Last Thursday the time finally came to set sail for Northrend, as the new expansion of World of Warcraft released. To celebrate the release and give players the opportunity to start playing wow the second it came out, Blizzard organized big release parties around Europe. At these release parties, which were held in Rotterdam, Paris, Madrid, London, Berlin and Stockholm, you could buy WotLK at 0.00h. Besides that there  were also some events and various things going on. Wednesday morning I decided that the event would actually make a good cover article for the Arisen Times (or Azure Times, or Stormreaver Chronicles). So I called Dennis to come help me, borrowed my dad’s camera and talked to a friend from school in an attempt to learn to shoot photo’s in 4 hours.

That night me and Dennis took the 10 o’clock train to Rotterdam. Finally at the event place it was still a bit quiet. There was a crowd but it was not stacked with people like I expected. There were screens displaying WotLK movies and music and free fries. All in all not very exciting (although free fries omnomnom), but we took some pictures anyway. We decided to go for a beer and come back later. When we came back they had just started a Question round for a developer, a cosplay competition and a small quiz. All hosted by dutch pop game crew Gamekings. However the sound was too low to actually hear what they were saying.

When the time finally came closer people started counting down and… Bang! Glittery explosions of even more glitters and epic music. It was pretty cool in fact.

Comedic relief came when we looked at the video screens wel…. look for yourself

Music
As most people who read this blog know (or if you didnt know yet), I am a big fan of Muse. Recently during my numerous Youtubing browsing for music I stumbled across some old muse B-sides. I knew most of them through my Hullabaloo live CD. But these radio/album recording are so much better then those live ones. And thus of course I have to share them with you:

Muse - Dead Star

Muse - In your World

Muse - Sunburn (not a B-side)

Muse wasn’t the only band who came back to my attention. Recently I am in the mood for SKA. And that brought back memories about this punk/Ska band called Reel Big Fish. I only knew one of their songs, Where have you been. This was a great moment to look up more of their music. Prepare for more links!

Reel Big Fish - Where have you been

Reel Big Fish - Don’t Start a Band

Reel Big Fish - Party Down

Reel Big Fish - Take on me

*Jess walks off singing*

I hate to ruin the magic
I hate to kill the dream
but once you’ve been behind the scenes then you’ll know just what I mean
you might think that’s its cool to get up on stage
and play rock and roll from your heart and soul
but no one shows up and your songs all suck
and there’s no applause and no flying cars
no girls will scream for you and no ones gonna stay in love with you

Don’t start a band
no body wants to hear nobody understands
don’t start a band
you will be so damn terrible they’ll all think your shitty
don’t start a band
oh yea yea yea
’cause you wont get paid
and you won’t get laid!

Give me music is the phrase of the week

I have been chatting with my friend Anna 2 nights ago. (Yes I know I’m slow with posting) Anyways, we ended up linking each other music again. Which is a good thing as she gave me some songs I heard before, but had no clue about who wrote them or the song name. For you listening entertainment I will link some of them below.

Dexys Mightnight Runners - Come on Eileen

Kent - Vinternoll2

Bliglad - Kaerlighed til Folket

Maria Mena - Your glasses (Sorry about the vid, no decent one available)

There was even more, but I’ll keep it to these atm :D. Funny thing to note is that I’m totally get fired up by Maria Mena atm and its now the song I have to work on for my next singing class.

Some other noteworthy event has been that I finally got serious with migrating to Scandinavia and spend my Sunday afternoon looking up a migration website and chatting with Stina about work and moving. This is going to be something that is coming closer, but also is going to be very exciting. 2009 is going to be an exciting year..