Daylight
They grow longer, and as THE DAY looms closer, the longer each seems.
Days, that is. THE DAY= Wednesday, May 23rd= the day I leave for/arrive in Los Angeles. City of my birth. City of fate and destiny.
NINE BANDS.
MUCC
Miyavi
Vidoll
D'espairs Ray
Girugamesh
Duel Jewel
Merry
Kagrra,
alice nine.
Plus...possibility of glimpsing Yoshiki and Gackt.
I already know I'm going to be screaming and freaking out when Miyavi takes the stage. But Yoshiki and Gackt...it will be a total "Beatles Moment" for me, guaranteed.
And through all of this, the thing I'm looking forward to the most will be happening just a few minutes before noon on Wednesday the 23rd- more than 48 hours before the commencement of the concert- which is Kelly's arrival in L.A. (see below, after horse tangent).
More than Miyavi. More than Gackt.
More than Yoshiki.
I'm once again borrowing my mother's computer to post this entry. I won't have my computer back until after the second weekend in June, when I go to Minneapolis to see Dir en grey at the Myth and bring it back to PA on my return journey...which I believe is also Belmont Stakes weekend.
Oh yeah...horse racing. So again this year (3rd in a row), my pick to win the Derby didn't win...but my 3 favorites DID finish as win, place and show...I just had the order wrong. In case you didn't see the race, here's how the top 3 finished:
1) Street Sense (my #2 pick)
2) Hard Spun (my #3 pick, another Chester County, PA horse)
3) Curlin (my #1 pick)
All three are current entries in the Preakness Stakes, which is on Saturday, May 19th. Don't count Curlin out!!
Other than that....for anyone who cares about how things have been since I got out to PA, here's a brief rundown:
It feels like life is beginning to return to my body, as though it had been without for too long. This must be how trees and the earth feel after a long, hard winter. I suppose much of it has to do with the fact that I'm back in familiar territory, but as a person very different than the one who left- I've reconnected with a few old friends/acquaintances since returning, and all's well there (Dawn, Mike, Sean, Andrew, Cindy) even if we're not really tight friends at this point.
But...I suppose the majority of this feeling springs from the latest big development in my life: I am dating someone. And, shocker, it's a 'she'. Yeah, yeah, I know..."AMY??? Dating a GIRL??? I thought she was straight!" I keep hearing that!! And the fact is that I AM straight...but when someone like Kelly (my girlfriend) comes along who you cannot deny it just perfectly RIGHT for you, gender preference kinda has to take a back seat. I kinda know how Gackt and HYDE feel about each other...but maybe moreso than even they do. The point is, she makes me happy. Happier than I've been in a long, long time.
Days, that is. THE DAY= Wednesday, May 23rd= the day I leave for/arrive in Los Angeles. City of my birth. City of fate and destiny.
NINE BANDS.
MUCC
Miyavi
Vidoll
D'espairs Ray
Girugamesh
Duel Jewel
Merry
Kagrra,
alice nine.
Plus...possibility of glimpsing Yoshiki and Gackt.
I already know I'm going to be screaming and freaking out when Miyavi takes the stage. But Yoshiki and Gackt...it will be a total "Beatles Moment" for me, guaranteed.
And through all of this, the thing I'm looking forward to the most will be happening just a few minutes before noon on Wednesday the 23rd- more than 48 hours before the commencement of the concert- which is Kelly's arrival in L.A. (see below, after horse tangent).
More than Miyavi. More than Gackt.
More than Yoshiki.
I'm once again borrowing my mother's computer to post this entry. I won't have my computer back until after the second weekend in June, when I go to Minneapolis to see Dir en grey at the Myth and bring it back to PA on my return journey...which I believe is also Belmont Stakes weekend.
Oh yeah...horse racing. So again this year (3rd in a row), my pick to win the Derby didn't win...but my 3 favorites DID finish as win, place and show...I just had the order wrong. In case you didn't see the race, here's how the top 3 finished:
1) Street Sense (my #2 pick)
2) Hard Spun (my #3 pick, another Chester County, PA horse)
3) Curlin (my #1 pick)
All three are current entries in the Preakness Stakes, which is on Saturday, May 19th. Don't count Curlin out!!
Other than that....for anyone who cares about how things have been since I got out to PA, here's a brief rundown:
It feels like life is beginning to return to my body, as though it had been without for too long. This must be how trees and the earth feel after a long, hard winter. I suppose much of it has to do with the fact that I'm back in familiar territory, but as a person very different than the one who left- I've reconnected with a few old friends/acquaintances since returning, and all's well there (Dawn, Mike, Sean, Andrew, Cindy) even if we're not really tight friends at this point.
But...I suppose the majority of this feeling springs from the latest big development in my life: I am dating someone. And, shocker, it's a 'she'. Yeah, yeah, I know..."AMY??? Dating a GIRL??? I thought she was straight!" I keep hearing that!! And the fact is that I AM straight...but when someone like Kelly (my girlfriend) comes along who you cannot deny it just perfectly RIGHT for you, gender preference kinda has to take a back seat. I kinda know how Gackt and HYDE feel about each other...but maybe moreso than even they do. The point is, she makes me happy. Happier than I've been in a long, long time.