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shannon

blessed by a nightmare

About Me

My friends are my heart.
Music is my passion.

My Interests

concerts/shows/gigs/whatever-you-call-it, writing, discovering new bands/artists, promoting the music I love

I'd like to meet:

Music fans and good friends.

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I Still Pick My Friends Over You

Liz

Kristy

Chris

Tasia

Denise

Colin

Danielle

TWLOHA

I KnowThat I'm Indebted

Autopilot Off

Over It

RunnerRunner

The Dear & Departed

Dropping Daylight

Saosin

Chevelle

Lostprophets

Avenged Sevenfold

Eighteen Visions

New Found Glory

Allister

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Music:

About 90% of what I listen to can be classified as 'good'.

5% is what I grew up listening to.

The other 5% can be catagorized as absolute crap, but I love it anyway.

Movies:

That Thing You Do!, A Hard Day's Night!, Head, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Primal Fear, American History X

Television:

the Monkees, Behind the Music, Poltergeist: The Legacy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Dexter

Books:

the "Harry Potter" series.
Also "All Ages: Reflections On Straight-Edge", "Revolution On Canvas", and "The Last Days Of John Lennon".

Heroes:

the people in my top8
the bands I listen to
a few other people who are in my heart

My Blog

so now what?

So since I haven’t done this in awhile... here’s a general (and somewhat abbreviated) update on my life.Still kind of reeling in the aftermath of last year. I think it’s going t...
Posted by shannon on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:13:00 PST

general insanity in a recording studio

What happens when you take:-ten students-one pretty rad instructor-two amplifiers (one bass, one guitar) that are as old as the school and thoroughly thrashed-one fairly complicated effects rig contai...
Posted by shannon on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:11:00 PST

it seems great minds think alike

(x-posted from my livejournal)A couple of my friends have started other journals (both online and offline) for other writings and train-of-thought entries, instead of the day-to-day.I did the same thi...
Posted by shannon on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:26:00 PST

2007 part 2: The Positive

Most of this stuff I've blogged about before, it's mostly a huge summary. But I wanted to summarize it all so that I don't forget how good this year was underneath everything that went wrong. 2007 - T...
Posted by shannon on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:36:00 PST

2007 part 1: The Negative

I decided to do my year-end blog in two parts - one for all the amazing moments the year held, one for all the bad - because there was just so much that happened. It was both one of the best and one o...
Posted by shannon on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:28:00 PST

My car and my wallet dont get along.

Keep in mind that during all of this I was technically between jobs, and as a result, dead-broke:On the 16th, I stopped at work to pick something up on my way to go see New Found Glory. Got back to my...
Posted by shannon on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:34:00 PST

Two weeks after five years.

I'm leaving Hot Topic.I will officially have been with the company five years next week, and my first four years with HT were absolutely incredible. I loved the job and everything about it.However the...
Posted by shannon on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:03:00 PST

Health Scare

Over the last few weeks, I've been having chest pains. Nothing too serious, but a mild stabbing feeling in the center of my chest every once and awhile. Just one here-and-there, nothing major. On Sund...
Posted by shannon on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:01:00 PST

If you hum the tune and hide the gloom, I’ll listen carefully

First off, allow me to say hello to everyone who's been reading this... I incidentally noticed my view count for this week the other day and my jaw hit the floor.If you are actually someone I know an...
Posted by shannon on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:13:00 PST

"it looks like things are looking up so dont look down..."

I haven't updated since things were still kinda crappy. Let's change that. Because things may not be OMGAMAZING, but at least I can say they aren't crappy. This might be a little long. But let's star...
Posted by shannon on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:05:00 PST