So my birthday itself didn't go as well as I'd hoped. I had a good crit, but the celebration of my birthday later on wasn't at all as I what I expected. - I didn't feel honored by the person I was with for the evening.
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However, my roommate & boyfriend totally came through for me yesterday.
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They'd planned a surprise party for me; which may seem like an uninteresting way to celebrate someone because it's so common. However my birthday's not normally celebrated much throughout my family and amongst my friends so I have NEVER experienced this kind of celebration! They went as far as to plan multiple phases! As if being decieved into coming to a group dinner wasn't enough of a heart attack for me!
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Let me back track and share with a little more detail. I'd asked my roommate if she wanted to go hang out on my birthday and she turned me down. In fact she turned me down and couldn't come up with a good excuse, she said she wanted to stay home and do homework (WHAT?...that's what I thought!). She then said she'd make it up to me by taking me out to dinner on friday...I was like (YES YOU WILL!)...so we hopped onto the CTA!
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We get to Reza's (one of my favorite Persian restaurants) and to my surprise, my other two roommates, nikki, my boyfriend, and my other band mate are all sitting around a table smiling (this is when the panic attack began - ha ha -I laugh about it now!). I must've said, "I'm still having a heart attack" a dozen times throughout dinner. My closest friend from back home came a little after I arrived. Then to my surprise that wasn't the end of the evening...
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We all piled into Amanda's car and when we arrived at "Phase 2" as they called it they had me close my eyes and...more surprises! They'd delivered me unto a laser tag place and when I walked inside, there were even MORE people there (Matt, Bibby, Kari + 1), Kari even wore a tie to honor me (I thought it was cute). When we were done running around like 12 year olds, we all piled into cabs/cars again and entered "PHASE 3"...yeah I didn't have any idea what was going on!
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We arrive at my apartment and AGAIN to my surprise...MORE PEOPLE! I was particularly delighted to see Karina! The plan for "Phase 3" was to watch a RIDICULOUS 80s movie "Breakin" (which I thoroughly enjoyed) and that all fed right into...PHASE 4 (they were crazy).
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"Phase 4" invovled everyone spending the night and when we woke up Mary made waffles for everyone! WHAT A DOLL!!!!!
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I WIN!

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So today's my birthday and I am very excited about going to the Green Mill tonight!
...but before I can do that I have to finish my critique...ugh! - no I think the crit will be fine!

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Okay the fueds over a name for the band are over! We wanted to hold onto my name but also give the boys some credit too! So as a trio we are officially called THE MOJDEH PROJECT!

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the first time Brian & I ever played "PacMan" Live!

A taste of "Deeper"

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So if you haven't already figured out a few things about me by reading my blog. Allow me to summarize...MOJDEH = 1 part fine artist + 1 part folkcore musician + 1 part 80s/90s music obsessed mamma!
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What did I order off of amazon.com you ask...the double disc "History" album by MJ! YEAH!
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SO I OFFICIALLY HAVE A NEW FAVORITE SONG...both videos are terrible...but I'm going to share them anywayz!

well it appears that the other regular video won't let me embed into this blog..so here's the remix version of that video....weeeee!

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I almost forgot to post those images I promised.
These are the images that I took of our band so that we'd have some group shots and some new individual head shots! I think they turned out rather well!

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I've been having too much fun with youtube! But now instead of just getting sucked into everyone elses videos I've been posting my own!!! Check it out!

About this time last year Brian (my percussion boy) & I performed at the Shoeshine Boy Showcase at Pontiac Cafe in Wicker Park! We rocked the house I promise! Here's a little taste of Thunder!

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So generally speaking I am not a big fan of the Christmas holiday. I am totally fine with the fact that for those who are actually connected to the holiday for religious means - that holds great importance. My issue is the OVER abundance of it's hold on contemporary American media/consumer culture is what steams me!!!!

In theory I shouldn't care because I don't actually celebrate any widely celebrated holiday during the season. However I become frustrated because there's no equality amongst holidays in the winter! I would be totally fine with Christmas and the madness that happens for 4 months if we saw Manoras and Kwanzaa decorations all over the place. Also, I'd like to see some Ramadan specials on TV and films about prominent Jewish people during the season and so on!

I myself, am Baha'i so I don't have a holiday (of the gift giving/being extra loving) until the end of February. So in that regards none of these holidays effect me except for the fact that the current state of Hyper-Christmas feels more offensive than loving as an outsider! LETS GET SOME EQUALITY!!! I'd feel so much happier about the ridiculousness of the season!

All that being said, for the sake of honoring my friends that do celebrate winter holidays I give half of my gifts durring this season but under the guise of "Festivus" (see the Seinfeld episode about this made-up holiday!). The bright side of participating this way is to make sure that I don't JUST receive gifts from Christian/Jewish friends but to also reciprocate.

This year my roommate got real hilarious and got me a tshirt with the design from Michael Jackson's jacket from the "Beat It" video! Hilarious! So on that note...I share this excellent video from the King of Pop!

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So my band mates and I desperately needed some new images...so sure enough I was like..."Well why are we waiting around...I take self portraits anyway...I'll just take the photos!"
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Who knew that both of my band mates were such beauty queens! Ha ha! ...and I'm the only girl in the band! Love it!
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I'll post pics as soon as I've got em edited!

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So...finals are approaching..not QUITE here yet...but approaching...
which means..
the only thing keeping me from imploding are Santa Pack commercials
& and caffeine! Save me!

don't even ask why i love this jingle...but it's the only part of christmas that still makes me giddy!

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