Monthly Archives: July 2003

AFI Concert, Future Concerts, Etc.

I got back from the AFI con­cert about an hour ago, after see­ing Aaron and Wheaties off, and grab­bing a relax­ing show­er. The con­cert was decent, but that’s in com­par­i­son to see­ing my favourite band live. The light­ing was amaz­ing­ly done, with the cor­rect colours and spot­lights to match the music. Davey Havok was singing almost a semi-tone flat through most of the con­cert, so he must have been pret­ty tired. I only enjoy their last album, Sing the Sorrow, but at one point dur­ing the sum­mer I was lis­ten­ing to it to no end. Dina asked me if I thought there were any pret­ty girls walk­ing around between sets and all I could answer was “lots”.

There aren’t too many bands I feel as if I need to expe­ri­ence live. I’ve seen Tool, the Dwarves, and the Misfits live already, and those are the only bands I feel that I enjoy enough for me to attend. I would go to anoth­er Tool con­cert if they came around again, and def­i­nite­ly a Portishead show if they were ever doing one. I would be up for an Ellen Ten Damme con­cert with Darren, but unfor­tu­nate­ly she seems to only play in Europe and the UK with a few Japanese tour dates. I could go for a Dreamtheater con­cert, but I have the live DVD, so a per­son­al view­ing isn’t quite as imper­a­tive. The Dears is a pos­si­bil­i­ty, but I’d have to get more into their music before going.

I bought The Frozen Throne expan­sion for Warcraft III, and I’m impressed with it’s depth. It’s basi­cal­ly a com­plete­ly new game now, with dif­fer­ent units, heroes, and build­ings. I find that it’s much more strat­e­gy based and less focused on micro. Since I’m unem­ployed, I’ve been play­ing quite a bit with Artfag, and since she’s unem­ployed as well, there’s nev­er a chance to guilt the oth­er into look­ing for a job, which is some­thing that I’m find­ing hard to get moti­vat­ed about.

Speaking of which, I spent the last week send­ing out résumés to var­i­ous com­pa­nies and gov­ern­ment orga­ni­za­tions. I have a résumé that I’m pret­ty proud of right now, after Pat helped me fix it up. No phone calls so far.

Gag

If you could know what I know, what would you say?

Would you tell me that I’m crazy? That I think too much? That the world is upside down? Perhaps it’s all true.

Could you com­pre­hend how I feel or under­stand what I think? Would you tell me that you were sor­ry, or that I was sim­ply naive?

Sometimes it feels as if there is so much to say, so much to tell, so much to express. At what point does igno­rance become hap­pi­ness?

All I want is for you to know.

Royal Oak, Hanging Out With Aaron, Canada Day

I’m thor­ough­ly exhaust­ed. A fuch­sia cres­cent pierced the sky tonight, and filled the sky with crim­son clouds. Time for some orches­tral pop noir roman­tique.

I went to the Royal Oak on Friday with quite a few peo­ple. Drew told every­one a cho­da sto­ry, his cho­da sto­ry, in fact, which just hap­pened to be the most hilar­i­ous thing I’ve ever heard. I was quite glad that Aaron could­n’t make it, or he would have suf­fo­cat­ed from laugh­ter spasms. Unfortunately, I’m afraid that any sto­ries I’ll hear from this point on will, at best, be irk­some in com­par­i­son.

Saturday, Sunday, and Monday were spent hang­ing out with Aaron dur­ing his time off. Much table ten­nis was played. We watched Brotherhood of the Wolf, which was a decent movie, due main­ly to the sat­is­fy­ing action scenes. The slow motion effect was used much too pro­fuse­ly, but there were some drop-dead gor­geous actress­es through­out the two hour movie. We also watched Brain Candy with it’s rather ran­dom humour. I enjoyed watch­ing it, even though it was the third time around for me, but I’ve always been a big fan of The Kids in the Hall. I only wish that Trolley was with us so that he too could have bathed in the spas­mod­ic glo­ry of their humour.

Today was spent at Mooney’s Bay with Tom and Mel’s group of friends in cel­e­bra­tion of Canada Day. I had a chance to meet Aaron’s cousin, Ellie, who came from Edinborough, Scotland to vis­it. She had a nice, thick Scottish accent and tells me that there are quite a few Chinese peo­ple there with the same inflec­tion. I might be head­ing out to a club with her and Aaron next week­end. Mooney’s Bay was great­ly relax­ing, aside from Ivana putting me on the spot with her intrin­sic ques­tions. I had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to catch up on some read­ing before throw­ing the Frisbee around.

And now, I need sleep.