Muse

They are one of the biggest bands right now in America's mainstream media. (Interesting fact: Sinnce Blogspot won't let you view an image before submitting it for an upload, this is indeed a random image out of my massive muse picture folder on my macbook. Yes, that's right, I said MACBOOK.)

Unfortunately, their brilliant masterpieces were just recently acknowledged by the public due to their song, "Super Massive Black Hole" in Twilight. (Before that, their song "Take a Bow" was in Watchmen so some publicity was there as well.)

Well news for you America, they have been my number one favorite band for seven years! And let me tell you; Six years ago when they came to my hometown, my boyfriend at the time bought us tickets for 50 bucks total, there was a small venue and I was up at the front of the stage practically touching Matthew's converse shoes. They were considered underground back in those days. I had discovered them on my favorite channel at the time, Fuse. The first song to debut on the station was "Time Is Running Out." On the album, Absolution. I went on to purchasing their older album (although it was released AFTER absolution in America) Orgins of Symmetry.

At this point, I was seriously addicted. I found their old music from when they were the Rocket Baby Dolls, not Muse. I listened to Pink Ego Box and Ballooniac. I tried to find anything and everything related to Muse.

Fast forward to today, my favorite band of all time are one of the biggest names in rock. I'm so happy for them because they have worked so hard throughout the years, waiting for an achievement like this, it is just rather unfortunate that Stephanie Meyer had to be the one of throw some publicity their way by calling them, "Her favorite band of all time. Their music inspired a lot of scenes in this book." that's fine and dandy because I could picture their music as well, but her books didn't translate well to the bigscreen and in my opinion, an embarrassment to Muse.

Anyways, next month I'm going to get to see them, sure the tickets were 45 per person this time around, but any hardcore fan can tell you, "I buy the same expensive tickets as all of my friends to see this kickass band, but they don't know I've seen the same band, five years ago for half the price!"

Rock on, Muse Fans. <3

Davey Havok Threw Away His Makeup and Continues To Make Exquisite Music?!?!

So I have to say that I used to be a pretty big AFI fan. I remember when I first came into contact with their album's at a store, I couldn't bring myself to purchase only one. I ended up buying two albums at once. To this day, that is still a first for me.

Purchasing two albums from one artist at the same time? I enjoy a wide variety of music so this idea was new to me. If I had enough money for two albums, I'd buy a Tori Amos album and then use whatever else I had left for a Children of Bodom album.

Black Sails in the Sunset and The Art of Drowning were the albums I bought on a roadtrip to St. Louis when I was only 14. I appreciated their music taste, everything from the guitar chords to Davey Havok's emotional voice, the lyrics and the...uh...look of the band.

The first time I saw what the lead singer of AFI looked like was in their video, "Girl's Not Grey" and of course, the first thing that I noticed, was the extreme amount of makeup on this man's face. In the video he looks very similar to the picture above. Notice the eyeliner accentuating his eyes. If you think that's bad, you'd be shocked to see his glam phase he was into a couple years ago.

Anyways I posted this because I finally saw their music video for Beautiful Theives and Davey Havok is rendered as almost completely and entirely irrecognizable because you can see his handsome face...without an ounce of makeup on! I'm very pleased with his new look, he ditched the long locks as well and replaced it with a modernized pompadour which, in my opinion looks pretty sleek.

Check it out yourselves: Beautiful Thieves by AFI

So Work Went Well...

I'm sure that most of you who work early morning jobs know that there's only one or two of your co-workers who have absolute perfect attendance. The rest of us also know that the friends and family that you hang out with don't have work until 3 or 4 in the afternoon the next day. So what do you do? You stay up past your bedtime to accomidate those whose bedtimes fall around one or two in the morning. Sad, but true.

So I'm sure that you're with the majority of us. 98% do not have perfect attendance. Fact. (According to my place of work anyways.) And let's admit it, we have all made up stories for why you were late...right?

Forgive me father, for I have sinned.

Basically I was about fourty minutes late for work, and my final excuse to my manager was that, "My husband started vomiting all over the place so I rushed him to the hospital, only to find out that he has a ruptured appendix."

I would like someone to give me a better excuse then that. I mean seriously, no one fought that one. Of course I was ashamed that it had to resort to this but nowadays you have to fight to stay afloat in America.

Survival of the fittest.

So with non judgemental thought; please, lets talk about your best excuse?

Sobriety

I had to come to a conclusion today with myself.

Either I can continue down a path of destruction and discontentment or I can climb the mountain directly to the side of the morbid path that lies before me.

The task at hand may seem grueling and less desirable, but working for a paycheck is much better than winning the lottery to me. A band named Bright Eyes taught me that in their song, "The First Day of My Life." If you feel like you need some inspiration and possibly direction, I would recommend listening to that song.

The path of destruction. People in America go down this path, willingly or even by accident every day. Everyone has their own personal path in their lives that they will cross at some point that they will have to face. And mine is drugs.

Nothing too hardcore really, although I have been smoking pot almost every day for the past two years, and at the turn of the year I had my first molly. A couple months ago, I popped four of those bad boys and topped the night off with a blunt.

Well, not really a blunt but I do recall a joint being passed around at some point.

Yesterday I was watching Julie/Julia and it inspired me to write a blog again. I used to have a consistent one all throughout high school and I stopped writing it when I started smoking weed. (I understand weed has many different effects on people and unfortunately I don't believe that there has been any major benefits for myself. It has stopped my life, slowed it down so I could get a fat rip from the pungent greenery of kine bud while my friends, art and writing were put on hold.)

So the point of this blog I guess will be sobriety, mixed in with writing samples I might come up with.

I will go into details further.

Until next time.