Oh blimey

This has been an interesting week. It started basically last week when I started packing the last of my boxes, then my parents came up on Friday to help me get situated for the big move. That was a good day, we IHOPped it up, then got the keys to the new place. Unfortunately, we didn't check them both and one was messed up, along with the mail key, but that's being fixed. Yeehaw.

So far things are pretty settled. I haven't unpacked much and my extra room is in a shambles. Sometimes I wish I didn't have so much stuff, because it's a little bit ridiculous. It would be nice to get a smaller place and think wow, I can save some money, but that's the price of doing art and being a packrat.

It has been hideously hot the majority of the move, but I managed to survive. Marek is doing well too, and is being a slug under a chair somewhere right now.


Ooh my god, I think I'm going to watch another Mummy trainwreck, so I'll write more later...

What is my reality?

So I'm pretty sure I grew up in the 70s, but 20 years too late, if that's even possible.

I think I probably have KISS to thank for that, and a very acute awareness of how much of a weirdo I was.

It's ok though, it put me in the right place at the wrong time, and apparently now I'm reaping the benefits, or something.

Either way though, I guess that's life now. A digital age with an analog me. I'm just glad my tape doesn't get flipped over when the stereo freaks out anymore. I just wonder how much I'll have to fight to keep them from putting an implant in me. It's years away, I'm sure of it!!

Sigh

Well this week has gotten off to a weird start.

Sunday Tim and Jodi came kind of at different times and helped me pack. We got a lot done, Bruce provided entertainment, and Marek sat in the bedroom and extra room being generally crabby. My apartment is a maze of boxes and junk, and all the things I haven't decided on packing yet. It's kind of irritating, and I shouldn't be ungrateful for having so much stuff. At the same time, it's an overwhelming mess to sort it all, categorize it and HOPE I don't run out of boxes. That said, I'm getting very very close.

Some time last week my dishwasher got clogged, and is now holding water in the bottom of it. I believe I ran it on Wednesday before I went to class, and when I got home I thought hmm, this is strange, but chalked it up to my dishwasher being old. I didn't notice the smell until Saturday, and it's still in the same state, since the apartment complex I presently live in can't seem to ever have enough maintenance people on staff to actually help their tenants out. I'm very relieved that I only have until Friday to actually reside here.

Marek had his annual vet visit today and ended up getting scared so much that he had an accident on the way to the car. I felt horrible, and got him a bath when we got home. He still smells funny, so he might end up taking another dip. He's going to hate me, but he can't be all smelly. Nope nope nope. Poor baby bear. I feel terrible, but there was hardly any parking and we parked right by some guys doing yardwork. Baaad idea. Ugh.

Oh well. I'm exhausted and today's been crazy. It's barely 11 am and I'm ready for a very very long nap.

Nonsensical Blithering...

Today has been interesting. I came to the realization that if my brain were wired into Twitter, the entire world would probably hate me. It's a good thing it isn't then.

I made a lot of interesting observations though...

Andrew WK's long lost brother was driving in front of me on a motorcycle with KC Chiefs stickers plastered on it and a BMW helmet. That's something you don't see every day. He was also chunky. Sadly I didn't get a photo because the light turned green.

It was also apparently bring your idiot to Sonic and get half price happy hour drinks. I almost got crunched into by some stupid woman on her cell phone, basically blocking the entrance, then when I cleared that obstacle, there was an SUV just sitting out in the middle of the drive area turned on with no one in it. I'll be avoiding that Sonic for a while...

That's really all I can think of right now. It's been a long long day, and I'm ready to go home and sleep for about a month. I haven't worked this long of a shift basically anywhere since February. Luckily this one is basically babysitting a photo lab, at least today, and I can relax and listen to good music. Nothing wrong with that.

I went to a show last night, it was pretty good, what I was able to see of it. I had to leave before the last band, which was a shame, but I listened to them on Myspace and it was ok, but nothing special. It seems like it's that way a lot around here. Maybe I just have extreme expectations, I really don't know. It's nice to see talented bands, and sometimes talented people in so so bands... that's usually the gist of it. One or two people play their hearts out, the others spend too much time on drama and need to grow up. I guess that's just how it is. I mean, look at Pink Floyd... same thing. And hell, Roger Waters is still taking The Wall on tour... ugh.

Speaking of The Wall, I did actually try to watch it a few months ago. I got to 'One of My Turns', said screw it and went to HyVee for lemon cake. I mean, I do enjoy the album, but the movie was just terribly depressing, plus Bob Geldof is creepy.

I think I'm becoming grizzled, at least at some aspects of life here. The whole KC metal scene thing really bugs me, hopefully some changes will come about in the next few months. I just wonder how much I'll have to do with it. After the other crap involving metal that happened earlier this year, I'm hesitant to take part in projects, other than the Dio tribute, especially if the whole money and power and status things come into play. That's not worth it, and I'd rather be a speck of dirt than a clump of angry mud. That isn't the best analogy but whatever. At least I try, sometimes.

I've been trying to work on my website and WordPress is a pain. I did finally figure out how to fix some things, then I screwed my account up, so I'm trying to wait for it to update and work the bugs out. I did find a nice tutorial, so perhaps I can actually get my photo albums up. I'm still kind of confused as to how everything is going to be organized, but we'll see. Part of me is angry I didn't just use older coding, but that's the nature of technology. The minute you get good at something, the rules change and you are made obsolete. Technological Decay I suppose is a good way to put it... Survival of the brainiest at least in some terms.

I dunno, I guess I can go ahead and hit publish post and be done, hopefully I will be able to go home soon and get some quiet time and rest.

And just for the record, I really can't stand Savatage.

Thank you and goodnight.

I'm basically a slug...

So, I have 11 days left until class is over. I've managed to secure a domain for a photography website, and that's about it. I did mess with it some on Friday but my brain's just not wanted to wrap around doing a bunch of stuff. I probably will just lug all my stuff to class tomorrow and work without distractions like sleep and food and Mr. Babypants.

I've been listening to 'After' a lot, and it's just amazing. The depth of it is mind boggling, and well, I love it, that's really all I feel like saying right now. It's so nice to find something new and exciting that can almost replace several different bands that I forgot about in the past. It's interesting how it reminds me of Mr. Bungle and Alice in Chains (Emperor goes without saying), yet Ihsahn was more influenced by stuff like radiohead. I think it just shows that you can get cool and workable ideas from many sources. I will say that he has one of the most beautiful singing voices I've heard in quite a while. Plus, he knows how to use it, he doesn't jack around with stupid stuff, and I appreciate that.

Anyway though, I dunno. Other than that, I spent most of my day sleeping because it's basically miserable out. Maybe the rain will settle things down for a bit. Maybe not, I dunno...

New Stuff

So, I spent money this past week. It's not exactly a good thing, but at the same time, I'm glad I made some music purchases. Firstly, I bought a copy of Emperor's Live Inferno LP at Ear Waxx, and it is fantastic. :) I'm kind of sad it doesn't have the booklet that was advertised with the CD, but it happens. It sounds great and I really wish I had the chance to see them live.

I also picked up Ensifernum's Victory Songs, which is also pretty cool. I really enjoy them and feel kind of dippy that I never bought an album before, but these things do happen.

Last but not least, I picked up After by Ihsahn (can you see a pattern here?) and it is amazing! I was really impressed, I mean, I knew it would be really cool, but it has a lot of depth and experimentation on it that makes it transcend genre. I also found out that angL is out on vinyl, so I'm going to have to track that down as well.

For now though, I better go back to packing. I have my dishes finished almost, most of them in one big box, but hey, I'm making use of the 15 boxes provided by the moving company. There's no use to put only two or three things in each one. Blerh.


And yeah, that's about it for now, since I completely forgot this was open. Oops...

A completely new take on buttpants...

So, I was binging on Emperor for several reasons, and I came across a really cool bootleg of a show from 1997. I'm embedding one of my favorite tracks, "With Strength I Burn".









And yeah, the buttpants... I'm not really sure how or why Ihsahn wore those pants, but... yeah. It raises some questions in my head. Was there glue involved? Where would you put keys in these converted buttpants? Do they actually qualify as buttpants in the truest sense of the word? I think they do. I'm not really sure how they couldn't since at some points it's hard to tell if there ARE indeed pants ON his butt.

And now, the infomercials have started, and I'm up way too late, but the question will linger... what the hell?