OK, so Blogger sucks, and it's now destroyed my archives, so I am officially leaving this foolish system behind. Will I end up posting less frequently? Come on, really, how much less frequently can I really post at this point?

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So, here's the deal. I'd been saving up to buy some customized sneakers online, but I broke down and bought another Weezer ticket instead. Not just any Weezer ticket though... this one was in the eleventh or twelfth row, and in the center. The show was an hour and 45 mins away in Camden, which is kind of like Bosnia without anything good you might find in Bosnia. It totally looks like someone went on a bombing raid about forty years ago and it never recovered. I think that's half true... in that NJ urban centers never recovered from the 60's. But I don't recall an actual raid.

It turns out that this concert, propelled by the Philly fanatics just over the bridge, was the largest Weezer concert in history, so far. Yay! I was a part of history! Anyway, major post coming up about these two concerts, complete with pics painstakingly nicked from weezer.com.

Meh, stupid Blogger screwed up my template, and I hadn't been able to publish for weeks, but I just figured out how to fix it. It turns out that it's pretty easy... you just have to completely rip the guts out of your page and rebuild it, from scratch if you've forgotten to back up your template code. I was smart enough to save the main code, but I had to redo the archive template... it was scary there for a few minutes, with my page going all white and stuff. Anyway, that's finished. so I can blog again.

You know, the whole Blogger hates my website thing is getting pretty old, although it has revealed a truth about the way I operate. I say I'm too lazy to update and archive without it, but it takes much more effort to fix it when it breaks. Maybe I'm both lazy and stupid. As this is probably the case, I can't help but wonder exactly how I've gotten this far through life, and how much longer my luck will hold out.

I bought the Amélie DVD and, oh lordy, it is perhaps the greatest thing I've ever purchased. Oh, Amélie, je t'adore!

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Weezer concert tonight! PNC Bank Arts Center, NJ! This should be quite amazing, and I'll blog about it tomorrow.

Damn, I haven't blogged in a long time now. I actually hadn't thought about it... sort of forgot that I had one, I guess.

I went down to Wildwood last Saturday to hang out with some friends down there for the July 4th long weekend. We went to this water park, called Raging Waters I think. Anyway, it was fun, and I was able to crank out a poem while I was down there.

I saw that The Doors movie with Adam when he was home, and it was kind of enlightening to see Jim Morrison go from unknown wandering poet to famous star, just because he started putting his stuff to music. So, I'm writing a song now. I have the chorus so far, and it's pretty poppy. I was also sort of influenced by listening to Avril Lavigne's album everyday since it came out last month, and finding out how she got her contract just by sending some song samples out to different recording studios.

I wonder if I'm supposed to feel bad because my chorus is pop-ish, instead of being cool and dark and whatever. I've never really had a problem with well-written pop stuff (evidenced by my Michelle Branch-Vanessa Carleton-Avril Lavigne young-girls-who-can-actually-write-and-play-instruments CD collection). But will I lose the respect of my friends? Will I be a sell out? But don't you have to have musical respect first to be able to lose it? And if this is my first song, do I really have respect to lose? Is it selling out if you've never become known first with different material? I don't think so anyway. The ability to find mass appeal in music is just as much a talent as anything else. So, if I'm able to achieve something this way, I'm going to do it. It's at least worth a try.

In other news, I've been watching a lot of Buffy tVS lately. A lot. I started watching the reruns on FX over winter break, and it turns out that it's a really well-written, witty show, and I am a snob for ever not watching it prior to now. I bought the first season DVD last January, I think, and had been watching the eps every once in a while over the course of the semester. But then the second season DVD came out last month, and I went right through it, and was freaking out when I didn't have anymore eps to watch, especially after the season finale which left off with, as other fans might remember, quite a cliffhanger. And the freaking third season doesn't come out on disc until next winter. I have this multi-region DVD player that I bought in London in December, and seasons 3 and 4 have come out there already, so I was thinking about buying those. I was going a little crazy I think, kind of a withdrawl, and I was ready for extreme solutions. But my friend Patrick reminded me of that wonderful internet thingy, and I've been on mIRC, FTP, and KaZaA Lite ever since, downloading like some kind of downloading machine. I have the whole third season and half of the fourth, though I've only gotten through about 3/4 of the third so far. I also got that Buffy The Musical ep from last season (the sixth), and I'm working on memorizing all the songs. Quite the addiction, pensez-vous?

The rest of the DVD front:
- Got Harry Potter and the PHILOSOPHER'S Stone from amazon.co.uk. It works on my multi-region player. They say "philosopher's stone" instead of "sorceror's stone." I really am a snob.
- Bought Black Hawk Down, WarGames, and The Thin Red Line from Best Buy at the "Preferred Customer Weekend." That's right: I'm preferred, and you're not.
- Just got The Royal Tenenbaums yesterday, also at Best Buy.
- Amelie comes out next Tuesday. It's been out in Europe for a while, and I was thinking about buying the French version, but I haven't yet. This became one of my all-time favorite movies when I saw it. I develop this goofy grin and euphoric high whenever I see it (I have it on my computer). It has a sort of je ne sais quoi about it, and I'm getting it the day it comes out.