I haven't updated this baby in a month and a half - sorry. Its not like 6 million people read this, or anything.

News?

_04 01 06_ NIN _ VEGAS VEGAS VEGAS VEGAS_
_06 24 06_ NIN _ TORONTO_


the end. I actually haven't bought the tickets for TO yet or anything, and now that I think of it, I don't think I even have the cash to go, but those are minor details.

Cheers,

h.

BTW, I'm still waiting to hear from that lit journal to see if they accepted my piece.

Hi.

500 word essay for humanities on heretics - thursday
500 word assignment for english on beowulf - tomorrow/fri
history test on chs 12, 13 and some of 14 - tomorrow
creative writing package to read - tomorrow
french homework including 30pgs of boring book - thursday
gym homework - thursday
read tristan and iseult and Marie de France's Milan for english - tomorrow
reading for art history - friday
oral on machiavelli for history - feb 15
topic statement and annotated bibliography about research paper for history - feb 15
oral on 'sir gawain and the green knight' for humanities - feb 16

... Is that it for now? I think so. Well, that's nice.

I think the only purpose of a liberal arts education is so that said 'liberal artist' can bullshit there way through anything, and sound intelligent about it too. Even though all 'artists' are very mostly all retarded. Oh well, I suppose its cool to drop names like 'Chaucer' and 'Beowulf' into casual conversation as if I actually knew what the frick I was talking about. What's the greatest about studying the subject in such a closed environment is that I'm doing this with people who are acting exactly the same. Exactly. Is a conversation between two bullshitters still a conversation? Or just the exchange of hot air? Does anything other than the appeasement of our egos ever occur? Ever?

i talk about nine inch nails too much. philosophy is retarded. so is religion. chronicles of narnia was a good movie, besides all the running commentary erin and i were giving. i am pleased that i skipped religion for it. i would have been pleased anyways. cause religion is retarded. i would like to write, but i don't know what, and i miss my brothers. school is for sissies. christmas is soon. nin are coming to canada in march. i want to go. i --- talk about nine inch nails too much. work is silly. this entry is sounding like something liz would write. that's not cool... but i'm too lazy to rewrite this into proper english. cause proper english is for boring people.


... but liz is boring. AH! I talk about liz too much. *smacks head three times* Well, I'm off to go laugh at other people's sad, sad lives! A big YAY for "reality" tv.

Oh well do you, do you do you want to?
Oh well do you, do you do you want to, want to go
Where I've never let you before?


.... FUCK FRANZ FERDINAND! FUCK THEM ALL AND THEIR DAMN STUPID CATCHY SONGS!! YAAAARRRRRRRRGH!

In other news,

NINE INCH NAILS

03_02_06 Quebec City, QC
03_03_06 Ottawa, ON
03_06_06 London, ON

WHAT THE FUCK?! Guess where I am when they'll be so nearby? NYC, fuck. I mean, NYC! Woo! but its NINE INCH FLIPPIN' NAILS! I saw them in November, and holy jesus, they were awesome. And now they're extending their tour, and coming back to Canada, and I decide to go off with a few of my buddies from Liberal to New York City... At the exact same time! Gah! Grant you, when i signed up for this trip, I knew nothing of NIN's '06 tour, but... damn! Talk about frickin' timing. So now I'm actually comtemplating backing out of NYC to go see NIN twice in a row during our Study week in Feb/March. How stupid is that? This trip will be awesome, as we are more or less getting free reign in the city for four/five days, getting access to amazing museums and will have the opportunity to catch some kick-ass broadway shows. Plus i'll get to enjoy the company of my friends from Liberal, and it will be really interesting to get to know everyone else a bit more.BUT ITS NINE INCH NAILS! This is a band whom i've (rapidly) gained a strong, strong appreciation of and attachment to. Their music means a lot to me, and who knows how much longer i'll be able to experience a full live NIN experience? What if TR decides that he's had his fun and decides to become a professional Scrabble player? Eh? What then? (I'll probably go to his Scrabble Competitions, that's what) All i'm saying is that NIN has been around for a good 15, 16 years now, with many albums, and TOURS, and god knows TR has changed a lot since his Fragile days... What if I miss these shows, and never have the chance to see them again? I refuse to never have had experienced NIn in the 'pit, and I am now trying to see far ahead enough into the future to attempt to plan my life around these guys. Its pathetic, probably, but when something gets to you... its gets to you, you know?

So i'm all discombobulated. And school is fun/sucks.

I leave you with lyrics of We're In This Together, cause i've been listening to The Fragile far more than I should be. Download it though. Now.

the farther I fall I'm beside you
as lost as I get I will find you
the deeper the wound I'm inside you
for ever and ever I'm a part of

you and me
we're in this together now
none of them can stop us now
we will make it through somehow
you and me
if the world should break in two
until the very end of me
until the very end of you

Um. Hello. Haven't updated in a few days, and I know that if I don't, I never will, so here goes.

I've got my license. Do you already know this? I think you do.

... I've got | | this much work to do this week, at least, and although the end is so near, it seems so, so far away.

I dreamt of Trent Reznor the other night... OH! Right! I got a new room. Yay for brothers that move out of the house! And I got a new bed, which is totally too comfortable, and, and, and it is all very exciting. So right. Dreamt of TR. That was interesting. He looked like he used to back in his young, YOUNG days...He was all smiley... Erin was in the dream with me, and she was holding his hand. Lol. It still makes me giggle. He held my hand too, and it was a very nice hand to hold.

SOO, moving on... I bought myself a corset/boustier thinger on saturday (oh, I saw Harry Potter 4 >> very good.), and it is all black and hot. I think i'll wear it to school on Thursday.


AND... let me depress you with my list of things to do.

Read (The Oresteia +) Oedipus
Read ch (13) 14 for Anthro
Read stuff on Islam (+ answer questions)
Read ch 8 of philosophy
Write a paper on NIN for french class
Write an oral on NIN for french class
Write two essays for final test for Classics

Thats it for now, I think, but its still a lot, because half of that is for tomorrow.

Ta for now, I'm pretty depressed!

WELL. A few things happened to me today... let me list them for you.

Firstly, I received my license. That was cool. ('K, its more than cool >> its awesome.)

Secondly, I met up with Cassandra, and then with Erica, and we all went to good ol' QAA together. Funnily enough, Sam and Erin (and Jeff) were going too, but they couldn't wait for me to finish my exam so that we could all go together because they HAD to go see Mrs Dorion. Its okay though, cause I understand. Erica and I left a note for the current Mosaic editors too. That was amusing.

Thirdly, Cassandra and I left because we had to go pick up her mom at work aaaannnnd right between the exit for St Charles and Woodland on Highway 20 going West, we nearly DIED. Well, we didn't get hurt, (thankfully), nor did Cass' car, but the other guy (who wasn't hurt either, thankfully) had pretty much crunched the front of his car. It was pretty scary. If he had gotten any closer, even tapped us, we would've gone spinning and who knows what would have happened. There's a story behind this, but all you need to know was that everyone was okay and no one hurt.

And I had about twelve assorted paramedics/firemen ask me if I was okay, so I was okay, lol.


Anyways, yeehaw, harry potter & the goblet of fire tomorrow!

Okay, so my back is spasming so i'm going to go now... talk with you later.

Kay. Its not tomorrow. Its not even the day after that (Happy birthday, Erica, btw), but it does so happen to be the day after that. I had my last driving lesson this morning... in which my instructor said I was more than ready for my license. Which i'm going for TOMORROW. Woohoo. Life will be so much ... fun-er with a license. And we can give Jeff a rest, maybe. Somehow I don't think he'll enjoy being driven around, lol. Cause he's a "man". Haha, its really too funny. ANYWAYS, so, shall I finish my NIN story? I think so...

I can't remember where I left off in my post a few days back, BUT, I was in the Spiral line, waiting to see if there would be a soundcheck, and at around 4 o'clock, People (Brandi and Sweeney) came out to get all the premium members in line... for a soundcheck! Yay! We were all very excited, and so we line up, and everything had been cleared up for me to get in, and then we go through security, was patted down, and then head downstairs to get in line again. Once all the Premium members were through security, Sweeney came down to tell us how everything would work. We would go downstairs, single file, no running, no cameras. Fine. So we're brought in through the first set of doors, where an elderly man scanned our tickets to officially let us in to the Bell Centre. I could have swarn he's been working with the Centre since its Old Forum days and the Habs were at the top of their game. SO. We're brought down to where the zambonies (how the fuck do you spell zamboni?) would be during a hockey game, and line up again. Oh my god. I couldn't breathe, I wanted to jump around and dance, but I was alone and didn't want to look like an idiot. I would say that we all waiting there for about... I don't know... 5, 10 minutes, in which NIN played With Teeth... It was great. The thought that my idol (cause I suppose that's what TR is) was only on the other side of a wall just... Its an undescribable feeling. Awesome. So then Sweeney (big, big, tall bald guy) came by again and told us "No running, you will all enter single file, no running, be civilized", and proceeded to lead us in. I nearly exploded with the anxiety I was feeling. It just felt so flipping surreal to me. All of it.

So I walk in, keeping myself from sprinting to the stage, and I was able to go right up to the stage, in front of Trent Reznor. There was a girl on the barrier, but I was right behind her. TR was... ten feet away from me. I couldn't believe it. He was actually at the time fiddling with something near the back of the stage, but I made sure to take a good look around. The lighting machines looked like Robots. Real r2d2 like. He took a sip of what looked liked Iced Tea and made his way to his mic. "Oh God. There he is. There he is. There is Jeordie, there is Aaron, there is Alessandro and holy crap Alex Carapetis looks like a muppet." >> my thoughts at the time.

Then... Then Trent and the band started Reptile. Now, you all have to understand. THIS IS THE SONG I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO HEAR LIVE, AND IN SOUNDCHECK. I kept on looking from Jeordie, to Aaron, to Trent, to Alex, who, may I add, really really looked like Animal from the muppets when playing the drums. Trent grabs the mic.. "she spreads herself wide open/ to let the insects in..." The bass shook my body, and I loved every minute of it. Hearing Trent wail is one thing. Seeing him wail... God damn my panties cried, as Erin would say.

After Reptile, Trent played The Wretched, which was fantastic, and then he finished this mini set with Wish. Amazing.

It ended there, but Trent was really cool about everything, talking with the crowd in between songs, in which, (this is so funny), no one could speak. It was the quietest NIN crowd i'd ever seen. But I understood. Trent Fucking Reznor was standing in front of us and chatting us up and HOLEY HELL.

So, so, so, so cool.

Afterwards, we were led up into the seats, divided into two groups, those who were "Sitting on your ass," or "standing on your feet". They let us stay in the building until they opened the doors to the rest of the public, but we had to stay in our seats until about 6 pm. So I got to chat with a few other spiral members while I waited, and eventually I headed out over to the merch tables they were setting up, eyeing some of the wonderful goodies they had. They make have looked cool, but fuck were they expensive. I ended up buying a lithograph of the 11/11 show, and a sticker, and then I headed back to my seat to wait for Erin and Erica. They bought me a tshirt! yay! ... It was a belated birthday present, lol, which I appreciated very much.

So that concludes my pre-show adventure, and the rest, as we say, was ... FUCKING AWESOME. DFA1979 rocked out, QOTSA were.. okay, I liked them, but not as much as DFA, and then, of course NIN. The crowd really got into it, which was great.

I will never forget 11/11/05, (just as I will never forget 11/11/18 when the peace treaties were signed on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, ending WWI).


SO. In other news. Totally skipped all my classes today, I'm going for my license tomorrow, AAAnnd... OH! Right. There was a Q&A with Trent last night for the Spiral members. !!!. Thankfully it was a moderated chat, in which we submitted questions, they were screened by chat mods, and then Trent would pick questions to answer. There were about 1000 users in the room at one time, and out of all their questions, TR answered MINE. I screamed when I saw my screename pop up, with one of my questions ( i asked... ten lol) and he ANSWERED ME! YAY! It was very simple, but still, he READ MY WORDS. lol. I'm so insane. And obssessed.

Oh well.

skufti: Will you be returning to Canada after this leg of the tour is over?
trent_reznor> yes.


SO. Who's coming with me to see them again? Eh?

Now. Or tomorrow. Or now. No, no, tomorrow. Go look at the pics at ekika's site... http://www.livejournal.com/users/ekika/

So here. I've done it. Gone and got myself a proper livejournal account. Used to have one before, but it was juvenile and stupid. I don't really have high hopes for this one, either. Lol.

How shall I chrisen my new account? Hmm... Perhaps with a tale of 11/11/2005. I couldn't sleep the night prior, because i was way too excited for my own good. So i wake up early in the mornin' cause i had an 8:30 class (English), and I can't even get changed out of my pyjamas I'm so hyper. I'm running around my house screaming, like a child on Christmas, minus the it being Christmas part, ... "ITS TODAY! THE SHOW'S TONIGHT!! THEY ARE WITHIN THE SAME BREATHING SPACE AS ME!! GAH!!"

I was, of course, talking about NINE INCH NAILS . They, after so, so long, (five years), were finally on tour again, and they were coming to Canada, and most importantly, Montreal. My brain was imploding because the mere thought was way too thrilling. So i go to class. With ADD. I come home, my mom says, "Heida, we need to go get a new bed spread for you!" (BTW > brothers are moved out > I'm getting me a bigger room) and i was more or less jumping around all whiny-like saying stuff like, "Ah! Ah! I need to get downtown!! Now!! Quick!!" It was 10:30, and the doors only opened at 6:30, but FUCK I wanted to get down there, in line, in case there was a chance of a soundcheck.

So fast forward a bit... went to sears, the bay, met up with my dad and had lunch at moe's, went downtown, went to the linen chest, got driven to the bell centre AAANNNDD, so I got out of the car, headed over to the Spiral line ( i'm a member of the fan club), and started to wait. It was about 1:30 when i got in line, and I had the chance to talk with many other NIN-enthusiasts, so it was a lot of fun. The couple behind me were from Ottawa, went to see the Toronto show the night before, and then drove all the way down to Montreal. Everyone was so nice.

AND THEN... I have to go now, so i'll write more later... My brothers are home for dinner tonight, but i'll post more about what happened next later tonight when I should be writing a 5 page book review on a book i haven't read yet.