I know. I suck. But I have many things to say that I can't even comprehend. So, brace yourselves, people of the internet, for the good, the bad and the ugly a quarter of the way through 2012.
The Good: I've had some amazing things happen so far. The most exciting thing ever has happened, and after two weeks, it still hasn't hit me. But it will. What is it? Three names. And they are Simple Plan, We The Kings and The Never Ever.
Oh my God.
I've started catching the bus home lately, which is so much better than waiting around in town for mum to pick me up. And the best part is, my best friend in the whole wide world, PJ, moved to the school just down the road from me, and she lives next door, so we catch the bus together every afternoon. It's a lot of fun. Anyway, she started telling me about this ad on the radio about Simple Plan and We The Kings playing at the local RSL.
And I nearly died.
But then, at her birthday party that night, she had The Electro Kid- remember the first Underground Experience? Yeah, those awesome guys- play and it was amazing. We were talking with them afterwards and turns out Giles is going too. And we found out that The Never Ever were playing as well.
And then I died again.
I basically typed up a Powerpoint on my computer and had it all ready to present to my parents about why I should go. But I didn't even need it. I was allowed, we bought the tickets, and we're going on June 10 with some other friends. It hasn't hit me yet, but come June, it will.
I feel sorry for my friends.
The Bad: It's not so bad anymore, because it's DONE, FINALLY THIS MORNING HALLELUJAH!! It was exam week this week. Which is basically a week off school, so long as you turn up at the times you have your exams. The endless study for Maths was insane. Every waking minute it seemed I was spending studying Maths. I usually don't mind Maths too much, but I don't love it by any means, and doing statistics again after our assignment last year made me want to cry. The assignment was to count the number of letters in words on the page of a book. There were three pages. Of a novel. In small print. Yeah. It sucked.
The Really Really Depressing: I'm pretty sure the universe knows of my undying love for Short Stack ever since I saw them play for the first time on Rove back in 2008 I think. I have loved them for a really long time anyway, I pre-ordered every single one of their releases and stayed up 'till midnight one night when they released their tour dates for 2011. And then I cried because it was a week after I flew to New Zealand.
Now, it's all over. They've made their last release, SOUL, and that's it. Short Stack have "decided to call it a day," as they put it in the tear-jerking email I received two hours ago. No more concerts, so I will never go to one, and no more albums. No more music videos. No more posters on my bedroom wall than I already have (Trust me, that's a lot, but still nowhere near enough).
What gets me the most about it is that in their movie, the one I went to the premiere of, sat in the middle of the back of the theatre with two of my dearest Stackette friends, and laughed 99.9% of the time and cried when it ended. The live broadcasting crapped itself at the end, and we were just sitting in the theatre for what felt like ages afterwards. In that movie, they had a future. There was Art Vandelay, there was a track listing, there were sneak peeks of tracks that I was dying to add to my (now full) iPod. I waited and waited and waited, we'd seen them in the recording studio, and then it ended. It almost feel like there was no goodbye.
The last we hear of them is SOUL, a song which I fell in love with the second I pressed play. The video, the lyrics- "we're keeping the faith alive" is exactly what will continue to happen. I may never be able to sing loudly in my room to a brand spankin' new Short Stack CD, but I will keep singing loudly to both the ones I have. This morning, Back Of My Head, my favourite Short Stack song in the world, ever, came on through my earphones on shuffle. And the lyrics relate to the way I feel now that one of the biggest parts of my life is coming to an end.
SOUL- Short Stack:
You're saying goodbye just like in my nightmare. We're keeping the faith alive, I'll keep it all here in the back of my head.
We'll miss you, Short Stack. 2005-2012
Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo
