The One Late at Night/Very Early in the Morning

Sum*41 - Pieces

I tried to be perfect but nothing was worth it
I don't believe it makes me real
I thought it'd be easy but no one believes me
I meant all the things I said

If you believe it's in my soul
I'd say all the words that I know
just to see if it would show
that I'm trying to let you know
that I'm better off on my own

This place is so empty
my thoughts are so tempting
I don't know how it got so bad
sometimes it's so crazy that nothing can save me
but it's the only thing I have

If you believe it's in my soul
I'd say all the words that I know
just to see if it would show
that I'm trying to let you know
that I'm better off on my own

I tried to be perfect but nothing was worth it
nothing could ever be so wrong
it's hard to believe me
it never gets easy
I guess I knew it all along

If you believe it's in my soul
I'd say all the words that I know
just to see if it would show
that I'm trying to let you know
that I'm better off on my own

Okay, so I haven't been here in a while, right? Just figured I'd actually pay some attention to this site so it doesn't go to waste.

Anywho, the colour change: in all honesty, had a little bit to do with my current obsession with Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles. I bought Interview With the Vampire early last month and finished it after the first week of semester. It hooked me in so badly that I needed to get at least the next book in the series. As it turned out, I found both The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned; I finished reading both books last Tuesday. The books are crazy, in a spectacular, spine-tingling, hypnotic and mesmerising kind of way. If I can actually be bothered, I'll start looking for the next seven books. Gulp.

I hunted down the DVDs after reading the novels. I loved every minute of Interview With the Vampire; I was especially blownaparte (hooray for made up words, or in my case, words stolen from popular TV shows) by Kirsten Dunst's performance as Claudia, the cherubic child vampire who stole my heart in both the novel and the movie, and whose death was the only event to ever affect me to the point of making me contemplate whether or not the rest of the novel was worth trudging through. I could barely watch her death on film. Sigh. Terrific performances all around though.

I was definitely less than impressed with the movie adaptation of The Queen of the Damned. I loved the movie the first time I watched it back in December, but I realised it was only because I hadn't read the novel yet. The story was butchered so badly in the movie that at times I felt like the producers had a grudge against Anne Rice and wanted to damage the series' credibility. Not that it was a particularly bad movie, it just strayed WAY too far from the script in my opinion, so far that it tarnished the viewing experience. Now I understand why Juls and Ian hated X3 so much: you stray too far from canon, the cannon's gonna end up firing on you. Stick to the script, kids!

Also, felt like posting my unofficial Vampire Chronicles Soundtrack. The songs I put there just added something extra to the novels, and for me, personally, made the novels utterly unputdownable (I like that word, so here's hoping it actually exists).

Finally, added the photogs from the DCfC concert last month. I don't feel like posting much else; unless something important comes up sometime soon, I'm betting I won't be back here for another month or so. Anyways, later days!

- marty..

P.S. The song: was watching the clip on the way to Uni today, and it's been stuck in my head. Plus, it's almost 3:30AM, and I haven't done any work, so I need a way to procrastinate. As such, voila. Remember, kids: being perfect isn't worth it, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try anyway.

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