March 19, 2016

I actually got up kind of early today. Still not early enough to get me ready for going back to work on Monday. I ended up reading through the rubric and glancing at my license review but I didn't actually make an effort to edit it. I did, however, work on the flyer for my video tutorial and with some input from my friend, I think I came up with the final layout. I've also been running through what I might say in the video. All part of the process. I'll start working on an actual script soon.

So I was a kind of productive today but I also spent a lot of time playing The Division. It is definitely one of those games where you're on your way to a mission and then do twenty other side quests and random things on the way and may never actually make it to the original mission. It also takes quite awhile to level, which makes me wonder how many hours these streamers have had to put in to already be close to or at max level. At the moment the max level is thirty but that seems incredibly far away.

Tonight I watched the Ultra Music Festival livestream again. The surprise of the evening was Hardwell bringing out Craig David, because they apparently have a new song together. I didn't even know Craig David was still making music. I bought one of his CDs back in high school or college but I never expected something like the Hardwell collaboration. And it's a good song. Craig David can rap really fast, which is something I was also not aware of.

Speaking of new music, Babymetal has a new music video out for their song “Karate”. I like it. It's an interesting video and the song is just as catchy as all their other stuff. After I watched it I went back and listened to their other songs because it has been awhile. Female lead singers in hard rock and metal are not that hard to find. Three young Japanese girls leading a metal band seems fairly unique. I've never actually looked for other bands like that, so there might be a bunch, but at the moment, Babymetal remains unique to me. I was intrigued by the concept but they won me over with music because it is very good and incredibly catchy.

Okay, I followed a link after a Babymetal video and found a group called Band-Maid, that is an all girl Japanese hard rock group that wear maid outfits. Unlike Babymetal, they play all their own music. They are much more of a traditional rock band, where Babymetal is more like a metal band fronted by three girls from a pop group. I'm three videos in and Band-Maid has won me over. They kind of remind me of The Pretty Reckless but a little harder and with more guitar solos.

And now I have fallen into a rabbit hole of Japanese girl music.

Tomorrow I want to do things. I'm going to wake up “early”, hopefully, so that I can actually fall asleep tomorrow night. It is currently after two o'clock in the morning so early might be a stretch. We'll see. When I do wake up, I want to read through my license review and make sure I have covered everything in the rubric before I submit it. My assignment anxiety always peaks right before and immediately following turning the assignment in. I don't like it. I would also like to maybe finish sewing all the bookmarks I started over break. Or at least one or two. I have so many. It would also be nice to maybe figure out how I want to do the layout for my video tutorial. I had a few ideas today and I'd like to see if any of those will actually work. There will also possibly be a little playing of The Division if I can get everything else done. My goal is to end Spring Break on a productive note.