| Amore in Concerto |
[23 Sep 2005|01:53am] |
I absolutely adored Apocalyptica’s concert! Unfortunately Ange was too tired to come. So I thought I’d put the recap I gave her here for memories sake, and for the few who are interested to know how it went.
Myr says:
Okay, so shall we start with the wonderful concert you missed? lol
For the opening act, you missed absolutely nothing... it was like the requisite torture before blissful pleasure, lol. Eyes of Fire are a 4-guy screaming metal band from California, and while I was forced to listen to them (my hands over my ears did nothing to block the noise), my only thought was 'go back to California.'
Ange says:
lol nice, yay for me so far
Myr says:
After that, it was about a 20 minute break (for stage setting and sound checking for Apocalyptica), so my mind was able to get past the atrocity and look forward to the good stuff... and good stuff it was! They played all of their greatest hits.
Ange says:
aww nice
Myr says:
And they really know how to put on a show; they don't just sit there. They smile and cheer the crowd on a lot. They stand up, they walk around, headbang (with synchronized hair twirling, which is pretty impassive, lol), they get up on chairs, they hit the drums with their bows, they lay the cellos on the floor and saw at them, they intentionally poke each other in the butt with their bows, lol and they even lift the cellos up in the air above their heads and start playing it upside-down
Myr says:
And apparently, from the few people who stayed at the front doors after the show, they were very nice; talked to them and made sure they all had the autographs and pictures they wanted before leaving. One even said we were a 'fucking amazing crowd' (which he apparently doesn't say often), and that they really wanted to come back next year (maybe around April or May… if they do, I am soo there)
Myr says:
Now for some pictures, heehee
http://www.capitaledumetal.com/photo/photoList.jsp?id=195
http://photobucket.com/albums/y78/hellskinky/Apocalyptica/
Ange says:
Cool, it does sound like a good time. So should I prepare for an obsession a la Nightwish
Myr says:
I'll probably want their CDs for Christmas, lol
Ange says:
lol
Myr says:
It really exceeded my expectations though. I love them more now than I did before. Unfortunately, now that I’ve been to a great concert like that, I fear I'd only be disappointed with Nightwish
Ange says:
Ooo kinda like the way I was sooo blown away by the Rent musical; I fear that the movie which started the obsession will only disappoint
Myr says:
Hmm, more like seeing Rent on Broadway, and then seeing it played at the retirement center, lolol
Ange says:
lololol yeah ok. Urgh I can't imagine Roger as a 75 year old man. Roger: I have aids but I might die of old age, so why bitch?
Myr says:
lol
Ange says:
And in this version April doesn't commit suicide in the bathtub... it’s more like she tripped and fell
Myr says:
LMAO
Ange says:
Mimi’s the most wrinkled ass below 14th street
Myr says:
lolol
Ange says:
Maureen will have dementia; she really will see the cyber cow
Myr says:
lmao
Ange says:
Wow I’m so going to hell for this
Myr says:
hehe
Well Ange, like the little finnish joke goes, if you're going to Hel(sinki), then I will gladly go with you!
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| Somewhere Around Nothing |
[03 Sep 2005|11:19pm] |
Wow, I’ve really been remiss about updating. And even now, I’m only updating so my cousin will find the motivation to update as well, lol.
My obsession with Nightwish has led me to discover other bands from Finland (I really, really love that country now, lol) Sonata Arctica and Apocalyptica. Sonata Arctica is an all-male melodic metal band who are friends with Nightwish, lol. (There are some mp3 bits here if you’re curious). Like Nightwish, by the time I’d gotten to love them, I’d missed their concert by a few measly weeks (but, last week, I was happily informed that they are returning on January 21st, yay). The band Apocalyptica consists of 3 classically trained cellists who play metal (lol, I know! If someone had told me that you could have metal music with just 3 cellos and a drum, I wouldn’t have believed them). I’m going to see them in concert on September 16th, weee! And the tickets were only 19$, hehe. If any of you are interested in hearing them, there’s a link to an audio recording of their concert at the Lowlands Festival up on their site here
Got to see David Usher in concert this summer. He was performing at a festival in Sherbrooke (2 hours east of here), and the tickets were only 10$, so of course Ange said we had to go. Getting there was a bit complicated (arrows pointing right, but the street needed is actually to the left, grr), but we finally made it by following the lights of the Ferris Wheel, lol. We got there in time to hear some noise performed by Groovy Ardvark (apparently Quebec’s first French metal band), I was not impressed. There were some nice fireworks to a medley of musical genres. And then it was finally time for David. He was cute as always, good hair and charming attitude. And you gotta love a man who understands that adding a violin is always a good decision.
In July I spent a week at my cousin Genevieve's house helping with the kids. Nicolas always wants to be held, and Vincent never wants to go to bed. Vincent can also say my name now, it's really adorable: "Meeyaam." Eric shared his obsession with the show 24. We’d go to bed at 3am, and he’d get up for work at 7 (if not woken up earlier by the kids). I have no Idea how they do it; I slept for a whole day when I got back home, lol. And while I was there, a momma groundhog had tried to make the front porch her home for her and her babies. I’d never seen one from that close before, they’re actually quite cute when standing on their hind-legs keeping watch.
My cousins Sebastien and his girlfriend Marie-Joelle got married on August 13th. It was a beautiful wedding. There was a lovely violinist playing in the church, and Marie and her mom came down the aisle crying, lol. The food was delicious, there was a huge buffet for the hors d’oeuvres, followed by 5 courses that I could only nibble at because I was already so full. The reception was quite a party, and just like the cliché, the garter got stuck in the chandelier, lol.
And now I’m starting school again in 5 days… sigh, time goes by so fast.
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| My Apple To Bite |
[19 May 2005|10:52pm] |
My newest obsession is a band from Finland called Nightwish. Their style has been known to be described as Symphonic Metal, Melodic Metal, Operatic Metal, and the list goes on.
Sing what you can’t say
Forget what you can’t play
Hasten to drown into beautiful eyes
Walk within my poetry, this dying music
My love letter to nobody
---Dead Boy’s Poem ---
For a whole month I went to every music store I could, but they are such a little-known band here in North America that I was lucky if the store had 1 CD (and even then, it wasn’t cheap, because they were imports). In all, I spent around 200$ (5 CDs and 2 DVDs).
Oh, bare grace misery
Just a child without a fairytale am I
Dark but so lovely
A Little Match Girl freezing in the snow
--- Bare Grace Misery ---
Angela freaked, lol, (it really isn’t my habit to spend so much so fast) and kept saying “Soooo obsessed.” But then I made her download a video made by a Farscape fan, which used a song by Nightwish, and she loved it. Then she started downloading everything she could of Farscape, so it was my turn to say “Soooo obsessed.”
Barely cold in her grave
Barely warm in my bed
Settling for a draw tonight
Puppet girl your strings are mine
--- Feel For You ---
I still can’t decide which is my favorite album. There is such an evolution from one to the next, and yet every new album doesn’t take away the merit of its predecessor. Each album has such a distinctive personality all the while keeping the same basics essence.
Angel’s Fall First has an overall calm feeling and floats in the realm of fantasy.
Didn’t you read the tale
Where happily ever after was to kiss a frog?
Don’t you know this tale
In which all I ever wanted
I’ll never have
For who could ever learn to love a beast?
--- Beauty and the Beast ---
Oceanborn has a theatrical flare and stands in the realm of mythology.
An Aphrodite for mortal souls
Playing hide and seek in lecherous roles
Their erotic hour, my tearless weep
Their satisfaction, my infinite sleep
--- Passion & the Opera ---
Wishmaster is slightly more radio material and keeps to fantasy and mythology, but also includes contemporary topics.
In the meadow of sinful thoughts
Every flower’s a perfect one
To paradise with pleasure haunted by fear
--- She Is My Sin ---
Century Child has a harder sound, and is more of an emotional exploration, with an edge of depression.
I fear I will never find anyone
I know my greatest pain is yet to come
Will we find each other in the dark
My long lost love
--- Beauty of the Beast ---
Once is a beautiful cohesion of voices and layered sounds. Lyrically full of truths, strong images and emotions.
My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I’ll bleed forever
--- Ghost Love Score ---
I find myself also obsessed with the man behind the songs: Tuomas Holopainen, who is, at the moment, both my definition of adorable and my definition of sex, lol.
Last dance, first kiss
Your touch, my bliss
Beauty always comes with dark thoughts
--- Wish I Had An Angel ---
A few months ago, when my obsession was still young and ignorant, I had a funny discussion with a friend, which then transformed itself into a fan letter to Tuomas (my first fan letter ever and, re-reading some months later, not one I think I’d ever send, no matter how drunk the recipient, lol).
Think of me long enough to make a memory
--- Bless the Child ---
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| Fears Appeased… for the moment. |
[03 Nov 2004|11:44pm] |
Father hands over an envelope but doesn’t leave.
Spot the university insignia on the corner.
Stomach goes aflutter.
Sit up, spine straight, muscles tight.
Open slowly.
Read quickly.
Slump back down.
Long exhale.
Smile.
Acceptance!
Funny how simple --yet momentous-- it is.
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| Resuscitated |
[09 Oct 2004|12:08am] |
I have massively updated my site. It practically looks as though it's 'under new management'. It's a lot more organized, and has a lot of new entertaining things, so it's worth checking out (especially if you remember what it looked like before).
I also updated Angela's site. She has branched out from poetry to comic dialogue (in the style of Gilmore Girls), and has so far been successful in my opinion.
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| Love At First Preview |
[21 Apr 2004|07:41am] |
Yesterday I went to see the movie Connie & Carla. It's cute and enjoyable. I don't really have much to say about it. But the previews, now that's another story.
I saw the preview for this romance/drama movie called The Notebook. It looks so great I want to see the movie right now, but unfortunately it only comes out on June 25th. Thank god the preview is on the official site though, lol. It stars Ryan Gosling, and he usually doesn't turn me on, but make him grow a beard and put him in a great love story and I find him really freaking attractive! LOL
On Saturday I went to Angela's. We didn't do much, mostly watched her obsession (at least it comes accompanied by good music :P). I also made her sniff my armpits because I was wearing my raspberry deodorant, and I absolutely adore it and had to share with someone, lol.
On Monday I was working on clearing the blackheads out of my nose, and I either squeezed too hard or too long because I bruised it, lol. I now have a purple bruise stripe down my nose... but cover-up does its job well, so it's not too bad.
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| Attack of the Sheeps! |
[27 Jan 2004|01:21am] |
::Sigh:: I've been hit by 3 Drive-by LJ Friend-adders in the same amount of days. Is this a new trend? Ugh, I don't like sheep.
The first one was sorta fun, pretending to be ignorant and not have a grasp of the english language. I played around a bit, trying to make them say something other than their 2 line repertoire. They stopped replying to me, lol.
The second clearly only seeks to infuriate. They claim that they are picking randomly to actually make friends. Of course I don't believe this for a second. Someone who truly seeks friends, does so through common interests (and deletes people who are adamant about not wanting them as a friend).
The third is just plain sad. They have interests that range from Abraham Lincoln to Kurt Cobain to Pokemon, yet they can't be bothered to write one journal entry.
I find the concept - adding as many people as possible to an empty account, not paying an inch of attention to these 'new friends' journals, and yet refusing to take them off - such a waste of space. Someone must be (or will eventually be, in one form or another) paying for the space all those useless accounts and 'heated requests' are taking up on servers.
Update 01/28 - Another one added me, lmao, they're stealing eachother's friends. This one's hillarious though. He wants people to write him a 500 word essay on why he should unfriend them and, if they're convincing, he says he will, lol.
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| The One Who Saw My Words |
[04 Jan 2004|03:33am] |
I'm home from a fantastic holiday visit in Toronto! I have just enough energy to share the song Broken Words I'm currently repeatedly playing off the Finger Eleven CD The Greyest of Blue Skies.
Your sweet little hands
Brush right past me
Sometimes you don't understand
Why you can't reach
I bite when I don't want to bend
How silent I can be
So she is silent too
She's the one who saw my words
Broken, Torn at the seams
And broken words were all she heard
Now she's walking away from me
Some never meant
And some meant well
The difference between us is so
Hard to tell
I was so shaken but now
All I see
Is everything she meant to me
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| Inspiration Sings a Siren's Song |
[08 Dec 2003|05:12am] |
As a Christmas present to my best friend ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) blazing_angel, I decided to make a website for her poetry. I finished it today. I'm happy, she's happy, joy to the world, heehee.
You know how you always feel inspired just when you have other obligations? Well the night before my Microeconomics exam, instead of studying, I procrastinated by giving in to inspiration and began writing my first Wolverine/Rogue fic. And today I finished it! I finally finished a fic I started, lol. Sure it's short and completely dialogue, but it's finished and that's the point, right?
Read Freefalling
See my new Wolverine/Rogue icon there? Well a big bunch of whore-kisses go out to Jess, heartaglam, for making it for me. It's absolutely gorgeous, I love it, can't stop staring at it!
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| Universal Awe |
[05 Nov 2003|10:27am] |
I went to the Planetarium yesterday. They're presently showing images from the Hubble telescope.
If asked before, what my favorite aspect (view) in the universe was, I'd have said a Nebula; a cloud of gas where stars are born. But now, my favorite image is definitely a Planetary Nebula; a dying star.
[edit]: Now looking at them again, I really can't say which one I like best, lol.
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| If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next |
[16 Sep 2003|11:06pm] |
Yesterday I bought the new David Usher cd Hallucinations due to Angela's nagging. And I know she's just going to have the biggest smile at this: the more I hear it, the more I love it.
"And tell me do you feel like dying, tell me does it hurt just waking up" - Numb
"Who of us can tell what these dark days will bring." - Time of Our Lives
"Devils by my side, and the freaks are out, we're in force tonight." - Devil by my Side
(blazing_angel's favorite)
"But in this light I can see the angels burning from the inside out, they spread their wings to die." - In This Light
"And what was it like on the day you knew you'd die." - Tomorrow Comes
"When your hate finds the love that it can't destroy" - Fearless
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| Audacity |
[04 Sep 2003|01:51pm] |
I have this problem where I assume that people are relatively sane. And because of this, I tend to be polite to everyone. If I'm sitting on a bench waiting, and a person sits next to me and makes a little comment about the weather, I'll comment back. If the person starts a conversation, I'll listen and participate. But this is where my assumption gets me in trouble.
Yesterday my back and hand were molested for 15 minutes by a 80-year-old married arabian man who wanted me to be his girlfriend. He was trying really hard to sell himself to me; telling me he was nice, that he'd give me 200$ right now, that he had a house that I could move into, he showed me a picture of himself when he was young (black and white, probably from the 1940s).
He didn't understand me when I calmly, nicely said "stop touching me" and "I'm not interested." But when I started talking loudly and swearing; "Stop fucking touching me, or I'll hit you" and "Go home to your wife and leave me the fuck alone," he sure did get the gist of what I was saying though.
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| Joe, my dear, I am you! |
[28 Aug 2003|12:11am] |
You're the boss, the idiot, the man with the drums and the store -- You're Joe!
Lucky you. You get to be the boss of a group of crazy-ass teenagers with more problems than the whole gang at the Girl Interrupted Mental Hospital. But you're wise, a good listener, no-nonsense and you take chances on people everyone else has given up on. You're the shit and you're in charge. You Joe, now where is Jane...?
Which Empire Records character would YOU be? Hmmm?
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| Independent Maze |
[27 Aug 2003|03:25am] |
Well, becoming an Independent Student is quite easy. All you have to do is ask for the form, fill it out, show them your birth certificate which proves you are Canadian citizen and over 21, pay 15$ and viola. Of course, I'm pretty sure I was the only 22 year old wanna-be-an-Independent-Student there with her father by her side, but hey, he was the one paying. So they probably just thought he was my 'sugar daddy', like so many have previously thought, lol.
Today I got to enjoy the wonders of registration and prerequisite labyrinths.
*If* I wanted to go into Accounting full-time at Concordia, before I could even apply I would have to fulfill the prerequisites of: Intro to Macroeconomics, Intro to Microeconomics, Computer Applications, Algebra and Functions, Fundamental Mathematics 1, and Fundamental Mathematics 2.
*If* I wanted to go into accounting at McGill, I'd have to add another 3 math classes to the above list of prerequisites, but subtract the computer class.
*But* if I wanted to go back to UQAM for accounting, then I'd have NO prerequisites. I would be taking Microeconomics, one computer class specific to accounting, and one Statistics class. All of which are included in the 3-year program.
I hated UQAM. But I don't know if I'll like Concordia that much either, yet. And one whole semester's worth of classes (1000$, not to mention time) is a considerably big enough difference to make you think twice about your choice of university.
So, one step at a time. I'm taking Microeconomics at Concordia (if I end up going to UQAM, I'll get it credited), and Intro to Financial Accounting, to test out if I'm good at it at all, and if I even like it.
About next semester, who knows! If I really like Concordia, I just might consider taking all of those prerequisites, if not... it's back to the hell hole for 3 years. If I can't stand accounting... I'll have to look into something else. ::shrug and sigh::
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| Among the Stars |
[22 Aug 2003|03:37am] |
Yesterday my cousin mentioned something about the Harry Potter books and how so many children (and adults) have read it and love it, and how it's probably thought of as a 'classic' already.
I haven't read the Harry Potter books, and don't have plans to, so it made me wonder what children's book I considered great. I came up with my answer today, Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Though it is labled a children's book, I consider it to be more of philosophical work that can be enjoyed by readers of any age. It is a simple read that captures the mind and the heart.
"voici mon secret. Il est très simple : on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
If you too wish to give it a read, and a look (the pictures are included), I found both a french copy (original language) and an english version on the net.
Le Petit Prince
The Little Prince
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