I’ve never been able to answer the question “who is your favorite band” before because I have NEVER had one. Now I do. Usually I’m not a fan of bands or celebrities in general, but they are no ordinary guys so I can bend the rules for them.

For those unfortunate souls who have never heard of Tokio Hotel, let me briefly fill you in on what you are missing with some bullet points:

- German band with songs both in English and German
- music style is a mix of rock and pop
- new album, called “Humanoid” (bought it, loved it), was just released Oct 6
- created their band when they were around 10 years old
- the frontman, Bill, and the guitarist, Tom, are identical twin brothers
- the drummer is named Gustav and the bassist is named Georg
- the twins just turned 20 years old a few months ago
- Bill is the most androgynous boy you will ever see IRL

Favorite Songs (click link for song + video):
World Behind My Wall
In die Nacht (wish this vid had subs so you could understand the sweetness)
Schrei (one of their first songs back in 2005)

Here are some random photos and gifs of them, taken at various times throughout the past five or so years. Damn, it’s so hard to pick which ones to post. I love them all.

And yes, before you ask, I am sure Bill is a boy. And no, he is not gay. He is, however, missing his true calling in the modeling industry. That boy is fierce.

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I’m not usually a shallow person, but Tom and Bill are pretty much the most gorgeous guys I have ever seen. They both have the most amazing smiles. Guys that look like that just... don’t exist. It is unreal. So yah, some people don’t like make up on guys and think it’s disgusting or freaky, but I swear Bill can pull it off better than any girl. Also, I have never found dreadlocks or cornrows attractive on a white guy but, wow, Tom… UNF.

I think they are the closest to anime characters a real person will ever get.

I love that even from the beginning Bill and Tom were very opinionated about what they wanted, they were involved in all aspects of their music, and they have never once sacrificed their opinions to make others happy. I love that twins refuse to have stylists and Bill has been wearing makeup and his own personally designed clothes since he was like 12 years old. I love the whole band dynamic and their ridiculously endearing antics. I love that Gustav will sit through an entire interview and not say a word because you can tell he’s perfectly happy to not be in the spotlight. I love the special bond between the twins and how they call each other their soul mates and insist they could never imagine not living together. I love how Bill is just so expressive, quirky, and sweet. I love that even with all the fame they still act the same as when they started out as a band years ago.

I really hope their tour next year comes somewhere close enough that I can go… like to Raleigh. Here’s hoping. :/

FFFF.

6 months since my last piece of posted artwork.
4 months since my last journal.
3,382 unviewed deviations.
I must be going for some sort of record in AWOL-ness.

Actually, I can’t believe people are still visiting my gallery at all anymore.

As you all know, Halloween is right around the corner, which also means my birthday is fast approaching too. Yup, on Nov 7, I will be turning 20 years old. I have been anticipating this particular b-day for years and I am more excited about this than turning 21. Psychologically this seems like a much larger jump than previous b-days. AND I will no longer be a teenager. Whatever that means.

I just really want to be able to tell people that I am 20 and see their looks of disbelief. I love confusing people with my age. I could easily still pass as 16.



I'm going have another journal posted within a few days.

I promise this time.

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Don't look at me like that.

A lot has happened in the past 2 weeks and I think now is about time I caught you all up. I’ll try to go in order here and keep it as concise as physically possible for me, by which you can expect a couple pages of rambling.

All right, so, I finished my first summer session. I can pretty much assure you at this point that I will NOT be doing that again. Why, you ask? Well off the top of my head: there’s nothing open on campus, the dining halls don’t serve meals on weekends (and what they do serve is utter crap), you have to go to the same classes every single day, and you never get a break or a way to pace yourself. The only good thing I can think of was that I had 4 of my guy friends there with me and we all lived on the same hall. Good times. Good times. I got a bit ahead with 7 more credit hours completed (of course all A’s in my 3 classes: Foundation of Graphic Comm, Biology and Bio Lab), but, yah, not worth it.

On the day of my last exam I moved all my stuff out and visited the Apple store… where I bought my first Apple computer, a 15” Macbook Pro. His name is Lucian. I may draw you his personification some time in the future. Oh, and I got a free 8Gb iPod Touch as a result, because of the “Back-to-School” promotion! As if they had to sweeten that deal anyway.

Also, is it normal to want to nuzzle your Mac laptop lovingly and coo sweet nothings at it?

The new unibody design is sooooo gorgeous. It is functional and simple and sleek. I fell in lust as soon as I saw it for the first time, around Christmas, and knew I would not settle for anything less.

I also love love love the iPod Touch more than I thought I would. I love the concept of apps and there are so many cool ones out there with absolutely breathtaking interfaces--although they are hard to find amongst all the utter crap ones. It’s like trying to find a piece of gold in a 20 foot tall trash heap which coincidentally has lots of fake coins made out of chocolate and plastic that look very similar until you actually pick them up and examine them thoroughly.

My absolute favorite interface on an app is either “Convertbot” or the word game “Lexic” which are both not only functional and easy to use, but a work of art in themselves. My most used app would have to be “Dictionary.com.” I love having a dictionary/thesaurus I can carry with me everywhere and look up new and exciting words (I usually can only do that when I’m at my computer). Why yes, I’m a nerd, thanks for asking.

The iPod, I realize, needs a name too. I’m working on it, but nothing is jumping out at me right now.



Actually I’m getting tired of talking about me and it has taken me three days just to force myself to write this much for some reason or another. I think I will wrap this up right here and continue with my cruise to the Bahamas last week in another future journal. I think that is best for both you and me. Contrary to popular belief, I do not particularly enjoy spouting endless monologues about myself, and one can only take so much listening to someone else ramble on and on about his or her exploits. Believe me, I know.

"We are vulnerable, but we don't want to be reminded of that. We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters."



Read this article and then try to tell me it does not break your heart. Try not to cry. I dare you. Read this and gain some perspective.

This, my friends, is what real writing looks like. What it feels like.

So the spring semester is winding down with final exams next week, and the last journal I wrote was commenting on last fall. That’s a long time ago in my world. I have been so busy this semester with my 22 credit hours that I have had almost no time to devote to other things. Well… that’s true and false at the same time. I have gone through a number of different “obsessions”, over varying lengths of time, between now and then that have taken up quite a bit of my precious free time. Let’s see, I will list a few of the most recent ones to give you an idea of the range of fandoms and genres they span:
One Outs:
      anime based on baseball and fyi I’ve never seen a
      game of baseball in my life
Akagi:
      anime based on the Chinese game Mahjong and after
      23 episodes I still have no idea how to play it
Harry/Draco pairing:
      pretty self explanatory I think and I have no
      idea where this tangent came from
Fight Club:
      saw the movie for the first time, looooved
      it (and sexy Brad Pitt in it), and will read
      the novel as soon as I can get my hands on it

And my current obsession for the past few weeks, drumroll please… DragonBall!!!

It’s odd that I hated this series and thought it was stupid when I was 9 years old, but at 19 I am in love with it. Go figure. I think it was mainly because the few times I did see it on TV I had no idea what was going on and just saw a lot of overly dramatic fighting that made no sense. Even at a young age I stayed away from anything I didn’t understand or felt like I could understand after a few minutes… and that is DragonBall in a nutshell.

But now with the new “remastered” version of DBZ, called DragonBall Kai, coming out in Japan because of the movie (which bombed of course) I can see it from the beginning and actually understand the characters and plot. I remember for the longest time I always got so confused about who was who and who was in what family. It never made any sense until now since the entire series spans a couple generations by the end.

I feel like I’m reliving my childhood right now, the way it should have been, by watching the DBZ from the beginning. Yah, I’m 10 years late, but better late than never.

Expect a crappy piece of fanart within 24 hours. It’s pretty much finished I just have to post it now.