Summer has been good, I'm currently drained because of about four eighteen-hour days, a full calendar for July and covering a DJ set at lunchtime; I got home at 2am. *ded*
( *Awesome face here* )

So what's been going on with you over the past wee while? Lots of good things, I hope.

It's actually been weird over the past few weeks, we've had some astounding weather for March. Today started off horribly, then was glorious over lunch, then shabby again. Ah well. Have been very busy, schoolwork, futureplans, life in general, gigging...
( Whirlwind of a week )

So tonight will be the first night in a while that I'm going to go to sleep without feeling under pressure to get things done IMMEDIATELY LIEK NAO.

P.S. spent too much money in Backbeat Records the other week, but on the upside Red Sirus are amazing. Apologies for the slightly breakneck pace of this entry, but I'm feeling quite restless at the moment. :) I love adolescence, especially when I know that I can do this.

It's really weird. I go from not being emotionally capable of listening to Starcrossed by Ash, to having it on repeat for an hour. And then I cried at the end of it, but there you go.

And my best friend passed on her sore throat to me, so now I have a voice to rival Andrea Ferro :3 I wouldn't mind it, nay, I'd even enjoy it if it wasn't so bloody sore. It wasn't the best of fun last night, I was helping put on a gig for Amnesty in Belfast (fantastic fun, loved every second), and I was yelling across the room trying to get shit organised before the doors opened, during sound check. Ouch. It was at the Oh Yeah Centre, and they have pictures of Northern Irish music legends on the walls; including Terri Hooley, a gurning Jake Burns and a seventeen/eighteen year old Ash! Adorable.

And today I slept until twelve, got up and had cottage pie for breakfast...odd. Mucked about the house, tried not to cough blood up, made two banana loaves and read the Grauniad...

I got a little annoyed there because I realised I have no reason to keep Razorshite on my mp3 player and it comes up all the bloody time. I switched it to Jamie Lidell, so I'm feeling a little better... unbelievably tired considering I got six hours more sleep than usual.

Went to a gig last night. Fighting With Wire, ASIWYFA, and Strictly Hardcore Dancing. The bands themselves were fantastic for the most part, but the people I went with kind of made it a wee bit 'meh'. In a word, heckling. I was so scundered, because the girl that did it was standing right next to me...and she's a pretty good mate.
( Saturday )
I hate NI weather. It makes my skin dry up and I start bleeding...not good. Amnesty next weekend, tops!

That was slightly odd. I went out to a gig last night with some people, just because. I had nothing better to do. The first band weren't great (turns out their singer was 'on' something =/ Makes sense of the way he was behaving, but still...), the second band (ASIWYFA) were OMGAMAZING and mojoFURY were pretty good too...not a great turnout for the gig, but it was still good craic. My friends were pissed out of their minds, and so I might as well have been on my own. Not that I minded, really. My parents just get worried that I'm a loner, lmao...well, I'm surrounded by people that don't want to know me but they're not why I went to the gig, so to be quite honest I don't really care...

Eh.

Right okay sorry, Angel Interceptor by Ash. Just getting round to watching their old videos and is it just me or do R, M and T seem to be having a little too much fun in that video? Tim looks so angelic, it has to be said, what with the squirming, and the teddy bear, blinking a lot and chewing gum. Aww Rick makes a pretty wumman <3

Will make a proper entry tomorrow, I promise, but that has left my mind resembling half-set jelly.

Just a thought. 'Oh Yeah' was banned for a 'very graphic kissing scene', in 1995. 12-13 years later, is it still seen as 'graphic'? I can understand 'not wanting to corrupt the kiddies', but if you see some of the shite on the tellybox today...hell, this is mere eskimo kissing compared to any RnB dance routine now...

Or, you know, Numbskull. Maybe 'Oh Yeah' was a sign of what was to come from Ash? Haha...

So I'm doing exams at the moment, yes? I got out of school at 11am today, was absolutely class. Or, it would've been if I wasn't so numb from the cold.

I've got nothing to do, bored of revising for my last exam tomorrow (!), and I'm off on Wednesday. I have a few ideas for Torchwoodfic omg! So! I'mma write the bare bones of it over the next few days and see how it turns out on Wednesday night...I really should be getting back into the way of writing fic, I did a Cuddy fic a while back and that's the last one I remember.

I'm in a really good mood at the minute, this song makes me feel fantastic, it always reminds me of the summer. And walking. It's eight minutes and twenty two seconds of pure bliss. It's kind of an obscure song though, it only just broke the top 100 if I remember correctly. And we're done. :)

They're singing deck the halls
But it's not like Christmas at all
I remember when you were here
And all the fun we had last year


If there was a way
I'd hold back these tears
But it's Christmas day
Baby please come home

Yeah, that was fun. Oppenheimer last night at the Spring and Airbrake (which is an awesome venue btw). They played a cover of that ^ as their last song...and Stephen McCauley! XD So I am liek happeh, cos that's my favourite live song of theirs, apart from maybe Saturday Looks Bad To Me. Which they did play XD

And I got sweeties from the bouncers too =] which was nice. My dad came with me because no-one else would...not many parents I know would do that! *feels special* Although he stayed up in the tables and drank energy drinks while I either rocked out, took photos, or reviewed the support bands.

Yeah, so I was on a high for three hours and then I just dropped. So that wasn't nice.

Then I get home and Carrie's all <333 *new boyfriend* so I'm a little *aw, damn* about it...I suppose I'm still slightly hopeful that she might like me even a tiny bit. Even though we're supposed to have got over all that, but I know someone who hasn't! :P Ah, teen drama. I know ye way too well.

Some guy: "Ba ba ba da!"
Shaun: "Yeah, yeah alright, we'll play the ba ba ba da song in a minute!" (Saturday Looks Bad To Me)
Me: "Where's your airhorn?"
Shaun: "Um, it's somewhere, I'm not sure, I'll try and find it for you!"

Rocky and Shaun are sweet guys. My dad even likes them now.

Yeah. It was fun. Lonely fun, but fun nonetheless.

It seems all I do on this is complain...

Anyway. I haf a new song to be obsessed with, Ecstasy by Kharma 45. It's rock, but it's quite electronic dance at the same time. The bassline is something else; I think it would sound awesome at Fusion through the big amps...

( Money worries )

I'm posting this at the library!

My computer died several days ago, because of some spyware apparently. I'm not sure if it can be fixed, if not, I might get a lap-top instead...so I'm horribly behind all the good things in various fandoms =[ Besides my dad has banned me from using his PC until my room is absolutely spotless. So I'm on here before he picks me up to go home.

Oh well. I'm going to see Snow Patrol and Ash tonight at Ward Park in Bangor! I'm very excited about that =] Won't be able to post a review or anything until next Saturday at least, though :( They should be good though =] There'll be approx 35,000 people there, apparently. =O

Fookin' spacebar doesn't work properly on this PC, and I have several small children staring at me because of my fast typing. I just stared back =D

OMG Ash.

^_^

*sighs* I can't wait for Ash. Will post again next Saturday =P Maybe sooner if I'm good and decide to tidy my room...

maybe. 

Oh, btw: Started school on Thursday. Friday was the first proper day = complete bawls. I'm starting Journalism on Monday, though. So it gives me a small reason to get up. *sighs again*

Have to go, I've a wee bit to walk before I get back to where my dad's gonna pick me up.

LOLZ.

Maybe next birthday/Christmas, I might just ask my parents to get me a gift certificate for Cybercandy. I couldn't find Oreos anywhere in Lisburn, and the only ones I found in Belfast (in a specialist shop =/) are ones in tiny packs of three, mucho expensive. I found them in Dublin though =] In an ordinary Centra, of all places. So I got loads, and brought them home...I miss Lucky Charms cereal too,  I had it in America many moons ago, maybe...six years ago? We went for my brother's eleventh birthday, and he's seventeen now, so...hoo. Six years. =[

/end nostalgia over sweet goods.

Uhm...I've ended up signing up for a week-long Drama course at IAC. I only went there for gig tickets! For tomorrow, going to see Clone Quartet =] In the *teensy* Studio Theatre. Should be fun. And I'm considering getting something from Marching Stars, in theory.

Gigs, then:

17th August: MACH: Clone Quartet, Kowalski, Speakmango.
1st September: Snow Patrol, Ash, We Are Scientists (at Ward Park, Bangor)
13 October  – MACH: Fighting With Wire
1 December  – MACH: mojoFURY
21 December – MACH: Six Star Hotel

MACH being an acronym for the music program run by IAC, and Alternative Ulster (magazine) - Metal, Alternative, Cross-over, Hip-hop. (Which is a little odd because I haven't seen any hip-hop at MACH gigs, and I've been going for a few years.)

There wasn't a real point to this entry, it was just to get things out of my head and onto something resembling paper, or something.

Of course.

The sad feelings give me a twisted kind of comfort, something warm and squashy, to bury my face into, hiding from everyone. The starers, the pointers, the laughers, the whisperers, the worriers, the cuddlers, the people that I don't want around.

Maybe it's apple-scented. Imagine that.

I've been listening to a lot of Radiohead recently. They're a good band. There's a bit in the video for Paranoid Android, where he climbs up to the top of the lamp-post, and sits up there, with his knees tucked in underneath his chin, and he's away from everyone else. I want to do that, but I'm scared of heights...

 Up with the birds :)

Kay.

Fusion was good, made friends with a few randomers who thought they knew me, turns out they didn't but they stuck with me anyway, for a while.

Then it sort of got crap again, until I finally found the lost Cari. Which was good, because she is my dancing partner...I drank LOTS. Of WATER. =P It was quite a good music night, it wasn't rock, but it wasn't rave either.

Mhmm so that was a little weird, and I danced way too much, and laughed more than I should have, but I was hyper. Wore my wrecked mojoFURY shirt and some jeans. Same old...most of my friends were either wearing Converse, Skechers or Vans. It's a little weird, but I don't like Converse, only the last two, considering those are the only two pairs of casual shoes that I wear. They're comfy.

Much like my jacket, or as Nath calls it 'an anti-fashion masterpiece in progress'. I got the original jacket in a charity shop in town for £1.50, washed it thrice and ironed it. Ta-Dah! One canvas, ready to use. The patches are probably worth more than the jacket, tbh.

And I'm going to go, because when I start talking about my clothes it's my mind's way of telling me to go and consume a hot beverage of some kind and go to bed.

My sock has a hole in it. Beverage! I like that word.  

I forgot to have breakfast again. Lovely.

On another note; where have I been? Elliott Smith is amazing. =D

I think that's another thing for me to do this weekend, if I can: Find some Elliott Smith CDs. Any recommendations?

Yoghurt! I love it. It tastes nice, and doesn't do much. Gives me vitamins, though.

"I'll burn every bridge that I cross, and find some beautiful place to get lost,"

And, it's Friday the thirteenth. Wow.