Arche first impressions & other stuff

      So I figured I would write this post now while I'm semi-awake :P  

     I had such a long week last week it was unreal.  The previous week was mostly long and hectic because of jury duty, my step-sister staying the weekend, and other people visiting.  By the end of last week I was totally exhausted, and by the time Sunday came I was barely function-able I was so tired.  I probably should consider getting vitamins to help with me being so tired all the time.  But in this case I chalk it up to it just being a long week.  I'm almost done with most of my Christmas shopping which is good.  :)

     I've been trying to get in touch with a friend of mine, but she hasn't been available.  I've been thinking a lot about our friendship lately, and I'm thinking that we're growing apart.  She moved away several years ago, and it doesn't look like she's coming back anytime soon.  So at this point I've been considering that it's time to cut the chord with her.  I feel like we're different people, and when I'm always the one giving , and she's always taking  I don't think that's a healthy friendship at all.  I feel like I'm the one putting in all the effort, and that it's been for nothing.  So eventually I will just stop calling her, and we'll end up growing apart, which is fine with me.  We truly haven't been that close in years, and despite what she thinks, I don't consider her my best friend.  As I get closer to the big 30 I realized how important it is to not hold on to human relationships that don't improve my life at all.  This is something that I've been thinking about for a while lately.  
 

     I just finished listening to the new Dir en grey album, and I have to say I'm somewhat impressed.  I will say that the album isn't better than Uroboros, but it's a huge improvement from Dum Spiro Spero.  Despite all the songs being very short for Dir en grey standards, the album as a whole feels too long.  I do think I need to listen to it again to get a better grasp on how I feel about it as a whole.  I do think that a bunch of the songs sound amazing, and are some of the best songs they've crafted in a long time.  There are some songs though that I thought were rather bland, and that did nothing for me.  Anyway I'll probably listen to it again to make a better judgement on how much I like the album or not.  Also I forgot to mention that they did a PV for "Revelation of Mankind", that ties in a plot from their earlier video's Saku, and Kodou respectively.  The blonde guy in the video was previously the kid in the Saku video who murdered his parents.  Since it's been 10 years he's just gotten out of prison, and going back to his life.  He encounters some kids who are being abused by their parents, and in turn shows them how to become like he was in the past.  So much for subtly Dir en grey.  Still doing that crazy serial killer stuff in your PV's I see...