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This is my fifth Fall semester in college, my fourth at Florida International University, and it astounds my how packed FIU has gotten. This year FIU admitted half as many freshman than they did last year and the main building was even more packed then I ever remember it. Of course, two weeks from now there will be much less people around (people drop classes, drop out, etc.) but for the time being it’s ridiculous. My friend was looking for parking for about a half an hour and gave up and went home… it’s that bad.

My first day was… blah. Nothing out of the ordinary, just class. So far none of my classes have assigned me anything, but that’ll change this Wednesday I’m sure. None of them seem particularly hard, but I just need to keep up and make sure to pass and not drop any of them, because doing so will prolong my already late graduation date.

The classes I’m taking are:

Religious Life & Vegetarianism (taught by a Janist nun!! How amazing is that!)
Ancient & Medieval Political Theory
Anthropological Theory
Social Choice Math

Anthropological Theory is at North campus, so I take an FIU bus over there and it only takes about 40 minutes. I like the ride, it’s quiet and gives me more time to read. Speaking of reading, Breaking Dawn is down-right amazing. Don’t worry, I wont give anything away, but omg what DRAMA. I’m more than half way done, and these little bus rides will hopefully help me finnish by Wednesday, so I can start on another teen vampier story Blue Bloods. I’m so gay.

Alright, so maybe they jammed a little too much, but they were still amazing. They mostly played songs off other their new album, Zeitgeist, but they added a few faves like Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Tonight Tonight, Cherub Rock and a couple of other well-known singles. There was a weird rendition of Heavy Metal Machine that they played, which I didn’t like because the original is my favorite song off of their Machina album. They ended it kind of weird, starting off by just jamming for a good twenty minutes, then coming back for an encore that consisted of childish songs I can’t remember, but it was cute.

My favorite part was when Billy brought his niece on stage and sang “Once Upon a Time” from their Adore album. Video below:

All in all, I’d say it was the best concert I’ve ever been to, which isn’t saying much because I’ve only ever bee to three including this one. I will say this: out of Marilyn Manson, Cher and Billy, Billy is the only one who sounds exactly the same live as he does on his albums.

I have more vids, which I’ll post after the cut. Bare with me, my camera is kind of shitty, my hands are shaky, but the sound is pretty good.

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So, there’s a scene in the upcoming film College Move that has the main characters visiting a gay fraternity house. The fraternity’s name is Lambda Lambda Phi… hummmm, doesn’t that look a lot like DELTA LAMBDA PHI???

College Movie - Gay Frat Party red-band clip

Last night was interesting enough. Adam and George bailed on the supposed party which then turned into a little get-together consisting of Sean, Joanny, Diego, Daniel, Gerald and myself. I got in drag, of course, and after thirty minutes of Gerald ignoring his guests by being on the phone–I swear, that boy is worse than a 16 year-old! she never puts it down–and Diego and Daniel (dating, once again, after breaking up for the millionth time; they’re worse than my ex and I) each playing pokemon on their DSs, Sean, Joanny and I went out to buy some alcohol.

We went to Tivoli’s liquor store near FIU, which is known for not checking IDs and having people who loiter outside and try to peddle drugs. I got the balls to go in, dressed as a woman, and believe it or not, I wasn’t shot! Yeah, the only people who seemed to stare were the women (whom I assume all knew I was a boy in girl clothes). The guys avoided looking at me at all costs and even held the door open for me when I was leaving. What gentlemen!

Oh, and in case you’ve ever been curious as to what my friends and I talk about at our little shindigs, here’s a five minute video I uploaded to YouTube. We’re just shooting the shit, talking about Barbie, Jesus and Racist America:

I’m gonna miss her so very much. I can’t believe this is going to be her last album (but I can believe it). The article says her last album will be with Hole… but I’m not entirely convinced. Regardless, Dirty Harry is pretty fucking hot in the interview and Ms. Love is fabulous as always.

EDIT: So, seeing as how there was no concert tonight and I haven’t had a drink or a hit in over a week, I’m heading over to Adam’s place for a little get together with my DLP brothers. That should be fun. I’m bringing my drag clothes with me, too. I really need some more pieces, I wear the same two outfits over and over again. The other two girl outfits I have don’t fit me anymore (I weight 30 pounds less when I last wore them, almost two years ago).

So, as it turns out, Fay is just a pussy of a tropical storm. The only thing going on to suggest there’s even a tropical storm hovering over South Florida is the wind, which isn’t even that bad. We’re used to the rain in the summer, and it really didn’t downpour, it just steadily rained all of last night. All this being said, I’m assuming The Smashing Pumpkins concert is still on for tonight and I can’t fucking wait.

I came across the most interesting article the other day that deals with gay sex sites and politics. Seems like a homo can’t even go on his favorite sites to cruise (manhunt.net, adam4adam.com) without having politics somehow involved. I first noticed this when I logged into my adam4adam account a couple of days ago and noticed there was an ad for Obama underneath your typical sex toy and porno ads. Then I saw this on homotron.net: apparently the founder of manhunt.net tried to donate to McCain and was turned down… surprise surprise!

EDIT: I was literally out the door heading for the concert when I received and email on my sidekick from some kind person who read my blog and told me the Pumpkins concert was rescheduled for this Thursday. Thank god he told me, my friend and I were this close to flooring it up to Boca Raton (a good two hour drive).

This bitch Fay better not fuck up my chances of seeing The Smashing Pumpkins tomorrow. I’m serious! If it’s canceled I’ll shit a brick and freak out. In order to keep my mind from the concert’s possible cancellation I’ve been trying to change themes on my website and incorporate all the old content to the new design. It’s a generic design from one of those free theme sites whose code I intend to alter in the near future, but I’m just too lazy to do it now and I really needed a new look to my blog.

Added some new things like my latests Tweets and a mini slid show on the sidebar, which I think is cute, but I have to do something with the color scheme and maybe make a nice design for the header. Ever since I stopped using my old Paint Shop Pro 7 and tried using other programs (like gimp or a pirated copy of Photoshop) I’ve given up hope of ever being able to use anything but PSP7. Gimp and PS just piss me off and I’m not entirely familiar with all the toll bars and whatnot (even though they’re almost the same as PSP7) but all the extra options and things kind of confuse me and put me off. I guess I just don’t like change and too many options…

I’m done reading Twilight and I just finished New Moon this morning, so now I’m on to Eclipse. I’ve had all day to sit and read but for some reason I’ve only gotten as far as page four. Maybe I’ve had a gooshy-vampire-romance-overdose in the last three days? Possibly, but I really did enjoy reading the first two books in the series, so it doesn’t make sense why I’d not be as excited to burn through the third book as I was with the others. We’ll see, maybe I’m just in some sort of a rut.

I have chosen the absolutely best day to start reading Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight. It’s one of those dark and rainy days with bursts of thunder and lightning and non-stop drizzle. The rain puts me in Bella’s shoes as she adjusts to her new life in the small town of Forks, Washington state. I’m a sucker for vampire novels and so far I’ve managed to stay interested–more than interested, a little obsessed, really.

There’s all this talk about how this series rivals that of the Harry Potter franchise, but I wouldn’t go that far. Ms. Rowling created an entire world and mythology/history that I haven’t come across in this series. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking the book(s) or trying to imply that Ms. Meyer lacks originality or creativity, I haven’t even read the entire first book to write a proper critique, this is just the impression I’m getting after reading only 90 pages.

In other news: I have a new affiliate! His name is Ethan and he’s a gay blogger/web designer. I really haven’t come across many gay armature bloggers. Five years ago, with my first domain (liquid-engineer.org) I found a bunch of gay guys with domains that blogged and whatnot, now I see mostly heterosexual women and a few straight men here and there. Wonder what happened to all the queers.

It’s been bothering me lately that I have such a small group of gay friends, and not only that, but they’re all from my fraternity. A year ago this really wasn’t an issue considering the active members in the fraternity were twice what it is now and there were different little cliques I maneuvered to and from. For example, three of the active brothers back then were total fashionistas and label whores (I’m a band shirt and jeans type of faggot) but we still managed to get along, and there was even a month in which I spent every weekend with them going out to dinner, clubbing or just hanging out.

Nowadays, with there being so few of us, I only really hang out with Adam and Sean on a steady basis. I’ll hang out with everyone else at parties and whatnot, but it’s not the same. We used to be a large group of clashing personalities and egomaniacs craving attention and now we’re just… I don’t know, but it’s just not the same. It’s no one’s fault, people just move on, graduate, or make new friends and there’s no stopping it.

I really do feel the urge to go out there and broaden my horizons a bit: make gay friends other than DLP. Don’t get my wrong, I love my fraternity brothers and most of the best memories of my life until now involve the fraternity in some way, but I need to look to the future. I’m going to be helping The Task Force plan this year’s Winter Party (I went to my first meeting last month) and I’m sure that will put me in a position to make new gay friends.

I would say I’d like to reconnect with my straight friends from high school, but I think the window of opportunity has passed for that. The girls are either married or don’t do anything but study and the guys are just out there doing their own thing. They don’t even hang out with each other as much as they used to. I guess this past year made them drift apart too.

Oh well, new semester, new opportunities! I’ll try my best to be as active in the gay community at FIU and in Miami as I possibly can while trying not to fuck up my studies too much, and we’ll see what happens.

PS: I can’t wait for The Smashing Pumpkins concert!
PPS: I really want to play Civilization IV. I got hooked on the demo.

A couple bits of exciting news (for me at least): I got my Hello Kitty check card and checks in the mail! I love Bank of America’s my expression banking. Yeah, the card and checks are uber gay, but they’re so damn cute. I never write checks, but I’m going to go out of my way to do so now. I’m going to be that guy in the visa commercials paying with a check and stopping all the merriment… until they realize they aren’t normal checks, they’re Hello Kitty checks!

Far more exciting than my new Hello Kitty paraphernalia is that I’m going with one of my good friends to see The Smashing Pumpkins on Tuesday, August 19th! After having broken up years ago the band is finally on tour again, but the quartet is only half of the original lineup. Billy (of course) and the drummer (who’s name I can never remember) are back, but James and D’arcy are still out doing their own thing. I’ve never been to a Pumpkins concert so I wont notice the difference, but it would have been nice to have seen the original lineup.

I hope a good portion of the songs played are from their older albums, seeing as how I’m not a huge fan of their new material. I’ll be spending the next eight days drowning my eardrums with Pumpkins music until I vomit. I guess I’ll give the new album a second try too, just in case I end up liking it.