Old vids; life/school
Someone in favorite_son posted links to a whole bunch of streamable/embeddable Green Day vids, most of which are really, really old. There's one that's a full set from McGregor's in '92, long enough after Kerplunk came out for the audience to know the words. Actually, they close with "Road to Acceptance" and Billie Joe needs to fiddle with the cord to his amp at one point, and the audience keeps right on going when it's time for the next verse, lol. It's so cool. He picks the guitar back up and just laughs and listens to them finish the verse. :D And then the bar manager brings out Beth from the kitchen and presents her with a male stripper for her 21st birthday. O_o And then GD come back on and do Dominated Love Slave & My Generation, which is the same performance as the vid snippet that I've seen passed around before. Although, I do not remember Tré yelling in the snippet, "Fuck it, this is for Dimitri," (the stripper's name) before starting into DSL. LOLOLOL
The old ones like that always feel weird to watch, b/c they make me think about what I was doing at that time and it's in another realm entirely. Like, I turned 19 in '92. That's when *I* started going to club shows like this one. Except, not so much like this one, lol. I honestly don't think I've ever been to any show quite so informal, which is a damn shame. But I was also living in Kingston and going to Queen's University at the time, and it ain't a big city, so you work with what you've got. And by the time I was actually living in Toronto, I was much too fucked up to be finding and attending indie shows anymore, unfortunately, aside from the odd thing with the Celtic Society. It's really something I've only picked up again recently. I just wish I had more money for it, and friends who wanted to go with me. Cuz while I certainly have enjoyed the ones I've gone to, they still would have been a lot more fun if I hadn't gone alone all the time. :-/ But hey, baby steps. At least I have friends again, lol. Eventually I'll meet someone, probably *at* one of these things, who wants to go to more.
Speaking of baby steps, I don't think I posted that I'd decided not to apply to grad school for Sept. '06. And neither the fact that things are going exceptionally well at work with taking on extra responsibilities et al, nor the fact that I probably didn't have enough time to finish everything I needed to get done before the deadline (Jan. 15th), really have anything to do with it. It's more to do with the way I continually had to back away from the process because it was inciting literal panic attacks. Somewhat of a psychic newsflash that I'm obviously not ready for that step yet, and that's okay. Really, at this point? Another year makes no fucking difference whatsoever, lol. I've pushed myself a LOT this year, and I'm rather pleased with the way it's all gone (if my bank account disagrees!), so I don't want to mess it up by pushing too far. (And *smooches* to beelzezuk for helping me figure some of this out. :) )
I can't remember what else I was going to post about, b/c my cat is a freak and I had to go take a picture of him snoozing on the wrapped presents under the tree, LOL. Silly kitty.
The old ones like that always feel weird to watch, b/c they make me think about what I was doing at that time and it's in another realm entirely. Like, I turned 19 in '92. That's when *I* started going to club shows like this one. Except, not so much like this one, lol. I honestly don't think I've ever been to any show quite so informal, which is a damn shame. But I was also living in Kingston and going to Queen's University at the time, and it ain't a big city, so you work with what you've got. And by the time I was actually living in Toronto, I was much too fucked up to be finding and attending indie shows anymore, unfortunately, aside from the odd thing with the Celtic Society. It's really something I've only picked up again recently. I just wish I had more money for it, and friends who wanted to go with me. Cuz while I certainly have enjoyed the ones I've gone to, they still would have been a lot more fun if I hadn't gone alone all the time. :-/ But hey, baby steps. At least I have friends again, lol. Eventually I'll meet someone, probably *at* one of these things, who wants to go to more.
Speaking of baby steps, I don't think I posted that I'd decided not to apply to grad school for Sept. '06. And neither the fact that things are going exceptionally well at work with taking on extra responsibilities et al, nor the fact that I probably didn't have enough time to finish everything I needed to get done before the deadline (Jan. 15th), really have anything to do with it. It's more to do with the way I continually had to back away from the process because it was inciting literal panic attacks. Somewhat of a psychic newsflash that I'm obviously not ready for that step yet, and that's okay. Really, at this point? Another year makes no fucking difference whatsoever, lol. I've pushed myself a LOT this year, and I'm rather pleased with the way it's all gone (if my bank account disagrees!), so I don't want to mess it up by pushing too far. (And *smooches* to beelzezuk for helping me figure some of this out. :) )
I can't remember what else I was going to post about, b/c my cat is a freak and I had to go take a picture of him snoozing on the wrapped presents under the tree, LOL. Silly kitty.