It's 4:00 AM, and I am on a Metalocalypse high.

Awesome Thing #1
I just came from the Boston show of the 2009 Dethklok/Mastodon tour.  It was my first major concert, and my first metal show.  I might've enjoyed it more if the acoustics were better, I admit... but otherwise, it was effin' spectacular!  Brendon was AMAZING on stage (I know, big surprise), the music videos were mind-blowing, and?  I actually headbanged.  Okay, so it's not like that's never happened before — but still.

Awesome Thing #2
Besides getting me a ticket to the show, which was already pretty freaking amazing of her (*glomps liek whoa*), feraltoki gave me a deluxe copy of the Dethalbum II.  Oh, and a Dethklok teeshirt... with the horse from "Thunderhorse," my favorite DK song!  *ded from glee*

Awesome Thing #3
dethepisode just opened, and we already have 21 watchers and members!  (It's mostly thanks to tod_hollykim helping us get the word out, so many thanks and cookies to her for that.)  Looks like this thing is gonna take off after all, and hopefully it'll be as fun and awesome as the_ginga and I have hoped it would be. :D

By the way, guys: check out the community layout (namely the header).  And let me know what you think.  Even if you're not an MTL fan (and I know most of you aren't), I think you'll be able to appreciate it.  I'm pretty darn proud of this thing, if I do say so myself. >_>

Awesome Thing #4
Less than two weeks till new Metalocalypse!!  ...No, seriously.  CAN. NOT. WAIT.

*bounces up and down*



Alright, it's late... so I'm going to wonder off to bed now.  I think I'm just tired enough that all this excitement shouldn't keep me from falling asleep.  But don't be surprised if I'm still just as buzzed and gleeful tomorrow.  :DD

Metalocalypse people on my f'list... I know there's few of you, but you're there.  And I could really use you guys right now.

I'm having major doubts about the community I'm working on, dethepisode — the one I first posted about last summer.  I'm just not sure right now whether it's worth the effort, or if anyone will join, or if I'll be interested enough/have the energy to keep it running (especially if I don't find a co-mod).

But since the new season starts this fall — the time to make up my mind is now.


So, I'd really love someone to talk to about all this and hear your thoughts on the matter.  Sometimes that really helps, y'know?  I guess if you're not an MTL fan, but just a friend who wants to lend an ear or offer some advice, that would be great too. <3

Check it out!  A post that isn't birthday greetings or a rant.  Don't ever say I don't come through on my promises. :P


So, this morning (or was it early this afternoon?) I got a brilliant idea on how to find the solution to a problem I've been having with the dethepisode layout.  And it worked!  I found the issue and fixed it, and now the layout is nearly perfect; just needs a few minor tweaks and a header.  With luck, the community will be up and running by mid-July. &&&

(Do feel free to tell me what you think so far.)

Then I spent the rest of the day playing helper fairy to various people who posted questions about the original layout (by gossymer).  Because she has this policy about not answering questions on layouts older than a week or two,* but not everyone — including myself, at first — seemed to realize this.

Some of these people had the same problems I had had; others just didn't know that they ought to be looking for help elsewhere.  So I thought it might be nice of me to point a couple of them in the right direction.  I even offered to help this one person with a certain rather unwieldy free hosting service, which I myself had much aggravation from last week.  (I sure hope that one doesn't come back to bite me in the butt.)


I tell you guys all this not to brag, but to say that while randomly helping others is all well and good... what I should have been doing today was working out the details of my hostel stay and booking a flight to San Francisco for Azkatraz.**

*headdesk*  And it's nearly July.  Way to be another day late on that one. :\

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* Hey, I don't blame her.  Not every layout maker has time for individual questions (they're already taking a chunk out of their lives just to make the layouts); and there are plenty of communities on LJ where you can get coding help from the experts.

** Which, by the way, still has tickets left for only $130!  Anyone wanna go who's not already going?