It's on!

Well here I am again, sitting in my room on a typical saturday night. I've had a couple of beers, but I'm not drunk :)
Anyway I'm gonna try and get a green light for my graduation project on monday, so I'll have to finish up some work for that tomorrow [or today, whatever you prefer]
I hope that stinking teacher finally will agree to let me do this project cause I want off this school!
I'm just getting more and more demotivated and I can't seem to be getting out of this spiral...
I just want to finish school and start earning a normal salary [so I can visit more concerts <3 ]
Well I'd like to visit more concerts this year [alone or with other people], but I guess that after 24 years of living with my parents, my time to find a place of my own will have to come sooner or later.
I'm not planning to be with my parents till I'm 30, so whenever I'd find a reasonable job and will have the means of renting an appartment, I guess I'll have to take a chance...
Nothing else to tell really except that I visited my best friend today and he has an injured knee. I wasn't visiting him because of that, but you know you have to spend some time with your social contacts from time to time ;)
It's kind of sad for him, because he wanted to train hard to become part of the national team and this was one of his last chances [him being 23 years old] to get there... Now he'll have to rest for at least a couple of months until his knee gets a bit better... Poor him...

At the Threshold of... Europe 2007

This title refers to the Hammerfall tour [in case you didn't know that]
I had to go ALL ALONE [again] because people didn't want to go or couldn't go [NOT wanting to go to HAMMERFALL is a sin and you will all burn for it :D ]

It also seemed that the weather would be bad [thick fog], so I was kinda doubting if I should go by car or with public transportation... Glad I went with my own car [with Hammerfall coming out of the speakers the whole time :P ] Only downside is that you have to pay a parking ticket, but oh well you can't have all the luck in the world...

Hammerfall had 2 opening acts: The Poodles and Krokus. Although the name "The Poodles" would make you laugh, their music is actually really good [going to download some soon ;) ]
Krokus was a bit of a disappointment. It's not that the music was bad, but it's just the guy singing that really annoys me... If it were up to me, The Poodles should've played on their time ;)
When Hammerfall finally started to play, I felt something I hadn't felt in a long time... Happiness! I have no idea how long I've been wanting to see them play live and now it was finally upon me [too bad there was nobody to share in my happiness]
They gave away a FANTASTIC show and had some fireworks [which at the end burned some of the ceiling ;) ]

Hopefully Kamelot will have a great show as well :)

J-Rock NL Con 2007

I was going to visit the Con all by myself [as I've done with some other events], but this time I did find someone who wanted to go with me [thank you, ii]. The place where it was held, was the same as with the Baal concert [one week before I started this blog]. It was actually SOLD OUT! Imagine all the people crawling about in front of the collection of Japanese stuff [CD's, DVD's, Magazines] and you have a good idea what a mess it was at the Merchandise stand :S

Anyway, there 3 bands playing at the con: Dokumi [or どくみ a Dutch band with Japanese musical influences], Hagakure [or ハガクレ] and Anti Feminism. The last two were both Japanese bands.

Dokumi has a nice sound and I think it's great that they actually sing in Japanese,but I felt the music was missing something... Maybe it's just me, so I'll just follow their progress and hope they get even better ;)

Next was Hagakure, and although I didn't know any of their music, they make that kind of music that makes you happy inside [I bought their 2nd mini album and it's nice and happy]

Anti Feminism was a bit punkish and since I don't really like Chaotic Punk, I guess this one was the band I liked least...

I had a nice time and I'll probably go again next :D

2006

We are at the end of 2006 and I'm trying to remember what this year has brought me...
Obviously not too much good things or else I would've remembered something ;)
Maybe I've learned something from 2006:
- Going on the Stena Line boat is cool
- A lot of people still say things and act differently
- Never go on a holiday with your girlfriend and her family
- My problems are nothing compared to those other people have
- Going to concerts all alone isn't that bad
- D'espairs Ray is AMAZING!
- Having accidents with your car costs a lot of money
- Iron Maiden should've done a normal concert
- WII makes you look like a spazz, but it's actually really cool!
- Guild Wars is one addictive game...