Metal Reviews

Oh, that life of yours...

Have trouble waking up these days. Spending the day running errands with the lady, then resting before waking up at like 8am to drive down to the GWAR-BQ tomorrow. FUCKING PIG DESTROYER!!!

I wish my parents were rich so I could be a freeloader. Fuck this working for a living.

Maybe I should go for a picnic.

Admit it, one of those two is yourself.

oh man in that case it was with my three favourite people!

i'm turning into a sweaty dude :( underwear was damp after playing tennis today. aging sux

Picnics are pretty awesome. Nothing beats some sweet tea and hot dish out in a field.

Except the bugs.

It's called a picnic blanket, bro. It's not like a fucking cartoon where the ants invade immediately.

You obviously haven't experienced a Canadian field.

mosquitoes eat u nom nom

gf dressed in a schoolgirl outfit for me today. This is clearly the best of all possible worlds.

At the end of August it'll be six years since I started reviewing for this website. Pretty amazing.

And it's been on a steady decline ever since.

I remember when you started writing reviews.

o man !

Heh, one for the grandkids, that...

For serious!

2007, 'twas a callous year, and the scene of metal was in need of... a saviour.

I just checked my RYM join date and I've almost been an internet music nerd for a decade !

Just wondering if that is Ben Affleck in Zads new avatar.

Made it to Montreal. Now to commence house hunt. Slightly nervous, slightly excited, slightly homesick. Apparently my dad cried after he left the airport and I've only seen him cry twice :(

leaving Portugal tomorrow evening. i'll be in Paris for one or two weeks and then my company will send me back to Brazil, this time for a whole year (before this it was 2 months in Paris and 6 months in Brazil).

the thought of leaving for a whole year makes me incredibly sad... i was sort of excited the first time because i had been job hunting for over a year and was anxious to start and travel again too, but this time i'm leaving Lisbon more satisfied, you know. also, being here and in Paris in the summer made me realise just how shitty my life in Brazil was. not just the unreliable weather and godawful infrastructure, in fact i wouldn't care about that if it weren't for the overwhelming loneliness that i feel there.

i live in Guarulhos, a 1.2M person city 10km from São Paulo, but all my friends live in SP proper, and traffic+shitty public transportation make it impossible to go there on weekdays. 5 days a week i have no human interaction after work. my work colleagues are nice and all that, but they're all 40+ and have kids (i'm 26) and we don't like hang out and party and shit. i get the feeling i'm the only foreigner there, as the internationals are usually based São Paulo. before this i underestimated how hard it is to build a social life when you don't have college or work (mine is a small company) to develop it sort of naturally.

on the plus side, spring is just starting there, weather will only get nasty again in June.

It's rainging on my day off as usual.. I was pissed at first but decided to make the best of it by reading and checking out some new music... I have been listening to Nhor's older stuff mainly.. This weeks review of the newest album got my attention.. I like what I hear so far.. All kinds of crazy shit happening in life lately, good to escape into some music for a few hours..

A bit stressed out about being a teaching assistant. I have to talk about logic for 45 minutes tomorrow D: