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Where in Midland Gate do you work?

I work at SpecSavers, which is actually really interesting. It’s wonderful when you get someone who comes in and has had trouble reading for years but didn’t want to admit there was anything wrong, and the look on their face when they put their new glasses on and can read clearly again is priceless. It’s nice to do something that actually helps, rather than selling people things they don’t need.

How old is your girlfriend?

She’s turning 19 on Tuesday, but I am scratching my head a little over why anyone would ask someone this. Is it meant to be a loaded question? An attempt to pry an opening into an insult of some sort? And if you’re genuinely just a curious bystander, we have enough interaction on here for you to have likely noticed her page, which has her age on it. I don’t take any offense to you asking, I’m just curious about your curiosity, that’s all. Have a good night!

What are some of your favourite movies?

For all their somewhat recent elevation into popularity, I still don’t think I can go past a Studio Ghibli film for just being heartwarming and leaving me feeling positive and at peace. A long time ago, I wrote in my About Me on Myspace: “i think simple things are the best, and tea + blanket + ghibli film + empty house is probably the closest I’ve come to true happiness.” And for a long time I decided that was wanky and pretentious as all hell, not to mention a more than heavy handed hyperbole. But you know what, for all that it is those things, the sentiment buried in there is still a good one. They just have a knack for being just the right thing in any given moment.

Apart from that, I like George A Romero zombie films and any other really well done apocalypse style thrillers/horror films. I also like clever films like Synecdoche New York or more recently Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and comedies with good writing and good twists, like Burn After Reading. I don’t really have any particular taste with films, I just like well written films that make you think or move you, mostly.

How are you/How's life going?

I would say that I could sum the current climate up with an “I’m alright.” There are always positives and negatives, light and shadow, and right now I’m feeling pretty content but there are always pressing concerns. I feel a little time-poor and I’m still dealing with recent events with leaving the band, but there are a lot of wonderful things going on as well. Overall, pretty good and I have some decent direction but there’s always a few things ready to anchor your heels and keep you from getting into a full sprint.

Someday, In The Event That Mankind Actually Figures Out What It Is That This World Revolves Around, Thousands Of People Are Going To Be Shocked And Perplexed To Find Out That It Was Not Them. Sometimes This Includes Me.

My page here is pretty vacant, but feel free to ask me anything you like. For those of you who are friends, I apologise for being so out of touch these days.

(Source: ssgl)

This personal story is told from the perspective of satellite engineer and vocalist Michael Dafferner, who is a member of an unknown “math-core” metal band called Car Bomb. In 2007 Michael ventures out on his first U.S. tour and discovers that performing in an unknown band playing an unknown genre of music is not the ego boosting experience he was hoping for. The next year Car Bomb is offered a tour with the goth-punk groups Gorgeous Frankenstein and Bella Morte who offer the prospect of playing for large groups of people. Several thousands of dollars in debt and dozens of wasted vacation days later, the band finishes its disappointing tour. Finally, in 2009, Car Bomb is offered a tour with the well known and respected bands Gojira and The Chariot. During this tour Michael learns what it would be like to live out his dream and the costs associated with making that dream come true. Includes interviews with Lamb of God, Gojira, Richard Christy and many more.

This is an hour long, but worth the time if you have absolutely any interest in alternative music and its production whatsoever. I really enjoyed watching this because the bands involved are actually pretty decent, especially Last Chance To Reason early on in the film, and yet it paints the situation completely as it looks to anyone outside the community. Really interesting and really insightful. And what the more experienced bands have to say about it is just as interesting and inspiring too, as the film develops and evolves into something more positive.

For me, I can’t answer the question for myself yet. I once thought I knew what that answer was, and then I lost it somewhere along the way. Something tells me that I’m just not meant to know what that answer is yet.