Too Much, Too Soon

I'm really happy, I applied for and got the news reporter position at Tales Union! :D I can finally stop scouring the internet. Hah.

Well, unfortunately there was a death in the family recently and that's pretty much stopped my online life. I never log into anything anymore. =/ Sad really.

I'll be making this a short entry as I'm about to spam up the internet by moving all my good content from Hinamizawa Syndrome over to here. :) The character profiles I'll stick on too just so I never lose them, they'll be removed if I ever start the site back up.

It's Truly A Sad Day

Hinamizawa Syndrome is closed indefinitely! Its all rather sudden I realize, but with a few recent changes to my life, I just can't be bothered to run it anymore. One day I might be able to re-open it, but until then, all reviews and such will be posted here.

On the 30th of July I went to Warped Tour. Let me tell you, that was awesome! :D I can't wait until next year! I got a mega sunburn, but that aside, it was an excellent day because I saw so many artists. It was just, truly a lovely experience. This Friday I've got Mayhem Festival to go to. This should also be an amazing experience, grated it won't be anything like Warped Tour, but I still get to go mad crazy with my favourite people in the world, Mario and Deena. :)

I have a new favourite television show as well, Dexter. Turns out that its perfectly dark and twisted. Dexter is my hero, simply because the way he interacts with people is how I feel most of the time. haha.

Once again, I regret to say that I'm no longer running windows. I *tried* to get Linux and Windows 7 to boot together on my computer, but I fucked it up somehow and now I'm stuck with Crunchbang Linux simply because I can't be bothered to try to fix it and it's very impractical to install Windows after you install Linux, technical things go funky and it just turns into a disaster.

Anyways, I'll keep you updated with EVERYTHING, so check back. :p

A Living Breathing, Generation of The Walking Dead

Like the title? :) It's from a new Ivoryline song off of their new cd Vessels. You should check it out~!

In other news, I finally jumped on the bandwagon and I've made a tumblr account, I'll be adding the link here in a bit. Its really just for a bit of fun and so that I can get my Harry Potter oriented humour.

I've been watching a lot of anime and discovering a lot of music and its getting me back in the mood to start updating Hinamizawa Syndrome again, but... I just don't know if it's worth it. I mean, I know that its something that I enjoy but I never get any feedback on anything that I put on the site, so it almost feels pointless. But know this, if I get back into it, and start taking it seriously then I'll put the site back up for sure :)

Have you ever played a game that seemed to be taking over your entire life? That's what I've been doing. I started playing Runescape in June and I've played it entirely too much since then. In fact I'm playing it even as I type this, that's how talented I am.

Life Is Pretty Rad

So for the past two weeks or so, I can honestly say life has been pretty darn rad! I've experienced my first concert, I'm getting more defined taste in music, I'm playing LEGO Harry Potter, and I'm getting back into reading and studying in preparation for college this winter.

My first concert was the Detroit date of the Scream It Like You Mean It Tour featuring IvoryLine, Silverstein, We Came As Romans, Emery, Sky Eats Airplane, Dance Gavin Dance and I Set My Friends On Fire. Let me make this clear, being that the show was my very first concert, it was INSANE! I'm so in love with the genre now that its getting out of hand haha, I can't wait til my next show, which will probably be Warped Tour to be honest.

LEGO Harry Potter. What more can I say. I adore the game. Its got to be the best LEGO game ever. Its far longer than I expected at first, and for that I'm truly grateful. :)

Because of experiencing the music live I've started to really get into Screamo/Metalcore music. Gone now are the days of me listening to 3OH!3. If you're into the same kind of music I would love to recommend the following bands, some of which aren't around anymore but they're still worth a listen.

Bravo Armada

Bravo Armada is pretty much a hardcore band that isn't afraid to just let loose. They're on a permanent hiatus unfortunately, but they do have one cd, that I know of, out and its called Black And White. Its pretty good for a first time release. Only time will tell whether this band will get back together and continue kicking ass, but I sincerely hope they do.

Myfashionlove

Another hardcore/metalcore band. Myfashionlove has crazy energy in their songs and I highly suggest that you sit back and listen to them. As of now, they are still together as a band and they have one studio release entitled Secret Plan Of Self Destruction.

This Is The Hospital

A band that was formed from a few veterans of the San Diego music scene, This Is The Hospital formed in 2006. Now officially broken up, or on "indefinite hiatus", This Is The Hospital only released one album. That album, entitled Daybreak, has become one of my favourites rather quickly. The songs on the album blend together almost flawlessly and still they manage to carry a heavy attitude while remaining catchy.

The Year Ends In Arson

I saved the best for last. The Year Ends In Arson is by far, the best band that I've discovered lately. I have the highest possible hopes for their future success. The band has so far released one album called Vessels. If I had to compare any aspect of them to a band I would honestly compare the guitar to that of older The Fall Of Troy.

And So Turns Another Page

Yesterday was my birthday, pretty good day if I do say so. :)

After a lot of thought and after just a simple realization, I decided to peacefully, and might I add near silently, leave FXN permanently. I will soon remove the links from this site as well. I have no more interest in the site as everyone that I had cared for has moved on. I felt it was time for me to do the same, so off to Gaming Union I go. I will miss those friends of mine who remain, but sometimes things just go stale and you need to walk away, that's what happened here, FXN has turned to rubbish and I just can't sit there and watch it die any longer.

Good-ish news! My Runescape membership is about to run out, so I should be able to update things for a bit since I'm holding out on asking my dad to renew it for me. ^^;

JAFAX 15 was this past weekend. It was a blast! I definitely enjoyed every second of it. I already can't wait for next years. :D I'll be working on my sewing skills hard core so that I can make an even better cosplay! :D And I wanna make a Drifloon plushie just because, so fabric store here I come!! DDD:

Well that's all for this quick update. :D Take care and don't forget to visit Hinamizawa Syndrome's main site!

News!!

I have been slacking off hard core it seems. I'm terrible sorry. There were a lot of problems with my PowerMac which it turns out was entirely more trouble than it was worth. I'm planning on selling that POS on Craigslist, someone might want it.

In the next few weeks I'm planning on putting up quite a few reviews. I always say this, but it's about time I get down to business and start taking this seriously. I try to view my little project as something with a lot more potential than it really has in reality. For that reason I need to start putting the effort into it so that I can actually stand a chance at reaching the goals I have set in my mind.

Next weekend is JAFAX!! I'm quite excited for this as it will be my second year attending. This year I'm planning a cosplay for it as well so I hope that adds to the experience. I think the thing I'm most looking forward to about it though is that I get to meet Asuka's English VA!! OMG, I am beyond excited for that! I'm going to try to get her to sign my Evangelion manga, and pictures! Oh man, excitement that cannot be expressed in words.

Speaking of JAFAX, once the con is over and I have all the pictures up on DA, Facebook, and such I'll post them here, I know some people love anime as much as I do. Another thing I'm going to be doing after I get Hinamizawa Syndrome up and running again is use this blog mainly for promoting the site and move my personal life blog back to Live Journal. This one will still get business life updates though, I swear!

Well, until the next update which will hopefully be sometime soon :)

Umineko No Naku Koro Ni

So after marathoning this series for the past two nights I finally finished it. I know now without a doubt that I have another favourite anime. I also know that they MUST make a second season for this show, if they don't I'll be very sad. All in all it was very good and it reminded me a lot of Higurashi which is to be expected because it's made by the same people.

Well hopefully with a lot of perseverance and work I should be adding around 30 pages to Hinamizawa Syndrome this coming week. These page will include the rest of the Higurashi character profiles as well as those for Umineko characters and Ergo Proxy characters. As long as I get that done I'll be able to move onto the anime reviews.

In other great news it seems that I'm getting an old PowerMac. I'm actually pretty excited about this. I may pride myself on being a pc kind of person but there's nothing wrong with older macs and I fully intend on enjoying it. Unfortunately because it's so old I'll have trouble running some programs on it, but thats what the other computers we have are for.

Well that's all for now, I really need to get to work on updating Hinamizawa Sydrome. Make sure to keep checking back here as well as there for some new content. ~~