I always feel kind of bad when I waste a whole day. Some people would say that I waste every day, but I truly wasted today. Or technically, yesterday. I slept all day. It was kind of one of those days where you wake up, but you're still tired. So you go back to sleep, and then you wake up again, but you're still tired. So you go back to sleep. Everybody is tired when they just wake up, you kind of have to make an effort to get up and get un-tired. I didn't make that effort, I just kept going back to sleep. Next thing I know, it's 9:00pm and I'm still laying on the couch, half asleep and watching some cheesy sappy love movie starring Mandy Moore with my sister. Back to sleep... I woke up and watched like an hour of Jerry Maguire earlier today, but I went back to sleep after that. I think I played some CS earlier too, but I went back on the couch and went to sleep. A truly wasted day.
I feel pretty good now, though... at almost 4am. I'm thinking I should try to pull off a 24 hour day, and invert the ol' sleeping schedule. Then I'll be getting up early and going to bed early. That's really what I prefer, there's just something nice about being able to wake up before everybody else, and not have to worry about sleeping all day. People have told me that I'm like a nocturnal creature, or a vampire, because I stay up all night and sleep all day... but that's definitely not how I see it. Sometimes, I just put off sleep. I'll be playing a game, or just looking at websites, and put off sleeping until I'm about to pass out on the keyboard. It's usually 5 or 6am around that time, so I go to sleep and wake up whenever. It's not really an intentional thing. I'm not TRYING to have a messed up sleeping schedule. It just happens. I have to try to fix it though.
Not that any of you care really, but I like heavy metal music. I like many types of music, but heavy metal is what really makes me happy. Sometimes I'll listen to new music, and it'll make me tingle in the back of my neck, just because I like it so much. It's like the feeling I had the first time I played the SNES. It was just... so good. Anyway, this is how I feel about Children of Bodom. They are, quite simply, the best heavy metal band out there. They're the best. There's no point in arguing, because whatever heavy metal band you may throw at me, these guys are more talented. They just are. They play their instruments like they were born with it. It's just a shame that they're not more well known... or maybe it's a good thing. I almost cried when I heard their new album. In a music scene where 75% of the bands are trying to cash in on the current trends, it's good to hear a band that actually utilizes talent and songwriting ability to make excellent music. Note that I italicized songwriting.
There's a lot of people out there who will automatically judge a band by its lyrical content or vocal stylings. I agree that they can be important factors in a song, but I listen to music for the music. I listen to music to hear it, and to feel it. Not to understand it or relate to it. Lyrics aren't a part of songwriting at all. You can write a page full of lyrics, but it's not a song until you put it into music. Lyrics with no music is not a song. But music with no lyrics is a song. An instrumental song, but a song nonetheless. I'm sure you get the point.
Listening to: Children of Bodom - Angels Don't Kill
Posted by at January 19, 2003 03:51 AM