It's Javi Time!

Just ordered!

Happy Graduation To Me! AT&T put one of these little wonders on order for me today. Wait time is 10 to 20 days <> but that's okay, it'll give me a chance to check out accessories! I played with one in the store before making my final decision. The interface is THE COOLEST!

Once again, another crappy photo from my current cell phone! Compare it to this photo taken with the demo iPhone at the store...

IT IS AWESOME! The blogging I will be able to do instantaneously will be phenomenal....I can't wait. But I must...sigh.

Javi Show @ Brandt's

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LacubriousToo and I took his Dad and Sherry to the Javi show at Brandt's Cafe. It was amazing! Check out the Javier True Fans site.

Fun things to do when you're rich...

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New vs. Old

I need to explain this post...at happy hour tonight we were discussing phones and a coworker whips out his old, trusty Nokia (shown on the right). It's like the oldest phone I have seen lately. The display is just the greenish lcd screen and only supports letters and numbers...no pics, no graphics, nada. Next to it we see my "old" (2 year) Razor phone....which sadly was called old by the AT&T people when I went to see about upgrading...doh!

Get me out of here!

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Javier Show @ Brandt's

My crappy cell phone photo! Check out the flick site for better pics!

Javi time!

Pups on a mission...

Why walk alone?

My future's so bright...

...I gotta wear shades! And drink Margaritas!!!

Gametime!

@ the game!

The After, After Show @ Lumiere

I can't say too much about this event. I can't tell you who was there. This post actually doesn't even exist. All I know is that after the After Show Beer Tasting in Hermann, there was mexican food, a trip home to take care of the dogs, then a rapid trip into STL to Lumiere to catch a show at Aqua and a "Brand-I-never-heard-of-before-baby-grand-piano".....'nuf said.

Home by 3am....Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


Oh and our wireless network is not working!!!! Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hermann - After Show @ Tin Mill Brewing Company

Mmmmmm....beer.

JM's set list saved from the show! Really, its more of a guideline than a set list....Oh Reaaaallly?!?!?

So at the Tin Mill Brewing Company we tried the Pilsner (meh), the Hefeweizen (good), and the Dopplebock (good). Not much in the way of food, but the beer was cold and Mr. Lacubrious got to use their garage door (at the back) to get inside...a la...the handicapped accessible entrance!

Taste for The Arts in Hermann, Missouri

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Another great Javi show this time at the Taste for the Arts in Herman. Lacubrious Duo and the Jonez's were in attendance. We ran into Sherry at the show, she brought some of her relatives that couldn't make it to the private recording. When they heard Javi sing "Cordoba" I saw them look at each other and make motions like they had goosebumps form his performance....awesome!

But, where was TheBlueFrost??? Off buying a boat! He better watch it before he has to start his own group..."Javier Fans" instead of Javier TRUE Fans!

Lunch @ Elements Cafe

Mmmm!

Out walking the dogs

Sunset

'shrooms!

Found while walking the dogs.

Peach Beer

Peach Beer

BB's

BB's

Mother's Day Weekend

Pics to follow, but it basically went like this....
New Haven Care Center - Tea with Grandma & Mom
Drive to Columbia
Meet the Webers for dinner
Javier show @ Cherry Street Artisan
Sleep...Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Up Early for breakfast with the Webers at Main Sqeeze
Coffee @ Kaldi's
Head to LacubriousToo's Mom's
Lunch & Visit
Drive home
Finish FINAL Final
WHEW!!!!!

The gramaphone

Lites @ the gramaphone

Cinco De Mayo in STL

Jmb@cherokee st.

Saturday...

Mas margarita?!

Paul's Results!!!

Here are Paul's Race Results - WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul's Running For It - Fundraiser

My cousin's husband is running in the Boston Marathon and is raising money for the Pine Street Inn, a homeless shelter in Boston.

Check out his running blog here and the Pine Street Inn site.

The donation site is below. Give if you can!

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K-man deciding which jm songs should be on the next cd.

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Windex Margarita?!

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Book journey tickets

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Post fever euphoria!

Footloose! @ ECC

We attended another ECC Theater event, Footloose! This time Holly was able to really shine and show off her singing and dancing abilities. She played Rusty in the show. Also, Ryan got in on that act as a spotlight operator with the crew. Awesome!

We waited too long to get our tickets and were stuck in the back of the theater. I won't make that mistake again. We really need to just sign up for The Patron of the Arts program.

The Wedding Singer

We enjoyed an evening out with a friend from work and her son, who was home from college. She had bought tickets to the performance of The Wedding Singer at The Fabulous Fox! These were special Fox Club seats, so there was table service and an assigned parking spot. Very nice!

We decided to grab some dinner along Grand Avenue and ended up at a Vietnamese place located down the street from Erato Wine Bar. The service was great and the meal was tasty. I had a tofu dish with onions and lemon grass.

After that we headed to the Fox and arrived in plenty of time to get to our seats. They were great, plush chairs with little tables for drinks and snacks. We ordered a couple of glasses of wine and settled in for the show. It was entertaining. There were some story line changes compared to the movie, but it was very enjoyable.

Sunmotel @ 10 Mile House

Opening band for Sunmotel...

We drank more than we ate!

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Written on a window at Shakespeare's Pizza.

Flashback to the AVE in Spain...

I found this picture on my cell phone. It's from our vacation to Spain in June '06. We took the AVE (high speed train) from Madrid to Toledo and Sevilla and Cordoba. Although, I'm not sure which trip this one was. Most likely to Toledo as that was our first foray onto the train system!

Gourmet Salad @ Home!

I made this delicious salad with spring mix, mandarin oranges, grapes, dried cherries, goat cheese, carrots, walnuts, and raspberry cabernet dressing.

Los Cabos! Yum!

Salsa!

Dinner at Mom's

Saturday night we headed to Mom's for a pork chop dinner! Normally, I wouldn't blog about it, but I thought, well why not?

We have no photographic evidence, so here's an image I found online.

Although truthfully, we had baked potato, green beans, and a recreation of a salad from Dewey's pizza (spring mix, feta cheese, grapes, and walnuts with a Raspberry Vinagrette, thank you). All yummy and wonderfully prepared by Mom (except for the salad). Add a glass of Merlot and voila, dinner is served. Thanks Mom!

Javi & the Band @ Old Rock House

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Great show! Smoky bar! You win some you lose some. This was another Live Feed Event, I'll talk more about the show on JavierTrueFans.com.

We headed out with the Jonezes on this night. Grabbed a fabulous pizza at Dewey's in Kirkwood! Goat cheese and sundried tomatoes...can't go wrong there!

Then we headed to the Old Rock House to catch the show. The opener was Dave Tamkin. I'm not a fan of the sound at this venue, but we ended up with a CD and I have to say this guy is pretty good. He's out of Chicago.

Javi and the band played a fine show. The crowd was receptive and supportive. We had to bail right after because the smoke was too bad. Unfortunately we missed hearing My Left Arm. I'll have to check them out online.

L-Too got some great shots at this show. Check them out!

Javi @ Old Rock House

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Dave Tamkin @ Old Rock House

This musician opened for Javier Mendoza @ the Live Feed Show @ The Old Rock House. Check out his website at www.davetamkin.com.

Galesburg, Illinois

So...LacubriousToo and I headed to Galesburg (brrr-ass-cold), Illinois for a Javi show and a chance to get outta dodge!

The drive was only 4 hours, which is just about my limit these days for travel by car.

We "blew" into town around 3pm, checked into Comfort Inn where we found our room to be a sweltering 98 degrees! The 120 degree temp difference between the minus 30 wind chill and that was a bit much.

We chilled for an hour or so, then headed our to find some dinner. We went to the Packinghouse, but ended up with appetizers and salad bar because we were pressed for time to get to the venue.

The Orpheum Theatre

We got to the venue at 6:30 (Thanks TomTom!) amid a brisk winter wind that practically blew us across the street. (Did I mention it was COLD!)

Javi had arranged for tickets so we hit the box office and were efficiently escorted to the correct seats...which happened to be in the middle of the theatre. We were lucky enough to get seated behind Jaime and Sue. Darrin overhead them discussing Javi and the band so he interupted to ask them if they would mind if he shot photos of the show between them and that if he got too annoying them should just let him know.

As fate would have it, Jaime worked at the Orpheum Theatre and he offered to go ask the manager is we could move down front for a better vantage point. While he was gone Sue mentioned that Jaime was her theatre student (she teaches at Carl Sandburg College) and had gotten to go backstage and meet the band.

Theatre Manager, Kate Francis, came by and said it would be no problem to move up to the handicapped seating area.

Check out that architecture!

The show started out with Kate introducing Javier and the band. This time the "band" was Carl Glad, Dave Aholt, Joe Pastor, and Eric Grossman.

The set was:

1. Blood in the Water


2. Part of History


3. Acorralado


4. Once in a Lifetime


5. Letter to You


6. Dime Luna


7. When You're Not Around


8. Waiting


9. Night in Cusco


10. Julianne


11. Rococo


12. Cordoba


13. Always There


14. Look Around


15. La Professional (encore)


16. We Wasted Our Time (encore)

You can read a bit more about the show highlights on my post to JavierTrueFans.com.

It was a fantastic show, check out more of L-Too's photos below...

After the show, we hit a local bar. (Did I mention the smoking ban in Illinois?) Can you say "breathing easy"? I can!

Anyhow, it turns out the theatre manager, Kate was once (20 years ago) a member of Mr.Wizard, a cover band from St. Louis! We also learned a bit more about the history of the Orpheum Theater, built in 1916.

We finally wrapped it up and headed out into the bitter cold, and agreed to meet Javi and the gang for breakfast at the Cafe & Creperie. Yum!

L-Too and I drove around Galesburg a bit the next day to check out the college, and some of the older buildings...then we headed back home.

Thanks again to my Bro' on Pup Patrol!

Javi & Band @ The Orpheum

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Javi @ The Orpheum Theatre

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Los Cabos and Planning the Weekend

Tonight we met up with another set of friends. I haven't worked up a "blog pseudonym" for them yet. They may have to make some suggestions.

Anyhoo, we enjoyed another dinner with them, this time at Los Cabos. We caught up on the last two weeks and chatted about: Movies, Music, Vegas, "How to give flowers and mean it" ahem, and also this:

Also, I can not believe that I have found someone who has seen more John Cusack movies than I! I am truly ashamed to call myself a fan. I may have to reevaluate my level of comittment to the cause, truly.

On the plus side, I found people who A) Have heard of the movie "Better Off Dead" and 2) Will admit they like it!

Anyhow, another pleasant ending to a rather hectic week!

As far as planning the weekend. MrLacubrious has that all TCO. We're driving to Galesburg, IL. to catch a Javi show. It's a 4+ hour drive, so we're staying over. My dear, sweet, bro has agreed to dog sit, yet again. I don't know what I would do without him! The dogs are big fans too. I think they like the shake up of the caretakers every once in a while.

Choco L'Art & Bowling

The entire Lacubrious Crew plus 2 met up for dinner and bowling tonight. It was the 2nd annual Javier True Fans Dinner & Bowling Classic. You may recall the first annual event where MrsJonez kicked butt at Oasis Lanes. This year was an upset as Javier sweeped the frames and won against everyone. I think he was motivated greatly after betting against each person individually and on different terms. All in all, it was fun and I was not lowest score! Thanks Kristina!

Prior to bowling we had a primer at the Jonez' house, where BlueFrost picked us all up in the Green Machine. We headed over to Choco L'Art in Washington to check out their dinner offerings and martinis.

Everyone else tried a martini, I opted for a glass of merlot, but after trying the espresso martini wished I'd gone for that...yum!

The food was decent, everyone had something different. I really enjoyed the atmoshpere, and we were able to talk even with 7 of us at the table. A very pleasant evening and great prelude to bowling.

After bowling, javi headed home and the rest of us crashed at the Jonez's, ate cheese and crackers, and chilled a bit before heading home....around 2-ish.

Can't wait for next year's event!

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UPGRADE!!!

Yes! So I signed up for my account on JavierTrueFans.com and my dear friend BlueFrost, upgraded my account so I can make posts to the site!

Now we have a place to park our show reviews, Javier news, and other Javier 411.

Also, Javier himself said he would link to the site once we get some more content online.

Amazing...

Promises, Promises...

So my commitment to post once a week is not working out so well.

Regardless, I'm pushing on and posting what and when I can.

LacubriousToo and I are immersed in our classes. I'm taking an online class in freelance magazine writing, and work has been crazy busy lately. So with all of that we are left with little free time.

That's not saying we are all work and no play. We've managed a couple of dinners out with friends or family. And we've worked our way through our wine stash. I see a trip to Luka's Liquor in our future!

We also have a social event tomorrow night with the entire LacubriousCrew - bowling and what-not. So that will be a welcome break from work.

and IT'S FRIDAY!!!