Catching Up... Sorry!

Holy hell, it's been a buys couple of weeks. We are in the midst of Summer 2009, and in a couple months I will be looking back to reminiscence, and it looks like I will have a lot to reflect on.

• Bash '09 was July 4th at Korinne's place out near Weston, and it was a fantastic time. I got to meet a few new people (Korinne's family, mostly) in addition to see fireworks and have a ton of fun outside. The whole event was a great success, and although I've said that three Bashes are enough, I might reconsider this position in the future.

• I've been searching for a use for my new Twitter account, and to be honest, I've been baffled as to what to do. I have a few "tweets" (I hate that when used as a buzzword, by the way) up, all work-related, but nothing consistent. I do believe that I may have come up with a decent use now, however: as a note-taking device. I have access to Twitter from anywhere (iPod, netbook, cell phone, work and home), and I intend to jot down quick ideas, notes and thoughts about fiction concepts or characters that come to me throughout the day. I can then periodically review these and compile them into (hopefully) future fiction.

• I saw Green Day in Detroit yesterday. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. While a good portion of today's music fans talk down on Green Day for abandoning their indie-punk roots and taking a calculated approach to their music (by the way, I agree with this), they sure as hell do put out music with fairly-universal appeal and put on an even better concert. Opening song "21st Century Breakdown" was as good as it ever was on the album, and dives into music 15 years old with "Minority" or back to modern-hit "Holiday" or "Jesus of Suburbia" were awesome. This variety of classic songs kept the show from ever becoming stale, and plenty of pyrotechnics and shenanigans from Billie and Co. proved to be surprisingly mature. Green Day are seasoned punk veterans who gracefully made the transition to influencial stadium-filling rock band. This is one show I would see again.

With that, I have to head to bed for another long day of work. I'm probably looking at another weekend of work, which sucks, but hey, whatever. B3 out.