KyleKyle’s Blog

I feel like my interest in the whole goth/industrial scene is becoming rapidly re-invigorated. For a long while I’d been a rare guest at Death Guild and other such pit stops…. My knowledge of the music scene had even begun to wain a little…. but damn, all of a sudden I can’t get enough of it again… Went to Death Guild a couple times, Folsom, the Cruxshadows and baam! I love my boots again and I’ve spent all my free time listening to new stuff…. So here’s where I’m at:

Stromkern - Perfect Sunrise, most addicting track ever.

Peter Heppner - The singer from Wolfsheim has emerged from all this lawsuit garbage with a solo album. It’s like Wolfsheim with less poppy synth and no Artist - Track announcement at the beginning. Strange. But I think I like it.

Mind.In.A.Box - Soothing, mellow, nice. Good completement to artists like Neuroactive.

Iris - New album, mostly a mix album, but I’ll take it.

Bigod20 - Industrial covers of Madonna from the 90’s, where its at…

Fixmer & McCarthy - Deep as hell. It’s gonna take me a while to get my hands around this band and come out with a valid opinion. But damn. I like.

Also of note: Sero.Overdose, Fictional, Rotersand, Unheilig, Regenerator, Din Fiv…

Basically, I knocked the crap out of my “Music Wants” list over the last couple days, and I’m so excited to dig into all this meaty goodness…. And go to more clubs and stop around. Goodnight.

Cassidy and I just got back from rocking out at the Cruxshadows show…. What great fun, wholy shit. I danced on the stage in my sexy tight pants and boots…. Hotttttt! Hurray! I’d also like to mention that the new guitarist is like the hottest thing I have ever seen in my whole life. Now I’m eating apple pie that I made last night reflecting on my second awesome Cruxshadows live experience. Great job!

As for Ayria, well I take back all the not nice things I ever said. She was so much better this time around! She sang well, she tried really hard, and it was very sweet. She gets thumbs up again! I gave her a hug after the show, she deserved it!

So yeah. Awesome night. Love DNA.

And I really will. Starting right now, 3am on a Thursday. For reals yo!

Thoughts:

Chelsea vs. CRFGJKHK Cluj = Sadface. Pull it together boys. Score a goddamned goal at least, even if you concede one.

Elsewise, Derek and I decided to make our Sunday soccer outing permanent, and I’m really going to try and force that into practice. I even bought cleats.

I need to figure out how to edit G2image so that I can insert normal sized pictures into this blog from the gallery. And I need to put the 10 pictures I’ve taken in 2008 into my gallery. It’s funny that 2007 could involve me taking thousands of pictures, and I could count the number of pictures I’ve taken in 2008 on my left hand. Maybe I’ll pick it up a bit in the next few days. Doubtful, but maybe. I need to work on this blog more. I bet Gallery, wordpress, and and all the pluggins need an update.

I must say, I’m damn proud of the banner on my blog. It still makes me happy. I hope that kid is okay, him and his sling shot.

I never set up an anti-spam system in my wordpress commenting, so my comment queue was flooded with spam, to the tune of maybe 4,000 comments. Yuck! So now that its fixed, I’m really going to start writing again. Really! Like a phoenix rising from the ashes… and not some dumb Harry Potter phoenix either, a bad ass phoenix that could sneeze that Harry Potter phoenix right back into ashes.

I feel like something isn’t quite right. Everything should be just peachy keen, but something feels missing. Even now as I try to write about it, I can’t quite say what it is. Perhaps I should just go to work and pretend like everything is great, business as usual!

Remind me how awesome its going to be when I have my own. I’ve been playing with a 3 year old named Theo lately who belongs to my friend Becca’s friends. What a super hilarious kid. I’m in no way thinking of knocking anybody up anytime soon, but someday with the right girl, we will spawn the most badass little people this world has ever seen. It’s all about the parenting.

See, I was in Dolores park the other day, and I constantly overheard parents telling their kids to be careful, and not to do things, and to be safe, and all that, no matter how benign the things they were doing. Don’t you think this constant voice of safety first could damage kids mentally? This is why we have so many cowards and hypochondriacs.  Parents should be telling kids to have courage, to take calculated risks, to be adventurous! These things are important! This is why I hate how all playgrounds have been made ’safer’. Dangerous play equipment teaches kids their own limits! It gives them mettle at an early age! But this is the great thing about parenting. Everyone gets their own chance to teach their own kids how to live, and I’m going to get a chance to do it my way, and that way will be totally awesome. TOTALLY AWESOME in caps even.

The stay at home father theory: I’d be totally happy raising kids at home and letting the woman work. I don’t understand why women hate all this cooking cleaning taking care of kids stuff. It sounds kind of awesome. Especially if someone I love pays for me to do it. Obviously I’m going to get my doctorate and all that, but how cool would it be to be Dr. Kyle, stay at home scientist! Now I’m just ranting

I’ll do the soccer bit first. Leg 1 game 1 of the Champions League happened Tuesday and Wednesday. Chelsea tied Olympiakos in Greece 0-0 and Arsenal tied Ac Milan in London 0-0. This is very promising for me and sad for Cassidy because it means Chelsea gets to beat up the Greeks in London and Arsenal has to salvage their game in Milan. Mwhahaha.

Acrobaticals! I’m totally in love with my Chinese Acrobatics class. I’m already planning on increasing my intake of body punishment next semester by adding a Stretching Intensive course and Aerial Conditioning.  My acrobatics teacher says this will basically turn my body into a monster and I’ll be able to do lots of cool things. Already I’m getting better at standing on my hands and what not. Seriously, Circus Center, I totally reccomends it!

Battlestar Galactica is an awesome show! WATCH IT. And play close attention to the Cylon Sleeper agents. They are among us! Right now! Seriously. My life has strange parallels to Helo’s.

And St. Valentine’s day happened! Many of you probably rocked the pillow fight, I decided to abstain this year for a variety of reasons, including timing, and a lack of a pillow. I did have a date though, we ent out for dinner and had lots of good conversation and I suspect a lot of fun. It has only become complicated since then however, which is a shame. Who knows… I never seem to. My dating strategy needs to be somet— Hahah Jewel just came up randomly on my iTunes, but the shitty Jewel from that Album she purposefully made bad… Damn you Jewel — something along the lines of being awesome and just letting it happen. My attempts to make anything work on not work never seem to have any effect at all I’m totally running out of time to discuss these things… but there’s more to come in the future, I assure you.

So this past week I’ve gone to two shows for bands I’ve been hoping to see for something like 5 years. 2 in the same weeeeeeeek! It was amazing!

De/Vision - I love De/Vision with all my heart. I like to call it romantic man music. They played a great set, an updated version of “Your hands on my skin” which is totally hot and awesome, and it was on St. Valentines day which made it pretty nice. They were very dancey, very friendly, and I’d see them again in a heartbeat!

And One - And One was just two nights ago on Tuesday. Hot Damn! I brought Cassidy and met up with Kimber and Bruno there. They rocked the fucking house and we didn’t stop bouncing till they finally left after a huge set (except for Kim who couldn’t handle the awesome’ness of Getting Closer and had to flee to the outside world).  I love the androgynously sexual stage show, the sly winks and giggles, and the huge energy these fellows have. BADASS! They certainly cemented their position in my top 5 bands for years to come with that show (not that they’d ever really been shaken anyways).

In a few weeks Iris is coming to DNA, which will be great too. I will totally fuckin be there!

What a nice weekend! On Friday I went out and had a very nice time. I’m not gonna get all jinxy and discuss it, but sufficed to say I went home with a big smile. Patxi’s for excellent pizza, yummy ice cream, and Meet The Robinsons, an awesome little disney flick. We’ll discuss this more after this coming weekend perhaps.

Cassidy finally went and saw Cloverfield without me thank god. I didn’t like Blairwitch, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t like Cloverfield. The silly review in the onion did it for me. Assholes, all of them!

In the soccer world, Arsenal pulled farther ahead of Chelsea and ManU again. Bleh. Good for Cassidy, bad for me! Werder Bremen managed to not win as well, so it was a shafty weekend for my sports teams. And screw the superbowl, could have watched it, totally didn’t care.

Hummmmmm…. Thats it for nows!

What an adorable movie. I recorded it a while ago and finally got around to watching it after acrobatics today. Heels look like a difficult prospect, but I did like the line in the movie about how wearing heels activates/accentuates certain calf and thigh muscles that also indicate readiness for mating. I never knew that!