Figured I'd Write This: Twilight

You probably did expect me to write about this. If someone ever reads my blog. Which I don't think so. But I'm kinda afraid that those mad 12-year-old Twilight fans google every single blog post on Twilight and start sympathising/criticising.

1. I didn't read Twilight. Would I contaminate myself voluntarily? Furthermore, I don't want to add another $9 to the total income of that movie.

2. I don't approve of vampires fighting werewolves. They're supposed to be separate. SEPARATE

3. I don't approve of any vampire being the perfect person in the world. Nor do I approve of any woman having an affair with that vampire. Because--

a. He's probably gay then

b. He'd be going out with vampire girls if he's straight by the slight chance. They don't age and they can't get pregnant and put you in trouble. Or do they?

4. Bella is a stupid name. Bellatrix Lestrange is a witch, duh.

5. No spoiled girl can be like Bella. You either have the rest and no parents or have parents and none of the rest.

6. I do agree that it's Stephenie Meyer's personal fantasy, and I think it's a tragedy that a 34-year-old woman has nothing better to do than writing her personal romantic fantasy into a series of three bible-thick books. I just googled her, and she does look like she is a "desperate housewife."

7. Last but not least. Actually, biggest. Why do they have fucking 15 Steps for the credit music? I can't believe it. As long as I know, there is absolutely no one in Radiohead who would approve using their music for such a crappy movie. This is a bigger tragedy than a fat (is she fat? In some pictures she's not, some pictures--like one on Wikipedia--she's fat) 34-year-old writing about a vampire guy making love with a human teenage girl. WHY?

The Grande Return de Placebo: Going Back to Gay?

How was I able to actually forget about Placebo for that long? They've come back!!!!! With Brian Molko's hair back long and without Steve Hewitt(well, that was a bit while ago)!

 

Voice all the same--that's my Placebo. Decades of smoking and still the same voice. Official hype! And that hair and clothes meaning they're going back gay? I mean, I liked it better when they were gay. I'll be watching 'em.

The Men Who

This is goddamn awesome. Although I would put the Tenth Doctor for both the hobbyist and the regular.

Ostentatiousness

(I can use big words.)

Anyway, I have to whine where no one reads whatever the fuck I post. I obviously don't keep only one blog, and the other one is a mixture of fangirlism, rant, and a way to keep up with friends and family. Not really a good combination. Fangirlism used to take about 70% of that blog(not anymore). I personally believe a good taste in music deserves celebration. To confess, the entirety of the fangirlism was about Radiohead(surprise!). According to one random person that doesn't even comment on my blog(she wrote this on my FRIEND'S blog), I frequently mentioned my "knowledge about Radiohead" when there are "a ton more people who know the band better" than I do. Hey, you know what? Radiohead is still better than Arctic Monkeys, Travis, Coldplay, or whatever shit you listen to.

A few days ago, the mentioned friend posted about people believing suicides deserve going to Hell. I replied, "But I thought the last page of The Sorrows of Young Werther was about that? It should have been around for a long time." Another comment by the omniscient random person who knows me so well that she doesn't even need to comment on my page said "your showing off is at the level of 'disgusting.'" I read The Sorrows of Young Werther at least 15 times and it's one of my favorite books of all time.

I would rather say to tell me directly what she doesn't like about me, but it wouldn't work. What would I do after she does tell me? Would I fix that and not mention my favorite books and pretend I don't know anything about my favorite band? Not really. I don't write gay fanfics about them. Even if I do, if I've got a 500 gig collection of Radiohead music only, I should deserve awe. Most loser behaviour of her was talking behind my back online. I have met many people online whom I didn't like/hated, but I didn't talk behind them online. It's such a loser thing to do.

Doctor Who!

I just had a completely unproductive week, wasted watching Doctor Who. You can't possibly say you don't know what Doctor Who is--no explanation needed. I found this great streaming site that has all the episodes of the new series(that started in 2005), complete with Christmas Specials. I've been having so much fun with it. The only problem is that my exams are less than a week away(and for Spanish, it's tomorrow).

But this is amazing. I wish I were British so I could have enjoyed it when it was being broadcasted(with David Tennant). Well, in that case, all I could watch would have been the new series anyway, but still. I've looked up the history of Doctor Who and oh yes, that Tom Baker and his enormous scarf! Now I want it! I might try to knit a copy, but it'll be finished next year even if I start right now, and I hardly ever finish any needlework I start.

One more: David Tennant. I really had no idea, when my obssessed friend was talking about the Doctor, that it was the same guy as Barty Crouch Jr. Freaking Barty Crouch Jr.! That man has it all. He started his acting career because he wanted to be the Doctor, now he is the Doctor--in fact, one of the best Doctors--, and he was in Harry Potter! If I were to be an actress, he would be my role model.

Because I Am the Lights on the Stage

Steel Magnolias--I have been working for two days in preparation of the performance, which was held today and will also take place on Saturday and Sunday. I really just sit there and do what, some blackouts and going up again. We've been using these funky green tapes to make notes. Well, someone my class has to do some techs for '10-'11 school year drama, right? I do feel a little funny about having my name on the pamphlet when I really came to rehearsals two times.

Who Said Teenagers Are Stupid?

I fully support and respect his/her opinion.

God. I am very unproud to present the Neville boys in my school--Neville is a House. Those two guys who eat the hottest pepper in the world are both in my history class. We also have two blonde blonde girls and two dumbass football players(one of them broke the fan and it's dangling over everyone's head now. I have never felt unsafer in any other class). You can picture how the class goes.

Free Country

Americans so fucking abuse the word "free country". They think America is the only country in the world that gives its citizens freedom of speech, religion, blah blah. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? Virtually every country on the earth is a free country. Even North Korea is theoretically a free country (you didn't know that!). And according to my experience at Amnesty International last year, Americans do have government shutting people's mouths up, suppressing certain opinions and such. You thought Bush was towards freedom.

If America is a free country, do people have rights to think and say whatever they want to? Yes. However, do they think and say things that might be against other governments of certain "unfree" foreign country? NO, THEY DON'T. That's the thing. Americans support freedom of speech, but they can live as they do now without the fucking freedom of speech. In fact, they do not seem to think at all. I'm not saying all Americans are ignorant rednecks. I'm just saying, your country is not the only free country on the earth. There are plenty of free countries.

Google Android

Isn't this awesome? I definitely want to get one of these... Not sure if I'd be able to afford it(right, I don't have $170 to spend on a phone). But it tops iPhone. I admit it's a copy, but iPhone is a copy too, if you haven't noticed, Samsung has made one of those touchscreen infinite apps phone. I am afraid I might turn into a Google whore. But these are really cool. Plus, I'd be able to say "oh, your phone is an iPhone! I've a Google Android. I'm probably the only person in school who has an Android." or something, 'cause not a lot of people will be getting these if they already have an iPhone. I'm the minority now. Yay.

Web Censorship

My school just started blocking all websites that are at least remotely amusing. Why should I be complaining about that when I don't bring my laptop to school? I am a dorm student.

This is just not right. Not being able to access any of my blogs except for this one? No fucking way. I was at least able to access my blogs before they switched the provider to iPrism. Websense has recently been very generous, some people even reported being able to access porn.

I am making every dormie in school sign a petition. I'm not tolerating this for three more years.

Edit: YouTube is blocked. This is NOT right.

The New iTunes

In four words: I don't like it. (Don't try to argue that it's actually five words)

The new iTunes 8 puts me under a strong impression that Apple is trying to take over Last.fm. I was actually excited about Genius, the music recommender, when I first read the description. Turned out that it's not genius. The purpose of it and everything is great, but you have to buy the music.

Seriously, who does that? Well, most people still do buy music, but they do rather in a physical form, not in the form of an iTunes file that's not compatible with anything but Apple products. And you know what? Last.fm is free.

An... Interesting Research

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/classical-to-rap-music-lovers-have-much-more-in-common-than-you-would-think-919553.html

Eh.

My Personality DNA

My personalDNA Report

Concerned Experiencer

I think this looks pretty. A "concerned experiencer" is not that bad anyway.

Picking A Career: A High School Sophomore's View

You might say I should have decided which career I will be following for the rest of my life by now. Well, you know what? I haven't. It's a freaking hard decision. Some of my friends made their decisions with ease, but some did not. What is ridiculous is, the latter category has all the people who are in top 5% of their classes.

And ironically, their academic excellence is what makes their (and my) decisions hard. For example, I am an academically good student. I take honors and AP courses at school, and have been doing pretty well with that. I have good grades in both math and language (oh well, I'm an international student, so an A- in English might be a good grade too). I am an arts person, playing the flute in band and drawing well. So, which career should I be persuing? I don't know. I don't like any of the subjects I am taking at school, I was never into playing an instrument, and I would die than be an artist. Awesome.

I try my best to find a counsellor to talk about choosing a career. Not successful. What they say: "try your best to find a career that you think is best for you. What's your favourite subject? What are you good at?" Oh hey, I don't have a favourite subject and I'm good at all of them! The counsellors go dumb and say something like "oh, we should think about that." They can't help me actually choose a career because they chose a wrong career. They are the bad examples.

Ben Gibbard

Singer of Death Cab for Cutie (and The Postal Service, actually, I just discovered it, that was why so many people like them!).

I am digging them recently. I just ran one of the best music programs in the world, Last.fm, and started a Death Cab for Cutie station. Ben Gibbard came up(yeah, it happens, if you type in Aphex Twin, you'll get at least 6 of Aphex Twin tracks in other artist name), and he sounds like a girl. Not like Brian Molko girly, but like a real female singer. And he doesn't look like a guy who sounds like a girlAnyway, I love his songs. Whether they are Death Cab, The Postal Service, or his solo releases. They're rather like pop, but oh, I'm not going to consider all pop songs guilty pleasures.

And Modest Mouse come up every time I run Last.fm. I really need to check them out.

Last.fm

What?

Top Tracks - Overall

Radiohead – A Wolf at the Door
Radiohead – 2+2=5
Radiohead – Sit Down. Stand Up.
Radiohead – Everything in Its Right Place
Radiohead – Sail to the Moon
Radiohead – Videotape
Radiohead – A Punch Up at a Wedding (No No No No No No No No)
Radiohead – Banana Co.
Radiohead – Faust Arp
Radiohead – There There
Radiohead – We Suck Young Blood
Damien Rice – The Blower's Daughter
Radiohead – The Gloaming

Radiohead – You and Whose Army?
Radiohead – Scatterbrain

Yay I'm a Radioheadhead and I literally have every single Radiohead track and I even have a Radiohead B-side on my top tracks list and my Top Artists looks like...

(Sorry, can't work it out, just click on it and it will pop up)

The Irony of Scientology

I recently came to a knowledge that Beck is a scientologist.

The scientologist

Beck, a scientologist? Beck? This is totally unfair. It means there is actually no 'decent guy' on the planet. Beck: is Beck, but also a scientologist. Tom Cruise: omg Tom Cruise, but a scientologist. Heath Ledger: played the Joker, but dead. Christian Bale: is the Batman, but also was in Velvet Goldmine. Johnny Depp: older than my mom. What the hell? My friend's comment on this: "It's like, the rule for people in general. A) Attractive, B) Single, C) Sane: Choose two."

What are Placebo doing now?

No, this isn't related to the previous post in any way. I'm talking about the band Placebo.

I mean these people.

David Bowie's once favorite band. And that... er... person... singing with Bowie is a guy. Just to let you know. So, they're one of the 90's British gay bands. They are still around, though. I could say they have recently parted their drummer, if you are a kind of person who considers '10 months ago' as "recent." A couple months after the disaster of touring with Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance, in other words, Projekt Revolution. I guess it was too much for such a decent band. Nothing has been heard since then, except their bassist's releasing a new album with his side project band. No new drummer. Are they tired from moshing emo teens? They are searching for a drummer, right?

What am I doing today?

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the one magic sentence that makes every day special.

Until I started to go to a boarding school where EVERY SINGLE DAY FEELS SAME, that thing worked well. Daily life floods with little special events. I used to ask myself this question every morning and get answers like this: "Haircut today", "Dinner out", or "Nothing, but Friday's still good anyway." I think doing this just ensures that there do exist special events in life.

Young People

I hate people who are younger than me.

It isn't that bad yet, obviously, regarding that I'm only 15(turning 16 next month).

I hate kids. They are nice to look at and nothing else. They are sometimes nice to touch too, but you have to be careful. Kids are little kings of arrogance. Who said you can beat anyone and not get beaten back? Why do kids hit everything with something hard? Funny they shouldn't hit things with anything soft like a pillow or a sponge. Someone's got to make a toy sword with a plastic grip and sponge blade. I still don't know, though, those evil creatures might grab the spongy part and hit with the plastic part.

I also hate people who are younger than me and are in my class. Like, a full year younger. That makes me feel like a retard. My birthday is in August, which means I could be one of the youngest kids in the rising junior class or one of the oldest kids in the rising sophomore class. It's not that there aren't some people who are older than me in my class. But still, I'm going to start my senior year after I turn 18(well, maybe not, but that'd be a bigger tragedy if school starts before my birthday). I've already repeated half of freshman year due to the difference in curriculums. Why do Western schools freaking start in September? Can't they even make school year go along the calendar? Every school in the world should start in January and end in December. That's some convinience.

Free Web Accounts

One of the biggest mistakes of the Web is "delete."

Websites that offer free blog accounts should disable deleting thousands of posts by a single click. A ton of people use blogs for their diaries. It indeed is not the proudest moment, looking at your old thoughts and rants. But just deleting them? No, no idea deserves to be lost like that.

Do souls exist without memories? I don't know.