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There's something I really wanna blog about but... I just don't have it in me. Maybe later.

I wish I was someone of at least a little importance.

ALLLL NEWWW

Just thought I'd draw your attention to my fun(?) new widget, my Twitter Updates. Twitter is a website that serves the sole purpose of letting people know what you're doing at any time by allowing you to update it from your phone. So now I can spare Big Brother the work and let them know what I'm doing without them even having to spy on me :)

Oh, and I'll be adding tags to my posts from now on so that my blog will show up in google/blogger searches.

Technical Difficulties

I'm still having extreme(ly frustrating) difficulties with these videos, so in the mean time, why not read Michael Moore's endorsement of Barack Obama? Regardless of how you feel about Mr. Moore, his words ring very truly and contain a lot of the stuff I couldn't say before.

PARAMORE/JIMMY EAT WORLD! VIDEOS!!

This is just one of the 6 videos, the rest will be up later because my computer is going ridiculously slow. Enjoy!!

PARAMORE/JIMMY EAT WORLD!

Oh. Man. The concert was absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, I really don't feel like typing about how good it was so instead I'm just going to insert a slide show here of all the pics I took! Video's will be up VERY soon!!



Paramore/Jimmy Eat World

BEWARE

Just a little FYI...
I am totally trolling around on Facebook right now. Like, to the very definition. This is why I tell people I have no self control... because I don't. If I closed my eyes... I could actually... yeah, I could actually fall asleep right here.

To bed! *whoosh*

P.S.: Three posts, one day (sorta)
Thoughts??

Dessert, anyone?

Just an afterthought...

How crazy that we had an earthquake??
I totally didn't believe my mom when she told me this morning.
I'm so sad I wasn't awake to feel it! I envy(?) those who were...
I'll have a good post coming later! Keep checkin' in ;)

Mix of the Moment

Due to this WONDERFUL!! warm weather, you all know I just had to make a CD laden with songs that are ideal for blasting with windows down on those warm summer days, as well as a few slow ballads to relax to on those ever-so-necessary summer night drives. Here it is (this is not the order the tracks are arranged in on the CD, I had iTunes randomize that for me :D)

1. Like It or Leave It - Aly & AJ
2. Hot Stuff - Ashlee Simpson
3. Invisible (Bonus Track) - Ashlee Simpson
4. Soundtrack to Your Life - Ashley Parker Angel
5. The Party Song - blink-182
6. Flux - Bloc Party
7. Break the Ice - Britney Spears
8. Lose It - Cartel
9. Thirsty - Cassie
10. Do You Know (The Ping Pong Song) - Enrique Iglesias
11. The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes - Fall Out Boy
12. The Lights and Buzz - Jack's Mannequin
13. S.O.S. - Jonas Brothers
14. Am I Dreaming - Kat Deluna
15. Paper Planes - M.I.A.
16. Let's Dance - Miley Cyrus
17. So Over You - The Mission District
18. All That We Needed - Plain White T's
19. Buttons - The Pussycat Dolls
20. Tangled Up In Me - Skye Sweetnam
21. John Wayne Gacy Jr. - Sufjan Stevens
22. All About Us - t.A.T.u.
23. Give It To Me - Timbaland ft. Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake
24. Take Me On The Floor - The Veronicas

Fantastic!

Calm before the storm??

So, I know I need to update... and I've been thinking...

About nothing! I have nothing to say! I've been sick the past three days though (as if you didn't notice ;-)) and so mayyybbeeeee that sucked away some of my thoughts? All of my stress has just literally vanished.. *poof*! I know thats bad because now there is nothing to keep me on track with however many projects I need to do but it just feels so great to be legitimately happy again!

There is so much coming up in my life that I have to look forward to! So to take up room I think I'll make a list!
1. Wednesday and Thursday off next week! (And Friday? ;))
2. All the CD's coming out (and the ones that have come out) that I want!
a. Mariah Carey - E=MC2
b. Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World
c. Madonna - Hard Candy
d. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
e. Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
And many many more!
3. GTA IV on April 29th!!
4. Iron Man on May 2nd!
5. Other movies I wanna see that are coming out!
a. The Incredible Hulk
b. Speed Racer
c. Wanted
d. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
e. Tropic Thunder
More there as well!
6. Prom on May 10th
And the big enchilada...
GRADUATION!!

OH man, there is just so much! Life is gonna be taking some bigggg twists and turns! I can feel that much!

Mix of the Moment

1. Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. Boys - Ashlee Simpson
3. Ragdoll - Ashlee Simpson
4. Hot Stuff - Ashlee Simpson
5. Invisible (Bonus Track) - Ashlee Simpson
6. Official Girl - Cassie
7. The City Is At War - Cobra Starship
8. Guilty Pleasure - Cobra Starship
9. Kiss My Sass - Cobra Starship (Ft. Travis McCoy)
10. Bixby, Canyon Bridge - Death Cab for Cutie
11. No Sunlight - Death Cab for Cutie
12. Cath... - Death Cab for Cutie
13. You Can Do Better Than Me - Death Cab for Cutie
14. Grapevine Fires - Death Cab for Cutie
15. California One Youth and Beauty Brigade - The Decemberists
16. Eli, The Barrow Boy - The Decemberists
17. Paralyzer - Finger Eleven
18. Paralyze - Tila Tequila
19. Migrate - Mariah Carey (Ft. T-Pain)
20. Bye Bye - Mariah Carey

Lyrics of the Week

These are quite possibly the most poetic lyrics I've ever heard/read. What makes them even more effective is that the lead singer says them, making the words that much more powerful. I wish I was this good of a writer...

The Approaching Curve
by Rise Against

[Spoken:]

The music blared with a calming frequency
The speakers gently seeped the sounds of ambient keyboards and light percussion,
Creating a seductive soundtrack to our midnight drive through curtains of blackness.
The windows were cold to the touch, reflecting the icy conditions in our immediate extremities
Salt stains and fingerprints riddled the glass,
and streets with melted snow cascaded down its length.
The music pulsed louder, yet gentle, like the far away squeal of a pot of boiling water.
The skyline was glowing faintly with vague hints of an impending dawn.
The car raced along a painfully straight stretch of road,
She hadn't so much as turned the steering wheel two degrees in the last twenty minutes.
Nor had we spoken.

[Sung:]
As we were, so perfect, so happy.
They'll remember only our smiles,
'Cause that's all they've seen.
Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
As we were, so perfect, so happy.

[Spoken:]
"Why are you doing this?"
She spoke as if not expecting a response.
Her voice penetrated the still air of our speechless drive, so suddenly that my heart had jumped.
"I'm not doing anything" I said, but I didn't even believe that myself.
"This is what's best, for me, for you, for us" Or maybe just for me I thought,
as a tear formed in the pit of her eye.
The music poured through the speakers, and we were losing ourselves in the cadence.
She looked down momentarily and closed her eyes for a bit longer than a standard blink.
Then she was crying.
Then she was shouting.
Then I was shouting.
Now pouring confessions, having no answers, or solutions.
We barely even knew the questions.

[Sung:]
As we were, so perfect, so happy.
They'll remember only our smiles,
'Cause that's all they've seen.
Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
As we were, so perfect, so happy.

Don't put me under ground, I was meant for a life somewhere else.
Please Love, give me the wheel, before both of our hearts you will steal tonight.
(Will steal tonight...)

As we were, so perfect, so happy.
They'll remember only our smiles,
'Cause that's all they've seen.
Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
As we were, so perfect, so happy.

[Spoken:]
Our cracking voices became part of the music.
The car pressed on faster through the night.
As our voices lowered, the cadence again overtook the air.
Up ahead there was a curve approaching.
She made no indications of slowing.

Tick tick tick...

Tick tick tick tick tick..... Boom.

Not this post, Hunter

Yes my friends, I am typing this at three in the morning. THAT is devotion.
(Mixed with guilt of not having updated this in a while)
I have a surprise though! What I think will be a rather good post! I even wrote down all the stuff I wanted to write so I would remember everything... now, allow me to go grab this scrap of paper...

Okay, so (I'll try to not be annoying about this *ahem*) my family and I put a Barack Obama sign out in our yard, oh say three weeks ago or so, to show our support for the best presidential candidate :) The whole putting up of the sign was sort of funny because I think my dad is legitimately afraid that ultra-conservative Naper-villains are gonna come and egg our house, I assured him that my graduation sign wold garner far more eggs than Mr. Obama would. Anyways, we put this sign up and all was well and good. Only, then the unthinkable happened... hang on I need to turn off the B-52's... ahem, so I'm driving down my street (which is not very long at all, mind you) and minding my own business, but then i glance at my neighbors house, and what I saw was so shocking I had to double-take. My neighbor actually had the nerve to put a McCain sign 3 houses down from my Obama sign. At first I was a little bit peeved and plotting on how I was gonna "extract" the sign from his lawn, but when I got around to really thinking about it, it's sort of funny. I think of it like a 21st Century "Keeping up with the Joneses", this time, instead of getting a pool if your neighbor gets one, you have to show political support that you feel overrules your neighbors. I wonder if I hung up an Obama flag if another one may pop up on my block? It just goes to show that we American's haven't changed entirely from the 1950's of yore.

Moving on... I was thinking about Senioritis, and, my brain being so complex and all... I got to wondering: What if Senioritis is a placebo affect? I know that sounds like a narrow minded thought, but hear me out. I get that as second semester seniors it isn't exactly the easiest thing to focus in school, but what if instead of being distracted with the prospect of college being right around the corner, we're actually thinking we can't pay attention because everyone blames "Senioritis", maybe we actually are capable of doing an above average job but we just tell ourselves not to? After going through that whole process my train of though stopped at the next station (Pun most certainly intended), and got me wondering about Junior Year. This may not be true with everyone but we're (I'm) going to use a generalization to get my point across. Everyone says Junior year is the hardest year, or most stressful, or most academically challenging. Then that little word I love to apply crept into my mind and got me wondering if maybe the aspect of Junior year, in and of itself, was a placebo affect as well. Maybe from hearing all the talk of about how hard it's going to be, our brains make the work more complex than it actually is; maybe the work is actually as easy as it was freshman or sophomore year, but because of all the talk about the dread of Junior year, we convert something as simple as a jigsaw puzzle into a Rubik's cube, so to speak. I wonder how much people talk about things influences us in life. This could go into a much deeper post but, seeing as my clock is now saying 2:55 AM, I'm going to have to move on to my next topic. My case in point is that maybe the thought of Junior Year is all a placebo affect.

Ok, this is a disclaimer: This next post is not going to be what you'd typically expect
As I was listening to the school talk about how they're enforcing the dress code blah blah blah, I began to ponder if teachers (hopefully only the younger/middle-aged set) ever get attracted to students. I know, this is actually really creepin' of me, but I just wonder if teachers think of students as a strict platonic relationship, or almost as though they're the parents to the children, or if in certain rare cases there is an element of attraction (that of course the teacher has to hide, going back to the whole "jail-bait" topic.. which I've never discussed...) Ummm

That's about it... I literally can't keep my eyes opened and am typing this with them closed so I'm going to bed. Hopefully this will hold all of my devoted readers over until I can post next.

Oh... one last piece of news.

BLOC PARTY ARE PLAYING LOLLAPALOOZA THIS YEAR!!! AHHHH EXCITING!

Mix of the Moment #4

I Am One - (+44)

Like Toy Soldiers - Eminem

Beat It - Fall Out Boy ft. John Mayer

Touch My Body - Mariah Carey

4 Minutes - Madonna ft. Justin Timberlake

Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis

Stop and Stare - OneRepublic

Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis

Horse to Water - R.E.M.

Firefight - Jimmy Eat World

Moving to New York - The Wombats

I Caught Fire (In Your Eyes) - The Used

Whatever You Like - Nicole Scherzinger ft. T.I.

Scream - Timbaland ft. Nicole Scherzinger and Keri Hilson

Touch Me - Heidi Montag

No More - Heidi Montag

Check Yes Juliet - We the Kings

Skyway Avenue - We the Kings

Whoa - We the Kings

The Quiet - We the Kings

Headlines Read Out - We the Kings

...And in the darkness bind them.

So, totally have been going a little bit Middle-Earth crazy right now. Which is why I haven't been posting... that and some other things but those are trivial (like sleeping, and being out with friends) I'm sure this Middle-Earth thing will pass... eventually... but it has led me to get into another MMO (or Massively Multiplayer Online game) (I used to play World of Warcraft) and it's sort of really refreshing. Don't be surprised though if I show up to your house dressed like an elf. Or a Rider of the Riddermark... or perhaps a Soldier from Gondor... or a hobbit? Decisions... decisions.. I should probably update my profile picture so that it's me with my new hair.

Nyeh, lazy.

What a pointless, pointless post.

LOVES! <3

What's sad?

What is sad is that I MISSED MY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF MY BLOG!! :(

Other than that... what is sad is my social life, or lack thereof (can that statement become cliche yet?) I literally have been nothing except working, coming home, and doing less than nothing.

I've been getting really sad recently, and I don't know why. I think I might be unhappy with my life right now? I don't know, but I hate being unhappy. I just feel so discontented. I wish this year was over, because right now my brain has pushed the thought of the total of 14 pages of research people left to do out of my brain, and they're both going to be due SO much sooner than I'd ever wished for.

....

Totally took like a thirty minute break there to peruse the internet. I'm still looking for an efficient way of posting music on this blog.

Well, I'm going to have to cut this short because I feel like lying in bed and being depressed.

I'll have a thought-inducing post up sooner or later...

EDIT: Nevermind, didn't miss the one year anniversary of my blog *phew*