#Anberlin! *swoon*

Talk Nerdy To Me Lover's LikesGoyBoys

It's official: @JenFriel (aka #HotLips/That Nerdy Girl) and I love ourselves some Anberlin! Especially acoustic, intimate Anberlin. Oh, baby. 

Our friends at Ultimate Ears let us amble up to the Logitech Loft at Watermarke Tower in Downtown Los Angeles last night for 5 Anberlin tracks; they ran the gamut from "Impossible", the song that's pumping in your radios courtesy of folks like my boy Kade at 98.7FM, to older tracks, like "Paperthin Hymn". We're going to get down and dirty with Anberlin's latest album, "Dark Is The Way, Light Is The Place" for all you #nerds, and we've got some copies of the album to give away!

We even have some Ultimate Ears 100 headphones up for grabs! 

Thanks to everyone who made last night possible, especially Anberlin for being an accessible, awesome group of guys. I hope their tour kicks ass. Did you know that they do a mighty fine cover of "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" by The Smiths? To tide you over for the rest of our Anberlin Extravaganza, I leave you with a cover of Danzig's "Mother" from last night. Sorry the lighting wasn't terrific, it was all about taking it down a few notches last night and chilling, which meant bright lights weren't part of the equation! It still sounds killer. Yeah, son, I shot this!

@LikesGoyBoys likes @Anberlin so much that she's going to give you a track-by-track review of their new album, as well as give it away to some of you lucky nerds! Tell her thanks on Twitter. You can check out DefyAuthority.NET while you're at it. 

#Nerd Follies: Walking A Dalek

Talk Nerdy To Me Lover's @LikesGoyBoys:

I live in West Hollywood, California. It's densely populated, and almost everybody has at least one pet. In my building, however, pets are not allowed. As I live across the street from a dog park, I've decided to work around this unfortunate circumstance by taking all 13 glorious inches of my remote controlled drone dalek to the local dog park, where I will film his people and pet interactions. His name is Sextoy and he's very friendly. You might know what a dalek is from the glorious BBC institution "Doctor Who!"

Think of this as me giving my #WestHollywood nerds advance warning. My dalek is friendly and he wants to play with your dog! He is a bit mouthy, and even though he's going to threaten to exterminate your animal, don't worry about it, Sextoy doesn't even fire blanks. He does perform on command. If you see Sextoy around, pat him on the head! Just don't touch his eye-stalk, it'll make him aggressive. I will be filming Sextoy's follies and posting them here. This is gonna be sooooo much fun. 

If you want to see something cool, check out Doctor Who - Lego style!

Don't miss out on the upcoming adventures of @LikesGoyBoys and her dalek! Show her pictures of your Doctor Who toys on Twitter! Don't forget to check out DefyAuthority.NET while you're at it.

#Randombling: In the mind of @LikesGoyBoys

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @LikesGoyBoys

Despite having a decent working knowledge of MySQL, I've found that whatever is keeping my website from being fully functional is beyond my immediate control. Tech support will have to clean house for me whenever they get around to it. 

I love Twitter, it's brought some of the most amazing people into my life. Some of you think of it as Twatter, and rightfully so, there's always the equivalent of somebody talking to themselves on the subway; Kanye West does that, it's ridiculous. I don't follow him despite how much I enjoy absurdity. Kanye can go a little dada sometimes but I can't follow the guy. It's a shame he doesn't interact more, because that's my favorite thing about Twitter. There's all this unabashed interaction and constant communication. I was taught early on that silence equals death. If you've ever been in a situation where communication is withheld by force, you learn how much words and body language matter. The value of being held as an esteemed, fellow human being is more important than you realize when things really go to shit, even if you're fairly cynical. 

(Yeah, shut the fuck up. I hate hate, too. I get it.)

The point is this; it feels like we're on the crest of a vast wave, and as much as I enjoy some aspects of technology and thoroughly despise other traits, after a really long week and a busy weekend, it's so nice to be able to @reply somebody and just say hi. I have never enjoyed talking on the phone. At least with text, I can edit myself, I can contemplate how I'll possibly be perceived, and then there are times when I type so swiftly and just hit 'send' on a whim.

Sometimes people say a lot and nothing is really behind it. Other people say so much with very little. All I know is that after enduring a time where I was stripped of a lot of things most of us take for granted daily, it all added up. I had to eat some shit and do some dishes at the Karma Cafe. It's just good to know that not everybody has a poison heart, not really, it's been proven to me over and over recently.

If you're reading this, you mean something to me. I don't mean to go on a grandiose head-trip, but I hope you know that you're valued. Maybe you should remember that today if something lights your fuse and you're ready to go off like a motherfucker. 

Some of you won't understand and tell me I'm being idealistic about things. I have to be, to a degree, or I don't think I'd have made it to age 27 to begin with. I wouldn't have made it through the past week. That's okay, I love you in the way you are able to accept my love, and even if we don't have the same perspective, you fill a void that I can't fill by myself. 

Let's keep it up. 

Love you guys.

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