Dredg! <3

Sunday, as mentioned in my last blog, I had to work form 3 to close. Which is usually anywhere between 11 and 12, as the doors close at 11, but there's some more work to be done after that.
Had a pretty decent, fun night, in which I was responsible for a lot of things as Pierre went out the door (that man works more hours a week than any doctor would recommend). Worked with Pierre and chef Dana and had a nice and relaxed night in which I could do every daily task I needed to do while we were still open, and did some managerial work after the doors were closed. Got home shortly after midnight and went to bed straight away as, on monday, I had to work at 10, and the AT&T guy would come over between 8 and 12.

Luckily, he did before I went to work, and I set him up with what he needed to do, and I headed for work. Did a little 10 to 6:30 (PM, I'm sorry if I start confusing people, but I've gotten used to that, I guess) which was nothing special. Just there working with everyone, doing nothing special apart from a little administrative task for Pierre, and headed home. Set up the internet at our place, which took me long enough, but for a first try, setting up the entire connection and network, figuring it all out, I think I did a nice job. I managed to get it secured with a key, so that it's just for our use. And the best thing, I'm the only one who can change that key, so if people in the house really piss me off, I'll just disconnect them by installing a new key. I'm pretty sure they don't even read this :D
We hired a movie in the meantime, The Grand, but we didn't even finish it. Such a lousy documentary-like movie with all the wrong jokes in it. I think the guys hired another one to see instead but I went upstairs, enjoying my internet, and trying to catch up with all the TV series I missed over the weeks. I still have a lot to go at.
Wanted to head to bed early enough as well.

And I did that because tuesday I had to work from 7 to 3:30 (I keep writing tot instead of to, the Dutch version of the word). The day went by nice and easy, opening up was a bit hard, as it was quite busy, as most mornings are (that's what you get for having Starbucks coffee, partially, I guess) and with an even busier lunchtime, where we got a lot of guests from a meeting that went on break to visit us. I don't think that sentence really rolls as it should, but fine. I had a nice day at work and later had a good time going to a concert, with Mark, one of the bellmen.
Went to see Dredg who were supported by Judgment Day and Division Day.
The first band was Judgment Day [8,5/10] who have stringmetal.com as their website. It's a trio, consisting of one cellist, a drummer, and someone playing the violin. As they've said before, none of their songs contain guitars, but these guys are so incredibly skilled (especially the cellist blew me away) that it almost sounds like there are. Was a great, great thing to see live, but I could never to listen to this on CD, in another setting than seeing them on stage. Also, their drummer started out really weak to me, and seeing them one time has been enough for me.
Wonderful experience and really unique thing to witness, but that's it.
Next up was another local (California) friend from the Dredg guys, Division Day [7,5/10] who apparently played their last show with Dredg there at Culture Room. Dredg came up on stage to have a shot of alcohol with the guys in the middle of their set, and honestly, from that point on, they got better. The last three songs from the band really impressed me, but wasn't enough to make me think any better of the start of the concert, which, in a way, was a wall of noise to me without anything outstanding pounding my eardrums.
Then the band where I came from. I had been planning to see them live at Pinkpop (I think) two years ago, but that plan never worked out. This night I had to spend only 15 bucks on a ticket to see them instead of 60 euros to get to the festival to see them though. And it was closer too!
Dredg [10/10] really swept me off my feet in all ways. Drummer going off-record with some of his beats, but they all fitted the songs perfectly, and on top of that, he also played piano with one hand, and drummed with the other, on two of the songs. Those things just impress me.
The guitarist, who does all the magnificent work on all beautiful Dredg albums, really hit everything and it sounded all great to me. The bass just completed the perfect music for me, and the range of vocalist Gavin was amazing, live. They played 50/50 songs from El Cielo and Catch Without Arms, and added two new songs, which also sounded amazing, and really Dredg. Best show I've seen here, and among the best I've seen, entirely.

That's also mainly what I've done on wednesday, after I had a reunion with the people from my orientation day, where they tested the knowledge we had about the resort and such, and could say anything we want in regards to the training. Not many improvement points were mentioned while I guess there clearly are more, for some reason. It's also a bit of a personal thing, because when I agreed with someone, Georgi did oppose. Those little things just make it hard to come up with a general training standard for us.
Got updated on Prison Break and Californication completely, and started watching Heroes too. I hope I'll get even on Heroes today before we'll play soccer tonight.

Just had a talk with my dad on Skype, and will talk to my mum like that later. Should be nice :)


Here is my Dredg live footage!