Bands: #3

Hungover.

I'm hungover yet haven't had anything alcoholic to drink.

I was at the tennis last night, with my grandma, but since we bought our tickets late, we were rather far from the players. We had a great view regardless, as the arena isn't too large, though trying to see all the action from a distance means two things: squinting and headaches.

So I'm just casually dealing with the aftermath of that problem now.

I was gonna post an actual chapter but instead I'll offer some interesting and/or humorous moments from the tennis and a few photos of what I did the other day.

Ze tennis finals:

1. The female player for the French team is Kiki Mladenović, and during her practice session she was speaking Bosnian. And so when I met her, I spoke that language. She was pleasantly surprised.

2. *After the French team won and were presenting their speech.*
Kiki: *Talking.*
Kiki: *Sees Richard put down the trophy.*
Kiki: You tired?
Richard: ...*Nods.*
Kiki: You old?
Audience: *Laughing.*
Richard: ...*Nods.*
Kiki: Do you want to talk?
Richard: *Shakes head.*
Kiki: Well I just want to congratulate the U.S. team on their second place success. Over to Richard who's dying to speak to y'all, because he loves speeches.
Richard: ...
Richard: *Starts speaking but has an extremely thick accent so nobody understands him and everyone hopes that whenever he stops talking is the correct time to clap.*

And now for some band stuff:
I found a copy of Rolling Stone in my room and the main band of the issue was...

You guessed it.

Amity.

Here comes the rant...

LOOK AT THIS FRONT COVER.

(The sticker was the price tag and I just wrote "prices are better than Joel's face" on it.)

BUT SERIOUSLY THOUGH

INSIDE JOEL'S "BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL"?! I CALL BULLSHIT.

LISTEN. IF HE WERE A KIND PERSON, LIKE 99% OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS ARE, I WOULDN'T BE SAYING ALL THIS STUFF.

BUT THE WAY HE SPEAKS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS IS LITERALLY "I'M STRUGGLING SO DAMN MUCH AND IF YOU ARE TOO, DON'T TALK TO ME JUST SPEAK TO THIS ORGANISATION." ALONG WITH "I CAN COMPLAIN AND WHINE AS MUCH AS I WANT BUT IF ANYONE ELSE DOES THAT, I'M GONNA ATTACK THEM."

WTF JOEL?!

So here's my graffitied version of the Rolling Stone interview, feat. my messy handwriting:

8 pages of Joel's complaining = this interview.

And to close off this chapter, here's a photo of Richard Gasquet from last night: