"I LOVE YOU HENRY ROLLINS!"
words uttered by Sara Hijaz in a loving yet, mocking tone...

Last night I fullfilled one of my greatest aspirations!! I MET HENRY ROLLINS! I first fell for his spoken word in '94 due to my dear friend Steve who claims that he would have never made it through much of his crazy "Murphy's Law" life without the help of Henry Rollins. I then began listening to his music (via. Black Flag & Rollins Band). It comes down to the fact that he is a great advocate for music therapy without even knowing it. He gives mad props to so very many musicians that through their music helped him to discover himself.
So let's start here...for Jahva:
MOBY RELATED COMMENTS IN ONE EVENING BY HENRY ROLLINS....2

1.) while discussing uninfomed "critics" in our media he commented on the negative press Eminem's movie "8 Mile" recieved. In the process he said "I wouldn't want to cross Eminem...he's pretty f***in talented and scary...I wouldn't want to be MOBY!"

2.) in a section at the end of the spoken word called "Letter's to Whitey" Henry read a series of rants he had written after he had recieved threats on his life from the KKK. Before reading the rants he talked about how they were just his way of getting out some frustration and just wrote things down..and probably said things about people who didn't deserve it...The point of the fact was that he was very angry and obviously could not take too much out on such a scary organization...so he simply wrote a series of rants about very WHITE things. i.e. What do these three things have in common A.) the WHITE house B.) the WHITE cliffs of Dover C.) Soul Asylum.
At one point in this he did talk about Moby. Just jokingly about the spaceman uniform thing.


For the record, I really believe Jahva would have LOVED this spoken word! It was phenominal! He also spoke a lot about musicians that have really touched his life and all the wonderful musicians who have died recently. He spoke AT LENGTH about Joe Strummer and of course Dee Dee & Joey Ramone. It was really beautiful! He also spoke a ton about the "Up and Coming" war with Iraq, Why beautiful women choose stupid men, the Osbourne's New Years Party (he never goes to parties), death in America (tobacco, suicide, obesity, and murder), and the unfortunate death of his girlfriend. I wish I could recall some of his words verbatim but unfortunatly..I cannot!

Flashforward. End of the Evening.

2 hours away from Richmond..my dear friend Sara understands that I've wanted to see Henry for years. So she agrees to wait with me to meet him. We wait in the freezing cold outside the NorVa in Norfolk, Va for what seems like an eternity! He comes out. WOW! No joking,Jahva...he looks tough on TV and on stage. He IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE around people. He just clams up and looks in pain. He's VERY short. With heals on I was taller then him. But very kind, he signed two autographs for me..one for me and one for my friend, Steve. He also took a picture with my friend Sara & I!!!!!!!!!!!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

We ran back to the car and giggled the whole way!! It was AMAZING! :)
What a great night!

Christmas Pictures
Got my Christmas pictures back...finally...
I would love to scan them..but it takes too long
I have 2 applications left to mail.
MUST send them in the next 2 days!!!
I'm not allowing myself to do anything until they are out!
Pray for my sanity!

p.s. Jahva..the pictures at D&B are GREAT! I'll get them posted as soon as these applications are done
p.p.s. I procrastinate!!!!!
p.p.s.s. WAY TOOO MUCH!

I need to update everyone on:
1. Symphony performance and "Coat Man"
2. My viewing of The Pianist
3. Super Bowl Party
4. Night at the Improv with Mitch Hedberg

WHERE in the WORld is LESLIE SHAFFER?

So, I'm a little spontaneous! Just got back from GA on Monday. Got a call last night from my friend Tony in Athens. Having a party. Wants me to be there. So I'm gonna go. OYE! But, hey, why the heck not. Leavin work a little early and trying to make it into town to go see a movie with Nathan. Yup, talked to him tonight too. Anyway, I like to travel! And soon enough I won't be able to do that so much. I have to be responsible. I'll be a nanny in Vermont, and nothing is all that close to Vermont. No more last minute trips to Athens. A little sad. Plus, going to Athens for Valentine's Day for the Opera. So, probably a total of 4 trips to Athens in 6 months. Not too shabby for a girl who doesn't live all that close anymore. Wish me luck! Pray for my safe travel please! Off I go.....

I went to guessthename, which is a cool site. You think of a movie or tv show and the site asks you yes or no questions until it guesses what you are thinking. It did not take them long to guess West Wing, but it took them a ton of questions till they picked my movie Swingers. They asked a lot of questions that I said no to. After about 4 yes questions they picked Swingers. My only problem: after I said yes when they asked me if it is a movie about people who moved from New York to LA the next question was if it was a movie about gay amish midget porn?

Lyrics & Story to the Pee-Pee Song

Now the moment you have all been waiting for: THE PEE-PEE SONG!
(first you need to hear a very bouncy almost Mr. Roger's-esk kids song in your head)

Life is like a salty pee-pee Fruitloop,
Then you pick berries and die.
Apples make me vulnerable,
Orange juice is my friEND.
Belching larva is the TREND..
IT'S NOT DETERGENT..
I also have a codpiece named Fred.


STORY BEHIND THE MAGIC
When Mikey & Dave were in H.S. they used to pass notes in class. The purpose of the notes was to make the other guy laugh. Therefore, they would each write a wacked out line and the next would add on. Over 6 years later they decide to make some of these lines into a song.
I would also like to add that the song is much funnier in person..and that for over 3 hours I thought the line was "Apples make me VARPLE" which makes no sense,..but neither does anything else in the song..so why start there!??!

Dave's favorite line that didn't make the song..but will be in the verses to come:
"If Scott Joplin is my Mother then why do I smell like cheese?"

Georgia & The Pee-Pee Song

I would just like to say I LOVE MY FRIENDS! They are crazy and perfect just the way God made them :)

For example....Went to GA this past weekend. Arrived in the City of Augusta at Midnight. Followed my Ghetto AAA directions and got lost in the very wrong part of town for 45 minutes. Evenutally found Mike & Dave's place. Here's how the next few hours went.

1. Knocked on the door.
2. Mike comes downstairs in his boxers.."LA!!!! I MISSED YOU!!! WASN'T SURE IF YOU WERE GOING TO MAKE IT TONIGHT!"
3. Sat on couch
4. Woke up (accidently) Mike's roomy & high school buddy, Dave.
5. Dave: "We should sing her the Pee-Pee song!"
6. Mike: "YEAH!"
7. Mike grabs guitar.
8. Mike sings song
9. Leslie laughs about song for 3 1/2 hours until falling asleep.
10. Dave makes an Omlette and Champaigne breakfast for the 3 at 3am! More singing follows
11. Dave leaves at 4am for Atlanta to catch a flight to Michigan.

Do you know what Leslie needs? WWE magnets.....ya baby. I've got just the one that I saw in the used book store the other day. By the way when is the internship done? I don't think I'll have funds for a mid east trip this summer. But if you want to come down and visit I'll have tons of places to go figured out by then.

I broke three strings on my tennis racquet this weekend. I've been waiting for a couple months for them to break. They have looked so frayed so a long time now. So I decided to go with a little better string. Ahhh...I carry on as if anyone reads my stinky blog........so as I was saying. I had it re-strung and played with it tonight.

I saw the new star trek movie last weekend. It was ok, nothing special. Just seemed like a longer television show. Very predictible and no real great villian or plot twists or even decent special effects. Still it was decent entertainment.....what ya gonna do? I think I had more fun getting lost on the way to the movie......only 4-5 miles away but we found the shortcut of 20 miles. Running accross the parking lot into the theatre just as it started. Then we got a little lost on the way back home to the bar. still a very enjoyable night.

All the good ones are gone

I forgot to buy a calender during the supposed calender buying season. Now all the decent ones are gone. I'm left with Harry Potter, Backstreet Boys and Kittens. A friend says I should go with puppies since woman fall for that. I don't think they do......but noone comes to my place anyway......especially women.....so what does it matter anyway. I think excluding my parents I have had one visit from someone to my apartment since red devil and jahva were here last. Anyway I need a calender and all the good ones are gone.

We are getting a group together to go see Mitch Hedberg......wanna come?

Have you seen Swingers?

I am sooo Jon Favreau's charactor Mike......without the love sickness and dialed down a little from the pathetic side.

New Season of Coupling:..........its a good thing

Ultimate Frisbee Fun

I played ultimate frisbee this weekend. It was a casual game where most people could not play that well, myself included, but it was still great fun. My team won all three rounds with our strategy of picking up the frisbee and throwing it to the end zone most times so either we score or turn it over far away from our end zone. Since we were playing on a wide open field we had wind issues. Example: I had the frisbee about 5-10 yards outside our own end zone with someone closly guarding me, not giving me much room to throw. I through the frisbee and after about 15-20 yards it started floating higher and higher into the sky until the wind caught it and pushed it back in the air so it went all the way behind me landing in my own end zone. Which is a score for the other team. Lucky for me I did not know hardly anyone at that game.

The God Mudda

I went to a dinner theatre performance of the comedy spoof "The God Mudda" this weekend. After dinner they opened the show with having the audiance sing and they explained how during the show we should interact with the cast. The crowd would "boo hissss" bad people, "hoo ray" the good one, "awe" at the sentimental moments and throw popcorn at any time. Yes, throw popcorn. Although only the people up close could hit the cast, the best parts were during intermissions when the audiance got into some really great popcorn fights. There's nothing like a comedy were the waiter dies 7 times and you have a cast with such names as Citronella Candelloni, Don Knottsio and Don Johnson.

Witness to a Crime

I witnessed a crime today, or at least the getaway part. I was on my way with friends to play ultimate frisbee when we stopped at a convience store. When we pulled into the parking lot there was a car in front of the store doors with the car faced away from the store with the passenger side door open. We parked next to this car, giving it extra room since there door was wide open. I stayed in the car with my friend's wife while my friend went into the store. A minute later a guy ran out of the store with three cases of Bud Light. He jumped into the car and it took off before the door could even close. Two store employees ran out after him, but could do nothing as the car took off. One employee was swinging a droom stick at them. I don't know what that was meant to accomplish? My friend went to the door of the store to try to see the plate, but they covered it with a towel. All that for three cases of beer?