So now, my blog is the index.php of striped-socks. I decided to follow the trend, but I also realized that yes, indeed, the blog is the thing most people are interested in. Nobody cares about "welcome" pages anymore. We want to go straight to business.

Another change is the house. Yesterday we already moved some things! This means I still have a wardrobe, but no content.. And also, no more CDs in this house!

Then there’s school, which has started again, yesterday.. And tomorrow I have my favourite subject as a starter: physical education. Blergh!

But yeah, hopefully I can make more changes to this site [like a new, better layout, and an improved content!] and make myself and everyone happy.

Right now I’m pretty tired so I’m off to bed. Toodles!

"I am a fucking work of art!"

Well, at least Marilyn Manson says so. I just want to show off my Patent Pending DIY shirt.

I might put up a "tutorial" part for crafting, I am not sure yet. Buuuut I might also sell my things. I would make a totally different site for that but who knows if I’ll be able to just stuff all my junk up here and get the traffic that I’d love..

Either way! This shirt was fairly easy to make, as you can see. Just a pizzabox, scissors, spraypaint and some tape needed. Oh, and a shirt of course. I’m quite happy with the way this shirt turned out. The back I did with special textile marker so it won’t wash out. And the front was also ironed on [with a layer inbetween of course] after drying, so the spray paint won’t wash out either.

There you go, a tutorial in 3 seconds. But I must tell you, that night we made like 748974 shirts.. hahaha. Enjoy!

Well, I can show you the first pic in my new house, but a "before-and-after" update will come later, I assure you! I’m almost done with painting and will hopefully get the floor tomorrow, so maybe by tomorrow night I can spend my first night in the new house?

And other news: school will start on Wednesday! Blergh! Also, I need more traffic to my site. Lmfao no one reads this, it’s pathetic. But on the topic of school: my schedual is a mess, I have teachers and subjects that I shouldn’t have! This is my exam year and already it is starting messed up!

I’m excited for the new house, so beware for the next update!

Well, I finally added the screencaps to this site. I have been screencapping since last year so yeah, I had quite a few laying around. It’s not finished yet but you can take a look anyway.

Then there’s the guestbook, which is very simple and I’m still playing around with it. Damn you php for not doing what I want.

I’m moving tomorrow so there won’t be any big updates this week but you’ll hear from me, I promise :]

Seems every station, on the tv, is selling something, no one can be.

I totally love love love LOVE their newest album the most. I am in love with EVERY DAMN SINGLE SONG on that album. I don’t care if you say it’s too commercialised, it’s just gotten a bigger audience that’s all. The songs really touch me and that’s what matters to me. The songs really have a message and I hear it every time.

One song makes me talk to everybody about war, about guns, about the weapon industry.
One song inspired me to write a paper, to get a good grade in school.
One song made me see how shady the newspapers are, another about how bad advertisements are. I never really watched them anyway but reading about how badly they influence others just left me shocked.
And so on, and so on, there are meanings behind all the songs.

They are catchy, but they have a voice. And who cares that other punk bands don’t normally have videos out? Isn’t it great that a political band finally is heard? Finally gets the attention it should get?

Of course I also love the old stuff but I have to admit that this album just touches me more, the songs are all so great, the instruments are better and the vocals are better and the essays and everything and the tour and whatnot it’s all fantastic. Sure, The Terror State was awesome too but this is even a step further.

I know you all want me to shut up but I can’t. I can’t possibly tell you how deeply the video for This Is The End (For You My Friend) just touched me.
I really want to see them again, to be in the crowd and just sing a long, shout along, feel one with the people that I can relate to, that feel the same.

I AM politically active and I DO protest, I do care about shit and I do listen, and try to pass it on.
And still it saddens me everyday that people don’t think the same. People don’t feel the same.
So maybe yeah the songs aren’t about drinking beer and passing out. And maybe they don’t want you to smoke [[not even because they're lecturing but just because otherwise JUSTIN WILL DIE MMMMMK]] and maybe they tell you to respect each other, to stand up against things.

And maybe you hate them.

Because they aren’t the newest emo shit. Or because they don’t wallow in self-pity. Or because they don’t have grunt-y bits or hard bass lines.

But their lyrics are deep too, and their bass is the funkiest shit ever made and totally inspires me to play music so just listen for once.

I hate it when people are all “I’m openminded” and still they hate on a band because a] they’re “sellout” b] they make catchy music that everyone could listen to. I MEAN YOU DON’T HAVE TO GRUNT/SCREAM/CRY TO BE DEEP!

But on to the point:

I remember when I saw Anti-Flag live for the first time, January this year [[so sad I didn't see them earlier, sigh, my life is so much better now ;P ;P]] and For Blood And Empire wasn’t out yet.
But they still played some “new songs” and one of them was This Is The End. Seeing as all their damn songs are catchy I pretty much sang along with everything that night, even if I had never heard it, and so the same with this song. I clearly remember Chris looking at me [[I was practically standing next to the guy]] and singing and smiling and being like “heh she digs the song” before I even knew what the song was about.

So I watched it and when the words “This Is The End… of self mutilation” came on my screen, I knew it right away: Anti-Flag is the reason I listen to happy music. My happy music [[Sum 41, GC, SP]] all had turned emo over the past years… but now I had a new thing to hold on to.
They have enlightened my life for the past 8 months and I only just realized it. I found new spirit in politics, in trying to be vegan, in protest. They inspire me to do research, not only for school but also for myself, to understand things, to change the world.

I have always aspired to change the world. And because of them I know I can do it.

Then there’s the other, not so deep, side of the video: the live part.
It has 723749237432947 close ups of Dos, which is fantastic and makes me happy, but it also captures the life show in a superduper way – very close up and intense – and makes me excited for over two months. It’s going to be two extremely long months, but I’m going to see Anti-Flag live again.

Seeing Anti-Flag live, for me, is like Rob seeing Alexisonfire live. The rare moment of being truly truly happy. The being truly happy already comes whenever I’m at a show. But feeling like belonging there, like the right place to be, like knowing all the lyrics, like knowing what it is about, like feeling connected and just like having the best fucking time of your life, makes me the happiest person on earth.

I don’t think I can capture all this.
I don’t know why I wrote all this. But please just take a look at the video.
You can find it here.

Thanks.