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This post is a crosspost from Jayeless, and can be read in its original location here.

“Armour for Liars”, off Birds of Tokyo’s second album Universes, is (in short) one of their most amazing songs ever. It does face some tough competition for this title I’d have to say, from “Like Rain” from Day One, from “Wild-Eyed Boy” and “An Ode to Death” from Universes, from… well, from basically half or more of their latest album Birds of Tokyo. It’d be tough for me to claim that “Armour for Liars” is my favourite song of theirs. And honestly, given how “In the Veins of Death Valley” and I bonded over that torturous document analysis for history, describing why Mussolini thought the twentieth century would be the century of fascism, I’m not sure I’m ready to make that claim.

However, “Armour for Liars” occupies a special place in my heart. It belongs where it does there because of what it’s about, what it represents — it’s an entire song about how the world is fucked and no one cares. For someone like me, who thinks that the world is fucked and who’s driven crazy by the apparent indifference of so many other people, the song really intersects with a huge part of my worldview.

Before I explain any more — the song!

This post is a crosspost from Jayeless, and can be read in its original location here.

Semester two has begun, which NATURALLY means SUPER BUSY ACTION-PACKED TIMES OF BEING BUSY AND NOT HAVING TIME TO BLOG. It does not mean any shortage of things to blog about, though. I am constantly doing things like walking to the train station, waiting at the station, walking home from the train station¹… and so on and simultaneously thinking about all the great things I would love to write about. Then I don’t do it.

I am announcing that for this month, I will try to make an effort, though

August is going to be an even busier month for me, though. In terms of blogging, novel-writing, and all my other hobbies, my Wednesdays are basically out of commission all semester — I have uni all day and politics in the evening, so by the time I get home between 10pm and 11.30 (depending), and watch the linguistics lecture I have to skip on Tuesday and eat dinner, I don’t have a lot of recreation time left. I can use the internet, like, on my phone while going to uni, but that kind of limits me to Twitter/email and I usually use that time to write my novel, anyway. Not use the internet. Unless I am seriously pissed at Metro (this happens frequently enough), in which case I vent my frustrations on Twitter.

This month will be even busier, though. It’ll be busy for some of the greatest and noblest of reasons — fighting against governmental oppression in the form of the ban on same-sex marriage rights and Australia’s hideous treatment of refugees, for a start — so that’s a good thing, but it still means being busy. Oh, and then there are the unhappier reasons for being busy, like… having shit-tons of assignments. Goddamn you uni, isn’t it enough that I go to class and participate, why do you want me to do assignments as well??

This’ll have to mean the end of the era when I fussed over my blog entries so much, I guess

So I have a lot to say, and it really comes down to sitting down and beating out some of these entries. Despite the lack of time at my disposal, I could certainly sit down over the weekend and type out a few in quick succession, and then some days of the week (Tuesday, Thursday) are less packed than others (Wednesday!)… and there is the entire concept of queuing entries that I don’t think I’ve used in my entire blogging “career”. So you know.

Sorry, this entry kind of sucks. Just letting you know how busy I am, that I haven’t just abandoned this blog in a fit of… I don’t know, impatience?… and that I’ll be back. Hopefully tomorrow. With a super-cool entry about something. Or I don’t know, a super-uncool entry that no one will find interesting except me (I hope not though). Whatever it is… just prepare yourselves, okay?

1. A BIG thank you to Metro for making me miss my History lecture on Tuesday, by the way! There is NO WAY I can find two hours to listen to it now! (shhhh my procrastination has nothing to do with this lack of time)