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Hey look! I made wallpaper! In 10 sizes, no less. Adam Lambert. Big surprise.

1024x768 | 1152x864 | 1280x960 | 1600x1200 1280x720 | 1366x768 | 1600x900 1280x800 | 1440x900 | 1920x1200 Watch the video of the photo shoot the pics I used are from, 'cause it's hot.

Hope you like. On the odd chance you need a different size, leave me a note and I'll fix it up for you.

I love them all. All pics taken after the final Phantom Planet show on Friday night. I'm so incredibly glad I was able to go to this show.

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Me and Darren

Me and Jeff

Me and Sam

Alex and I

Me and Ryan

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

I just posted a quick report on my adventures from last night over on blackgoldrush. Click here.

I ♥ Black Gold!!!

I don't suppose any of my Los Angeles area friends would be willing to let me crash at their place for one night, would they? Thursday the 31st. Turns out my usual place to stay in SoCal - my uncle's house in Orange - is already 'booked.' My aunt initially said I could stay with them anyway, but they changed their mind... decided it would be uncomfortable for their other guests. Which is understandable. But I already purchased my theater ticket to see Long Way Down in Century City.

I'll only lose $11 on the ticket if I can't make it after all (and I'll save about $100 in gas money), but I was going to that theater so I could meet Jimmy Simak - the gorgeous guy in my icon. He's one of the directors of photography on Long Way Down as well as the music supervisor, and we've gotten to be friends online over the past couple of years (since I first saw him and his work in Long Way Round, actually), and now I finally have a chance to meet him in person. I wrote and asked him about me coming to the screening he'll be at, and got the most awesome, encouraging and sweet email back from him. Awwwwww.

I'm looking at hotels down there, but I'm just not sure I can justify the cost. I don't know. Anyway, I figured it couldn't hurt to ask my f-list for ideas, or see if anyone in the area has a spare bit of floor I can sleep on.

Hi all!

Thanks so much to everyone who left me birthday wishes or sent me v-gifts or e-cards or even just thought about me on or around my birthday Sunday (that pretty much covers everyone, right? LOL). I had a very nice day with my brother, sis-in-law, niece and 3 nephews complete with Baskin Robbins ice cream cake - my favorite! The three older kids sang Happy Birthday to me, which was *hilarious!* All 3 really know how to ham it up! LOL

I've been here in Virginia for about 4 1/2 weeks now and I fly home on Saturday. I really want to stay though!

It's been an eventful month - both good and bad - and I hope you all will forgive me for being scarce. I've spent a *lot* of time helping with my new nephew, who is now about 10 weeks old. He's the fourth child for my brother and his wife, and the other 3 are really a handful, so I've had fun playing with the adorable baby who coos and smiles at me while the parents wrangle the other kids. Actually, all 4 kids are pretty wonderful and I'm going to miss them terribly when I leave.

Events (other than the Panic At The Disco concert in DC on April 30th, which I never really did a proper post about and probably never will now, but it was fantastic!!!) of the past few weeks:

A few days after the Panic concert, I slipped on the stairs and badly bruised my ankle (I thought that was the worse injury at the time) and bruised/possibly fractured my tailbone. My ankle is fine now. My tailbone? Not so much. I haven't been to the doctor or anything - not sure they're much they can do anyway other than confirm whether or not it's fractured - but it hurts a *lot.* I'm fine if I'm just standing or lying down or (in most chairs) sitting, but going from standing to sitting or vice versa is excruciating. It hasn't slowed me down too much though.

We took all of the kids to see Speed Racer in IMAX. Not a movie I would normally care about, but watching it with the kiddos made it *so* much fun! They were literally dancing to the music that played over the end credits. It was so cute. :-D

My uncle - the one who had the brain aneurysm a few months ago - passed away about a week ago. I wanted to go to the funeral so badly - he really meant a lot to me - but there was just no way. My parents drove up to Idaho for it, but I stayed here in Virginia. My aunt was very understanding, of course, but I wish I could have found a way to be there that didn't cost close to $1000. If I'd been home in California at the time, I could have driven up with Mom & Dad, but... ::shrug:: That's the way it goes sometimes, I guess. My uncle did pass very peacefully at home in his own bed during his sleep, and we can't ask for much more than that, can we? It is a comfort to all of us to know that he's no longer trapped in a body that no longer allowed him to do the things he loved to do, or even the simple everyday things we all take for granted.

My internet time has be limited due to all of the above things, combined with only having an internet connection in one room of the house - a room you can't keep the kids out of no matter how hard you try. Heh. I'm not used to having to censure everything I read and view online. I've had to avoid porn and even most of the fanfic I usually read! It's been awful! Although darksylvia still hasn't posted any new bandslash, so I didn't miss anything there. Better get crackin' though, L. I'll be home in less than a week and I need new fic from you!!

TV watching has been non-existent. My brother doesn't have cable. Or satellite. Or even rabbit ears for his fancy widescreen TV home theater system. Can you imagine? I did see the movie Transformers though. With my 3 year old nephew shouting "Bumblebee" every few minutes. LOL But alas, I have seen no new episodes of Supernatural, nor have I seen Galeface's episode of Desperate Housewives. Though I heard his scene is really short? Hmmm.

It should come as no big surprise that I haven't kept up with my f-list at all. Happiest of birthdays to anyone whose birthday I missed. Hugs to anyone who needs them. High-fives (or my lame attempts at them - just ask Jon Walker haha) to anyone who has had happy, exciting moments.

It should also come as no surprise that... I think I had more I wanted to say, but I can't remember what... fairly typical of me really. If nothing else, I am predictable. ::lame grin::

ETA: LJ's spell-check:
bandslash     band slash, band-slash, bands lash, bands-lash, bounteously

YES! The bandslash should be bounteous!!! Please share links to your fave PATD bandslash stories from the past month or so! Any pairing. Porn preferred. ;-D

I just got off the phone with Artist Arena, and they actually came through!! They just confirmed that I am "100% guaranteed" on the Meet & Greet list for the DC show, to make up for their fuck up in San Francisco. And darksylvia is on the M&G list for the Seattle show! YAY!!! Maybe Artist Arena is getting their act together, finally. I did point out to them that they misspelled words in their emails too. If you want people to give you money, you have to look professional and trustworthy, know what I mean?

Other good news about the DC show - BLACK GOLD WILL BE PLAYING AT IT!!!!!!!!!!! ERIC RONICK!!!!!!!! And hopefully Brendon will come out and sing the one part of Plans & Reveries with them! I can't wait! Next Wednesday!!!

Then on Friday, I head for NYC. See Randy in Antony & Cleopatra with Lois. Hopefully find time to go to Angels & Kings with celiarosalind (a mug shot of me in the same spot where Bdon was being silly/drunk! ::fingers crossed::). And do a little bit of sightseeing on Saturday before coming back to DC.

After all that... the big letdown. Nothing exciting planned after that. And a mega-huge credit card bill to pay off. But *so* worth it.

Having a lot of fun with my niece and nephews here. They are so much fun and so affectionate and so *smart.*

Ack - must go get dressed for dinner. We're going out to dinner for Dad's 74th birthday today.

P.S. - celiarosalind, I will email you after dinner tonight.

So, the post-concert (and post-missing the meet & greet) blues are easing up a bit, and I decided to post my pictures. I kinda stopped looking at all the pics other people are posting, but I still suspect these are pretty typical. I did go through and remove most of the blurry ones, but there are still a few that I thought were worth posting despite not being perfectly in focus. There are a few pics of Phantom Planet, The Hush Sound and Motion City Soundtrack as well, but it's mostly Panic At The Disco. And although I really made an effort to get pics of all the Panic guys, the majority of them are of Brendon. You just can't take your eyes off that boy. He's got some unexplainable magnetic thing going on. Seriously.

( Phantom Planet )

( The Hush Sound )

( Motion City Soundtrack )

( Panic At The Disco )

I looked through the few video clips I did that night again, and I won't be posting any of those. They're all short little clips - no full songs at all - and none are all that great. Maybe I'll do better at the DC show. Although it's not that my camera wasn't capable of it - it's that my arms weren't. Ugh.

I sort of have little stories to tell about the show last Thursday, but... I don't feel like typing them all out. So let me just say that Eric Ronick is awesome - and TALL. And Shane Valdés (or Valdez, take your pick) is so much hotter in person. No picture I've seen of him does him justice. And he's super nice. And no - I did not ask him about being roomies with Brendon or whether or not that shower pic really is of him and Brendon or anything. Which may have been part of the reason he was so nice and so willing to talk about everything from "The Making of Pretty. Odd." DVD (which he edited in only 3 days) to the fact that he's doing the whole tour with the band (lucky bastard).

Hopefully I'll get another chance to talk to Shane and actually get Eric's autograph on my Black Gold CD and get another chance at a meet & greet with Panic - the latter being something I'm currently fighting with Artist Arena about.

Oh! You can find my scans of the tour booklet here.

So, I'm off to the Washington DC area on Saturday, and will be out there until May 24th. For those who might be wondering, my brother and his family live near DC and I made plans some time ago to go visit them this summer. They just had a new baby about a month ago, and I can't wait to see the little guy. It just worked out well that Panic is doing their DC show while I'm out there. I'm also meeting llvoncan in NYC to see the closing night show of "Antony & Cleopatra" with Randy Harrison. And we're staying really close to the Angels & Kings bar, so I'm hoping to stop by there for a drink and a photo or something (celiarosalind - want to come with me?)... but I'll only be in NYC for about 30 hours, so we'll see. If any of my other east coast friends want to try and meet up while I'm out there, let me know.

Guess that's it for now.

Hi all -

For those not already aware of it, I opened the all new Nicholas Lea fanlisting last week. http://nickfan.inxplicable.org/ If you're not sure what a fanlisting is, there's some info on that right on the homepage. Any and all Nick fans are welcome to add their name to the list - you don't need a website to be able to join.

If you were a member of the previous Nick fanlisting owned by Elena, you should have received an email announcing the new location. Elena was kind enough to provide me the old member list. I did get a ton of those announcements back indicating the email addresses were no longer valid though, so if you were a member and didn't get an email, that's probably why. You can update your information yourself if you still have access to the email address you're listed under on the site. Otherwise just send me an email and I'll be happy to help you out with it.

There are also some extras in the "Nick" section of the site:

• A page full of Live Journal icons thanks to drkcherry . I'm willing to host Nick icons for others who wants to submit them too. You'll definitely be credited for them.
• A section of links to Nick websites that I intend to keep as current as possible. Please please suggest sites to be added to this list! Just one thing to keep in mind - since the fanlisting is for Nick as an actor, I'm only going to link to sites that include some content about him as an actor, so no fanfic-only sites, please.
• There's also a short biography and filmography for Nick.
  

I'd love to hear what people think of the site and I'm always open to suggestions for additions and changes. And please forward this message to anyone else that you think might be interested. :-)


Six Feet Off The Ground - The Nicholas Lea Fanlisting


Thanks!
JenR, fanlisting owner
(crossposting to a number of Nick-related communities)

So obviously I rarely reply to the wonderful wonderful ::insert many bubbles here:: comments that you all leave on my posts, thus I probably do not deserve a response to this request, but I'm gonna make it anyway. If you think I suck too much (and I've been told I'm pretty good at it, though unlike Justin, I don't enjoy it all that much), feel free to ignore.

Does anyone have Gale's 2 Street Time episodes in .avi or .mpg format? Pretty please?? I want to put them on my gorgeous new ::cough:: 80GB video iPod ::cough:: (which I also no doubt don't deserve but have been lovingly gifted with anyway).

Besides my entire mp3 collection - which takes up half of the space, seriously - I also have on it:
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake ::loves::
Will Kemp's Gap Commercial ::also loves::
A couple of hot pr0nny clips ::lusts::
Both of Gale's eps of Deadwood ::western!Gale::
Both of Gale's eps of The Unit ::hippie!Gale::
And some other odds and ends

But I really want to add rockstar!Gale to that collection. And I wouldn't mind adding crazydoctor!Gale to it too if anyone has his L&O:SVU ep in .avi or .mpg. I have most of his movies - just haven't converted them yet. Has anyone determined yet if the newer version of The Unseen - the one being sold on Amazon with a real DVD case and cover art - has any extras or anything not included on the earlier cardboard envelope encased version? I already have 2 different versions of Wake. I suppose having 2 versions of The Unseen wouldn't kill me. Heh.

In other news, yes, I am starting to feel better. I hate my haircut right now, because I miss being able to just pull it up in a ponytail and it's right at a length where I can't do that and it IRRITATES ME!! But I don't regret having gotten it cut. And - I do have pretties in the works to share with you all. Mostly non-fandom stuff. Icons and fractals and random stuff, but really... I think there'll be something in there for everyone. ::nods:: ::ponders:: ::hopes::

Off to clean the bathroom. In a minute. Just have a couple more things to do online, and then I'll get to it, I swear.

This little electrified smiley that I used on my post from yesterday? Doesn't seem quite so funny today. See here for more details.

Um... lots of other stuff I need to deal with, but it'll have to wait. Like my post about needing someone to do galerandylove new member apps while I'm on vacation. darksylvia? It's really easy, and you should already be getting the notices from LJ. We'll talk off LJ after I've had some rest.

Oh - tiny little amusement to share... my magnet that can be used to temporarily shut off my VNS implant? If you hold it too close to the computer screen, the screen goes kinda darker and gets these purple and green hues to it. hehehe If you keep moving it around in front of the screen, whatever's on the screen will start distorting. Yeah, I should be careful not to damage my monitor, but it was funny. To me anyway. And degaussing the monitor clears up any little left-over effects. Hey - simple minds, simple pleasures.

Speaking of pleasures...



Hopefully that'll give me some sweet dreams.