Current mood: happy
(yes I realise that title is right dorky)
"Punk was the dream that would never come true..." I just read this line from a fellow myspacers blog and it inspired me to finally write something for my supposed 'zine I'm trying to make out of this myspace page. However because I'm lazy and unispired as of late so therefore nothing has been posted. But here goes... an attempt at something creative. My creative gene has been laying dormant for a few months now, I like to blame it on the job that I currently have that makes me feel as though I'm walking through his world as a zombie and has changed my personality so much that I'm beginning to hate the way I feel and act. I'm becoming a very bitter female. It's a very different world out here when you're not surrounded by what drives you and what you're passionate about.
Enough about why I haven't written anything... here it is. It's more of a rant than creative writing.
Last night I watched the new Rise Against video for Prayer of a Refugee. The video relays a message of fair trade. I believe in fair trade but to be honest it didn't impact me as intensley as Ready to Fall did. I honestly don't think any video will ever again have such an impact on me that I'll change my lifestyle. This is the video that was banned from Much Music. For those of you who haven't seen Ready to Fall, please watch it. If anything it's intense. The bulk of the video is images and video clips on animal cruelty including domestic dogs and animals that were not even recognizable as animals. I got probably 2/3 of the way through the video before I had to leave the room and compose myself. I've heard that the last third of the video isn't graphic at all but I still haven't been able to finish watching the video. I haven't been able to eat meat since. This is why Rise Against remains one of my favorite bands. Not only are they incredible musicians but they care. It's one thing to say you care about animal cruelty and children in war torn countries, it's something else to be able to make such in-your-face videos that force many to rethink their lifestyles.
This brings me to Rise Against's live show. Some of you might remember back in March 2005 (wow it feels like a lot longer than that) anyway Alexisonfire, Rise Against and The Fullblast played at UNB. I was super stoked for this show because I would finally get to see Rise Against live. Alexisonfire, yea they put on a great show but I had already seem them at least 3 times. Now I don't know if it was the sound guys fault or Rise Against but they sounded like shit and they weren't even entertaining. They looked bored the entire time. A shitty first time experience seeing Rise Against live. So when Jon Wood and I travelled to Montreal for the Warped Tour this year I was kind of skeptical about seeing Rise Against live again. I was hoping things had changed by now. It had been over a year and they had been playing a lot of huge shows since the last time I saw them. Here's hoping. I can say with confindence that they were one of the most entertaining bands I saw at Warped Tour this year. Maybe it helped that the crowd was huge and really stoked or that they had a lot more practice or that the sound guy at Warped Tour was a lot better than whoever was doing sound at that show in 2005. Maybe it was a little bit of all those things, either way they blew me away in that half hour they played and renewed by confidence in their live show. I also think the 10 year old kid rockin' out in front of me made me enjoy the show even more as well (that's going to be my children). There's nothing that sucks more than seeing a band live that you've loved for a long time and having them suck live. It's a huge disappointment and you try your hardest to like what you're hearing thinking that maybe your hearing is fucked but it's more likely that they really do suck live (or are just having a bad show). After all they are still only human and everyone is entitled to a bad day.
Banana
Currently listening : The Sufferer & the Witness By Rise Against Release date: By 04 July, 2006
