Such a long span of time, so little to really say...

So I guess I haven't written in here since September. I've been busy and braindead, but working all the same. Blogging didn't seem like it mattered too much, since there aren't a lot of people who even look at this. I post links sometimes, on Facebook and whatnot, and no one seems to acknowledge. I don't know if they don't want to read stuff, they forget to comment or they just genuinely do not care... I'm not sure I'm really offended either. I'm just ambivalent. Sometimes it's nice not to share your life and everything you do with people. I think after a while the world at large will remember this. Sometimes privacy is a wonderful thing, especially when you're creating and trying to build a life for yourself. That's another blog though, some other time when I'm feeling ardently wistful.

It's kind of weird, perhaps I'm just becoming really 'busy' and involved, for the first time in a long time. It's a good thing I think, in some ways. In others, it's kind of sad. I forget a lot about documenting the daily routines or my ideas or thoughts, but at the same time my energy level has been either very high or very low, or some weird combination. It's kind of like sleepwalking and still getting a normal day's worth of work done.



I took some pics back at the Valient Thorr show at the beginning of October (I think). It went pretty well and they did a fun show. I hadn't listened to them much before, but I have some friends who are ginormous fans, and I'm really glad I got to be a part of it :)
The pictures are here: Valient Thorr - Kansas City, MO

I also have been working on grant writing, and it's pretty involved. Now we'll see if my labors paid off. Of course, I will work hard to make them pay off. If not, my graduate work will have to make big adjustments and that would really suck.


I did get my wish finally and they announced GR dates. I'm going to the February 3 show in Chicago, and will be taking pics there. I don't know if I'll get a 'photo pass', but I've heard the venue is nice about letting people take them anyway. Hopefully that will all work out all right. I just hope I can grab some posters for friends who collect them.

I'm looking forward to winter break. Hopefully I will get my website up (yeah it's still not up, but I made some url and other suchness changes), volunteer at a local animal shelter and help them to get some babies new homes, and possibly get another of my teeth pulled. I'm not looking forward to that last one, but I don't think the majority of human beings really enjoy that sort of stuff.

I guess the only thing to leave with is this, just because... yeah, ahahaha.

Getting really fed up

I am really getting tired of waiting... Every time I look stuff up on Gamma Ray US tour dates, there's nothing. No one knows, no one posts things on websites, and all the interviews say are oh in fall, in fall. Riight. Obviously it's not happening. I talked to a friend who said they will come next year. I wonder if that will do like this year. I will postpone planning a trip to Germany or Europe (if I can even afford it) and then they will be here while I'm there. It seems like this whole thing is a comedy of errors and I really would like to just not care anymore.

I probably sound impatient, and I am, at least a bit, but I've been under the impression they were coming in fall since oh, December or earlier. No, it was earlier than that, back when I emailed to get information... Oh they're planning to come in spring. Oh, well no, sorry, it got pushed back. Instead of coming while they're IN this hemisphere, they're going to come in fall. Now, Kai will say in interviews oh, we're coming in late fall, and does anything pop up anywhere? Nope.

I guess I'll believe it when I'm standing in front of them, because other than that it's basic hearsay and empty words, and it all makes me really tired.

A couple things

Well, classes are over for this semester and things went pretty well.

My gpa is a lot higher than it has ever been, and I'm pretty happy with that.

Jodi got her interview with Daniel published, here's a link:

Jodi's interview with Daniel from Gamma Ray

I guess other than that life is life. I have a photoshoot with Vanlade today, and then I'll have some editing time and noodling.

We had a huge storm last night, Marek wasn't too happy about all of that... now I just sit and stare, until I decide either to go to Taco Bell or go back to bed...

Slow news day

Well, not much is going on today yet... I have a cracked tooth that hurts a bit, yet no money, and there are a lot of deadlines approaching. So what do I do? Look up Gamma Ray stuff on youtube... haha.

I feel kind of bad for Kai, doing ninety billion interviews with the same questions that have been floating around since he left Helloween has to get kind of irritating.

I am really not too keen on going outside today. Last time I looked at the weather it said it's only 8 degrees F, and yeah... screw that.

Maybe I should switch to a liquid diet until I get this tooth fixed... owww....

I'm going to try to get some photos of process up here before long, hopefully this afternoon, to show more of what I'm working on right now. I got some cool stuff last night to work with as well. Yeehawr!

Gamma Ray in Paris 2/10/2010

Here are some videos from the Paris show that Gamma Ray did Wednesday night :)

They were filmed by Christian, who did a wonderful job, and here is his youtube address: http://www.youtube.com/user/CHRISTIANIRONMAIDEN

Fight:



New World Order:






Armageddon:







Empathy: