So it appears that sound engineering is far more intensive than I had imagined. Soooo yeah, I'm gonna be disappearing for a while, I might pop up here and there but the amount of time needed to dedicate myself to my studies has a habit of conflicting with my internet life.

Now, back to the studies.

Myself and another girl have to create a presentation on baroque music for our music history ysection of sound engineering.

Problem: I'm not terribly good at studying. I get distracted.

So yeah, gonna have to figure that one out.

PS. The Vitamin String Quartet is fucking awesome!

According to one of my instructors at sound engineering school, my suspicions have been proved correct. It is in fact possible to find the human head's resonant frequency, turn it up REALLY LOUD and make it explode!

Happiness is sci-fi/murder mystery ideas turning out to be possible.

And that is all.

I feel kinda weird right now.

Right now I'm sitting in my room at Home 2.0. I'm tired and still have a good bit of homework to do before my class goes over studio design tomorrow (at least I think we are if the schedule is correct), but I feel satisfied.

I'm finally at a school where I am learning about things that I actually want to learn about, and I am learning a shitload.

The only way I can think to describe it is that I'm content but I want more of what I'm getting all at the same time. Kinda like a steady dose of pot without needing huge amounts more to continue my high. Just a spectacularly awesome equilibrium of learning.

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New discovery, Korean music is awesome. I am thoroughly enjoying my new mini-obsession, though I'm painfully behind and have no money to start importing CDs.

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Back to the studies!

And here I am, another night where I just can't get to sleep before 2AM, so I sit here and write useless shit that makes me happy.

Actually, today was pretty damn good. Life's been a bit hectic getting used to living in two places every week, I literally pack up my whole life twice a week, get in my car, drive two hours, and unpack as soon as I get to whichever home I'm on my way to.

School is a bit of an oddity too. APRA (Academy of Production and Recording Arts) is like no course I've ever taken before. Kind of unnerving at the moment. But over all the class is chill, my teachers are pretty awesome so far, and the school is within walking distance of Home 2.0.

The only thing going against me right now is boredom, I'm so early into classes that there is no homework. To much to learn first I guess.

I think I might actually be getting tired though.

Hrm.

Oh, and btw, if you read this, I now understand your miniature Key obsession, the boy's bloody cute. Good luck when he becomes legal. Korea will never be safe again.

Annoyance. When I'm in traffic going into the city and someone goes to pass me. This is not a bad thing, what is a bad thing is when they get in front of me and slow right down. That is annoying.

Anywho, I starts APRA101 (Academy of Production and Recording Arts) tomorrow, or technically today.
Kind of nervous, not entirely sure how the course is structured, but it's supposed to be very intense, very hands on, and ridiculously fun.

Which segways (somehow) into the apparent fact that I cannot get to sleep anywhere before midnight. Just doesn't happen. I'm gonna have to find a job that allows me to work 17:00 ---> 2:00, this would be awesome, but probably won't happen any time soon.

Gonna go check out obscure music nao......actually not so obscure, just a nostalgic shout out. Al Green is awesome. He makes me happy in the best of ways.

Empty houses are weird.
At the moment I am the only one residing in my house. Which means that after I come home from work all I can hear is silence. This has been unnerving me.....when I move out I'm definetely getting a roommate of some sort. Or an assortment of highly intellectual androids of whom cater to my every desire. 

Desires:

1. Make noise when I come home.
      a. Be fucking loud.
2. Yell at me to go to bed or at least shut the hell up.
3. Make noise.

For all my introversion I do seem to dislike quiet for long periods of time.

Learn something new every day.

It is 1:00 in the morning.......just finished watching Pineapple Express. This is approximately the fifth in a string of movies that have all been really, really good. I'm almost kicking myself for all the films I've missed now.

Although Wolverine was almost an exception. If it had not been AWESOME in the action department it would have pretty much failed for me. Really, all that held that movie together for me were nerd nostalgia, ooooo shiny, holy crap that looks cool, and not much else. The story is yes, passable, but is still almost unbearably predictable.

On the note of predictable, I must say that there is more than one kind of predictable. In the case of Wolverine you run into.....well Wolverine. He's a bad ass, he can kill people, and you know that he's gonna kill people. You know things are gonna be shiny. You know the good guys are going to win.

Taken on the other hand, still predictable, but done much better on the story end. Yes, the character played by Liam Neeson is a bit of a bad ass, and you know he is going to find his daughter, and along the way he is going to kill a lot of people. But it's different. You run into real people who are fucked up in real ways. You meet good people who get a lot of shit handed to them, and they have to decide how they're gonna deal with it. Some good people die and some bad people live. It shows us things that are important. This is where some predictability is ignorable.

In Wolverine there is no connection. By the end of the film I felt distant from all of the characters, none of them had problems or lives that could reflect my own. There was a serious lack of reality.

In Taken, life happens, end of story.

That is my rant for this evening. I'm probably gonna look at in the morning and shake my head in shame.....but hey, it happens. At least I'm not drunk.

Trying to live in two places at once is interesting. Especially the preparation.

Starting on Monday I will being my life of living in two places during the week. One place where I work and one place where I study.

And.....yeah, we'll see how sane I am in a couple of months.

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Watched "Wristcutters", "Once", and "Taken" this week. It seems I've been having luck renting films that have one word titles, because all of these films are extremely worthwhile.

"Wristcutters" is a dark comedy about the after-life for people who commit suicide. It also includes on of the more surprising storylines I've seen in a while. If you like comedy with a good bit of darkness to it and don't mind hearing about suicide for an hour and a half, go for it. Oh yeah, and I think I saw a topless midget in an earlier part of the film. Just in case you wanted to know.

"Once" is a modern musical set in Dublin, Ireland. It's abouta guy and a girl. Neither are ever named through out the film. The guy (played by Glen Hansard) is a musician who's had issues with his ex-girlfriend and the girl (played by Marketa Irglova) is a Czech immigrant who has her own problems (but she plays piano and sings wonderfully.)  They meet, get to know each other, and start making music together. Once again this is a well-done story that doesn't exactly follow the conventional paths that most storyline do. Give it a watch. Just do it.

"Taken" is the action movie. It's about a retired spy who's daughter gets kidnapped. Not a terribly surprising film so I won't give any spoilers. That said, it has solid action, a solid story, a social problem that needs to have a far larger voice, and good actors. It's not the easiest film to watch, but it is well worth it.

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And I'm tired. Bed time.

White Lies by The Dudes is stuck in my head. This was frustrating.

Later, White Light by Gorrilaz got stuck in my head. This was REALLY frustrating.

SOMEHOW! These songs are similar. And both are playing at the same time in my head. Therefore the only thing worse than having a song stuck in your head is having two similar but not similar songs playing at the same time in your head.

*bangs head against the wall repeatedly*

Best feeling ever, when you listen to a song and your adrenaline just goes through the freaking roof. You feel like you could run a marathon (but you couldn't) or fight off a phalanx of ninjas. <-----????

No but seriously, just listened to So Long by Jonah Matranga. I can't figure out why I love this song so much, but everything in it works.

So yeah, here it is. Live, and not the best quality, but I still like it.
(Song actually starts at 1:30)



Hope you like it.

I have a problem. My mental awakeness schedule runs from about 2:00 PM to 4:00 AM.

This preference causes the serious problem that follows: every Monday, starting on the 21st of September, I will have to wake up at 5:00 AM, shower, get dressed, eat, pack my stuff into my car, and drive 140km to Calgary to go to classes. These classes start at 10:00 AM.

.......When I am done school, when I'm finished working for other people, when I finally start my own business (if,) I will make business hours run from 5:00 PM to Midnight. Everyone in favor, say "AWESOME!"

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Other peeve, being poor. Kind of obvious, but still, being poor sucks.

Our consumer society (of which I am assisting) makes this even worse. Every day I see something I want, be it Fat Princess from PSN or....I dunno, sexy pants.

It reallly is good for me to have no money in some ways, helps me get into the wonderful habit of not spending exorbitant amounts of cash.

Now, off to work!

So here's the news, I'm a frickin nerd or a geek, or at least in the minor sense of one of the word. That is to say that I love my anime, manga, video games (RPGs and MMOs namely), philosophy (though I'm emberassingly behind), literature, and never ever will Firefly be dead to me.

So yeah, some of my interests have this habit of being.....not interesting at all to others.

Then again, things that some people find infatuating......I could care less. You will never make me care about hockey, ever. You just can't.

On a side not, this gif is entrancing.



Ciao

(No seriously, just stare at it for a few minutes. Then try to stop looking.)

Aight, I would be far less stressed if I could figure out a pattern that determines what kind of music I like. There really isn't any sort of....way to discern if I'll like something or not.

Two of my favorite bands (or at least favorite albums created by them) are incredibly far apart in terms of genre. For note, they are Friend and Foe by Menomena and Chuck by Sum 41 (here is the exception, because I don't enjoy anything else Sum 41 has created.)

I look for music that is similar to what I like and end up getting stuff I could care less about.

So i guess I'm kind of a freak for my music, I like a lot of it, but there's nothing that could tell you why I like all of what I do.

And now I'm gonna go dance.

*dances*

And now  I'm done.

Last note here.

Why do people feel the necessity to be dark, moody, and......really creepy. I know I did it too, but I have grown to realize that it is really annoying. That is all.