show and one of Nick's friends was walking outside when Talia motioned for him to come talk to her. his name was Randy. he was pretty darn cool. he's going to fly out to freaking Pennsylvania to see The Starting Line. like whoa. so we talked to him/Nick for awhile, then we had to go.

it was a pretty great night to say the least. :)





Talia's dad reading town ordinances: no person classified as ugly can walk down the city street

Talia: I don't normally eat with scissors

Talia: make it a generous heart

Me, Talia, Olivia: you have nice pair of clavicles

Me, Talia, Olivia: Clavicle Boy!!!

"Hey girl hey!
You're a gorgeous guy Lil' Cocozzella, and we enjoy watching you cook.
Man, I think that's hot.
(heart) (generous heart) (heart)
Candace
Olivia
Talia
p.s. - we're from Paradise, CA
p.s.s.- we hope you enjoy your JOLLY Ranchers"

Nick: "Hey girl hey!"

[Nick's eyebrow raise at O-Child]

Jared (Clavicle Boy): I'm part of the dinosaur club.

Me: can I maybe get a picture with you?
Jared: yeah!
Me: should I come around, or are you gonna come out...?
Jared: I'm gonna teleport. close your eyes.
(crawls under table)
Jared: I can only use that once!

Nick: we're from Denver, Colorado
Talia: Land of the fierce!
Nick: Britney Spears? she was good once

Me: I'm doin' the Hangman!!!

Randy (talking about Dancing with the Stars): it's not even real choreography. I saw you guys dancing onstage and you had original moves.

Talia: my dad thinks he's a dancer
me: that might just classify him as 'ugly'

Randy: I don't me to be rude or anything, but did you guys see that transvestite?

Talia & Randy: I love how you're calling them an 'It'

Randy: The Land of the Fierce? is that a real place?

Me, T, O: (looking at each other laughing)

Randy: it kind of sounds like The Wizard of Oz

Talia: you should write a song called "The Wizard of Fierce"

Randy: I'm going to name clouds after you

[video of Nick/all the other guys dancing]: I found you Mr. New Booty

Randy (talking about our glow bracelets): I'm happy you guys were festive

Talia: want one?

Me: wait I have one in my pants

Randy (after putting it on): it's never coming off

Randy: I'm 20
Talia: so are you part of the Dinosaur Club?

Randy: rawr.

me: have you had any Jolly Ranchers?

Randy: yeah, my tongue is sore, I've had like 4. hey! that rhymed!

me: have you been enjoying your Jolly Ranchers?
Nick: yeah, the wrappers are all over the floor

Randy: you ladies look beautiful tonight

[after giving Nick/Bryce the Cinderella tablecloth]: we're gonna put this on our merch table!

Talia (while we were talking about penises): Candace, here's a tip for you

Mary Agnosia

I listened to Mary Agnosia by Anchor & Braille like a billion times trying to figure out the lyrics.
I think they're mostly right.

correct me if I'm wrong. please. :)

we're just machines
thrusting to breathe
hopeless, helpless, deconstructing ourselves

warnings to be wanted

willing to waste our lives

disillusioned

I may never find a sense of home

take me anywhere

(wherever you're going)

take me anywhere

'cause nobody wants me here

take me anywhere

(wherever you're going)

take me anywhere

'cause nobody wants me here, here, here

robots are rising

while the rest of us keep writhing

we just didn't feel you afterall

lights out, inspiration

we're tired of the nation

faulty I don't wanna sense of home

take me anywhere

(wherever you're going)

take me anywhere

'cause nobody wants me here

take me anywhere

(wherever you're going)

take me anywhere

'cause nobody wants me here, here, here

take me anywhere

(wherever you're going)

take me anywhere

'cause nobody wants me here

take me anywhere
(wherever you're going)
take me anywhere
'cause nobody wants me here

take me anywhere
(wherever you're going)
take me anywhere
'cause nobody wants me here

take me anywhere
(wherever you're going)
take me anywhere
'cause nobody wants me here, here, here

it's only on http://www.purevolume.com/anchorandbraille

"Give Timmy A Backdance"

first I'll start with this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fafJRTOGk_g

[k]nate is lovely and funny. :)

that's the first thing I saw when I got on the 'net today. <3

so on anberlin's myspace page [http://www.myspace.com/anberlin] they have a webcam set up so you can watch them in the studio. it's pretty awesome.
and they have this little figurine, doll thing named Ringo. and they have him holding post-its.
when I first started watching today Ringo had a post-it saying something like "put your own words in Ringo's hands (leave comment)" or something like that.
so people were leaving comments and telling the guys what to write on the post-its.

I thought it was really neat so I left them a comment saying "For Ringo: 'give Timmy a backdance'."


next thing I knew, this is what I saw:

and then this:

idk who Crystal is, but it's cool!

and then this:

the last one made me laugh so I sent them a message saying this:

Subject: what a backdance really is

Body: it's a weird dance used to cheer people up.

you sit on their back and dance.

any dance.

it's wonderful. :D

-Candace

they still haven't read it, but it's cool. lol.

they are honestly the coolest people on earth.
they really are just people with musical talent.

then I was watchin again and I saw Joey holding a post-it.

he is INSANE at staring contests. he was doing it before I even started, and he still won.

so great! so so so freaking great!

I love them. :D

I love anberlin more than LIFE

background info:

anberlin posted a bulletin on myspace sometime last week:

so someone sent me a video of this guy singing into a talkbox to one of our songs and it totally cracked me up; so after showing the guys we all started searching youtube for funny videos of random people impersonating or writing piano parts to our songs etc...

so! we tagged some of the best on our "favorites" section of our youtube channel. PLEASE check out my personal favorite entitled "jeff the spartan dances to anberlin" i LOVE it!

now we want your videos! im going to try to search youtube as much as possible and if you want to cover one of our songs, dance, make spoofs, etc. please post it up on youtube and we will pick our favorites and put them up on our youtube.com/anberlin site!

you guys are the greatest! thanks for all your support in this chaotic process of writing!

-stephen christian

youtube.com/anberlin

so I replied to the bulletin sending them the link of my freaking out video:

clickk.

I checked on the message's status later that night, and again a few days later, and it still just said 'sent' so I was like okay, whatever. but then for kicks, I checked again tonight and it said 'read' so I went to their youtube page and this is what I found: