Ramble Ramble!

Nothing much to do today. Probably going to go watch Bruno with Chris. For now I think I should just watch Dr.Horrible's Sing-Along Blog with this stupid L.A. heat. I hate summer.

Sam got neutered on Tuesday. I feel bad for the little guy because he has to wear that annoying cone for a week and a half. But it's all for the best I guess. I went to Petco because I wanted to buy him some treats and flea meds because we ran out. For some reason I ended up buying betta fish too. I don't know why.......

I signed up on Netflix on Wednesday night. I've been hooked on True Blood after watching just two episodes. I'm seriously in love with Bill......hehehe. I also hooked up my Netflix to my Xbox so now I can watch some movies instantly. It's about time right? They have the whole Last Exile series on instant, I will probably re-watch it since I loved it so much the first time I saw it.

I also bought my ticket for Harry Potter on release night at Century City. Philip and I wanted to go dressed up as house students (Ravenclaw!!). He bought his Ravenclaw tie already but I didn't have one. Chris knew I've been wanting to buy one of those ties for a while so he surprised me by buying one. That's so sweet of him :)

Well I'm off to go do some loafing. See ya!

- Vela

Alright guys, AX has been done since Sunday but I was too busy to update on LJ. All of my AX pictures are located on my Flickr account. I can't put them all here since there are over 80 pics >.>

Anyways, this year's AX was a little toned down compared to last year's. The exhibition hall didn't have a lot of vendors and the night events were held at a different location, a hotel called the Westin in downtown L.A. But we had our fun so I guess it's all good.

( My run down of AX plus some pics )

Speaking of Artist Alley, sorry to thefuzzyhat for not being able to visit her stand. I tried to go tree times but it was always packed with people. Really, I did make an effort to visit you! >.>

Anyways, can wait for next year. Maybe I will take a swing at cosplaying :3

- Vela

Hello everyone. I don't know why I'm up at 6am. I just didn't sleep well.

Anyways, I'm going to the first day of Anime Expo. This should be fun. Keeping myself at a $100 budget, lets see how well that goes down >.>

You can follow my updates on Twitter: twitter.com/octopuscandy
or
My pretty pictures on Flickr: flickr.com/photos/lavenderdecay/
(probably going to be updated toward the night time when I get home)

I'll try posting a warp-up post on Sunday.

- Vela

So apparently my friend Oliver was called a troll by some random ass blog. LOL!

http://adamdexter.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/playfish-seo-google-fail/

It's not much for news but we all thought it was fucking hilarious.

- Vela

My classes were over like two weeks ago. I was just too lazy to update. Anyways, I am very happy I'm finally getting rest and I passed all my classes. I wrote so much bullshit for my English finals but who cares, I passed :)

I bought my 4 day pass for Anime Expo. I'm so excited! Last year I had a blast, hopefully this year will be the same. I saved up a good amount of money just to buy more Yoshi and Piplup related items. But that money also covers food so I gotta be careful. I also don't plan on using my credit card like I did last year so I have to be even more careful.
Chris and the rest of the guys are planning on signing up for the Yugi-Oh and Halo 3 tournaments. I'll just be there for support since I suck at card games and I also suck at fps >.>
I do, however, plan on attending the panels this year. I wanna see Seth Green at the Robot Chicken panel!

Also, later next month I might go to New York. I'm not too sure when or even if I will end up going. We will see.

Yesterday I had to go work for the Lakers Victory Parade. It was really sad seeing how some people acted like fucking animals. Actually, I don't think animals even act like they did. Anyways, nothing went wrong. We didn't get mobbed or anything, it's just that sometimes I hate how my fellow latinos act when we are in a mob. It just takes one drunk dude to start something. Ugh....

Anyways, lately I wiil have a lot of free time. So hit me up on AIM, Facebook, or even on Xbox Live.

- Vela

My friend Philip was nice enough to buy this Piplup coin purse for me (of course I paid him back!) It's probably one of my favorite Piplup items I own so far........besides the backpack and stuffed pillow >.>

( Random Pictures (+3) )

Also, my classes aren't going so well. This semester has been a pain in the ass (problems with the teachers). I just don't want to deal with it anymore but we have 2 more weeks of this crap. Finals is going to suck.

- Vela

I didn't have much time to write entries these last couple of days. But I got a couple of pictures to show! Like delicious sushi, Mmmmm!


( The rest are under here! (+6) )

Some more stuff happened but I wasn't able to take pictures (or just forgot to.....) I will probably start updating from my phone, I love that thing.

Planning on pulling an all nighter. I don't think it's going too well......

- Vela

Yesterday Chris and I went to the live Depeche Mode show at Hollywood for the Jimmy Kimmel show. They were fucking amazing. The wait and the long lines weren't very amazing though. My legs fucking hurt right now, plus I have a sore throat from all the yelling. Anyways, these pictures were taken by my brother who went with one of his lady friends. He showed up earlier than I did. I was closer to the stage, which pissed him off, but I couldn't see shit since there were about 5 guys who were fucking tall blocking the view. We also met up with Philip and Luis there.

They sang a total of 7 songs, 3 of which were from their new album Sounds of the Universe (which is a pretty good album, $4 at Amazon!). I'm just happy the sang Enjoy the Silence :)

( Blury pictures ahead (+4) )

-Vela

Doesn't Sam look like a wild animal without his red collar. He looks cute without it but he loves his red collar. He gets mad at me when I take it off :/

The past couple of weeks have been very busy. School have been sucking the fun out of me. Plus this heatwave isn't helping either. It's probably going to get worse next month since I will probably be working for the Lakers finals. I should be happy since I will be working more often but it will interfere with my own finals for class. But we will see what happens.

I'm going to see Depeche Mode on Thursday on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. I'm so fucking excited. Finally I will see one of my favorite bands of all time :D

New DLC for Left 4 Dead. About time right? I'm going to give it a try tomorrow.

- Vela

Time to buy a new compy. A friend tired to fix this one but it's just starting to piss me off again with it's fucking errors. Gah!
Giving this compy to my brother (the one who fucked it up in the first place) and the new compy will just be mine, no one else. I need a fast compy for school and work, so I'm willing to give more money towards it.

New Depeche Mode song and Tour dates!!! I have to go see them this time. Last time the fucking internet screwed me over since everyone was doing the same shit I was. But not this time!

Going out later with Susy, Luis, Sam, and Julie. I will try and save money! I will not get carried away >.>

- Vela

Well that month of vacation was fun! Now back to school. I'm actually looking forward to it. I hate waking up late and having nothing productive to do for the rest of the day. I feel like I'm wasting my life away. Anyways my schedule looks like this:

Math 8:30am-9:40am M-T-W-Th
Art:Photoshop 10:35am-12:40pm M-W
+Lab 12:40pm-1:45pm M-W
English 1:45pm-3:10pm T-Th

I need to add one more class between 10am-1:30pm on T-Th to close that gap. I'm aiming for a drawing or singing class. Why singing? I really don't know....

I wanted to see Coraline this past weekend. That plan failed. Friday night was raining like buckets of fucking water were being dumped on Chris' car. Saturday night was sold out. Yes sold out! I was bummed. So we came up with a plan to go Thursday night since I have to work on the weekend. If that shit is sold out on Thursday night I will be fucking pissed.......

- Vela

The last two weeks have been eventful. I saw my friend Karen form Las Vegas, went to a live taping of Diggnation and got Kevin Rose's autograph, went to a friend's wedding, bought the G1 Google phone, worked, and other stuff. I'm too tired to actually make a detailed post but that's pretty much what I did.

Two more weeks until school starts. yay?

- Vela

Fuck, the first day of 09 was spent cleaning my room. Posters are up, things rearranged, dust cleaned up, and thing put away. This room looks clean but I feel there in no theme in here. It's just random stuff! Eh, I will think of something when funds are available. Haha!

The Stone Temple Pilots show was amazing. I ran from work and got there 15mins before the band started. It was weird showing up with a backpack but whatever. The place was filled with drunk and tall people with kinda ruined it for me. Being short sucks when you're at concerts -_-
Anyways, I still had fun and had my fill for lolz when some chick slipped on someone else vomit in the bathroom. Priceless.....

Gotta go to work tomorrow. Gotta pay off bills D:

- Vela

Well this year kinda sucked. I am happy it is done with. We can start a new year fresh and new. I better not fuck it up for myself. I will probably write my new year resolutions tonight and post them up somewhere in my room to remind me of it. I don't have time to write them tomorrow since I'm going to work at 4pm. I will probably come out around 10pm which will hopefully give me enough time to go see Stone Temple Pilots at Club Nokia (which is exactly one block away from where I work!)

Anyways, happy new years you guys!

Also, hello t42rh. Nice to see you again! :D

- Vela

Merry X-mas everyone!

Hope you guys are having a good time. I'm pretty much hanging out at home watching random tv shows. To tell you the truth I'm kinda bored >.>

But anyways, I got sick and working outside for two concerts didn't help.....I still have to work outside for 5 more concerts. I'm probably going to die at the end of it. Whatever. One thing is for sure, I am going drinking for New Years. Fuck this. Sick or not, I have been craving Vodka.

- Vela

Yesterday I went to one of those MySpace secret shows. Philip told me the Cure was playing and I fucking freaked out. I woke up early and headed over there with Emerson to get in line at 11am. Around 12:30pm they gave us our wristbands that would guaranteed our entry to the show. Problem was they did allow us to make a line to get in until 7pm. So we had a lot of time to kill.

We ended up wasting time around Hollywood and Highland. I ended up buying a hat a H&M and a Siouxsie and the Banshees shirt at some random novelty store. I always wanted one and the price was right.

We headed back around 6pm. They were really fucking anal about not being about to make a line until 7pm so we couldn't stand around in front of the venue. A lot of people were hanging around across the street. Emerson, Philip, and I decided to hang around in the ally in the back where we caught a fast glimpse of the band getting into a van.

Finally 7pm came around and people ran to make a line. Some people even caused traffic to do so. They let us in about 40min later. Of course, everyone stood in front of Robert. Emerson wanted to stand in front of Simon the bassist so Philip and I stood in front of Porl the guitarist. We stood there for about an hour. About 10 mintues before the show started I was just looking around and noticed that singer from My Chemical Romance was hanging out in the back with his wife. Philip was more excited about that since he actually enjoys his comic books instead of his music. I just didn't care and wanted the damn show to start >:\

They started playing around 8-ish. Man, I was fucking excited. I was finally able to see the Cure! All those failed attempts to see them in the past finally paid off. I was one person away from the stage, that's how close I was! I was able to see Robert's platform shoes, lol!
Anyways, they played a great set. About 6 new song and the rest were nothing but old songs. Porl did a pretty awesome solo during "Wrong Number", it pretty much blew everyone away. I was happy they played "One Hundred Years", "10:15 Saturday Night", and "Close to Me". No "Fascination Street" but it's all good. My only problem was that there was no keyboards anymore. So songs like "Why can't I be you" sounded a little weird.

Philip left to go the bathroom during the first encore so I was left there for the two reminding encores. After they left I stood around to try and get a pick or something. They threw the pick so I wasn't able to get that and the girl in front asked for the setlist so she got that. The only thing left were 3 beer bottles and I pretty much pleaded with the roadie to give me one and he did. After I went to go look for Philip. He said bye to that my chemical romance guy and I gave him a hand shake for no reason. I don't even like his music, lol.

On the way out they gave us the show poster and a bag with myspace crap and the new Cure cd. It was a great night and I'm so happy I went.

- Vela

I'm currently working on a self-portrait for my life drawing final. This is my second attempt at it because I used the wrong paper the first time >.>
Getting the shadows in there is pretty easy but drawing curly hair is the bitch part.

Ugh, finals is starting to get to me.....
I'm really nervous about my Political Science and Japanese finals. I have to put my study time on just those two subjects. I'm doing fine in Psychology and Life Drawing so they don't need extra time. I'm doing well in Political Science but I'm kind of lost on what the final is going to be on.

I feel sick. Maybe I should just go sleep early.

- Vela

Just a quick update!

- Im fixing my portfolio for my Life Drawing class. I'm a little nervous on some of the pieces cause I don't think they are well done but I will go over them again.
- Got a couple of working days for next month. Gotta buy x-mas present with that money!
- Bought Left 4 Dead for $40 on black Friday. Awesome!
- Saw Transporter 3 last night, it was meh....
- It's finally cold here in Los Angeles! :D

- Vela

Well I had two tests this Monday morning. An Oral Japanese test and my second Political Science mid-term. What a way to start off the week -___-

On Friday a couple of friends and I went to go see Repo! The Genetic Opera at Sunset 5 in West Hollywood. The movie was pretty cool and Paris Hilton wasn't as annoying as I thought she would be. I would recommend it if you guys like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, industrial music, and gore. It was a fun musical to watch.

I also was able to play Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. The game is ok but Kazooie is pretty much useless in this game. She has none of her old attacks except hitting things with a wrench. The humor is still funny but the vehicles get annoying sometimes. The levels look AMAZING though.

My mom upgraded our internet service from 1.5Mbps to about 5Mbps. So that means less lag on Xbox Live! Problem is I have to pay half for it since it did cost a little extra >.>

Thanks to the fires in the hill up North it's humid as fuck down here. I REALLY fucking hate California weather.....ugh.

- Vela

I got my new Zune in the mail today. I've been playing with it for hours. It's fucking awesome! The Zune software is pretty easy to use too. I linked up my Xbox360 gamer tag with my Zune tag. If anyone has a Zune tag, add me: EXE Vela

I also got Banjo-Kazooie and Mirror's Edge for the 360 today too. I had both of them pre-ordered. I got the Mirror's Edge bag which is pretty cool but they ran out of the Banjo-Kazooie Xbox Live Arcade code. I am truly pissed about that, especially since that was one of the reasons why I pre-ordered it in the first place D:
The guy at Gamestop said to check in every now and then to see if they have it in. I kinda doubt I'm going to receive my code.....

I have to study for a Japanese test. Good night!

- Vela