I recently installed a light bulb that claims to have a seven year life. It makes me sad to think that I'll probably still be in school the next time I need to change that bulb. Maybe I'll have the PhD within seven years, if I do I'll still be deep in debt and probably won't have a good job yet. All I want is to have a not mind numbing job and to be poor as hell, is that so much to ask!?

Wow I just caught myself seriously contemplating the positive aspects of homelessness. My only major concern is that I think it'd be difficult to be a homeless vegan.

Dammit! I think I'm going to have to stay in school.

In my last post I ranted about how miserable my current situation is, that is how I have no friends at my new college and that I really have no interest in making friends with the people here. I have now realized that I don't give a damn. I like having no friends. I now have no one to distract me from doing the things that I feel I should do daily but would otherwise just skip to go play, such as meditate or workout. Having no one to hang out with all the time means that I have a nearly infinite amount of time for these things, so maybe I'll finally be disciplined enough to meditate daily, to do some push ups or something daily and to do yoga daily. I'm good at turning bad situations into go ones.

I really don't like this school. I'm going to Penn State Behrend now, and it's not what I was hoping for. I wish I were going to some liberal arts school, but I'm a Math major so that wouldn't work out all that great. This is more a of Tech school for engineers than anything; most of the people I've met are some type of engineering major. It's particularly dull here.
The worse part is that everyone is very mainstream, and quite conservative. Now PA is pretty much split about 50/50 politically, but the liberals tend to live in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, not Erie. Luckily I haven't met anyone who thinks Bush is doing a good job. There are very few goths, emos, punks, and indie boys and girls around; everyone is that stereotype college student from those shitty college movies that the kids like these days. I don't know what I'm doing here.

I have a new favorite food; that food is curry. I freakin' love curry, it's just so damn good. Anyway I made some really awesome curry today, I just threw everything into a big pot, dumped in curry powder and had an orgasm. Today was a good day. I wish I wrote down recipes sometimes, I always make these amazing dishes, either just out of the air or my contorting another recipe beyond recognition.
I really love to cook. I wish there was a vegan restaurant around here that I could work at. If there was I'd probably care less about school and take my time with it, no worries about graduating timely or anything.
The thought of transferring to another school with like a vegan place not to far from campus just crossed my mind, but really that's not very plausible, I just transferred to this school. Getting credits all straightened out for a transfer is a pain in the ass, I can't imagine what it'd be like if I transfered again. Shit! I hate the position that I'm in.
Anyway I love curry, it is yummy.

Jesus Christ! I just noticed that it's been over three months since I last wrote something here. God my life is boring.

Today we celebrate our telling Great Britain to fuck off 231 years ago. Or something like that, I'm a little hazy on the details.

Anyway I'm no patriot. When America was founded it was the most progressive government at the time, the first working democracy since ancient times. That made us arrogant and unwilling to learn from anyone else; look at us now. In our arrogance we are regressing back to the 1700s.

Happy Canada Day.

I need to start doing exciting things with my time. I never have anything to write about. When everyday is just like the day before and presumably like the following day, nothing ever seems like it is important enough to tell the world about, even though "the world" here consists only of me.

I'm going back to school in two months, that rocks. I'll be going to Penn State Behrend, that's in Erie Pennsylvania. I'm going to double major in Mathematics and Philosophy, so that should be pretty kick-ass. Oh look at that, less than two months, It's July already, at least my boring life is passing quickly; I hate it when the summer months pass slowly.

I'm bored!

So, yeah, yesterday was my twenty-first birthday. Yay I'm 21, now what?

So I saw Stolen Babies again last night. So awesome. They were better this time, perhaps it because I knew the songs, perhaps they were just better, I don't care they are amazing live.

In This Moment also played. They are good, but their music is not my genre, so I won't say anything else about them.

There was this other group that played; they were called The Gathering. I had never heard this band before, but I was expecting a great show. I was sorely let down. Where should I start? Well after their sound check they all went back stage for like fifteen minutes, which from the way they performed was probably for the pre-show group joint. Then they performed. They sounded like a failed pop star fronting a band that tries to play industrial and calles it metal. It was really just awful. Then there's the dancing; they danced around on stage like they were the hardest band there, but they are in no way hard. I don't think there singer spoke much English, as she only said things like "you guys are super great," "thank you", and "you're wonderful." I have no problem with people who don't speak English, except for when they front a band that sings in English. It makes me think that they don't write there own songs, which is just stupid.

Then Lacuna Coil came on, but I was so exhausted from having to sit though the Gathering's shitfest that I really couldn't get into Lacuna Coil's performance.

Luckily Stolen Babies played first, so I really didn't care what happened afterwards.

Stolen Babies!!

This is my place to write whatever I want to write, and I want to write a about the film I just watched.

The Renaissance

First I must say that the animation is astounding. It was CG done in black and white. I don't mean grayscale, I mean black and white. A few shots have a shade of gray here and there, but most of the film is black and white. It is really quite amazing how the outlines of half of a persons face can show so much detail. It was nice to have to think about how the characters really look, I think Bislane has dark hair and dark eyes whereas her sister is blonde with either blue or green eyes, but it was all black and white so who knows? Unlike most films it engages the audience in that the viewer has to actively think about what the characters look like, which is a great technique to keep the audience's attention during the less exciting plot points. The animation was not mearly entertainment, but an active participation in art for the audience.

Then there's the plot. I won't give anything away here, so no spoiler warnings are necessary. The film was a sci-fi thriller, which are not usually my genre of choice, but there exist a few good ones. This is one of the good ones. Pretty much it's a kidknapping mystery thingy. Yeah, it really doesn't sound that great and I wasn't really impressed during the first half of the film, but by the end I was enthralled.

"Life is meaningless without death."

This may be a year after the film's release, but great cinema never goes bad. Oh, and the DVD release in the States is set for July 24. I'll be picking up a copy for sure.

Not that anyone is ever going to read this, but I just have to write about the greatness of yesterday.

Yesterday I saw Within Temptation's first show in the States! It was freakin' amazing!

I drove eight hours to see them in Louisville Kentucky in a venue only slightly larger than my house, but it was worth it. While I was there I also got to see Lacuna Coil, which was a good time and I fell in love with a new band, of whom I had never heard before. Stolen Babies! who are amazing. I knew I was in love when they came out and the lead singer picked up a freakin' accordion. Then a bit later I noticed that there was an oil drum being used as percussion. WOW!! After the show I got Stolen Babies to sign their album for me, what an amazing yesterday!

I'm thinking about going to see them again in two weeks when they come to Pittsburgh. Sadly Within Temptation won't be with them, but Stolen Babies and Lacuna Coil are worth seeing again.

I saw Within Temtation's first show in the States!!