What's giant, purple, has one eye, and talks like the bad guy from Tron?

If your answer was "the bad guy from Tron's penis," then you'd be wrong. Good guess, but still wrong. No, it's Shockwave.

Anyway, this post is mostly for batchix

I avoid shopping at Gamestop if I can, and I don't generally find their "pre-order" commercials all that clever or noteworthy, but this one has so much awesome Transformers geekery that I can't get over it.

30 Days of Music Meme - Day 12

A song by a band you hate.

Fucking fake-ass guyliner bullshit.

Clarification

I realize in hindsight my last post should have been clearer. I was using the term "guyliner" in reference to the musical subgenre that MCR and similar bands are a part of. I've heard the term "guyliner bands" used to describe them in the past and carelessly assumed the term would be familiar to most. I have no problem with male musicians or men in general wearing whatever makeup they want.

I think guyliner bands bother me for the same reason that Twilight and the Vampire Diaries TV series bothers me. It's just a clever way to serve up pre-packaged rebellion to tween girls who probably won't realize that their rebellion is pre-packaged. That's what I meant by fake.

I hope that clarifies things better. I apologize for any ruffled feathers.

Finally a post that ISN'T the music meme.

I started the music meme to get me to blog every day. An unforeseen consequence was that it made me lazy about blogging anything else! A lot's been going on.

Thursday was a very busy day. I had to get up early (for me) to go meet stitchedsutures , her boyfriend, and a few friends of theirs to visit the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. I hadn't been in almost a year and hadn't seen stitchedsutures in closer to five years so it was a trip of reforging old bonds. The Nelson has several pieces on display that I've never seen including an honest-to-Egyptian-gods mummy sarcophagus and an actual mummy. Being an ancient world aficionado this made my day. Lots of other pieces that were new to me or hadn't been out for a while were to be seen as well. Although it was balanced by Caravaggio's awe-inspiring John the Baptist painting being out on loan for an exhibition in Europe or something.

After the museum we noshed at a place in Westport called The Record Bar - an establishment whose motif as you might guess is vinyl records. The food was good and the time spent was excellent. After that I bummed around Westport for a couple of hours and then was off to rehearsal.

Friday I did nothing but play Dragon Age most of the day. Not very productive, but fun. I gained the respect of the game's angry, sulking, giant-Klingon-samurai guy and got him his sword back. And the French ninja/nun/peaceful hippie is now my lesbian lover. Trust me, it all makes sense when you play the game.

Saturday and Sunday I worked. My workplace is still about as organized as a monkey fucking a football. Glad to be on a stretch of days off again now!

Today was my first visit to the SCA Lilies' War event and my troupe's first performance of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Our audience was small but our performance was excellent and the audience's reaction to it better than we could have hoped. Considering that our lead actress fell and sprained her ankle two hours before curtain and that this performance was our first time using props, costumes, AND some of the blocking, I think things went pretty damn good.

The reason I am home now blogging instead of still out there partying with my mates is because my dental problems flared up again, causing me serious pain. I'm off tomorrow and there's no performance so I'm going to see if I can get into the dentist, money be damned. I've been trying to tough it out until after the play was over but something has got to be done.

So if you're still with me that's what I've been doing. My mouth has calmed down for now. I'm hoping I can have a nice evening at home without any more episodes.