softroe: An image featuring a cropped profile of John Linnell from the nose to his elbows, leaning against his accordion. (the egg)
Happy Happy New Year!
it’s been a busy holiday season here at the airport, so I haven’t had a ton of downtime, but with everything slowing down soon expect to see me more!

Also, this year I’m going to try to do the Snowflake Challenge!

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner featuring feet in snuggly socks, a mug of hot chocolate, a notebook with 'dreams' written on the cover, and a guitar. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

I’ve updated my Sticky, and plan on reorganizing my interests and updating my profile to match! I’ll post another update and to this post once I’m home from work today, as I have a lot to talk about!

sunday

Dec. 8th, 2024 11:03 pm
softroe: An animated gif featuring Science John Flansburgh's mouth cycling through different vowel and consonant states. (scijohn mouth)
 i type this from my bed on my laptop, laying on my little belly and heaving a great big sigh. what a week-- past few weeks it has been.

i'll be home for a few days because i was quite sick, which sucks because i do need to money from work but also i'm just so beaten down and exhausted, i'm grateful for the time to just lay.

as i type this i'm waiting to see about changing the domain name for my flansburgh fanpage...the flanspage if you will, and hoping i don't blow anything up too bad, but if i do i do have a backup of all the files. i also think it's about time to update the homepage and also use my own files for it instead of another fan's really cute graphics, though i think i will keep the monsterhearse up and just link back to them anyway... i'll have to think about what i'll actually want as the front page of the site.

perhaps a spoof of that one picture of flans and linnell painting for a magazine spread? a 2 frame gif of him working on his laptop? playing his guitar? slamming The Stick?...So many choices...perhaps I could change them every few months or so, like a little quarterly treat or something. we'll see about that.

still working on a gallery solution of course, maybe I won't end up adding one at all or going with a simple html or javascript one to feature a few photographs that i really love and then add a section for my own once i'm able to take some...oh my gosh just a few months away at this point aaahg...exciting exciting. look forward to coverage on that, by the way. my mini roadtrip to go see tmbg in tn and then back home here in ga. i will take you along for the ride.

i now have a blorbo account, for posting about tmbg of course.. but aside from that i don't have much going on aside from work...all i really do is work work work, and while it's better and pays a lot better than my previous job, i really do not do much else but that! i did join a book club that starts in january, i really hope i don't end up too tired for it, gah. i'm going to really try and go, it's held at a bookstore in town that only sells romance books! what a dream... 

what else what else...i really need to get my thumb on my finances, pay down some debts, stop fudging about with money and start saving for the future! also really grateful i'll have HEALTH INSURANCE next month, as I had to pay $250 dollars at the urgent care today, and then another $45 for an inhaler because I have damn bronchitis!

Ahh..such is life, always so exciting I guess. i'm feeling alright now for the most part, more tired than anything else, so i'm really just going to try to take it as easy as possible for the next few days and see how it goes when i go back for the 11th. hopefully well!


thursday

Nov. 7th, 2024 01:04 pm
softroe: An animated gif of Flans and Linnell at a soundboard. The first frame says "Shh..." and the second frame says "Oh, that's loud... THAT'S LOUD!". (shh...)
I don’t believe I need to say much about the past couple days. I think we’re all devastated.

So I’m going to talk about TMBG instead. I have been enthralled with dear Mr.Flansburgh for some time now, but part of me always wonders “why him?” And even now as I type this, I’m not entirely sure!!

I genuinely think it all boils down to just how cute he is. I was fussing about it a few days ago and I just can’t take it waaaah. Throughout the years he’s STAYED so cute, watching him age and grow even more adorable as time ticks on ugh. Baaaah.

one of my favorite “eras” of his is around 2003-2006, or what I like to call “Spine Era” Flans because their album The Spine came out in ‘04!

some choice pictures of Spine Era Flansy:

A concert photo of John Flansburgh and Marty Beller. Flansburgh has his left hand to his face, while in the background on the right, Marty is playing the drums!A concert photo of John Flansburgh. He is holding his guitar, and gesturing with an outstretched right hand.An animated gif of John Flansburgh in a music studio, laughing.

Just a few of my favorites. He was so adorably plump at this point in time, it drives me CRAZY!!! I do have a poster of both Johns for a concert promo for The Spine and I still need to put it up, they both look so brooding and silly on it. I’ll take a picture of it once it’s up on the wall. Ehe. 
 

Gosh but so much to say. His short hair, his cute little cowlick, how soft he looks and how he’s only gotten softer… he is very very high on the Cyrano Flavored Beast list I admit, but the obsession quite literally hit me out of nowhere like a brick to the head!

monday

Oct. 21st, 2024 03:26 pm
softroe: A teal tinted image of John Flansburgh singing into a microphone. (flansboigh)
 Off today, so I’m taking the time to enjoy lazing in bed before I go try to wash my hair. What have I been up to these past few months…quite a bit but also not a lot at the same time… 

The biggest thing is probably my rekindling of love for the group TMBG which hit me like a truck a few months ago…I’m unsure what really was the devastating blow that threw me headlong into the level of obsession I’m at now, but I’m very thankful to dear Ozzy for making me realize how much I still enjoyed them even though I have a bit of a sad past with them/ memories of past relationships and things…hmm…

I have taken to running a fanpage, and am currently working on a zine with art that I’ve done relating to the band..I’ll post about it more as it gets closer to being finished, it will be free once it’s all done!

Eastern tour dates got announced today, only one night in GA!!! Boohoohoo…I’m just going to have to drive to TN I suppose! I’ve just gotta see em more than once, once just won’t be enough!

Reminding myself here that I need to get up and do Dial A Song for the day, part of me wonders how many songs there are before it starts to repeat, as I’ve been working on making an archive of the songs and recordings of their compressed forms. It’s a lot of fun! It also gives me something I “have to do” everyday…on the off chance I forget though…ehehe…oops…


softroe: A drawing of me scowling. (cyrano)
 What a past few months it has been! Just a quick update for now while I get settled in.
  • I work at an airport now!
  • I am in a TMBG themed frenzy.


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