the past few days have been nice
on wednesday it was shawn's birthday, so I went out to dinner with him and his parents and rich and lola and much fun was had by all. shawn and rich together, especially, just can't help but causing ruckus in public surroundings. it totally rubbed off on me too hahaha. so we were all sitting in this fancy restaurant eating really delicious food but being silly and loud and yelling at each other and hitting each other and throwing things at each other and...yeah. shawn's parents are totally used to this by now, but lola was mortified hahaha.
yesterday jessica picked me up from school and we had a nice time chilling at my house for a while, her showing me lots of cool animations online of vocaloid songs. the vocaloid program is fucking CRAZY, seriously, I can't even begin to imagine the development of such a comprehensive and pleasant-sounding vocal simulator. imagine recording, individually, a full range of syllables and pitches in the millions of different combinations in which they can exist, all in bits and pieces to be arranged into any lyrics or melodies the user pleases. beyond just being impressed, I really LIKED the music, too, which I wasn't expecting.
it was so nice to see jessica, I've missed her soooo much. whenever I have a relaxing day in and do lots of geeky things by myself, it's just not the same. and if I'm bumming around with other people-which is really fun, no lies-they're not gonna introduce me to crazy interesting japanese stuff. we were so into our usual routine that I almost forgot she lives in california now, that she's going back soon :(. I'm really happy for her though, almost everything she's told me about her college, courses, classmates, friends and roommate sounds really awesome. literally everyone at school noticed how much happier she seems since graduating, getting away from her mother and spending four months in the warmth and sun. not to say that there aren't some things going on in her life right now, but I wanted both of us to enjoy our short visit and didn't want to upset her by bringing up sour topics.
anyway, we eventually went out to dinner and then headed uptown to see a musical with jessica's mom. we saw Next to Normal, which had its flaws, but which I liked a lot. the musical composition didn't stick to the standard, played-out show-tune tonalities, and that was refreshing. the story was, for the most part, really well-written as well. it surrounds this family in which the mother is bipolar and presumably mildly schizophrenic, and she's closer to the hallucination of her eighteen year old son-who actually died at the age of eight months-than she is to her husband and daughter. the daughter is really uptight and fucked in the head because of the whole situation, but starts dating this really sweet stoner kid who's a lot like her dad. their relationship develops as her parents' declines, as treatment after treatment fails to release the mother from her depression and anxiety and delusions. shit was intense. I'm glad I got to see it before it closes.
so that's all for now, really. oh, other than the fact that it's fucking snowing again. I HATE SNOW. argh.
cheers lj
yesterday jessica picked me up from school and we had a nice time chilling at my house for a while, her showing me lots of cool animations online of vocaloid songs. the vocaloid program is fucking CRAZY, seriously, I can't even begin to imagine the development of such a comprehensive and pleasant-sounding vocal simulator. imagine recording, individually, a full range of syllables and pitches in the millions of different combinations in which they can exist, all in bits and pieces to be arranged into any lyrics or melodies the user pleases. beyond just being impressed, I really LIKED the music, too, which I wasn't expecting.
it was so nice to see jessica, I've missed her soooo much. whenever I have a relaxing day in and do lots of geeky things by myself, it's just not the same. and if I'm bumming around with other people-which is really fun, no lies-they're not gonna introduce me to crazy interesting japanese stuff. we were so into our usual routine that I almost forgot she lives in california now, that she's going back soon :(. I'm really happy for her though, almost everything she's told me about her college, courses, classmates, friends and roommate sounds really awesome. literally everyone at school noticed how much happier she seems since graduating, getting away from her mother and spending four months in the warmth and sun. not to say that there aren't some things going on in her life right now, but I wanted both of us to enjoy our short visit and didn't want to upset her by bringing up sour topics.
anyway, we eventually went out to dinner and then headed uptown to see a musical with jessica's mom. we saw Next to Normal, which had its flaws, but which I liked a lot. the musical composition didn't stick to the standard, played-out show-tune tonalities, and that was refreshing. the story was, for the most part, really well-written as well. it surrounds this family in which the mother is bipolar and presumably mildly schizophrenic, and she's closer to the hallucination of her eighteen year old son-who actually died at the age of eight months-than she is to her husband and daughter. the daughter is really uptight and fucked in the head because of the whole situation, but starts dating this really sweet stoner kid who's a lot like her dad. their relationship develops as her parents' declines, as treatment after treatment fails to release the mother from her depression and anxiety and delusions. shit was intense. I'm glad I got to see it before it closes.
so that's all for now, really. oh, other than the fact that it's fucking snowing again. I HATE SNOW. argh.
cheers lj