Another Basement Jaxx interview...

Includes a TMI (but true!) description of JC. ;-) Kinda long, so I'll cut all but the part about the Chasez, and the part about Janet Jackson, which is hilarious. ;-)

Here, at scotsman.com news.

( The pop idols' pop idols )

...they also find room for one of Justin Timberlake’s old boy-band mates.

The presence of *NSync knicker-wetter JC Chasez on the track ‘Plug It In’ has moved some critics to suggest that Basement Jaxx could yet become Britain’s answer to The Neptunes - the studio sorcerers who broadened Justin’s appeal beyond teenyboppers to big sisters who would know what to do with a Trouser Snake once they got it home. Buxton - who advances this theory still further by taking the Pharrell Williams frontman role on a couple of tracks - admits that initially they didn’t think the collaboration with JC would work. "We thought he would be just another puppet who wanted to sound cool so he could be liked by tastemakers.

"But he was very humble and understood the irony of taking on a song about the masquerade of celebrity because it could have been written about him. And what’s more, he’s got a great voice." Altogether, then, a more rewarding experience than Janet Jackson. "She told us she loved our stuff," recalls Buxton, "but she thought we were Zero 7. We wished her every success in hooking up with a British dance duo eventually and said, ‘Cheerio, Celine.’"

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"Cheerio, Celine." Bwahahahaha! I love it.

Stuff update...

Received my order from amazon.com on Friday. The NSync Backstage Pass game, the new CD by Live - Birds of Pray (not a typo), and "Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore.

"Lamb." Oh my God. If you want to lose a kidney from laughing so hard, buy this book. Funniest thing *ever.* Nods to superpana and suzy_queue who said that it reads like TrickC. It does! ROFL, Biff is *so* Chris, and Josh... :-)

I love this book. If you've read reviews but you've been wavering, don't hesitate. You'll love it.

My Live CD was disappointing. I was speechless. My belief in these guys has been shaken. No! What the hell happened!?

I kept waiting for it to get better, but it didn't. Maybe it was inevitable because I loved the last two so much? Still freaks me out that these guys made an album that doesn't contain at least one cut that thrilled me to my toes. Yikes. ::shudder:: When The Distance to Here came out, it was the only thing in my CD player for about six months. I've listened to Birds of Pray *once.* I'm crying here, people. :-(

The Backstage Pass game is currently decorating the computer room. It's very colorful and makes me smile. :-) I'm thinking of buying another one, one to keep pristine and unopened, and the other to force upon my girlfriends when we get together for a movie marathon sometime next month. Woohoo! Nothing says Christmas like sparkly peer pressure. ::dances::

Watched some good escapist TV yesterday, VH1's "It's Good to Be...Little Kim," and the VH1 Vogue celebrity fashion superstars thing. Had I the means, folks, I would be a shameless materialistic diva. When Isaac Mizrahi stepped into the Vogue accessories "closet" I nearly died. Not the shoes. The bags! Tons of gorgeous handbags that I'll only drool over and never own! Yes, scot_ty, I can hear your giggles from here. ;-) Leather! I love it! Nothing makes me swoon like a beautiful bag. Well, other than JC Chasez, that is.

JC!

Small leather goods!

JC!

JC IN CINCINNATI! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Eeee! JC's doing the KISS FM "Merry Kissmas!" Thanks for the heads up from timberho!!!

http://www.kisscincinnati.com/merryKissmasInfo.html

Oy. And now I'm looking at the dates and I'm pretty sure I can't go. I'll refrain from expressing my thoughts here as eloquently as I'd like.

Friggin' crap it all that it's a Thursday. A Friday night, or weekend I could handle. But with holiday obligations at work and scheduling already set up for that (and a bitch to change)...I think this will be passing me by. Cinci's two hours away, so that's automatically four hours on the road...
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But you know, I've got to laugh...

...because in the midst of my gloom, I see that the banner ad on the page reads:

Guide to Feeling Better. Dedicated to promoting mental wellness. You deserve to feel better.

BWAHAHAHAHA! Yes! Yes, I do! Crap it all!!!

JC IN CINCINNATI! (Take two!)

Squee!!!

Well, after my initial freakout at not being able to go (possibly), scot_ty got my ass on AIM, pronto, and talked me off the ledge. After hearing the reasons why I probably/possibly/might not be able to make it, she offered a solution my gloom-locked brain hadn't yet worked out for itself: spend the night and drive straight to work the next morning.

Weh? After about two seconds to process this information, I realized that yes, it's a viable option. WOO-friggin'-HOO!!! Though my enthusiasm is cautious. Still! Better than having no plan at all! :-)

So. Because I won't be able to take those two days off (which would be ideal):

1) Check Cinci maps. Where's the venue, and what's the cheapest and closest hotel accomodations nearby. Make reservation.

2) Get to work super early the day of. Put in a full eight hours, leave around...2:00-3:00.

2) Pray to the gods of traffic that I arrive in Cinci around 5:00-6:00.

3) Check into wherever. Dump stuff.

4) Head to venue. Meet up (hopefully) with others who'll be there for dinner and squeeing...?

5) SEE JC!!!!!!!

6) Back to the hotel, sleep.

7) Get up at ass o'clock and head straight to work. Pray to the gods of traffic that I get there before noon.

8) Update LJ at lunch. :-)

9) Put in a full eight hours, go home and crash.

10) Woohoo! JC!!!


That's my plan. So. Anyone going to Cincinnati? :-)