and so it is / just like you said it would be / life goes easy on me / most of the time
Tomorrow, I have an English exam. The following day, I have a Celtic Studies exam. So, naturally, I spent tonight watching Sin City with Ulick, Emese, Sarah Lovelace, Andie, and Ted. Naturally.
Motivating myself here is so difficult. I study more than a bunch of my friends, but I study at least a quarter less than usual. This disturbs me. It makes me worry that I will return home this summer and neglect to work on my thesis. It makes me worry that I'm one of those people who allows society to crumble because s/he ignores hir own position in society. I recognise this is a slight over-reaction. Oh well.
Despite my neglect of my studies, Sarah Lovelace and I managed to read Syrup together. I was introduced to this book by one Matthias Peterson-Brandt, and my life has been a better place since then. Now, Sarah's life is a better place, too. I actually bought the book for Seamus. We agreed to get each other Gen's-going-away-books. I've bought this book for two people at this point, and neither of those people are myself. I think the next person I buy it for should be me.
Speaking of buying things: I went to a Josh Ritter concert recently. (I went at 7:30pm of the night I got back from Hungary.) It was a good concert. They were video-taping for a live-shows-movie that they're making, which got annoying (there was a camera on an arm that kept swinging in to block my view of the stage, and they had a lot of back-lighting going on that would have given me a fit if I'd had epilepsy), but the concert was good enough to still be worth it. I don't have the set list because I'm forgetful. (Terence says he respects me just a little bit less now. :P ) I think I would like Josh Ritter more as an individual artist, rather than one with a band. But I think he's really enjoying working with other people and working off of other people and being able to make music alongside of them. If I'm not mistaken, he wrote his latest album and then found a couple guys to help him turn it into something a band could have created together. I'm curious to see how his next album comes out, since he'll be working with these guys for the entire thing. I think it will be an album to look forward to. Possibly my favorite thing about the concert: all four of the band members wore suits of different colors. Josh Ritter had on a dark (black? dark navy?) one; the bassest had on a white one; I'm pretty sure the drummer's was black or dark blue or something; the keyboardist's was plaid. That's right. Plaid. I was impressed.
After the concert, I went to the merch table. I have all of his cd's burned, but I don't like keeping burned cd's when I can support the artist and buy real ones. It would be easy enough to go to any store and pick up a lot of artists' cds, but the artists get almost none of that money. So I always try to attend concerts and buy cd's there. I now own "The Golden Age of Radio" and "Hello Starling" by Josh Ritter. I feel so supportive. And I've decided that I need to attend a lot of concerts, soon, by my favorite artists in order to get non-burned copies of their cds, too.
Motivating myself here is so difficult. I study more than a bunch of my friends, but I study at least a quarter less than usual. This disturbs me. It makes me worry that I will return home this summer and neglect to work on my thesis. It makes me worry that I'm one of those people who allows society to crumble because s/he ignores hir own position in society. I recognise this is a slight over-reaction. Oh well.
Despite my neglect of my studies, Sarah Lovelace and I managed to read Syrup together. I was introduced to this book by one Matthias Peterson-Brandt, and my life has been a better place since then. Now, Sarah's life is a better place, too. I actually bought the book for Seamus. We agreed to get each other Gen's-going-away-books. I've bought this book for two people at this point, and neither of those people are myself. I think the next person I buy it for should be me.
Speaking of buying things: I went to a Josh Ritter concert recently. (I went at 7:30pm of the night I got back from Hungary.) It was a good concert. They were video-taping for a live-shows-movie that they're making, which got annoying (there was a camera on an arm that kept swinging in to block my view of the stage, and they had a lot of back-lighting going on that would have given me a fit if I'd had epilepsy), but the concert was good enough to still be worth it. I don't have the set list because I'm forgetful. (Terence says he respects me just a little bit less now. :P ) I think I would like Josh Ritter more as an individual artist, rather than one with a band. But I think he's really enjoying working with other people and working off of other people and being able to make music alongside of them. If I'm not mistaken, he wrote his latest album and then found a couple guys to help him turn it into something a band could have created together. I'm curious to see how his next album comes out, since he'll be working with these guys for the entire thing. I think it will be an album to look forward to. Possibly my favorite thing about the concert: all four of the band members wore suits of different colors. Josh Ritter had on a dark (black? dark navy?) one; the bassest had on a white one; I'm pretty sure the drummer's was black or dark blue or something; the keyboardist's was plaid. That's right. Plaid. I was impressed.
After the concert, I went to the merch table. I have all of his cd's burned, but I don't like keeping burned cd's when I can support the artist and buy real ones. It would be easy enough to go to any store and pick up a lot of artists' cds, but the artists get almost none of that money. So I always try to attend concerts and buy cd's there. I now own "The Golden Age of Radio" and "Hello Starling" by Josh Ritter. I feel so supportive. And I've decided that I need to attend a lot of concerts, soon, by my favorite artists in order to get non-burned copies of their cds, too.