camping, metal

this weekend i'm going camping for the first time since mexico (which was in late june of 2003). it's been far too long!! dustin and i are leaving tonight after work and we'll be back later in the day on sunday. it'll be short, but i'm sure it'll be refreshing. i cant wait to sit in front of a campfire. i just cant wait. i've been wanting to go camping for SUCH a long time. we're going to be in angeles national forest near wrightwood... my dad's favorite place to camp around here (well over an hour away, but that's close if you dont want to camp on cement with what looks like golfing grass as your surroundings).

i rearranged my livingroom the other day. it looks like sheeite. i think i was just bored and restless. i'll be putting it back to the way it used to be within a week's time. i wish i had furniture that i actually liked. most of it is stuff i just want to replace.

i went and saw judas priest with queensryche last friday. it was nothing short of thunder. we didnt watch queensryche, but enjoyed it from afar. we cooked up some carne asada in the parking lot while drinking beer and talking. it was pretty cool. i've never really been exposed to much metal music in my life. it's pretty new to me, but i really like it. not like it's my favorite genre or anything, but i appreciate it and enjoy listening to it. my favorite parts are pretty much the guitar solos. sometimes the vocalists make the songs sound more gay than they probably should. of course, that's the lead singer from judas priest's specialty (he's gay), and he's got like THE voice of metal!

anyway, like i said... the concert was thunder. i loved it. i'd never experienced anything like that before. it was like rob halford was the king and the crowd was comprised of his humble slave followers. the thing is... that probably isnt too far off from the truth. i saw a little kid on someone's shoulders, going wild just like everyone else. it was great. we met a guy in the parking lot who was stoned out of his mind. you could see it in his eyes. he said that they confiscated his ticket. "they said i was too faded, maaaaan. how do i get out of this place? i just wanna like... go.... leave....". i pointed him in the right direction, then he went around and let everyone else experience what we just had. it was funny.

i'm going to see the scorpions and UFO at the end of the month. i recognize some of their songs, kinda, but for the most part i dont know who most metal bands are. i guess i know of some of the big ones.

so... now i'm doing what i always do when i find a new (to me) style of music which i enjoy... i'm pretty much oversaturating myself with it. i use the term "oversaturating" because i just dive right in and typically only listen to one style of new-to-me music until i feel satisfied with my level of saturation. it usually takes a while. i did the same thing with bossa nova. it's funny to me that i went from doing it with bossa nova to doing it with heavy metal. ah well.

my boyfriend bought me a dozen longstem roses the other day... then proceded to tell me the details about how he got the roses, including the price ($13, everyone! $13! tell the world!). it was funny/cute. i like that he doesnt usually know the "right" thing to do in a lot of situations. it helps to assure that he's genuine. can't say i've experienced much of that in recent years. i wont ellaborate.

i leave you with a san francisco "ass pheast".