Living in a van, down by the river

So I have a bevy of concerts on the horizon over the next month:

Gigantour w/Megedeth (2nd time seeing), Children of Bodom, In Flames, and Job for a Cowboy- April 30th
Tyranny and Bloodshed Tour w/ Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility, Divine Heresy and Firewind- May 16th
Opeth-May 24th
Coheed and Cambria-May 31st


My musical spidey sense is tingling and telling me this summer is going to ROCK.... I mean I'm just saying is all.

To 11 boys. To 11.

How did we get from saying I love you to I'll see you around some day?

There are days when I can never decide what it is that I want to listen to. 500+ Cd's and nothing seems to strike my fancy. Sometimes I fear that I have musical apathy. All these musical loves, now looked upon with a shrug. I'm hopeful this is a phase.

I just put my Iyiyi on random in the hopes to have musical juices primed, and ironically a Papa Roach song came on that I've never listened to yet I own. It saddens me because it is absolute crap. I full enjoyed Infest and Lovehatetragedy, but what has followed since is just utter crap. I think it is wholly amusing that after this Elton John came on. At least John can always guarantee to amuse me. Simple music and a showmanship flare rarely to match. That and the inner diva in me worships him. I regret not getting tickets to his show when he came through town.

Now I have this weird urge to go sing Cher's "If I could turn back time" and dance around my room like a deranged octogenarian. Perhaps a look into my golden years? Hell yeah!

Down in Fraggle Rock

So I have this little lull in my school schedule where I can actually write something here without panicking that I should be writing actual assignments. Seeing as though my last hand-in written assignment was just completed and soon to be handed in on campus, I have a bit of freedom. Mind you I should prepare for operation impending doom exams.

So in this frenzy of end of term crap, which has been exacerbated by the fact 3/5 of my teaching staff have been striking, I just realized I have spent the vast majority of it in silence. Seriously folks, SILENCE. For someone who has an endless array of musical options at her disposal, I seem to have this nasty habit of abandoning music. Only in the aftermath do I ever notice this

In other news, I picked up the new Sevendust and In Flames albums last week. Not exactly impressed, but not exactly disappointed either. They more or less just exist to me. Sevendust seem content in releasing the same stuff time and time again, with no real evolution, aside from including Daughtry on a track (I could argue against this being an evolution, but not now), which I presume was an attempt to cash in on the mainstream market. Don't get me wrong, I really do like Sevendust but I guess I expect something more substantial in their releases. I would prefer to wait a year or two for an album rather than the yearly fare that has been offered up. This is just me I suppose. In Flames...I don't have enough of their back catalogue to compare, but the recent album doesn't really sonally jump out at me.

Maybe I should go listen to something and be less bitter today.

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