Author: simper fi

Back to our (ir)regularly scheduled Sycamore Cove posting…

Xavier and Keffria continue to take turns passing out on the sidewalk (which is weird, because they no longer live in the apartment?? maybe they just like sleeping there?? is sleeping on the sidewalk better for one’s back?? is my game going to break soon??). 

Stellan and Clara are concerned, though whether for Xavier or for my game we do not know. 

Concert pics galore!

Pictures from the (many) shows I went to last month during my unplanned hiatus. 😀

All were taken with my trusty iPhone. ;D

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Flight of the Conchords: July 24, 2016 @ Central Park

These guys are hilarious! I got really into their HBO show and their albums while I was in college, but unfortunately they had already stopped touring for awhile. Never thought I’d get the chance to see them live – and with new material to play, too! 😀

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Radiohead: July 26 + July 27, 2016 @ Madison Square Garden

AHHHHHHHHH what is there to say about Radiohead?! This was my fifth & sixth time seeing them (not including the three times I saw Atoms for Peace, and the time I saw Phil do a solo show :P). I got to the venue at 9:30 AM – and there were already 50+ people ahead of me on line. The people in the front of the line started queuing around midnight – Radiohead fans are intense. I’m definitely getting a bit too old to do things like this, BUT I DO IT FOR RADIOHEAD. ❤ It’s so worth it. I caved and got seated tickets for the second show, though – can’t queue two days in a row anymore. I’m not a college student who can just skip classes the next day if I’m tired. 😛

At the 7/26 show, they played “Let Down” for the first time in TEN YEARS. It’s gotta be in my top five Radiohead songs, so of course I cried. Of course. 

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Dion: July 29, 2016 @ NYCB Theatre at Westbury

As if my week wasn’t already amazing, I FUCKING MET DION DIMUCCI. Yeah. After watching his show from ROW A, SEAT 1. Honestly, I was so stunned, all I remember is waiting outside the stage door after the show. He came out, I held out a record for him to sign (”Donna the Prima Donna” <3), he looked at me expectantly (waiting for me to say something, like “hi” maybe????), and I just stared at him with the ^posted^ cheesy smile. Like an imbecile. I wanted to be like “Dion, can you sing at my wedding” (not that I’m even engaged yet, but minor detail) or “Dion, I went up to Arthur Avenue in the Bronx to check out your favorite restaurant”, but NOPE. I think I was just like “merrmermer”. Thankfully, I had boyfriend around to take a picture. :’D 

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Music meme!

While I decide whether to load my game, or download some new pretties first. 😉

Tagged by @blackswan-sims, who is a dear for thinking of me even when my posting has been erratic. 😀 ❤ 

  1. We Suck Young Blood – Radiohead
  2. Give Up the Ghost – Radiohead
  3. Death of A Martian – Red Hot Chili Peppers
  4. The Game – New Order
  5. Fun, Fun, Fun – The Beach Boys
  6. Exit Music (For A Film) – Radiohead
  7. She’s Lost Control – Joy Division
  8. Vietnam – Crystal Castles
  9. Circumambient – Grimes
  10. The Perfect Kiss – New Order

HOW ISN’T THERE ANY DION??! I have at least five albums saved offline on Spotify, honestly. At least this time I feel like the selection better represents my listening spectrum. (Three Radiohead songs!) 😛

Tagging anyone who wants to do this! Tag me in your post so I can see what songs you have – I love seeing what people are listening to. 🙂 

(PSSSSST, I love doing music memes, so feel free to tag me in this one whenever it comes up. XD) 

Rules: put your music player on shuffle and write the first 10 songs. No skipping!

How do you make over the hobby lots?!? I didn’t know that was possible :O btw your builds are so awesome! :D

eulaliasims:

Hey, nonnie! There’s instructions here on MATY–the basic gist is that it involves a little mucking around in SimPE. The hobby subhood and each of the lots need to be temporarily recategorized in order to make changes and have them save.

Each hobby lot also needs to be visited before you edit it or the lots won’t work correctly, apparently. I gave my usual testing sim all the hobby cards by maxing her hobby enthusiasms with boolProp and using the add missing hobby cards option on the Batbox, then sent her to the lots.

I’m not sure how well this method has been tested, so if you want to have a go, make sure to back up your neighborhood first. As far as I know, this method should be okay, but this is TS2. I assume the hobby subhood is hidden for a reason, though whether that’s because we shouldn’t be mucking around it or just because EAxis has this thing about hidden lots being genuinely hidden, I can’t say.

Personally, I make monthly backups of Middleground as well as one before I do something weird, like making over hobby lots or that time I decided to make a bunch of vampire downtownies, so I can rollback if something goes boom.

By the by, I just went and tested one of the edited lots and everything seems to be working. 😀 Hobby maven and some townies were there and all that.

Jasper: screw this, I’ve been waiting for a swing long enough *sits on random person*

At first I was like wtf why are there no kids hanging out at the park and only like two teens, then I realized I sent Stellan during school hours and all the good children of Sycamore Cove would be in class. Good job, kids, stay in school.