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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

ISLAMIC JEANS

Finally, Muslims can pray and still look snazzy!


From Local6.com:
A company in Italy has begun selling "Islamic Jeans" made especially for Muslims who need greater comfort and flexibility during prayer sessions, according to a report. The Italian company, based in the city of Udine, has been marketing the trousers as "the jeans of choice for Islam," according to the Al Quds Web site. Al Quds Jeans, manufactured in Pakistan, are baggy and have a high waist to allow freedom of movement during the repeated kneeling for Islamic worship. The jeans are made of traditional blue denim, have five pockets and are especially tailored for use in the mosque.





















What Lawyers do at work all day:
Detroit2NYC: "Islamic Jeans"
elizabethve: "the jeans of choice for Islam,"
Detroit2NYC: LOL, seriously Im losing it at my desk
elizabethve: it is hilarious
Detroit2NYC: I love it!
elizabethve: i was peeing in my pants
Detroit2NYC: I want some of those high waisted Islamic Jeans
Detroit2NYC: LOL
elizabethve: HAHAHA
elizabethve: you need them
Detroit2NYC: I do
elizabethve: it sounds like an SNL commercial
elizabethve: The jeans also have extra large pockets for glasses, trinkets and prayer beads and also feature discreet green seams at the top of the belt loops, in honour of the faith's sacred colour.
Detroit2NYC: HAHHAHAHAHHA
elizabethve: all the trinkets you can carry
Detroit2NYC: LOL
Detroit2NYC: I can't work anymore
Detroit2NYC: thats it
Detroit2NYC: im done
Detroit2NYC: trinkets
elizabethve: untapped Muslim market
Detroit2NYC: I would be untapped if I wore those jeans too
elizabethve: HAHAHAHAHAHA

Monday, May 22, 2006

LOLLAPALOOZA!!!

I know, its kinda hard to focus on anything besides Pearl Jam right now, but you have to just for a second.....




This year's LOLLAPALOOZA festival is going to be SICK!!! August 4-6 at Chicago's Grant Park. Check out the official website for all the awesome details. I will FOR SURE be in attendance with some cool people, and you should too! Just think, camping, three days of awesome music, beer, friends.....what more could you want?

Check out the line up....I told you it was SICK!
Lollapalooza 2006 Lineup:
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kanye West, Manu Chao, Wilco, Death Cab For Cutie, The Raconteurs, The Flaming Lips, Ween, Queens of the Stone Age, The Shins, Common, Matisyahu, Ryan Adams, Umphrey's McGee, Sonic Youth, Thievery Corporation, Sleater-Kinney, Nickel Creek, Blues Traveler, Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Iron & Wine, Poi Dog Pondering, The Secret Machines, Built To Spill (just added!), Eels, Panic! At the Disco, The Disco Biscuits, Reverend Horton Heat, The Smoking Popes, Andrew Bird, Gnarls Barkley, Stars,Cursive, Blackalicious, Editors, Lyrics BornLady SovereignHard-FiCalexico, Nada Surf, Feist, Aqualung, The Frames, The Hold Steady, The Go! Team, Mates of State, Pepper, Particle, The Redwalls, Mute Math, Wolfmother, Sparta, The Subways, Of Montreal ,Blue October, Jeremy Enigk, Living Things, Sound Team, The M's, Hot Chip, The Benevento-Russo Duo, Matt Costa, The New Amsterdams, deadboy & the Elephantmen, Sybris, Anathallo, The Burden Brothers, What Made Milwaukee Famous ,Manishevitz, Husky Rescue, The Towers of London ,Ohmega, WattsBoy, Kill Boy ,Jim Noir, The Standard, Be Your Own PetElvis, Perkins, Trevor Hall ,Midlake, Katie Todd Band, The Candy Band (Kidz), and more to come...


OOOOOH BOY! You'd be a fool to decline this opportunity!

Friday, May 19, 2006

Birthday fun Karaoke Extravaganza

Beth's birthday was last weekend and I had the brilliant idea to have it at a karaoke place. The spot we chose appeared kinda shady at first because the entrance was a glass door next to a pizza place, and you had to climb a super shady carpeted stair case in a narrow hall to arrive at the establishment. However, once inside, it was brilliant! We got a private room for 25 people, and though they dont sell alcohol, they DO provide you with a cooler and an endless supply of ice!

The room was huge, with leather couches lining 3 walls and a big table in the middle. There was a huge screen up front where the lyrics were displayed, 2 microphones, and a multitude of song choices to pick from! We had a blast! See for yourself.....





















"Really, thats what the words are?"

















Apartment 2516!

















Look at those lovely smiles!























"Center of her own attention."




















"Ooooooooh yeeeeaaahhhh!"


















Pearl Jam songs do the funniest things to me




I totally recommend going to a place like this with a big group! Soooo fun!

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

HAPPY HOUR

Happy Hour

It never ceases to amaze me how business people throughout New York City, and across the country for that matter, go from day to night, quite literally, and unleash behavior the likes of an unruly college party, under the simple, yet highly accepted guise of "happy hour".

I'm sure you're all quite familiar with the term. And if you're not, then you must be the stinky guy/ girl that every one in the office talks about behind your back every chance they get and therefore noone invites you- In which case I drop this small piece of advice: deodorant and breath mints are crucial, and nobody cares about what your cat can do with dental floss and/ or a pizza pretzel flavored combo....

Anyway, so yeah, happy hour. Its usually scheduled for a Thursday or Friday evening, in order to break the monotony of the work week or to celebrate the start of a fresh new weekend. Standard behavior starts with the loosening or removal of the tie for men, and unbuttoning of the top button. Ladies, remove your shoes and slip on a pair of flip flops or sneakers, and either adjust your hair up or down, depending on how you had it all day at work.

There's usually one chair that everyone throws their suit jackets, coats, sweaters, purses, and laptop bags on....probably in/ around the chair that the guy/girl who does the most shots ends up in after the first hour. That's another thing, happy "hour" is NEVER actually an hour at all. more often than not, it lasts several hours, and sometimes past midnight.

So it starts off friendly enough: People are talking about the deal they just closed, complaining about the boss, the person that took the monster dump earlier, or the stinky guy/ girl (see above). A few toasts are made, a shot or two is thrown back, and everyone is having a good time....

Fast forward two hours: the shirts are all un-tucked, greasy food has been ordered, a female co-worker has inevitably scoped out the male whom she has decided will be this evening's victim (guys usually think its the other way around, but I'll tell you from a female perspective HE is the victim!) More shots, at least one person is dancing to a song on the juke box that noone else likes (possibly Livin La Vida Loca), two people have left because they are lame and married, and drunk guy/girl has found his/ her way to the chair-o-stuff. Not so bad just yet, we're all letting loose, behaving only mildly inappropriately and no harm done.....YET

Four hours into happy hour: The victim is outside on the curb smoking a cigarette (aka puking in the alley) while the female predator, post public make out with victim, is now crying to another employee about how she doesn't feel like people respect her enough in the office. The Republican who may or may not resemble Prince William has now begun doing "dick tricks" such as the wrist watch, the Loch Ness monster, and the dreaded Epcot Center (gulp, Im having flashbacks....hang on a second.....)

Ok, Im back....So the Predator starts making out with dick tricks (her second session of the night), while original victim starts a fight with the bar tender over the bill, insisting that he couldn't have possibly ordered the cheese fries because he is lactose intolerant. Somebody slips in a spilled beer, drunk guy/ girl has disappeared without a trace, there is a 3 minute false alarm about a missing laptop, and slowly but surely each person is coaxed out of the bar by either an empty wallet, an embarrassing spill, phone call from a significant other, or a bouncer with a chip on his shoulder.

There is a brief exchange about who is going to bring the donuts/ breakfast tomorrow morning or Monday if this is Friday, and the group trails off in their individual directions.

The next morning, no one speaks of the dick tricks, the make out session, or any other happy hour event. Its business as usual.......until next week.

Ya'll know, I'm right. Fantastic!

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Pearl Jam at Irving Plaza

Last night I attended the secret Pearl Jam show at Irving Plaza in NYC, for which I stood in line for 9 hours to get tickets! I showed up in Union Square around 6:30, tossed back a couple of coronas with my new Pearl Jam friends in honor of Cinco de Mayo, then stood in line, yet again, but this time to see one of the best shows of my life!!

Irving Plaza is said to hold roughly 1200 people, as a generous estimate. The venue was not nearly packed to capacity last night (definately under 1000 people according to the InquisitiveOne ;) ....), as the entire upper balcony area was closed entirely for VIP, and was sparcely occupied by the likes of Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and Victoria's Secret Model, Gisele Bundchen.

I started out about 10 feet from the stage, but as it always goes, I rode the wave of people closer and closer with each song.....

















This is us before the show started....my hair was dry and my glasses were on...

Brace yourself, these pictures which I took, give a pretty accurate glimpse at how amazingly close I was to the man I admire and love the most: Eddie Vedder!!!

































Eddie pouring wine into a coffee mug.....


































































This is what I looked like after Pearl Jam rocked my world! The amazing set list included many songs from the new album: Come Back, Worldwide Suicide, Gone, Comatose, plus old favorites like Alive, Elderly Woman, Yellow Ledbetter, Present Tense, Evolution, and Insignificance.

For a complete set list, check out gremmie blog

Thank you to ALL of my amazing new friends who shared this awesome awesome week with me! Please send me your pictures!!

<3 TALIA

Friday, May 05, 2006

Has music changed your life?

I know it has for me, and its always awesome to hear the stories people have about their favorite songs and how these songs have influenced their lives.

ChangingTrax is an awesome blog where bloggers are sharing stories about the songs they love and why they love them. I HIGHLY recommend checking it out!

www.changingtrax.blogspot.com

Talia

Rolling Stone 1000th Issue Party in NYC

This dedicated heart knows no bounds................

Last night was Rolling Stone Magazine's 1000th issue party at Hammerstein Ballroom. Thanks to a VERY good friend, a cute shirt, a certain strategically placed mole, and some liquid confidence, I ended up inside this shin dig!

The whole reason for me going was a rumor that Eddie Vedder would be singing with the Strokes.....HE DID.... and I saw it. I'm way too tired this morning to give you the details but my VERY GOOD FRIEND, is already on top of that so look at his blog if you want to know more!

Here are some photos that I took last night....one of myself as proof that I was actually there....notice above noted mole....thank you God, mom, dad, and hell, thank you Eddie Vedder for providing me with a reason to wake up in the morning!










































Wednesday, May 03, 2006

True Happiness.....

A story for the books and a prelude to what could quite possibly be the best concert of MY LIFE...

SO, it all started when I caught wind of a rumor that there would be a "secret" Pearl Jam show at a nightclub in NYC. Well, the TenClub e-mail only got sent to 100 people in NYC with the lowest member numbers, of which I was not included, but others I knew were...

So the only way for me to get tickets to this amazing show which was to be FREE, GENERAL ADMISSION, and in my backyard basically, was to get in line at Tower Records with the rest of the masses and try to be one of the first 450 lucky ones to get tickets from the label.

BUT, as you can imagine, for a new associate right out of law school, taking a Monday off work is virtually unheard of. Eventhough I work in a relatively relaxed and reasonable office with more flexibilty than most of my friends, it just wasn't happening.

So, I checked the message boards all day and fan blogs to see what the haps were down at Tower, meanwhile Im getting NOTHING done at work besides biting all my nails off and giving myself grey hair!

Finally, I tell my boss I have to leave at 3:30 and I bust out! I arrived at Tower at 4:00 and there was a line wrapped around all 4 blocks of the building Tower is in. They had stopped giving red wrist bands out after 300 people and had given approx 100 blue wrist bands which were unnumbered. The count was 400 at this point, and being only 8 people behind the wristbands I thought I was good to go.

A few hours later, security and Tower people come out and tell us that wrist bands = tickets and noone gets inside the building after midnight without a wristband! I didnt care, I was in it for the long hall. (By the way, I had come down by myself, and had by now made all new PJ friends).

So, I stuck it out, and when midnight arrived, it took forever to get people in and out and eventually they started counting off people without wrist bands one at a time, letting them in for tickets. Probably the longest 40 minutes of my life....I was #408 for tickets, and I GOT ONE! They ended up giving out almost exactly 450 tickets total....If I had waited 10 minutes longer to leave work, or had missed the first train, I would not be a happy camper today!

Irving Plaza is about as big as some basements that I have attended parties in at Michigan State! This will probably be the closest I will ever come to Eddie Vedder, and Im freaking out. Plus, Im a crowd weasel, and I have a way of scooting my way to the front of any crowd.

I'll be sure to let everyone know how glorious Friday is, if I make it out without my head exploding! I can't remember the last time I have been this excited about ANYTHING!


Ahhhhh, life is good today! :)

Monday, May 01, 2006

Talia's Song Pick-o-the-week!

ITS HERE, ITS HERE! The avacado has arrived and it has brought with it, my newest favorite song! I have been listening to the new Pearl Jam album on repeat since I got it Saturday and this is the song, by far, that makes me MELT the most......my God, I love this man's voice!

Come Back
By Pearl Jam

I keep holding out
Will the light shine through
Under this broken roof
Its only rain that I feel
Ive been wishing out the days
Ohh ohh oh come back

I have been planning out
All that I'd say to you
Since you slipped away
Know that I still remain true
Ive been wishing out the days
Please say that if you hadnt gone now I wouldnt have lost you another way
From wherever you are
Ohhhh ohh ohh oh oh come back

And these days they linger on
And in the night ive been waiting for
The real possibility that I may meet you in my dreams I go to sleep
If i dont fall apart, Will my memory stay clear
So you had to go, And I had to remain here
But the strangest thing today
So far away and yet you feel so close
And Im not gonna question any other way
There must be an open door
For you uhh uhh uhh.... To come back

And the days they linger on
And every night when Im waiting for
The real possibility that I may meet you in my dreams
Sometimes you're there and you're talking back to me
Come the morning I can swear that you're next to me
And its okayyyyyy Its ok...its ok

(gorgeous McCready solo)

( Eddie Whaling)
Ohhh i need you....come back, come back
Ahhhhh I need you come back, come back
Ohhhh I need you come back,
come back

Whoooo whooo whooo whoo
Whoooo whooo whooo whoo
Whoooo whooo whooo whoo
Whoooo whooo whooo whoo