I play with fire to break the ice

Henry Gale Minnesota = See an Other Man lying

2010-01-02T14:22:00.013+08:00

I totally blew up a hatch last night. Thing is, the hatch was the computer's plug thing and the dynamite was my hand. The island was our computer room and the Desmond would be divided into two -- first, the 'hostile' dust particles, who were the original inhabitants, and the 'scientific' prokaryotes, the new residents of the socket. They've made a truce, you guys...

I realized that my extreme Lost obsession has never seen the light of this blog, and the internet for that matter. The entire time I had this blog, Lost wasn't airing. Season 5 was, but I haven't even watched Season 3 at that time. Now, I'm catching up. I just did a major rewatch on the series so the whole "OH MY GOD I DIDN'T NOTICE THAT THE FIRST TIME" type of reactions are still fresh inside me. To no one's surprise, I shall pour it all out here.

Lost Showdowns by Scott Campbell

Lost is the best show that ever existed in the history of television! It's the best show that's ever been written, filmed, acted, 'screenplayed', aired EVER. If there's one word that would describe it in its entirety, it's mindfuck. The whole waiting, guessing, sharing theories, the whole experience is mindfuck. The connection between the characters, character development at its extreme-est, the retakes from someone else's point of view, is just mindfuck. Flashbacks and flashforwards, the anagrams, the references, pure mindfuck.

Every single scene is just so relevant. Did you notice that the particular lines Charlie from the past was singing from Wonderwall (Because maybe / You're gonna be the one that saves me) when Desmond from the past saw him in England hinted about Desmond of the present's flashes about Charlie's death/s? Daniel's foot gone in the Season 5 promotional poster? The killing of the Dharma Initiative, the exact time Ben's watch was shown, was 4:00:15-4:00:16, one of The Numbers? The producers are super sneaky. Details, details, details. The one factor that, I believe, made Apple more successful than Windows.

Rewatching the same episode is never the same.*

But seriously though, the computer's plug thing did explode on my hand last night. Fortunately, it works now, and I think I know why. You wanna know why? Because this place is different. This place is special. I know it. I feel it. Everything that happened, happened for a reason. This place chose me to make the thing explode. I was meant to blow up the thing and blog about it. I had to, for something will happen; I just don't know what yet, but it's destiny. *nods*

*Never mind the blockquoting, I wrote that. I'm a format freak.

Happy year spaceship!

2010-01-01T14:00:00.007+08:00

I'm starting the Ultimate 365 Project this year, and because I now like being honest to myself, it does not include me promising to post every day. You and I both know that's not gonna happen. So, I'm 31 days behind. Here's a playlist of what I was really listening to for the last month of the previous decade. I am telling you now, prepare yourself for an overabundance of Queen.

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen (Told ya.)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen (Mmhmm.)
You're My Best Friend - Queen (Again.)
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
Play The Game - Queen
Killer Queen - Queen
Save Me - Queen
Somebody To Love - Queen (I think I've proved my point.)
Metal Now - Say Anything
Hate Everyone (Acoustic) - Say Anything (Believe it or not, the acoustic version sounds very different; it focuses on the lyrics.)
Family Tree - TV On The Radio
My Pretty Eyes - Rediscover
Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
All The Pretty Girls (On A Saturday Night) - fun.
Be Calm - fun.
It's True Love - Forgive Durden Feat. Greta Salpeter
Fed To Death - Say Anything (Favorite 1 minute song ever. Check out the lyrics now.)
Marvelous Things - Eisley (Eisley next to Say Anything was on purpose.)
Auf Achse - Franz Ferdinand
You Belong - Hercules And Love Affair
All of This - blink-182 ft. Robert Smith
Billy Brown - Mika
Lover Boy - Mika
I've Just Seen A Face - The Beatles
Girl - The Beatles
Oh! Darling - The Beatles
Dear Prudence - The Beatles
I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
Hold Me Tight - The Beatles
Come Together - The Beatles
Panic Switch - Silversun Pickups
True Love - Madina Lake
Pretty Vacant - The Sex Pistols

See! I actually improved on my Beatles music. Remember my confession about knowing only around 5 Beatles songs? That reminds me... We've also finished our Periodic Table of Musicians. I didn't get to keep any pictures of it but I made a deal with my mates that I'll take it home when our teacher's done with it. Why of course I'll post. *grins the I am so damn proud of myself Cheshire Cat grin*

Many people don't know that Pete Wentz will impulsively repeat the word "cheese" and smile if you tell him to "say cheese". It is a disease.

This. This is the exact apotheosis of the phrase "so wrong, it's right."

DMD 11/30

2009-12-01T05:43:00.005+08:00

Unnatural Selection - Muse
They'll laugh as they watch us fall / The lucky don't care at all / No chance for fate / It's unnatural selection / I want the truth / No religion or mind virus / Is there a chance the facts will ever find us

The Resistance takes a lot of listening to to appreciate. This is one of the exceptions. FYI, Matt is atheist. I repeat: Matt is an atheist. I absolutely love how he implied his being so (see above.) I'm not being elitist here, but you gotta agree, Unnatural Selection is prettyfuckingenius. I reckon this is about the other way around with natural selection, how we "evolve" towards death. Well maybe not exactly, but you know, society is crumbling.

Nonsense, but it sounds pretty

2009-11-29T22:31:00.000+08:00

I realized that picspamming will make my blog load slower as Mr. Black Eyeliner is still, almost right below me, so I'll save all that for later. By later, I probably mean next next week, where I will start the post with an apology again, for abandoning this again, saying I'm busy again... Hey, I take back what I said before, I am consistent.

Let us now proceed to the bragging phase of this post. I'd love to talk to you all about my first stargazing experience. I got to use legit telescopes, stay up from 6PM to 7AM at school, dress my friend up as Dora, start and finish the record-breaking 50-item assignment, experience the beauty of the alleged 15K green laser pointer thingies, wake up to the SpongeBob theme song, hold a meteorite, locate the most magnificent tiny red dot in the universe--the planet Mars--and Saturn as well. Now that you're burning with jealousy (unless you happen to be a Setonian who attended the activity or an astronaut, though the chances of you, the random internet person on here, being anyone other than a Setonian is directly proportional to the chances of me being a dog), let me introduce to you my new blog idea that will hopefully, fingers-crossed, not fail and be disregarded by its pathetic owner!

Jesus Christ I love fragments/clauses/run-ons/dangling modifiers/unnecessary statements.

It's confessions. Simple as that. So to begin...

I've never owned a band shirt.
I only know about 5 Beatles songs. Of course I appreciate what they did to music, but I'm not a huge fan or anything; though my dad is.
I've read Twilight and New Moon and it was only 85% because I wanted to see for myself how bad it is. A part of me had a girl crush on Alice and Jasper.
Forgive me father for I lied before about trying smoking. I'm a straight edge kid.
Whenever I eat sunny side-up eggs for breakfast and whenever I eat roasted chicken, I consider going vegetarian not because I feel bad for the animals but because I find the food plain disgusting.
From that you could tell that I've considered going vegetarian about 896416132 million times, though I don't think I can embark on such a limiting lifestyle.

We went to the mall today and I saw this from David and Goliath:

I didn't buy it. Not only will it bespeak my love for London, it is also/can also be a Clash reference. AND, that "Oi!" killed me. On top of that, when I entered the store, they were playing All These Things That I've Done. It's a generally popular song, but in my country, to most people, The Killers are unheard of. The store basically met all the requirements for Megan to buy at least something. They also had this shirt, I forgot what the drawing was exactly but it said "I hate vampires" and I'd love to wear that when I go watch New Moon with my friends.

Don't get me wrong, I love vampires. They are the second most fascinating night creatures next to aliens. Stephenie Meyer's made-up world of "vampires" can actually pass for a parody, if it wasn't too serious, but that's how everyone's viewing them now. Sparkly. Romantic. Pah.

To end, I'd like you to know that I didn't get new earphones. Boo. I think my mom doesn't want to buy me the ridiculously overpriced Apple ones so I'm going to have to stick with crap earphones 'til they get busted. On a positive note, I bought myself this splendid pile of dead trees yesterday:

YES BITCHES. BOOKSALE HAS NEW STOCK. AP is for scene kids, but this one's cover story is titled Back Together For The Kids... I melted inside.

DMD 11/23-29/09

2009-11-29T19:42:00.007+08:00

Since I can't abide my imaginary DMD rule of choosing the lyrics I like the most off the song of the day, which in effect makes me lazy and stop posting, I'll have it in a playlist whenever I dawdle.

Over and Over - Hot Chip
Can't Stop Feeling - Franz Ferdinand
At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be) - fun.
Less Cute - Say Anything
Him - Lily Allen
Lost In The Supermarket - The Clash
Money Honey - Lady GaGa

Well what do you know, save kooky for last. I am alarmed that a lunatic is present in that list. Speaking of lunatics and lists, I'm going to list down movies I want to watch. Went to the movies yesterday and seen Paranormal Activity. Not quite worth my money, but I did see trailers!

Zombieland: The trailer is beyond awesome. The lead guy reminds me of Michael Cera.* Michael Cera, though overrated, is--how do I say it--err, important. Plus, Jhonen Vasquez loved it.
Holmes: Everyone wants to see this; so do I. Mad detective shit, I have always been fascinated with. In fact, I'm reading about lateral thinking right now. Guy Ritchie's also directing this. Interesting.
A Christmas Carol: Based on my favorite childhood book. I absolutely love the story. I used to read this over and over again. My sister and her family's seen it in 3D and said it's great. Gah, I wish we watched this instead. I don't know what else to say. I have to watch this as much as Jack Barakat needs to watch Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. There.
The Vampire's Assistant: Another childhood favorite; though this one during the pre-teen years. I've influenced at least a dozen people to read the 12-book series. It may just be my liking of pre-Twilight, still awesome vampires or my low standards back then but I used to think Darren Shan's a genius. Main reason: First chapter of Book 1 and last chapter of Book 12. You wouldn't understand a thing if you read them without going through the pages in between but when you do, holy hell. That's all. Don't wanna talk about how shitty I believe the movie will turn out, spent too much time on that before.
Alice In Wonderland: See previous post.
The Lovely Bones: The film would mostly be told as an out of body experience, right? Oh hell yes, then. Based on an amazing book I haven't read yet but will. Gotta rush.

*Holy cow! Enlarge this shit!

I've been slacking.

2009-11-22T18:58:00.005+08:00

16 days I have failed to update this blog because I am inconsistent like that. So firstly, I am going to flood you with the relatively *~new~* (no idea what those symbols are for, srsly, but I like using them [so very 14-year-old-ish of me]) songs I've been hooked on those past 16 days. Secondly, I will picspam with Lacoste Un peu d'air sur terre ads because I figured out how they do that and thought maybe it'd inspire me in some way, seeing that I failed to win a single award I've been nominated for -- 4 fucking nominations, mind you -- at the most important thing I've ever done in my life. More on that some other time. And thirdly, I have new blog ideas.

Young, Dumb, And Stung - Say Anything
Little Triggers - Elvis Costello
Golden Age - TV On The Radio
Meet The King - Forgive Durden ft. Greta Salpeter and Nic Newsham
The Hardest Button To Button - The White Stripes
It's Not Over Yet - Klaxons
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
The Dark Of The Matinée - Franz Ferdinand
Electric Feel - MGMT
Black Mamba - The Academy Is...
Come Around - M.I.A. ft. Timbaland
The Zookeeper's Boy - Mew
Here I Stand - Madina Lake
Walking The Dog - fun.
Whatever - Gnarls Barkley
Dope Nose - Weezer

I'll drop the lyrics for now. I always cheat, don't I?

I know it's a sin to picspam.

2009-11-07T11:41:00.013+08:00

ECHO ECHO! Chris Corner picspam everybody!
Mostly from IAMX's MySpace because you don't need any effort to find great photos of him.

DMD 11/06

2009-11-07T10:26:00.005+08:00

Roses - Kanye West
You know the best medicine go to people that's paid / If Magic Johnson got a cure for AIDS / And all the broke m'fuckers passed away / You tellin' me if my grandma's in the NBA /Right now she'd be okay... / Instead of sendin' flowers /We the roses /

I can't -- choose -- lines again! But anyhow. Who knew Kanye West was a family man. Great song.

Chris Corner looks like my favorite teacher

2009-11-05T22:26:00.006+08:00

A few other things I'd like to say, apart from the title:

My favorite teacher is bisexual.
Make-up and circus-esque costumes never failed to attract my attention (Learn from Panic! and IAMX, you guys.)
Chris Corner's press photos look so awesome!
Both Chris Corner's and Lady GaGa's make-up artists must be awarded something. Now.
I need new music!
I still doubt The Vampire's Assistant. Then again, every Darren Shan fan who read the 12 Cirque Du Freak books as a kid will not like how most characters look.
I'm scared that I won't ever get over Brendon Urie. I've been done with the gah-he-has-a-new-cover-song phase a long time now but god, you must've seen me in the theatre during Jennifer's Body's Chip-is-spraying-something-on-his-half-naked-body scene where New Perspective was playing silently... then it fast-forwarded (pun slightly intended) to the chorus and I think I died.
The weirdest crush I've ever had was on Apollo (yes, the Greek god.)
I deleted my "Tell me, what is it that's so great about..." draft post, afraid that it's too uh, anti-society. Too against the attitude and mentality of the world today. Too Hate Everyone, if you know what I mean.
If you knew what I meant on that last bullet statement, I love you.

DMD 11/04-05

2009-11-05T20:26:00.004+08:00

I'm cheating, darn this. And we all know that cheating is a major offense. Anybody caught cheating will automatically get nothing out of this quiz plus a bonus date with Ms. Glo at the sub-unit head's office. (Or should I say level coordinator's office?) :D

Eloise - Say Anything
So beautiful, the ugliness within you... / And mad with power / I’ve seen corrupt the leaders of this nation / Stricken with the sickly imitation / Of a love the Lord would never stitch /

Mara And Me - Say Anything
There are babies with guns beheading their friends / In shopping malls around the world / Yet somehow the Kings of Leon / Still find time to write songs about girls... / I contend that the coming Holocaust will be of those who choose to believe / In anything but a phallic sense of self / Hang alone in the attic tied up tightly with your father's belt /

Okay shut up, I'm aware that I used Say Anything thrice consecutively. I get that. I also understand that this isn't helping widen my music taste or whatever the purpose of this is, but you must understand that they released a record on November 3 after two years of inactivity and I desperately needed Bemis wit. No, Two Tongues was a very different band. Another thing, Mara was the answer to that UP Talahasaan quiz bee question (name of the animal who disturbed Siddharta when he was meditating/praying) that we got wrong. If you don't already know, that quiz bee was the most important off-campus school activity I've ever joined.

So please, pardon me.

I also miss blockquoting. The few sentences that shall follow perfectly express how I feel whenever I talk to Jamie in the front of the bus on the way home.

It had to do with me placing myself in a situation because I felt bad about myself or felt bad about things in society. I wanted to solve the world's problems by trying to help this one person and help them overcome certain things that they just never would.

DMD 11/03

2009-11-05T05:09:00.003+08:00

I know, I'm late. The CPU had to go with my dad because it's having one of its episodes again. Maybe it caught a virus, I dunno. I hear there's a pandemic and it's spreading through flash drives.

Cemetery - Say Anything
When I face the one who made / My disgusting heart from a lump of clay /Should he ask what got me through /If he asks me, it was you / You're in my body / That's where I think about you

It took me a loooooong time to select lines from the song 'cause it's too fucking marvelous. You see when something is written so beautifully (I rarely, rarely use that word), when everything is just awesome and keeps getting better, you end up completely Stendhal syndromed with the last lines.

Afterlife and love. I swear to (non-existent) god, Max Bemis is a genius. He's one of the few songwriters that made me appreciate this concept. Then again, if the world wasn't so overexposed to cheap emo music such as that horrible Tonight song...

You'll know when you understand.

2009-11-03T08:20:00.005+08:00

"You've already turned away from THOUSANDS of gods. Why would one less make any difference?"

Religion. *sighs*

I am so sick of talking about my faith. Or rather, my lack thereof. It's none of your business why I believe so even if you're my friend or not. Just fucking accept it. This doesn't make me a worse person. Not believing doesn't take away my ability to care. Or listen, or love, or to follow laws.

Atheists are nice. Just don't bitch about how there is a god and ask for a philosophical argument, because we're all too fucking sick of explaining. We know, we're sure as hell, it's very likely that this will be permanent thank you very much. For one thing, you don't become an atheist (for life) in an instant. You have to think about it a lot.

Kids and adults who convert to atheism, they think about it. They've seen the different beliefs--delusions--of people everywhere, experienced them, then they decided. Even little children brought up in an atheist family, they think about it. They wonder why some people have religion and why they don't, thought for themselves then they decided this is right.

"Being an atheist isn’t a choice or act of will — like theism, it’s a consequence of what one knows and how one reasons." - about.com

If you love your religion, don't ask. If you don't want to think of things you've never thought of before, don't ask. If you can't accept losing a philosophical argument, don't ask. Unless you happen to be an incarnation of a disciple or Jesus Christ himself, don't bother. It takes a lot of effort to convert one person from atheism.

Ooh fishy

As promised...

2009-11-02T21:48:00.022+08:00

SURI CRUISE PICSPAM!
I won't even place captions. Thanks Just Jared.

DMD 11/02

2009-11-02T19:48:00.003+08:00

From Buzznet, obviously. I'm not going to update with different musicians though as I'm only one person and I still have that stove creeping up my spine which goes by the lovely name of "Elizabeth Seton School-South." I've already started something similar but they're in post-its surrounding a postcard on a corkboard on my wall. Wow, prepositions.

Anyway, the rule for choosing the song: It should never be a song I've memorized half the lyrics of. I should never be familiar with it until the day, period. I write the song, the artist and choose a few lines from the song. It's therapeutic, trust me.

The Fear - Lily Allen
Life's about film stars and less about mothers / It's all about fast cars and cussing each other / ...Now everything's cool as long as I'm getting thinner / ...I'm being taking over by The Fear.

IV. Writing

2009-10-29T14:45:00.004+08:00

Got this from my second quarterly exam in English III. I've never had more fun in writing an essay for a quarterly test. I think I love our teacher now.

B. ROMEO AND JULIET
Direction: Pick one topic from the given and make a persuasive writing with regard to the chosen one (with a minimum of 5 sentences.) 71-85

Persuasion: Advice from Shakespeare
Based on Romeo and Juliet, what advice do you think Shakespeare would have for young people? Do you think he believed that Romeo and Juliet truly loved each other, or was he implying that they were merely infatuated with each other and acting irrationally? Write a letter from Shakespeare to young lovers in which he reflects on Romeo's and Juliet's actions and offers advice. (YES♥)

Persuasion: A Matchmaker's Proposal
Imagine that you have been hired by Romeo's or Juliet's parents as a matchmaker. You are to find a suitable mate to either Romeo or Juliet in order to break up the relationship between the two. Suppose you had all the characters in the story to choose from. Whom would you pick? Why? Write a proposal in which you recommend a match for either.

Criteria: Content (Purpose, Focus, Support) 10 and Organization (including Impact) 5

Deareth youngeth ones,

I have one thing to explain here: Fiction is fiction. Any resemblance to any real situation, person living or dead is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.

I know you all would love to believe in love at first sight and love forever, but please my little boys and girls, don't be delusional. In my very Excellent and Lamentable play, Romeo and Juliet loved each other very much and I'd like to say that it was in fact true love. No darlings, do not contradict the playwright widely-regarded as the greatest writer in the English language for you did NOT live in the 16th, 15th, 14th, whatever century. Ladies get married at 14 by then!

You people nowadays didn't (I assume) experience the trials of being in love with your family's mortal enemy so don't say it was exaggerated. It was real, but I'm not saying you go an dmake love at such a young age. That's quite terrible.

Now that that's done with: my advice. Do not go and seek for your "one," he/she will come eventually and it will save you from the heartbreak/s. (Rosaline, anyone?) Do not EVER make it a secret from your family--that made this story a tragedy, you littluns. If they protest, profess your true emotions and if they still no backed by a valid reason (not just because he's the son of... daughter of...). Lastly, cherish every moment. You never know when your beloved would decide to fake her death into a coma and make you believe she's dead but she's not then you'd kill yourself and she'll wake up moments later... you know the rest.

Yours,
The World's Pre-Eminent Dramatist

Failed blog ideas

2009-10-29T14:33:00.002+08:00

You can basically call my blog dead (or dying) based on my shameless inactivity. I've had a lot of thoughts on what to blog but I end up deleting the draft because a) it's unfinished, b) I'm lazy, or c) I'm busy... Actually all of those are lies because I think of the greatest blog ideas when I'm about to sleep, in the car, or in the bathroom. When I do go online, I never visit the site because I keep forgetting such genius concepts.

To remedy this, I shall list them down, just like before. I write to remind myself to write about these:

How I discovered...
The greatest feeling in the world
Projects I've done lately
Shit that kept me busy
Own Daily Music Dose
Suri Cruise picspam
My ELA quarterly exam essay

I am so excited for that last one I might as well do it now. Wait for it.

Madness? This is Mike Chadway!

2009-10-01T23:06:00.009+08:00

I hate going on here and saying "I'm sorry I'm abandoning this again." But it is the case, and it will stay like that for a long time unless I do something about it, which is unlikely, though I'd love to. (FY commas!)

After months of secrecy, I've decided to make my blog URL public. Don't ask why. So yeah uh, other than that, I've got nothing important to share. It's not like I actually share important stuff here, but it must be at least special. And as of now, I got nothing. Let's explain the title.

I finally watched The Ugly Truth yesterday. I've been wanting to see it since July, mainly because of Gerard Butler being in it. It's a romantic comedy for fuck's sake. (I haven't seen PS I Love You yet because it sounds so very very cheesy and I don't think I can stand the overflowing smearcase.) You can probably tell that I have an awful lot of respect for the dude. This must have something to do with our (failure of a) team in our First Year named Spartans, but it might also be the fact that he spawned the two greatest memes of all time. 300 is the best movie to screencap... ever.

I even memorized the Urban Dictionary of This is Sparta! and I still remember it. If you happen to be a Persian, here it is:

The greatest cry ever shouted in the history of the universe, only to be shouted directly before delivering a kick to the sternum over a large, seemingly endless pit that has no logical reason for being there but looks really, really, awesome.

Weird role for King Leonidas but in this case, weird is synonymous to awesome. He totally pulled it off, and it was funny as hell. I usually hate romcoms 'cause they are just so repetitive. They follow a certain storyline 1) where they hate each other and afterwards, 2) at some faraway place they make up, make out then 3) someone has to go and the other chases the someone and in what is usually the end, 5) they kiss at some breathtaking place and yadda yoda yoga. Fail. The Ugly Truth, though = Win. It's like GW wrote it. But I'm only saying that 'cause I think GW is a genius.

I'm becoming terrible at writing goodbyes and endings so let's just do what I normally do in such desperate times: Post a picture and explain.

Yes, that is the Philippine President right there, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Surfing on the flooded areas of Manila in what appears to be a surf suit for women in their mid-4os. And I thought Ondoy the fucking asshole storm couldn't get any worse. I was wrong. Thanks GMA.

*the photo is edited

Has not told anyone else yet

2009-08-31T21:08:00.011+08:00

I don't like the journal I did about August 28. I saved it as a draft. It will forever stay there 'cause I'm selfish like that. Unless you figure out my password, which I think is pretty darn difficult to guess.

Anyhoo, let's copy-paste the journal I did earlier this day. I posted it on Multiply... Such a shame.

I actually like Jonas
The TV show. I'm probably condemning myself to eternal rejection/damnation and the loss of respect, readers (possibly friends, too) all by typing that one statement and even going as far as to make it the title of this blog entry. Seriously though, it wasn't bad. It wasn't the amazing Lost-The Soup-Invader Zim kind either, but I've always expected it to be horrible and it proved me wrong, so I like it.

Well I've only watched one episode in full-length. I was sick yesterday (and still am) and my mom had forbidden me to read so I watched TV and was surfing through the channels and I learned that Jonas is next and was like, "Hey, what the heck. It's going to be hilariously eitherway."

It's not the usual Disney sitcom. (The episode I watched at least.) All the other Disney shows are just annoying. Sure there were cliches but I couldn't care less. Either they weren't much, or they were appropriate. I mean, there's this pattern to every Hannah Montana show where something horrible goes wrong and up to that part all of the jokes by Hannah are in the all-too-familiar Southern American accent and the rolling eyes and then 5 minutes before it ends she goes all "honest" and loses the Southern American accent and becomes half-serious and tries to inspire others BLAH BLAH BLAH preach and it all goes well and in the very end we see random characters doing annoying, unfunny stuff. Observe and you'll see.

... I digress.

Going back, it was cool mainly 'cause they exaggerate things -- in a funny way. And when they do crack jokes they do it in a "this is so horribly unfunny ah well let's exaggerate" and mock the entire thing. It's hard to explain but if you look at it that way, it's pretty awesome.

And yes, this really is me (say something about a Camp Rock song pun and I'll end your life in a nasty, nasty way -- it would totally include fire). And no, the 14-year-old inside me has long died since Jamie Bell faded into oblivion and control over the "thing for Brendon Urie has been learned and [Comment: I feel like a terrible writer for not being consistent but I'm too lazy to transform the words. Oh yeah and I know, wrong punctuation, but parentheses are overused.] there is absolutely nothing new about All Time Low (which I stopped caring about again) and, well you know the thing about Jewel and Pia and Krishna and who else are obsessed with that English guy.

In short, I do not find the Jonas Brothers attractive. Truth be told, I felt disgusted with myself typing the Jonas Brothers followed by an adjective I only use to describe the Boyd.

Then again I can't believe I'm commending them. Still don't like your music though. Oh before I forget, Nick Jonas and his awkwardness with the acting and "reluctantness," for lack of a better word, with the entire thing reminds me of Ryan Ross. And again, before I forget, it's Ryan Ross's (in certain time zones), Krishna's, Anna's, and Artwork's birthday today. YAAAAAAY.

I failed at what I was supposed to do, which was to explain why this show is good so I'm going to do what I do best:

I LOVE YOU, YOU MUSICIAN/PRIVATE DANCER YOU

And that is to write very vague statements. With that, I leave you.

I don't usually write very vague statements. Maybe on Multiply, but rarely here, because I love this blog and will never abandon it for months only to later cancel it unlike BBU. And I totally altered some parts of that journal entry from the original.

Another thing, I've been listening to Artwork and I'm afraid my gut feeling is right. It's The Used as it is, as they are, but slightly less creative. Just what you'd expect. Nothing new. Other than Dan, but musically, that's not a very different change. I haven't given it a proper listen though and I hope that when I do that, they'd prove me wrong. *sighs*

I guess I'm expecting too much. Them being my favorite band for a reason that I really can't explain and me being all obsessed with creative original weird music lately. Ah well. I love them still.

Regarding the title, well on Friday, time's acting weird. All of my gadgets (PC, iPod, cellphone) that's set on the GMT+8:00 - Manila time zone has been one hour advance of the one in my watch, the car, the ones on the radio and every clock at home. No, automatic adjustment to daylight savings isn't on. Anyone know why that is? It's kinda confusing. :\

Dying is THE latest fashion.

2009-08-29T10:24:00.023+08:00

First things first: I completely hate Escape The Fate. We do not, I repeat, do not need another pseudo-A7X band. I have to give them credit though for their cover of Smooth on Punk Goes Pop 2. Disappointing that all their other songs ~~suck~~ are not my type.

So, a lot of people have been dying. Yeah of course, a million people die everyday. (I know because I'm a daughter of Hades and I feel this buzzing sound in my ear whenever somebody passes away, HA) but lately it's been hard to go online and not see a headline that says this TV host died, this 70's actress died, this talent scout guy died, this senator died, this filmmaker died, this politician died, this popstar died, this reality TV star-fugitive died, this commercial dude died, this rock legend died, this DJ died. And that was all in a span of two, three months.

Because I have nothing better to do and plan to write about yesterday later, let's expatiate. (Btw, not in order of death.)

TV host - Ed McMahon. He was the first among what I'd like to call "chain of deaths" that happened the past couple of months. Know nothing about him other than he's a TV host of some show (obviously) during the glorious monochrome days of the boob tube and that his last name's McMahon. And yes, I do care about wrestling shit... Still. Somehow.
70's Actress - Farrah Fawcett. One of the original Charlie's Angels but I wouldn't know that unless her unfortunate passing away happened. Anyhoo, my mom knows her. She was an actress during her time and was probably more surprised to know about her death than MJ's.
Talent scout guy - No idea what his name/face is but I heard this on the news a month or so ago. Some local guy who fished out a lof of the famous celebrities in our country today. I would love to blame him for the cheap, repetitive acting we get on TV nowadays but he's dead, I ain't like Fish, I'm payin' some respect.
Senator - Ted Kennedy. So very very recent. Not being American, I don't know much about him either. But he seems like a really cool guy, not some corrupt politician or anything like that. And apparently his letter to the Pope (which Obama personally handed to the Pope) summed up his life better than any of the eulogies given at his funeral. I should read that... Yeah I watch news. International news.
Filmmaker - John Hughes. Again, barely any idea who he is. But upon further research (read: one search at Wikipedia), I found out that he wrote most of the movies I grew up watching: 101 Dalmatians, Home Alone 1 & 2, and Baby's Day Out, which was probably the first movie I watched in my entire life. And my mom said I used to watch it every day as a toddler. And The Breakfast Club, too. (Never watched that film but it sounds classic so I'll mention it.)
Politician - Cory Aquino. I'm Filipino so this is a major loss for me. She is such an inspiration. She struggled through Martial Law with her husband in prison and single-handedly raised her then very young children. They were sent to Boston, I think (I'm bad at Philippine History, okay) and were warned to come back because they would most certainly get killed but his husband said it's fine and dropped the now extremely overused quote "The Filipino is worth dying for." And so it happened, he was assassinated, Cory led the epic People Power everyone in the world should know about, run for prez, eventually got it and the rest is yeah, history. There are no words to describe how awesome she is of a role model and I know I suck at being serious, but really, she's an inspiration. And that is coming from a kid who barely ever cared about politics and usually hates her country.
Popstar - Michael Jackson. There must be a better word. Celebrity? He's not just a celebrity. Musician? He's not just a musician. Weirdo? He's not just a weirdo. Popstar pretty much means weirdo celebrity who makes music so yeah, that's actually perfect. You know, I'd rather not comment. I've already said something about this, just look for it.
Reality TV star-fugitive - Ryan Jenkins. The day before he died, I tweeted "Don't take this the wrong way but Ryan Jenkins, on certain angles, looks a lot like @markhoppus ...Currently creeping me out." I like crimes. And this is too weird: They really didn't know he was a criminal before accepting him into a reality show? Gee, makes it even more interesting.
Commercial dude - Billy Mays. They don't sell Oxiclean here, but they do in Australia. I've been fascinated by the look of the packaging and suggested that my mom buys it and she says "it's expensive." From then on, I have come to a conclusion that Oxiclean is the Ferrari of powdered laundry soap what the hell do you call that substance. I looked it up (I know, it's a bit peculiar looking up Oxiclean on Google) and that is how I found out about Billy Mays! He seems like an awfully awesome guy that shouts a lot and it was such a shock to me when I found out about his death.
Rock legend - Les Paul. How can you not know this guy?! He revolutionized the face of music (rock, to be specific)! Not only with the "invention" of his guitar but also with several feats he introduced in recording. By the way, you morons out there, it's pronounced as Les Paul, not silent S, it's short for Lester, what the fuck?
DJ - DJ AM. I was having the most fun the other day and I go online and ta-fucking-dah, DJ AM is dead. Heck, I'm not even a fan. By that I mean I never bothered to listen to his music. I would have, but I never found time. I knew quite a lot of stuff about him, mainly because he is a major part of the big plane crash thing and of course, the blink-182 reunion. I seriously don't want to comment about how drugs was the cause of his death and I don't want to comment on the people who said he wasted his second chance at life (having survived that horrid crash) because we all know very little. I feel sorry for his family (kids!) and friends though. And in case you didn't know, Blink did this sort of tribute to him on the CT show. Mark was crying. We all know Mark's this goofy geeky guy who'd try to come up with funny things just to make people happy/laugh and to see him cry, it must be really hard for them. Especially for Travis.

Since the mood is so gloomy and shit, let's brighten things up a bit with a GIF of fuck why do I find it so hard to describe you! BBU, who I shall officially call BBU and only that on this blog from now on, waving. Fuck yeah long appositives.

Aww shit, GIF's don't work. Dammit Blogger, and I thought you were perfect. Ah well, guess you'll have to see the amazing A Weekend At Pete Rose's (Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet) video which totally includes a dead Pete, Panic! acting, the return of the New Perspective semi-formal wear and BBU overexposure!

Oh yes, I found time to blog.

2009-08-24T03:04:00.004+08:00

Don't worry kids, I did not die a horrible fiery death. So much for your prayers.

Yeah I know I promised. It sucks worse for me because this blog has been one of the best things I undertook and I ended up coasting what, a good two months. I've a lot of things to say and talk about but there's just too much so I'm going to brush all those off and start as if I never missed a day. (I'm totally ditching WMTYIHSFKB.)

Truth be told, the only reason I found time is because my iPod Touch (not iTouch, you morons), for the second time, had to be restored. The songs aren't transferred but when you check with iTunes, the 9GB of music is registered as "Other." This happened before and what I did was to restore it and sync it all back again, which took some time. And by some time I mean an hour or so. *shrugs*

Oh yeah and guess what, in the middle of restoring, the power died and I was so thankful for the computer gods for inventing the UPS (and my brother in law for convincing us to get a UPS.) It was only for a few minutes but it DID scare me to death. Broken iPod touch? DNW.

Another thing, when the power died our modem inevitably turned off. My internet access's gone. When you open Mozilla all of the tabs are on everyone's least favorite page, Page Load Error. Except for one: Wikipedia! (I love you Wiki.) It's on the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind page and the previous page before that was saved too, which was Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind, an episode I watched Friday... and was probably the best Simpsons episode ever (tied with Barting Out simply because of a Blink cameo and the one where they were in the future and the one where Bart ran away and shit, Matt Groening is amazing. Did I mention he's agnostic?)

So yeah... I'm typing at Notepad right now, not Blogger. That should explain why my words aren't exactly me. And by me I meant however I typed the last time I was here. There's something about that Blogger environment that motivates the juicemaker in my head to squeeze out some pulpy creative juices (See, simply thinking about it does that) and of course, there's also something about not writing for a very, very long time.

Update: Updating Files on "Zelda" Copying 473 of 1589: 20 Dollar Nose Bleed

Why Zelda? I dunno either. My last iPod was named Solar Powered Genie, and I dunno why either. Its name before that was actually Jepha, but I changed it 'cause it's kinda eerie. Inanimate object named Jepha = Err.

And no I don't have a crush on Jepha Howard (what the fuck?!). He's an awesome, awesome guy and I wanna be like him when I grow up. Kinda hard to understand knowing I'm 14 years old but srsly, I love The Used. And I play bass so you know why he's my favorite member. Note to self: Steer clear of talking about how much you like The Used. You know how long those end up.

Since there's still a thousand or so songs, three movies, a ton of Invader Zim and The Soup episodes to be transferred, or in other words I still have all the time in the world (or in other words, I can't restart this computer and get internet access without breaking my iPod so I have no choice but to talk to you), I'm going to tell you the story of how Zelda became the name of my favorite gadget in the history of my gadgets. (And I told you it just spontaneously came out.)

So I got my Touch. (Huzzah?) Apparently I get a free case so I went to the Digital Hub store where my mom bought it the day before. (Fuck yeah rhymes!) It just so happened that they "ran out of stock" (which is sales lady talk for we never had those shit) of 2G cases so I asked the technician dude to give me a free whatchamacallit (thin layer of screen protecting plastic that we purchase and realize it has no purpose at all and I'm talking from experience here) and he said okay and he applied (is there a better word?) it and then he asked if my iPod's registered yet, I said no and he plugged it into his Mac and asked "What should its name be?" and I said "Uh, uh, Zelda" and he typed it and yays the end that's it what a very sensible story. *bow*

Weird that I'm talking too much about my iPod. It's like... It's going to die or something. *resists self to tell you the story about how I might've got/ten a NEW Touch because of faulty cover art*

So now what? Jennifer's Body soundtrack out two (three, if you're from the Philippines) days from now. I am so going to illegally download that. But then again I already have New Perspective and that "exclusive" ATL song's leaked on YouTube so I might not. Pah. Artwork's out eight (nine if you're... yeah) days from now and I am so going to spend a good three weeks listening to that. Once a day in its entirety. Which is what I do to A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, twice a week, in its entirety, for three years. Go figure.

Eh, just kidding. I can't possibly do that without my ears bleeding and me going all May Castellan *stops* Now that I'm absolutely sure nobody's reading this... I f'ing love you Luke Castellan, not the actor who plays you because who fucking cares about the movie.

Say hello to Suri Cruise everybody. I purposely put those up there so that you won't get bored. I know y'all have a certain weakness to cute things. Well say hello to your weakness... and to your destruction! BAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! *coughs* ... I'm okay.

I'm sorry for saying useless things, Pt. Two

2009-07-18T22:28:00.011+08:00

Because I love you and I care for your dyslexia, I made a part two of the previous blog. You might want to read this some other time.

Possibly Harry Potter 6 this Friday for Jill's birthday: Guess what, classes were suspended but somehow we managed to still go to a mall and watch the goddamned film WITH Krishna, and not wearing uniforms. (I wore my shirt inside-out, srsly.) Plus we got to stay twice or even thrice longer than we're supposed to, and... several other things. Can I please expatiate now?

Fetched Jamie about the same time Jill and Loyce and Krishna arrived at SM Dasma, which is 25 minutes away. Went straight to Flavours of China and ate everything I recommended. (What happened to the cheap indifferent Jill?!) Dept. Store. There I realized that Loyce and I agree on a lot of things. And by that I mean fashion. Then again I'm nowhere near wearing almost-lingerie thingies you don't really want me to elaborate about.

Went to the theater with Krishna while the rest fell in line for popcorn and other unhealthy food. I saw Ate Danice with her dad and I approached her and said hi and then went back to my seat. I also waved to Pauline, my classmate, two rows back. Oh hai there! Right before the trailer thingys start I asked Loyce "What if they show the Percy Jackson trailer?" (She by the way is obsessed with it the way I'm obsessed with Cirque du Freak and she influenced Jill and Jamie.) I guessed she'd freak out and she said "Yeah, I'd freak out." And so they showed it. The first two seconds where it's just skylines and sunset nobody was freaking out but I recognized it, seeing the trailer about two days ago, and I nudged Loyce, "THAT'S PERCY JACKSON!" and she nudged Jill and Jill nudged Jamie and all three of them probably died and Krishna and I stood watching. Then the film itself. (Review later and have you seen the nekkid picture of Emma Watson?)

Coming out of the theatre we saw a loooooong line, probably around 70 people. We went down for Quickly and Taro Ice Special is not available. Fuck! I remembered Jamie's promise that she'd buy us ice cream and because I was having a super awesome day, Mr. Softy happened to be three meters away from Quickly. There was a line and god knows how much I hate lines so I dragged Krishna with me to Booksale and we looked through magazines and I found several Spin, GQ, Blender, Revolver, Vanity Fair, Elle, even Esquire old issues. I bought one and just before that a flaming mad Jamie hit me in the head saying she threw away our ice cream because we weren't there. She was so mad and I asked her how much was it and she said nine pesos... Jeebus Crust.

We then bought Vans for Jill (and not just ordinary black and white Vans) and a shirt with a huge zzzzap! on it for Jamie. Jill bought us donuts before she went home. Krishna had to go as well. Loyce's mom came soon and Jamie, Loyce and I went to Loyce's. (I overused the word Loyce, didn't I?) Finally I got to go to Loyce's (dammit) and we went online, had dinner, got a tour, took at least 40 photos, played table tennis, had a what you may call a tea party and it was brilliant. I shall return. Dad came and we went home and Jamie stayed for a good 30 minutes and we discussed the things I only vaguely remember regarding the Potter books and then her mother came... with bread.

/fangirl/ RONNNNNNNNNNNNN /end fangirl/: I. Don't. Like. Haircuts. I hope you learned something Fred and George. Ah whatever, you guys are awesome, and still my favorite characters. No contest. Still, the Hey what's up I like your hair and gee, what broad shoulders you have! special award goes to... *points*

The Nothing Personal jokes I've come up with: There are none. I've come up with a few while in the school bus though I've never really wrote them down. Besides, I don't think Chin is writing any so what's the point.

Hamburger Bed for sale: Why did I even care about this again? Daily dose of madness, I think. My blog's been lacking crazy lately, guess I should post some Lady Gaga pics to balance things up. (I can't believe I said Gaga twice today.)

Buzznet was so awesome [June 15]: The Used, HP6, Open Happiness music video Panic/GCH, ATL for Daily Music Dose, 9. I can't believe The Used is getting attention again, it felt like they were on hiatus for years. And they're back. Man, this feels good. HP6, I've probably said too much about it. Open Happiness was a song made way back then, when I used to chat with Camille with invigorating... vigor. And now it has a video. Brendon wears dorky glasses. Weewooo. All Time Low's in Daily Music Dose just now? Gee, the author's running out of bands huh. 9:The one thing that convinced me that John C. Reily playing Mr. Crepsley isn't quite a bad thing, mainly because this is a Burton film and John C. Reily has a somewhat important role.

Possibly finishing The Lightning Thief for Loyce: So far, okay. I'm beyond halfway. I like the way the author writes, and I like it a lot. I do like the fact that it somehow introduces or refreshes you on all the Greek mythology stories. Amazing. My only problem is, and it's kind of a big deal is that it's predictable as hell. I could tell his father was Poseidon the moment his mother said he was conceived in Montauk. Your typical fiction/fantasy story with the chosen one, the evil one, his minions, the protector, the mentor, the best friends, etc. To make things worse Grover's pseudo-Ron and Annabeth's pseudo-Hermione.

Finally! I'm done!

This list thing (which I would now officially brand as To-Blog List) actually works. Maybe I should do this every week since I barely find time to blog during schooldays. Though the posts do end up extremely TL;DR...

My apologies for the Jack photo. It barely looks like Jack anyway so you could do yourself a favor and pretend it's your anorexic weird-looking I-only-look-badass-in-low-exposure-settings second-cousin wearing Greece's flag out in LA to shoot his crappy band's music video. You like ice cream. You love it. You cannot resist ice cream. To resist is hopeless. Your existence is meaningless without ice cream.

I'm sorry for saying useless things

2009-07-18T08:14:00.009+08:00

I promised to update this with a lot of things and hopefully, I won't let you down. Let's begin crossing things off the list.

Ryan speaking up about the break-up: Originally, I would blockquote his entire comment but since the hype has died inside of me and probably everyone else, let's make it quick. On tour Jon and Ryan started writing songs together and realized Brendon and Spencer won't buy those kinda shit and they decided to break up in a friendly way. (Shut up, I know I can't explain tragic things well.)

Ryan's coke and friends: Clicky!

How much I missed the exclamation point: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is one of my favorite albums. Of all time. Also it's the one album that I can listen to while doing Kumon. How it motivates me to compute and analyze and do all those stuff while singing along is beyond me though. Pretty. Odd. was okay, but it wasn't exactly my thing you! know!

The night I thought I was going to die -- for real: Just so you won't think I'm overreacting, let me tell you, I'm paranoid as hell. I remember this one time when I heard my 10-year-old neighbor crying and I imagined her hands were cut off and she's bleeding excessively and just this morning I had a strong, strong feeling that when I open the door the first thing I'd see is a dead body lying in the living room. These things happen on an hourly basis, by the way.

I've been waking in the wee hours the past week, since I'd been dozing off immediately after getting home from school. I do my assignments in the morning when everything's quiet (and not to mention, scary... but better quiet.) So moving on, that night I was awoken by some dudes trying to start a car. There were all sorts of metal-y sounds and the van's door sliding and the car's roaring engine and drunk people talking and I was convinced they just murdered someone and are trying to leave but can't, because the motherfucking car won't motherfucking start. It went on like that for about an hour then I heard an old lady saying "Oh my god oh my god!" out loud as if I was meant to hear it and something that sounds like an extremely irritable cat giving birth but for some reason I knew it wasn't a cat. Right after that cat-esque sound I started to feel blood rushing all over my entire body. I couldn't really see a thing -- which made things worse. I got so scared I slept with my parents. I believed that some people were inside our house already and robbing things and are about to kill us, I even dreamt of it. Shit man, shit.

I've also started to believe that I was going to die by a shot to the right shoulder. I know those are usually unfatal, but if ever I died that way, remember I predicted it! You can laugh now while I shall be moping in the corner trying to regain my dignity.

Bastards at Idol changed Kris Allen's song to All These Things That I've Done: You dare let whatsisface monkeyface sing a Killers song? Every single night of the Tour?! And of all their songs, you chose the one with the infamous, completely insane, and utter nonsense lyric! Kris, you may have soul, but you will never be a soldier.

Copy-paste better Nothing Personal review from Multiply: Mehhh... okay.

Y'know what, forget everything I said in the previous review, Nothing Personal is awesome.

I don't even care if this sounds like everything I hate (same case with So Wrong, It's Right and I LOVE that album), I don't even care if the lyrics are so unflattering, I don't even care if every song has all sorts of recycled melodies, I don't even care if they sound different, I don't even care if admitting I love it equates to eternal damnation slash mean comments about my 'bad' taste in music ... they're All Time Low, dammit. I love them no matter what and I don't know why. Let's not question it.

Everyone needs a guilty pleasure. All of you listen to Lady Gaga and nevermind the lyrics or the meaning (if any) of the song. You love it because of the melody or the singer is crazy or just because. Bolded are my favorites so far. Though we all know I'd fall in love with every song anyway. [Edit: I removed the track list, it's not important.]

See, this is what too much chatting with Chin does. And watching Weightless over and over... among other things.

Career Day: This was crazy. The good type of crazy. I was emcee-ing with Van and I'm telling you know, the guidance office gave us free food and drinks of our choice after the event. I believe this is the first time it ever happened in the history of Seton.

Anyhooplah (hooplah is deffo the worst appendage to anyhoo that people actually use. our first speaker was a really cool guy who took up Communication Arts and has worked in advertising and things like that. I don't really care, but he's creative as hell, his powerpoint was amazing. (No I am not the type of person who appreciates glitters and kawaii shit and rainbow sparkles or what. It was art. Black-white-gray-red themed art.) Second was a big-time fashion designer (Did I mention they were all alumni of my school?) who has a botique in NYC. Being emcee had its perks, I got to sit two meters away from him for what seemed like forever and observe his Salvadore Ferragamo stuff. Third was a lawyer, who almost convinced me to become one (maybe I'll relate the childhood story some other time?) if not for the open forum where people asked about the bad side of being a lawyer and... Not my thing. Last were these nursing people everybody loved and I didn't really see why. Ah well, they tried.

By the way I added "Be a speaker for Seton-South's Career Day in the future as a producer or somebody in a magazine or whatever awesome job I'd get into" to my bucket list. A lot (3) of people have been telling me that Organizational Communication was perfect for me because there would be debates and writing and I've always wondered what it's like in the advertising business. And yeah, I never run out of ideas. I'm just scared I will. But whatever. Still psyched for psych.

WMTYIHSFKB this week: Uhh, this is becoming more of a very tedious obligation than something fun. *goes to room and gets notebook*

Radio played Sweet Child Of/O' Mine, I airbassed. I don't know why I had to write that down.
Career Day emcee + free food.
The lawyer chick was asking for questions from the third year and because of my solid gold classiness I volunteered to break the ice. "This is pretty irrelevant, but I think you'd know the answer... Why do judges wear those wigs?" She didn't really know. But I heard thank you's from the crowd.
I was hesitant to ask if the sentence "I am at the dark beside you, buried sweetly in your yellow hair" had a participial phrase or a compound verb. Either it's I, buried sweetly in your yellow hair, am at the dark beside you or I am at the dark beside you, and [I am] buried sweetly in your yellow hair. Ms. Sheena was pondering that so much that she had to get my notebook and deprive me of notes for the entire period.
Sir Giov: "I am going to give you two hand-outs -- Hand-out #1 and Hand-out #2." I have no idea why no one laughed at this!
I've formed a meaningful biconditional statement! All Time Low rocks IFF Alex Gaskarth is sexy. I'd love to explain this to Chin.
Ms. Sheena, being Ms. Sheena, emphasizes syllables unneccessarily. She told us to pronounce mountain as MAH-UHN and several other stuff I'd love to forget. She used the word function but stopped at the first syllable and we laughed because it didn't come out right.
I forgot exactly what Ms. Eva wrote on the board (I accidentally typed bored, hey, makes sense) but instead of school she wrote shool and it was just so funny 'cause she didn't notice 'til everyone was DWL... I feel awesome for using that Jamaican acronym.
Cheska and I were first to get incentives for a Chem activity, weewoo! We had to find our partners Ca:Calcium blaaa and we were seatmates and we were almost right next to the place where we were supposed to line up.
Started shooting the When I Grow Up - Mayday Parade stop-motion using lyrics aka the greatest music video any 14 year old has ever directed. I bet nobody has thought of this before.

In case I forget

2009-07-15T04:33:00.004+08:00

It's long test week, I can't find time to blog. I write to remind myself to write about these:

Ryan speaking up about the break-up
Ryan's coke and friends
How much I missed the exclamation point
The night I thought I was going to die -- for real
Bastards at Idol changed Kris Allen's song to All These Things That I've Done
Copy-paste better Nothing Personal review from Multiply
Career Day :D
WMTYIHSFKB this week
Possibly Harry Potter 6 this Friday for Jill's birthday
/fangirl/ RONNNNNNNNNNNNN /end fangirl/
The Nothing Personal jokes I've come up with
Hamburger Bed for sale
Buzznet was so awesome today (The Used, HP6, Open Happiness music video Panic/GCH, ATL for Daily Music Dose, 9)
Possibly finishing The Lightning Thief for Loyce

Man this is too much.

I'm never gonna dance again~

2009-07-11T09:22:00.006+08:00

I know. The scandal has died out, nobody cares anymore and singing the song doesn't make you cool or funny. In fact, it makes you annoying. But I just found out about the 3OH!3, Alex Gaskarth and Juliet Simms cover and shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits fart turd and twat!

Do I really have to explain the 3OH!3 and Alex Gaskarth part? No, obviously, not. If you don't already know Juliet Simms was that chick who sang with Alex in Remembering Sunday and if that wasn't weird enough, I just forced Jena to listen to that song almost the entire day yesterday.

Anyway, the cover wasn't really good. I didn't dig the rapping, and the sound was predictable. Still, I don't think anyone had had an electronic take on this song yet so kudos for that. I also occasionally get annoyed by Alex's melodramatic voice and this one is one of those occasions. Juliet Simms doesn't give me goosebumps anymore, blahh. It's just crazy that they collaborated and there was this scandal (in our country at least) and the Jena thing and something something yeahhhhh.

I've been all time low-ing a lot with Chin lately. Last night we reminisced about the crazy things we did in the past and we watched Weightless among other things. Speaking of which, I gotta say that music video is kickass. (Have I already?) I love the graphics, the idea, the Matt Flyzik, the Vinny Vegas, the Mark Hoppus, the detail, the Nothing Personal jokes, especially the Twitter thing. That kinda got me, HA. (Notice how I never said I like the song.) I've been watching it over and over again this morning with Chin and now we're gonna watch all of their music videos and comment on every sce

Observations. Here I go:

Alex wore a bright yellow v-neck in Six Feet Under The Stars and Zack wore a white v-neck in Dear Maria, Count Me In... Nice v-neck, idiots.
Never look at Alex's eyebrows. They *might* kill you. Pew pew!
When Jack smiles, I ~~melt inside~~ ~~die~~ ~~try not to~~... I can't explain it.
How can you possibly punch someone and look cute at the same time?!?! I can't believe I'm calling a guy cute... I have to delete this post.
Jack was wearing Finland's flag. Or Greece's. Your choice.
Alex Gaskarth's 'english accent': mmffhsshhfdggddmmhhhhshd
Flyzik looks godly.
I've noticed these for a long time now and thank goodness I was reminded to post it on my blog. First: The freaky thing in Put Up or Shut Up!

Second: Nothing Personal, the return of the birds!

I really think I need an All Time Low tag. I've been talking about them a lot. Or a 'fangirl' tag. Hmm, maybe next time.

All Time Low doesn't hold up under pressure

2009-07-10T20:31:00.011+08:00

I found this article on Buzznet. I've always wanted to talk about this issue, but I think it's very much common sense so there's no point ranting about it. Everyone knows the current music industry is garbage. Nobody wants to admit it though because they listen to Lady Gaga, Asher Roth, Britney Spears, and whatever other crap they're listening to.

Alex Gaskarth made a stand and I thought it was the most ironic thing I've ever read... today.

"We're one of the last bands who have had this much luck and success that have actually toured in vans. And I'm not trying to talk sh-- on anyone else, and however they get to where they are, that's awesome for them. But I think the days of the Paramores and the Fall Out Boys, I think it's sort of coming to an end. It will come back, for sure, but we definitely ground it out for a few years before we could even think about going up to a bus or playing in a room to more than 400 kids. There used to be that whole mentality of ... it had to be 100 percent genuine, or no one would take it seriously. But that whole line has been blurred now. The same kids listening to Fall Out Boy — who came out of that cred scene, almost — [are the same kids] listening to the Jonas Brothers, and that's acceptable. So the whole line is being crossed. You have all these kids coming up on Disney pop who then discover bands like BrokeNCYDE, and they're like, 'Oh my God, they said f---!,' and they fall in love instantly, because it's their version of '80s punk."

That's right, but why did you have to use Paramore and Fall Out Boy? I can hear Flyzik begging Pete to have the guys on Believers Never Die Part [Three in French]. I don't agree fully, but the ones I bolded, my sentiments exactly.

The author wrote something right after that and this one, I completely agree with.

I could not agree more, dude. Could not agree more. But you might be sitting there thinking, "How can these guys talk about other bands when they're not much different? Isn't that sort of hypocritical?" Well, Alex would like you to believe different.

"I'll be the first to admit that we're a band that has a very silly image, and we sort of act like jackasses all the time, but we can also write some great songs. We know this record is anticipated by a lot of people, and we also knew that we wanted to take a step as a band. And hopefully the kids are into it. I was driving myself crazy with the notion that this record was going to flop, but we put our all into it. ... This is the best thing we've ever done, and the record we want to make."

(Hey, it's a blockquote within a blockquote! Do I get an award?)

LOL, shut up Alex. I love how you guys always imply that you're this horrible band, (So Wrong, It's Right, @alltimelow Your new album sucks Nothing Personal shirt, etc.) just like what blink-182 used to do, but I can see right through those words and I can tell that you guys genuinely love this album, and unfortunately, it sucks.

Dance-rock? Unflattering words? Recycled melodies? And that song where Alex sings with very little accompaniment and I mean... come on, Alex doesn't even sing well. His Benjamin Button type voice wasn't in its full effect (especially in Damned If I Do Ya, sounds a lot like SWIR songs) but anyhoo main reason: This wasn't what you sounded like. Apparently this is what you guys want to make, but I just don't get it. I listened to nothing but Put Up or Shut Up (the masterpiece) and So Wrong, It's Right (the album that made me love ATL) the day before it got released and then I listened to the new album and I was really disappointed. Nothing Personal was some sad excuse for an All Time Low album. Add to that the fact that I expected a LOT: Mark Hoppus co-wrote this, you've met a lot of famous musicians, you guys are more popular than ever...

So this is what pressure does, eh.

I hope I'll get used to it. A lot of albums are like that, you have to play it for at least five times before you catch the sound. I was thinking of writing about how much I like Blood On My Hands and how I'm really excited for the music video and Artwork but I don't have much to say about The Used and besides, it's already given that I love them so yeah no point. The only reason I came up with these much words about is because I'm complaining right now and y'all know how good I am at this.

And for the lack of color I decided to include a photo from my mini art gallery.

P.S. (Though I'm not sure what that means) Chin heard "I'm stuck in this fucking rut" in Weightless as "I'm sucking this fucking" what? HAHAHA. ♥

When the world comes crashing down, who's ready to party?

2009-07-10T19:04:00.003+08:00

I found the mood to blog again. (Applause?) No actually I haven't, but it's a Friday and I don't have anything better to do. (Reading that book I borrowed from Loyce or watching that DVD I borrowed from Jasper two weeks ago? ...Some other time.) I feel obliged to update my WMTYIHSFKB, I think this list is three weeks old and I got some 50 already. Also, I want to make a better Nothing Personal review.

I don't know why I have to explain why I'm blogging or what I'm gonna blog about since you'll figure it out anyway and this is my blog, I can abandon it anytime.

We had a game in Math and my groupmates chose me to be the representative. It turned out to be charades, they had to act some profession related to geometry, and I had to guess. When the word was "surgeon" they started cutting and doing slicing motions on their bodies and I said "Emo? Emo!" and they just laughed 'til we lost.
Carried some 80 Seton Notes from the first floor to the third. And then some 30 more.
Our teacher indirectly stated that Michael Jackson is transexual. It's not a big deal, but in a Catholic school it somehow is.
Sir Giov, CCF teacher, used the name of the lord his god in vain.
"Hello Filipino teachers!" "Hello Filipino students!"
Mich is in a way obsessed with the way I laugh. It's creepy.
Some bird visits our modular landscape every period and steals a leaf from our modular. HAHAHA.
Our group was commended for being best in some presentation. A ship that we were all on crashed, we were stuck on a desert island and had to make our own form of government something like that. I got it all from Lost. Yay Lost!
Anthro was being extremely noisy and we were trying to discuss some important thing in geom and the entire class politely 'shouted' "Anthro please be quiet" and some of them replied with "Sorry Archaeo."
Ian's brother fights with classmates and teachers, screams and err, does other weird stuff.
Our teacher asked what's the latest about the Jonas Brothers and I answered correctly, shamefully.
My bus and the other bus I ride going to school were consecutive in a 'traffic line.' Can you get it? Bahahaha, anyway, I wrote hi on a sheet of paper and I asked the driver to honk and they looked and read my message.
Jamie spoiled the entire batch with pizza. And Loyce brought the Oreo cake from Red Ribbon earlier that day, too.
What do you do when you fail to accomplish your academic requirement sheet thingy? Archaeology answered with "Panic... go home... cry."
According to Dr. Gabriel Gabriel, viruses need to get a life! (Yes, with an exclamation point.)
Ms. Babes said something scary about herself and we heard thunder.
Aang in Sitio Pulo.
Pockable! Too many babies! HAHAHA.
Sera. Is. Awesome. That's not my loaf of bread!
Ms. Babes thought it was okay that I, along with Micah and Jewel, take a harder exam five minutes later than everybody else. I didn't finish it. I probably failed.
Hailey's Comet.
All math teachers are beautiful. (Sir Dennis?) All basketball players are handsome.
Eloise is Lorraine v2.0. She further proved my point when she called me for some reason to repeat what she said in the softest voice imaginable (I was not paying attention as well) just so she could say sorry and talk to me and shit, she's weird.
Maritan left something in the classroom and I accompanied her upstairs, to the fourth floor and helped her look through the clearbooks and find her a handout. The worst part was a janitor (with a mask on!) was spraying chemical things anti A H1-N1 I guess, and he probably didn't know we were there and maskless. We inhaled the things. And the sound the machine makes is scary. It's like an airplane stalking you.
Paul, that kid who I know nothing about other than he usually reads the First Reading in the 'church' I go to, recognized me for some reason and we became friends. Paul's a 2nd grader.
I used "Ryan and Jon left the band" as my example sentence using compound subjects for English.
Sir Giov spelled out fuck. Ha.
Seton Notes meeting at AVR1. I arrived early with Jem and I noticed the projector was on and a screensaver was showing. I opened Notepad and typed all sorts of things like "we came here first," "panic at the disco broke up," "hello sir sherwin," and many other things. It's crazy.
Socio used our style and said "Archaeo nag-q-quiz kami" in a very rude tone.
Rode Le Ann's car to Carol's, went to our house to get some DVD's, back to Carol's, Jana called, ordered from McDo, watched Fairly Odd Parents, my DVD's don't work, ended up watching King Arthur which was, in case you didn't know, extremely boring, switched to City of Ember, wrestled Carol's younger brother, played tennis, went to our house, watched The Soup videos = Awesome.
Meet me on Thames Street example for adverb phrase. They even wrote it on the board.
Reporters' example for an appositive phrase: Jaydee, a rather ignorant girl, reads Twilight. Mine was: Stephenie Meyer, a rather pathetic person who has no life, wrote Twilight. Bianca's was: Edward Cullen, a rather sappy vampire, is dazzling.

Nothing else significant to mention, but I'm starting to think I'm getting less and less interested in keeping a blog. I mean it's cool and all, I like reading stuff I used to write, but my words are getting plainer and plainer (much like All Time Low) and I don't really know how to remedy it. Anyhoo, this blog's too long, I'll put my Nothing Personal (and Weightless music video :D) review on a separate post.

People don't like me in general.

2009-07-04T17:03:00.005+08:00

Just got back from Micah's for our Music group project report meeting thing. Like all group project report meeting things, we only spent 20 minutes planning and the rest of the day talking about random things, doing crazy things and -- eating -- pizza. (I am not consistent.)

Today I finally wore that bright green 'dress' I bought more than a year ago at Zara and never wore because it was too big but mostly because I don't know what to pair with it. It's still pretty loose but I wore it anyway and I was able to pull it off. I'm kinda proud of that. I don't know why I even care about the way I dress, that's just how I am now. Things change.

I'd love to talk about what happened 'cause it was one hell of a day. We were seven and all of us fit in one tricycle, driver not included. We pulled these "pranks" in public. We walked from Micah's house to SM, at least half of the way.

... Uhh I can't think straight. Just not in the mood to blog. I'm only doing this because I feel obliged to. WMTYIHSFKB to follow.

So why the artlessness? I talked to some people (friends for years) and ~~I feel worthless~~ I wanna feel weightless.

My iPod set on 14 year old mode

2009-06-27T09:05:00.007+08:00

Went to Buzznet. Noticed the background. "Hey that's Max Bemis and All Time Low!" Looked up the list of Warped Tour '09 bands and voila, a blog entry... my third today.

3OH!3 - I mean what can I say? You have no idea on how much I've been promoting this band. I love every song on Want. Every. Song. Hey iTunes just played Starstrukk. *pauses to sing*
Aiden - Some band Alex Pardee made album art for. That's it.
A Rocket To The Moon - Seriously, I hate them. But Dakota got stuck in my head once so I guess I have to write it here anyway. I think they're also an FBR band...
A Skylit Drive - Uhh. They're the one with the Wires and the Concept of Breathing right? Yeah sounds like nothing new.
All Time Low - AHHHHH LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!1111 Oh yeah and I read OMG!askarth as "Mcglaskar." LOL. BTW it sounds so weak. OMG!ay, Alex, gayyyy. JAGK's better, just admit it, you lose this round. He's got Glamour Kills and you've got a scene queen who makes a living out of making bracelets. Oh and I've been dying to say this, I've seen at least five photos of Alex wearing the same goddamned shirt which looks exactly like one I have, it's the checkered blue red white he's worn a lottt during the FOB tour. Seeeeee, Alex has a weak fashion sense, just like his "bracelet's name." And I've noticed he's worn the violet GK piggy shirt thingy more than twice too. HAHA somebody shoot me.
Breathe Carolina - Covered See You Again by Miley. It sucks. And the only reason why I even have it is because I download full albums, and that song is in Punk Goes Pop 2.
Breathe Elecrtic - Better than Breathe Carolina.
Attack Attack - Sucks. Awful. Sucks.
Cash Cash - The band that didn't dare to be what 3OH!3 dared to be. I love this band. And I think they're the only band who has a song which is also the name of their band. Cash Cash by Cash Cash. Hellz yeah. :D
Escape The Fate - Please. Play. Smooth.
Every Avenue - Another shitty band. But unlike Breathe Carolina and Attack Attack, they settled with the most common type of music any four people with a drumset, a bass, two guitars and a microphone can make. I'm not even sure if they're four. Who cares.
Forever The Sickest Kids - I liked Men In Black (and I still do.) All the rest are okay.
Hit The Lights - I don't even know why I listen to this band. They're my type of catchy. Cry Your Eyes Out probably holds the record (and by record...) for the longest time a song ever got stuck in my head: a month.
I Set My Friends On Fire - The moment I heard Crank That, I knew I had to know their other sonsg. Then they collaborated with Smosh for Sex Ed Rocks. Sick bro sickkkk.
Jeffree Star - What? I haven't heard any of the new songs though I stopped listening after that single after Heart Surgery. I think it's I Hate Music or something like that. Haha.
Less Than Jake - Honestly I only know that some guy here formed FBR and that they're long disbanded oslt.
Madina Lake - Found about them through Genius. I've honestly only heard Here I Stand and man, it sounds poppy and the type of music I'd hate but for some reason I still like it.
Nevershoutnever! - This kid is so annoying, he should die.
Sing It Loud - Wouldn't have known they exist if it weren't for No One Can Touch Us ft. Alex Gaskarth -- Nothing Personal. That's also the only song I know.
The Maine - UH I HATE THIS BAND. But they were the one band that I added in MySpace and accepted the request a second after. Another reason I hate them is because I can't get the chorus of Everything I Ask For in TTR Extreme. Don't ask why I downloaded the song in the first place.
There For Tomorrow - They covered Ice Box. And it was mediocre. That's all.

There were a ton of other bands that sound familiar but I haven't heard a single song of and I really hate people who pretend they know shit about shit they don't know. I was wondering why I saw Max Bemis on the background or if that really was Max so to make sure I went to Wiki, not Buzznet, and there I read that Say Anything's eponymous fourth album is done YAY!

Oh great my mom found out about my emoness in Grade 6 where I write "suicide" blah blah shit. Uhhh, great, great. I don't even know why I'm publicly saying these things. I've been naming myself Zookietotookie Hohohpuff everywhere and anyone could type that name in Google and end up here. Shame shame everyone'll know I'm lame.

The itsy bitsy Speidi tried to write a song

2009-06-27T07:39:00.006+08:00

Since classes got suspended for two days, I only have few on my WMTYIHSFKB list this week. Nonetheless, here they are:

Beowulf has six POCKETS. Nananananana!
I got so annoyed that my classmates asked the stupidest questions about the Beowulf film as if they didn't watch it (Case in point: What's the dragon horn?) and that Ms. Sheena had to explain for what, an hour. When she said we're gonna have a group activity I said out loud, "Finally! Something to do." She heard and she asked me to repeat what I just screamed and screw my pea-brained classmates to whom I feel bipolar towards. (I know what bipolar is, dammit, it's just that at times my love for them is at times at an all time high and at times at an all time low and pun intended because I always write Alexander William Gaskarth if I have nothing to write I don't even like him his name just rocks maybe I'll explain the William thingy after this.)
Developed fats apparently become muscles.
"According to Archimedes or John F. Kennedy..."
How does exercise affect your age? "Exercise prolongs ageing." Wow, seriously.
Our topic in TLE is dating. Period.
LAP DANCE HA HA HA
Tips in dating: "Ask him to take you home." LOL this is crazy.
When Ms. Cynthia announced to us that MJ died, the letter E on the wall, part of the "All things work together for good" phrase fell. And we all laughed and she's just there nodding and everyone's pointing but she's still nodding haaaaaa I can't explain it but it was hilarious.
I went to the faculty room to pass my journal notebook to Sir Giov but since our school's extra-strict with rules now, and the faculty room's off-limits to students, Sir Eric gave it to Sir Giov for me and shit I think I don't know (*gasp* HE SAID THAT BEFORE) he's not our teacher anymore and shit I'm already feeling low...

Shame there's only ten. This is short, lemme explain the William thingy. Last year I realized that the greatest name of all is William (WTF I accidentally typed the letter A then the letter L, either I was thinking Alexander the Great or man, I have got to stop writing that). I think it's so royal (No I wasn't thinking of Prince William) but it can be for any normal person too. I just really like it. And then one time I decided to rename my friends William #1, William #13, William#21 and so on. (I know, there's no pattern.)

I forgot to write about this: I went to the spa (to actually have spa whatever that means) for the first time in my life last Father's Day and my dad got rushed to Healthway 'cause he had a hard time walking and he feels like he's gonna collapse and my cousin had to fetch us. Now my brother (who I've only talked to for... like less than 10 times IN MY LIFE) was rushed to the hospital too 'cause he had been sick for six days and it's all weird.

Too much negativity. Looking forward to playing tennis this afternoon. It's been a week and it being a week means I'm gonna suck. I also plan on finishing the Mythology book Loyce *thank heavens* returned. It's the one by Edith Hamilton and I just found it lying around on the floor one day and it's real old, full of tape and the pages are already yellow. HA.

Edgar Allan Pwned

2009-06-27T06:43:00.006+08:00

If this were a school day, I would be in the same exact place, in front of the computer waiting for the bus to arrive. I don't know why I woke up early, which I wouldn't question anyway because it's a good thing I'm on autowake now, but it's definitely because I slept early last night. (Yeah I lied, some things sound better if you add IDK before it.)

I watched Jeopardy before sleeping, as usual, and there's this category "TV openers" (TV opening lines oslt) and I got every freaking answer right, which never happened before. Nobody got the Gossip Girl one, which I actually just guessed 'cause Dirty Sexy Money is wrong, and well... It's funny how real smart people haven't heard/even thought of Gossip Girl. :D

Oh yeah and Cody Sheldon (when I type his name I think of both Plankton and Shia's Surf's Up character... which reminds me I should be watching Disturbia right now) was at the Chicago auditions for American Idol season 9. Those bastards didn't take my advice to cancel the goddamned show nobody would have bothered to watch if not for the effeminate, flamboyant, weird, not to mention rhinestone-gluing (I'm looking at you, Glambert) finalists. And by nobody I mean me and by finalists I mean the Top 36.

Screw you Idol. Ratings must go downnnnnn.

Going back to Cody (Anyone of you notice how I always say phrases like: oh yeah, by the way, and also, going back to, back to, anyway and lots of parentheses like THIS?) I've really liked him last season. He's like a slightly demure film-making Danny Noriega. (And speaking of which, has anyone seen the 24/7 music video? HAHAHAHAHAHA... ha.) Cody was my favorite during the auditions, because of course they didn't show Nate there and I was yet to be aware of the Sir Eric-esque awesomeness he possesses. He faded to oblivion during Hollywood Week then we were reminded of who he was again during the "chair" episode and I know, it's ~~kind of~~ a shame I watch the show.

More Idol news, apparently Eliza Cuts auditioned for Idol. Her name is definitely familiar, because it's a given fact that if I love The Used, I know shit about My Chemical Romance. And yes Eliza Cuts was some hairstylist chick who became Gerard's girlfriend and either they broke up or the relationship started during the shooting of WTTBP. I still use that acronym, shoot me.

I don't want to talk about Michael Jackson's death. Honestly, I should at least have some respect for the dude but I watched this VH1 documentary of his rather embarrassing life when I was 10 and I am more informed about that than his music. To make things worse, I remember all of it. ALL OF IT. Child star, monkey, monkey wearing people clothes, vitiligo, sexual abuse nobody wants to hear about, nude shit, when he said the word penis on national TV and those bastards at VH1 replayed the clip over and over, and then my brain shut down refusing to take any more. I also have this image of him wearing a super special sparkly shiny purply thingy. Hmmmm.

Hey lack of pictures. I found this while opening my Picasa Web Album thingy shit:

Condomis? Latin for rubber?

Madness? I am Beowulf!

2009-06-25T20:25:00.004+08:00

I am so proud of my journal entry that I decided to share it here. Also, I am in desperate need for a "Madness? ....!" blog entry. We were asked for our "realizations with regards what is presented by the film w/ the written output" and "which one do you prefer, the film or the movie?"

Intro shit (now it's perfect):

From Leonidas to Beowulf, every legendary hero needs to yell a lot. Wonder who would win in a shouting match.
Actually, if you string their catchyells together, you can make a coherent paragraph:
This is Sparta. I am Beowulf. Tonight will be different. Tonight we dine in hell.
... Because I realized Beowulf shouts as loud as Leonidas.

Next page has a drawing of Beowulf saying, "Madness? I AM BEOWULF!*" at the corner and the next page has a drawing of Leonidas saying, "Beowulf? THIS IS SPARTA!*"

I'm not quite sure I got this right but from my understanding "realizations with regards to what is presented by the film with a written output" (or something like that) pertains to the differences between the poem and the movie. I didn't really realize/learn anything other than facts and we all know the summary so I chose to do THAT. If I'm right, awesome. If I'm wrong, too bad and you've got no choice anyway but to bare with my very loquacious inner thoughts about the Beowulf poem and the 2007 film. Booyaaah.

By the way, I'm aware that journals have no limitations whatsoever regarding word count, and that the only rule is to not use profanity so without further ado (be thankful for that), I present to you, 100% clean, Zookietotookie Hohohpuff! *applause*

The main difference is Grendel's mother (who I shall now call Lara Croft, because everybody else calls her Angelina and who wants to be everybody else) being somewhat immortal in the film. She seduced King Hrothgar and what became of that was Grendel, further intensifying their need for Beowulf. She also wasn't slayed by Beowulf, rather she seduced him and what became of that was the dragon... Brilliant. Why? For one, monsters don't just appear there. Okay they do, but it's kinda stupid if you think of it, it's like the story needed a fight so bad so "RAHH IT'S GOLLUM ON STEROIDS IT'S A FLYING DINOSAUR NOOO WE'RE GONNA DIE!"

Some other differences: Hrothgar's and Beowulf's family background wasn't given much attention to, portrayal of Hrothgar more as a drunkard than that sober, clever king in all those Old English poems, Wiglaf following Lara Croft at the end, signifying the passing on of the curse along with the throne.

The second command orders me to choose between the poem and the movie. And now for the most predictable answer: I choose the film. Though, you know, there were some unintentionally hilarious parts.

For some reason, I judge fiction by its verisimilitude. Or put in a more understandable way, I hate Edward Cullen because he's too perfect (except that he sparkles, because that's stupid, lame, ludicrous, dumb... should I keep going?) Beowulf would have been the Edward of 507 A.D. Denmark, but he had flaws. He wasn't able to kill Lara Croft, instead he gave in to her will. I also like how they presented a curse and how they explained why Grendel and the dragon were there in the first place.

The movie made everything more interesting. It was shorter, story's further elaborated, it wasn't a happy ending, I love it. Just like real life... somehow.

*decibels emitted by larynx comparison and 300 citation hint hint wink wink
P.S. I do not abuse the thesaurus unlike Stephenie whatserface.

Fuck yeah, three posts in a day. Though let's try to forget I ever posted the one before this.

Oh oh oh how was I supposed to know?

2009-06-25T08:51:00.007+08:00

Jill said yesterday, "I thought you hate All Time Low" (oslt) and I said, "Sometimes." Today and yesterday and the day before that, I don't! I started realizing what a crappy band they are when they released Weightless. The song sucks. SWIR is chopped liver compared to Put Up Or Shut Up and now they gave me this pizzashit. Alex recycled the lyrics from his MySpace poems. And his voice is so... not rough. (What am I saying?!) Anyway as I've said before, Alex's recording voice is like Benjamin Button, it's aging backwards. Just listen to their Time to Break Up cover, then Coffee Shop Soundtrack, then any song from So Wrong, It's Right, then Umbrella, then Weightless -- and you would agree with me.

I also hate the lyrics, and if that wasn't enough insulting, Miley Cyrus could sing it. Except that it had the f-bomb, though only delusional 10-year-olds believe that Miley's an angel from up above. I am dying to show my niece the new slutty photos, but that would eventually equate to me not having a place to say at while I'm in college so yeah. (Uhh, I don't know what's more pitiful: her, the people following her, or me reading about it.)

Back to All Time Low, I kinda (read: really) like Damned If I Do Ya. It's officially my car song of the week. (Go figure.) And because of that I went to GK to check if there was any new JAGK stuff and through random clicking, I saw that shirt. Yeah! I love how ATL's honest about how they suck. (They're probably just being humble, but come on.) Something they got from blink. Shit, I don't even know why I listen to these people.

By the way while waiting at the dentist's yesterday, I was listening to Mayday Parade and damn they sound like pre-mainstream ATL... which is good. And I recently found out that the Alice chick in Transformers is an Aussie actress from Home and Away. If you've been to Australia, that show is plugged everywhere. It's their longest-running soap, if not in the world. 20 YEARS -- I think.

And also:
HA, so The Used is more popular than Green Day now. Or is iTunes on auto-smart or something? Like Genius? It can tell that I like The Used but it can't lie to me about New Divide being #1 most popular... What, just me?

What you are about to see is top secret.

2009-06-24T17:45:00.004+08:00

Do not tell my mother... I just watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Now, I made this review about the film on my Multiply, which I made really short because I plan to rant here. But let's save the ranting for later.

Classes are suspended today. On the day that Transformers premieres in my country. What luck. My mom woke me up telling me that I had to dress up because we're going to the dentist and then to ATC to avail of her expiring Bistro discount card and to watch the goddamned movie that premieres today.

I was brushing my teeth and tried to decide on what elastics I'll have this time. Usually the dentist decides and I just say yes, but last time she let me choose, so I don't know for sure. I thought why not have my favorite Transformer's colors. I like Barricade best (this may have something to do with Pretty Handsome Awkward playing in the chase scene) but it's just black and white, and there are no white elastics -- I think. Jazz is just silver, Optimus's red and blue doesn't look too nice on teeth, Bumblebee's yellow and black is cool but I doubt they ever use black elastics. I know, silly me.

At the dentist, I was looking for the magazine which had the greatest Apple ad ever. It was a 2006 one where an iPod sorta exploded with hundreds of different cover art and I liked being able to name the ones I know. It killed 20 minutes. I "reserved" all the Vanity Fair magazines and one issue had Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf, obviously for some Indiana Jones shit. Then when I was finally in the dentist's chair, the dentist asked if it was okay that my lower elastics would be black and the upper would be yellow. I tried to laugh and say "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" (They're open half-day, and their eldest, my friend Jem, will celebrate her birthday tomorrow so I assume they'll watch "the goddamned movie") but of course several things were in my mouth so it wasn't the smartest thing to do.

We had lunch at Friday's first then watched "the goddamned movie" and well, here I go, random thoughts style:

During the scene where Sam was gonna leave for college and before they play Never Say Never, I really heard his Dad said "Hey Kale!" LOL. Oh and is it me, or does Shia never get any taller?
What the fuck is up with the chickens, dammit. And that bird on that pyramid thing next to the victorious upgraded Optimus, that caught most of my attention.
So many unnecessary/awkward scenes. Some of the intended jokes weren't funny at all and this isn't a movie for kids so I raise an F.
The trailer before the movie was Public Enemies. Holy shit. I didn't even know a trailer was out. My favorite characters from my two favorite movies. Borden/Fallon + Todd.
Linkin Park sang the theme song again. If it weren't for the movie, I wouldn't know that the band's actually planning a fourth album and I wouldn't know about the soundtrack and I wouldn't know about...
THE USED'S BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE IS ON THE SOUNDTRACK. OH MY GOODNESS. I LOVE THESE PEOPLE.
I lost the mood to complain. The first sentence of #3 sums it up. It wasn't as good as it's hyped to be, but of course the robots were mind blowing. That's the only reason you should see it. Plot's predictable and I really think this one was too long.

Notice how I say "the goddamned movie" not the title. I believe that repetitive cussing is better than repeating Transformers over and over and over. Suck my popsicle.

Where have all the bastards gone?

2009-06-18T22:48:00.009+08:00

I loved school too much huh. I've been off-Blogger for a while and there's too much to say. Oftentimes that leads to a post that sounds like it's been written in my head over and over during the long drive from Manila to Subic, and we all know the best blogs are spontaneous.

We did go to Subic and if you're stupid enough not to know what Subic is, well it's a place where everything is quiet and cold and basically, it's the complete opposite of ~~hell~~ the city. Last time I went there was Christmas '08 and the entire time was spent if not in front of the TV, in the playground. (Or upstairs freezing my butt off, but who wanted to hear that phrase.)

Being the consistent failure that I am, I did the same thing last weekend. The best part was when I watched this roller coaster documentary and obviously there are videos of people going on the craziest roller coasters known to mankind and I react and go "whoaaaaaa" and slightly move backwards and you know. Don't laugh.

I want to talk about school but there's just so many things to say so let me just continue my WMTYIHSFKB random thoughts style:

Our teacher referred to the Bermuda Triangle as the Bahamas Triangle. The only time it was referred to as that was in an episode of Jimmy Neutron. Anyway, it's funny 'cause she was serious. But I knew her so I can tell she was dead serious.
In Love And Death was the first CD every played on the new bus. HA!
Our adviser told me that I resembled someone who recently died. *cue creepy music*
We were asked by our Math teacher how we can prove Sera, our classmate, is Korean. They said physical characteristics, tradition, accent and more stupid things like that and when Patty finally said "legal documents" everyone clapped.
They are so fucking dumb.
I said "Miss, we didn't discuss ANYTHING" when our teacher went on asking us about stuff we apparently discussed the other day. She's unfunny so it felt good. But she's smart too so I'm torn.
I wrote "I now have a vision of my teacher naked, uhh." in the list but I can't remember why. I guess my brain really does erase disturbing things. Good boyyy.
OH MY GOODNESS SIR GIOV IS NOT HIMSELF HE'S... FUN AND NOT MONOTONOUS AND CRAZY. I think I might be able to cope with the lack of the Sir Eric this year.
Speaking of which, I see Sir Eric a lot and yes, that's a reasonable reason.
Cologne is required for P.E.
Ms. Sheena made a comment about the actor in the original Beowulf film. "What's the relationship of Christopher Lambert to the American Idol runner-up?" First, nobody cares if you're a Lambert and you're not gay. Second, Christopher is a stupid name. Of course I told Krishna.

After half-insulting everyone in my class, I think it's proper for me to say something positive now. I plan on not telling this yet, maybe when I discover better things about them but the main reason why I started blogging again is me not wanting to wait to say things, so here they are:

Mauro listens to Nintendocore (and I thought Jill and I are the only people who've ever heard of that genre in the entire school). And and and he listens to The Used.
Nica listens to The Used, too. A lot. And Panic -- the only FBR band I really like (admitting you like Fall Out Boy is like standing on top of some Italian building in Italy at noon and sparkling, which according to Twilight, translates to suicidal.) She likes Gossip Girl's Chuck Bass though and I just hate every bit of that character, but since she likes me, that just gives me another license to criticize her pseudo-Lorraine-ness then say sorry then insult her again.
I'm pretty sure Karl listens to the same music too. And he got my Love Guru reference when our adviser asked what BIBLE means. I don't like that movie, but it's awesome 'cause he made comments about the Morgan Freeman voiceovers. Ha ha ha... fail.
Cheska, surprisingly, doesn't have that much of a horrible taste in music and she made one of the smartest remarks I've heard in a long time: Adam's neck is too fat. HA HA HA of course I told Krishna.
Robyn doesn't like Ne-Yo either. Victory!
Sera is an atheist. Now there's two.

I seriously don't know how to end this. Um, auf wiedersehen? (I hate it when people say goodbye/sign off in a language they never use.)

These asphyxiated, self-medicated

2009-06-10T18:43:00.008+08:00

I can't believe I put Adam Lambert first. That article was just too good to be true. (Not trying to be an overreacting transexual-loving person here, I just thought it was so fucking honest and I like that.) Everybody, may I present to you, the cover of The Used's upcoming masterpiece:

To be honest, I'm disappointed that it's not Pardee. And that it looks emo as hell.

Artwork. Summer '09. It's summer in the US. Yes. Fuck. Yes. I want to be the first one in the Philippines to own this goddammit!!!!!!! (Mind you I barely use more than one exclamation point.) Don't let me down, you four. Especially you Dan. Personally I like The Used better with Dan than with Branden though Branden is crazy and "shy" and I love it and I downloaded Rancid's album because he's crazy and "shy" and I love him.

Six o' clock already I was just in the middle of a dream

2009-06-10T18:06:00.005+08:00

First day was pretty much err. I've got a lot to complain on but since everybody else would be doing that for you, let's look at the positive side. I don't know if I'll be able to keep up with this (I will try); I'm logging down WMTYIHSFKB things. You don't know what that is, but you'll find out. Here's mine for today:

Flipped off Jamie first thing in the morning.
Golly gee, I have no friends. Wrote "Hi, I'm not emo" on my left hand.
I took a photo of it. First offense!
Our adviser's friends/familiar with Sir Eric. HELL YESSSSESESESS! If you don't know who he is, well ~~fuck you, I fucking hate you, you're gonna burn in hell and die a horrible fiery death 'cause I hate you stupid piece of shit~~ he's gay and proud and awesome like that.
Our adviser said the word emo... We're doomed.
Some loser's visited school. Don't wanna talk about it, don't wanna think about it, I'm just so sick about it. :D
Today I learned that Jamie having an asthma attack/breathing heavily (can't really tell the difference) = David Archuleta's singing.
LOYCE HAS A DIETICIAN. WHAT THE HELL.
The canteen is giving out free brownies. This isn't my school!
Oh wait, it is. Still serving that gross yellow-sauced chicken.
Jill has a new baonan thingy! And a new jug!

On non-school related things, and for your daily dose of madness, the much-anticipated (of course that was a lie) 'coming out' of Adam Lambert for Rolling Stone is out. The issue's to be released tomorrow but who seriously cares about that. Here's a preview:

On coming out: “I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I’m gay… I’m proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It’s just another part of me [But] I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.”

On realizing he was gay growing up: “I started to realize I wasn’t like every other boy. I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.”

On his run on American Idol:”I was like, ‘I’m going to glue rhinestones on my eyelids, b—-!’ Right after the finale, I almost started talking about [being gay] to the reporters, but I thought, ‘I’m going to wait for Rolling Stone, that will be cooler.’ I didn’t want the Clay Aiken thing and the celebrity-magazine bulls—. I need to be able to explain myself in context… Clay Aiken’s gay, and I’m gay, and we couldn’t be more different. The only thing that is the same about everyone in the gay community is that we’re gay. … Why can’t we talk about a human community?”

On getting attention from fangirls: “I loved it this season when the girls went crazy for me. As far as I’m concerned, it’s all hot.”

On sharing a bedroom with Idol winner Kris Allen: “They put me with the cute guy. Distracting! He’s the one guy I found attractive in the whole group on the show: nice, nonchalant, pretty and totally my type — except that he has a wife. I mean he’s open-minded and liberal, but he’s definitely 100% straight.”

On gaining self-confidence through Idol: “I finally checked into my self-worth for the first time in my life, and the fact that it coincided with Idol is so sweet. I mean, I still have moments where I think, ‘Oh, my skin is terrible, and I’m a little fat — I should really go to the gym more.’ But for the most part, when I look in the mirror now, I finally see somebody who can do something cool.”

I didn't think it was possible to love Adam Lambert even more. Thanks for being honest, thanks for being flamboyant and Bowie-esque, thanks for that mocking laugh you did when some half-naked girl rushed to you on stage, thanks for that epic photo of Katie Holmes covering Suri's ears, thanks for your semi-hot pre-Idol epic photos, and most importantly, thank you for making American Idol interesting... Good times.

Hey Fox? I think the guy needs a reality show? With Normund Gentle and Tatiana del Toro and Nathaniel Marshall? And probably Speidi too? *victory*

Madness? This is Big Fish!

2009-06-09T19:01:00.004+08:00

I've just watched Big Fish. Literally. By that I mean I've just finished watching it two minutes ago. I'll try to make this quick since school starts tomorrow, I have to sleep early and there's tons of other things I want to do. I won't comment on the film anymore, though I gotta say it I liked it. Too weird to be true. Burton, you did not let me down.

Anyway, the real weird part was (this might also pass as my daily dose of madness) during the story of the witch. When Edward's friend, the girl, said "Edward, don't!" I thought, "Damn, her accent sounds a lot like Hannah Montana. And she kinda looks like her too." I shrugged the idea off thinking it'd be too unlikely to have a young Miley on a Tim Burton film. I mean... you know? Well unless you have been living under a rock in the middle of the desert in Uzbekistan, you'd know.

And then the credits rolled. I was looking for Helena Bonham-Carter's name, thinking she played both the older Jenny and the Witch, and I wanted to make sure, then out of the blue, I saw the most horrible thing I've ever seen in movie credits: Destiny Cyrus.

Then I freaked out.
Then I turned the DVD player off.
Then I pulled all the sockets, returned the DVD player, turned on the computer to tell you... THIS IS MADNESS!

Madness? This is sheep circle!

2009-06-08T20:13:00.003+08:00

I've just read about The Battle of Thermopylae in our AP book. (I told you I was bored.) Every time the word Sparta appears I write three exclamation points next to it. Then I proceeded to write "Madness?" on the very bottom of page 299 and well, the predictable on the top of the following page... I feel awesome. Anyway, here's your daily dose of madness:

Sheep forming a perfect almost-circle. How f'ing cool is that! If your response is "So?" you probably haven't seen a sheep in your life. (Admit it, you haven't.)

About 100 of the woolly creatures formed an orderly ring - baffling the farmer and passers-by.

But after hearing the roar of the boss's tractor the animals scattered like a group of naughty schoolboys.

Photographer Russell Bird, who captured the amazing scene, said:"I was quite taken aback. I couldn't believe what I was seeing," he said.

"I did see a dog worrying sheep nearby beforehand and the dog ran off round the hedge in a different field, so I don't know if they were discussing that."

Bizarrely, he then spotted another circle three fields away, but was unable to take a picture with both "formations" lasting around 10 minutes before dispersing.

Got it from here. Hey, I just noticed every single one of my posts, except the first one, has a photo. Weird. I must really really hate dullness. Also, I don't want this paragraph to be extremely short so I type the words Escaped Radioactive Psycho Killer Mutant Russian Nazi Islamofascist Undead Zombie Cannibal Troll Demon Possessed Alien Clown Ghost Spider Midget Puppet Vampire Killer Bee Robot Mummy Dolls from Space. That's better.

Why do I want what I can't get?

2009-06-08T19:25:00.000+08:00

In honor of Jill's blogspot account (that I totally did not force her to make), I'm going to make a list of all the usernames I've ever had (read: all but the embarrassing ones) and explain why they are named so. If you don't get the connection, don't worry, it doesn't make you stupid.

_zap - For Twitter, which I signed up for more than a year ago so screw all of you celebrities, I wanted just zap but that was already taken so I randomly put an underscore before. I decided to use the same for Kyte so that Twitter people would recognize me. I'll try to use this one everytime from now on.
thealmightytallest - Characters from the greatest cartoon ever, Invader Zim. There was already almightytallest so I had to put the article the. Anyway, everything looks better with it, though a bit more arrogant, but that's not really a big deal.
playwithanucleardevice - From Wendy Clear by blink-182: But I'd play with fire to break the ice / And I'd play with a nuclear device / Is it something I'll regret? I simply like the wordplay. That also explains the site title.
theusdollar - I like the "letterplay" of this one. I made this last summer, when I was still freshly in love (?) with The Used. I never really made an account using this other than that Simpsons Movie flash website thing, which I only used for two hours.
quiteunpleasantpoison - From My Pesticide by The Used: A one note cold to make this quite unpleasant poison and it's / My life / My pesticide / works over time
hyperventilate - A word from Linkin Park's Given Up: I hyperventilate / Looking for help somehow somewhere / But no one cares The first time I heard the song was also the first time I heard the word and I found it cool and I looked up the meaning and man, it's even cooler, I have tons of friends who do that every single day.
zap000zap - Duh.

That's it. I thought this was going to be fun but wow, it's not. Almost all of today's a complete waste of time. Seriously. I didn't do anything productive and to think 48 hours from now I'd be home from my first day of school. I made this though:

I rarely use Photoshop nowadays. So this must be something. Yes, I took that photo. I like it a lot. I was thinking of putting it up on deviantART but I barely use that anymore. What's the point.

DomiNation

2009-06-07T23:27:00.004+08:00

Okay, I'm sick and I played bass today. Other than those, I have nothing significant to blog about but I want to show this to everyone so here it is:

Ta-dah! Guess who's playing more and more Tap Tap Revenge?

I removed the game from my iPod because at first I didn't want the 2.5 update (I hate the game screen colors) but decided to put it back anyway, so all my downloaded songs and achievements are deleted. That was a week ago. Now I have more songs than before, and I recently got a check mark next to the Century achievement which says, "Play 100 games." Hellz yeah. :D

I'm still thinking about linking the video to Spencer's "approximation of a song/music video" and the TMZ page to Heidi being hospitalized... Still thinking... Still... Nah.

Who's got a kiss for the Pickety Witch?

2009-06-04T20:57:00.013+08:00

Today it rained so motherfucking hard that I woke up because of thunder. I don't even want to imagine how bright and how loud that would've been. I also played less Tap Tap Revenge today, because I felt like re-reading my Cirque Du Freak books. (A little reminder: Don't make me talk about Cirque du Freak. Or even just Mr. Crepsley. You won't believe the word count.)

Back to Tap Tap, this glorious moment of victory happened yesterday:

Tapulous claims TTR got about 11 million downloads making this win even better. I told you, Don't Trust Me is my best song. I wouldn't have found out about 3OH!3 if not for Tap Tap. Well, I would have, but it's half a year later. So thank you, Tapulous. They also have a Two Tongues's Crawl out, which officially makes them the best app makers everrrr. (App Makers didn't sound right.)

Actually, the reason why I went online despite the fact that it's raining so freaking hard is to jabber about how much I love the cast of the upcoming Alice in Wonderland film, which I've been really looking forward to ever since I've read of its production on IMDb. Yeah, back then when Johnny Depp was just rumored to play the Mad Hatter. (But then again, how can he not be in this film?) Alice is actually the first classic (that is not a series) I've read from start to finish. Counting poems out. I love poems. Especially the Edgar Allan Poe ones. Though when it's some angst-ridden teenager or Alex Gaskarth, I get whiny.

I've said a lot now so why not continue with the supposed plan:
Directed by Tim Burton - Hello, childhood. As a matter of fact, I did watch Sleepy Hollow when I was six. I completely remember the scene where The Headless Horseman was eating Katrina's stepmother's face off, I just can't remember where exactly did I see it. Then I found a DVD on top of the TV one really boring day and I'm like, "Damn, this looks familiar... Or I just pretend that 'cause it sounds cool." Five, ten, twenty minutes into the film, everything was so creepishly familiar. I completely forgot most scenes but I knew that witch girl who stood still for a while was gonna do something creepy, I knew he was gonna remember his past and there was gonna be this fight at the church and, gah. (Sorry I had to say it. It's a cool thing. Really. Admit it.)
Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter - (childhood waves back) While on topic, I used to have these, err, "[stupid] questions" regarding movies, like why do you watch them why do people spend so much time and money producing these i know its entertainment but why are there tons of films being released everyday it's not vital in man's survival lalala UNTIL I watched Sweeney Todd. I don't know what the fuck snapped but that was when I started getting the i-have-got-to-see-this-movie urgest. It was also the first and only musical I've memorized every single word of every single song of. And did I mention he's a serial killer?
Helena Bonham-Carter as the Red Queen - I don't have a favorite actress (unless it's, you know, porn) but I gotta say she's the only female I "look out for." Mainly because Sweeney Todd is one of my favorite movies and she's a main character. The Prestige's main female character is Scarlett and I don't really like her... Y'know what, that's actually all the movies I love. Oh and Jumper, which I've watched at least six times, but only to memorize Griffin's lines...
Mia Wasikowska as Alice - Jesus Christ, I have no idea who she is but I do know she's this girl Asael Bielski liked in Defiance. Yeah, that's Jamie Bell's character. Yeah, they kissed. And since I've already mentioned him, Griffin is also Jamie Bell's character. How wicked cool is that.
Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat - My favorite character. I've always been fascinated by its "mad" remark (I kept thinking about that), how it can be invisible, and how it's always smiling, giving it more mystery than the rest. "I didn't know that Cheshire Cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know that cats could grin." Good point, Alice. And just so you know, I've read the book long before I've known about the blink album. I also know nothing about the Fry dude, but he looks like he has the Morgan Freeman type of voice so, splendid!
Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar - Yayyy, this is a dream come true. It's like a fucking reprise of Sweeney Todd, goddammit. Where's Borat?!

I didn't comment on the other cast members that I don't really know and/or don't care about. This also gonna be released March 19, 2010. I think I have a late birthday treat for my future 15-year-old self? :D

Well I guess this is growing up

2009-06-03T09:40:00.014+08:00

I was just playing TTR 2.5 online and the song was Never Miss A Beat (Yuksek Remix) which, I have to say, my 2nd best song next to Don't Trust Me, and I was #1 of 12 people when in the middle of the song, my 10% battery remaining iPod decided that it was the perfect time to unleash the automatic power off shit shit shit.

Ah well. Video games and I just don't match. I've never owned a console in my entire life, the only game I've finished without cheats that is not for kids is Mario And Luigi: Partners in Time on the DS, and I can barely get five stars on What I've Done on Rock Band. Medium. But barely. And there's hardly any guitar on that song.

Anyway, today I found out what the name of my favorite pair is. YAYY! The box was gone, so the last of my desperate attempts was to type in some number I found at the side of the inside of the shoe. Which was this: 318921-601. And ta-dah! Nike Air Rejuven8 Laser Pink-Black-White:
Isn't it awesome?! It's not the best in the world but there's nothing like it in the Philippines. (I decided to say it. Now no one will ever read my posts.) I was torn between this and the silver one, but the silver one looked kinda... normal so I went with this. There was a green and blue one too (can't find a photo) where the black part (outside)'s blue/green and the pink part (inside)'s white. I got it in Melbourne. Gotta love Melbourne.

I also feel the mighty need to link this, especially after watching The Soup last night and STEPHANIE PRATT was a guest. (OH YES we're one step closer to getting money-hungry famewhores Speidi on the show!) In the article, Spencer allegedly said "If you give me a script, I'll do what you want. I'm not a reality star, I'm on 'The Hills.'" Ha fucking ha! And if you look close enough you'll notice the magical reappearance of Spencer's flesh colored beard! Woohoo!

On a completely different note, I visited Seton the other day.* After going to school I shopped for my school supplies alone and I wrote blink on the left side of the elevator going up from the 1st floor to the 2nd that's near Banco De Oro and 182 on the right side of the elevator next to it going down from the 2nd floor to the 1st. It's stupid, but I'm kinda proud. Then Jamie visited and we played tennis, real lawn not-virtual tennis. Life rules.

*There's some sort of unwritten law about unnecessary rants on blogs so I'll avoid talking about the sections. I'll be fine. If I won't, well that's more time for me to learn Deutsch, play bass and embrace my inner geek... Which would make me go beyond fine. I'm planning to finish the entire AP book before school begins and also the Religion one. We're gonna discuss morality, freedom, law, sins, truth and thankfully not history of the Church. The Super Geek Me experiment begins. :D

I would like some money.

2009-05-31T21:56:00.016+08:00

I'm trying to find out what the name of my favorite pair of shoes are. I can't brag about it since I don't know what it's called and I've been looking up "nike air pink foam black" (I am that shameless to put that up here) all to no avail. What the hell do you call these?!?! I need to show off my Nike Air Whatchamacallit X123!

...Yeah, no photo. Because the one photo I have of it makes my feet look freaky and make the shoes look more ugly than awesome by a factor of 10.

Anyway, today, for the first time in my life, I attended a Christening as a godmother.

I was gonna include fucking before godmother but that didn't sound quite right. I didn't want to say that last word either since it makes me look like an obese 40-year-old Caucasian mom (sorry, blame the neurons) with four almost-obese kids who---Stop. Don't want a lawsuit tomorrow morning. Like Miley. (IT'S MILEY!!!!) Shit, please, let's not get there.

Going back, I attended this Christening, which was mostly me sitting with this celebrity (I didn't know she was famous until everyone started talking about her) and her asking me stuff and me acting all cynical and me acting all warm and nice after finding out how big of a TV star she is... You know, just like a normal human being. Her name's Wendy. You're not Filipino so what's the point of writing an entire paragraph about her. And just so it won't bother you anymore, yes, she has reddish hair and freckles. Or it was bad make-up. Whatever, who cares, it's red goddammit.

That day before the mass started I saw (a naked kid who I thought was a girl until he turned around and) this guy who really (not really) looked like -- I don't like these parts, let's skip them -- I deleted three paragraphs that you really don't want to read: A super special preview to the constant battle in my head of Genuine Dumbfuck 14-year-old girl VS. Impossible 14-year-old With A Heart Of Steel over the possesion of my soul.

Then we went to the reception and I really had to deal with the consequences (emotions, guilt, mostly guilt 'cause my mom wanted a photo so bad) of not having talked to Wendy that much. Then we went shopping for mom's underwear.

T.
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How can this not be one of the greatest album covers ever?

2009-05-29T16:43:00.004+08:00

Evermore's Truth Of The World: Welcome To The Show. Speaks for itself. I haven't listened to the album yet (I will tonight) but I've heard it's a *sigh* concept album. We'll see. I loved Hey Boys And Girls, I found myself singing it today and last night I spent 5 hours downloading new music so hey, why not. Anyway, you should check it out too. :D

Life-size blue whale online

2009-05-29T00:40:00.000+08:00

Seriously? Okay I get the whole save-the-whales campaign but why bother. Those WDCS people probably don't have a life, huh. Anyway whatever, it's done, and it got my attention, so that means it probably worked. Way to go WDCS!

Oh yeah and if you haven't heard, there's glow in the dark monkeys now as well. Here's a picture, so you won't have to read the TL;DR article:

Yay 2009!

2009-05-28T20:20:00.002+08:00

I was on a plane to Australia on my birthday, did so many crazy things this school year, slept through new year's eve, visited the room where I was born, blink-182 reunited, new Used album... Hey, speaking of which, here are some albums due 2009 that I'm looking forward to.

Artwork - The Used
Do I have to explain why?!

blink-182's new album
I think I've read early 2010 release, but they'll be playing new songs on tour anyway and Tom did say they're releasing a few singles this year. So... Do I have to explain why...

21st Century Breakdown - Green Day
Released. Took them half a decade on this one (though I love Foxboro Hot Tubs). Did not disappoint. I want to write a whole lot more about the album since I really liked it, way better than American Idiot if you ask me, but it would be extremely long and this paragraph might end up as a review. Let's avoid that.

Cardiology - Good Charlotte
One of the bands I grew up listening to, along with Simple Plan and more crappy shit like that. Nicole Richie's also the only person I cared about in Hollywood when I was a kid (maybe her and Shanna Moakler because I love watching MTV) so that kinda helped. And she's having twins, goddammit! Benji and Joel are also born 2 days from my birthday, so that's kinda cool. And according to Wiki, Joel also said thisss: "Describing the sound to MTV news, Joel Madden said it would sound a lot like Blink-182." No dance rock, blink-182-ish, what more can you ask for? ...Just that they don't try too hard.

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Released. I've only started listening to them a month ago. (I didn't really dig Do You Want To back then, and I thought all their songs sound like that.) They got my attention when I heard No You Girls on a freaking iPod touch advertisement when I was still in Australia. Naturally, I love everything iPod touch so that I looked up the song. I like this record better than You Could Have It So Much Better. I used better twice in one sentence. Ha fucking ha.

Let the Dominoes Fall - Rancid
I just wanna know how Branden sounds like with this one. Plus, I liked Last One To Die.

Nothing Personal - All Time Low
Call this a guilty pleasure. (Like my weird obsession of everything Speidi... I know, crucify me now.) I sort of, 'gave up' on the band weeks ago but (and that's a big BUT) there have been rumors about Hoppus co-wroting this and he sang on a song too and he's made a cameo in the Weightless video so fuck that, I'm getting this one.

Punk Goes Pop 2 - Various Artists
Released. This might be my favorite from the Punk Goes... series. Nah probably second to Crunk, because this had a Miley Cyrus song and Attack Attack sucks and there were other horrible songs. Anyway, ETF's cover of Smooth was amazing and Alesana's What Goes Around, too and err yeah wait a sec i thought i said no reviewing.

The E.N.D. - Black Eyed Peas
I love Fergie! Boom Boom Pow's music video sucked like hell and Monkey Business was blah and Will.I.Am in X-Men reminded me how entertainingly bad or just okay this might be, but we need a pop album every once in a while, don't we?

Rihanna's new album
I don't know for sure, but she's been working on it since 2008. I've loved her since Pon De Replay, and I'm not lying (unlike you, yeah you, I know you're reading this.) The first time I've seen that was on TRL and it was #1 and Damien said it's the new summer anthem or something, anyway you get the picture. I love her.

My Chemical Romance's new album
Hiatus, I know. But maybe. A few singles would be nice. I love this band, they're the only one I've seen live and actually liked. (Because my country is shit and I never go to Fall Out Boy shows.)

A lot of good films coming out this year, too. But more on that some other time. Oh and yeah, an Adam Lambert record would be hilarious.

Why waste your breath?

2009-05-28T05:35:00.000+08:00

Don't you hate it when you're taking a bath, expecting a message from somebody, you hear your message alert tone, you rush and check, and it's from your network provider telling you about their new promo blah blah blah.

"Like I really care," I thought. I realized I said (you know, when you're saying it just in your head) the phrase in a certain way. I googled the phrase thinking it may be some famous internet thing I haven't heard of, or it's somebody's catchphrase, or somebody on TV said it that way once... Yeah I'm lame like that, get used to it.

This was the first result.

Yeah, I remember those! I saw these buttons in Big W (You Want It When and Like I Really Care) and I had so much fun. They were on the catalog, too. You can have a conversation using these! Bahahaha.

So yeah, useless post. Just want to inform everyone about the awesomeness that is... Hot Buttons: Why Waste Your Breath?

I refuse to believe in the saying that nobody's perfect.

2009-05-26T20:47:00.003+08:00

Ho shit, either I suck at hosting sleepovers or these people I just called my "best friends" have nothing in common with me, at all. I don't even want to talk about them. So instead of embarrassing myself and writing about that, I'm gonna talk about a safer, less interesting thing: my day.

I went to Kumon today, hopefully for the last time. I'm quitting. It's taking up too much of my time, and I don't feel like I need it. I finished level K in math just today, I think that's fine. L's Calculus but I'll just care when I get there. I'm getting pretty confident about the Ateneo entrance exam what with all the former Ateneans who treat me for lunch every Wednesdays-Fridays telling me what to do, what to study.

On a completely different note, I just googled Jack Hoppus (yeah, just now, unlike you, you "hardcore blink fan") and I'm going "awww" at every photo, video, everything! I don't know why but it's like some weird holy family shit. I've never did that before. Really. Except maybe last Saturday when I saw my cousin's 8 month old baby for the first time, though I think I just said "Aww, cute!"

Fuck you brain! Stop telling me everything about Mark Hoppus is genius. He's old enough to be my dad, goddammit. *emotions go here* As my present to you guys I'm gonna stop trying to explain myself and demonstrate to you the magic that is c&p.

I like thisss. There's a better one with Skye but it's fucking blurred. There's another one where Jack's only a baby but it's also low-res. And don't make me post videos.

(Skye)
About your adorable 4-year old, Jack—how do you spoil him?
He’s beyond spoiled! (Laughs) The best thing you can do for your kid is to give him a lot of love and attention. Jack had a passport when he was 6 months old. He’s traveled everywhere. We really pride ourselves that we are a family unit. When Mark was on tour, we’d pick up and go, and it was a whole family experience.

Going on tour must've been fun!
The great thing about the last couple of Blink tours was that the guitar player [Tom DeLonge] and his wife had a daughter 3 weeks before we had our son. And then with the Green Day tour, Adrienne and Billie Joe [of the band Green Day] brought their 2 sons Jakob and Joey, and it was so inspiring.

(Mark)
Were you surprised that you got nominated? for Baby Couture’s top 50 Hautest Dads, which sounds so stupid, just saying.
Hell, no! Look at me! (Laughs) Actually, yeah. Because I’m just like a skateboard, punk-rock guy at heart, so that’s cool.

What’s the most expensive thing you ever bought Jack?
Well, he got a 42-inch plasma TV in his room when he was 2 years old. That’s probably the nicest thing that he’s ever gotten.

We saw you practically naked in a music video before. How have things changed since you became a father?
It changed me for the better, but it hasn’t affected my band, it hasn’t affected my work. It’s actually more inspiring. It’s really cool because with the job that I have, I can take my family with me. Skye and Jack came on the road with Blink 182 for an 8-week tour, and they lived on a bus. And it was the best time we had. Jack loved watching the shows. It was really awesome because some nights when we were playing, I’d look over and my kid is on the side of the stage rocking out, jumping up and down having the time of his life, watching all the lights, listening to the music. And other nights, I’d look over, and he’d be completely passed out in my wife’s arms, dead asleep during our show. I’m like, “What? We’re not doing it for you tonight? What’s going on?” (Laughs)

How did you guys meet?
She used work on MTV and she booked Blink 182 on a show called “Making The Video.” And we were in a dance studio on 3rd St. trying to learn dance moves for this video where we were parodying Boy Bands. And she came upstairs, and I was dressed in spandex and a headband. (Laughs) And she fell in love with me! Actually, that’s not true. I asked her out and she said, “No, I don’t date artists.” So I had to do some convincing to get her to go out with me.

Share with us your favorite moment with your family.
We go out to breakfast every single morning before Jack goes to school, and before Skye goes to her job and before I go to the studio. It’s just a good time to hang out and spend some time together before we go. That, and swimming in our pool in the backyard. My favorite time with my family. And Disneyland!

I got those from a single post in Buzznet. Somebody give Larry Tesler a hug for inventing copy-paste.

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2009-05-25T08:36:00.001+08:00

Today (or rather tonight), I'm gonna have this sleepover with my neighbors. It's one of the silliest eggs my brain's ever hatched since we live four fucking metres from each other but believe it or not, I haven't talked to them in yearsss.

And I'm gonna repeat that again with a more dramatic tone: YEARSSSSSSSS.

The last time I've seen them was the 50th wedding anniversary of these old, but very nice, people who live in the same street as us. Before that, I was still in the fourth grade since we all actually hung out together.

I've been friends with those kids for as long as I could remember and I have the photos to prove it. I'm an only child (my half-siblings are 20 years older than me) and that's that, so growing up, they were like my sisters and brothers. We did the same stuff together, we'd play every day, hell one of us even died at 11! (RIP Kevin, your brother still has my Tarzan toy.)

I guess it's safe to say that they're my best friends--I love them no matter how pathetic they are. And fyi, I've never felt that way to any other friend before. Usually, I just let people be their stupid selves and I'd point and laugh to contentment and just wait for them to grow the fuck up THEN befriend them.

More on the "how pathetic they are" phrase: They've changed a lot now. Weight, mostly. Bahaha. But they're becoming more and more like the typical Filipino teenagers who live in the lifestyle of cellphone-computer-TV. Case in point: Yesterday I met up with Dominic and he asked me if I was emo. AND he asked for a comment in Friendster.

It's for the worse and I can tell. Somehow time managed to fuck them up so we're all really different now. Or I'M really different from them. Most of the time I'd see them outside talking with each other and I'd feel left out.

So I arranged a sleepover.

Tonight we'll probably just reminisce about the good 'ol days when we tried to poison Sydney with crayons, when we tried to fly kites but they all ended up in one Meralco post, when we went caroling and filled an entire jelly ace container with coins and 182 more.