Life As I Know It


Dear Science review/ Update on life / Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2008, 10:44 pm
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I’ll start with the review. It consists of two words:

Fucking awesome.

No lie. By far, this album is their best yet. Anyone still on the fence of to buy or not to buy, I strongly encourage you to just get it. It will blow your mind. You will love it. And then I will say I told you so. My personal favorites are Family Tree and Dancing Choose. I don’t have a lot to say about it because I’ve only gotten to listen to it a couple times through so I can’t really give a lot of in depth stuff. But I do know that it’s amazing.

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Now for the life stuff. So I’m a techie, lights crew to be more specific. And I made running crew. This means that for the past week I’ve been at school more than at home, aka HELL WEEK. It’s finally coming to a close with one last show tomorrow to go of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The set is crazy beast, and lights is also in charge of special effects. We have some awesome fog and fairy dust. Good show. I’m personally on spotlight.

Anyways, I’ve had no time to myself for the past week which has pretty much sucked. My graduation proposal got rejected. And here I am sitting alone with nothing to do on Halloween. This is the first year I haven’t gone trick or treating so all of a sudden it has felt like just another friday. I kind of hate that. I don’t want it to change. I mean, yes I did get to carve my pumpkin (the oogie boogie, hells yeah), but Halloween won’t be the same for me ever again now that things are changing and I’m moving on. I didn’t have the most normal childhood, but Halloween was a constant that I’ve always counted on in a life where I have very few constants. So it kind of sucks to let go, but at the same time, it’s a little refreshing to be getting somewhere (as lame as that sounds). But I feel the shifting beginning to happen. I’m a quarter done with this school year, then there’s one to go and then college. That’s pretty frightening for me, but still exciting.

I’m still deciding if I want to look ahead with strength and excitement, or turn and take back the past that I’m slowly losing. Either way, I’ve still got a long road.

So Happy Halloween internet blog readers, I hope it’s a good one.

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Jack’s Mannequin — The Glass Passenger
October 7, 2008, 10:39 pm
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“To the sleepless, this is my reply,
I will write you a lullaby.”

So Andrew McMahon is pretty much one of my heroes. The instant he finished his debut album about the girl that got away, he finds out he has leukemia. His debut album is released and yet he can’t tour due to chemo weighing him down. He survived thanks to a cell transplant from his sister Katie. The newest album ‘The Glass Passenger’ is dedicated to her. I researched a lot about the album, and was completely inspired by what I found. He talked about not wanting to make an album about being sick (he’s in remission now, has been for a little while), so he made one about surviving.

From the first song, he opens himself up to everything with the chorus of “even if your voice comes back again, maybe there’ll be no one listening” in ‘Crashing’. ‘Swim’ is completely inspirational, “swim for the music that saves you when you’re not so sure you’ll survive” “you haven’t come this far to fall off the earth”. ‘Annie Use Your Telescope’ is a great song that I’m pretty sure he wrote about his wife. Amazing melody. ‘Hammer and Strings (A Lullaby)’ is my absolute favorite on the album. It’s simple, and sweet, and he wrote it for his piano. I can’t even describe it, it’s one you just have to listen to and hear him talk about the story behind it (youtube).  ‘Caves’ is a long one, over eight minutes. And in essence it is about having cancer. It’s the only one that really comes out and says it, but it’s blunt and it’s haunting, and it’s powerful.

Overall, I really don’t think he could have done anything better for a sophomore album. It’s fucking fantastic. Go listen if you get the chance, it’s so worth it. He has also created a non profit leukemia foundation called Dear Jack that also has a movie that combines a bunch of footage he took throughout his treatment (trailer can be found on youtube). So yeah, Andrew McMahon = kick ass, inspiration, amazing musician, and just fucking awesome (no other way to put that).

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More Adventurous
October 7, 2008, 10:25 pm
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Random going-ons.

CDs that I really want at the moment::

Conor Oberst’s latest album with the Mystic Valley Band

More Adventurous by Rilo Kiley (and I kind of want The Execution of All Things too)

Is This It & Room on Fire (both) by the Strokes

Gimme Fiction by Spoon

With Love & Squalor by We The Scientists

and a shitload more. Trust me. And I’m broke so this all fails.

TV on DVD I’m currently working through:: Season 2 of Dead Like Me.

Books I’m reading::

The Great Gatsby

Invisible Monsters

Choke

Yes. All. At. Once. It’s confusing but thrilling (because I’m a nerd).

So I spend approximately 3 hours on homework, I’m also doing community service for key club, taking piano lessons, working out, and trying to get on lights running crew for the school play coming up (which if i get on means from the 25th-the 1rst I’ll be at school all day on the weekend days and after school till late on the weekdays). I also listen to tons of music, manage to watch a lot of TV, and read. How the fuck am I even alive? I have yet to discover. OH! And I haven’t picked a topic for my Graduation Project. The proposal is due fucking WEDNESDAY!!! (not tomorrow). NO IDEA!!!!! I can feel panic attacks in the near future. My spidey sense is tingling.

Other bands I’m looking into: The Ting Tings, Band of Horses, The Velvet Underground, Tokyo Police Club, and The Editors. All aquired tastes. Gotta test the wine before you commit (aka use hard earned cash on it).

If you don’t know what I mean by an aquired taste for a band, just think of Neko Case. Wait, fail. No one knows who she is (because people SUCK). Figure it out, it’s really not that difficult.

Peace out.

Oh yeah, I got the newest Jack’s Mannequin and it totally KICKS ASS. I’ll write a whole separate blog for it. Because I can.

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A New Depth to My Vast Expanse of Patheticness
October 4, 2008, 11:43 pm
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I’m working on making more interesting titles, can’t you tell?

So here’s a little quiz.

1. Your parents are gone for the weekend, so you…

a) Throw a party

b) Invite your “significant other” over for some one on one time.

c) Decide to hunker down with Hagen Das, Gilmore Girls, and some flannel.

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2. Your friend asks if you want to go out, so you…

a) Stay out all night and have a great time.

b) Say no thanks, and go fuck your “significant other”.

c) Lie and say you’re exhausted so that you can hunker down with Hagen Das, Gilmore Girls, and some flannel (which is plaid).

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3. Your parents calls to check in before they go to bed (back to the gone all weekend thing), so you…

a) Lie and say everything is great! As you rush outside to escape the noise of your rave.

b) Manage to slip out an ‘I love you and I won’t forget to floss’ between thrusts and primal groans.

c) Engage in conversation when you find out how amazing the bathrooms are at the campground they’re staying at, then proceed to compare them to others.

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4. The most exciting part of your day today was…

a) Scoring a couple kegs.

b) Trying new positions.

c) It’s a toss up between hiding under a two foot platform with glow in the dark golf balls and getting a new cd in the mail.

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5. You go to the bookshelf and pick out…

a) A cookbook on fruity cocktails.

b) Kama Sutra for the extra kinky.

c) The Big Ass Book of Crafts (for something to do between painting your nails and watching Gilmore Girls on the couch with Hagen Das and plaid flannel pjs)

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RESULTS:::

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If you chose mostly A’s, CONGRATS! You’re a normal teenager. Then why the fuck are you reading my blog? It means that you lied. You’re not normal, you’re just pretending you got all A’s. Everybody lies (quote it for kudos, and it’s easy so don’t google that shit please).

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If you chose mostly B’s, CONGRATS! You’re a slut. But if you needed this “quiz” to tell you that, then you may need medical attention asap.

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If you chose mostly C’s, CONGRATS! You’re me. Well, maybe not congrats. It means that like me, you have reached a new level of patheticness. Welcome to a world where social awkwardness is encouraged, and idiosyncrasies rule your brain. A place where post-it notes are stuck to everything as reminders, and yet you never remember to read them.

I may add more to this quiz later, it was very entertaining to write. I need my beauty sleep.

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