We share the same skies
I’m finally back! Actually, I’d arrived at 5am on Friday, and then was at the university merely hours later for my orientation day – resulting in about 38 hours of no sleep by the time I fiiiiiinally made it into bed.
I know, I’d intended to blog whilst on my holiday in Taiwan and Japan, but then my laptop broke within the first 2 days of arriving in Taipei, which royally screwed that plan up. I really should be sleeping now though – the first official day of university is tomorrow and I should try to kick my university career off with a decent night’s sleep… but knowing me, I will be browsing the web until I doze off eventually.
Asides from getting reacquainted with my bass (and any form of technique at all) after a whole month of being thousands of kilometres from it, the other hurdles I really need to tackle this week is my sheer nerves and anxiousness about starting uni itself. It’s exciting, yes, but I’m scared shitless at the same time – I’m doing Jazz Performance for goodness sakes! It’s a far cry from the would-have-been alternative… sitting comfortably unnoticed in a crowded law lecture and being able to do my own thing without putting myself out there – until I was read, at least. But now… I’m crapping out about having combo and improvisation classes, etc etc. Yikes.
In other matters, yesterday evening, the family decided to trade bedrooms – which equals bigger room for me, yay! The only (but huge) problem is that, now that we have fiiiinally moved the furniture contents of 3 bedrooms around, the wardrobes will remain unchanged until we can get it together enough to get everything back in the right places. Despite the bigger room, I still can’t see any carpet, simply because half of what I own is sprawled on the floor. Wish me luck with that…
And last, but certainly not least: Last night I attended The Cribs show at Juice Bar with a couple of friends. It was AMAZING. The best concert I’ve been to in a long time. The Jarman brothers (and yes, who could forget Johnny Marr) had amazing stage presence, everything was tight, energetic, a thousand times better than on record; and their shared vocals were done just so, so perfectly. The sweetest thing was, Ryan had a picture of Kate Nash stuck on his Gibson, under the strings, between the pickups – super cute! I’m just jealous that Gary (which one’s that? the hot bassist, of course!) who’s only 29 is married to a 42 year old! Granted, she’s meant to be pretty amazing (mixed an album of Elliot Smith’s, etc) but still… Gary was well worth the leg pain that comes with a barrier-less venue!
Anyway, I will endeavour to post about my trip in sections along with photos – when I eventually get around to sorting them all. For now, here are some shots that I’d taken on film. All unedited, directly from scans. It’s good to be back!
Category: Audience, Concert, Family, General, Internet, Music, Photography, School/Ed, Travel 5 comments »
March 1st, 2010 at 2:58 am
Good to see you back! Thanks for the comment on my layout! I can’t believe you’ve been gone about a month – that’s when I put my layout up haha.
I know what you mean haha. Sometimes I’m up super late and the thought just lingers in the back of my mind that I need to brush. D:
I hope you had a good time! Apart from your laptop dying that is. My laptop can only last a few hours without the charger… I always bring my charger around to university and everything.
That’s good to see that you will be doing what you love at university.
It definitely is far from law, but I hope you enjoy it. 
Speaking of university, classes start for me again tomorrow. Yikes. And I slept at 2am yesterday so it’s not good… not good at all. I need to sleep early today. D:
I’ve never been to a concert; you’re lucky! I’m glad you had a good time. I wish I could see my favourite singers and bands in concert. Too bad a lot of the bands I like broke up. :/
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:07 am
great pictures
sounds like you had an amazing time
i really need to take my diana mini out for a spin
March 11th, 2010 at 5:01 am
Wow. 38 hours of sleep is rather a long time! :O
March 11th, 2010 at 5:02 am
Wow. 38 hours without sleep is rather a long time! :O
Sorry for posting two comments, I forgot a word in the first one, lol!
May 5th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
absolutely love these pics! what kinda camera is it? and i love your doc’s! Mental colour!
xxx