When Sheep Cannot Sleep

It’s over. Deadalus came, Deadalus saw and Daedalus finished fourth!! Missing out on the $100 third cash prize by a decibel!!

It was awesome to be on stage again and we got to rock out (in between a Christian group and a three-piece acoustic group with a cello). Being a hard rock band in between such sweet music must have led to our downfall…hahaha

But all in all, it was cool. We picked up some new fans, spread the word about the band and our Daedalus t-shirts were a great hit!! Also, to stroke my ego a little, someone asked me for an autograph…it was on a sign she made that said  "I’m sleeping with the drummer from Daedalus."  All in all, not a bad show.

Tommorow morning, I am going to whoop some Jedi ass at Celebration III and then finish off my rock weekend with a little bit of Muse…yes! What a way to usher in the last week of school and then…FINALS!

After the slightly (ok…entirely) self-indulgent and restrospective (sniff,sniff) theme to my previous blog entry, I now present SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!

The reason? I lost part 2 of the "you can’t go home" post. I seriously don’t know where I bloody put it. It’s not on my laptop at home and it’s not on my thumbdrive, so I dunno. I sure as hell know one thing: I’m not re-typing that shit. It’s probably hidden somewhere on my harddrive (under some 20 Gigs of porn…err, I mean illegally-downloaded music…SHIT!! I mean school project files), so don’t worry it’ll be up soon.

Speaking of coming up soon (notice the transition? Damn, I’m good!), there’s some excitement ahead of me in the coming weeks. Here’s a list of what you guys could be part of if you’d come visit me:

• April 17: Down to Rob n Jay’s Chippy for some Fish&Chips, Guinness and a spot of footy. FA Cup footy, that is: MAN UTD v some daft pricks in stripes.
• April 21-24: STAR WARS CELEBRATION 3 hits Indy. Time to dust off my old Jedi robes and brush up on my ’saber skills!! I’ll be walking downtown with my camera so you’ll be able to see how crazy the SW fans are!! Two years ago, we had stormtroopers and rebels duking it out outside Hooters!
• April 23 & 24: My American rock debut with DAEDALUS at Franklin’s Battle of The Bands. Be there or be a planar shape having four equal sides*. The next night, Muse will be in town. The rock Gods must be smiling on me this weekend!!
• Anytime after April 24: I’ll be in a bad mood cause I’ll have to study for Finals.
• May 4: Last day of Finals!!!
• May 10: I plan to set off the metal detector 7 times as I go through airport security on the way HOME!

Well, with so much excitement ahead of me, I have to go now (and hope you don’t notice that this is just a filler so it makes my blog look longer and that I have a lot of interesting things to say. Oops…remind self to delete this paragraph).

I’ll look for PT2 of the "you can never…" post and put it up here soon. Until then, goodbye. Are you still reading this? Don’t you have something better to do? Like download porn? Waitaminnit - you could be downloading porn right now and reading this just to pass the waiting time!! You sick pervert!! Soon, you’ll relate reading blogs to watching porn and you’ll get "excited" when reading blogs…umm, I think I’d better stop now cause I’m getting too excited.

* a shape with four equal sides is a square. I can’t believe you had to look at this to figure it out. People like you should be systematically removed from the gene pool. On second thought, that’s pretty harsh. You should just be allowed in the shallow end. You’re still reading this? Man, that porn sure takes a long time to load, huh?

The date has been set: May 10th headed back to the old stomping ground. Again, I’m faced with the weird feeling of going home…a mixture of elation (seeing my family & friends, drinking Milo Ais) and fear of the changes that had taken place when I was gone.

It’s true what people say: you can never go home again. Everyone is different- you, your family, your friends, the people and the neigbours dog/cat/tarantula.

When I left home at 18, it was crazy. I always wanted to get out of PJ - go study somewhere else. Everyone can attest to this - all the people I knew kept saying how, ever since I was a little kid  I always said " One day I’m gonna kick Superman’s ass and teach him to wear his underwear on the inside." My second most rememberred quote was actually "I’m gonna leave here when I grow up."

I felt awesome when I found out I was accepted. So began the preparations - visiting all my relatives, telling all my friends and packing. But as the time drew near, I began to feel like cat poop (figuratively! You sick people!!) and didn’t want to leave. I did with a heavy heart.

2 years later, I came home. I expected everyone to be the way I left them, but of course they were not. My dad had shaved his moustache and beard off!! My lil’ bro wasn’t lil’ anymore. My friends either were in college or out of college and working.

My old bandmates had new bands… to be continued

I was too lazy/busy (choose one) to come up with something this weekend, so here’s a survey I got in an email. I’m sure many of you have seen it before, but here’s my three cents (geddit? 3 cents instead of two? haha…nevermind):

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Amir
2. Ruler of the Universe
3. (the Sith warrior) Darth Ambidextrous

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I can play the guitar like a muthaf*ckin’ riot
2. I can spell anything, anytime, anywhere (and spot grammatical mistakes a mile away)
3. I don’t smell like 8-day old cheeseburger

THREE THINGS YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. not enough self confidence in face-to-face situations
2. PROCRASTINATORS UNITE!! (tommorow)
3. don’t look good with a goatee

THREE THINGS YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND:
1. popularity of Avril Lavigne (note: I’d hit it!!)
2. commnist nudists
3. the Reynolds analogy (Fluid Mechanics)

THREE THINGS THAT ANNOY YOU:
1. hair in my mouth when I’m concentrating on eating my 1/4 pounder
2. waiting for pizza to arrive
3. this f*king survey, to be honest

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. hair
2. on
3. fire!!

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Beth
2. Internet
3. Music

THREE OF YOUR (many) FAVORITE BANDS
1. Metallica
2. Thrice
3. Rage Against The Machine

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITES SONGS @ THE MOMENT:
1. Sic Transit Gloria by Brand New
2. Frances the Mute by the Mars Volta
3. Elenor Rigby (cover) by Thrice

THREE PEOPLE YOU SPEND THE MOST TIME WITH:
1. Beth
2. Foo (rabbits are people too…)
3. myself

THREE THINGS YOU CAN’T DO:
1. play the entire "One" solo flawlessly
2. turn my amp to 10…bloody neighbours!!
3. fly a helicopter

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. Guitar
2. watching TV
3. reading

THREE THINGS YOU CAN’T WAIT TO HAVE:
1. more guitars
2. a high paying job
3. my face on the 10 dollar bill

THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING:
1. Biomedical Engineer
2. Rockstar
3. Videogame Tester

THREE COLORS YOU LIKE:
1. Black
2. Red
3. Green

THREE THINGS YOU JUST DID TODAY:
1. Booked my flight home
2. Went to Heat & Mass Transfer class
3. Wasted 5 minutes of your life….see ya next blog, suckas!!