Monday, October 6, 2008

ramadamadingdong

Dude, it's been a long day and I'm friggin tired and would love to get some sleep ... but I just have to get this off my chest.

KLAXONS WAS THE BEST FRIGGIN SHOW I'VE EVER BEEN TO.

Yup. Me and S went to see Klaxons tonight. I've been a fan of them for about a year and a half but after tonight they are officially my favorite live band and fourth overall favorite band. :D

'kay, so the show took place at club Hollywood and was supposed to start at 8. Me and S managed to miss the bus we were supposed to take lol but somehow we still made it there around 8. Luckily, the warm-up band was still performing - Popidiot. It's this Estonain-Finnish electric music duo. The Estonian guy blabbered a lot in between songs, but I liked the finnish guy he only said "Aitäh" after every second song. :D

So when they started setting up the stage for Klaxons, we moved a bit forward and got the best place ever - we were in the middle of the crowd, just on a higher ledge so we could see above everyone's heads and straight at the stage, which was about 3 meters from us. I can't believe we were so lucky to get that spot - it was perfect!



This is one of the three pics I managed to take and the only one that's not horribly fuzzy.

Anyway, the show started off really fast, I think the first song was Atlantis to Interzone but I'm not sure, I was totally raving along with everything they played xD it was just so awesome hearing all those songs live and right in front of me.

I've been listening to their songs on repeat for the past two days and each time I find something new and interesting about each song. Like I discovered that the drum parts in Gravity's Rainbow totally PWN :

Boomp3.com


I listened to the songs on repeat on my way home too, I just never get tired of them! They're just too good!

I tried to learn all the lyrics before the show cause i like singing along. I'm definitely a person who values music over lyrics but after reading Klaxons' lyrics over and over again, I find them fascinating. They've got some really weird stuff in their songs and it really makes you wonder "what the hell do they mean by "my culture vulture such a dab hand"" ... well, I don't really spend time wondering over their lyrics but some thoughts related to it have crossed my mind :D

So I sang along with most of the songs, it was sooo amazing. xD I had so much fun

About in the middle of the concert some people started throwing underwear onto the stage, but they had like bags of underwear with them so they threw like 50 pieces of underwear on the stage. Simon (the guitarist) started laughing, it was really funny XD
Simon's my favorite member of the band, he always makes me laugh and I like how on stage he was like totally concentrated on playing guitar but then he would suddenly look at the crowd like the others had told him to look around a bit or something and he'd forgotten. anywayz it was awesome to see him play, now i want to learn to play all the klaxons songs on guitar. and on drums too... too bad i don't have drums.

deeeem, it really was the best show ever.... it ended really quickly, though. they only did one song as an encore but well, they don't have that many songs to begin with...
they said that their next album's coming out soon so I really hope they come back soon, I feel like they liked the crowd here...

lol and almost forgot, that after the show we were heading for the door and the singer from Popidiot passed me so I told him that his show was great and he was like really happy and gave me and S and two 12-year-old girls who were standing next to us all free albums! Yay for random kindness! :D

anyway i say anyway a lot dont i? it was a mad mad show, i didnt have a chance to buy a drink cause i didnt want to lose the great spot we had on the floor, so after the show i gobbled down haf a litre of sprite which made me feel even weirder but in a good way lol im getting real sleepy here so lets call it a night.

Klaxons, thanks for the BEST SHOW EVAAARR :D

Monday, September 29, 2008

School-schmool

Hey, would you look at that - it's less than a month since my last post. That hasn't happened in a while. Actually, the reason I am bothering to bother you with my rants is because I am sitting in my politology class. It lasts an hour and a half and I still have 45 minutes left.

Why are you blogging during class, you ponder? Well, IT'S BORING AS HELL, that's why. I've been going to school for almost a month now and the classes have not gotten any more interesting. In fact, I think they have reached the level of most boring classes of all time. It's so boring that I can't even try to listen to the lecturers 'cause I'd fall asleep.

This has led me to the extremes - I have to carry my 500kg laptop with me every day so I could play card games and such on it. This keeps me from falling asleep. I'm getting really good at Solitaire, my win rate is over 60%. I'm also working on beating Minesweeper at expert level. Closest I've gotten so far is 5 mines left.
I also spend quite a lot of time surfing online but the wifi here is awful. It works for about 4 minutes and then doesn't work for 5 mins. I tried to play WoW once... I managed to kill one mob and then the next one nuked me 'cause the school wifi was being useless as usually.

I'm really hungry right now. Since the cafeteria here is super expensive, I don't know why they think poor students can afford 70 kroon lunches, I ran to the supermarket next to the school and got a sandwich and a sprite. That was 5 hours ago. Now I'm hungry again. :(

Today is the longest day of the week. 9 AM till 6 PM. *dies* And of course the day is filled with joyous lectures like politology, law and management...

At least we don't have public administration today. Last lesson I found out that the porridge-faced teacher not only speaks like his mouth is full of porridge, he also writes like his hand is full of porridge.



And the worst thing is that he loves to enhance his writings with arrows and circles and such and well, that doesn't result in a very clearly readable blackboard.

We had to write 3 essays for last week. Actually, one was more of a term paper. That was quite horrible, if I may say so. Now I have 2 essays left to do for next week. Oh the joy of being in college...

I'm still really hungry. I think I'll have to buy a chocolate bar or something to make it home before I starve.

Um... I have the feeling that this post is really random. Hm. Well, then I'll leave you with this random song.


Sunday, September 7, 2008

Well...

I'm really not much of a blogger, am I? :D What's it been? Two months? Three? Lol.
Actually, my life is just really boring. But I suppose I should write here every once in a while.

Kay. First of all, I'm in college now! High school is finally over! No more gym classes! Woo!
However, so far college has been really lame. I'm studying International Relations (don't ask why - I have no idea). I didn't get to pick any classes myself for the first semester and they're mostly realllly boring. Like fall asleep in the middle of class boring.
My public administration teacher talks like his mouth is full of porridge.
The Law teacher speaks CRAZY fast. He says we need to learn to write really fast so he goes like, "Law is... scblurebölsadjeitscjbalfnsalkgasklfaöfaslfawlkfrnalfsjb".
Could you repeat that please?
"I said... asklfaöfaslfawlk."
My English teacher can't really speak English.

But I do like the German teacher. During our first class he had this long discussion with himself about his life. He even made a timeline of his life on the blackboard. But I did learn a little German. djeeaar ljööve means "lion". :)

*~*~*~*

What else... oh yeah. Failed my driving test. AGAIN.
GOSH.
The examiner tells me to turn left. I turn left. Then he says that I missed this sign:


OMFGWTFBBQWTH?????????

WHY MUST YOU TORTURE ME LIKE THIS??
WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS????

I AM NOT THAT BAD AT DRIVING!

...

I hate my life.

It's like he has to try to trick me into making a mistake. I was driving perfectly fine but he just HAS to fuck it up. What a bastard. I should have him assassinated but I don't want to waste my money on him. I guess I'll have to take the test again, get my license and then run him over . MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YES!

*cough*

/madness

*~*~*~*~*~*

On to something more pleasant... Twilight!

The last book Breaking Dawn was released August 2nd.
So, August 2nd, I'm supposed to be going to my cousin's wedding, but I'm like, no, I have to go buy Breaking Dawn first!
So, I go to the book store, they say that it hasn't arrived yet, but it'll be there in about two days.
Anyway, I'll skip ahead a bit - September the frickin seventh. No Breaking Dawn.
I gave in a few weeks ago and downloaded the book. It took me 30 seconds - finding a download site, downloading the file and opening it. A month of waiting in agony... and then I have it right in front of me in just 30 seconds. Damn.

Well, now I've read it through (twice). It was insane. But AWSOME. Usually a book has maybe one or two OH. MY. GOD. moments but this book was full of them. So much unexpected stuff happened... it was wonderful! :D

Unfortunately, more than half of the next book in the saga, Midnight Sun, was leaked online and now Stephenie Meyer, the author, said that she does not know if she wants to finish it. *major despair*

I am an addict. I can't live withour Twilight anymore. XD I need that next book Stephenie! I can imagine how terrible it must feel... she's been working on it for severeal years and she's really excited about it but then some idiots leak some half finished version online... damn.
I really hope that when the movie premiers, she'll see how many fans love Twilight and she'll want to finish it.

Ah, glad to get that off my chest.

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I just remebered - I finally have Guitar Hero III !! I waited for it half the summer and now I have it right here in my room. I love it! I've already completed it on easy, and now I'm working on medium. And I've discovered some great old songs through it.

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Just checked my last post, it's really been a while. Metallica! I saw 'em in Riga. What can I say? It rained a lot. We ran around in the rain for like 5 minutes trying to find the guy whol sold rain capes. But when we finally gave up and when to the stadium to buy Battery enery drinks, the dude offers us rain capes. WIN! That was lucky. :D

The show itself was pretty good. But it was just so quiet. I was comparing it to the show in Tallinn and man, that was LOUD. My parents who were like a 20 minute drive away could hear it.

So it was nice hearing their songs again but the concert in Tallinn was way better.

I also went see Snoop Dogg. Well, actually back in like april 2007 I bought tickets to Missy Elliott but they kept delaying that show. Finally they said that Missy was cancelling her tour and that Akon was coming here instead. Kay, fine. Then they announced that Snoop Dogg was gonna also going to be here with Akon. Sweet. But finally, a few days before the show, Akon cancelled for "personal reasons". In jail again?
Anyway, Snoop Dogg on Lauluväljak - WIN. It was awesomeee! Hell-motherfuckin-yeeaaah! ;D It was definitely better than 50 Cent's concert.

Which reminds me that the VMAs are tonight at around 3AM. I won't stay up to watch them, I'll prolly download the video later but it's sounding pretty interesting...

Yeah. I think I'm done here for now.

So um... later, dudes!

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Why hello there.

Nice to meet you. I'm the person who used to post here but then forgot about her blog got really busy for over two moths. :D

Could you imagine that I finished high school? Hallelujah! My exams went rather well, if anyone is interested.
Graduation was... something. I got to listen to two hours of speeches by some bald men. I also got my diploma. My parents also got a diploma - for "raising a good daughter". WTF? Do my parents really need specially honoring because I managed not to have any 3s or 2s on my report card?
God, my school must really be filled with idiots if they give diplomas to the parents...

Yeah... I graduated with a class of mostly idiots. Actually, 4 idiots in my class didn't graduate at all. Well, farewell to them and I hope they enjoy their journey on the failboat.

I've also been checking out colleges. I don't know what I want to study. I've never had some dream career... It would be awesome if I'd known since I was 3 that I wanted to be a fireman or a tractor driver (like my little bro).
The psychologist at our school made us take some career tests and shizz. She said that since I'm "artistic, entrepreneurial (lol, that sounds funny in English), and communicative" the perfect job for me would be... *drumroll* a potter! And I could own my own little pottery so I could be an artistic enteprenuer and also communicate with people. Wow, what an ingenious idea.
Fuck that, I'm not going to be making pots for the rest of my life.

The idea of starting my own company is tempting though. I have many crazy ideas... I have to pick one and perfect it and maybe it would work out well and I could be a billionaire in a few years!
Yeeeaaah. I really keep things realistic, huh?

Anyways, I sent applications to three colleges. I plan on studying business-related stuff.
Um.... that was pretty specific.
gah, i don't know. If college sucks, then I'll just quit after a semester or two and move to Singapore and open a beach bar or something.

Well, education sure is a depressing topic so let's move on.

Musically - this summer's looking to be the best of my whole life. First of all - Franz Ferdinand! They played at Õllesummer, so there were a lot of drunk fat men around but the ticket was super cheap.
Ever since I heard Take Me Out, I've liked FF. I'm still not very familiar with all their songs but I have 8 songs in my music library, which I love!! I hadn't listened to half of them a lot, but the day before the concert I listened to them on repeat for so many hours and I fell soooo in love.... And the show itself was awesome! The guys have so much energy and few times I actually lol-ed because they were so funny and cute jumping around the stage... awww. :D Man, it rawked so hard. I loved it.

But the next day.... wait, there's a longer story to this.

So I was driving to the middle of nowhere with Blonde Mafia and another classmate for our graduation party (which I forgot to write about - it rained a lot, and there was a watermelon involved) and Blonde Mafia saw this advertisement for Knockout Festival in Riga. There were some pretty big names included so we were all interested in going.
But then we kinda forgot about it for a long time. Until a few days before the FF concert that is. So we kinda bought the festival tickets and bus tickets a day before the real thing.

Ears ringing, I woke up after FF and got on the bus to Riga. Dude, that bus was pimpin! It had these huge leather seats like in the business class in airplanes... and there was a stuardess or whatever and she offered us plaids. PLAIDS!!! :D
The trip to Riga went veeery smoothly.

The festival took place on Zakusala island in the middle of Riga. We ran across some highway twice to get to the bridge to the island. We didn't see the tunnel that went under the highway to the bridge. Blonds lol...

The island was like a field filled with hay. And there were three white tents where different DJs played at all times and then there was a pretty big main stage with some shiny lights.
So the place looked crappy but the music was really good. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of house and electro and stuff, I liked listening to it.

The best part of the night was prolly Joey Negro. I only knew one song by him but that didn't matter, because in that small white tent filled with hay and people, everything sounded great. I pretty much danced for 2 hours straight until it was Dennis Ferrer's turn.

Then prolly came the worst part of the night. I started feeling really sick. I think I have a problem with speakers that are too loud, maybe they like make my internal organs fibrillate too much or something XD but I wasn't feeling good at all.

So from about 3AM to 4AM I just sat under some bush, listened to Franz Ferdinand on my iPhone, and tried my hardest not to throw up. It was cold and the music was just too loud... it was depressing, not being able to find some peace and quiet. I couldn't go anywhere without the noise blaring in my ears and people jumping around. I was seriously considering getting the hell out of there and finding a hotel room. But our bus was supposed to leave at 7AM so I decided to hang on.

I'd spent all my latvian lats so I couldn't even buy water and I was dying of thirst. I begged a few people to exchange a few euros for lats but they all refused. But this guy Janis bought me a bonaqua. Awww. I was impressed that he spoke English! All day we'd been asking people for s
directions to Zakusala but not one person understood English. But he did! So he helped me survive the last hour. It was a little after 5AM when the last DJ left so we cleaned up in the little fountain they had at the festival and headed to the bus station.

I drank some weird coffee-like vanilla drink and it burned my tongue. Ow.
We washed ourselves in the bus station's toilet. We were like hobos XD It was then when I really noticed how filthy the festival had been. I was covered in dirt. After I brushed my hair, my comb looked like I had cleaned it with mud. And when I blew my nose, this black stuff came out. Cute. I'm lucky I didn't get asthma. XD
The ride home went by really quickly since I was asleep most of the way.

At home I couldn't sleep because every time I laid down, there was this mad loud ringing in my ears. Much worse than the ringing I've ever had after other concerts. When I concentrated on it, I realized it was as if I was standing next to a foghorn. So I gave up and stayed up and went to sleep when it got dark. I had to listen to my iPod to drown out the ringing but I did manage to fall asleep.

And I still have Metallica and Akon+Snoop Dogg and possibly Sean Kingston, R.E.M. and We Are the Scientists left on the menu. Nice. 8)

And after that I've just chilled. I'm still completely obsessed with Twilight, which I don't think I have mentioned here until now. Well, it's a book series and my new replacement for Harry Potter. They are romantic action horror novels about vampires and werewolves and also some normal people and well, they are very compelling. I read the first three books in less than a week and now I'm waiting for the last book of the series which will be out in August! And while waiting, I have read and re-read the three books about 4 times each.

I've also been listening to book two of the Wheel of Time series. I read the first book a few years ago and started waiting for the sequel to be translated but since it seems like that is not going to happen, I downloaded the audiobook version of book 2 and I'm listening to that...

I'm super tired of typing already but I just have to say this. I have a new laptop! Praise the gods! It has 160GB of free space!!!! My old computer had about 100MB of free space last time I checked. Now I just have the trouble of getting all my music, pictures and files and sims and everything to this laptop... shall be fun.
The only thing that sucks is that Microsoft Word and Excel are in Estonian. o_o I will die a slow death if I ever have to use them for more than 20 minutes.


K, peace, I'm out.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Go home Dima! D: (Thoughts on ESC '08)

Ahh... Eurovision - the yearly karaoke festival for Europe and some random countries. Often I wonder why, but it has become kind of addicting. I've been watching it since I was like 7-8 years old. Wow, it's like a tradition. Before I just liked listening to the songs, now I mostly watch it to have a good laugh. But I usually find at least a few songs I like and can add to my music library.
I have to admit, it would be a lot more interesting if Estonia made it to the final. Sadly, we haven't qualified since like 2003 or so. Major fail.
This year the whole country seemed to think that three middle aged men who can't sing could bring us the victory. Stupid, stupid, stupid... But they did have blond chicks and flags on stage. Now that's unique. I can see why everyone though Kreisiraadio had a chance. NOT.
I mean, if you're going for the "funny" theme, it better be damn crazy! Otherwise it'll just look half-hearted and stupid. I like Kreisiraadio in the old days, when they had their own TV show, kinda like an Estonian Monty Python. That was funny. Leto Svet... not so much. D:
The song was just too boring. And they didn't really shine on stage either. The lyrics were kinda funny (random lines from a tourist dictionary I believe) but no one understood them. It was like an inside joke.
I have usually liked the "funny" songs at Eurovision. Alf Poier form Austria with his cardboard animals... Lithuania with their "We are the winners" chant... Verka Serduchka last year with Lasha Tumbai... Leto Svet - not so much.
'Kay, 'nuff said.

And now for some more complaining.
What was up with the hosts? Rather tasteless clothes, abstruse jokes and pointless dialog. Or perhaps I just don't understand serbians and their humor.

The double half-final thing was also a bit maddening because I only got to vote in one of the finals... two of my faves who were in the other half-final and I couldn't vote for them and they didn't make it to the final. D:
Yet Latvia and some other weirdos got through. Damn.

But the worst thing of all... Russia won. DIMA BILAN won. Viktor Belan for god's sake. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?
At first I though Russia was gonna land in the top 10 like it usually does but then suddenly it started getting ridiculous amounts of 10 an 12 points and before I knew it - Dima was back on the stage with that creepy skater dude and screaming like a girl again. I beliieeeeeeeeeeveeeeee. Go to hell Dima. D:
So I guess next ESC will be in Moscow. *sigh*

Greece or Ukraine would have been a good winner. I would have liked to see Turkey or France winning. Or possibly Spain. :D

Baila el Chiki Chiki (versión final) - www.buenafuente.ws - Rodolfo Chikilicuatre

Belarus was also one of my faves but didn't even make it to the final. :((( Hasta la Vista Belarus.

*another sigh* I cut my finger with a pack of yogurt. Don't ask how, I just did, and now it's bleeding a little and hurting. D:

Well, off to watch Estonian Idol LAWL.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Oh hai

Ehehehee... let's pretend I haven't been ignoring this blog for like a month, kay? :D

It's a horrible time of the year because of the exams. They suck! Thank god I only have one more to do - history.
Yesterday I had the mock exam... today I went to class and the teacher said that she hadn't checked it yet so we could check it together. Bleh D:
So I had to watch her draw all these red lines over the paper because most of the stuff I'd written was kinda stupid. The worst was an exercise where I had to connect American presidents with certain events. There were six presidents and 8 events. Guess how many I got right? One.
It was like choosing lottery numbers. I got 0 points for that exercise. D:
The only good thing she said was how I analyzed a caricature, she said it was perfect. :D Go me!
In the end I got 60/100 points so I'm quite alright with it. I didn't really study for it and hopefully I can get at least as many points at the real exam.

Wow I have so many interesting things to write here.

NOT! Mwahaha.

Sunday, May 4, 2008