Azvareth

Bmw, yeah, the "funny bone" is what it's called. :P Yup. Hurt pretty good. // Azvi.

Probably when I was like 4-5 years old, and I was in my parents' bed, trying to teach my... teddybear to do a vault (again, I was 4-5 years old). Well, it went fine until I had reached the position where my head was where my feet were supposed to be, and vise versa -- because I practically just crashed down on my neck/head after that. I honestly thought I had broken my neck and I was gonna die. I tried to scream for mom, but I couldn't. But I managed to stagger to my bed, where I passed out. When I woke up, my mom gave me a bunch of cookies, soda and an icicle. :] Also when I was like 13, I got in a fight with this guy - and well, I attemped to punch him, he dodged it, and he just happened to have this concrete wall behind him. So I basically punched into it, as hard as I could. Couldn't use my right hand for weeks after that. Erhm, what the hell, I might as well tell you about this other time as well. I was in 9th or 8th grade I think. My eraser had somehow landed ontop of a locker. These lockers were like... 2,10 meters tall, so I had to use these metal cloth-hangers which were located near the locker to assist me. So I jumped, grabbed my eraser, and on my way down I hurt my elbow on one of the hangers... badly. You know this nerve you have on your elbow? That you barely need to touch before you begin to shudder. Well, I had hit that nerve really hard. So I tried to walk off the pain: didn't help. So I sat down on a bench, and I can vaugely remember my mate asking me if I was alright, before I passed out. I also managed to fall off the bench, face first into the rubber-y floor, where I more or less grazed half my face. I also had these seizures which weren't so pleasent. I kinda freaked out my mate for a bit. :P // Azvi.

Ummm. You misunderstood me there (even though I thought I put it pretty clear?). What I meant was, that it makes reading posts on this forum, a lot more interesting. But maybe that's just me. // Azvi.

Meh, I just know that this board would be godawfully (is that even a word?) boring to browse forums without signatures. The little images add something, that at least sub-consciously, makes it funnier to read all the posts. Also, it's the whole identify-ing thing. I don't know about you, but I tend to skim through posts a lot, thus I don't really catch peoples' names, so signatures help me to quickly identify people. Yup. I'm lazy like that. // Azvi.

Sweet room, Daan. That alienhead is awesome. As for my room... well, the digi-camera is currently in London, but if this thread is still active when I get it back, expect pictures of my somewhat new and very cool room. I myself love it. :P // Azvi.

Cheers! Yeah, it was insane. You could hear the people at the stadium making noise several kilometers away. And man, 56,022 people can be loud -- inbetween some songs, when we were shouting, clapping, whistling, generally causing mayhem, I took out my earplugs for a second, but I immediately had to put them back in, in order to keep my hearing intact. :P But after seeing the concert on tape, it's obvious that they didn't have any microphones placed out among the audience (which is also true, so it was some 100x louder), and the git to director managed to miss capturing several guitar solos, as well as the stuff Bruce did to pep up the audience; mostly filming the back of the peoples' heads or other stupid things. :sigh: Ah well, proves to show that you should really see Maiden live, not on radio or TV. :P // Azvi.

[disclaimer: if you don't like long posts with poor grammar, you should probably stop reading now.] Okay. Now you're probably thinking "umm dude, get a journal!"... well, the thing is, nobody reads those journals. And I'm thinking that this was a pretty interesting event, and I'm sure we have at least a few Maiden fans here, thus I don't see any reason why I shouldn't type and submit this. If anybody disagrees, feel free to do so via PM. :) Right, now that we've got that out of the way, I just got home from the show (it was yesterday, the 9th of July), so, for you who are interested, I'll give you some background info, some "station" info (i.e how Gothenburg was), and concert info (how the concert was, the setlist, supportband, blah blah). So if you're lazy and only interested in the concert, skip to the part labelled "Concert" in big, bolded letters. Background info: My mate's dad knows a guy who had some spare Iron Maiden concert tickets, so he offered him them; they obviously had to pay him however much they cost (which was 450 SEK, but my mate's dad made it 500 SEK as a sign of gratitute). They bought three tickets: one for the dad, one for my mate, and an extra one for my mate in case he wanted to bring a friend, which he did. Well, to cut a long story short, he picked me to follow with, since we've gone to a lot of concerts together, and always had a great time. However, the concert was in Gothenburg which is about 500-600 miles from Stockholm (~6 hours by car), so we had to book a hotel and stuff beforehand. Which wasn't the easiest thing to do, almost every hotel were fully booked, but fortunately we managed to find three single rooms in a four-star hotel, for the timid price of 700 SEK (and no, I won't bother estimating the american, euro or brittish value -.- -- but last time I checked, 7 SEK were worth 1 american dollar, 9 SEK worth 1 EUR, and 13 SEK worth 1 pound) for one night. But it was worth it, the rooms were great and we didn't have to bother with fixing breakfast the next morning, since they had a breakfast-buffet. So yeah, definitely worth it. Anyway, the six-hour drive felt like nothing, thanks to the car having a great AC system, it was literally boiling outside. They had also brought a bunch of Maiden albums, both live and studio ones, which we listened to the entire drive to (and from) Gothenburg, full blast. ;P "Station" info (excuse my vocabulary, I've barely slept anything): When we arrived at Gothenburg the first thing we saw was Ullevi Stadium, and outside around 200+ fans waiting, some 6 hours before the show started. It was a serious Maiden-craze in the town. Just about every person you saw walking down the street wore a Maiden shirt, every pub, caf̮̩̉̉, restaurang, CD-store and whatnot played their CDs, there were posters everywhere, they were selling Iron Maiden tour t-shirts here and there (they cost 200 SEK less, so we bought ours there). And most/all of the CD-stores had reduced the prize on all Maiden CDs + special offers, "Buy an Iron Maiden CD, get a poster, sticker or plectrum". I bought one and picked the Iron Maiden tour-plectrum. :P We walked around the town for an hour or to, buying a new can of soda or water each time we walked past a candy store or whatever. It was really, really hot! After that, we headed back to the hotel to fresh up, and get ready to go out eating and later head to the stadium, where the concert would take place. However, on our way to the hotel, we passed this other hotel, and what do you know, one of the guitarists stood outside, Janick Gers. It took a while for me to make the connection: "blonde long curly-haired guy signing stuff... hmmm...". Anyway, by the time I had made that connection, and was about to fetch something for him to write on, he hurried inside the hotel. Everything happened very fast... maybe 10 seconds or something, and he was gone. And he seemed eager to get inside the hotel though, probably not wanting to cause mass crowd of people wanting to speak with him, getting stuffs signed or whatever, so I didn't want to run after and bother him. Still... it would've been cool to have an Iron Maiden tour t-shirts signed by one of the Three Amigos. The concert A 360-degree picture of Ullevi Stadium (requires Java plug-in). We headed to it about 2 hours after they had opened the doors, since we had seats it didn't really matter (nobody used them though :P ). There was probably a 2 km long line of Maiden fans paving the way to the stadium, pretty sweet. Right, so after taking our seats on the - if you would stand on the stage, and face the crowd - right grandstand. If you've clicked on the above link, slant the camera to the left, and a bit up, and in the middle somewhere - that's our seats. So we saw everything pretty well from up there. After waiting there for about an hour, and the Stadium being half-filled with people, the supportband, In Flames, entered the stage. They put on a pretty great show, and it's definitely a really good live band. I can't really tell you their setlist, because I'm not really a big fan of the band, but two of the songs I know they did was "Clouds Connected" and "Trigger", both very good songs. They played for about an hour or so. Now more and more people began entering the stadium. 25 minutes later, at 9.15 PM, the fences on both sides of the stadium, closest to the stage opened, and the people with the "special tickets" were let in (they were allowed to the area closest to the stage, with a small fence behind them). They all ran as fast as they could to get as close to the stage as possible. A few even fell over while running. It was really cool to see. That was when the swedish TV channel SVT started broadcasting (my parents were taping it), and a few moments later, the band entered the stage. With 57,000 people in the audience. Here's the setlist: - Murders In The Rue Morgue - Another Life - Prowler - The Trooper - Remember Tomorrow - Run To The Hills - Wrathchild - Revelations - Where Eagles Dare - Die With Your Boots On - Phantom Of The Opera - The Number Of The Beast - Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden BONUS: - Running Free (<-- if anybody here was there, or if you watched it on the telly - this was without a doubt the best song that evening. The entire audience sang along as loud as they could) - Drifter - Sanctuary As you might've noticed, they only did old Maiden songs. After the first song, Bruce announced that they were only going to do songs from the first four albums, and this will be the last time the play most of them. So it was, on one hand, kinda' sad, because the majority of the songs are classics, songs that made Iron Maiden to the legends they are, but on one hand it felt kinda' sweet to be picked as the select few who had the opportunity to experience some of them live for the last time. They also informed us that they will enter the studio next winter and start recording a new studio album! :) I still am amazed how having three guitarists in a band, yet they sound freaking awesome, even live. One would think that it would make the riffs sound "clumsy" or whatever. And it's all true what they say, Iron Maiden is definitely a live band. Bruce [bleep]inson was running back and forth, jumping over speakers, trying to steal one of the cameras -- heck, even the drummer, Nicko McBrain, was crazy; sitting there laughing and doing weird funny faces, not looking where he's drumming half of the time. Cool character, that one. All in all, it was a freaking awesome concert. I naturally had a freaking blast, and I could tell the band was too. So, if I wasn't before, I am now definitely a real Maiden fan. After the show ended, we all exited the stadium singing along to "Always look on the bright side of life". // Azvi.

Haha, that sword took like 20 different shapes :). Bleh, after having to draw that damned sword five times, my patience ran out... to the point where I just started drawing it as a stick. >.< Also watch the head on the guy to the left. Pretty freaky. // Azvi.

JD77, shut up. Seriously. But yeah, this thing is hard -- and tedious. http://www.fabrica.it/flipbook/flipbook ... 8122717011 // Azvi.

Somewhere between 1500 and 2000. Can't remember exactly. // Azvi.

I beg to differ. // Azvi.

Wooh, cheers Pyro. :) // Azvi.

Thanks, Cameron. I tried 'Zortam MP3 Media Studio" and it was really awesome... but I couldn't change the sound-level. The only options it had were "Normalize Track Volume" and "Analyze Track Volume", but that's not what I want to do (I think). I want to be able to alter the sound volume myself; to be able to make it lower or louder. Maybe it wasn't clearly brought out in my previous post, but that's what I want to do. :P Thanks though, the software can do lots of other stuff I'll find useful. :) // Azvi.

Yeah, I was wondering, since some mp3s/songs are much louder than others, and I was curious if there is somekind of (free) software in which you can adjust the sound-level of the mp3/music file? Because it's mildly irritating when I'm listening to a song in my mp3-player that's pretty loud, then it switches to one which is like... really low, then the next song is very loud. Okay, that might've been a tad confusing, but you hopefully get what I'm saying. :P So, yeah... any help on this is mucho appreciated. Thanks. :) // Azvi.

I've been working at a kindergarden for 2 weeks now, this is my last week there. After that, I'm going to see Iron Maiden with a mate, the 9th of July (we'll be staying at a hotel for a night. Gonna' be sweet). And after that, I will visit my sister in London (England), where her boyfriend lives; she's spending her summer there. The time inbetween, I will spend with my mates, go to the cinema, practice my guitarplaying, do some driving practice with my dad (I know it has a fancier name, I just can't remember it), increase my CD collection, go to the beach and do all the summery-stuff you do this time of the year. :) // Azvi.

I have two things: First thing: Whenever I'm at the computer, it's a 99% chance I sit on my bed, over the short-side. With two pillows under my legs to prevent soreness, one cylinder-shaped pillow against the wall and my lower-back, and ontop it a normal pillow for the rest of the back and my head. In my lap, I have another pillow, which my laptop is placed on. To the left of me, on the bed, I have my headphones -- and about 1 meter away is my TV. To the right of me, I have a Swedish dictionary-book, and ontop it, is a notebook for ""easy" classic paino" -- those are used as a mouse mat. Further to the right, I have the remote control for my TV, and another one for my Stereo. Second thing: My room is painted as follows: the side-walls are painted in a dark-red colour. The window-wall is painted white, and the door-wall is painted in black. About four months ago, my parents gave me free hands re-decorating my room from top-to-toe. With new furnitures, paintings and a new colour. The only thing they did was give me tips on furnitures, and I would say if I wanted them, or if I wanted something else. It looks really awesome now, and I love it! If the digital camera wasn't with my sister, I'd take some pictures. Now you know a little more about me. :P // Azvi.

/me will be attending that concert. 8) 9th of July, baby. *wanders off* // Azvi.

No idea. Most I've managed is 23,5 hours. Very annoying indeed... // Azvi.

I was about to point that out, as well, in my post. The use of "lol" everywhere is really annoying. // Azvi.

I wasn't bashing him for his bad grammar, I was "bashing" him for the lack of punctuation in his posts. Since English isn't his first language, I totally understand why he may not be very good at it. // Azvi.

^ didn't get much of that. I even had to show it to some friends -- most of them didn't get it either. Seriously, dude... how old are you? If you are over 7-years old (which I honestly can't tell 'cause of the way you type), you have probably been taught to use punctuations and stuff in school... so why don't you? Because I promise you, nobody will take you serious if you continue writing like that. Nobody. Just spend an extra half-minute or so to place out commas and points where you see fit. It won't kill you, I promise. // Azvi.

* > websites made in Flash. Flash should never be used to make websites, ever! In fact, there shouldn't even be any animations whatsoever on websites. Why? Because they aggrivate more than they please. God I hate Flash. // Azvi.

Vain Glory Opera-what? Sure you don't mean "Burning Down The Opera"? They have an album called "Vain Glory Opera", but "Burning Down The Opera" is the only live album they got. :P You disappoint me, Nadril... ack... // Azvi.

Megadeth - Rust In Peace. Edguy - Burning Down The Opera (live album). Nightwish - Once. Freedom Call - Crystal Empire. And some more... // Azvi.

Welcome back TJ. // Azvi.