vale[ blog ] diary of the last hollow soul

I had high hopes. AC/DC is not one of my favourite bands, because most of their songs are the same, but i still know all of their old albums, and even listened to Black Ice—once, and that was more than enough. Still, as old school rock'n'rollers, i expected them to deliver a frenetic show, making me want to jump all the way to the stage and sing full power. Tremendous fail.
First, there was no show. At all. Hardly any visual effects, the lights were way too simple and/or not matching to provide any real experience, most of the projected effects were simply lame, the stage equipment, such as the intro train, the sickly disgusting Rosie doll, with the exception of the cannons for the finishing song For those about to rock (which, in my sense, should've come first), looked totally low quality and off. Bassist Cliff Williams and rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young were standing all the time beside the drumset, playing, only going in front to their mics when they had to for backing vocals.

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Today after an afternoon of pretending to practice the songs (it wasn't going nowhere as well as i wanted to, though i can play most of it, just mess up the rhythm all the time, and considering i'd be the rhythm guitar, that's quite troublesome), having a really filling lunch and watching the seventh episode of the fourth Skins season, which i must tell you all, is very shocking, like very, but i'm not ms Scoledario (i was surprised that she dated O'Connell irl as well) to spoil everyone, you should just watch it, so after all this, i hurried off for Shibuya. I didn't know where that Club Quattro was, but after finding it, i realised i've been in that building (although in the bookstore of the first floors) earlier.
This was my second High and Mighty Color concert. Since the last time, i got to know more of their songs, so in the roughly ninety minutes they played tonight, there was hardly a song i didn't know. The show was great, the setlist was very powerful with a bunch of new songs, according to band members some songs having been written just for this gig. Of course they played their greatest hits (Pride, Ichirin no hana), and some that are not so much of popular hits, but are closer to me. The atmosphere was good as well, lots of jokes and laughs, which with the music, made this show what it was: great.
One thing that surprised me a lot was that both guitarists played on seven-stringed guitars. I hope they have transcribed for six-strings as well.

Between two tries at the song i'm learning, i decided to write about playing, games, on the computer, with other people. Usually we play by grouping together in a (common) room and then either with cables and a router, or me creating an ad-hoc wireless network for the purpose, or the combination of the two (which, to my surprise, works flawlessly as well). This way the only problem is stuffing that many people in one place, because even if we're playing in a common room with big tables, fitting eight-ten people there is not easy. If it's a normal room, then it gets difficult over two participants.
A high-power wireless network could be a solution, but apparently the structure of the building is inappropriate for that. At home, i could sit in the living room with my laptop and browse the net via the shared connection of the desktop computer – with at least two walls in the way. Here it's not working, even though people can see the network, for some reason they can not connect.
Or, a virtual network. The most popular is definitely Hamachi, which i use as well. It doesn't take much: install the little program, join the network and it's as if we were connected via lan. True, the speed depends on the internet connection and even then quite limited, for games it's still all right. Also, voip programs like Ventrilo can provide the speech freedom that even lan games lack (you can't go shouting hey he's alone let's gank him! with all the enemy sitting around you). Setting up a Ventrilo server is easy as well, i managed in about ten minutes with downloading and configuring. Also, it works across Hamachi-like virtual networks.
Also, there won't really be a chance once we move out of the dorm and will live far away from each other.