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There’s no denying the vampire mania running wild right now. From the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut that is the Twilight series, to the far more adult True Blood (based on the Tales of Southern Vampires book series by Charlaine Harris) to the debut of The Vampire Diaries, based on L.J. Smith’s series of novels, it seems like everywhere you turn there’s another story of a young woman falling in love with a vampire.
But really, what’s a girl to do when she finds herself helplessly in love with a creature of the night? If only there were a dating guide of some sort…
The motorcades are rolling towards the airport, the world is departing from Pittsburgh. Yes, the G20 is over. But since Wednesday, those men and women from the twenty most powerful nations in the world were sitting down together in our state-of-the-art convention center to discuss the economy, climate change and other pressing global issues.
I was not allowed in to get a first-hand view any of that.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
Okay, maybe Dickens is a BIT much for this occasion. But I use that quote for a reason. Because, when I saw Fall Out Boy and Blink-182 on August 14th, it was really a double-edged sword. Blink was returning from an extended hiatus…
“It’s got a beat and you can dance to it,” is one of those tried and true music review clichés. It’s not an insult, since the statement is generally positive, but at the same time it’s not always an overwhelmingly positive response either. If that’s the best you can say about the song, odds are it’s far from musical genius…
“Live for rock n roll,
And I’ll die, before I sell my soul.”
~TaT “Live For Rock”
If there was anything I learned from the 2009 Mattress Factory Urban Garden Party, it is that everyone should be a rock star for at least one night of their lives…