Belated MGMT (oops meant to post this months ago)

     So I went to see MGMT in the Olympia Theater a few weeks ago with a few friends, Cillian (who I've known since he was 3 weeks old) and Lilli (who I've known since she was like one or something like that). It was fucking brilliant, they played loads of songs off of their first album, which is, of course, the best by far and it was great fun. I managed to lose my voice within half an hour of MGMT coming on stage. The warm-up band, Guards, were really good. They were some American rock band I guess, the girl danced very oddly but as a band they were extremely good. Here's the lead singer/guitarist guy: 

They played for maybe 40 minutes and they really were great, after that we had about a half hour or twenty minute wait for MGMT, in which I noticed this massive cowbell they had! They actually used it for one of their songs. 

I'm not sure who the girl that was playing it is though. Anyway they were brilliant, we got into the pit (the bit right at the front) so we were really close to the stage (much to Cillian's distaste). They played really well and even those songs from the albums that I don't much like were amazing. I think the best bit was when they played kids which was wonderful, I really loved the whole show and, as far as I know, so did my friends. I'm just gonna stick in a few pictures now. 

That last one is of this UFO thing they had flying around during the song 'Alien Days' (I think that's what it's called), it flew over the crowd and stage it was awesome, it was like remote controlled or something so all in all it was a great gig and totally worth not my own money but someone else's for sure (my mothers).

     My friend from Finland was one of the reasons I haven't been on (she was over for a week, it was 

Sorry

     I'm useless at updating the blog, I just kinda forgot about it I guess... I don't know why I forget, I do quite enjoy posting stuff up here and imagining that people actually read it. It's just kind of a place for me to vent to be honest. At least I'm not as bad as Weronika who still hasn't posted a single thing on her new blog. My friend from Finland came to stay for a week yesterday, she's in bed now though, as I should be (well I'm in bed but not asleep, obviously). Her first day here started off great, first we went to my GP (doctor) and then to hospital for multiple hours to see if my hand was broken (it wasn't). We had to walk to both in the lashing rain so from about 9.30 am to about 2pm we were sitting in soaking wet clothes in horrible doctors offices and hospitals so that was shit. We got home and hung out beside the radiator for a few hours and then we went to town and we got various stuff (she got a top and a CD and I got new earphones, they're bright yellow!!!) We also went to a demo for a little while which was nice but pretty small. So it was an alright day, pretty good if you disclude (I know that's not a word, piss off) the medical shit. Wow, this is a boring post, sorry about that. Umm, I'm sure I can tell you something to make it vaguely more interesting... My hand story really isn't that great, Weronika kicked me in the hand on Saturday and the bone seems to have popped out of place slightly and left a gap between some joint in my hand. Basically my hand is super painful especially where there's this little bump on the back of it. It also affects my wrist so I can't really do anything with my right hand (including typing). Using the laptop in general is very difficult because I just feel the urge to use the hand that hurts like something excruciatingly painful hurts (aren't I so good at this). I may take some painkillers so I can get to sleep actually cause this is pretty bad. Ok I'm gonna stop whining now and go listen to The Strypes or Jake Bugg with my amazing new earphones.
     Cya,
     Ruska

YouTube failure

     So the YouTube thing didn't exactly work out, Weronika came over we recorded ourselves for like twenty minutes and then she had to go and I started editing. Five minutes later she texted me telling me that she wasn't allowed to make YouTube videos, I dunno why but it's the kind of thing some parents would have a problem with, so whatever. I tried making one my self but didn't really know how to go about it, so nothing yet, soon enough though. 

     Bye,

     Ruska

Bullshit Religion

Religion is shit, simple as that. My school is a Catholic one so at the start of each year we have this opening mass and a closing one at the end of the year. These are pretty much the only two times in the year when the whole school are together as one, so that's cool, I guess. Other than that the mass is shit but this year particularly so because of it being our centenary and all that. So we had the archbishop saying the mass which I guess is a big deal (there being only two of them in the country) but it really didn't change anything much, although I'm fairly sure it was longer than usual. A few of us in our year who were atheists or of different religions kind of got together to try and get out of going, it was a futile attempt but it was worth a shot. So we went to mass, after we remembered that a teacher went back to check the bathrooms after everyone left to make sure no-one was hiding out there, we decided that we would sit together in a group somewhere and not participate in the slightest while still remaining respectfully silent (it was the first mass I've vet been to where I haven't gotten into trouble for talking). It was our way of saying we respect you enough to remain quiet but don't believe in your religion so we won't take part in it but won't stop anyone else from taking part. Which should be perfectly alright and we talked to a teacher just before we went in to see if we had to take part (basically just letting them know that we wouldn't be) an she said that we didn't so we took her word for it, knowing if we were given out to we could refer back to this as a defence. So the mass was grand, my ass really hurt from sitting still for two hours straight, I genuinely didn't move anything but my head more than a tiny amount. At the end of the mass when everyone was told to stand for the archbishop leaving we remained sitting as we had before, I mean there was only five of us just there, if we hadn't been on the aisle I doubt anyone would really have noticed but I'm glad they did. After he had gone past, at this point I'm going to tell you that he acknowledged us with a small smile clearly with no objections, one of my past German teachers came over to us and started yelling things like 'have you broken all your legs?' and 'how dare you be so disrespectful' at us. Which is ridiculous because we were doing nothing wrong, through that we just didn't say anything and the second she was out of earshot we started giving out about it and continued until a while after we got back to the school.

     Bye, 

     Ruska

Weronika

     There's an angry rant about religion coming up but for now I'm just gonna tell you that Weronika has blog now called the TheSugarpuffBlog.blogspot.ie so check it out if you wanna (nothing up there now though). We're gonna make a youtube video today so I'll tell you about that then.
     Cya,
     Ruska

In Defence of Jake Bugg

     There's some scandal about Jake Bugg which is basically (from what I saw on Tumblr) that he had sex with some fans of his, which I agree isn't the most amazing thing he could've done, but it is his choice and I'm pretty certain the girls definitely not objecting (why would you),  so why is this a scandal? Why are people making such a big fucking deal out of something like that? I mean think about, if there were hundreds upon hundreds of attractive people of the gender you're interested in (dunno of you're a girl or guy and then you could also be gay, I'm keeping the options open) declaring their love for you and throwing themselves at you, you'd find it hard to resist. Also he's 19 from my knowledge of teenagers they tend to be horny a lot [even more so the older they are, as in teenage-wise(does that make sense?)], I mean I know I am (god, I hope this won't be the time a parent or family member decides that they should look at the blog). So Jake Bugg is a teenager with a sex drive who fucked a few girls who were, as far as I know, about his age. Whatever, who gives a fuck, it's just stupid shit that's completely irrelevant to your life and doesn't actually matter. Sure there'll be a few idiots who complain about it but I don't care, not really. So, why the fuck am I writing this post then? Because of the fucking idiots that say stuff like 'I try not to let it bother me but I can't help but feel this sense of disgust when I listen to his music now' and other shit like that. I mean that's just bullshit, seriously think about it, why the fuck do his actions have any effect on his music (which is bloody amazing). I'm going to use Justin Bieber (I spelled that wrong again but apparently the iPhone can spell it now) as an example, I hate him as a person because he's a jerk and tries to force his beliefs on his fans ['I believe abortion is wrong and think all my fans should think so too', it's not word for word what he said but pretty much it (I can't remember quotes that well)] but his music are of no consequence to me, same as One Direction, I don't give a shot about th and I find their music vaguely annoying but they have nothing to do with me. So Jake Bugg, you either like his music, or you don't, simple as that. You could hate him as a person and be absolutely in love with his music and to be honest he probably doesn't give a shit if you don't like him. So just get the fuck off my dash with your bullshit. 

     Also I can't help but wonder how this came out, did the girls boast about it online or something? I kinda doubt he did it himself and I guess it'd be a pretty big bragging right to have but could you not just do it among your friends rather than put it on the internet where anyone can find it and blow it out of proportion like was done here, I mean come on. Didn't they see this coming? Whatever, I'm done, I'm just gonna ignore the bullshit, got me pretty pissed off though, needed to rant a little. So I'll leave you with a picture of the lovely Jake Bugg. 

Tschüss, 

Ruska

'You've exceeded your daily post limit.'

     Have you ever had that sense of despair when you're doing something, that feeling that you just want to die and don't care anymore but everyone seems to hate you and nothings going right? Even if there's someone that obviously cares there, even to some extent. If you're in school that feeling of fuck this I'm not doing anything, or when you're cleaning or something. That feeling of just wanting to burst into tears and let go of everything but not being able to for whatever reason. Like all that built of stress or anger just comes bursting out and even though you know that what you're thinking, saying or doing is stupid and irrational but you can't control it. I hate that, I get that and I feel like shit for days afterwards, like it hasn't quite worn off but you have to keep it in more because you're back to, more-or-less, the same person you were before and that person wouldn't do that so you can't either. Do you ever feel that people's expectations are just too high, they just expect, because you act like this usually that you'll be like this always, no matter what. My whole "I don't give a fuck about school" personality just gets dull occasionally so I make an effort, sometimes, but I can't keep it up so, now that I've given up on that people still expect me to care and do the work that I have no interest in doing, when I don't I get given out to, obviously, but I just don't give a fuck anymore. Why is it that there's always that amount of shock when the teacher is shouting at you and you don't respond, when they're getting pissed at you and you just don't give a fuck anymore and you're more amused than scared or guilty. Everything's just bullshit.

     So, I wrote this yesterday when the below happened on Tumblr... 

This is why I spend so much time on that website, it stops this kind of thing from happening outside of a controlled environment.  I figured out how to start reblogging though so I was ok and stopped doing this (also went to Boojum for burritos). In history now, watching a film about Stalin (man of steel). There was this guy called Sergei Kirov who was assassinated but every time someone says 'Sergei' I always hear 'Sir gay' which is extremely confusing to hear in the middle of History class. Anyway, I just remembered that I'm probably not meant to be on my phone so I'm going to head now. 

Bye, 

Ruska

Bored In Irish

I'm in Irish at the moment, we're doing the past tense I think. It's really boring so I decided I'd do this instead. I've changed the email address because I really hate hotmail and can't be bothered checking two emails, I just never did. So my email is ruska97@gmail.com now if you wanna email me for any reason. Seriously, any reason at all, including boredom or whatever you feel like, I have far too much time on my hands anyway. We have this open day today so we're getting off early. A few of my friends are staying to help out. It's actually quite funny this year, there's this whole industrial action thing the teachers have going that started yesterday so as of yesterday they can't stay after school hours. This means that it's pretty much student run for the first time ever. Which I think is pretty awesome really. Anyway I'm not doing anything on that, I've just gotten off school (I didn't get this finished in Irish) and I'm heading off soon. I'm sure I meant to say something more but can't remember anymore, so bye. Oh wait, just remembered what it was, I've decided that I'm going to start making YouTube videos. Also Weronika might come back or at least start a blog linked to this one. Also she may join me in making videos. 

Cya,

Ruska