PMA til I'm DOA

Last night rocked.

After work, I got to go with my friend while he interviewed the lead singer to one of my favorite bands. I snapped pictures while they chatted, and got to hang out with them for almost an hour before the show.

Liam+Howie - My favorite picture (despite the blurriness)

The interview went longer than expected, so afterwards I had to book it home to meet my friends and grab my ticket. Got changed, went down to the venue... and oh my good god. One of the best shows of my life, if not the best. Cancer Bats fucking tear it up. I was up at the front, center stage, the entire show (I'm so sore today that I can't really move - not quickly at least). 

When I got home

I bought their first album on vinyl, and a patch that's pretty sweet. BUT, I got something else tooooo. Best moment of the night: after their set, Liam walked back to the drum set and grabbed the set list, and gave it directly to me. Not "oh, I'll hold this out and anyone can grab it;" he put it right in my hands. Directly. From on stage. I hugged it for about the next fifteen minutes. 

Last night was so great. I'm still smiling.

All the Editors are hard, All the Journalists are wet

All the boys are jerking off in private on the internet.

Protest The Hero's new album came out yesterday!!!
Fuck yeeaaaah. I got it off iTunes last night and listened to it on the way to/from class today. It's only got 10 tracks, but the awesome-level makes up for that. I'm pretty sure I'll have this album on repeat for the next few weeks.

My friend told me that Rody wrote the lyrics for this album (Arif usually does) so I was a little tentative about listening to it because one of my favorite things about Protest is their lyrics. The first song that came on my iPod was "Moonlight," and it was good, but not the same level of amazing that I was used to. I'm laughing at myself now, though, because Wiki tells me that's one of the two songs that Arif did write the lyrics to (you can definitely tell his other one, C'est la vie, it's reminiscent of the style of Fortress). The second song that came on was "Hair-Trigger." It so won me over. The opening lyrics may have helped with that... "That sweet little red head's got her hooks in my back."

The music's obviously fucking fantastic, it's Protest. There's one part in "Sex Tapes" (lyrics in title are from that track as well) that has the coolest vocals - when he sings "be careful what you're looking at because it may be looking back."

Wicked album. Go buy it. Support bad ass Canadian music.
Also, if anyone has any pull with the band, please beg them to add some East coast dates to their tour.

Album artwork by Arif's grandfather

Organizing with a pinch of personality

Up until last month, this apartment has kind of felt like a temporary resting place. I signed a lease for the place for next year, though, and it finally came time to make my room look like a living space instead of a hovel.
I went out to Walmart and Michael's today, and got a nice shelf and some boxes and organizers. I'm so happy with how it's looking now!! I just have to get all my pictures up on the wall and it will finally feel like my home.

My new shelf! I think I might paint it at some point, but I'm just
it's here for now :)

All the clutter on my bedside table finally has a home, so it's down
to just the basics.

Possibly most importantly, I got enough hangers and a shoe
organizer, so all my clothes and my heels now fit! YAY!!

Now the only big thing left to organize is my huge, messy jewelry collection. I need like five more jewelry stands, it's beyond ridiculous.

Also, everyone should go to Crissi Cochrane's myspace and listen to the song Mexico. I love it; I've had it on repeat all night.

Gwaaarrrrrr

The Halifax Pop Explosion is going on right now, and last night I went to see one of the less "pop"-y acts. Gwar and the Casualties played at our local, seedy, club [The Palace]. It was a weird venue, but the concert was crazzzy good. I really like The Casualties, and I had heard about the ridiculous shows Gwar puts on, so going was a bit of a must. The girl I went with had seen them before and said, "I don't think everyone should go see a Gwar show: I think everyone needs to see a Gwar show."

The Casualties were everything I could have hoped for. So punk.
Gwar was so messy and theatrical. Lovelovelove.
Here are some of the better shots I got at the show;

Gwar!

Me at the end. So much fake blood.

When I took out my contacts at the end of the night they were pink.

They had a Lady Gaga costume, and I wish I had a good picture. They ripped her tits off. It was awesome.

I'm One of Her Monsters

I Love Gaga

I finally saw the video for Alejandro today while I was vegging after work; it finished and all I could think was "Damn. Sexy."
The scene where she's being thrown around on the bed? Amazing. The flashbacks to it? Even better, how they're flashed through so quickly with just the intense bits. I loved the rocker look at the end, and I loved the red vinyl nun (okay, so my goth-y tendencies are hard to kill).
Machine gun bra? Questionable. Totally black outfit near end? Bit too Mom-ish. Nazi overtones? Not essential to the overall effect, I feel like something less a) overdone and b) historically evil could have done just as well.
Overall, though: Yesssss. Love her.

::ps:: Can't get over how good she is with changing the shape/contours of her face with make up.