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My sister's DS dvds arrived on Friday. Wow, it's been a long time since I've seen some of these RayV eps. It was such a different show, the early seasons to the late seasons.

Waratahs lost their first match of the season, to the Crusaders. They did outplay us (and had the hottest player on the field - Daniel Carter), but they were helped by one of the most incompetent displays of refereeing I've seen in a long time. They were offside for about 80% of the match it seemed.

Where's a good place to download torrents from these days? I hear there were new eps of Lost and Veronica Mars this week.

Because marrymehowie made me. Answers might be different on another day. Actually, they almost certainly would. There's a reason there's no way I could do that 'guess my favourite song by specified artists' meme.

1) Total volume of music files on my computer?
About 4.9 gig. Yikes, that's more than I expected.
02) The last CD I bought was...
Some BSB singles off ebay.
03a) The last song I listened to before writing this was...
A Little Less Conversation - Elvis vs JXL (last night in the car on the way home)
03b) Song playing right now:
Nsync - I Want You Back (live from Celebrity tour)
04a) Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me.
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Here and Now - Nsync
It's Raining Men - Weather Girls
Galileo - Indigo Girls
100 Ways - JC Chasez
04b) Five albums I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me.
Swing While You're Winning - Robbie Williams
Schizophrenic - JC Chasez
Stripped - Christina Aguilera
Greatest Hits vols 1,2 and 3 - Queen (yeah, that's cheating, whatever *g*)
The Boy from Oz - Original Australian cast recording (is it sacrilege to say I like this a lot more than the Hugh Jackman version? If so, I don't care. I saw this production twice and adored it.)
05) Which 5 people are you passing this baton to, & why?
If lydia_petze, _bettina_, trumpeterofdoom, bachelor_girl, or girl_clone want to do it, that'd be cool. No real reason, and if anyone else feels inspired, they should do it too :)

Things to do today - shopping, ironing, making sandwiches (for freezing and taking to work), going for a walk (it's a beautiful day), accounting homework and watching Atlantis during some of these. My life is so exciting. Oh, and looking into some more travel stuff, but I'll probably babble about that later.

Holiday babble

My travel agent is a miracle worker. Seriously, I'd highly recommend her to locals next time they're planning any travel.

( my itinerary )

I still need to organise flights from Vegas to Vancouver and Vancouver to Chicago. She recommended Air Canada (who they can't ticket, different alliance), would anyone have any other suggestions (I'm checking United as well, but Air Canada do seem cheaper)? Also, would anyone be able to recommend hostels in Vancouver or Chicago? I'm gonna have two nights in each place by myself, so I might as well try and save money at some point on this trip. And I'm gonna need to find people to room with at Challenge. I don't snore, promise! *g*

some BSB links and info

Reviews
> trumpeterofdoom has been posting the media reviews of the tour, memoried here.
> nafs has a wonderful review of the Cleveland show.
> Fan review of the Chicago show.
> Positive review of the Cleveland show from The Trades.
> Fan review from Philly
> ktkm's Philly and Scranton review

Pictures
> kamadu linked to one of the best pictures of the tour so far, Nick and AJ.
> liz_w posted some beautiful Nick and AJ pictures.
> reggie_mbq reposted a gorgeous group shot.
> Scranton fan pictures
> Philly fan pictures
> DC fan pictures
> Fan pictures from KISS FM in Boston
> Fan pictures from Philly
> More Philly pictures and after the show

Files
> The other day, I posted (and then linked to sperrywink who is hosting it) a complete audio bootleg of the Cleveland show. It's also available at NicKaos.com in three zip files rather than one or Not Like You has them as individual song files.
> Download the Hot 99.5 FM interview with the Boys from their site.
> Not Like You has the Q104 radio interview with the Boys for download.
> Another 2 clips from the Force of Nature concert are available at Backstreeters.
+ Beautiful Woman - 21 meg
+ Weird World - 27 meg
Thanks to kamadu for sharing these! ETA: I made a mistake folks, they're from the Scranton show, you might want to rename if you've already downloaded. Don't direct link to them, or link to my journal on message boards. Share the files not the links where possible, and right click and save (or equivalent), thanks.

Incomplete Video
The Boys have now filmed the video in LA. Some fans posted at LD that they were able to hang around the set, and will be posting pictures soon.
> The video concept, according to what AJ told a fan a few days before hand (and it seems to match what the fans saw).

Other
> backstreetboys is putting together a useful list of BSB sites. Also, a list of radio stations that are playing Incomplete, along with contact info for requesting/voting for it.
> Possibly the album title isn't Never Gone, it might Nevergone. Or maybe that's just a typo on the Jive release?
> I went crazy with pairing picspam posts late last year, for BSB, Nsync and crossovers. Thought some people might be interested, particularly if they don't have a lot of BSB pictures.

I've tried to skim through MFC, NLY and DLS forums as well as LiveDaily, but I'm sure I didn't get everything :)

I haven't done anything specific for Nick month, but I'm celebrating Nick+Boys virtually everyday lately, so that'll have to do *g*.