I'm just going to post my wishes of a happy 44th birthday to one of the best men in the world, Robby Takac.

Man, these guys are turning old.



Now, where is that dogtag.. AND MY T-SHIRT, OMG! Mustn't forget the t-shirt.

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed you will ask them 5 questions.

( Undah heah. )

I saw Wall-e today, aaaw. The visuals are amazing! And it's really funny too, haha. I love how people are even lazier "in the future". It wasn't as great as I've heard though.

I got my copy of Goo Goo Dolls Vol. 2 today. :D What's even better is that I've got the Deluxe edition, which was only possible to order from the official GGD site. I've been terrified of not getting it for a while because there's something wrong with my dad's mail account and thus we never got a confirmation mail. Then some days later in a messageboard a lady said she wasn't getting her because it was sold out when she ordered it, and that was just a couple of days after I ordered mine. It was dreadful, I tell ya. But I got it now and afiha,afj ♥ it just makes me happy.

Anyway, I'm off to watch the Red Rocks concert :D Nighty!

1. My Russian teacher is possibly the coolest teacher I have ever ever ever had.
2. I still like my class..
3. .. but I feel really stupid, and it's heartbreaking. I've always been good at school, now what do I do? I'm afraid to get bad grades, but I'm more afraid of feeling this. It's not a feeling I'm used to, it's hurting me, I can feel it like a heartache. I'm afraid it'll end up with me doing something stupid.

[edit] Fuck Marilyn Manson and his music for making me cry. *goes to silently dissolve in a corner*

[edit #2] I think I need to talk to some of my friends, but it's so trivial, it's not really a problem. I shouldn't be having issues with this, I love my school. I don't want to bother them with this. Tiril's gonna call me in 15 minutes or so, since we haven't spoken face-to-face in three or four days. I don't want her to hear I've cried. I need to get a hold of myself.

I feel really lonely.

[edit #3] Goo Goo Dolls are magic - I put on some and they, if not cheer me up, at least work as a tranquilizer.

We haven't gotten our internet yet, and the connection to the ones I'm leeching off is bad. Interneting will be resumed on the 23rd, hopefully. That's when we're supposed to get it, anyway.

I'm working on giving my icon batch a total makeover. I have a ton of icons I want and only room for 15 D: LJ should expand it to 20. If having unlimited space for icons is one of the pros of having a paid account, 5 icons won't matter much in the grand scheme of things.

Aaaaaannnd my picture with the Dolls cuz I can't contain my excitement about it. When I stood there I was so OMG WHAT TO DO WHEN ARE YOU TAKING THE PICTURE HOW DOES MY FACE LOOK? and I've been walking around thinking that my smile looked totally fake. Turns out it didn't. I dunno what the hell John is on, but I love his expression xD ♥ I've edited it, but only the red in our eyes. My eyes didn't have an iris or anything, they were just all over red. It was slightly scary, to be honest. I look totally ridiculous, try to ignore that, eh? And as you probably can see, my hair has faded quite a bit.



Gah, the picture's grainy. I resized it in rich mode, not photoshop. Well, lesson learned. Right now I was just anxious to get the entry done before the 'net decides to die on me. Fixed :D

Hay guys and gals! We just arrived here in Beatles-land Liverpool like an hour ago, perhaps less. It's raining. I'm currently at the SAS Radisson, annoyed by the English keyboard where all the stuff is at other places that what I'm used to. Also annoyed because the internet is weird and doesn't let me log in to check school admissions, which is scary. Norwegian friends, you might just find yourself getting an SMS from me to fix that stuff if I'm not home by the 20th. Arrival at home is yet to be determined.

Anyway, funny story - when we arrived at the Midlands Airport mom talked to this Swedish guy who had a bit of knowledge as to what was smart and not that smart regarding taxis and taxi fares and all that. We ended up taking the taxi with him, and thus splitting the bill. Drove around a while, trying to find the place where he was supposed to be dropped off at (the taxi driver actually didn't know where it was, but we had a fixed price deal sort of thing, so it wasn't a problem) before we started on our way to the centre of Nottingham. This meeting with the Swedish dude was probably one of the best things ever to happen to me, so I'll thank him buttloads if I ever meet him again. Hell, I'll kiss his feet.

I was really kind of bored and looked out of the window, where I see a hat which looks terribly much like Robby Takac (bass player) of the Goo Goo Dolls' hat. Turns out that him and Mike Malinin (drummer) as well as an undisclosed female whose face I know I have seen before and their touring guitarist/keyboardist/saxophonist (is that a word?) Korel are strolling down the street, checking out the sights. I'm later told that I screamed "Oh my fucking god!" very loud, though I cannot remember this myself. The cab driver pulled off to the side of the road and I ran after them. I cannot possibly explain the feeling of actually seeing them in real life and so close. It's like meeting your adopted child.

They were SO nice. I was blabbering stuff like "Oh wow oh this is not real gosh wow" and they were asking me how I was and asked whether I was a listener and I told them that I was hardcore and that girl said she liked my hair and wow :D They didn't seem put off by the way I approached them either, probably because they didn't see me running like a madman down the street and over the road to catch up with them. I told them that I'd see them in Liverpool and that I had a Meet & Greet, and then I let them walk on because I really think that they (and celebrities in general) should be left alone.

Was floating on cloud of happiness rest of that day, until around 9 PM, when I started crying outta happiness because I saw them play. You see, we checked whether there were any tickets left to the gig in Nottingham earlier that day, there was, and I somehow got my mum to buy us three for that one too. I will probably do a better review of that when I come home, but let me say this; Robby did recognize me from the stage. He touched his hair as in a gesture of "Ey, blue hair!" and smiled this huuuge smile at me. Was totally awesome.

Also, the band has never ever made more sense to me than that night. There has been a general disliking towards their 2006 album, Let Love In, because it has a very different sound than any of the other albums they've made. I have never been one to hate it, but I'm more partial to some of their older songs. Anyway, John held this speech about that life gives you shit and that he was happy that the band could help those who had had a rough time or multiple rough times, and then they started to play the song Better Days, a song I've never really liked that much, and I started crying. It made so much sense suddenly, and what he had said was so true for my case. I have never been happier than before I started to listen to those guys; I owe them so much.
It actually made so much sense that I cried through four songs they played straight after each other (those songs also happened to be some of their most soppy ballads).
Their performance was so intense and just amazing and it was a very very small venue. I didn't think I'd ever experience that.

All in all, this just happened in ONE day. ONE. I can't wait to see what happens next, y'know. And I'm madly exited about Friday :D

And I'm terribly sorry for making such a long post. Man. Hope you're all good, and I'll try and drop by to comment etc. soon.

I'm leaving for England on Tuesday :D Landing in Nottighamshire, taking train or similar to Liverpool, trudge around there for two days and then; meet the friggin Goo Goo Dolls. IIIIIIH! I'm so excited, the reality of it has finally hit me. Or, at least it feels more real than what it did a week ago. I started counting down when there was 88 days left. Now it's 7 days to go. I've got butterflies in my stomach. *faliling around*

I need to get hold of If by Mindless Self Indulgence, No, Virginia.. by the Dresden Dolls, ***** by Fall Out Boy, maybe the Alien Ant Farm albums and other misc. music-things. Oh, and and the Host by Stephenie Meyer. Mustn't forget the books.

The internet is as unstable as it has been the few days I've lived here. It's a source of great nuisance. It doesn't help my insomania either, I sit up late at night trying to get online. I slept a total of 30 minutes this night until I decided to get up around 8. It's really exhausting, and I believe I've caught a cold because I haven't really slept normally since before Hove. I did sleep a bit around 2 P.M. but I tried to keep it to a minimum, so I'm really tired tonight and will fall asleep right away. At least, that's the plan.
Ugh. I just do not want to be sick when I'm in England. That would be a bummer.

Happy Independence Day to my Americun fwiends! And a happy Goo Goo Dolls day in Buffalo, New York..

I'm looking for new icons. Again. I fell head over heels in love with the Joker when I watched Batman earlier today, I need an icon of him. Comics = ♥

:O

"Congratulations! You have won a pass for the Goo Goo Dolls meet and greet on 7/11 in Liverpool. Your pass and other information will be waiting for you at the Will Call booth at the venue; please be there when the doors for the box office venue open. All meet and greets tend to take place approximately 1 hour before the show but can occur as soon as the doors to the venue open. Instructions as to where to meet will be inside the pass envelope at the will call booth. Please remember - the pass is for you and you alone, and you cannot transfer your pass.

Inner Machine Staff"

I sobbed like a little girl.
My life will be complete at the age of 15. Isn't that amazing?
I need to start planning gifts.

( Pictures of my blue hair )

I have my oral exam on Tuesday, so anything computer related otherwise than looking for stuff about Israel/Palestine will be put on hiatus. I am SO happy I got Social Science.

I'm so tired of school, though. I'm only still actually caring about that I do my "homework" because of the thought that school is soon over and done with (at least for two months).

GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT BY NOW YOU PROBABLY GUESSED IT BUT I'M GOING TO SAY IT ANYWAY:

I HAVE TICKETS TO A GOO GOO DOLLS SHOW IN LIVERPOOL THIS JULY. YES.

I AM INSANELY HAPPY. I CRIED A LITTLE BIT, NOT AS MUCH AS WHEN MIKE ANSWERED MY QUESTION, BUT THAT IS PROBABLY BECAUSE IT HASN'T REALLY HIT ME WITH FULL FORCE YET.

:D

I CAN'T WAIT. ONLY 88 DAYS TO GO. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I AM AWARE THIS IS AN ALL CAPS-LOCK POST. I NORMALLY DETEST THAT KIND OF THING, BUT I THOUGHT THE OCCASION CALLED FOR IT.

HOPE YOU ALL ARE EXPERIENCING A TENTH OF THE HAPPINESS I AM FEELING NOW ♥!

OH. I FORGOT. FUCK.

Today's the official Goo Goo Dolls day (they've got two, actually. This is the less known one of them, but whatever).
Proof:



Huzzah! I was going to make a cake, but since I forgot, I didn't. Oh well. I've spent the whole day watching Goo videos and I've worn my dogtag today, so there's aplenty of less devoted ways I could have not-celebrated this day.



I am eternally grateful for discovering this band. Their music has done so very much for me. However much of a cliché I'm going to sound now, they really changed my life around. I am a happier individual since the birth of my Goo-fanaticism, and they really and truly have a place in my heart that I believe will be their special place forever. There's a huge difference between them and any other band; I either listen to music, or Goo Goo Dolls.

I'm aware that I talk a lot about these guys, probably so much that you all are pretty sick by now (especially you, bokhylle. Dear, you have no idea how much you listening to me means). But honest to God, I care about them roughly as much as my mother. I cried when Mike answered my question, I cried when I saw Before It's Too Late on TV this summer, and I will most definitely cry if I ever see them play in concert (which is a possibility, shitshitshit! I'm maybe going to Liverpool this summer to see them). They have a nearly fucking picture-shrine on my wall.
They evoke such strong strong feelings in me, I can't think of any band that has ever done that to the extent that they have before, and I've had my share of obsessions.

They even make me sit up late making a stupid entry about how much I love them on the day before my mock exam. Mission: Get to Bed Early failed. Oh well, whatever. This gives me more pleasure than sleeping 30 minutes to an hour more (although I'm willing to bet that I won't think that tomorrow morning).

I am on a pimp-mission.

The Way We Do It

Awesome concept for a community, maintained by aaskie and bokhylle.

GO JOIN!

Anyway. Been really really busy just this week. Had my last math mock exam on Tuesday, then on Wednesay I had to sit up to half past twelve and write a book report on The Catcher In The Rye, which I hadn't finished, and then had to write something for a sort-of presentation for today and sat up late yesterday which wasn't necessary after all since my teacher is sick. And I am sitting here now. Should go to be, really. Have French thing tomorrow and test in P.E. Ack.

On a happier note: I've acquired the genius that is the newest CD by Panic At The Disco, Pretty. Odd. Everyone, go out and buy it. It's so so brilliant, and I really think it's a more of mainstream sound to it. The last record was amazing too, but this is less weird, despite what the title might indicate.
And I've bought Goo Goo Dolls (First Release) by guess which band. Had to pay somewhere around $50 or so, but worth it considering that the CD is out of print, and that there's like three left for sale at Amazon, where I bought my copy. I'm just really nervous that I won't get it. I've heard so much about people who buy things and never recieve their items..

I do talk a lot about music, don't I? I'm sorry, I should post a bit more about myself. Just don't have the time right now.
Hope you're all doing well! ♥