So as of right now it's 11:08 PM Sunday night. I still have to write an essay for English *bangs head on table*, I hate Greek Mythology. What gives a state the right to make someone go insane by studying it two years in a row in ENGLISH. Kill me now DX.
I just watched all the five awesome girls videos from the last two weeks... I really should have watched them when they were posted. I think that the majority denounced Twilight in that frame of time.
This week has seemed so busy. I hung out with Lexi on Tuesday, spent an inane amount of time on the phone, spent the day yesterday at the mall climaxing with Twilight (which was scrap, and VERY unintentionally funny). Monday was Monday schedule (six periods UGH!), and we got our registration forms for next year *bangs head on table*. Tuesday was career day so I had to go to advisory first, then go to my first session which was in the band room for preforming arts which was made of awesome. My dad won't let me use the four free lessons I got for ballet though :(. They didn't do attendance at the begining so they did it when the bell rang, which meant I didn't have time to put on my shoes, so I ran in my socks to the next location, and stepped in mud. I walked around without shoes for the rest of the school day (and then proceeded to walk to the NEX with Lexi in shoes without socks *shudders*. My second session was for a teacher. They didn't decide to just find some teachers from the school, no the DOE had to come. That lady has put me off of teaching officially. After recess came session three which I had with an interior design guy. He was so boring. His voice was one that I would expect to fall asleep to if I hadn't had other things to think about. After that was psychology. The lady was pretty awesome and comprehensive, which was good, as I was tired of being put off jobs. After that was an eventful hour long lunch where K got kicked pretty good in the shin. After that they sent us to advisory for another half hour or hour to basically do nothing. Wednesday was the curriculum fair. Friday schedule (six periods, extra ten mins in class...). Mrs. Sherlock had a lot to get done so we didn't do anything in period one. I got to miss period two to play in the curriculum fair, where I saw my math teacher from last year (she looked so professional it was kind of scary). I missed recess at the curriculum fair :(, and I missed just enough of French that I was basically in a frenzy to finish everything, because I'd come early enough to know what we were doing. Period four was alright, mostly just talking to Jess. Then lunch, which was uneventful. Period five we watched a video, which was a nice change from all the projects for the past two weeks. I got to miss period six with Court, because we were the band ambassadors (basically). We got rid of all the color guard packets. I took one myself. You have to wear contacts :(. Thursday was uneventful, besides having a Friday schedule, and subs for French and Math. Friday was again subs for French and math, but we also had to go to our advisory before lunch (assembly schedule). We underclassmen turned in our registration forms, while the seniors had an assembly. I'm going to be in AP US, next year. I think I might die DX
I have some problems with this upcoming week, and some cons. It's Turkey Day in the US of A, which means no school Thursday or Friday. However, it means Friday schedules Tuesday and Thursday. Why couldn't they have just done a Thursday schedule on Monday? I could care less about getting out earlier on Mondays, I'm rather sick of having six periods each day. One thing that is a pro and con about this week at the same time is the band field trip to the middle school on Wednesday. I will be happy to miss class and have four days to make up the work, however we are going to be playing music that we have barely practiced which is BAD. We're going to try and gain students, not loose potentials! Although I really do not want all those tuba's I've been told currently play. The middle school band sucks right now, and I don't think I'll have the stamina to keep up with that amount of bad tuba players :(
I really cannot remember the last time I made a blog this long.
The rest of the quarter should be easy though. Only two weeks left for school, meaning some normalcy for once, and then a three week break. What with marching band finally having climaxed and ended, I feel so out of it. I really just need a good two weeks to have fun with Mom and Dad, and then a basic week to myself... Not to mention the sleeping in... And Xmas, can't forget that :D
This weeks song will be the first to play on my itunes when I turn it on... And the winner is... The Swiss Army Romance by Dashboard Confessional.
Gonna go do that essay *bangs head on table for third time*
Lots of love to friends!
Oceansurferg
PS: To ChinGyLinG - You and I need to have heart to heart conversation about life... I can't remember the last time we did one of those. Email me! Or call me on Weekends. Even better would be if you got a Skype. It's free video calls on your computer. I want to see you hun! And I'm not gonna forget about the British accent tomorrow *cackles evilly*
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
The Dobbys, Thegirllikeme, and Shipping
The Dobbys have been here for nearly a month, so I'm a bit late in posting about them... However I think they still deserve to be posted about. HPFF is in my opinion, the best Harry Potter Fanfiction site I've found. This is the second year that they've given out the Dobby Awards, and I'm very pleased with their choices. It was obvious that Match would get at least one (most read/reviewed on HPFF!) so I'm pleased that it left with Best Marauders Fic, and Best Original Character. Delicate was well deserving of Most Addicting story, what with it's wit, humor, and constant cliff hangers. I was also happy with We Griffies winning best Next Gen, although I think the story was more deserving of Best Humor.
On the Topic of fanfiction here is just another reason why thegirllikeme is my favorite fanfiction author...
And then there's a trailer for the second in the series.
And of course after watching these again, I decide it's time to look through some of her other vids, and I found this absolutely beautiful Lily/Severus video.
I am way too big of a shipper for my own good aren't I? Actually, that makes me wonder how many things I ship... Hmm. In the HP fandom alone there's Lily/Severus, Ginny/Harry, Neville/Luna, Ron/Hermione, Fred/Hermione, Lupin/Tonks, Rose/Scorpius, Ginny/Neville, and that's not even including the character/OCs I ship... Dang... Need to ship less...
I figured out that there's a way to have updates sent to certain emails every time there's a new post, so if you'd like to be receiving those, email me!
And finally, this post's song is Zombie by The Cranberries.
-Oceansurferg
On the Topic of fanfiction here is just another reason why thegirllikeme is my favorite fanfiction author...
And then there's a trailer for the second in the series.
And of course after watching these again, I decide it's time to look through some of her other vids, and I found this absolutely beautiful Lily/Severus video.
I am way too big of a shipper for my own good aren't I? Actually, that makes me wonder how many things I ship... Hmm. In the HP fandom alone there's Lily/Severus, Ginny/Harry, Neville/Luna, Ron/Hermione, Fred/Hermione, Lupin/Tonks, Rose/Scorpius, Ginny/Neville, and that's not even including the character/OCs I ship... Dang... Need to ship less...
I figured out that there's a way to have updates sent to certain emails every time there's a new post, so if you'd like to be receiving those, email me!
And finally, this post's song is Zombie by The Cranberries.
-Oceansurferg
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Reasons to Squee
Because I feel like it here is a list of things that will make me squee w/ joy.
BYE!!!
- NO HOMEWORK!!!
- FALL BREAK!!!
- SUGAR!!!
- TUBA!!!
- ASHLEY!!!
- '!!!'S!!!
- MULTIPLE WAY CHATS!!!
- MUSIC!!!
- BOOKS!!!
- THE WORD ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM!!!
- MYSPACE ADDICTIONS!!!
- CHEESE!!!
- FRIENDS!!!
- CHICKENS!!!
- PRETZELS!!!
- CELL PHONES!!!
- PERVY FRIENDS!!!
- BAND GEEKS!!!
- EDIBLE GOLF COURSES!!!
BYE!!!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Moola, Math, and Mario
So it finally happened. I plugged my 2 gig ipod in to charge, and add a few new cds, and some songs I got of myspace, and my laptop told me there wasn't enough room, so I had to set it so that none of my playlists downloaded, and since mugglecast is over *wallows*, I didn't put my podcasts on there either. In conclusion I need a bigger ipod. I think I want to get an 8 gig green nano-chromatic. But I'll need to talk to my mom about this... not to mention start advertising that I babysit so I can get moola. I need moola... Well, I don't need moola, but it's the only way that I'll be able to get to Chicago, and San Francisco this summer (Person A says that she'd totally go with me, and would probably be able to find some HP loving aunt or something to come with us, so I'm very excited!), not to mention by a new ipod. Why does moola have to make the world go round.
I was being really stupid this weekend with Person F (I'm really starting to get confused with this letter system...), and we both walked out of the mall with Algebra II books... And we're in geometry. Yeah...
Oh, I found this freaking awesome line rider video. It has to be one of the most ingenious ones I've ever seen.
In an effort to kill the killers in my head this post's song is Believe Me Natalie by The Killers.
Hope that your monday isn't biting too bad!
-Oceansurferg
I was being really stupid this weekend with Person F (I'm really starting to get confused with this letter system...), and we both walked out of the mall with Algebra II books... And we're in geometry. Yeah...
Oh, I found this freaking awesome line rider video. It has to be one of the most ingenious ones I've ever seen.
In an effort to kill the killers in my head this post's song is Believe Me Natalie by The Killers.
Hope that your monday isn't biting too bad!
-Oceansurferg
Friday, September 12, 2008
Trailer Spoof
Hey!
I'm only posting this video for friend person C who can't get past her school's server with the website I gave her, so enjoy!
Oh, and this spoof made person C and I interested in making a Harry Potter trailer spoof. We are still currently looking for someone to play Harry Potter, someone to play young Voldemort, someone to play old Voldemort, and a boy who's interested in being sparkly. Just find me at recess or lunch, I'll always either be in the band room, or on the hill by some of the trees.
-Oceansurferg
I'm only posting this video for friend person C who can't get past her school's server with the website I gave her, so enjoy!
Oh, and this spoof made person C and I interested in making a Harry Potter trailer spoof. We are still currently looking for someone to play Harry Potter, someone to play young Voldemort, someone to play old Voldemort, and a boy who's interested in being sparkly. Just find me at recess or lunch, I'll always either be in the band room, or on the hill by some of the trees.
-Oceansurferg
Thursday, September 11, 2008
It's a band geek life.
Hello peoples!
So my school's band is almost ready to put our opener out on the field. We have 2 1/2 rehearsals before the show, and that's it, I will be free from having to wear the sousaphone all rehearsal (I hope...). My sousaphone is killing not my left shoulder, where the sousaphone rests, but rather my right shoulder. I think it has something to do with the fact that my extension is too small. Either that, or it's because the sousaphone was obviously made with a larger sized person's ability to fit in mind. I am not a larger sized person. In fact, you might be able to fit two of me in that thing. The sousaphone is also fixing my posture, which causes my back to throw out slightly whenever I chase person D around the band room at lunch.
Oh that reminds me, I've created a new system to speak about people with out putting their names in. All people are not person A, B, C ect. once I get to Z (if I get to Z) I'm going to have person AA, BB, CC, ect. If you want to know who you are, ask me and I will tell you your letter (or tell you that I have not assigned you one).
Back to band... Jazz band is coming up, and since person A said that they thought I should do it, I'm going to talk to Mrs. Band Director about getting a trombone to use so I can start practicing, because it's harder to switch to a trombone, than to a tuba. That said, I don't have a mouthpiece, and I already have to pay $55 for a new tuba mouthpiece. At this rate I will never be able to pay for my plane tickets for this summer.
My mother has made me really happy because she called somebody about piano lessons. I have been teaching myself to play piano for a year or two, and now I can learn how to play it properly.
When my dad started drilling me about this (he's in Guam) I told him about Person B's master plan for me. This plan is basically that after I learn piano, I need to learn guitar, then get a drumset, then a violin, and then a sax, and then a flute. After all this I will supposedly be ready to be a band director. I'm not quite sure what happened, but I think somehow I'm getting a guitar for Xmas. This makes me feel like a hypocrite because Person E and I were arguing about whether or not guitar or piano was better, and I was arguing piano... Ah well, life likes to be ironic.
Since Mrs. Band Director comes back tomorrow I think that there's going to be a section leader/drum major meeting, which will be relief because I am tired of playing the same music over and over again every day... I wish we had concert music to work on :(
Okay, I need to go, because I need to find out what rise over run, Y=mx+b and all that muck means.
-Oceansurferg
So my school's band is almost ready to put our opener out on the field. We have 2 1/2 rehearsals before the show, and that's it, I will be free from having to wear the sousaphone all rehearsal (I hope...). My sousaphone is killing not my left shoulder, where the sousaphone rests, but rather my right shoulder. I think it has something to do with the fact that my extension is too small. Either that, or it's because the sousaphone was obviously made with a larger sized person's ability to fit in mind. I am not a larger sized person. In fact, you might be able to fit two of me in that thing. The sousaphone is also fixing my posture, which causes my back to throw out slightly whenever I chase person D around the band room at lunch.
Oh that reminds me, I've created a new system to speak about people with out putting their names in. All people are not person A, B, C ect. once I get to Z (if I get to Z) I'm going to have person AA, BB, CC, ect. If you want to know who you are, ask me and I will tell you your letter (or tell you that I have not assigned you one).
Back to band... Jazz band is coming up, and since person A said that they thought I should do it, I'm going to talk to Mrs. Band Director about getting a trombone to use so I can start practicing, because it's harder to switch to a trombone, than to a tuba. That said, I don't have a mouthpiece, and I already have to pay $55 for a new tuba mouthpiece. At this rate I will never be able to pay for my plane tickets for this summer.
My mother has made me really happy because she called somebody about piano lessons. I have been teaching myself to play piano for a year or two, and now I can learn how to play it properly.
When my dad started drilling me about this (he's in Guam) I told him about Person B's master plan for me. This plan is basically that after I learn piano, I need to learn guitar, then get a drumset, then a violin, and then a sax, and then a flute. After all this I will supposedly be ready to be a band director. I'm not quite sure what happened, but I think somehow I'm getting a guitar for Xmas. This makes me feel like a hypocrite because Person E and I were arguing about whether or not guitar or piano was better, and I was arguing piano... Ah well, life likes to be ironic.
Since Mrs. Band Director comes back tomorrow I think that there's going to be a section leader/drum major meeting, which will be relief because I am tired of playing the same music over and over again every day... I wish we had concert music to work on :(
Okay, I need to go, because I need to find out what rise over run, Y=mx+b and all that muck means.
-Oceansurferg
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
**MUSICMUSICMUSIC**
Hey guys!
I'm really happy with my last post right now. I've gotten a lot of response from friends, and I even changed one of my friends minds about something. Makes me feel like I have an impact on this desolate little world...
Any who, onto that really important looking title up there... I've reread my recent posts, and noticed that while I'm getting a lot more serious and in depth, I keep forgetting to add a song, or end up thinking a song would ruin the flow of the post.
Today I'm going to make up for that.
I have chosen ten songs for you all to listen to. Enjoy :D
1) You Can't Speak Snake by The Moaning Myrtles (my myspace song)
2) There's a Reason These Tables are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of it Yet by Panic! At the Disco
3) I'm a Bitch by Meredith Brooks
4) Ebay by Weird Al
5) Lovegood Acoustic by Ministry of Magic
6) Emergency by Paramore
7) Shut Up and Let Me Go by The Ting Tings
8) She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5
9) We Belong Together by The Parselmouths feat. Ministry of Magic
10) The Band Geek Song by The Totalitarians
Oh, and please vote ----------->
-Oceansurferg
I'm really happy with my last post right now. I've gotten a lot of response from friends, and I even changed one of my friends minds about something. Makes me feel like I have an impact on this desolate little world...
Any who, onto that really important looking title up there... I've reread my recent posts, and noticed that while I'm getting a lot more serious and in depth, I keep forgetting to add a song, or end up thinking a song would ruin the flow of the post.
Today I'm going to make up for that.
I have chosen ten songs for you all to listen to. Enjoy :D
1) You Can't Speak Snake by The Moaning Myrtles (my myspace song)
2) There's a Reason These Tables are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of it Yet by Panic! At the Disco
3) I'm a Bitch by Meredith Brooks
4) Ebay by Weird Al
5) Lovegood Acoustic by Ministry of Magic
6) Emergency by Paramore
7) Shut Up and Let Me Go by The Ting Tings
8) She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5
9) We Belong Together by The Parselmouths feat. Ministry of Magic
10) The Band Geek Song by The Totalitarians
Oh, and please vote ----------->
-Oceansurferg
Monday, September 8, 2008
Twilight - I'm laying down the line
I am getting sick and tired of the arguments, the picking of sides, the unreasoned attacks on either the author or people with reasoned arguments, the petitions, ect. But the thing I am getting most sick and tired of, is people asking me for my opinion.
It's not really people asking for my opinion that bothers me. What bothers be is their reactions. If I say I don't like Breaking Dawn, I get reactions along the lines of 'only someone who was never really a fan would say that'. If I express to some of my friends that I really did enjoy some parts of Breaking Dawn I am suddenly labeled as a 'rabid fangirl'. (Note: I do realize that my closer friends don't do this to me, but this is a generalization).
Now let's switch over to the chat rooms, and basic fan community. Debate; great, reasoned and slightly fired up argument; okay if the topic of debate is a large one, flame wars; unjust, unreasoned, mean, stupid, and unwelcome. The picking of sides; it can be just, when well reasoned, but if you're choosing sides to follow the crowd/friends/author to the death, or are picking sides because you think you need to pick sides, I will get mad. Mostly because this leads back to arguments.
Also, I need to say it right now. This is bugging me a lot 'Smeyer is trying to instill her Mormon beliefs on us!!!'. Do you want to know some other authors who put their religious beliefs into their writing? JK ROWLING, CS LEWIS. Do these names ring any bells? Their series' of books sell at least thousands every year and they aren't being flamed for it. Heck, Rowling has even been considered to be 'anti-christian' for having witchcraft in her books.
Now, so people can understand that you don't need to be at an extreme end of a spectrum when you have certain opinions, here are all of my opinions on the twilight series and recent occurrences...
Twilight was good, New Moon was better, Eclipse was great, The Host was excelent. Stephenie Meyer created high expectations for her books, and she'd been living up to them... So when Smeyer made the statement that basically said it was very unlikely that this book would have lived up to expectations, may I point out that if she'd not strayed so far from established cannon this story might have lived up to expectations. Look at Jo! She managed to live up to the majority's expectations, and her expectations were quite easily larger than Smeyer's were.
I do have the opinion that Bella is a Mary Sue, but when Mary Sues are well written, I am fine with it. This brings us to Breaking Dawn, Mary Sue suddenly became way too emphasized, and it was not well written.
I do not have qualms with the Quil/Claire imprint. I completely understand that there is no romantic feeling what so ever, and there won't be until she is closer to Quil's physical age biologically. I do have qualms with the Jacob/Renesmee imprint. It is too based on physical age over a mix of biological/physical. My basic point is this; Renesmee is full grown when she is SEVEN biologically. She still will not have enough experience to truly consider herself an adult, and it's very likely she will go off with Quil, no problem. It just makes me uneasy.
This series has been mainly about choices, giving up things for other things. This was one of the many things that grounded Smeyer's books in reality. Choices no longer exist in Breaking Dawn. Bella gets everything she wanted in the end, with no consequence. Way to back up a theme!
I actually did like Jacob's perspective. It was something refreshing and new. It was also something that I've wanted since I read New Moon. Jacob is the most realistic character in the series by far, and he's worthy of this honor.
Renesmee cannot exist. Smeyer competely ignored established cannon right here. Explain how this is possible scientificaly, and I might chang my mind.
My opinions on the boys... Mike is clingy and annoying. Some people like that, I don't. Edward is an empty box with luxurious wrapping. He's polite, kind, and has many other excelent qualities, but these should all be secondary to the personality, the present that's supposed to be inside the box. (Note: The following opinion is highly biaused) Ben is awesome. He's nerdy, sweet, shy, and so many other things... I was never kidding when I said I was Team Ben. Jacob, is a realistic teenager, boy person. He makes a lot of mistakes on the way in his life. Most importantly however, he has a personality. I cannot stress that enough. If I had an option between Edward and Jake my choice would be Jake, end of story. (Ben v. Jake is again, another story).
Oh, and Midnight Sun is the best thing Stephenie's written, she's stupid to not publish it. I am a writer, and other writers are saying that you need to be a writer to understand why she can't finish it. Again, I am a writer, would any of you other writers like to try and explain this concept to me?
These are my basic standpoints on the series right now. And understand, I DO love all of Smeyer's other books, but I just can't understand Breaking Dawn.
Also, I am now afraid to go into chat rooms, forums, ect. because there is always one rabid anti-fan at an extreme end of the spectrum, and rabid fangirls at the other, so if anyone has any ideas about how to get over these fears leave a comment. Also leave a comment if you feel like debating... I'm interested to hear others REASONED opinions :)
-Oceansurferg
Edits: 1) I meant that it was a stupid decision, not the Stehpenie is stupid. 2) I can now remember that I wrote this blog in response to Kaleb Nation's (AKA Twilight Guy) personal response to fan backlash. You can read it here. 3) I forgot to add that I do not approve of personal attacks on the author. She's a human being just like everyone else, and deserves respect. You don't know her, so you can't criticize her. End of story.
It's not really people asking for my opinion that bothers me. What bothers be is their reactions. If I say I don't like Breaking Dawn, I get reactions along the lines of 'only someone who was never really a fan would say that'. If I express to some of my friends that I really did enjoy some parts of Breaking Dawn I am suddenly labeled as a 'rabid fangirl'. (Note: I do realize that my closer friends don't do this to me, but this is a generalization).
Now let's switch over to the chat rooms, and basic fan community. Debate; great, reasoned and slightly fired up argument; okay if the topic of debate is a large one, flame wars; unjust, unreasoned, mean, stupid, and unwelcome. The picking of sides; it can be just, when well reasoned, but if you're choosing sides to follow the crowd/friends/author to the death, or are picking sides because you think you need to pick sides, I will get mad. Mostly because this leads back to arguments.
Also, I need to say it right now. This is bugging me a lot 'Smeyer is trying to instill her Mormon beliefs on us!!!'. Do you want to know some other authors who put their religious beliefs into their writing? JK ROWLING, CS LEWIS. Do these names ring any bells? Their series' of books sell at least thousands every year and they aren't being flamed for it. Heck, Rowling has even been considered to be 'anti-christian' for having witchcraft in her books.
Now, so people can understand that you don't need to be at an extreme end of a spectrum when you have certain opinions, here are all of my opinions on the twilight series and recent occurrences...
Twilight was good, New Moon was better, Eclipse was great, The Host was excelent. Stephenie Meyer created high expectations for her books, and she'd been living up to them... So when Smeyer made the statement that basically said it was very unlikely that this book would have lived up to expectations, may I point out that if she'd not strayed so far from established cannon this story might have lived up to expectations. Look at Jo! She managed to live up to the majority's expectations, and her expectations were quite easily larger than Smeyer's were.
I do have the opinion that Bella is a Mary Sue, but when Mary Sues are well written, I am fine with it. This brings us to Breaking Dawn, Mary Sue suddenly became way too emphasized, and it was not well written.
I do not have qualms with the Quil/Claire imprint. I completely understand that there is no romantic feeling what so ever, and there won't be until she is closer to Quil's physical age biologically. I do have qualms with the Jacob/Renesmee imprint. It is too based on physical age over a mix of biological/physical. My basic point is this; Renesmee is full grown when she is SEVEN biologically. She still will not have enough experience to truly consider herself an adult, and it's very likely she will go off with Quil, no problem. It just makes me uneasy.
This series has been mainly about choices, giving up things for other things. This was one of the many things that grounded Smeyer's books in reality. Choices no longer exist in Breaking Dawn. Bella gets everything she wanted in the end, with no consequence. Way to back up a theme!
I actually did like Jacob's perspective. It was something refreshing and new. It was also something that I've wanted since I read New Moon. Jacob is the most realistic character in the series by far, and he's worthy of this honor.
Renesmee cannot exist. Smeyer competely ignored established cannon right here. Explain how this is possible scientificaly, and I might chang my mind.
My opinions on the boys... Mike is clingy and annoying. Some people like that, I don't. Edward is an empty box with luxurious wrapping. He's polite, kind, and has many other excelent qualities, but these should all be secondary to the personality, the present that's supposed to be inside the box. (Note: The following opinion is highly biaused) Ben is awesome. He's nerdy, sweet, shy, and so many other things... I was never kidding when I said I was Team Ben. Jacob, is a realistic teenager, boy person. He makes a lot of mistakes on the way in his life. Most importantly however, he has a personality. I cannot stress that enough. If I had an option between Edward and Jake my choice would be Jake, end of story. (Ben v. Jake is again, another story).
Oh, and Midnight Sun is the best thing Stephenie's written, she's stupid to not publish it. I am a writer, and other writers are saying that you need to be a writer to understand why she can't finish it. Again, I am a writer, would any of you other writers like to try and explain this concept to me?
These are my basic standpoints on the series right now. And understand, I DO love all of Smeyer's other books, but I just can't understand Breaking Dawn.
Also, I am now afraid to go into chat rooms, forums, ect. because there is always one rabid anti-fan at an extreme end of the spectrum, and rabid fangirls at the other, so if anyone has any ideas about how to get over these fears leave a comment. Also leave a comment if you feel like debating... I'm interested to hear others REASONED opinions :)
-Oceansurferg
Edits: 1) I meant that it was a stupid decision, not the Stehpenie is stupid. 2) I can now remember that I wrote this blog in response to Kaleb Nation's (AKA Twilight Guy) personal response to fan backlash. You can read it here. 3) I forgot to add that I do not approve of personal attacks on the author. She's a human being just like everyone else, and deserves respect. You don't know her, so you can't criticize her. End of story.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Cheese, Nerdfighters, and Seven Postitions
I could rant for a while about HP being moved, but I'll do that later. (As in, another post).
So lately I've noticed that I've been saying one particular phrase a lot - using it as an ice breaker sort of thing when it gets awkward. 'Do you like cheese?' I'm serious, I've been asking people this. So, when I searched the phrase on Google, the first result was a quiz "What Kind of Cheese Are You?" Apparently, I am American cheese. And I was so sure I'd be Swiss.
I have discovered Hank and John Green (please don't hunt me down if that was incorrect!), and I am now a Nerdfighter. I love the chat room there. People are so nice, and intelligent. Tell me where else you can find people who have a tendency to spell everything correctly. And they all are into nerdy stuff like Star Wars, Harry Potter and all that other good stuff. I also love the weapons of choice; Brain (I think I use mine adequately), Heart (Umm, mine beats?), Calculator (It solves the fancy equations so that I don't have to), and the Trombone (used to play it! WOOO! Go low brass!). Oh, and you're probably wondering what the weapons are for. Nerdfighters are fighting against world suckwith our brains, hearts, calculators, and trombones.
On that topic of musical instruments I must admit it. I am a geek who can play the cell phone. Actually, I was bored, searched for random things, and eventually came across a website of instrument jokes. There are several that I'm fond of from there, so I'm going to bullet some of my favorites.
So, I've made friends with another Slytherin. I told you there were other anti-Voldemort (you don't pronounce the T people, get it right!) Slytherins out there. You just have to look real hard. But it's nice to be friend with another Harry Potter freak for once, because they don't think you think about Harry Potter way too much.
Oh, and another friend of mine and I are trying to annoy our friend into reading Harry Potter as well as we possibly can, by calling her, and asking for the transfiguration homework. Since I know that she reads this, she should know that if she doesn't start reading the books soon, I'm going to call for the Transfiguration homework at three in the morning, and that won't be fun.
I also realised that I haven't mentioned it, but I'm one of the people who didn't like Breaking Dawn. Mary Sue completely pulverized the book. And with the way Jacob's book ends (book 2), there's no way in hell that there will be a fourth movie. However, even with this disappointment, I look forward to the Twilight movie, which got moved after what I shall forever more refer to as the day of black potter happenings, to November. Oh, and the majority of the teeshirts for the movie are REALLY tacky.
It's slightly past eleven, and I will still procrastinate on going to sleep... But it's best to be off.
Laters,
Oceansurferg
So lately I've noticed that I've been saying one particular phrase a lot - using it as an ice breaker sort of thing when it gets awkward. 'Do you like cheese?' I'm serious, I've been asking people this. So, when I searched the phrase on Google, the first result was a quiz "What Kind of Cheese Are You?" Apparently, I am American cheese. And I was so sure I'd be Swiss.
I have discovered Hank and John Green (please don't hunt me down if that was incorrect!), and I am now a Nerdfighter. I love the chat room there. People are so nice, and intelligent. Tell me where else you can find people who have a tendency to spell everything correctly. And they all are into nerdy stuff like Star Wars, Harry Potter and all that other good stuff. I also love the weapons of choice; Brain (I think I use mine adequately), Heart (Umm, mine beats?), Calculator (It solves the fancy equations so that I don't have to), and the Trombone (used to play it! WOOO! Go low brass!). Oh, and you're probably wondering what the weapons are for. Nerdfighters are fighting against world suckwith our brains, hearts, calculators, and trombones.
On that topic of musical instruments I must admit it. I am a geek who can play the cell phone. Actually, I was bored, searched for random things, and eventually came across a website of instrument jokes. There are several that I'm fond of from there, so I'm going to bullet some of my favorites.
- How do you tune two (insert instrument here)s? Shoot one of them.
- How can you tell if a kid on the playground is the child of a trombonist? He can't swing, and he has complains with the slide.
- What do you call a (insert musician type here) with half a brain? Gifted.
- What's most tragic about a minivan with five (insert instrument here)s running off a cliff? You could have fit more.
- (innuendo alert!) Trumpets do it with three fingers, baritones do it with four, but trombones do it in seven positions. (I laughed way to long when I read that).
- Two tuba players walk past a bar... Hey! It could happen.
So, I've made friends with another Slytherin. I told you there were other anti-Voldemort (you don't pronounce the T people, get it right!) Slytherins out there. You just have to look real hard. But it's nice to be friend with another Harry Potter freak for once, because they don't think you think about Harry Potter way too much.
Oh, and another friend of mine and I are trying to annoy our friend into reading Harry Potter as well as we possibly can, by calling her, and asking for the transfiguration homework. Since I know that she reads this, she should know that if she doesn't start reading the books soon, I'm going to call for the Transfiguration homework at three in the morning, and that won't be fun.
I also realised that I haven't mentioned it, but I'm one of the people who didn't like Breaking Dawn. Mary Sue completely pulverized the book. And with the way Jacob's book ends (book 2), there's no way in hell that there will be a fourth movie. However, even with this disappointment, I look forward to the Twilight movie, which got moved after what I shall forever more refer to as the day of black potter happenings, to November. Oh, and the majority of the teeshirts for the movie are REALLY tacky.
It's slightly past eleven, and I will still procrastinate on going to sleep... But it's best to be off.
Laters,
Oceansurferg
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
This Chick Reads WAAY Too Much
Hey Guys, it's Tuesday! And I'm not a member of the five awesome girls but, it doesn't mean that they have that phrase copyrighted or anything. (Yeah, that was a TOTAL 'placement ad', but I seriously love watching those girls!).
Anyways, it's Tuesday. Let's pretend that Saturday = 7, and Tuesday = 3. Now what is the difference between Saturday and Tuesday? The answer: FOUR FREAKING DAYS TILL BREAKING DAWN BY STEPHENIE MEYER.
Was I clear enough?
Just to be sure... FOUR FREAKING DAYS TILL BREAKING DAWN BY STEPHENIE MEYER!!!
Now, I'm not as excited about this as I was Deathly Hallows (please view the monologue I wrote on the 21st...), but I feel it's safe to say that I am really freaking ecstatic about this book. I'm not even speculating about this book like I did for the last book in the series that came out (Eclipse) - let alone nearly every HP book after four - but I'm still excited all the same.
I'm betting that a few of my friends *coughsierracough* are thinking that I'm crazy for not speculating, but I have a very easy reason. Stephenie Meyer always does things in surprising ways, ways that really can't be predicted. Sure there is definitely some speculating on Bella's powers that I could do, but the moment I read the first chapter of Breaking Dawn in the Eclipse special edition, I was positive that the Wedding would be relatively non-problamatic. There is truly no way to have an idea of what's going to happen in more than a hundred pages of the book (unless they've been spoilerfied). So I've decided not to fret, and just enjoy the ride.
Now I'm going to inform you of my plans for the release. I'm going to a barnes and noble, because even though Borders is cheaper, and I have a borders card, I really enjoyed the Harry Potter release party for DH, not to mention that I think BN has better service. After probably having to spend two hours waiting to get our book after midnight, my friend and I (probably extremely tired at this point, will start reading in the car, then, once home, will grab some soda to stay up and sleep deprived, so we can attempt to read the book.
Oh, and I'm also making a t-shirt at the last minute that basically states that I'm team ben (which is a joke), hilariously on a t-shirt if I do say so myself.
Now, on to the song!
I've been getting a wee bit obsessed with wizard rock as of late, so I've decided to make this post's song 'This is Never Going to End' by The Parselmouths (The lead singer - I think - is Monday on five awesome girls). I'm choosing it mostly because of July 21st, but also because it's the first song on their myspace...
Laters!
~Oceansurferg
Anyways, it's Tuesday. Let's pretend that Saturday = 7, and Tuesday = 3. Now what is the difference between Saturday and Tuesday? The answer: FOUR FREAKING DAYS TILL BREAKING DAWN BY STEPHENIE MEYER.
Was I clear enough?
Just to be sure... FOUR FREAKING DAYS TILL BREAKING DAWN BY STEPHENIE MEYER!!!
Now, I'm not as excited about this as I was Deathly Hallows (please view the monologue I wrote on the 21st...), but I feel it's safe to say that I am really freaking ecstatic about this book. I'm not even speculating about this book like I did for the last book in the series that came out (Eclipse) - let alone nearly every HP book after four - but I'm still excited all the same.
I'm betting that a few of my friends *coughsierracough* are thinking that I'm crazy for not speculating, but I have a very easy reason. Stephenie Meyer always does things in surprising ways, ways that really can't be predicted. Sure there is definitely some speculating on Bella's powers that I could do, but the moment I read the first chapter of Breaking Dawn in the Eclipse special edition, I was positive that the Wedding would be relatively non-problamatic. There is truly no way to have an idea of what's going to happen in more than a hundred pages of the book (unless they've been spoilerfied). So I've decided not to fret, and just enjoy the ride.
Now I'm going to inform you of my plans for the release. I'm going to a barnes and noble, because even though Borders is cheaper, and I have a borders card, I really enjoyed the Harry Potter release party for DH, not to mention that I think BN has better service. After probably having to spend two hours waiting to get our book after midnight, my friend and I (probably extremely tired at this point, will start reading in the car, then, once home, will grab some soda to stay up and sleep deprived, so we can attempt to read the book.
Oh, and I'm also making a t-shirt at the last minute that basically states that I'm team ben (which is a joke), hilariously on a t-shirt if I do say so myself.
Now, on to the song!
I've been getting a wee bit obsessed with wizard rock as of late, so I've decided to make this post's song 'This is Never Going to End' by The Parselmouths (The lead singer - I think - is Monday on five awesome girls). I'm choosing it mostly because of July 21st, but also because it's the first song on their myspace...
Laters!
~Oceansurferg
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