Bands I've Seen Live/Bands I have signed

This is only being posted so I can move it onto my new computer b/c it wont read the original word file but feel free to look through it anyway

----BANDS IVE SEEN LIVE (if ive seen them more than once it will be in parenthesis) ~= ive met them, *= i have something signed by them : Madina Lake, Smile Empty Soul, Operator, The Exies, Say Anything(3~*), Flyleaf(2), Bullet For My Valentine(2), Papa Roach, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Wolfmother, The Killers, Trivium, Hellyeah, Atreyu(2~*), Evanescence, Korn, Sick Puppies(2), Evansblue, The Starting Line, Hurt(2), Saliva, Mute Math, Sum 41, Chevelle, Seether(2), Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Last Fast Action, The Feed, Ludo(5~*), Lucabrasi, Safetysuit, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Red, Theory of a Deadman, 10 Years(2), Coheed and Cambria(~*), Filter, Killswitch Engage, Shinedown(2*), Serj Tankian, The Birthday Massacre(I met the guitarist, Rainbow, and he signed my shirt), Mindless Self Indulgence (~*), 36 Crazyfists, Suicide Silence (2), Five Finger Death Punch, Black Tide(2~*), DJ Starscream, Airbourne, The Red Chord, Walls of Jericho, underOATH (~*), Machine Head, Mastodon, Dragonforce, Disturbed, Slipknot, The Boxmasters (Billy Bob Thorton's band-seen them acoustic met Billy Bob and had him sign my Mr. Woodcock DVD) Armor For Sleep, Hawthorne Heights (~*), Street Drum Corps, Ashes Divide, The Bravery, Chris Cornell, Linkin Park, The Chaotics(2~), Drive A, Ava, Wait, Red Line Chemistry, Miser, Brookroyal, Copperview, Saving Abel, Local H, Story of the Year, Apocalyptica, Puddle of Mudd, Oh My God, Building Rome, Family Force 5 (*~), Central City Heroes(~), Professor Hooknose and his Greasy Gits, Justin Finch-Fletchley (2*~), The Whomping Willows (2*~), The Moaning Myrtles (*~) Lauren Fairweather (2*~) Nina Jancowicz(*~), River Boat Gamblers, Rancid, Rise Against, The Expendables, Ziggy Marley, 311, Arcanium, Warbringer, Megadeth, Houses of The Holy(4), Steve Ewing Band (~), Angels & Airwaves, Gaza, Cattle Decapitation, Whitechapel, Job For A Cowboy, ____local band before TBDM, Arcaic, Goatwhore, The Black Dahlia Murder, Valencia, Saves The Day, Motion City Soundtrack, Armoured Bearcub (*~), Alex Carpenter [of The Remus Lupins] (*~), Lamb Of God(~* havnt seen them live though), From First To Last (* havnt seen them live) As I Lay Dying (* havnt seen them live)

Second Annual NaNoWriMo Procrastination

I am not doing NaNo again this year because I am a horrible person.

Last year was when I first found out about NaNoWriMo about 2 weeks before it actually happened and so I was a big wuss and like OH NO I'M NOT PREPARED I CAN'T DO IT. But I did tell myself that I would spend the whole year planning a rough idea of a plot and then I could do NaNo the next time.

It's the next time and I can't do it.

When I made the claim that I was going to do NaNo in 2010 I had not expected that the life as I knew for 20 years would change and that I would be going to a big fancy regular college and working and actually having a set schedule to live by. I've just been put into this schedule and I don't have a grasp on time management yet.

So my reasons are more legit than last year. I work 5 days a week on top of school plus I have my theater tech class that requires 36+ hours of outside school work so essentially I am working every day. Most of my "free time", that is not working, not being at school, not doing homework, and not doing anything essentially, is spent between the hours of 7:30-11:10 pm. Last year I had also not planned on reading 50 books in a year but after realizing I could do it I started that this year.

If I were not reading 50 books in a year I would more than likely be doing NaNo this year.

BUT OH WELL!

So what I AM going to do is write stuff ANYWAY because NaNo is about writing in general rather than writing to a certain point. I'm not going to keep track or anything I'm just going to gather writing "skills" and confidence. I DO enjoy writing. At least in the form of typing. I just like the feeling and sounds associated with typing really fast and putting thoughts in print as they come to you. (i hate writing by hand because I always get cramps in my hand)

So here are things that I am going to give up for 30 days November 2011:

• Recreational Reading (meaning not for school)
• A decent amount of internet use. Can't give it ALL up but I can cut back.
• Whatever social life I happen to have at the time. I will probably go out at least once in the month to relieve the tension or whatever, though.
• Becoming intoxicated. If all things go to plan then I will not have problems with this in the FIRST place by next year.
• Playing guitar. It's going to SUCK but I spend lots of free time doing it.
• Doing stuff with people from work. It seems that I am hanging with them more and more so I will need to cut back come next year.
• And the most important thing I will not do for 30 days next November is I WILL NOT PROCRASTINATE ABOUT NANOWRIMO!!!!

I like structure so I'm going to have to plan things out like this so I am comfortable getting myself into this situation. I plan on getting the No Plot? No Problem! book from the NaNo website store. (As i'm thinking about it I should probably get in the habit of using correct punctuation and capitalization when writing "formal" things, like blogs for starters). I had some notes written out last November when I had started planning this year's novel but I'm probably going to scrap them because I generally do not like something I have created after it has existed for a while. This is going to be hard for me but I need this, in a way. I have probably never done anything for 30 days straight other than becoming intoxicated and reading Infinite Jest. I have already embraced that NaNoWriMo is a great thing and I really am jealous I can't find the time to do it this year. But I'm going to do what I CAN. And what I CAN do is attempt to do more than nothing.