Gradgeeated!
I done graduated! Yay me! After two long, hard, toil filled years at the NSCC I officially have graduated and have my diploma in my hands. I didn’t even want to go to the ceremony at first because I figured it would be hours of speeches, diploma handing outs and other assorted boring things. A night at home in my sweatpants playing Dynasty Warriors sounded like a much better option, but after threats of violence from classmates and sad looks from my mother, I agreed to go. And in the end, I’m sort of glad I did. I skipped my first NSCC graduation years ago cause I hated the progam and my band was going to be famous (…), and even though it ended up being the hours of diploma handing out and speeches, I found myself actually enjoying it (despite my best efforts not to). I guess I did feel a little bit like celebrating after two years, and seeing my instructor’s beaming faces as I walked across the stage (not to mention my mother’s) really made it worthwhile. That having been said, I’m still unemployed… lol. Doing my weekly job site hunt tomorrow I think, once I’ve calmed down a little from the excitement today. The best part? My mother got me Chinese from Fan’s to celebrate for dinner afterwards. And I got to have my Salt and Pepper squid. Nom nom nom.
We’ve been doing some great stuff at the studio lately, and we’re working on something HUGE that I cannot mention at the moment. We’ve done two shoots lately that are sticking out in my mind. One day, I told Anthony “If we ever get a lightning storm here we need to go out and get lightning pics.” Literally that night, we had one of the biggest lightning storms I can remember. So of course, Anthony and I piled into the car at 12:30 A.M. and started to chase down the storm. We got a few awesome pics, but this is my favourite. There were other shots that had brighter or bigger bolts, but something drew me to this one. I can’t explain it, but I love this shot.
The next was a late night shoot at Lawrencetown beach, just trying to capture starfields and scenery. We had a lot of fun doing these, and I think we might be attempting some similar stuff in the future.
And now since certain people have been bothering me to keep going with this, Day 2 of the 30 Day Song Challenge! Day 2 is ‘Your Least Favourite Song’. This one actually took a lot of thought, because there’s a lot of music out there I cannot stand. But rather than go for an obvious target (Nickelback, Hedley, Buckcherry, Rebecca Black, The Beibs), I chose to pick and artist that I actually sort of like, but just released a few god awful songs.
Now, I like Eminem. I find some of his songs very powerful, some humourous and some are just great tunes to dance to. Seriously, put on “Shake That” and I will be on the floor dancing like a redneck stripper on Springer. You all needed that visual. This particular song I think could have worked really well as a tale of growing up in a rough neighborhood, the perils of trying to raise a family while famous, broken relationships and sad children. And then it gets to the last few lines and it becomes a throwaway joke with a bit of cursing thrown in for good measure. Every time I try to listen to this all I can think is “Fuck, that stupid line is coming up at the end and it’s going to ruin everything.” So here you go ladies and gentleman, Mockingbird by Eminem.
