okay, i feel better now

I still like imaginary worlds and delicious sandwiches, but this is turning into a self indulgent journal I update at work because I have no time anymore. I attempt to run Octopodes Garden on Etsy: Click for crafts! I also have a cosplay blog: Cosplay Progress

[won-der-land89]

[spookyloop]

The blackened guise by NataliaDrepina Costume Designer: Agnieszka Osipa Model: Jenny Dagon

[cydarizard]

Necromancer Aesthetic?

[atissi]

consider the following: 17776 characters dressed for their time period

someone who’s good at fashion help me

[cydarizard]

Yessssss I love that someone drew fan art for this.

[goddofthesun]

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver (via liamtinker)

[cydarizard]

Does anyone else ever get music whiplash when they switch genres really fast? I’ve been listening to industrial/gothy stuff (and AFI, always AFI) for the past couple weeks, but decided on Kate Bush this morning cause she’s good busywork music. But it feels super weird, like I should have eased into it a bit more! So I’m just gonna listen to Placebo’s cover of Running up that Hill on repeat for the rest of the morning.

Either that or something in my brain broke with the thunderstorm yesterday...and it’s not that I’m freaking out about my first ever presentation in front of the higher-ups tomorrow, nope definitely not...

[cydarizard]

Haven't drawn anything in ages so ignore hands, but I caught up on WicDiv yesterday and now I'm dying of boredom at work and needed some of the Morrigan in my life.

[cydarizard]

More video posts! Because I have no free time for media lately (except Diablo III apparently...that’s a long story) so I just listen to Youtube videos in the background at work. 

Anyway, going to see Miyavi on Saturday and I hope it’s awesome! I’m honestly more familiar with his stuff from back when he was a little more visual kei and I was in high school (so like 2006, jeez I’m old.) But he always had that funky guitar riff thing going, and his new stuff seems to have  that even more and it’s catchy as hell so I’m sure I’ll have a good time, even if he only plays new stuff. 

Ahhh, I really hope he plays some older stuff though. I loved MYV*POPS and would die happy if he played a super old single like Girl Be Ambitious or Jibun Kakumei. Maybe he’ll play that one with the really long title he did with Sugizo Hi no Hikari Sae Todokanai Kono Basho De. (Yes I had to look  that up, I’m half just pasting all these titles so I remember to listen to them again before Saturday, cause they are all GREAT songs.)

[cydarizard]

Tsunami Bomb is so nostalgic and childhood and “it’s too warm and sunny for April I just wanna lie somewhere nice and cool or in the shade and not move” music. (I’m thinking rather fondly of the benches in the lobby of my high school...) 

But instead I’m trapped at work preparing for a meeting and one of my coworkers just decided to bait me into a 45 minute argument about transgender bathroom rights and it’s only Monday ugh I’m so sick of adulting and done with this week already.

[cydarizard]

I have a problem

Me: I’m going to [upcoming shows] I should really listen to more music by [artists I’m going to see]

Also me: I could just listen to AFI

Seriously, I’ve been trapped in an AFI hole for like 6 months and I can’t escape someone send a rope down (nah I’ll just pull everyone in with me.)

[cydarizard]

There’s two versions of this song, but this is my favorite and it is just /perfect/ rainy day music. I just escaped from 7 hours straight of working in the lab, which is usually fine, but today my boss was hovering so I couldn’t really play music or sneak on the internet or anything I usually do on those days. Blah. And then when I got out the weather was just as gloomy as it was this morning, so I decided on TMB for my coffee break before I get to data analysis.

Huh, look, I accidentally wrote a boring journal entry on my day. Future historians of my life will really care, I’m sure. (I say that in jest but then I remember that I’ve totally read HP Lovecraft’s travel journal and discussions of favorite ice cream flavors so hahaha yeah. I just need to become a cult author, then someone will care!) 

So anyway, a rainy day is a good enough excuse for The Birthday Massacre. I saw them play a rainy night a few years ago with Emilie Autumn, and I’m seeing them again soon, just need to remember to by tickets next time I’m near the venue! I could have snagged the VIP ones online but then I remembered I already have some signed shit from them, because back when their second full length album came out (Violet) I ordered a copy from the website and it shipped super late and I actually got a handwritten note with it.  So sweet! I know I saved it somewhere :) This song is old enough that it gives me very strong nostagia for riding the bus home from high school on rainy afternoons. Yes, the theme of today’s blog is rain. Hey, it’s not snow so that means spring is here!

Ugh but also I’ve been standing all day on concrete and my feet hurt blahhh. I should have worn comfier shoes.

[cydarizard]

Okay, so, last week, (or was it the week before? I forget) I declared I was gonna start journaling more, again. It’s my end-of-Q1-New Years-resolution-revisit I guess. (With each passing day since my last humanities class I get worse at words, and blogging is a good way to retain at least some grasp of the English language too!)

So, show review time: I saw Shiny Toy Guns last week and their live performance was totally awesome! They played their whole first album, as well as this song (which might have been a bonus track on one version? IDK but I was pleasantly surprised to hear it) and Major Tom so yeahhhh two space songs in one show. <3 [Reminder to myself: work on that space-songs playlist!] I was in a great spot near the front of the stage, the whole band was in snazzy white outfits, and at one point there was confetti, so it was an A++ night all around. I didn’t make it to work the next day, but it was totally worth burning a sick day on.

[khinsider]

A brand new piece of artwork drawn by Series Creator Tetsuya Nomura featuring Kingdom Hearts 3’s Sora was released on the 28th of March to celebrate the series’ anniversary. Kingdom Hearts, which turned 15 years old today, expanded with the recent release of Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and the Kingdom Hearts 1.5+2.5 ReMIX’s in preparation for the upcoming Kingdom Hearts 3.

[cydarizard]

15 years how

[sagansense]

[neaq]

Just look at her, isn’t she magnificent?!

[cydarizard]

bandsintown (which a coworker recommended to me, cause I never go looking for new apps on purpose...) is gonna kill my bank account: I ordered tickets to like 4 shows this afternoon. Okay, two of them I was gonna go to anyway, but thanks to the fact that I listed “Gackt” as one of my fave artists it informed me that VAMPS was playing a show in my city! I never would have found out about some sort of J-rock side project by the dude from L’arc en Ciel otherwise, but now I sure am hyped. All the song are so engrish-y and melodramatic and amazing. I’ve been listening to this all afternoon and I think I’m gonna go nuts. 

But anyway, I told myself when I moved back to the city (a year and a half ago! wow time flies) that I was gonna stop complaining about having nothing to do and go to shows a lot. I figure I haven’t seen any movies in theaters in ages like I used to do in grad school all the time, so this makes up for it? Hahaha anyway maybe I should post show reviews instead of movie reviews. I can call it short people problems, since all I can usually see at any given concert is the top of the guitarist’s head. (Or the bassist, depending on which side of the stage I’m on.)

So here’s some good rememberances:

best show since I moved back to Boston: AFI, hands down. Now the World, Morningstar and I cried during The Leaving Song pt. II for some reason

favorite person in crowd: guy my dad’s age at Garbage trying to get Red Sox scores on his phone

most guilty pleasure show: Good Charlotte was amazing and so worth it, fight 13 year old me if you gotta problem

most missed connection show encounter: girl at Birthday Massacre/Emilie Autumn that I sold some stuff to on etsy, I should have tried to be friends with her

most not missed connection show encounter: yeah drunk me lets follow some people home after Blaqk Audio great plan

best opening band I actually listened too: Creeper (opened for Tiger Army) or Waterparks (opened for Good Charlotte)

most making a fool of myself in front of an artist: oh hi Voltaire I’m gonna be drunk and sassy while you sign my stuff

most i can’t handle weird nostalgia: back at Lupo’s to see Regina Spektor last week...12 years after the first time I saw her there. Time really flies and I feel so old now! That’s why I gotta YOLO all this stuff. (Do the kids still say YOLO? *aged joints creaking*)

Here’s to another few months of live music nonsense and hopefully not making a fool of myself!

[Wow this turned into a long blog, see how much I care about work on a Friday afternoon?]

[cydarizard]

Successfully drew some weird shit! John Dies at the End was really entertaining. Like a Donnie-Darker-stoner movie combined with Buffy and some weird Lovecraftian cosmic stuff. (I liked that random philosophy bit in the middle which happened to be the exact opposite of MrNobody. All events are predetermined etc) best part was definitely Doug Jones though, he is a national treasure.

[cydarizard]

In honor of the 80th anniversary of HP Lovecraft's death, I've decided to watch weird horror movies on Netflix and draw all night. Starting with John Dies at the End. I also made fried plantains (cooking experiment, woo!) which look a little like tentacle suckers, yeah?

[hollowbastions]

[cydarizard]

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[cydarizard]

Throwback Wednesday! I haven’t listened to Regina Spektor in ages but a coworker was thinking about seeing her in Providence so we spontaneously decided to get tickets yesterday. Then I found out a couple of high school buddies are going to be at the same show, and now I really can’t wait, so I’ve been listening to her all morning.

Everyone seemed sort of surprised that I like her, which is fair because this isn’t the type of music I usually listen to. But Regina Spektor played Lupo’s at my very first show!! (At a real venue that I paid money for, haha. I don’t think Letters to Cleo at the Hatchshell when I was like 8 counts.) I had to look up to make sure I wasn’t misremembering, but indeed: February 2005, my sophomore year of high school, Regina Spektor opened for the Dresden Dolls on the same night as my school’s winter dance! To be a true throwback to that night I will require an enormous Haven Bros milkshake in the dead of winter, and I will need to get in a huge fight with my mom who thought I should have gone to the dance instead. Both of those seem unlikely. But the nostalgia will be very real.

Anyway, Soviet Kitch is still my favorite album by her, and this is one of my favorite songs. And the video is totally my aesthetic. (If you’re keeping track of things I’ve declared my aesthetic in 2017 it’s: eastern-european-dieselpunk-laboratory-witch)