chemicalapparatus

"It has been more than a week since a 20-year-old college student called her friends at a Metallica concert to say she was outside the arena and would find her own way home. Now the famed heavy-metal rockers are participating in the search for her, adding $50,000 to the reward for information leading to her whereabouts." cont at source

Kind of makes you think what other bands would do if someone disappeared at one of their concerts...

What ever happened with the Camera Swap?

B/d I def never got a camera and def never heard whether the one I sent made it to the person or not.

Did it just kind of die?

I was rather bored this morning so I decided to troll back through my journals and there is some seriously embarrassing shit in there. Like, a solid 80% of my journals are about shitty bands/shows. They're really rather pointless. But it did remind me of the time I watched Jesus Christ Vampire Slayer. I don't know how I forgot I watched that movie. It was fab.

Today I embark on day one of many in attempts to find a dress for my cousin's wedding. Woo. I love/hate dress shopping. It is one of the hardest tasks in the world for me to find a dress that I actually like and looks good on me.

Also, someone posted a picture of Peter Pan and it was in my latest tool bar thing and then all of a sudden it disappeared :(

I have not updated thee in ages! :( Mainly because I have nothing to update. I live a rather boring life and my camera is M.I.A. so that doesn't really give me much to work with. And is it just me or have people been on considerably less than last year? Idk, maybe it's just because I'm not on often?

So. A quick update of the last few months. I met Claire(musiciscool) at Milwaukee Warped! Which you probably already knew b/c she posted about it when it actually happened. Like a month ago :/ Then I met up with Sara(formerly known as xblanksface, now sarajane) at Chicago Warped for a wee bit. I failed to meet up with Rhianna(rhiannaresolution) and Andi(fingersxcrossed) at either, but one day my friends, ONE DAY!!!

Uhhh. I watched the Wizards of Waverly Place movie yesterday. It was ~fab. I'm watching it again tonight because I have no life. Or more because I was going to go to Indiana but then didn't so all of my friends are otherwise engaged.

I'm reading the Outlander series. It's AH-MAZ-ing. I absolutely adore it but they are the longest fucking books I have ever read. Jfc, woman. But yes, it's very good and I enjoy how long it is but its taking quite a while to get through.

And no one probably cares so I'll stop rambling about my pointless life. How is everyone else?

Sewwwwww.

First. Buzznet looks different. At least the journal part. I have been away far too long and have missed you all dearly!

Second. Because I've been gone so long I stock piled like 41564867434 posts in my favorites and lazy Caitlin is lazy so I just cleared them all :/ Did I miss anything good? Link me to it, bitches :)

And last but certianly not least how have you all been?

Being happier doesn't have to be a long-term ambition. You can start right now. In the next 30 minutes, tackle as many of the following suggestions as possible. Not only will these tasks themselves increase your happiness, but the mere fact that you've achieved some concrete goals will boost your mood.

1. Raise your activity level to pump up your energy. If you're on the phone, stand up and pace. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Put more energy into your voice. Take a brisk 10-minute walk. Even better...

2. Take a walk outside. Research suggests that light stimulates brain chemicals that improve mood. For an extra boost, get your sunlight first thing in the morning.

3. Reach out. Send an e-mail to a friend you haven't seen in a while, or reach out to someone new. Having close bonds with other people is one of the most important keys to happiness. When you act in a friendly way, not only will others feel more friendly toward you, but you'll also strengthen your feelings of friendliness for other people.

4. Rid yourself of a nagging task. Deal with that insurance problem, purchase something you need, or make that long-postponed appointment with the dentist. Crossing an irksome chore off your to-do list will give you a big rush of elation.

5. Create a more serene environment. Outer order contributes to inner peace, so spend some time cleaning off your desk and tackling the piles in the kitchen. A large stack of little tasks can feel overwhelming, but often just a few minutes of work can make a sizable dent. Set the timer for 10 minutes and see what you can do.

6. Do a good deed. Introduce two people by e-mail, take a minute to pass along useful information, or deliver some gratifying praise. In fact, you can also...

7. Save someone's life. Sign up to be an organ donor, and remember to tell your family about your decision. "Do good, feel good" - it really works!

8. Act happy. Fake it 'til you feel it. Research shows that even an artificially induced smile boosts your mood. And if you're smiling, other people will perceive you as being friendlier and more approachable.

9. Learn something new. Think of a subject that you wish you knew more about and spend 15 minutes on the Internet reading about it, or go to a bookstore and buy a book about it. But be honest! Pick a topic that really interests you, not something you think you "should" or "need" to learn about.

Some people worry that wanting to be happier is a selfish goal, but in fact, research shows that happier people are more sociable, likable, healthy, and productive - and they're more inclined to help other people. By working to boost your own happiness, you're making other people happier, too.

 source

P.S. Digging the new(-ish) journal layout. Kudos, Buzznet.

I watched this documentary(Dreamworlds 3) in my gender class today. I’m usually not that affected by any type of film, but I literally could not speak after I watched it. It’s not like it concerns topics that we’ve never thought about. The fact that women are objectified in music videos is not breaking news. But for some reason, having it right there in front of you, broken down, is kind of mind blowing. I’m trying to find somewhere that has more than just this 5 minute clip. I’m especially trying to find a clip of where ‘rock stars’ are on a tour bus with a group of guys throwing lunch meat at women’s naked bodies as a pre-show warm up. But until then, reactions?

“Sad is when your dog dies. That was down right desponding.” -quote from my class :)

All my shitty journals are about all the shitty concerts I go to D:

Last night, went to a spur of the moment, ditch work, blow my money Valencia concert at Mojoe’s and it was phenomenal :D

I legit feel like the biggest asshole for not seeing them at the Metro. I will never miss a Valencia concert, ever, ever again. Translation: they're set last night was by far the best set I have ever, ever seen. Woo. Go Valencia.

A lovely band called Houston Calls was there. (side bar: I'm a moron and continually spell Houston with an 'a'. I need to go back to the second grade. Clearly) Anywho. They were rather fantastic live. Link for you b/c I love you: http://www.myspace.com/houstoncalls They had to burn their cds b/c they're label didn't give them any. It was kind of adorable and a very back alley-basement show type deal.

Artist vs. Poet weren't there. tysm Sing It Loud. I was kind of bummed. I've never listened to their music but for some reason was excited to see them. Meh. w/e. I'm sure I'll catch them sooner or later.

Meese is not a band named after the possible plural form of moose. I was upset to learn that fact.

Mojoe’s is adorable, has black lights, space is rather decent, free parking, and rather nice employees. I vote yay for Mojoe’s. ~if you're ever in the area.

You’ll have to excuse this entire blog. Over the last few months I’ve turned into a hopeless romantic and, well, a full on, flaming fucking female. I’m not going to lie, it’s rather annoying. I hope it passes soon. So I apologize in advance for the copious amount of estrogen that follows.

It really fucking irks me when people say the word love is used to often. Or that we say love so much that it’s losing meaning.

Really? So, uh, what you’re saying is…there’s too much…love…in the world? That sounds, well, down right awful! What is this blasphemy! People saying they love things. OUTRAGEOUS.

The more I say I love something, the less meaning it has to me. Does that work for everything? If I say a flower is yellow, does that flower become less yellow the more I say it? If I say a flower is yellow every day for the rest of my life, somehow that flower becomes less yellow to me? Or somehow the word yellow starts to lose its meaning? What the actual fuck? IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW OFTEN I SAY IT, YELLOW WILL ALWAYS MEAN YELLOW.

Again. The estrogen. I don’t know where it’s coming from. Maybe at the grand age of 19 I’m finally hitting puberty. Who knows. But, to keep the love theme and redeem myself I’ll throw this in:

I kind of want to see what they're like but the only ones I know of are band members'. And they don't really give you a good gage of what type of stuff people usually post because, well, their lives are better than ours. Well, mine at least.

Anywho. If a few of my lovely friends wouldn't mind hooking me up with a few urls to lurk, it would be greatly appreciated

:D

P.S. From G's to Gents is a truely ridiculous and awful show.

Is there any particular reason that I don't recognize, like, half my friends names anymore?

Can we get a massive post of who's changed their names or something. I'm not going to lie, it's a little confusing :/

On to more important things. I apologize right now to the person I got for the Camera Swap. I'm trying to find pictures that aren't like, 'look at the pretty grass' or 'ooooh. the sky'. I just live in an incredibly boring area so that's more complicated than I thought. So, I may not send it out for a couple weeks. But I'm tryyyying. I promise.

And last, but not least: the first time I listened to 'We All Roll Along', I thought the  '8123' part said A1-like the steak sauce but I can't remember what I thought the 23 part was. It's really bugging me. I just remember thinking 'Hot damn. These boys must like steak.' But I can't figure out what I would have thought it was that fits with the steak thing. Yeah. That's a really poinltess anecdote. It's just been really bugging me -.-

are fun.

Road trip.

Iowa shows are weird. They're, like, intensely mellow.

It was cold. But no where near as cold as Illinois. Fuck.

I was only entertained by The Maine.

i <3 them.

Rockford.

Met up with new-old friends.

Jessica asked Cash where boys put their penises in skinny jeans. He seemed rather horrified. Marshall didn't seem to mind.

Lead singer from TFT is adorably nice. And tall. And not ridiculously skinny. It's a shame I don't like his band.

Free Candy.

The Maine's set rocked my face off. John crowd surfed. It was lulzy.

It was really hot inside. And really cold outside.

Cock block.

Almost missed Kennedy. Who is adorable, incase you were wondering. So nice. And tall. Well, taller than me. I think the members of the Maine are finally hitting their growth spurts.

It's been snowing all day.

Where is my Florida ju-ju?

No pictures :( My camera was doing bigger and better things. I'll see what I can snatch from mah franz, though.

Because I know you all do.

So, Feb 28/Mar. 1 I’m going to The Maine/WTK/other people tour with my friend Jess. Feb. 28 in I-ohhhh-way to meet up with my friend Ann that goes to school out there and then Mar. 1 I think there's like a Buzznet meet up. Are we still doing that? If not, two franz I met at the ATL show are going. I was completely amped for it. Looking forward to it since I got the tickets in the mail. Just mucho, MUCHO excited. AND THENNNN I find out that my brother’s regionals are on the 28^th DDDDDD:

The regionals are for wrestling. I know a lot of people are like ‘wah...wrestling is a fag sport...la la la it’s an excuse for gay boys to roll around with each other’. For the record, if you think that 1. I kindly reserve to right to punch you in the face repeatedly for an extended period of time 2. We are no longer friends :D So anyway. Wrestling is my favorite sport to watch. I’ve been going to my brothers’ (older and younger) tournaments since I was 11. And I’m going to miss the first tournament for qualifying for the state competition. I know this seems insignificant and whiney and dramatic to you all but I am legit dying inside because I’m missing it knowing it could be the last tournament my brother wrestles in in middle school And, you know, it doesn’t hurt that one of his coaches is young and adorable and hot /shameless

So anywho. I decided I needed to immerse myself in The Maine(lol that sounds dirty) and thankfully it worked. Not going to lie, if I was going to see any other band I’d probably try to find a way to bail. Break a limb or something, you know, you know.

On a much lighter note, the adulteress couple that shacks up in the parking lot at work stopped by on V-Day. Nothing like meeting up in the parking lot to bang your ~lover. How romantic.

Why aren't you fun anymore?

:(

I'm not upset about All Time Low touring with Fall Out Boy because I think it means they've sold out. I'm upset because I don't see ATL as an arena band. I honestly don't think seeing them in an arena would be fun. At all.

Also. I would like to say I am so very excited that ATL have to tour with Metro Station. I see it sort of as a punishment and sort of as a great opportunity for Buzznet vidoes. I mean, really, all of ATL frequently talk shit on Metro Station(and I love them for it) so I can't wait to see them have to interact with each other :D

So what are everyone elses' opinions on this matter? Because it's very SRS BSNS and needs to be discussed. Duh.

Why do people make such a big deal about people, band members in particular, being virgins?

Answer: ?

Why won't you let me add more than 12 friends to my profile?

It's obnoxious.

Also.

I feel like I haven't written a decent journal in a while. I need something good to bitch rant about besides work.

Also.

I just got the strange urge to give someone penis pasta. I don't even know.

Why do people at the VERY young age of 18(and sometimes people younger o.O) keep saying they’re upset that they’ve ‘been on this earth for 18 years and haven’t accomplished anything’ or ‘haven’t made an impact on this earth’ or that they’re ‘a failure’? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!?!

Ok. Let’s map this out a little bit.
newborn- 2 years old: you can’t really even form coherent sentences so I’m going to say accomplishing anything Nobel Prize worthy is out. So let’s just cut those years out of the equation and say you haven’t accomplished anything in 16 years.

3-5: Let’s be honest, these are the years most kids spend making macaroni necklaces and eating paste. Any chance of an earth shattering discovery is pretty slim in my opinion. So now you’re down to 13 years.

6-11: (those are the average years someone spends in elementary school, right?!) These years are meant strictly for rigorous studying so you can become a legit student and keep you GPA at a solid 4.0. In you’re off hours from studying, snack time, and nap time you should be volunteering at the local park picking up other people’s shit or reading(can you read yet?) to the wonderful citizens at the old folks home. You need to start young if you're going to be successful in life. FUCK YOU! These are they years that are specifically made for walking up slides, whipping swings over the bar 4 times so no one else can use them and playing four square in the middle of the street and telling the cars to get out of your playground. YOU ARE A CHILD. ACT LIKE ONE. So, what? Now you've only been wasting up space for 7 years :D

12-14: Ah. Middle school. Wasn’t it glorious? First I would like to point out I was a hardcore bitch in Middle School. I mean, I was a top of the line bitch. So that took up most of my time. But other people should spend this time keeping their permanent record squeaky clean. That shit follows you around FOREVER. COME ON. You are 13 years old. You need to start taking your life more seriously. ORRRRRRRR you could be a normal kid and spend your free time reading(some of us enjoy it, OKAY?!)playing sports, riding your bike, and ding-dong-ditching the neighbors at sleepovers. So we have whittled your life changing years down to 4.

15-16: Well, when you’re 15 you can’t even drive without a parental unit in the car so I’m going to say you’re not a failure. You simply lack the accommodations to get to your life changing events because mom has a PTO meeting and Dad has his poker game. DAMN. That could have been YOU creating a new vaccine for meningitis. 16 You’ve got your license now but you’re so excited about that you spend most of your time driving to the post office for your parents just to get out of the house. BUT you look like a really good kid because you’re always asking if they need you to get anything, go grocery shopping for them. But you were kind of a dick for the last 2 or 3 years, because all teenagers are hormonal dicks at one point or another, so you really only got yourself back to ground zero. So we have shaved off another 2 years and your are down to a measly TWO YEARS that you’ve been sitting around doing nothing. Not bad, not bad.

17-18: Oh snap. That damn 17. That means you’re a junior. That means you have to start taking all those shitty tests, deciding what college you want to go to, and deciding what you’re going to do FOR THE REST OF YOU LIFE. Yep. That’s it. One shot deal. -.- Now you’re 18, and a ~*senior*~, and you have to start filling out those college apps. Which I never did(huzzah community college) but I’m assuming those take hours. But they’re probably SOOOO much fun. Background info, SS numbers, essays: sounds like a blast to me. But that’s a lot of time right there. So you’ve spent the last 2 years solidly deciding what you’re going to do for the next 50. Sounds reasonable to me. Because all 18 year olds are so mature and level headed. And of course they don’t care about money, sex, or fun. They are simply thinking about what they are going to be able to make a living off of in 50 years. Because, of course, they can also see the future and know exactly what the economy is going to be like then and what jobs will be ~in demand~. I mean, OF COURSE.

So where does this leave you, Mr(or Ms). No-Accomplishments-at-18?! Yes. You’ve been on this glorious planet for 18 years but 2 of those were spent blowing spit bubbles, 3 were spent eating paste, 6 were spent acting your damn age, 3 were spent going through that oh-so-appealing hormonal teenage stage, 1 was spent learning how to drive, 1 was spent becoming a decent human again(clearly many people get lost on this stage), and those last two were filled with people telling you you’ve got to plan the rest of your life.

Considering you started out blowing spit bubbles and eating paste, I’m going to say you’ve come a long way.

Stop taking yourself so seriously. Stop taking life so seriously. You are 18. You are young. ENJOY IT. Call me when you’re 40 and you’ve actually had a chance to make an impact on the world.