Tonight was the last show of the Metalocalypse tour, and it was parked right smack dab in the middle of my college campus. Thank you Event Center.

I gotta say, metal is generally not my cup of tea and the main reason I went is because it was affordable, on campus, I haven't been to an actual show in ages (Andrew WK was more of a tiny musical event rather than a concert) and I'M A HUGE NERD. The show was fucking brutal. I dont think my feet were on the ground for at least the last two sets. I've been kicked, elbowed, and hit in the head by like 6 crowd surfers. Of course it was totally worth it.

First two bands, High on Fire and Converge were kinda ehhh. Mastadon was actually pretty good, I enjoyed their set despite my lack of oxygen or space to move my limbs. By the end of their set I some how got pushed up to the very front so I could fail my arms around over the gate and have sort of fresh air to breathe.

FFFFFFF AND THEN DETHKLOK. Their set was broken up by sections of animated segments with the characters themselves. The one before the set was great, it guest stared Eddie Riggs from Brutal Legend as their roadie. The rest of the set was accompanied by animated music videos which I was totally admiring any time I wasn't screaming lyrics or headbanging. Major props to Brendan Small for being able to do the vocals, guitar, being a great front man and of course for creating the show, without which this concert never would have happened.

PICS! From my cell phone!

Bearded security guard was my hero. He spent the whole show making sure crowd surfers didn't kill me when they were passed up to the stage. The guy next to him gave me Brendan Small's guitar pick that he caught for being such a trouper up in the front.



Concert ticket, guitar pick and a signed photocopy of my Dethklok fanart. I don't know if you've noticed but I have a habit of meeting all the celebrities I go to events for. It's just how I roll, and of course this was no exception. Mike and I waited out back with the 10 other fans awesome enough to sit in the cold outside world to meet people. TOTALLY WORTH IT. Brendan said my drawing was awesome.

NOW I'M GOING TO BED. I got kicked in the head twice so it's time to pass out.

Since my last update some of my smaller problems have been solved. I was able to get a new power cable for my laptop and finish Mallancholy 2. The loss of power set me back though. I was hoping to get Mallancholy done over the weekend and have Sunday afternoon/night to get some homework done. Didn't get to my inDesign homework in time, but I emailed into class sick (caught something from the brother) and she said as long as I email her the jpegs by tonight she can check off that I did it and give me feedback. Basically, this week I'll be playing catch up on everything I've set aside to finish the comic. I also remembered there was a new Tattoo parlor in Danville (of all places) so I was able to stop there and the piercing guy was really nice and gave me a handful of O-rings for free, so now I dont have to worry about my plugs falling out.

Still stressing about money though. Feeling a little better since two people have reserved spots for the tarted chibis, neither have paid yet, but it's still comforting that I'll be paid at some point. Even if I'm only getting 20 bucks out of this.

Mood: sick
Tunes: Phenomenauts

( This is a good look for me. Y/N? )

Mood: predatory
Tunes: Aquabats

It's nearly 4am and I'm still awake. Why can't I sleep like a normal person? In the last two or three years an average nights sleep for me is about 5 hours. Usually leaning towards less. But then I hit a week every so often where it seems my body is trying to make up for the loss of bedtime by making me sleep forever. Which generally means turning off alarms in my sleep and missing stuff like classes. I gotta figure out how to average out my sleeping patterns so I can get like 8 hours a night instead of 5. Wooooo insomniaaaaa.

I'm also spending the weekend at home because I didn't want to spend money on bus/bart fare to get to a shindig and sean was offering a lift on his way to Lily's today. It's really quiet in Danville, which is a little unnerving. I've gotten so used to the city. People yelling, cars rolling by, the occasional siren or frat party. Kinda makes it harder to sleep. Art's going good though. I've got 3 pages of Mallancholy2 inked, 4 and 5 sketched and the last two thumbnailed. I'm also nearly done with my homework assignment for monday which I might actually post online since it's got Darkness and DeKay in it. Got my new intuos4 today too. Ohgod the pressure sensitivity, shortcuts on the side and the fact that it doesn't flicker between the balance of life and death every few seconds is so fucking wonderful.

Looking forward to Lily's Halloween party later tonight. I'm gonna try to fall asleep again. Wish me luck :B

Drawing comics is immensely satisfying.

I've just started sketching page 5 of Mallancholy #2 and I can see the improvement my art has made recently. My characters seem to have more life to them. Better gesture, better expressions, and even better camera angles. I couldnt really see my improvement with all the commissions and school projects I've been bogged down with lately. Gonna hopefully finish sketching all the pages today and start inking soon as Marie gets back to me with a proofread script and make any changes to fit anything she might have fixed.

I really can't wait to see this finished.

Mood: creative
Tunes: Big Bang Theory

It was a very culture filled weekend.
Wednesday Night:
-Zombieland
-Glee
Thursday Night:
-Where the Wild Things Are midnight release
-In our PJs
-Peter wore a dinosaur themed onesie.
Friday:
-Saw Where the Wild Things Are AGAIN because I love it and I was invited by another group.
-Denny's followed by Psych season finale.
Saturday:
-De Young Museum (was filled with some really cool art, if only my camera worked)
-Disney Museum that just opened! It made me miss Disneyland a lot. :(
-Saw Urinetown at DVC cuz Weasel was assistant stage manager and Lily was on Hair and Makeup.
-Also it's a hilarious musical.

Well I'm ready to pass out. Can't wait to work my ass off on art this week. Thank god there's no school on monday.

On a completely unrelated note, I'm tired of being overlooked by certain people and I'm going to try not to let it get to me and maybe work on putting some more exp towards charisma. It's just some gratification would be nice every once in a while.

Mood: exhausted
Tunes: Yes -LMFAO

Is it just me or is it whenever I'm overwhelmed with art do I have issues with my xbox? I went to unwind a bit, play some katamari or lego indiana jones or something and it red ringed and gave me an error message. Only a quarter of the ring was red and apparently that's fixable and the xbox itself works GREAT without the hard drive. Apparently all I need is to download an update. An update that requires internet to connect to xbox live. I tried to download the update to a disk and install it manually but it wasn't taking and using my ethernet cable to hook my xbox to the interbutts isnt working either because dorm internet sucks.

I can still play Katamari and Lego Indiana Jones, but the update to let me play Psychonauts was on the hard drive. Wonderful. I need to remember to take my xbox home next time I leave campus. Which wont be for a while. On the upside, soon as I do bring it home I can download my free copy of Castle Crashers.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO.

I just finished all 6 commissions I had in one sitting which feels nice. But deadlines for things are drawing closer and I'm getting more art homework assigned. Projects are starting to be due twice a week instead of once a week. I have a painting for Color Theory due on Monday that I haven't started. I have a Typography assignment for Visual Principals due at some point. The assignment sheet says Wednesday but I wasn't at the last class because I seriously needed the sleep and I think my friend told me it was due Monday but I don't have time to do it so I'm probably not going to do it because I have A's/B's on everything else. Also in that class we have to do two sketches a day. I'm 16 sketches behind because I'm too scatter brained and end up focusing too much on things that I don't actually have time for and my teacher is going to check my sketchbook Monday morning.

The Gothology deadline is drawing closer and I've only just finished my thumbnails. Bennett's bugging me about the characters for the xbox thing, which by the way, is 16 characters with three views each based on crappy descriptions that I have to decipher and modify to look good.

My brain hurts. Lets see how many sketches I can pump out tonight for the dailies before I want to rip my hand off.

Oh man what an experience that was last night. Me, Erin, Bennett and Matt went into San Fransisco for this super special show, and let me tell ya it was not your average concert. It was a lot more focused on the Calder Quartet than I would have guessed. The songs they played were really good, the Quartet was really awesome and I would probably go see them play even with out Andrew WK. There was one song that was kind of electronic that I really liked, I'll have to see if someone remembers the name of it.

Andrew's spontaneous piano improvisations were really hilarious, his second one ended up being really good instead of just silliness. In the second half of the set list they switched from Calder Quartet ft Andrew WK to Andrew WK ft the Calder Quartet and played some of our absolute favorites, I Get Wet, Party Hard, I Love New York City, and I Wanna Have a Party. For those songs they got way into the rock and roll aspect of the music and the violins/viola/cello worked really well with the music. I Love New York City was changed to I Love San Fransisco because apparently SF is his second favorite city in the world and he's considering buying a house out here. There was a lot of dancing and audience sing a long at this part and even a light show. They ended the show with silence (in three parts) which kind of let the night sink in and was really nice. You really couldn't leave the show with out the biggest grin on your face. Andrew WK's rock persona and raw energy complimented the Quartet's classical styles so well, and vice/versa.

After the show we hung around the lobby and talked to the members of the quartet about their experiences on the tour. We waited around for a while because me and Erin had made a t-shirt to give to Andrew WK (I designed, she and Dan screen printed) but they started ushering us out. Erin was out the door but Matt grabbed the shirt to hand to one of the Quartet members and right at that moment Andrew came back down the stairs to talk to the few people left. He was so excited to see the shirt and kept saying that the attention to detail on the shirt (It was a depiction of his trademark coke and peanut butter smoothies) really made his night. Erin who had been ushered out called us so we handed the phone to Andrew so she could at least talk to him because they weren't letting her back in the building. We convinced him to come outside and meet the few people out there and it seemed to make everyone's night. We ended the evening with In n Out Burger before I was dropped off at school.

Last night was so amazing. I know I brag a lot but really, my life is nothing short of awesome.

Party Hard: Acoustic (Chicago show) vs Electronic
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Tunes: Andrew WK "I Get Wet"

Met Andrew WK today. concert was awesome. More on this when I can make a coherent sentence.