Nightwish were amazing last night. Their music is very potent on the studio albums, but even more so live. I was fortunate enough to be right in front of the stage (Tarja, Emppu, and Marco were all only a few feet away from me, at most), so I was able to have a lot of interaction with the band. It's funny, though, how same the people are, even with ( Read more... )

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The puppet is on the hand.

My incessant checking of band websites has finally paid off ( Read more... )

REI just called, an I am now on their schedule! I start on June 21, doing the swing shift (2PM-11PM). $11.05 an hour. Oh yeah. This also means that I can leave Red Robin (yesssssss) because like hell I'm working seven days a week. I'll put my two weeks in tomorrow. I'm sure that will go down wonderfully ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took my last final, for my anatomy class. All that's left is to churn out a two-page little ditty for English--but I won't be setting foot in a classroom for another three-plus months. Thank fucking god. It will be nice to turn off the heavy academic discussions for a while. First order of business? Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs.

I had an interview at REI today. Went very well. My interviewer said he's call me tomorrow or Thursday to set up a time for me to come in and do all the paperwork, etc., and schedule me in since he can't hire me this week. Which is fine. What's nice, though, is that I'll just be working the week, on a swing shift, so I won't have to come in till ( Read more... )

I probably had the best experience in school today. Since my music teacher didn't know anything about industrial music, she gave me about half the class (this is a 55-minute class) to teach everyone about the genre since I'm the only one in the class who listens to the stufff... I really simplified it for them. I broke industrial into avant-garde ( Read more... )

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