Inkernet Life

Senior Retreat

2006-10-25T18:33:00.000-04:00

Sorry for the long break. Facebook and physical social contact can do everything this blog does now. Senior Retreat was pretty cool, better than classes fo' sho'. Capture the Flag was awesome. We won 2-1 but I must admit the teams were a bit stacked in our favor. Unfortuneatly I didn't get that big an opportunity to go on offense and defense was boring. CTF + Woods = definitely not smart. A got wrapped up in a vine and Julia lost her cell making a gradewide search. Boring. Sides that it was funny to watch different skits people made. Got them on video. Anyone know where I could post em?

First Day of School

2006-09-05T22:29:00.000-04:00

Woot, well school started today. To much fan fair I'm sure. Most people wore suits and dresses, most. Jumped right into school from vacation up to New England. Saw Brown, Tufts, Boston Univ., Univ. of New Hampshire, and Northeastern. Liked em all but Northeastern. UNH had these awesome hand scanners instead of card passes for doors and the cafeteria. So Bond. Though I liked their co-op thingamagigger. Got to chop wood and hike, swim in virgin lakes and all that country shit. I love it. Interspersed with colleges it was a very handy vacation. Woods Hole was fun as always though rainy. It rains where ever I go and only lets up on the last day, it's really pissing me off but reminds me of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy if you've read Moslty Harmless.

I'm going to bring my Sega Gensis and games into school tomorrow for our lounge. Hope that shit doesn't get stolen. Lots of memories in that Streets of Rage, Rocket Knight, Boogerman, Vectorman, etc. Should be protected by their age though. Saw the old copyrights on that shit, 93ish, I was only 4 but I swear I bought that thing at age 6 or something. I had the Nomad, the portable genesis. Hot 64-bit shit back then. Straight 6 periods tomorrow, yeah. At least they're not all IBs. Still gotta figure out a poster for our senior play which I haven't read but I am proud to say that I sculpted another model for my theatre project. Post pics below:

So I have these 4 models. The one on the right is the most recent and is as of yet to dry. She is also the only female. I was watching "Meet Joe Black", a good relax pensive movie, so she looks kinda like that hot actress in the movie Claire Forlani. Well maybe not alot but...to me kinda...she's hot anyway. In that movie especially. And Brad Pitt's really good too. So eerie. Anyways the other three are guys, the happy one is Hoeder and the sad/confused ones are Hugo from "Dirty Hands" my Sartre. The woman is Hugo's wife Jessica. Some of my sketches, for the mask and otherwise:

Besides that I got some photos from the first day of school...in the LOUNGE. I just love tossing that word in in front of those without lounge privelages, suckas.

Smell-o-vision!

2006-08-27T02:23:00.000-04:00

Sacre Coeur

2006-08-26T00:47:00.000-04:00

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The Sacre Coeur cathedral in Montmarre (the Moulin Rouge and Toulouse Lautrec's old neighborhood).

Le Louvre

2006-08-26T00:46:00.000-04:00

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Originally uploaded by fireant202.

Me at the Louvre pyramid with my aviators, TEAM AMERICA, FUCK YAH!

(if you look real close you can see the camera's distinct reflection in the glasses, that's how good the camera is, o yea).

Me Behind the Wheel

2006-08-22T11:08:00.000-04:00

Got my first opportunity to try out my new Learner's Permit in a parking lot with the lot guards watching. Nice guy let us in though. Got 30 min of my required 40 hrs! Nice! I did allright, I think. After all it was my first time unless you include golf carts, bumper cars, go-carts or jet skis. At least I have all my video game expierience from BurnOut, hahaha!

I was looking at Naviance's list of colleges, just scrolling through by state to find Boston, NYC and Chicago city schools and I realized...I am quickly scrolling through my future. Each hyperlink was like an alternate road to the future. If I stopped and clicked on this college instead of that one, or this one...it could completely change where I go and therefore my actualy future! Crazy shit how big a choice this is. Besides the whole "education" part, this determines practically who will be my friends in the next 4 years and maybe for the rest of my life. Hell it's possible I'll meet the girl I'll eventually marry! My mom and dad met when they were both in college...I think? And my mom still has friends to this day from college who are practically my aunts! Crazy fucking shit...ellipsis...NO PRESSURE.

Woot I'm in France

2006-07-27T15:30:00.000-04:00

Immediately forgive any typos as I'm using a French keyboard which is a bit different and therefore hard to adjust to. So the flight was fine, no hitches. Everyhing as a mater of fact has been fine. I can communicate fine and although sometimes I lack the voabulary or the pronunciation I'm getting alon fine and can actually comunicate with so,e ease to people outside of those I'm staying with.

Romain has a great house, three bros (it gets really crazy alot) and also hes got a seaside appt in Narbonne and all these awesome sea activities (a boat, windsurfing boards, waterskis, innertube, all of it!). I didn't do too well at any of that stuf but it was fun and I got the wounds to prove it. Its actually kind of hard switching back to english after all this time in french mode.

My constant companion has been my pocket dictionarry. Mostly I've visited churches and cathedrals theres so many of them. But recently cause we're in the clarmont region we've been seeing alot of old volcanoes and counryside all very beautiful like the volcano lake we visited today. I'll post all my pics when I get back, start a flckr account.

The cameras been taking great photos, only the memory card got wiped for some reason. I did drop it but it may have also been the fact that the card is cheap. So everythings going fine, I don't knoz who's around still to read this but bonjour de France!

Décollage en 1...2...3

2006-07-15T17:40:00.000-04:00

I'm sitting here. Waiting to leave for France. I've packed up everything, maybe a little too much clothing? The bag's a bit heavy but better to have more than not enough. I'm fully versed in the use of my new camera. Check out some sample snaps, most are from work. Nice 6 mp quality.

Camper with awesome costume/props for his film

Behold the power of the beard! (at cheescake factory). "Troubleshooter" Joachim on right and awesome peer Ron on left.

Great dinner at Cheescake with my colleagues. Good time. Said goodbye to everyone on Friday and had my exit interview. All went well. Can't wait for payday though. Watched Hustle & Flow c/o Netflix. Awesome movie. I need the soundtrack bad though. I'll try and bring stuff back for everyone, food probably if I'm allowed. It's gonna be a long flight. I'll get there (Toulouse) about 24 hrs from now, maybe later. See I'm going through Iceland and then to Paris. If my flight in Paris is delayed I'll be later. I hope I can communicate well enough to get through, we'll pray! Bye everyone. You can still e-mail me and I'll check this blog some but my mom's now using my phone so don't call it and leave dirty messages or anything. See ya!

PS: For theatre researche project I've got all my materials and I decided on doing a play by Sartre (you know, guy who wrote "No Exit" about hell). Awesome playwright.

Update

2006-07-08T17:49:00.000-04:00

Works been fine. My brownies did allright for morning snack, but the giant poundcake and coffeecake went much better. Session 1 over, I wish I could work more for more money but then again I'm glad I don't have to stay cause it definitely is a strain. There are just those certain kids or days that kill you! After a big fiasco trying to get a Sony digi cam, I opted for a canon SD700 which I got of eBay. Though it wasn't cheap ($400 and sum change) I got a bunch of accessories with it (extra batter, memory card, case, strap) which would cost around the $100 difference to the next model down. So it kinda works out. It looks like a nice cam and I should have it monday hopefully! I definitely need it before friday when I leave. In sadder news, my bike was stolen from Tenleytown Metrostop. I bike there every morning for carpool with some of my coworkers cause its easier for them to get me and this other guy Dan there. Well I left it there overnight cause mom picked me up instead and the next morning when I got to Tenley it was still there thank lord. But after a hard day of work friday, I went to eat dinner with my aunt and an uncle from Aussiland. When my mom finally drove me to Tenley it had suddenly dissapeared! Someone had stolen it during the day between when I had been waiting in the morning and that afternoon! First time anything's really been stolen from me so it was a bit of a shocker. Of course it was our fault cause it still had one of those crappy U-locks which could be picked with a Bic pen if you remeber that whole scandal. The bike wasn't too expensive or anything and I'd had a good 4 or 5 years but still. Ah well. Another expense. See ya, I'll try and post once more this week and possibly from France as well. Au revoir toute le monde!

God I Feel Like an Ass

2006-07-06T22:25:00.000-04:00

Camp has been going pretty good. Though my patience with the kids has slowly been wearing thin, it has held. Only problem is I didn't schedule well enough. See I didn't leave enough time to edit the film and well July 4th took another precious day away! So I pretty much had to edit the films for the kids and even then I had to stay afterwards today to finish the seniors movie (which was dreadfully long!). Now I was expecting to be done at around 4.30-5.00, then go work extended day until 6. But because of 1) my slowness 2) other things the computer had to do and 3) the computer crashing/not saving I got SCREWED! Worse is that Avi and Will (my friends and counselors) were waiting for me to finish so they could burn the 29 DVDs we needed for our campers! Now for some reason it took me until 9.00 to completely finish editing!!! I felt like such an ass hole! Poor guys had to wait around so that they could stay another god knows how many hours to burn DVDs and compress files! Damn it I feel bad. I left my iPod by accident and when I went back to get it they told me they had realized I had left it right when I left...only they hadn't said anything cause they were upset, and justifiably so, that they had had to wait around for like 3 or more hours while I finished. Sorry guys, my b. I'm gonna make it up to them somehow I swear!

Keep up the funny vids:

PS: I head the new Pirates of the Carribean wasn't good but I wasn't expecting it to be. Still I want to see it for those special fx. My god those look awesome!

Crazy Week, Finally the Weekend

2006-07-02T01:35:00.000-04:00

God those kids really sap the energy outta ya. I'm amazed! Too bad I can't work longer though, I need the moolah. Now that I'm really shopping around via the internet for digi cams I keep getting caught on $400 modles but due to my salary I'll probably settle for a $300 one instead (that's not including the cost of memory and back up batteries etc. dammit!). Everything costs so much nowadays! hahaha.

Funny thing, yesterday I had nothing to do right before dinner so I decided to take a nap at around 8ish. Only thing is I kept sleeping and my mom didn't wake me. So next thing I know I wake up at 4 in the morning. Luckily I wasn't hungry so I went straight back to sleep and slept till aroun 11, now that's what I call a good night's sleep. I feel rejuvinated! I've been having alot of messed up school friend/camp friend mash up dreams where both groups are present...can't remember much beyond that.

Check out this hilarious Japanese game show (you can fast forward thru the opening)

Fuck it all!

2006-06-27T19:32:00.000-04:00

Fuck it, I'm convinced I'm either stupid, the SATs are stupid or I'm just not a good test-taker...MAYBE ALL FUCKING 3!....I don't know why I'm cursing so much...it really doesn't upset me that much, always got another 3 shots kinda. O btw my scores were:

Chemistry 670
Mathematics Level 2 660

Yea, I only took two. Shoulda upped my chances with some ez lit. damn!

PS: Maybe I'm cursing so much cuz I just came home from a long day of camp work + extended day (for xtra $$) and I'm not allowed to curse round the kids of course so I gotta get it out. FUCK SHIT FUCK A NUT BITCH CUNT ASS HOLE SHIT POOP! (or in camp speak: FUDGE SHUX FUDGE WITH NUTS DARN COUNTRY BUM SHUX POOP! hahahaha)

Hilarious Star Wars Video

2006-06-26T22:21:00.000-04:00

Wrapping Up the School Year

2006-06-18T00:33:00.000-04:00

Can you say party? I can definitely say par-tay! Anyways got exams back...all very good actually, I just wish I could say I got sixes and up on all, damn math. If only I had gotten like 5 more pts I thnk it would've been a 6-. But that was kind of expected, I make tons of stupid mistakes. What was not expected was a 7 on the chem exam....with a 84 or something like that...wtf Mitchell I love your supposed "non-curve". Everything else was 6- to 6+ (woot french 6-, so happy, can't wait till France trip).

So party numero uno: Carolin's Going Away Party
Sentiment: *tear...chug chug*

Awesome everyone inclusive (granted Martin exlusive) part-ay (note the "ay" which means AWESOME!). Coolness, lots of people, games, talk, music, you name it. Erwin's house is great for parties, only there are some cops who guard an ambassador right next door...but they have no juresdiction anywhere but right there so HAH! Crank it and crunk it people! De-flowered I was...not sexually...you know what I mean...I lost my innocence...ah wtf I got fucking wasted.

Party number dos: Jeroen's BDay Pool Part
Sentiment: *Chillax and recover from the previous*

Swimming in a warm pool, pool volleyball, floating, marco polo, and gift giving. Good food though I wasn't hungry, had eaten after coming back from CPR/First Aid training (if anyone had had an accident, I woulda been sooo prepped). My eyes were fine at this point though they got a little red after chlorine exposure. Played some Cranium with the board game Nazi which was very different from the classic version I have...idk if I like it more or less. Good swim...slowed down pretty fast with night fall but still good.

Hang out numero trois: Tennis in the afternoon
Sentiment: *Wow, where'd all the people go....I suck alot more at real life tennis than it's video game counterparts which I suck at as well*

After recieving our exam grades, hung around for some footie and then went home as did most. Went back out for some tennis (and cancelled swimming) with Tati, Mel and Eric. My side, playing doubles, lost both times...coincidence? I think not! Then went to dindin and hung around by the waterfront...turned into gossip. Tried to stay awake...fuck I hate gossip. If anything it makes me paranoid for no good reason. Met up with Sri, Diva and Parul, saw Carolin one last time *tear*!

Party number Quatre: My BDay Lunch
Sentiment: *Man, I can't believe I'm both scared and excited to get older, what happened to my youth? Wait a tic, I'm still young, damnit*

After much co-oridination got a good 10 people to come to a bday lunch at Hunan Number One for Dim Sum, delish! So filling. I still don't know how much the bill was but prettymuch everyone unnecceseraily brought gifts, thanks so much guys. I realized I never really thanked everyone. Maybe I'll send thank you cards. Anyways all great, didn't expect them frankly. Definitely the most original was Eric's euros and his mother'd directions around the Paris airport. hahahaha. Walked from the restaurant to Ballston theatre to see Nacho Libre where we lost Tati and Parul (have a good sumer y'all) and the movie was pretty hilarious. "Kiss, hug, hug, kiss, little hug, hug, little kiss, little kiss, hug". Lot of akward funny moments, just like Napoleon Dynamite. Metroed (construction delays) home. Beat Metroid III. Niice.

Jack Black was soooo much better cast here. He really belonged. He had an awesome tenacious D-esque song and other great moments. Though I don't know if I'd go watch it again. But worth the entrance fee. Great costumes and fight scenes actually. I reccomend it, esp if you like Napoleon.

This'll probably be my last entry for awhile. Sorry it's so long. Just alot's happened. Got staff training next week and then into TIC. making some greenbacks. See ya. O and if anyone wants to swim, my pool's always open. Just call ahead to make sure I'm not doing extended day. Call me.

Cappies Gala

2006-06-12T14:46:00.000-04:00

"No dice" as Mel put it. The three of us sat there, myself, eric and mel, getting all nervous each time our category came up. None of us one but alot of the performances were awesome. HB Woodlawn swept up alot of awards, including BEST PLAY! Congrats! Anyways, the Cat in the Hat beat me...I mean there's no competition: Boring english guy compared to the fucking CAT IN THE HAT! Who do you thinks gonna win? But maybe, cause next years cappy play will be our senior show, we can get some more nominations...sets, props or creativity (director) maybe???? can't wait. should be coolios. I wish I just could have fallen asleep during the gala. Had to be there all afternoon, again, for practically no reason. Damn it sux when you don't win don't it? Ah well we all know who deserved awards...eric and mel. ah well. pluss Nora was the only other student to actually show up...wtf? Saw emily from bishop ireton. i should really go see more shows next year. only thing is that only about 1 out of 4 are actually good/don't make you projectile vomit.

Almost Done Now

2006-06-10T19:00:00.000-04:00

Just Math remains, though 'just' might be a understatement. That shit's gonna be hard. The plan is study for that monday, do chem labs over this weekend and of course relax and have a good time. Going to go to my cousin-in-laws graduation party soon. Just waiting for my aunt to give me a ride. I haven't seen him in awhile and he's gonna be surrounded by all his friends so I might still not see him that much but we'll see, free food at least and catching up with relatives.

Friday afternoon was fun. Went to conn and everyone went to Nikola's pool. I had to drop by home to leave my mom her key and get my bathing suit. I got really lost trying to get to Adams Morgan though, I zig zagged down from wisconsin and couldnt find the pool until it started monsooning again! it was crazy rain! luckily i had thought ahead and brought an umbrella, thank lord. RENT is finally fading in my head, well kinda. I got so many podcasts to catch up on cuz of finals, but me getting lost by myself gave me chance to do that. Wathced Spaceballs on DVD finally, so hilarious. Good special features though DAYMN Mel Brooks is old now. Might be getting NetFlix soon so I can finally se some films I've wanted to see forever! Though we'll see how long we'll stay on the thing. I mean you must eventually run out of films you want to watch right? We'll see, good luck on monday everyone. You know I'll just be sleeping in, lazing around: the normal! hahaha. suckas! jk.

FINAL EXAMS

2006-06-08T23:52:00.000-04:00

They ain't too bad. I'm over half done. 3:2. That's right sucka's! No theatre exam, only 5 exams total. Also cause tomorrow's exam is in the afternoon I get to sleep in, joy. In other news I've had the RENT soundtrack stuck in my head but I think it's finally dissapating. It's been good company during all my finals. Isn't funny how when you have to write essay after essay you begin to realize how much you repeat yourself in word choice or pharases and stuff. Funny buisness. Summer break IS ALMOST HERE!

Update?

2006-06-01T19:51:00.000-04:00

Not much happening this week. I wish I had started studying, tonight maybe? Chem? I have no fucking clue. Sent something to Mr. S, wrote something in his book and tried to not cry...failed. *Tear*. Got my iPod back after the weekend in withdrawl, now I have Robot Chicken and Da Ali G Show on it (check em out if you can). Laughed hilariously at the "I'm the Juggernaut Bitch!" video (now I get that joke in the movie). Lot's of hard review in math, wtf is this argument modulus stuff? More yearbook signing, fun and la-de-da as I tried to deny that finals are just around the corner, fuck I'm screwed. Though in good news I did really well on my Hist Internal Assessment, but you all know how fucking hard I worked on that shit! Night after night of editing and honing. Just one sentence was "wrong". Too bad you can't get a perfect, cause...you know *sarcasm/snobby voice* jk hahahaha. Cya.

'06 Graduation

2006-05-28T22:04:00.000-04:00

Haven't accmplished much this weekend so far. Just some organization for french finals and finished off the math protfolio final copy. English oral and all the other finals are still in the works. Went to the '06 graduation today and was initially amazed by the number of people from my grade who attended, but alot of people had lay out as well. I wonder who would've come anyways?...It was a nice graduation with some good speeches; 6 student, all the heads, and a news anchor. Luckily the class, though the largest for our school, is still relatively short so my hands weren't too sore from clapping. haha. Paul was there (we talked about X-Men III) as well as Timmy, Ashkar, Kyle, Will and even some other alumni from even further back who were just familiar faces with not name. I congratulated everyone I could find, dug into the great potluck food and went home to actually try some work.

I rented "40 Year Old Virgin" on Saturday and it was hilarious! If you only saw the theatrical release I recommend seeing the extended DVD version with all the great bonus features. Did you know that most of that film's dialouge was improvised? Now I just have to see "Wedding Crashers". You know how I know your gay? hahahaha.

On a sadder note I'm making a mix CD and letter for Mr. Smith. In time I hope to make/contribute to some kind of photo album but for the moment I want to get something to him ASAP. He's in my prayers and I think about him daily. Cheers mate.

"At the PROMMMM TONIGHT!!"

2006-05-27T01:28:00.000-04:00

So Prom it was. Woke up right before noon for XMEN III...it was entertaining, decent but I wouldn't go see it again. Though the action scenes did deliver something was missing...maybe it was actual characters? Dressed quick for prom and went to Chadwicks for dinner. Turned out that my closest friends besides Martin and Parul went to Toro Sushi instead later to wait for Sri who didn't turn up anyways. I would have preferred Japanese to Chadwicks but they went a bit later and it was fun and different to hang out with Marco, Dara, Alli, Make, Emily, Adrii, Divaani and Zach instead of the normal crowd. But I got to see everyone at the actual prom so no problemo! I left with my stuff (iPod and headphones) with Katie and she left earlier so uhoh I don't have it for the weekend. How will I live? Turned out Katie and Mel had the same dress, scandalous! I think Katie looked better in it...of course that's what I told her when she asked, I'd say the opposite if Mel asked and both would be true of course. hehehe. crap dug into a hole! anyways some fun dancing in the extremely hot Davies Hall. Fun as always with Sarah, Eric, Martini and Pim. Requested some songs and tripped on a chair when rushing to get to the dancefloor for daft punk. One great accomplishment of the night was that I got Joseph to clap to the music. It got so extremely hot that many outdoor breathers were neccessary. Danced alot en masse or with this person or that. Had some fun times with Carolin and Seen Our play references during "Hung Up". Great time over all and everyone looked spectacular. Arty was particularly fine. They had disposable cameras and masks/glasses for fun which I used to excess. Afterwards wandered down to Conn, everyone decided to go to Pims and sleep over either there or at Tatis. I didn't want my mom to have to come and get me and sleeping over just didn't feel right so I hung around and got a ride back home. It was a great night.

To summarize Thursday (aka Friday) night: After school went to Tysons mall so the girls could shop...extremely boring for matt and I while the gals, Martin and Pim shopped around. We went to the Apple store and I got to try some of the Intel Based Macs, so hot. Esp the MacBook. The gals bought some stuff for prom (the same dress that was part of the Katie-Mel scandal). Went to Parul's thanks to Julia and Lisa. That was really fun as she has an awesome house with a beautiful view of the Potomac, one of the houses my mom and I always dream of having. I found out Parul was racist (she assumed black men were the strongest hahaha) and also got to see Lisa's awesome house. Both great houses! Listened to music, danced and generall revved up for Prom. Great fun! Well it's late I better go. Night y'all. Hope you all had a great time too and it was nice to see y'all (y'all looked lovely)!

Schadenfreude

2006-05-23T20:16:00.000-04:00

One of the coolest German worse I know in commemeration of Carolin Kroh's leaving. I never had any classes with her, so our in school relationship wasn't strong, but out of school she was a good friend whenever she was with us and it's just tragic she has to leave again. But I'm sure she can't wait to get back home. She had a nice little slideshow at morning meeting which was kind of a photomontage, all real nice. Besides that the week so far has been nice and easy. Not too much normal homework...just long projects etc. which makes it hard to get anything done being the procrastanator I am (as illustrated by this post). For theatre I decided to mask a play but I haven't chosen the piece yet, related: just finished Streetcar and it was really good. I like Enemy of the People a bit better but all of the ones we've read are great. Now I just have to chose my oral subject for next week....

The Weekend In Summary

2006-05-21T21:51:00.000-04:00

Friday was fun though short pour moi. I went out to a HUMONGOUS school in the suburbs for Cappies Head Shots for the Gala. On the way I learned that Mel wanted to be called Sparkle Rainbow as a child (such a porn star name in retrospect) and I admitted I wanted to be called Caveman like the guy in Holes and cause my initials are BC. Of course we all know Eric was called Round Janitor so no surprise there. This school was so huge that they had numbered entrances and about a dozen or moer Annex-like trailer class rooms. That sux! The photographers (teacher and two students) were ridiculous and did everything to make eachother and us, their subjects, smile and laugh. For instance make a joke of everything and be completely absurd. Mel accidently wrote her name as "Melanie Chirlin" cause I was spelling out my name for one of the people cause supposedly my hand writing was illegible but turned out being comparable. Anyways, then there were jokes of freudian slip etc. hardeharhar...eric and mel did some thuggin' up shots and all was well.

Meanwhile *dramatic stab*, back in Gtown, we waited for Tati and Mike at the theatre. Did some "Ms. Suzie" and waited and waited. Then met em up on M and went to UNO's to meet everyone else. Had a quick dinner and then went outside to wait for me mum to pick me up for piano recital rehersal. Turned out I coulda hung around with me friends a bit longer as me mum was really late but no matter. I got through some material on my iPod. Sucked at the rehersal.

Next day, made meself a nice omlette after sleeping straight till 2:30 cause of Morrowinding the night before. Just layed about till we were ready to go to me aunts and uncles with our visitors Bill and Jasimine. Good dinner, real good. Plus I finished "An Enemy of the People" and started "A Streetcar Named Desire". Both very good.

Today woke up late, made some delicious blueberry pancakes (I'm quite the accomplished chef I think) and started rewriting the Math Portfolio and thought about Theatre's Individual Research Porject. I narrowed it down to three different ideas. Maskwork for Commedia Dell'Arte, Karagoz Shadow Puppetry, or costumes for "Where the Wild Things Are" or some other cool surreal work. Went to my piano recital a bit late. Played near the end, I did fairly well. Had a few trip ups on some notes but all in all good. Came right home and now I'm thinking more about digital cameras and writing up my proposal. See y'all tomorrow. XMEN ON FRIDAY! plus prom...joy.

Internal Assessment Gold...I Hope It's not Fools

2006-05-18T23:23:00.000-04:00

Quickly, I'm pringtin my IA as I type. Thank the lords that things overwith. Now juse EE and a multitude of other things and projects and work and joy. Tomorrow should be crowded. Docs during my free in the morn, fasting for blood sample to be taken, bonus chem at lunch, cappy photo op after school, maybe a movie (DaVinci or M:i:III) if I can fit it in, and finally a piano practice for my upcoming recital which I believe is this weekend. In other news Ibsen's An Enemy of the People is really good. Sri is gonna miss most of prom for dance but shes gonna be in the senior show which I'm definitely gonna go to if I can cause her and those other girls kick Kudipuchi ass! or is it Kuchipudi? I don't know I keep getting the "ch" and "d" mixed up. Listening to "The Last Five Years" a musical by the same guy as Parade and I love the soundtrack which is pretty much all the Leo romanitc songs I had to bear with Hillary but bigger, better, and extrapolated. If Vinnie did this I'd be interested. Well I got plenty of torrents to download (Ali G, Robot Chicken, 40 Year Old Virgin, The Office, Sin City and more) Ah the miracle of piracy. O and look its done printing. Night!

Wed-nez-day

2006-05-17T18:54:00.000-04:00

Almost no one showed up for JCC, just Nathan and I. Gabby came in, said one sentence, and then called the meeting adjourned. Next year people better start coming again! I stayed up late last nite for no reason, I was actually done with everything but I stayed up late anyways so I feel really out of energy most of the day. Especially cause yesterday when I went to the doctor they drew blood and I just hate needles, THEY STOLE MY LIFE BLOOD and now i feel really out of energy. And now I have to go get my blood drawn again tomorrow cause of high triglycerine levels (I think it was) which they think was just a fluke. Musta been all those cookies my mom gives me. In theatre none of our proposals were good and they all ended up pretty much being writing a script, which Rambow shot down in flames. So then I felt really unoriginal so I think I've now resorted to my previous idea of costuming which will be VERY difficult. I wonder what everyone else is gonna do? TOK was cool, more different types of thinking stuff but Thurmer reused a bunch of her old stories. Ah well. I better finish editing my IA and get to bed early. Almost finished numero 2 on the math portfolio too but dont know what to do on that last step...

Cappies Nominations...Again!!!

2006-05-15T21:34:00.000-04:00

I don't know if I've broken some kind of record or something but I've now been nominated three years running for lead in a musical. It makes me wonder if we did plays how good I'd be....Anyways YEAH I've been nominated again. Third times the charm...maybe? I don't know and frankly I don't really care. I'm just happy that Mel and Eric got nominations as well! FELICITATIONS GUYS!!! I'm so excited for you. Especially cause that means I won't be alone again this year as I have pretty much have been (apart from Andrea in the 9th grade). Plus Greg and Maddy, from HB Woodlawn both good Cappies friends of ours, have also been nominated so yeah!!! Friends everywhere! Congrats everyone. I can't believe I was nominated again actually...I frankly thought that Lucky Stiff was not a very good play for that role. By the way Mel and Eric got nominated as Ensemble and Mel got Featured Actress as well so she'll be sporting the nomination medal bling with two, BOOYAKASHA.

Schools been normal after a relaxed Sunday Mothers day. Our family's mothers day is more like Christmas for mothers, gifts galore! I got my mom a card and am planning to get her a DVD. Psst, don't tell her. Today was pretty laxed, French comp (one was really hard and I gota "Pas Mal!") and no chem, movie in hist which is actually really good. And Eng wrote an essay. EZ-PZ!

Check the Nominations Yourself!

PS: Even Phillip will be there! Sweet.

The Follies is OVER!

2006-05-14T00:21:00.000-04:00

It's over after only two performances. Maybe I have some slight regret that I didn't try out for part of the cast...then again I got all the benefits of "being in it" without the months of work so its kind of a 50:50 situation. Besides, it was a GREAT show and everyone loved it, it sounded like. The strike was so short, so different from the other shows. I took a nap before even doing any work. I had no energy cause I had slept so late and because I had no showtime energy which you get from certain shows. I still have all my HW and a job app to fill out (I got the TIC job) during tomorrow along with cappies voting in the morning and mothers day celebration in the afternoon at my aunts. Why can't cappies put voting on a day OTHER than mothers day!! That way I wouldn't have to go alone.

Happy Happy Joy Joy!

2006-05-12T00:14:00.000-04:00

The play's going great but we're getting home really late cause of the different location and stuff! Poor Burnadette's been having loads of trouble with the lights cause of everything. I'm exhausted after running around backstage all afternoon...though I finally did get to go to STROMBOLIS! Its been forever and Paul says he might want to go tomorrow so yeah! The play is funny and I think it's pretty much sold out but I hope everyone can come! Everyone who's in it you're all doing a great job, keep it up. And I'm amazed how well pretty much everyone's behaved, we were expecting major problems from the Middle Schoolers but so far we've kept everything fairly neat. So I don't think the Roundhose people are mad at us....yet.

Inside the Mind of a Short Order Stage Manager

2006-05-09T18:51:00.000-04:00

Yeah so being a stage manager, not too much fun especially on such short notice. The good things: getting expierience that's not on stage, bad things: everything else. I got try and keep over 100 people quiet, got to take notes on every error I see and pretty much be an asshole. Joy. Sri pointed this out to me and while every point she made is valid it is kind of my job. She suggested just not care as much cause Vinne got me on such short notice but I'm torn in between wheater I should just do my most basic jobs or should I strive to make the show as good as possible. All the while I only get worse cause only about 1 out of 2 people actually listen. So in the end even those who are doing what you want get pissed at you. Even more joy! Worse than that is cause I just joined I know very little of what little Mr. Vincent actually gave people to work with and I don't know how much I should add. For instance in one number "Aspects of Junita" its fairly static and can get kind of boring so I'm not sure if I should give people stuff to do or just let it be as it's already pretty good as it is. I just dont know! It's frustrating. But I think I'll take Sri's advice and just kind of lay off a little...only then Mr Vincent will get pissed at me for not doing my job (keeping everyone quiet) and also Marta's not really taking notes and the choreography, Ms. Kepke (spelling?), only takes dance notes. So I don't know. But I will cut down a bit...I'll try. Thank you Sri though I doubt you'll read this.

In other non-asshole news the math test was HARD AS BALLZ! I had to skip one whole question and I'm pretty sure I got the last one wrong...on the other hand everything in between...I'm sort of kind of confident on! So maybe I'll pass but maybe. Almost everyone stayed at least till 4.00, I left at like 4.15 and Sri only got to rehersal at like 4.30. THATS HOW HARD IT WAS! AN EXTRA HALF HOUR!!!! French was a new composition, so crappy lets hope I can keep a 6. And everything else was boring. History nearly fell asleep over and over. O well. At lesat I miss 4th and 5th Wednesday and Thursday cause of the play...but is that a good thing or a bad thing? Hmmmm...

Now you can see how controlling I am! Joy! I don't know how to increase the activity part though...

Your Extroversion Profile:

Assertiveness: Very High

Cheerfulness: Very High

Friendliness: Very High

Sociability: High

Excitement Seeking: Medium

Activity Level: Low

How Extroverted Are You?

SAT Deja Vu

2006-05-07T21:54:00.000-04:00

Took the SATs again yesterday. Cause Wilson was so crowded and unorganized we started an hour late. But that turned out to be good cause it allowed me to get my registration number which I had forgotten at home. And I spent so long getting ready too only to foget the most important part! But it all ended up being fine. It seemed alot easier than last time, maybe cause I was more relaxed or had already taken it. Anyways got out at like 1.30, went to school for rehersa; which had started late as well so no worries. Got to see the teachers make fools of themselves and helped with some costume stuff. Then went to the Cappies show at wakefield high, the Wiz. It was pretty funky with some great choreography butthey had some serious mic problems. I felt so sorry for them cause I couldn't hear a thing almost. But it was fun cause HB Woodlawn was there again. Voting was hectic with the 95 critics. But it was so fun, we goofed off so much. See ya.

United 93

2006-05-05T22:37:00.000-04:00

Wow....I can't really write about this movie it was just so...devestating? Well I'll try. It's so hard to try and critique a movie about such tragic subject material, especially cause it's so fresh in everyones mind but I did notice a few things that distrubed me. What I really liked was they way they played out the whole story. It wasn't too contrived or patriotic or even manipulating which would be so easy to do by accident in such a film. The camera was mostly handheld, shaky documentary style and was very effective. I also liked how every character was sympathetic and pitiful in their inability to do anything until the passengers themselves make a go for it. I especially felt sorry for the hijackers who were just so...I can't explain it. But it did make me a bit paranoid, after exiting the theatre I heard a couple talking a foreighn language, possibly from the middle east, and I was just like uh-oh. Which is horrible, ignorant and American of me but that movie just rekindles all those fears of airplanes, terrorism and people from the middle east. The only thing I didn't like was that all the passengers on the plane, and in fact almost every character in the movie except for the terrorists, was white except for one pilot and a stewardest. On top of that, when they showed all the passengers praying they were all Christian. I think this kind of weakens the whole movie because the passengers don't really represent America in all it's diversity. On the other hand it's possible that they researched into each person on the flight and that it was accurate, I don't know, but it made the range of the movie seem kind of tapered just a bit. In the end none of that mattered, all that mattered was the human spirit so no harm no foul. It was done by the same guy who did the Bourne Supremacy and shared alot cinematographically with it. But it was a good movie and though I didn't, couldn't cry during the film, afterwards I just wanted to get outside as fast as possible and breathe some fresh air, sit and think. Once I got home I was on the verge of tears, about 30 mins after the movie ended, THAT'S how powerful it was!

The Follies

2006-05-04T19:20:00.000-04:00

Yet again the suckiness of the current show in production is extremely exaggerated as it has been for every performance I've been in. It's hilarious! Especially the WIS Side Story and Ain't Misbehavin' bits. They even have the primary school kids for one number and he can do the snappy Ali G thing, really well I might add. Hilarious. Good time with Bernadette. I hate having to be a dick as stage manager to keep everyone quiet but it's part of my job. I know I'd be talking if I were in the cast but I'm not so....o well. Chem was canceled so I came home at like 1'o'clock and play games. Then I went back to school for the rehersal, etc etc. Can't wait for SATs....AGAIN! And SAT IIs? Well I got another week for those bundles of fun!

Tame Week

2006-05-03T17:49:00.000-04:00

The week's been pretty tame. Just lots of late game playing. I hate how hours go by in a snap. Today was awesome cause we missed nearly the whole day to go to "The Persians" at the Shakespeare Theatre. It was an awesome show. I loved the sets, costumes, music and especially the acting. This red sand they had upstage was used so well. It was like a sea of blood. Great imagery in the whole thing. Plus they managed to make the ancient play (the oldest western work surviving) by Aschylus come to life. I was never really bored even though I wasn't talking to anyone. It was fun, before the show we had to hang out for over an hour cause of all the extra time we had cause we left early. Fooled around alot and bought some food at Teaism (mmmm Wasabi Peas) and music and stuff at Olson's (clasical for mel, flaming lips for kerri, billie holiday, bloc party and fitzgerald for nora). Teaism was awesome, goddamn thats good tea and its owned by someone in our grade (a point I completely missed when we were there). Though I'm sorry for any "lack of Decorum", as Eric says, that I exhibited. Who the hell says that? Well Eric fits the bill I guess. Came back to school for some history and G4 planning, what a joke. Still have the Beer Lambert Lab that I don't understand but I'll try...again. Went to the gym but got kicked out early by Crocker, dropped off the CD with ONE song for Vinne, but oops he needed it earlier. What a waste. Came home and took an evening shower, something I haven't done in ages. It's refreshing to change up your schedule, it really is. O and I missed JCC cause of the play, I don't think it even happened. And I think we're doing chemiluminescene for G4, you know, glow sticks. I hope it works this time round cause for science essay it stunk.

EE Week Is Over, So SAVE DARFUR!!!

2006-04-30T22:21:00.000-04:00

I finished writing my essay in the last few minutes of friday's time. Crappy conclusion and all! But I still need to do my appendices and editing. Though by now I've done smore more editing so it's nearly done. Nearly! Friday night we went to the Cappies show at HB Woodlawn sans Annalisa or Nora suprisingly. It was a great show but I got an email from the cappies about decorum and how people have been dissing other shows during discussion and pissing off critics from the school of said dissed show. Whatev, it wasn't none of us. I was suppose to go to a show on Saturday as well but I didn't realize it was a matinee untill I came home after helping my mom move a couch into her new office with my uncle-in-law. Oops, and it was Les Miserables too. I've never actually seen it, I know disgraceful.

Then today I woke up kind og late and then we went to the synagauge to catch a shuttle to the metro. From there we went to the Darfur Rally on the mall. It was so encouraging seeing all those different people together under one flag. But a large majority were fellow Jews whose synagauges had organized to go. We were standing next to a group of Sudanese who I guess had moved here. They were all in nice suits and as tall as me which was cool, for me at least. Also it felt kind of wierd that we were all standing around listening to music in order to stop genocide but there were alot of people at least, a few hundred thousand at least. Some of the speeches were real good but sometimes the people's different opinions contradicted each other. I liked the message "This is not about politics, its not about republicans, liberals, moderates, religion, politics, THIS is about humanity!" Or something like that. There were represntatives from every religion I can think off, well besides all the different sects (They had a Rabb, a Sihk, A Muslim, an Armenian Priest, and another priest or two). It was still a good rally though, let's just hope we can actually do something about this genocide.

After that I went to Sri's Kuchipudi's performance which was AMAZING! It started with little goods doing a little morality dance/play. It was really cute all thel little kids. Then they had all the older kids whic got better and better. Sri was in the second to top group and I feel like she was one of the best, if not THE best, in her group. She just seemed more graceful and sure of her moves which were all very exact. It was all really cool, mezmerizing even. Exhausting! I love the costumes, theyre so ornate. There was only one guy in the older groups, this random 30 something year old who was white, John Whittle. It was so random seeing this white guy in the middle of all these teenaged Indian girls. Well back to normal schoo, shux. See you tomorrow y'all.

Extended Essay Writing Week

2006-04-26T16:40:00.000-04:00

Writing my ass. I've mostly been doing research but I have started writing now. I guess I have around 1000 words. I hope I can get near the 3000 mark. Just my topic gets soooo confusing. Monday was the College Fair at AU. I had to go late cause of piano. Anyways I visited alot of different places. Many of which I'd never heard of before. But UPenn was really popular. I might do an early app there now. I'm not sure. Anyways I also visited: Oberlin, Northwestern, University of Michihan, Eugene Lang, University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, NYU and a bunch of others. I've got to find somewhere besides Brown and UPenn to apply. Tonight I had to turn down a Strokes concert cause my mother signed up for ANOTHER college thing at synaugoge. Well I got some video games to play tonight before more essay writing tomorrow. I might be able to finish a draft by the end of the week but editing's gonna be a pain cause of all the different theories. By the way my question now concerns the origin of Noh now. Just a bit different. Plus I gotta see Mr. Vincent which I've forgotten for two days now.

PS: They took away my free HBO and Showtime! Damnit it was awesome getting that shit for free. They have some good movies too. Let's just hope they don't take away any of the other good channels we randomly started getting a few weeks back.

Bizarre Bazar?!?!

2006-04-23T19:20:00.000-04:00

Woke up late this morning after staying up real late writing my cappies review and watching the tube. Unfortuneatly I didn't have enough time for Morrow Wind as it was about 3 in the morn already (I definitely gotta go to bed earlier tonite). Anyways woke up and mom was already gone so I got ready and ate my breakfast while watching a recording of "Children of Dune" from SciFi. I have the original "Dune" miniseries on DVD and its such a good adaptation of the books I think. This one is also really good but one of the actors is kind of annoying. Not too bad though. Anyways I updated my iPod for some D&D action and started walking.

A few minutes before I decided to leave the sun magically came out of the clouds. Actually now the sun's dissapeared again. But it was like the sun was beckoning me. Sometimes I feel like I can/want to control the weather. One time at TPE (Travelling Players Ensemble) it was raining real bad so we took shelter in the barn where we were working. The barn had a tin roof so the rain made really loud noises upon it. We had nothing to do so we started fooling around. I pretended like I was mastering the weather and raised and lowered my arms. But the funny thing was that when I raised my arms the sound of the rain on the roof actually got louder and vice vers when I lowered them, and everyone there heard it. I don't know if it was just our imaginations but it was awesome. I love nature, *cliche* I feel at one with it almost.

Anyways I walked to school laughing my ass off cause D&D was hilarious. Got there and met Matt, Martin and Parul. Later Sri, Divaani, Caroline, Sivan, Billy and an alumni who I don't remember the name of, Bryan maybe? Anyways Matt and Martin were both helping Parul at a table where her mother was selling handmade cards, gift bags etc. for charity. I later got me mum a card for Mother's Day, shhh don't tell. Though I did buy it with her money! hahaha. Anyways they didn't want to do much so I went and asked if I could play in the cricket match, and lo and behold I got in! Sri and Parul played too but Parul didn't get a shot at batting and Sri got out on this second bowl. Good effort though! Anyways I did really well even though I barely knew the rules. I got an out by hitting the wicket with the ball from a good 6 yards. Sweet, I was stuck in a moment of disbelief for a while. I was so scared I'd miss the wicket and screw the whole team over. Anyways the opposing team of parents/adults had 83 when we switched, we weren't playing a complete game and one of them had even retired. Well I was fourth to bat and we hadn't been doing too well. Bryan (the blonde alumni) got out on his first throw, ouch. I got up there completely unsure of what to do except guard that fucking WICKET with that fucking BAT! And I did just that, pretty well too. Got around 32 points! I know beginners luck bull shit! hahaha. Had a few close calls with high balls and finally got caught on a fly but everyone was amazed it was my first time. In the end we won but it wasn't really a full game plus the adults took it easy on us.

Besides that I got lunch, skimmed some few snacks from the sophmores, and just had a good time. One of the best Bazars yet. Next year I'm definitely playing Cricket again. Can't wait till then. Now a week of extended essay writing/studiny which I haven't done anything on yet. oops. hehehe.

Cappies

2006-04-23T01:53:00.000-04:00

Today I figured "Hell, next weeks extended essay week. I gots plenty of time to work on the thing so I won't do a thing" therefore I slept, ate, and watched TV. You know, just like any other weekend. But now I realize I guess I should be doing this so called "reading" a little and focusing my now completely unknown question.

Had a cappies play out at West Potomac. Mums the word but the mentor was ANNOYING! During voting he kept calling for unneccessary tie-breakers between votes that were "close" even if one had clear votes over the other. We wasted tons of time on the fucking things and in the end the results were the same! SHOOT ME! And it was hot! He was also very stuck up about all the professional versions of the play he'd done in his day and kept comparing this production to those. Unfathomable, why?!!!! Argh! Well I gotta shove up. Bazar tomorrow maybe? My mom baked some cookies and maybe I could slip into cricket at the last moment? I HOPE! NITE (Morrow Wind here I come!).

Friday Night: Tsotsi

2006-04-21T23:18:00.000-04:00

The day was normal. Did chem and math hw during my morning frees. I've barely done anything since I finally got IA out of the way. English, French and History were all pretty normal/boring and chem was cancelled. Waited for 6th to end anyways cuz most everyone else still had it. Only once everyone got out, they ended up stuck playing TextTwist. So after awhile I went to Conn with Eric, Sarah and Tati to meet Sri who had left for her appt. Then everyone else came down and yet again we were stuck, this time doing sudokus and cross words at Starbucks. I pulled myself away again and we then went to the metro, lost a few people but I guess they were busy. The whole time we'd been trying to decide what movie to go to. We ended up in Bethesda at a pretty good Italian place. Then I went to see Tsotsi with Eric (after Tati and Sarah left) and Sri, Adri and Melthew went to see Take the Lead. Take the Lead looked like a kinda cliched HS saved by brilliant teacher who refuses to give up hope but Sri said it was actually pretty good. Whatever I can wait till its on DVD/TV. Shouldn't be too long I think.

Tstotsi was really good. Though I feel like the story could have done/explored alot more and gone alot farther, the acting, cinematography, and general story was great. Tstotsi (little thug) is the leader of a group of gangsters (himself, Butcher, Boston, and Aap) who go around Johannesburg robbing and murdering to make a living in the slums of the city. Tsotsi is a coldblooded killer but after finding a baybe in a car he's robbed, he is reminded of his troubled past and changes his ways. Now the story is a bit cliched but the setting of the slums and the great acting really helped it. Also the fact that Tsoti barely said anything short of demands to his victims and followers also limited the story. But nothing really stuck out as bad, though the ending was a bit quick kinda like La Haine. Actually very simillar now that I think about it. Anyways the cinematography was great. The composition of the shots was amazing, where the actors and the set were juxtaposed, crowded by, or framed by the set/props. Also the lighting was very good and gave that sick slum city feeling. Though it became kinda predictable by the end, its original setting and good characters make it worth seeing. It did win the Academy Award for Foreign Film which isn't saying much but still. Well I got a Cappies show tomorrow nite. Gotta call Nora to set it up. Night!

Seen Our Prank Day

2006-04-19T21:27:00.000-04:00

SENIOR PRANK!!!......I was COMPLETELY suckered by Vaughan's fake "No Senior Prank" speech. So this is a list of what they did in case you missed the morning/forgot/want to live those minutes of fun (Feel free to comment and add any I forget):

1. Made the mansion Foyer into a Rave for all of Home Room and most of period 1. This included loud dance/electronica music, glowsticks, and shouting whenever anyone entered.

2. The senior lounge was moved out into the carriage house courtyard with a large inflatable pool, couches, chairs, waterguns, and a set up for bands (guitar, bass, drums, mic). Later Pinatas were hung for the Middle Schoolers but the little savages pounced on the things and tore them apart. Also all the senior cars were parked there with '06 slogans.

3. The entire campus was turned into a communist communion with Vaughan as the head. All the buildings were renamed to "The People's..." and in the library it said "Books lie, listen to your government" on the wall.

4. On the Gym floor "Facialized '06" was written in huge letters made of shaving cream.

5. Most of the desks and chairs were taken out of their classrooms in the mansion and placed all over campus in trees or on the ground, some with "'06" written in shaving cream on them.

6. The mansion steps were covered with potted plants leaving only one winding path to the door.

7. Many door handles throughout the school were covered in vaseline.

8. Much of the schools toilet paper had "'07" written on each individual sheet. A$$HOLES! hahaha.

9. A lunchtime concert, with Sivan singing *ouchies*, was put on. Not half bad music though?!

I think I got it all, but if I didn't notice something please point it out. Besides that the day was normal. I TURNED IN MY INTERNAL ASSESSMENT! Finally! So much time into that thing I hope I do at least pretty well! Now we just have Extended Essay! JOY! Had french outside for the first, and supposedly, last time. I was on the table sans Mme. Gubser so I had no idea what was going on....which, when you think about it isn't too different from normal class. Damn I suck. After school I went to the library to draw on the lap tops and started my "Pirates vs Ninjas" cartoon. Let me get it up here:

While I've got this I have no idea what to do for a storyline so help would be appreciated. I can do the drawing. Let's hope it gets in the next (and last?) dateline! Nite! I want to try and go to bed early now that the Internal Assesssment's out of the way!

The-a-tre

2006-04-18T23:41:00.000-04:00

The weeks been dull. Just ALOT of Internal Assessment and I just finished so REJOICE REJOICE! Chaiyya Chaiyya yo! Great song. Try and find it. Chaiyya Chaiyya. Anyways theatres been the only class with some real action. We read "The Dumb Waiter" and "Curse of the Starving Class" both are really good but Curse is alot longer and seems alot deeper as well. But Dumb Waiters got some endearing qualaties. Both great reads. But in Curse theres alot of random male nudity. They could have at least balanced out the male/female, geeze! jk. Besides that I haven't had time to practice piano and the SENIORS LEFT! Today was their last day and I shed a tear for them all. I hugged all the ones that I knew and could find. But they're not dissapearing or anything so no biggie. This year's gone by so fast, scary to think that soon we'll be up there. I still have no idea what my responsibilities now are as president of JCC cause Sivan never really told me. I guess I should go take to Mr. Vaughan. Also its funny that Vaughan canceled their senior prank. I don't think its none of this prank within a prank shit. Bluti said theres people in their grade with 60% attendence. Thats missing a WHOLE trimester. CRAZY! Nite y'all. I really gotta start going to bed earlier cause I always watch the boob toob and shit!

Inside Man

2006-04-16T11:21:00.000-04:00

I saw inside man last night with mom and Nick. Nick's so rediculous, he refused to try and buy tickets cause the movie's R rated. I just walked up and bought mine but he insisted on waiting till my mom came up. Anyways the momvie was awesome! The cinematography and lighting especially. But Clive Owen and Denzel Washington were amazing! It is kind of an action suspense hesit film so I don't want to give away the ending but pretty much Clive Owen's character plans the perfect robbery of a major downtown Manhattan Bank and proceeds to take it over with a hostages. It's so perfectly planned and he's so intelligent that Denzel Washington, the hostage negotiator, has a tough time trying to crack him. So it becomes a power struggle and it was just plain awesome. The only thing I didn't like was Jodie Foster...she just seemed kind of fake as this hired out buisness woman. I don't know, something about her just didn't ring true, but that might just be cause I heard her talked ill of in a review. I recomend that everyone go see it. It's a great movie in the line of "The Usual Suspects" kind of. Well more internal assessment to do. I've barley gotten anything done! Agh!

Thank G-d its FRIDAY!

2006-04-15T12:59:00.000-04:00

Well actually now its Saturday, but you get the point. I've been pretty good at not eating any leavened bread cause of Passover, I think. School was fine, nothing really to do after the history test. Had an easy chem lab and some other boring stuff. After school people were actually pretty free except for Matt and his amazingly cool Chemathon. Woot! I went home quickly to drop off my bag and bike and came back to Conn. Then everyone split into two groups, those who were going to see "Brick" and those who were going to see the Talent Show.

I didn't realize that people actually wanted to see the show. I initially wanted to but then, after realizing almost no one did, I changed my mind. But it turned out that there was a sizable number of people who wanted to go and who were there. Now I'm really glad I went cause Phillip and AD were there and I got to congradulate Phil for his guitar playing in Laramie Project at Duke. The show was allright. Exist (Jack, Gaelen, Matt) brought down the house. They were amazing and I see alot of potenial in that band. Sivan's band, the Buil-Up, has a really Radiohead-esque sound but weren't all that great. Zach was really good on bass for Broken Luggage (or something like that) but the twins Lucas and Daniel (whichever was singing) was forcing the 'punk' voice too much.

I might go see AD on sunday, not sure. I have to write pretty much my whole Internal Assessment for Hisory. Well I got breakfast going, don't want it to burn. See y'all.

Paul Zalooooo-o-o-o-ooom

2006-04-13T23:03:00.000-04:00

School has been, well school. Had a history test today which was actually kind of hard cause there was alot of particular stuff on economic plans...also it covered so many subjects. Anyways nothing much else has happened. Nikola has now fallen into the bushes near the terrace twice though this second time he was pushed and was a bit higher. Looks like it kind of hurt this time but...its hilarious, what can I say? I've been worrying about Internal Assessment and Extended Essay, in fact Internal Assessments due date is coming up really fast. Theatre was cancelled pretty much all together today cause of the memorial service for Mrs. Wanger. It's scary how fast someone can just dissapear like that, never to be seen again. Death is a sobering thing. But let's not focus on the sad, I'm sure she would have wanted us to focus on the happy, the Quaker she was, so let's!

Went to see Paul Zaloom and it was freaking hi-larious! It was great. Not only was it shadow puppetry with a little adult/new age twist but it also had elements of stand up. His voices and puppet use was so amazing! I laughed my ass off as uncomfortable as it was in those chairs. Alot of it was improvised/adlibbed I believe. Especially when something went wrong. It was just him behind a screen with the puppets so he had to control many different puppets all at once. It was amazing though, very inventive and extremely original. Everyone should try and go see it as it only costs $7 for students. Plus there was some free food for a little reception afterwards but we really just had time to grab some food and everyone left pretty quickly. Upon seeing the theatre though I realized I'd been there before when I was like 6 to see some modern dance/mime performance with an old John Eaton friend. It was strangely deja vu. Well have a good friday everyone. Anyone want to go the the talent show?

Cool Wikipedia Usage

2006-04-10T19:31:00.000-04:00

Saw this idea as well on Mels blog and thought it was a really cool idea of how to use wikipedia. list 3 events, 2 births, and one death from your birth day (not year).

Events:
1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. (hahaha joo croo!)

1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is henceforth unofficially celebrated as Juneteenth. (FREEDOM!!!)

1912 - The eight-hour work day is established in the United States. (my lazy ass is loving it)

Births:
1623 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662) (physics ppl love him!)
1903 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player (d. 1941) (hes got that famous disease thing goin on)

Death:
1953 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1918)
1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1915) (death to the spies! they were executed on the same day so it counts as one!)

Moive Thingamabob!

2006-04-09T15:17:00.000-04:00

Saw this on Mels blog an gave it a go. I guess I'm a loser then.

Supposedly if you've seen over 70 of these movies (out of 200), you have no life. Number the ones you've seen. Put your score in header and repost.

(1) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(1) Grease
(1) Pirates of the Caribbean
() Boondock Saints
() The Mexican
(1) Fight Club
() Starsky and Hutch
(1) Neverending Story
() Blazing Saddles
(1) Airplane
Section 1: 5/10

(1) The Princess Bride
() Young Frankenstein
(1) AnchorMan: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
(1) Napoleon Dynamite
(1/2) Saw (HBO)
() White Noise
() White Oleander
() Anger Management
(1/2) 50 First Dates
() Jason X
Section 2: 4/10

(1) Scream
() Scream 2
() Scream 3
(1) Scary Movie
(1) Scary Movie 2
() Scary Movie 3
() American Pie
() American Pie 2
() American Wedding
(1) Harry Potter
Section 3: 4/10

(1) Harry Potter 2
(1) Harry Potter 3
(1) Harry Potter 4
(1) Resident Evil I
(1) Resident Evil 2
(1) The Wedding Singer
() Little Black Book
() The Village
(1) Donnie Darko
() Lilo & Stitch
Section 4: 7/10

(1) Finding Nemo
() Finding Neverland
(1) 13 Ghosts
() Signs
(1) The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre
() White Chicks
() Butterfly Effect
() Thirteen Going on 30
(1) I, Robot
Section 5: 4/10

(1) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
() Universal Soldier
(1) A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(1) Along Came Polly
() Deep Impact
() KingPin
(1) Never Been Kissed
(1) Meet The Parents
(1) Meet the Fockers
(1) Eight Crazy Nights
Section 6: 7/10

() A Cinderella Story
() The Terminal
() The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
(1) Dumb & Dumber
() Dumb & Dumberer
() Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
() Halloween
(1) The Ring
Section 7: 2/10

() The Ring 2
() Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
() Practical Magic
(1/2) Chicago (Bus trip)
(1) Ghost Ship (TV, dont ask)
() From Hell
(1/2) Hellboy
() Secret Window
() I Am Sam
()The Whole Nine Yards
Section 8: 2/10

(1) The Day After Tomorrow (in theatres...why o why?)
() Child's Play
() Bride of Chucky
() Ten Things I Hate About You
(1) Just Married (why Astin?)
() Gothika
() Nightmare on Elm Street
() Sixteen Candles
() Coach Carter
() Bad Boys
Section 9: 2/10

() Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
() Se7en
(1) Oceans Eleven
() Ocean's Twelve
() Identity
() Lone Star
(1/2) Bedazzled (HOT)
() Predator I
() Predator II
Section 10: 1.5/10

(1) Independence Day (everywhere)
() Cujo
() A Bronx Tale
() Darkness Falls
() Christine
(1) ET (how could you not mel?)
() Children of the Corn
() My Boss' daughter
() Maid in Manhattan
() Frailty
Section 11: 2/10

() Best Bet
(1) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
() She's All That (on tv!!!)
() Calendar Girls
(1) Sideways
(1) Mars Attacks
(1) Event Horizon (freakin creepy)
(1) Ever After
(1) Forrest Gump (wtf, a classic!)
() Big Trouble in Little China
Section 12: 6/10

(1) X-Men
(1) X-2
() Jeepers Creepers
() Jeepers Creepers 2
(1) Catch Me If You Can
() The Others
() Freaky Friday
() Reign of Fire
(1) Cruel Intentions
() The Hot Chick
Section 13: 4/10

() Swimfan
() Miracle
() Old School
() The Notebook
(1) K-Pax
(1) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(1) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(1) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
() A Walk to Remember
() Boogeyman
Section 14: 4/10

() Hitch
(1) The Fifth Element
(1) Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace
(1) Star Wars Episode II Attack of The Clones
(1) Star Wars Episode III Revenge of The Sith
(1) Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope
(1) Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
(1) Star Wars Episode VI Return of The Jedi
() Troop Beverly Hills
() Swimming with Sharks
Section 15: 7/10

() Air Force One
() For Richer or Poorer
(1) Trainspotting
() People Under the Stairs
() Blue Velvet
(1) Sound of Music
(1) Parent Trap 1
() Parent Trap 2
() The Burbs
() The Terminator
Section 16: 3/10

() Empire Records
() SLC Punk
(1) Meet Joe Black
(1) Nightmare Before Christmas
() The Silence of the Lambs
() Sleepy Hollow
() I Heart Huckabees
() 24 Hour Party People
() Blood In Blood Out
() The Virgin Suicides
Section 17: 2/10

(1) Space Balls
(1) Big Fish
(1) Titanic (biggest blockbuster ever)
(1) Mulan
() Mulan 2
() Cold Mountain
(1) Moulin Rouge
() Kung Pow, Enter The Fist
() As Good As It Gets
() Hannibal
Section 18: 5/10

() The Exorcist
() The Exorcist: The Beginning
() The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
() Dead Poet's Society
() Patch Adams
() Fern Gully
(1) Cool Runnings
(1) Austin Powers 1
(1) Austin Powers 2
(1) Austin Powers 3
Section 19: 4/10

() Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
(1) Shrek 1
(1) Shrek 2
(1) 2001: A Space Odyessy (such a good movie)
() The English Patient
(1) Phonebooth (sux)
(1) This Is Spinal Tap (hi-larious)
(1) Edward Scissor Hands (awesome, depp b4 the sell out)
() The Sixth Sense
() Flight Plan
Section 20: 6/10

74.5/200

Thats a rough estimate cuz I mighta seen halves of these movie on TV or just don't remember their names. I had to use IMDB anyways. I can't believe ET, Forest Gump, and other classics werent on hers. my god. luckily ive avoided seeing some of the worst but ive also missed some classics, esp in the horror dept. ill have to do the wikipedia bday thing later. the servers wont connect.

International Day!!! Represent!

2006-04-07T23:02:00.000-04:00

International day, so fun...well a waste of time no classes and therefore heaven. But it was cool. I brought some Haroset, maror (bitter herb = hoarseradish), matzah, and some other stuff. I also had my talit and some kippas for everyone! But our room had strange surges, lots of people to no people. Eat the food and leave pretty much. But I had brought Prince of Egypt which is a great movie. I watched it hundreds of time when I was a kid. Great songs and animation. I spent alot of time in the East Asia room cuz 1 i love Japan and 2 they had DDR!!! It was awesome but I suck. I couldn't really get anyone else from our grade to do it except for sarah who had brought it and marco. but matt gave up cuz he couldnt get over his suckiness and everyone else just refused. suckas. I know im not great at it. i can at least pass the songs but with a horrid D. But its just fun to do. africa room had cool drums and cloth. But every other room was pretty bare with only some videos. I didn't get to see the India (South Asia) room and the Amnesty Room scared me the moment I peaked in.

Well after cleaning up in the wake of the locusts (ppl passing food just for food) I got into Lisas car with sarah and mike, came home to drop off my stuff and went to conn. we ended up back on wisonsin to get beach balls for playing at the harbor in Gtown. Joe, former employer, was trying to drop these subtle hints that he'd give me a discount:

"Is this for an art project sir?"
"Naw joe i was just wondering if i could get the workers discount for old times sake."
"IS this for an ART project sir?"
"Well n....OOOO yes...YES it is"

Haha, I was completely blind to it. Well then we went to Gtown to play with the two blue ballz we had just bought (hehe) and played some soccer but the wind made it hard as hell. i got kneed by mike, well more like a kicked into his knee, which made me limp the rest of nite. tried the laughing game which parul kept messing up and then played that Botachelli game. Went to La Madelain for Pims bday. Had a nice dinner, never eaten there b4 but it was nice though it was painful to go down the stairs on my now crippled leg. Got pim a bday pastry and went to see Ice Age 2. It was good but I think I liked the first one better. I had to explain "quickly" the first one though I'm not known for my brevity*. I love scrat (the little rat guy). He's hilarious. Came home.

Wow I gotta really do Internal Assesment. Imagine these words above couldve gone towards that paper...if I weren't such a procrastanator. ah well.

*Sarah used "vapid" do describe a crappy song and then said "brevity" to explain a trait or sumthing during butecelli. my god sarah, my god.

Thank God its Two Days from Friday

2006-04-05T18:26:00.000-04:00

update update. for SATs looks like i just gotta wait. dont know wats happening. anyways the weeks been fine...some might even say fun?? *eye brow raise*. naw its been great, pretty chill actually. mainly from movie in theatre and hist, plain discussion in eng, nutta in chem, actually everything but math is fine. i dont think mr buck realizes that mr os class from last year NEVER DID MATRICES! So i keep forgetting up to manipulate them and their basic rules and shit. and theres a test tomorrow! i have to study or else it could be another 4! in french today we did some grammar...so lost. i dont remember anything, im alright on verbs, at least conjugation. but filling in those blanks...hellz no! i did some work on the brochure during my free and googled "abydos" for pics and i found a WIERD SG1 fan site. Check it. There are some slightly disturbing images...i just hope michael shanks (the actor who plays daniel) isnt a playgrl model as these pics suggest. i think its photoshopping. anyways i thought that was hilarious. then afterwards i had some more boring classes, not even M&Ms in math, damn. i lead my first JCC meeting as i am now IL PRESIDENTE! o ya bitches. fear my jew minion army, they will slaughter and take all your pennies, yes ALL! MWAHAHAH!...we planned our international day room (so sry to hear the dance things been canceled, i like food!). after skool hung around the lockers and ate the rest of my lunch. matt was, as always, trying to (and failing to) diss someone, in this case mesa. she said he had a big ass, he said "ya? well you have a big fffffffff........um....face??" i guess he didnt realize its kind of a compliment to know u have a nice ass. then he left the room cuz he was embarassed (i guess its a cant fight it, run away attitude hahajk). later we heard him from out in the hall say "no i cant go back in there, i got embarassed!" hahaha. o did i mention he told us not to tell anyone? hahahaha.

anyways i now have SG1 season 4 which will be really distracting with IA and EE but i MUST watch. well see you later.

ooo michael...btw i was just looking for this photo as an example from that site and i did find one openly pornographic pic so....avoid that eh unless u ladies, ew nvm.

SAT Mutha' Fucka'

2006-04-02T15:51:00.000-04:00

Visited colleges on thurs, went up on wednesday and stayed with my aunt. And the next day we went to see Swarthmore and UPenn both which I liked but I had a really good tour guide at Swart and their campus is an arboretum! So beautiful. Just sweeping lawns and big trees. Kinda small but not too small and near Phillie still. I liked it. UPenn was like 3x as many students and well it was in the afternoon so there were alot more people out on their lawns. It was a bit more crowded, not as open. But I think it might be a bit better idk. Swart has alot of cool options for all types of majors and classes with lots of room for experimentation. I will probably visit Brown and maybe some Boston colleges later in the year.

Most of us took the SATs on saturday and boy howdy what a good time. Got up nice and early and got the Walter Johnson HS (they told us not to go the Wilson) and was doing fine till section 4! There was about an inch missing from the middly of 3 or 4 pages in the section so I couldn't do it! I think I'll now have to retake the whole thing in June (not may cause of SAT IIs). DAMNIT! Why me? Only one other kid in the whole center had the same problem! If it was an experimental section my grades could still be resepctable but it threw me off for the next math section! Damnit!

After met up with a bunch of ppl on the mall for the cherry blossoms and tourists were everywhere even though we kinda looked like tourists ourselves. We all kinda brought some food so we had a fairly respectable picnic going on with some music even. Though it took awhile for everyone to meet up, I was on the other side of the basin to get away from all the ppl and then had to go back to meet mike and then even though we were less than a block away from everyone else it took like a half hour to find them! "I'm underneath the pink trees....near/across from the washington monument!" AGH! Then we walked around the basin after some frisbee throwing and went to the washington monument and then metroed home. It was all pretty fun.

Well i got a bunch of chem labs to do and studying for IA and haven't done almost anything for EE so wish me luck. I wish you all luck and I'll see you on monday! Nite!

Rainmaker

2006-03-26T19:51:00.000-05:00

I slept in late on saturday, sry mike and tati, i woula loved to come but i really needed to sleep. Anyways I woke up very late and then mom took me to an Arena show, Rainmaker. It was pretty good, set was very versatile and the lighting was great. The only weak points was the story itself, a bit too contrived ending and kinda cliched. But it was hilarious so good over all. Though there was this really annoying guy behind me who fell asleep the MOMENT the lights went out...immeadiately he was snoring. Then he'd wake up to every loud noise with a snort only to fall asleep again immeadiately! That was distracting and disrespectful of the actors (See poster). Today I woke up kinda late again but before noon this time. Ate some breakfast and then mom and I went to the mall to see the Wood exhibit (he painted American Gothic, see below) and also the Hokusai exhibit (famous japanese painting of the waves, see below). Both were pretty good but I didn't have enough time at the Hokusai cause they were closing. Ate some japanese food at this place Nooshi which is affiliated with spices and that was delish kinda. Now I'm home with still plenty more to read. Looks like I'll be going to UPenn and possible Swarthmore on Thursday. Hope to see someone there by chance! Nite!

WOOD

HOKUSAI

V for Very Victorious...?

2006-03-24T22:53:00.000-05:00

Today was fine. Only math and chem (= CSI). During my frees I did some art and I had a college meeting with mom and ms tudge. Kinda zoned in and out. Mostly we figured out exactly what we wanted to apply to and such. After school most people were busy or drifted off. Thined out to me matt mike and johannes. Came back here, home, and johannes played piano while we watched some of the british Dr Who I recorded from scifi. Played a little far cry and then matt went of to gtown to meet mel. mike and I left for conn while johan biked off into the sunset, gray as it was. Met up with Sri and went to see "V for Vendetta" which was much better than I thought it'd be. Cause it exceeded my expectations so much it was really good actually. We then hung out at Cal tor and had a little convo about sri's EE topic, common threads in religion! So big! Little back and forth and then home. On the way here mikes dad swiped another on the mirror and his dad was already in a sour mood. he was pretty pissed at this guy and said "learn how to drive!" as he came back in. Poor guy.

Well I'll be here most of the week, mike has some art exhibit he wants to go to tomorrow so maybe ill do that. I gotta read ALOT for the essays and ill try and do it. Ill be going to UPenn and Swarthmore on thurs-fri so maybe ill see you. crap i also have to stundy for SATs....fun!

Il n'est pas la chute...c'est l'atterisage!

2006-03-22T21:00:00.000-05:00

Yeah well I've been "falling" for awhile. All these esays and shit. I had normal classes today. In math more confusing Matrices stuff, TOK...MS BERNARD IS FUCKING BLIND! Instead of trying to keep order using discipline she just completely ignores everything. Nick and Max were smacking each other real loud and cursing for like 10 min and she just copmletely ignored it! Wasted half the class learning how to do our orals which half the class has already done so kidna pointless. Chem was boring, questions. And during theatre we just watched the visiting story teller guy and he was good though I'd heard a variation of one of his stories. Mel and I almost got in trouble for talking too much and ms rambow said that "you are acting like one of them!" indicated the 7th graders! haha. After school just hung around then found some books at the MLK Library and metroed there for said books. Got em home, watched SG1 and chilled. Now I just saw the X-MEN III Trailer and it looks AWESOME. Well I g2g read more on Noh drama and the Armenian Genocide. YEAH! Work work work!

The Play

2006-03-18T15:04:00.000-05:00

Well the plays been going fine. Two down two to go. Its allright. Not amazing but fine. Lotsa text twist backstage. We got it up to like 150 thousand on friday! Crazy! Sailors getting really intense and the internal assessment is looming which is why I'm going to MLK Library for books today before call. Strike in this show is gonna be really quick cause theres no rented lights and theres no set practically. So pretty much we've just been rocking to music and playing text twist. Some Flogging Molly and Pogues for St Pattys day. I did wear green though it was a bit of a dull green. I didn't do anything after rehersal though a few people did, the NCAA thing is going on. I have no idea what about cause I don't pay attention to sports at all. In my free time I've been watching SG1 dvds and tried some Far Cry online (my XBL account auto renewed for $50 but I guess its worth it). Its pretty good online though really confusing cause I've really only played Halo 2 online forever! Now my moms getting mad at me for watching TV 'too' much and not practicing piano/doing HW. I guess shes kinda right. But I gotta go. See ya later. Wish us luck! And Happy St. Pattys Day!

PS: Saw parts of the Brit import Dr. Who on TV. Pretty entertaining. I'll keep you updated.

UPDATE: Got 3 books on the subject and actually found one thats pro-Turkish! Yeah for balance of views even though one might be obviously wrong. Plus found out about this awesome PC game coming out called "Spore" (check the screens at Gamespot) And also found this fun strategy online game you'll love once you get the hang of it called Splash Down.

PS: The play went awesome tonight with great food. MMMMM Popeyes! So bad for you but so good. More text twisting, awesome music, and my continual denial that I said "GARK!" on friday....I didn't did I? Damn!

And don't forget this REAL LIVE Simpsons Intro. It is brilliant and BRITISH!

So close to Spring BREAK!

2006-03-12T11:18:00.000-05:00

Well the week went well. It was only a 4 day week cause of my NYC trip so all the better. Not much happened. I'm still falling behind and not understanding in math. And theatre's kind of become stagnant again. Rehersals for the play have been getting better. Especially the folley people, they're improving exponentially. Ms Rambow got two stage guns that shoot blanks and they are freaking loud. Margaret was especially sensitive to them so when she first heard one she almost fell over, recovered, and then delivered her line. Hilarious. We had quite a game of dot-line-box game thingy though I won in the end. I can't believe she had never heard of it before. There's all these essays and shit to study for but it's just too much. I've only read one book so far for my internal assesment. Slow going. On friday night I went out after rehersal with matt, hana, mel, and mike. Small party meant easier everything but it was still pretty fun. Too late to see a movie but still fun. Went to an overpriced restaurant ($13 for an allright salad) but at least it was nice seating outside on the harbor, as dirty as it might be. Came home fairly late and watched some SG1 and went to sleep.

Yesterday rehersal was much better and faster as I said. Though everyone was pretty tired and worn cause of the weekend and cap ed classes. Afterwards marco came over cause he had nothing to do till a concert and that was kind of random considering we haven't been good friends for a few years now. He can act pretty strange during rehersal though he plays cell phone games most of the time. Anyways we played some video games and watched shaun of the dead which he actually liked i think. I love the movie. Then I went to see Capote with my mom and two of her friends. I sat seperate and the movie was pretty good even though I had no idea who Capote was. It was funny cause right before the movie started there was a trailer for a french movie called Caché so I was kinda thinking in french and whats the next thing i see? Capote....which means something a bit different in french if you remember from when Wahob was here. Anyways today is just gonna be hw and piano practice. See y'all tomorrow. bye!

New York, New York!

2006-03-07T21:16:00.000-05:00

Went up to NYC last weekend and it was awesome. Wheneven I first arrive in that city I'm just overwhelmed by all the ads, lights, and esp ppl. But I quickly got use to it in a night and it was awesome! The subways crazy complicated but I got it figured out pretty well. Expess, local, and shuttles (plus buses on the surface). Ez pz. I took photos with my cell but I need to figure out a way to hook it up to the comp (anyone know or else its best buy?). We saw all the normal stuff cause for saturday and most of sunday my mom and I were with her college friends daughter Ana who'd only been to NYC once for a childhood visit. So we had to do all the normal stuff but without too much exertion cause she has a heart problem and a defrib in her chest so gotta watch out about getting heart pace up too fast. but shes practically like a sister cause I've known her so long. So we did:

1. Time Square: the mega stores (Virgin, FAO etc) are crazy and so are all the lights, screens and ads. All just trying to sell you crap. Tried the tckts booth thing but nothing we wanted to see. Saw one of those cool living statue guys.

2. Broadway: We went to see "Avenue Q" right off Timesquare and even though we were in the cheap rear mezzanine seats it was amazing! Think sesame street XXX with sex, homosexuality, and other adult values taught throughout. IT was hilarious.

3. MoMA: Or the museum of modern art was cool. Not too many special exhibits put the 3 hrs we spent there was not enough to see all the special exhibits and the permanent pieces (famous picasso, monet, and vangough all right there).

4. Battery Park: When Ana's parents got there we had to do boring stuff. Namely walking down the pier to Batter Park where the fairies come in from Grounds Zero . It took forever and her parents kept getting very easily lost or feeling like they were lost. Just being with them I felt less sure of where we were, the just wanted to take Taxis everywhere. Well anyways at the park we saw this living statue of liberty guy and the globe statue recovered from the WTC.

5. China Town: I love Chinese pastry so we went on a quest and I was satisfied. Gotta love those black/red bean cakes, with the rice jelly, and the sesame balls. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it again. So good.

6. Restaurants: There is some great food in NYC and we had greek, italian, french, american, and some other combos. It was sooo good and really expensive. Its an expensive city.

7. Bus Ride: We took the bus there and back and it was actually an allright bus. It was run by Hassidic Jews and it was like $40 round trip. Great deal and we had a pitstop halfway up and down for a meal. On the way up there was this one guy who had all these pirtated DVDs and insisted they be played so I got to see Good Night and Good Luck, Crash (again, meh), and part of Big Fish (meh bad). It got annoying after awhile. On the way back we watched Elizabethtown which sucked and I read some Armenian Genocide stuff (the only hw I did besides Theatre Journal).

So that was pretty much my trip to NYC and it was awesome. Maybe one day we can do a group trip up there. That would be awesome.

Got home, went to sleep early in the morn after doing sum settlement chores. Today at school was boing. The G4 can suck by balls and so can ALL the people in ES! If your gonna corrupt the whole democratic piece of shit, do it it the fucking beginning before we waste two boring HOURS!....though I did get to miss french. Score. Finally another rehersal, Ms R was not in a good mood. Probably pissed at me for missing rehersal and at the upcoming play rushing at us. Rehersal today was fun but only because we entertained ourselves during Zachs tedious narration. Playing calculator games (bomberkid king right here) and math cross words. Plus marking script and doodling. Its all cool. I also got to draw a little during G4 meetings and Sara enslaved me to draw hot japanese men for her to get my cell back. Of course I couldnt really draw them in my rushed state and the fact that I've never drawn asians before which is much different. So they ended up looking white pretty much, or fat for sum reason. Though I did make a good one of Kevin as a old gangsta'. Bye bye inkernet.

It's Been Awhile...

2006-02-27T22:41:00.000-05:00

Well sorry about the whole long time no post thing, I'm not too busy, just rehersal, piano and general hw. Not too bad when you think about it or compare it to other peoples schedules. Anyways the weeks have been fairly run of the mill. Had a Piano Master Class on the weekend which meant a piano lesson with a different teacher (shes from cananada) and then a little multimedia performance she does, this one on how music tells a story....yeah kinda for the littl'uns. But unfortuneatly it made me miss Death and the Kings Horsemen. Though I did get to see Awake and Sing at Arena which was free, firstly, and pretty good. Some nitpicky things would be one character, Sam, didn't really mesh in with the rest of the family cast, which I guess you could say is good cause his character doesn't but whatever. Also finally got to Borders to spend some gift cards from the holidays. Got Shaun of the Dead on DVD (British humor, may not suit everyone), Candy Butchers - Hang On Mike CD (check it at the PMN), and finally I got Hendrix & Little Richard - Friends From the Beginning cause my mom spotted it and it was cheap ass. Pretty good so far. Love the Candy Butchers, check their samples and if you like it I can lend it out for a burn. I also finished SG1 season 1 this weekend (tnx mel) and can't wait to get season 2. I also beat Far Cry Instincts. I guess I achieved quite alot, well besides homework of course.

We had our english trial today, I don't know. I feel like I (Raskolnikov/Defendent) lost but during the trial we were definitely ahead, just those closing statements! Ah well we'll see what the sophmores say. In french some orals...good job sri, mel, divaani...you get a second go at least rite? And I gave up on Sumi-e (japanese ink art paintings) in art cause its freaking hard and I have no one to teach me. Friday wasn't nothing special, just dindin at Chadwicks. I am finally going to NYC this weekend but B'Way might be a bit too expensive for our budget, we're taking the china bus there...yeah THAT cheap! But NYCs just a great city so whatever. Got lots of prep work for all these essays coming up. Too many deadlines and random dates. I'm gonna get none of it done till last second. I don't see the point in doing them all at once. All the teachers just wanna get them outta they way. O and I completed my summer job app to TIC with references and all, yeah! Now I just gotta write a cover letter!

PS: I noticed while researching for Hist Internal Assesment that some words are easily confused as I saw in a Harvard study on the Tube. Like wehn the lteters are fiplped around in a wrod one rlealy doesn't notice at first. Like in Armenia/Armenian and America/American. Which is a prob if you can't tell cause they come up alot in my topic. A well fcuk it all!

That guy on the right was AWESOME!

Theatre Test!!

2006-02-21T22:24:00.000-05:00

Well actually the theatre test was today! don't you love surprises? I had it written down for tomorrow but o well, yeah! Totally not ready, studied during practically every period (it was straight 6) reading under the table, LITERALLY every class! Still didn't get too much more down. The test was pretty hard and long, very long. More of an exam. Two essays and a few short answers plus some fill in the blanks (which turned out to be the hardest I think for me to get right). I think I got some elements of Satyr and comedy confused and I think I left out a few details in the medieval bits, plus some rushing on the first simple essay. For the second we had to create a ritual around a cave painting given to us and then discribe how it lead to theatre, sucked ballz. I kinda made mine into a Bacchic fertility thing. Hope it works. Anyways I didn't even really have to pay attention in any other class. French = planning oral, english = planning trial, TOK = ....ITS FUCKIN TOK!, Hist = okay I did take notes there. So relatively easy with litte hw. it got pretty pleasant today and rehersal wasn't too bad even though it was straight after the exam. Got to play hearts, next time its so spades! So far the plays doing fine, I think its a bit too relaxed. We have only a few weeks till showtime and everyones too chill, probably cause everyone has ms Rambow as a teacher and she is fairly lax, sort of, so it kind of happanes in rehersal slowing things. Too bad Margarets the only senior. I would've liked to work with the seniors one last time!

Presidents Day 4x Weekend

2006-02-20T18:51:00.000-05:00

Well the long weekend has been fairly...chill I guess is the word. Friday I just slept alot and was generally lathargic, just getting some cleaning done. Saturday did a bunch of random errands, looked at cell phones, shopped for luggage, etc (whilst watching Brokeback Mt on my iPod, made me so depressed...again!). Then went to Mels for a movie watching/chill thing. First time I've been in her house, pretty spacious pretty nice, fine and all. Watched Operation Condore (old Jackie Chan flick) then Rocky Horror Picture Show (love that movie but it messed with matts logical head I guess, he had a head ache after) and then played some N64 after meeting two of Mels infamous cousins who I'd only heard of it lore. o and she lent me SG1 season 1 which I've started, amazing how many of the early eps Id seen but not realized how old they were. So far so good. Agnes and matt were also there which was a bit....awkward shall we say but it turned out fine.

After that I stayed up late again, playing new game Far Cry, and woke up the next morn to go skiing at White Tail with matt. neither martin nor nick nor anyone else could/wanted to make it. The whole point of the trip was to learn how to snowboard but because it was soooooo busy they didn't have my snowboard boot size so we had to settle for skiing which wasn't too bad. The lines to rent gear though, omg I wanted to kill myself. We spent more than half an hour just waiting for skis, JUST THE SKIS BY THEMSELVES, boots and crap were seperate! But once we got on the mountain the lift lines weren't too bad. After a few runs I was pretty up to spped even though it had been a year or two. But then we had to leave cause we didn't want to get home too late. Slept most of the way back and all in all it was fairly uneventful. Though I did take a wrong turn onto a double diamond I wasn't ready for and took a slight spill on some icy snow (the snow in general was bad cause it was mostly fake). Didn't hurt myslef at all, the problem was that cause it was so steep I just kept sliding and sliding halfway down the run leaving one ski behind. I couldn't stop myself even with my poles and feet. Anyways some nice lady brought down my ski and I was good if not a bit P.O.ed and shaken up.

And today I just did some work, barely any, and MORE fruitless errands with mom though I did get to finally visit the new comic shop in tenely, Phantom Comics (cool comic i saw = "300" comic about the pelopenisian war). Well I gotta practice piano and do some studying for a looming Theatre Test that I have no idea how much to study for. Too much crap! Then Crime and Punishment trial this week in eng and a oral in french. hell it could be worse. o yea tomorrows my straight six (only got one though).

*Look on the sunny side of life, tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet*

Springtime in Germany?

2006-02-17T01:34:00.000-05:00

Well even though I've had practically no homework this weekend I haven't blogged much at all. Partially cause I've been watching the olympics, partially cause I'm lazy, and partially cause there are some other things I have to do. But anyways the week was fine, getting warmer and warmer like its spring already. So warm in fact that today (thursday) I came home to get a hat for the sun and a frisbee. We threw it around a bit. After school we went to Conn, just idled about...kinda boring actually but its fun enough just to be in the company of good friends. haha. and then we went to Alero's with more or less the normal gang except Tomas and Divaani joined us I guess cause we were all GOING to the bball game. It was a good game but we really started raping the poor bastards after the first quarter. good ending to the season, esp for the seniors. After that we, less of us now just mel matt and I, went to the Mansion Terrece where we found two bamboo stick lantern things (you know the ones you stick in the ground and light, they stand about 5ft?) and had some fun with thouse. Dueling (I kicked ass agains so called "pros") and javelein (got beat quite a few times but not every time, it all depends on how you throw). After that, well Tati and Pim who had left earlier came back and I left with them, leaving the lovebirds alone for a bit. Saw Hana, DRIVING!, on the way down the drive. She looked like she knew what she was doing but she squeeled up the driveway after stopping. haha.

Besides that though weeks been fine, all the essaies and internal assesments are looming in along with a Theatre Test next week which will be....interesting to say the least. I'm thinking of trying to organize a small 1337 snowboard lesson group. Martin, matt, anyone else whos interested in learning how to snowboard or just ski if you want contact me. Besides that this weekend will be more Rest and Recooperation. I just got FarCray Instincts in the mail from eBay which is whay I'm up so late. Its pretty good so far but kinda easy. I haven't played any FPSs in awhile but I'm still good I guess, must be all the training against human opponents. In fact my XBL subscription is gonna run out soon. Gotta decide if I wanna renew. Theres still a few old indie games I wanna get but besides that I'm good right now. Morrowinds still slow ass. have a good weekend everybody. maybe i'll see ya/we can get together one day.

Jusqu'ici, Tout va Bien...

2006-02-13T19:57:00.000-05:00

Well as I said I love the weekends. All I did during this one was sleep and do hw. Came home after rehersal cause coudln't really contact everyone, plus I heard they were skating...which I'm not too good at though I should try it again. So came home, watchedsome Olympics, and played some more Morrowind which is kind of addictive but really slowish. It annoys me that my characters so freaking weak! Anyways stayed up till like 3 and woke up at noon. But I said "you know what I want to sleep some more!" after looking outside at the beautiful new falling snow I fell back asleep for SIX HOURS! It was a miracle from god though I didn't get to enjoy the snow at all. damn. but not a bad pay off for 15 hrs of sleep. So that day was pretty much wasted. Then on sunday woke up at noon. Ate breakfast while watching "Kwaidan" (great Japanese flick if you wanna borrow it) and did hw which I finished even though i had to write like 4 pgs for english trial thing cause Im Raskolnikov. watched some Olympics but didn't actuall see the US win a medal but we've won a few. some of that shits pretty cool but it gets boring. today was awesome, delay so I got my good 9hrs of sleep. but unfortuneatly we still had half periods of each. got to skip art cause only IB were mandatory. in french we finished "La Haine"....freaking AWESOME MOVIE!!! I might buy that shit. So good such a good ending I recommend it to all y'all. and if i do buy it y'all can borrow it! freaking a' it was awesome! anywho je dois me cassé, fiche la con (i think its spelled) motha fuckers!

This Week in Review

2006-02-09T21:21:00.000-05:00

This weeks been fine. Waiting with bated breath for Boggart's play list. Doing lots of work for the Extended Essay, and just staying after school everyday to do homework. So Crime and Punishments done, the trials coming up. I've got to do so much research for Raskolnikov. Also for Extended Essay I started thinking of Maori Intergration for history but eventually decided on theatre, comparison of Noh and Kyogen theatre in Japan. Preferably two plays normally paired together. But they Kyogen's pretty funny. Check it out at: No and Kyogen. Pretty funny even though I can't understand. Also I'm in Boggart, don't know as what but the first rehersal's tomorrow.

We had a little Jeopardy Drama Review, we all did so bad...but I think I won...I think. Rambow stopped keeping score cause we started doing so bad! haha. I discovered a few new videopodcasts, Frederator is an awesome cartoon vidcast. Pretty cool and artsy, and of course there's Tikibar TV. Had some more orals in TOK which were pretty good, especially the one on the Muhammed Comic in Denmark. The way I see it, that's a complete violation of the Islam law and doesn't constitute as free speech because it simply exists to indirectly assault the Muslim World. Its just the trigger for alot of other feelings going around. And secondly the Muslim riots are against Muslim law as well as they are violent and only represent a minority (a few thousand of a new billion muslims) of the religion.

I finally finished my wierd art diamond thing though it doesn't work as a lantern. Now I want to move into Japanese Lanterns and ink painting which should be fun. I hope my extended essay goes off well. I'm sure I'll be accepted cause its only Eric and I doing theatre. Did well on my math test, best grade of the year. Chem test not so much but passing thanks to his curve (why do I erase good answers). And did better in french comp today, 5! yeah! I suck at writing in french. I needa let it flow and use the vocab/gallasims we learn. La Haine that we're watching in French is an awesome movie. Yeah Vinz. I'll see ya round. BSG tomorrow nite!

Cool Music Video Completely Done on a AppleII:
Stewdio Music Video

Hilarious Video of Katamri Damacy (cool Japanese Game) in real life! hahah:
Katamari Guy

And finally Amazingly detailed and carved normal pencils. These japanese guys were extremely bored at school I guess:
Pencil Carvings

PS: BAD NEWS! My trip to NYC with Adam was cancelled. He's in his schools Model UN in a pretty important position. They have a model summit the same weekend, so sad. It looked like it was gonna be so fun too! Hell its unfair, even the real life UN doesn't do anything! jk.

WTF is wrong with my weekends?

2006-02-05T19:52:00.000-05:00

So friday was fine. Got to watch the WIS JV game and won, woot. Saw Jesse, his bro Zach, and Luke who go to the visiting school Burke, represent WIS alumni! Then we went to Gtown for Rockets and Matchpoint. Matchpoint was allright, average maybe a little more. Glad we're reading Crime and Punishment cuz there were alot of references to it in the movie. Now that I look back I think the story was great but I'd really have to watch it again cause I think the acting is what put me off. Scarlet Johansen (or watev) wtf? your one of the most beautiful women in hollywood and I thought your skillz matched your looks. well she's got other good movies. dissapointing though how they taunted the audience with a maybe a boob shot but never delivered, truly dissapointing. jk.

anyways saturday I woke up late, so late in fact that after getting ready we had to leave for errands and then straight to Arena for Damn Yankees which was amazing! it was standing room only but nick came and we got to be ushers. we worked as ticket takers and had to use these new fangled ticket scanners that we're soo much slower than just ripping. anyways the play was great and the songs were catchy. Its the musical where "whatever lola wants" originates from, who knew? they even had a visiting school chorus that rotates to sing the finale to act 1. but now that I think back on the Gas Heart and Hamlet Machine again I really want to go see them again, they were pretty awesome.

Today, well lets just say I stayed up till 5 organizing more iTunes music crap, so close to competetion (Thing is I have to redo all the collective work Ive done since getting my comp plus all of pauls music which i still have to listen thru) and woke up at noon. cleaned up the comp wires like mom asked, and then tried Morrowind again....3 hrs passed in what seemed like 1 hour. o i saw the clock "3 already huh? better get off...4! wow this is going by fast...holy fuck its 7 at night! ITs dark out WTF!" youve hopefully all been there. well g2g eat dinner in my jammies. night.

PS: Im pirating more now! Bob Marley, BSG, Aznavour, etc. me likke.

Pa-lays!

2006-02-02T22:47:00.000-05:00

Everyones been talking about copious (SAT words REPRESENT!) amounts of work...I guess I've had it. Definitely not as bad as some, I guess I chose a good balance of classes. I handle it all, fairly well. Except for chem labs, goddamn I still suck at those. Tomorrow's gonna be a breeze cause I got 2 free in the morn, yeah. But about tonight, our theatre class, noah included (hes part of the family now eh), went to see "The Gas Heart and The Hamlet Machine". Now unless you were there, I know what your thinknig: wtf? Two short plays, both dadaist (basically an anti-art movement of WWI era to around the 70s). Really strange and interesting plays. They were definitely something else. The point of dada is that it has an infinite number of interpretations and that was definitely there times 5. In Gas Heart the actors create a face out of their bodies, each an independent part such as eyebrow, right eye, lips, nose, left ear, and neck. Then its all about this face or person expieriencing WWI and how they change. Hamelt Machine consists of an abbreveated Hamlet with ensueing political/social/history/hamletical references. Quite an exercise for the brain. We got a little personal chat with actors and directors afterwards. Pretty cool though I think everyone, including the professionals, were a little burned out from the sheer size of it all. The best analogy I can think of is a piece of abstract art. You can't see anything there, just color, lines, shapes, inklings of being beneath the surface. But it's beautiful and intriguing just because it exists there on the canvas. It was like that, only much more eloquent.

Wierd Dream Rite

2006-01-31T17:50:00.000-05:00

So you might've heard this at school and it is a pretty anticlimactic dream but for some reason it stood out in my mind, it was just so real. So I'm on the beach with some woman, attractive and in a bathing suit I guess (and I think its Demi Moore cause someone says that name) and then three other beautiful woman, actresses all I think, come up to te blanket or whatever, don't worry this isn't going where you think its going. Then the beach changes into a small public stage, like in a town hall in new england. Then the woman do a skit, bow and go off. Then I go onstage out of curiousity or something and sit in a chair there. Then the next preformer comes out and its Gaius Baltar from BSG! He did a little monolouge mainly directed at me and then bows and goes off. I run after him to get his signature but can't find him/get into his changing room. I hear someone coming and hide in a dark room. and then it just kind of ended but I vividly remember someone grabbing my hand at one point and it felt extremely real. Weird dream huh. I came up with "Sisiter from another mister" after jack said "brother from another mother" I though it was so original until I learned it had already been coined. Strange I'd never heard it. Classes were boring cuz ppl were away for bio field trip but there was a great morning assembly about the New Age of the (Right) Brain where arts will be more important (Theatre REPRESENT!). After school I stayed to watch Ararat and ended up cleaning up afterwards. Omg such a good movie, so sad too. If you like those holocaust movies you'll love this and if not, well even if you like any drama this is good. check the link. the reviews arent great but I love it.

The Ball of Winter

2006-01-29T02:11:00.000-05:00

It was fun! yeah! not boring standing around doing nothing and it was designed...allritely i guess. today my mom wanted to take wahob out so we went to the history museum (every 17 year old burkina faso kids dream huh?) so he was pretty bored and i guess kinda in a bad mood, maybe it had to do with me sleeping all morning? went to ball around nine after a quick change and a shave. i practiced piano but besides that all ive been doing is trying to organize my now massive itunes music library, i have random copies of over half of it but now im finally done. just gotta trim off the repeats from pauls and mine libraries. waited for katrin for a bit and eventually got to go down sans thank god, and rite on "Stayin' Alive" too, perfect. i needa got me a travolta suit, i wasnt dressed enough now i think. though some pple looked like they were too much at a wedding or something, gotta be relaxed. And alli showed me a better way to tie a tie and really get that viscious V. hawt!

danced the night away with a few people but mostly in our circle/mob. it was great. the couples got along well but a bit more privacy on their part woulda been nice *get a room* jk. it was really warm, too warm, today for winter. alot of the teachers made fools of themselves. wahob refused to dance but afterwards he didn't want to leave cuz he was hanging out with his friends. i was a bit worried cuz they said they were going to allis house and alli said nothing was happening and then wahob got angry at me for continually asking him wat his plans were and if he was gonna be ok.

one of his friends danielle laughs whenever i talk to wahob be it in english or french, i think its that he finds my accent funny but also just my americanisms or my worry. idk its really wierd cuz hes the only one. then again they all laughed the first time they saw an american policeman cuz of his uniform. wtf? also it turns out that in burkina you can get arrested for critisizing the gov/prez, or at least on tv. so wahob was amazed when he saw the daily show. wahobs been downloading alot of crap, mostly rap/mtv/hip hop culture stuff onto my comp for his psp and hd but idk why he doesnt have that stuff already. i guess hes filling the new 1 GB memory card he got. but he also downloaded some more "questionable" stuff which i deleted...and on a nerd not HES USING LIMEWIRE! so crappy, slow, and traceable. at least use acquisition mebbe bittorrent? came home, watched diggnation on the way (represent!) and continued organizing music. i just finished so i thought id bless you with a long ass entry to read. no i gotta job to do at 12 tomorra' so i better go to bed. cya and keep the dance floor alive ppl! flava flave! mike jones! fity cent!

Quick oNe?

2006-01-26T23:36:00.000-05:00

Well the weeks been kind to me. Adam called from synogauge, extra ticket to broadway shows in NYC (I don't know which ones yet so don't bother asking Eric/Mel/anyone interested in theatre) so off to NYC for president's day weekend. I got a call from Karren Rosenbaum (TIC summer camp = nerd computer camp, represent matt) for a little job at a camp expo during the weekend so ill get some extra dough there. schools been fine, my grades are merrily increasing slowly but shurely. damn french. had the college meeting today, kinda boring, heard it all before so i played solitaire on the good old iPod. I also did my TOK oral on Moore's Law (more computer nerd stuff) which went all rite but I had practically no organization/outline so i stumbled through it which I would've done anyways.

I found a great new app on the tablet lap tops at school called sketchbook which is what it sounds like. Imagine MS Paint on serious steroids. ive madea a few sketches of mike, parul, hana with it. pretty cool but its too hard to blend colors so ppl look like theyve got dirt on their faces. plus depending on how you look at the screen colors change which is annoying. so far though so good, even though the sketches dont really look like their subjects but i do that for the most part anyways.

Wahobs been great, he has his own key so he can stay out latter with his friends. they do alot, and i mean alot, of shopping. he's already spent way more than I could imaging in such a short time...well besides my iPod that is. Its fun to talk to him in french plus im good enough to actually do that.

Besides the fact that almost every subject is requiring me to think of ideas for distant essays/assignments is kind of a drain on my imagination though. Im thinking Armenian genocide for hist, japanese theatre for theatre?, and for extended ive narrowed it down to math, chem (mebbe if theres time to lab?) and history (biensur). well good nite and in my time this entry was short...i typed this in like 5 min? i can type so much faster than i can write, scary thought. i remember i used to suck soooo much, well i wont torture you any longer nite!

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Serios ADD during History class, some people who do crack should just admit it...and maybe share?

Last Performance

2006-01-22T20:02:00.000-05:00

Well thats it for the Seen Our Play. Each night was great though I think friday was the best, at least for me. The other two nights I had too much sugar when I got there so I hit a low when I got on stage. My timing was pretty off also the other two nights. I hope everyone who came liked it. Carolin came twice and Mel came all three nights, youre crazy. Can I ask why? I gues they were just that good! jk. During STOO I was sitting, lifting my weights and I saw my mom come in from the back with a big guy, it was my Burkina Faso student! Yeah! His names Yassoof (like Joseph, I'm spelling phonetically) and his nick name that he goes by is Wahob. Hes about my size. He even has a PSP and was playing it after the show until I got him to help with strike. Strike was extremely short! But it was a simple show. We had a little toast and some snack at the end, the cast party will be some other time and its gonna be kicking! Anyways Yassoof seems nice, of course he shy just like Romain was at first, but now that I've got some expierience with exchange students I think Ive got it covered.

In other news I got my Sullivans pay check, second and last, and I bought a backup LaCie 250GB HD off ebay, used but I saved like $20-30. So thats good casue I'm cheap plus any higher and it woulda been by whole paycheck. In related news I got a letter from TIC, my summer camp I worked at cheaply last summer, and they've asked me to apply for a staff position! So I could be couselour maybe! I don't know, probably sports but video and Digital art are also things I could do with a little more training. Well hope you all loved the show, now we've gotta move right on to the radio play (plus I gotta cover for my lack of piano practice cause of production week shit!). Well scroll like butter babies! **WARNING,nerd joke**

PS: BSG was INTENSE! Goddamn I love that show...SG1 and Atlantis were allright but seriously....alternate realities....AGAIN! Come on writers. jk.

First Performance

2006-01-20T23:38:00.000-05:00

Well its been awhile since my last update but I'll try and make it quick. I'm sitting here next to my new iPod which I just applied a protective skin too, so far so good though I'm such a perfectionist it took me forever! I should really stop trying to show everyone it, but almost no one uses there iPod video for actual video! I guess thats cuz I'm the only one whos a big enough computer nerd to know how to bit torrent and convert a file for their iPod...or who wants to do all that crap anyways. So tonight was the first Senior play performance and it went amazingly well I think. Very few hic ups just some lighting issues (they set them all up in this week alone without any rented lights). Good laughing audience of...reasonable size. Everything really came together, hell even Elena was magically cured from her sickness in order to preform. It was great. It really just felt like a big rehersal to me, that's how comfortable I was. I hope everyone who came liked it! Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to try a new cheap game I got with hanuka money, Morrowind. I also got the Office Space Special Edition WITH STAPLER AND MUG! So hot, TRUE DAT, DOUBLE TRUE!!!

Clean Clean Clean!

2006-01-14T22:31:00.000-05:00

Well the cast party last night was allright. I always seem so different than I think I am in the play recordings, I hope everyone else didn't see me as being as crappy as I did in that vid. Anyways after that went to hang out near Caroline (the Meir's) house. It was allright but we couldn't find the "Lazy Sunday" (thats what its called!) vid from SNL. BAKERS DOZEN! But my iPod video will be here around the 14th and then I can carry it with me! I'm so excited. I swear Jobs, if you release another iPod!!! Today just woke up for rehersal, it was a dress, my Words Cubed costume is great. haha. Then I came home, watched my recording of Sci Fi Friday (my cables starting to get little audio/visual hicups every once and awhile). OMFG BSG is awesome! Yet again I can't wait till next friday. Then I ate some leftovers (my moms out for the weekend, party? hahaha) and went about cleaning the house and doing chores. So now my bathroom is as clean as it'll ever be, which isn't very, and vacuming check! Dusting....tomorrow but its all pretty much done. I gots lots of chem and other hw to do but I also have a Jam Session with AD tomorrow and maybe bowling? Idk I gotta call people at home cuz I dont have no cell numbers anymore, my mom took the phone. Damn.

Holy Macworld Batman!

2006-01-10T21:54:00.000-05:00

Jobs cameth and he spoketh of all that was good and macly. And we bathed in its glory and rejoiced for the intel macs cometh! If you missed it, and probably you all did, macworld happened today. I spent the afternoon watching Jobs keynote (screw homework) and boy is this year going to be awesome. I just hope that they don't announce yet another iPod now that I'm about to buy one. New software, iMac G5s with dual core intel chips PLUS new laptops called MacBook Pro dual Intel Core due in february! Now I've just gotta save $2000+! Today wasnt bad, first day back to theatre and Ms Rambow had some good news, I'll buy her a gift later on. Chem again, joy. I wish hana would stop with the ridiculous ripping jokes, im still laughing, not. It was pretty warm again so it was nice to eat outside. So I'm going to order that iPod now along with Quicktime pro, INVISIBLEshield, and maybe some accesories like the new iTrip and AV kit. I've got plenty of podcasts to catch up on still! I should really go to bed early tonight, I'm so tired during school. I finally got all the Red vs Blue episodes ready for my new iPod and I'm downloading other movies as we speak. Well have a good night people!

Back to School

2006-01-09T23:13:00.000-05:00

School's fine again, it just seems so drab and boring after being paid to work somewhere with great people having a great time most of the time. Classes were all fine, french was really rusty as I expected and art was just like, joy back to this shite. Too bad it was one of my straight five period days as well followed by rehersal and then piano. We went to a pretty nice vietnamese place after my crappy piano lesson (I practiced lik 7 times during the entire break) and now all my clothes smell like fish sauce. Lets just hope I don't stay up till 2 in the morn again watching a move, 1.30 would be fine. jk. nite.

O and check out these awesome 3D pics! there are some nudy ones though so youngins shield your eyes! this is the future:
http://www.well.com/user/jimg/stereo/stereo_list.html

KING KONG ANGRY!

2006-01-08T18:30:00.000-05:00

Finally got to see King Kong with Nick yesterday (sat). It was pretty good opposed to LOTR which I thought were bloody brilliant. The thinkg I most disliked was how simple and shallow the story was after seeing Brokeback Mt and LOTR, but thats just because of the base material. And Peter Jackson really just wanted to strictly remake the original. But Naomi Watts was gorgeous and really good. I agree with one review I heard saying that Jackson needed a Jack Black personality but not Jack Black. His personality fit perfectly but just cause it was him it kinda ruined it. The FX were amazing! So realistic. And King Kong himself was great, really scary and life like. I was trying to see Andy Serkis in him but never really saw it, in Gollum it was so apparent. While I haven't fallen madly in love with it like Mike has, I still liked it. Though when I went in I never expected it to be pretty much a summeresque action blockbuster but thats what it was like. Brody was good too though. I saw the Howards Stern movie, Private Parts on TV and that was hilarious. The latest episode of BSG was SOOOOOO intense. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Crazy! I got my star wars VHS so now I just gotta get them dubbed on the DVD/VCR player thing. Last day of work today...I might go back in on weekends to help with stock though. I can wrap and rip alot better/faster now too. It was actually busy today, lots of people/kids spending their holidays money and bdays coming around again. Well I better go practice piano, I hath made my mom mad.

PS: I thought rehersal was cancelled today because of Avitals injury, still not exactly sure how that happened, but turned out Words Cubed was still going on. I forgot to go, sry, but Julia called me a bit too late. Ah well. Back to school tomorrow, lets see if i can sleep.

Broke[-my-heart] Back Mountain

2006-01-07T00:14:00.000-05:00

Well I went to see Brokeback Mountain with Tati, Sara, Eric, and Agnes. After some indian food we went to the theatre and iit was so so sad and so so good. ts really one of those movies that tears you apart emotionally. I liked especially how homosexuality wasn't the focus of the movie at all, a heterosexual relationship could have worked just as well, but love was the real focus. In that way I think it was kind of shakespearean as any romance movie is, where love is like a drug that all the characters are addicted to, but each deals with their addiction in different ways. All the acting was very good but I think Heath Ledger was just a bit better that Jake Gyllenhaal if only because of the character and the accent. Though I definitely picked up a bit of that western accent. There were alot of attractive actresses...and actors! haha. It was really good though so I recomend it to everyone, unless your homophobic. In which case, get over it! I saw Erwin as I walked home from Tenley and he was with an old friend. When I told them I'd just seen the movie his friend said "I hope there wasn't too much gay sex in it! It doesn't matter though, I'm not gonna see it." and thats just pretty shallow.

In other news my ripping has greatly improved. Gift paper ripping is just about 10 outta 10 and I only messed up one...okay like two receipts today. But TJ (my coworker) taught me the best method for ripping. Yeah. Its still been slow, just alot of bday gifts so lots of wrapping and theres always a postlunch rush (a dozen ppl more or less) but thats all. Hell I'm still getting paid, just back to school monday.

Why Can't I Rip?!

2006-01-05T19:22:00.000-05:00

Well the weeks been more of the same, just work and rehersal. My coworkers had some funny new years stories, chipped teeth and red eyes they don't remember. We've mainly been cleaning up all the old christmas stuff and making everything neat. But today was amazingly slow and many people left early. In the end it was just Joe and I. I've been trying my hand at gift wrapping and cashiering more and more....but there's just one main problem. I can do everything pretty well, maybe not too fast but that's just lack of practice. I CAN'T RIP THINGS! Whenever I try and rip off some gift paper it always tears half way or at the end, although I'm getting better at it I still mess it up 2 outta 5 times. And on the last purchase tonight I used the cashier and I ripped TWO receipts from the credit card machine. The first one just ripped in half and the second ripped up the side. It's a horrible problem which emphasizes my amatureness at the store.

Rehersals been...allright. I mean I think the plays still gonna be great but, there's some 'problems' between the directors. Let's just call it a "difference in artistic vision" ok? Anyways it was nice that Noah stopped by Sullivans yesterday so we could walk to school together. He told me about all his adventures in Israel, going to the Dead Sea, Palestinian controlled areas, mountains, temples, etc. It sounded pretty cool. He just kept saying "Lotsa jews there though, lotsa jews!" hahahaha. Avital and him compared their journeys, she's gone there as well. But it seems like I'll need to cut my hair again for the senior play....I don't want to but there's no way I'll have time/be able to really grow it out. There goes my jewfro to 'blank' experiment. Ah well. Have a good one.

PS: I switched back to Firefox, it is a bit snappier than Safari, and thanks to my first Sullivans check I hace enough for an iPod video! JOY! Now I just gotta wait till MacWorld on the 10th, maybe there'll be a new iPod? I doubt it though.

I'm Back....Joy?

2006-01-02T00:25:00.000-05:00

Well we went away for new years...week i guess. To Boston and the rest of Mass mostly. Boston with my aunt was awesome, got to go see the Star Wars exhibit at the science museum which was pretty cool, saw a bunch of the models and costumes. They also compared the robots, synthetic body parts (Lukes new hand) and transportation (space ships yo!) to what we have now like Aibo, Quiro (both are so cute), cochlear *?* implants, magnalev trains (TOKYO!), and stuff like that. I'll post some pics to show what I mean after the post. So had some great dinners, got to see some distant relations (old friends of my moms from when she grew up in NH). It was alot colder up north, obviously, and at Judy and Bruces house (theyre finally getting married after many years of partnership) there was alot of snow and ice. Cody, their dog, is getting really old. He's my age, so hes like 116 in doggy years or something ridiculous like that. He can still get around but he can barely move his legs, arthiritis see. Problem was this morning while we were eating breakfast he took a crap under the table. And i was like 'wow these pancakes smell funky, wait a tic!" and that was pretty nasty. I got to see a bunch of movies, or at least most of movies, that I've wanted to see forever cuz of cable and satillite! So Kill Bill V.2, Cat in the Hat, half of Lawrence of Arabia, most of Ace Ventura Pet Detective (before I've only seen the sequel, which is better btw), and some other cool shows and bits I'd never seen. Kill Bill is awesome though. Plus I saw the Blues Brothers, great movie and I already have the sound track. For new years all we did was watch Blues Brothers, then watch the ball drop, finish the movie, and then play some boggle. YEA! greatest new years ever as opposed to last year where we played Burnout 3 for about 6 hours straight, taking a 10 min break for ball drop and sparkline cider. noice. at least that was with friends. what else happened.....just some walking, beautiful landscapes, nice christmas trees, candle lightings, finished wired, read a bunch of Crime et Chatriment, long sleepy drives, and failed attempts at board games. Now tomorrow I just got to make sure I'm getting paid, and how much, at my job. Still slogging thru my zelda emulator, hope you found it matt, and hana, thats not denominational at all! Gefilta fish is only on passover! besides that everything was fine, hahaha. O and Im pissed cuz neither my star wars VHS or album ordered off eBay have arrived yet, damn. Cya.

PS: SOO MANY PODCASTS TO CATCH UP ON! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

COPMARE these buddies:

not only does this bipedal guy walk on level and stair surfaces, but he can dance, throw a ball, and of course those crazy japanese made him do kung fu and tai chi moves. so cool. yea sony. the dog can recognize ppl and voices, play fetch, and learn tricks (including how to play soccer).

TO THESE BUDDIES:

Copmare anothre great Japanese tool:

this bullet train runs on high powered magnets and can go upwards of 300 km/h

TO THIS Sandpeople dream:

And finally compare our best shot at star to star travel:

Antimatter anyone? hydrogen and anti-hydrogen meet on this humongous ship (abour 2/3 the width of Texas) to from immense reactions. Other possibilities include nuclear powered ships or better yet 100 mile wide funnel ships that collect miniscule amounts of hydrogen from space for energy.

TO THE great ship we all know and love:

So that was pretty much to whole exhibit with alot more reading. I just saved you $20! They also had a bit of the millenium falcon set so you could walk into it. pretty cool huh? the gift store was amazing as well.

o and one more thing, amongst all this meeting people for the first time or talking to them for the first time in a long time, college and my 'future' always came up. So I kinda developed this broad and overarching thesis of what I might want to do in college...AND BEYOND! theatre and chemistry, keep my options for a profession open, try theatre first. Computers + design + parts of theare = robotics (kinda popped into my head after Star Wars exhibit of course). And the colleges I want to go to, or at least those I know, are all still Ivy leagues and are ridiculous. Maybe one overseas? I need a scholarship(s) no matter where I go, thank god I live in DC so state skool = frugal.

Happy Christmahanakwanzica!

2005-12-25T21:58:00.000-05:00

Well there goes another Chirstmas of my life! Uncle, aunt, and cousin (whos been stationed in Iraq for awhile) all came for brunch. My mom made special french toast. It was all good. I got a stocking with candy and shaving stuff from mom plus a cool book of satelite photos and some nice gloves from my aunt and uncle along with some money. I then gave my mom the gift I bougth for her, a knock out Bush blowup doll which you punch. But when it was opened, much to the chagrin of my conservative uncle, it turned out it was acutally the Kerry one and not bush, ah well so is life. Then we went straight to my other cousins house were we had dinner with her husband and family. My mom and I being the most distantly related and being jewish, well I always feel kind of life a third wheel. My mom brought the menorah but we didn't light it. My other cousin Mike came over for a bit, played some Scrabble but he didn't stay for dinner. We opened all the gifts, my mom and I had already recieved ours earlier, so we just watched, and watched, and watched. The Egg Nog my mom made was pretty good, I had a bit. Strong stuff alcohol is, doesn't taste too pleasant but is kind of addictive at the same time. My army cousin chris and I watched the Bourne Identity as well, it was actually pretty good, alot better than I'd always thought it was. When the main character preforms a field strip and takes apart a gun, my cousin started explaining how a pistol works about the bolt and all and i was completely lost. Had lasagna for dinner and pie for dessert. All very good and filling. Left at 7.30 and came back home. I've still got work tomorrow, I had today off. Its pretty loose so I can leave and come pretty much whenever but I'm trying to get as many hourse as possible, especially since soon senior play rehersals will start again. Got some recording to do with AD and I still have to go see King Kong....anyone interested?

And now I'll rob you of your own speical holiday whatever it might be by wishing you this:

Wicked was well Wicked!

2005-12-23T23:33:00.000-05:00

The jobs been fine, they've been buying us lunch every day, but I learned it's mainly because of the holiday season. It's constantly crowded in that tiny store. I saw Bortz today *joy* and an old John Eaton alumni. So I left work early to get home and change for Wicked at the Kennedy Center. It was standing room only but it was great! Of course my cappies/theatre arts eye caught some off things but it was really amazing. The music wasn't too catchy though, like so many other modern musicals, but it was still all good. And the tech (costumes, lights, sets!) were above almost everything I've ever seen! It was Kennedy Center after all. Anyways it was great and I definitely recommend it. I better get to bed, it's going to be a crazy day at work tomorrow, believe me!

O and about grades mine were fine. Pretty high, GPA's still rising ever so slightly. I've got to bring French up goddamnit and lessen the gap between my hard classes (chem, math, french) and my less hard classes (art, TOK, english, history, theatre) that's whats bogging me down.

For it's Work Work Work!

2005-12-20T21:16:00.000-05:00

The weekend was fine, sleeping mostly, playing MGS3 which I've finally got back. Now I can be invisible in it! hahaha. went to the chanukah/family reunion thing in phillie. It was in an awesome restaurant that overlooked the water. Got to see some relatives I really don't know that well, got some money, etc. I had my first my day of work today at Sullivans toy store. It was fine, it was a pretty steep learning curve. Helped shoppers, did inventory, carried alot of crap. I have rehersal tomorrow but I'm going to work before and after it to get as many hours as possible. I'm still not sure how much I'm getting paid an hour but money is money. I hate when people ask for something, than you can't find it, but then you see it hours after they've left. So its pretty much just rehersal, work, and maybe jamming with AD for the whole break except for one weekend I'm going away on to New England.

Enough Mediocre Entertainment for You?

2005-12-17T23:21:00.000-05:00

So WINTER BREAK!!!! Yeah! Had a few rehersals so far for senior play, but damn I have the about 4-5 times a week over the break! When can I work? In the mornings - joy! On friday got a ride from Lisa (thank you) to georgetown with matt, mike, martin, and pim to see Chronicles of Narnia, while Eric went to see Walk the Line. I love the interactive ground screen thing at the theatre. Anyways long story short it wasn't that good, the movie that is. Part of the problem was I just kept remembering/comparing it with Lord of the Rings. Imagive LOTR with almost no artistic direction (cookie cut monsters and armor), no blood (most anti climactic battle scene ever!), and all geared towards children. Now the first 30 mins was great, but once all 4 kids get into Narnia it just starts the suck immediately. Plus the CG was great, but thats so common place nowadays. But it was allright all in all, I really noticed all the christan symbolism which I never realized when I was a kid (I read all 7 books at about 11 I think).

So after that lack luster movie I got to bed really really late cause I finaly got MGS3 back and was macking it out allll night, getting all the secrets. Its like the 4 time I've played through the game but it's AWESOME! I had rehersal today around lunch, pretty uneventful. Though I did help Nora empty out her locker, and the weekend security guy was so wierd. He said "You know theres a fee for getting your books late right? How much do you think it should be?" and he went on for a few minutes making both of us uncomfortable and finally Nora said "20 dollars!" and he gave up the joke. So I couldn't find my Crime and Punishment, it might be buried somewhere around here or Mr. Loewen could have taken it. Then my mom and I picked up AD and Nick to go to the Leevees concert at the Rockville JCC. It was...alright as well. The songs were all pretty funny, all hokey jokey. Saw like 3 other people I actually knew/was friends with. Dropped them off and now here I am.

I'm going to miss the Senior play cast bonding thing tomorrow for the Chirlin family Hanukah reunion, which is always pretty fun. Meeting relatives I barely know, great food, and such (they have one of those make you own omlette bars every year, hawt!). So au revoir everyone, have a good break. I still got to figure out how I'm going to juggle senior play, work, jamming with AD, and possibly a marriage later in the break! O and theres the Matisyahu concert on Christmas! AGH!

The-a-tre Oral!

2005-12-14T22:49:00.000-05:00

I, did, my, ORAL, today in, Th-a-tre. (thats my typed shatner voice). it was way too too long. well 5 min over but I didnt know when to stop. I couldve made it much shorter but i was just trying to make it as long as possible. I thought it went pretty well, even if i wasn't too articulate. Had no other difficults classes today. saw the sophmores personal projects. they were all fine, nothing really stood out except Brigit's cake project, if adityas computer that he had made had been up and running, that wouldve been awesome, play some Quake III on that shit. Some artsy stuff. Enough home made instruments to start a small band. Some randow presentations of trips, games, gadgets, etc. Alot of it reminded me of our stuff from last year, I'm sure its a repeating cycle. had rehersal though zane wasn't there, he forgot/didn't get the email so it was just eric, avital and I and we pretty much just....danced like fools in the dark to songs Avital had picked out for each character. Sitting This One Out should be awesome, though Im gonna be sitting in a wheelchair ("WHEELCHAIR!!!" as in Him, Them, It, Her) for the whole first three quarters of it. So I came home, kinda cool being able to come home early, in the freezing cold. Did pretty much nothing. Now pulling together gifts for everyone at school but I want to get to bed early tonight so bye.

Waiting for Godot!

Onto Senrior Play!

2005-12-13T17:08:00.000-05:00

Well I stayed up really late last nite, not only did I have rehersal, then piano, and then theatre oral. But I wasted my whole free day (2 periods, it was really only one cause buck wasnt there) reading Notebook of Trigorin and listening to Dane Cook (he's funny) and other fartings around. But we got the reviews back today, they're all pretty obvious. In one they spelled my name Churlin which pisses me off. Everyone loved Alex, Corne, Aditya, Marta, and Nick. In the last review Alex got two whole sentences, Katie got one, Mel two, and me...zero. I guess they either forgot or didn't like my performance. Whatever most critisims were justified. Everyone did a great job, round of applause for a great show *applause*. Anyways didn't do much today. Got the cool comic book (BD) in french about the Beurette and the Megrahbin. OMG it has nudity! AAAAHHH mon dieux, une siene! Come one people, its a nipple, and an illustrated nipple at that. Rehersal yesterday was fine, I love "Words words words" (or Words Cubed as I call it). Got some good ideas going. I'm going to see the LeeVees (jewish rock band, theyre allrite) with AD and Nick and informally with NFTY. Also theres a Matisyahu concert at the 9:30 club on Christmas day, so I guess only jews, atheists and muslims are going to be there. Ah well. Also my mother has informed me that Urinetown's last show is this friday and she's got tix. I really don't wanna waste my last friday there but if some people would like to come then it could be that instead of a move. Its $8 so its the same too. Anyone interested? I got to know ASAP. Otherwise I'll try and convince my mom I don't need to go. Plus I'm getting mr smith a little going away/christmas gift. Vinyl anyone?

You Are Apple Pie

You're the perfect combo of comforting and traditional
Those who like you crave security

What Kind of Pie Are You?

woot! i heart apple pie the most!

It's Over!

2005-12-11T21:57:00.000-05:00

Well the musicals over, its a sad and happy moment at the same time. Ah well. I still have the senior play starting..rite....about....now! Yeah! Well now I just have to get my hair to grow back, Rogaine? This last performance wasn't too bad at all. Neil came, old family friends, as well was Evan and Anita's family (they lent us the kitchen piece). Strike was really short, but I <3 Power tools! I think everyone does. Just that raw power in the palm of your hand! Anyways I just did my first draft of the History essay, I'll piece together my Theatre Arts Oral tomorrow after Words Cubed rehersal. So good night, I gots some Triangle to finish watching.

actually

2005-12-10T23:26:00.000-05:00

you know what, I don't care now that I think about it. By getting riled up about it I'm only assisting you. So whatever, screw off anonymous, I really don't give a shit and will never pay attention to you again. And I did give around $5 to the Smith fund. I still think a gift is more suiting than money but whatever. I don't know, I think that just giving money is a bit too.....um I don't know. I just think it would be a bit strange for Mr. Smith, which is why I'd prefer to get him a cast gift, or a card at least which I'm sure we will do.

Tonights performance was great, one of the best according to ppl (parents) who had seen in multiple times. And it looked like the cappies loved it. So yeah! Please give me some ideas for the design though people. Y'all just commented on the Smith fund thing which is all over with now.

Anonymous

2005-12-10T17:45:00.000-05:00

Okay this is really starting to piss me off. Someone (I think it's the same person every time, at least it sounds like it) has posted a comment as anonymous on my blog for almost every relavent entry for practically the soul purpose of ridiculing me. This person(s) insults me, accusing me of having a large ego, not being genorous, or generally being a bad person. Now I hope anyone who knows me doesn't think this of me, but I degress. The point is yeah sure I might sound like those things some times, but that's just cause I'm using this blog to analyze what goes on in my life, just cause I say I might not want to reimburst someone, doesn't mean I'm not going to. I use this blog to express myself completely, even it that means my opptomistic or pessimistic side. So if this Anonymous person could please just leave their name it would me much appreiciated so I can talk to you like a normal person instead of someone who stays in the shadows because they enjoy ridiculing others but wouldn't want it done to them. Anonymity for the sake of insult is the superb form of hipocracy. Sorry to all those who do leave their names reading this, just this person annoys me because how am I suppose to defend myself from a shadow? And I will admit that not all their comments have been hurtful, though all have been patronizing to some effect. So just please leave your name, it would make life easier for everyone, but especially me (hey look anonymous, I'm being self centered!).

Fill in the Blank, Please?

2005-12-10T03:38:00.000-05:00

This is a kind of emo design I've made. I drew it on the school tablets and finally finished it tonight after the play. The show went fine tonight, and I think that the whole show was better, especially cause I barely made any mistakes tonight. Cappies tomorrow! And it was packed even though we had a snow day during which I did nothing. The audience and the cast was a bit sleepy at first from the snow day but we both warmed up. Unfortuneatly Mr Smiths money was stolen from his wallet. Not sure if its someone in the cast, but I don't think so. On the ride home he told me it might've happened even earlier than the performance so I'm in no rush to create a fund to reimburst him from the cast. It's a nice idea, don't get me wrong, but we're not sure when it happened or where. Plus there's security cameras and plenty of people were around to witness any strangers. Is it really our responsibility to reimburst him? Crimes happen everyday. It would worth it more to reimburst the theoretical anonymous single mother of two who's just gotten robbed. I'd like to do it but I'm torn on the issue as you can see. I'm gonna wait and see if anything new turns up, but if it did happen I'd gladly give $5. So anywyas fill in the guys thought bubble in the pic and post it in a comment. And if you think it should be a speech bubble instead, or if anything should be added/removed, your comments are always welcome.

First Performance!

2005-12-08T22:24:00.000-05:00

Tonight was our first performance, and of course I now love the play. Everyone had energy, everyone was great, there were mistakes of course but it was still great. I'm gonna go in backwards chronological order. Got a 6 + on my math test, o yea, 2 pts away from a 7 - damn! But I did great so I'm happy considering I thought I'd fail for sure a week ago. Yesterday Katie chipped Noah's tooth. She beat him up! Jk, no they were arguing in english and she pushed him and he hit his tooth on a chair, chipping it. He looked like the Mad TV guy. Pic below. Today it was back and fine though, he said he got a root canal and a ceramic tooth. So yeah he's allright. So the play was fine, I'm hoping we'll get a delay tomorrow so I can get some sleep, please?

Hmmm, Didn't See that one Coming

2005-12-07T21:08:00.000-05:00

Curvy and Naughty
Raw score: 62% Big Breasts, 77% Big Ass, and 52% Cute!

Thanks for taking the T and A and C test! Based on your selections, the results are clear: you show an attraction to larger breasts, larger asses, and sexier composures than others who've taken the test.

Note that you like women overall curvier than average.

My third variable, "cuteness" is a mostly objective measure of how innocent a given model looked. It's determined by a combination of a lot of factors: lack of dark eye makeup, facial expression, posture, etc. If you scored high on that variable, you are either really nice OR you're into deflowering teens. If you scored low, you are attracted to raunchier, sexier, women. In your case, your lower than average score suggests you appreciate a sexier, naughtier look. Kudos!

Recommended Celebrities: Supermodel Laetitia Casta and Actress Angelina Jolie.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 81% on tit-size
You scored higher than 96% on ass-size
You scored higher than 26% on cuteness

Link: The Tits, Ass, and Cuteness Test written by chicken_pot_pie on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Idk if i agree, I think a higher cuteness factor would be more accurate, plus they don't really have a sexy or hotness factor. O and I think it's awesome that iTunes now has BSG (Battlestar Galactica) for download which is awesome. Personally I'd prefer the DVDs but whatever. Also if you have the sci fi channel you should check out the new miniseries The Triangle. Its actually pretty good I think.

But what can I say I like the T and A, hey that rhymes. What guy doesn't appreciate a hot bod? Idk, beauty first, that test was really only for body.

I'm so bored, one last thing. Mel's wig in the play looks like this, its hard to think that Dustin Hoffman is under all that stuff:

Play....tomorrow!

2005-12-07T20:16:00.000-05:00

The school play is fast approaching. I guess....we're ready. I had french orals yesterday, 5+ which isn't too bad. One point away from 6 - argh! Divaani's and Katrin's orals were both good as well. I'm sure next year after my french trip it will be alot better. Mel fell asleep for pretty much the whole class, except for part of Diva's. That was hurtful, jk, but now we joke about it all the time. Everyone was like "Noah wake her already" and M. Gubser was like "Laissons-lui" or whatever I dont want to do french right now. Math test wasn't too bad but some people stayed in for more than 30 min into the next period, i had a free if i had known I woulda stayed much longer. Hist quiz today wasn't too bad though I had to do it really fast because there had been a bit of scheduling glitch with the interview. So now I've effectively replaced Bortz in the video, but now I want to burn the old one and add some effects. For instance make it smoky during Nick's interview or something. Hahaha. No but it was pretty cool. The film and sound guy were cool. It took longer than I thought though cause I had to pretty much refer to the same things Nick did in about the same amount of time cause the film has already been edited. So that was kinda difficult, especially cause he wanted me to use some words. So it was kind of scripted but it had to be natural as well. Anyways I was late to rehersal cause english was so so involving, no it was really cause I fogot it was midway through the period. Rehersal was good, everything pretty much their. King Kong and Memoirs of a Geisha are coming out soon and I can't wait. We should arrange something, maybe not this weekend though. And of course I got my hair cut, it ain't bad but...its a bit uneven. Saw the JV game as well yesterday, woot. I was trying to do work but hana and mel got a bit...ridiculous with the cheering when they payed attention. Me being the etudious student I am, I did some mild homework.

Look How Peter Jackson's changed, he's lost alot alot of weight

Before:

After:

And Ziyi Zhang is hot:

I just checked Rotten Tomatoes though and it got a pretty bad rating. from the bad reviews featured it sounds like it was too simple. Whatever I rarely truly hate a movie, but I always find faults. I'm easily amused in other words. Optimistic.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/memoirs_of_a_geisha/

Origins!

2005-12-04T22:33:00.000-05:00

I found the origin of the Irish Play (the unnamed shakespeare play for you non drama ppl, think of duncan) and its curse. Because the play depicts with such detail the wicca (witch) ceramonies, the actual wicca followers of the time when the play was released despised the play so much that they cursed it which follows the play's name or production of it to this day. So in the end the curse doesnt come from bad performances in the past but instead from an actual curse cast by a dead religion. That gives it slight more credibility in my book. They really just didn't like the fact that shakespeare made such an exposé on their wicca ways. the play was later banned by James I because he thought it would entice and or train others to become witches, o shit. Then theres a bunch of references about all the chaos that has happened to productions in the past. To get more info and to learn all the ways of curing yourself if you do say its curséd name check out this site: http://home.flash.net/~manniac/macb.htm I like the rhyming cure.

LONG ASS

2005-12-04T01:23:00.000-05:00

Long ass rehersal today. Costumes and all. It was a bit difficult doing all that stuff for the first time. I must say eric was hilarious that one costume, i wont give it away for all you people not in the play who read this. it IS coming together as it should though. I still got some lines messed up and there were definitely some cue problems. But alot of it was nervousness on my part I think. I definitely made some stupid mistakes. I came home and finished writing the chem and that took me all night, well i was watching the Wedding Planner (it was on TBS it was the only thing on) and SNL which was actually pretty good. Well good night then. I got LOTS of work to do tomorrow and I also have to get a hair cut! AGH no! 3/4 inch! I know it looks pretty crappy rite now but I was really interested in seeing how long it would go before it looked either crappy or good. Well now I've got to start pretty much from scratch. It seems to grow really fast from short and straight to long and curly in a few months but then seems to stop groing. Its strange. o well nite.

Here's Nicks work for the play

2005-12-02T22:26:00.000-05:00

heres what I've done with the pics I took of nick, I did this all today. Scroll down to read my actual fri entry.

Good time, bad times, you know I've had my share

2005-12-02T21:32:00.000-05:00

Good song right there ^. Anyways I've just been rehersing my ass of the past week. Pulling things together with the lights, orchestra (Jason rox), and my own character and lines. I really think it's coming together thank god! I've also been reading my ass of for theatre, in fact thats pretty much the only homework I've been doing all week! But I have chem essay, math test, and french orals mon-tues so got alot cut out for me this weeking including two rehersals. Today I also worked on the 'painting' of nick as a prop and I've got to email it to him rite now, hold up a sec. well ill fool around with them a bit more but my computers getting old, doesnt have the RAM to work them really fast. Ah well.

So after a long rehersal got a ride from mr smith, found out that everyone had gone to conn, decided id stay home with mom for her dinner. But when I told her she said I should go be with my friends, I was so capricious (SAT) I changed my mind and went down. Then instead of the metro my mom gave us all a ride to Gtown. Decided not to see a movie casue we couldnt agree (goddamnit I shouldnt have seen Pride and Prejudice, we couldve seen it) and went to UNOs for erics bday dinner. Even though he didn't want it we got the waiters to do the whole bday thing. had some great stories go around, plenty of laughs. When the girls went to the "bathroom" (yea rite they went the wrong way at first) to gossip we did the same just to piss them off (or did we?). It was all great. Then, cause I was getting a ride with Eric, we had to leave earlier than anyone cause his mom was ready for us. I tried to set the salt shaker to put out pepper by doing the napkin trick but spilled pepper all over me be accident, the irony of which cracked up matt. Talked some french with erics mom, o yea hawt. And tomorrow got a dress rehersal, finale, kisses and all! joy!......cough. Anyways cya.

Finaly Bio

2005-11-27T23:45:00.000-05:00

This was my final bio I sent to Mr. Vincent for the play:

Ben Chirlin (Harry Witherspoon):
I'm a junior of 16, have been in many previous productions and am a cappy critic. I'm a fairly optomistic guy and I tend to ramble in private company. I'm glad because this is the first year I'm not bigoted against and eventually killed in the play.

I like it.

A short entry?

2005-11-27T20:02:00.000-05:00

For all those eyes I've hurt in the past here's a nice short entry cause I don't have anything to really write about. On saturday we went into Phillie, met cousin Bryan and my mom's friend Cynthia for the museum. Had a bite to eat and left for home. I finished the theatre reading on the way back plus read ahead another chapter in Crime and Punishment. I want to get pretty well ahead cause the plays coming up and I won't have as much time to read. Got home late, ate dinner at Yosaku's while talking to the sushi chefs. I can't wait to take a shot at Japanese in college. Today I had senior play rehersal which was pretty light, mostly character development. I talked too much as always. And walked home, finished up some podcasts. It was all fun. Finished up chem but I still got to do the essay. French orals are in a week, oi vey. Now I gotta write my bio for the play. I'm thinking something like this:

Ben Chirlin (Harry Witherspoon): I'm a junior of 16 and have been in many previous productions. I've been nominated for a cappy twice but haven't won either time. In fact I'm a cappy myself. Third times the charm!

thats kinda crappy, or

Ben Chirlin (Harry Witherspoon): I'm a junior of 16 and have been in many previous productions. My turn ons are: sushi, commitment, nature, and loving people. My turn offs are: haters, Ben Affleck, and Hollywood begging for money by rehashing crappy movies ad nauseum.

hmmm, which ones better? jk.

Its a Nice Day for Thanksgiving

2005-11-25T22:02:00.000-05:00

Well here I am in Delaware with the family, woot! Had thanksgiving dinner (yeah lets celebrate the rape of a native people) not at the normal place yesterday because of renovations but it was pretty much the same. Just alot darker. The food was the same as always. Turkey, spinach, cranberry mold, stuffing, sweet potatoe casserole, and veggies with carrot cake and white chocolate chip chocolate cookies for dessert. All very good. I was extremely full afterwards and settled down in front of the widescreen TV for some crappy Lara Croft: And the Cradle of Life. Crappiest movie ever but Angelina Jolie is some very hot shit, the whole movie was an excuse to show her hot body pretty much. Only thing I don't like about her is her lips, she looks like a fish theyre so big and fake but meh I could live with em. haha. I'm trusting my sources that theres no rehersal on saturday. the bed im sleeping in here is falling apart, the bottom on the left side falls down so its kinda hard to sleep but good enough.

Today we went for a few walks, my mom and greig (cousing whos living in france), in one park. It was nice but we saw this one dog and her master who had bone cancer. The poor things leg was extrememly swollen and kind of nasty looking. Her master told us she had bone cancer and then said in her british accent "We've just been giving 'er acupuncture and 'erbs" and it was funny sounding. Where I am is one of the centers of DuPont, the big plastics, paint, and glue company. So theres all these DuPont estates and gardens etc.

We then went to see Pride and Predjudice. Keira Knightly was very beautiful and the movie was actually pretty good. I went in thinking about how many adaptations have already been done of the Austen novel but it was pleasently surprising. There were many beautiful, and well known, actresses to play all the sisters, including Donnie Darko/Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys/Saved! girl Jena Malone. Matthew MacFadyen was good as Mr. Dorsy, the romantic interest. I dont know if it was as good as Bride and Prejudice but it was good. There was one "Sex" scene at the end that was not in the British cut that supposedly the brits were mad they didnt get. But it was actually the crappiest scene in the whole movie. It was just Mr. Dorsy playing some sappy love line on the now Mrs. Dorsy. Very stupid, and here Greig and I were waiting to see Ms Knightly at least partially naked. jk. But I do recommend the film, especially if you don't already know the story which I find quite impossible. Or if you just like seeing a bunch of very attractive women running around in Victorian style dress it might tickly your fancy as well.

Well I hope everyone had a good thanksgiving and it really is sad that the long weekend is coming to a close so soon, I still have the START my homework. Geeze!

Harry Potter and the goblet of whatever

2005-11-23T18:59:00.000-05:00

Saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire after rehersal and an uneventful day at school, but I did get some free candy from Katrin, tnx Katrin. The movie was pretty good, mostly just meh. Couldn't remember the book too well but I got along fine. Some parts were just a bit ridiculous. Like "You show you yours I'll show you mine!" and other parts were awesome like the quidditch cup or triwizard tournie. Afterwards people slowly leaked off until it was Mike, Sri, Matt and I. We went to 7-11 got a snack. Then after everyone else Matt and I started walking up macomb until his mom gave me the rest of the ride home. Today I had two doctors oppointments. And one was for optometry (musical anyone?). They gave me the eye dialation drops and everthing was so blurry. After getting back home did a few more errands. Made cookies (chocolate with whit chocolate chips, yummy) and even went to Sullivans. I got a job! Kind of unofficially but I got one. I think I'll just be lugging boxes but money is money. By the way my vision is still perfect 20/20 long and short distance. Got an itching for some Moulin Rouge so I put that on while putting my cappy show times on the cell. Well have a good thanksgiving. Eat plenty of turkey (or tofurkey your preference), sleep, and have a good time with your relatives. I know what mine will say "My youve grown since we last saw you?" "How tall are you?" "You must be good at basketball" and I'll say "NOOOO!". Have a happy holiday.

Saturday

2005-11-19T21:05:00.000-05:00

Well woke up pretty much in the knick of time for rehersal. I wasn't sure weather or not we were suppose to come in early so I went at the normal time. A good 4 solid hours on stage almost the entire time. No time to begin reading the chapter for theatre as I planned. I then went straight to piano duet practice for the concert tomorrow. We got there right around 4.30 and I realized how short it was going to be and maybe I would have been able to go to the Hot Hot Heat concert with everyone. But I don't know. I think it would have been quite a close call and I wouldn't want anyone waiting up for me, I would have had to carpool so that just complicates things. I don't really know the band, heard their single, but I'm sure that what I'm really missing is the social part of the adventure. O well, I'm gonna see if I can get a bunch of people to go to the Matisyahu concert at the 9:30 club with the JCC. I already saw him but I want a shirt and he's just kick ass. Piano practice was fairly short. I got home around 6, a little earlier. I dont know what time everyone left for baltimore but o well.

Ate some left overs and went to see the Wallace and Gromit movie (finally!) and it was pretty good. Not as good as I remembered the show was but good and funny enough. They had a little short before the movie with the penguins from madagascar and I now think I know where Martin got his "skipper" thing from. One of the penguins (the leader) is called that and all the other penguins call him "skippa", plus there's one penguin with a british accent. So those are the roots of that "frog" effect. Now I'm home, listening to a little Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue is some hot shit). I dont think theres any senior play rehersal tomorrow and I don't have any projects (chem/theatre) do on mon or tues so I'm not really gonna worry about that. But I do need to figure out when I'm gonna go to Sullivans for a little interview. If I could get a job that would be hot. I need a new iPod plus some of my own spending money would be hot. My sister worked most of her high school life, but then again she wasn't in half the extra curiculars I'm in. Goodybye skippas!

More Crap Repeated

2005-11-19T00:12:00.000-05:00

Some more of the same these last few days. Horrible horrible french comp. And now I realize I've forgotten to bring it home for corrections. DAMN! Some cool ideas i've had for future art projects include: chinese/japanese paper lanterns, fibonacci/goldern ratio art, and LOTR illustrations. Math is still fucking with my head. History is finally moving on to mexico. And Crime and Punishment is still awesome. The musical is definitely evolving but its still very tedious. This role is just so hard to play. Theres not that much in the script to describe his character arch. It seems kinda shy some times and then other times he's completely out there and than closed again. The accent makes it that much harder. Its hard to make a character that changes so much, all the while trying to put some cary grant in their. the main thing is i really havent devoted as much of myself or my time to this role this year because of the IB. after mitchell told my last year that during the musicals my chem grades dropped too much ive decided not to give as much to the play. so ill have to start doing that now and really get my lines squared away already and my songs. i keep freaking switchign the versus theyre so simillar!

i also went to a cappies show at wilson, meh is all i have to say. i liked my review. crossing my fingers for the publish!!!

Wash Rinse Repeat

2005-11-16T19:17:00.000-05:00

The story of my life! The weeks been the same, deja vu. Rehersal every day, imaginary numbers in math (makes we want an imaginary friend to talk to), Russia Russia Russia in history (mexico soon!), Greek Chorus in theatre, Crime and Punishement in English (love the book), and random crap in french. Actually in drama today we had a Greek Theatre expert visit for the 2 hrs and help with our piece. Which was really cool but very difficult. Wrote a crappy letter in french. And rehersal every single day. Joy! The plays getting better but its not great. I dont know, i just think that the show itself (script) is bad. Plus I and others have to do an accent which doesnt help anything. Mashups are awesome (www.mashuptown.com) sale on threadless (www.threadless.com) check it out. The podcasters expo was last weekend, maybe some day Ill go, but this was the first one ever. Sold a DVD on eBay but I accidently bought shipper online (very expensive) so im trying to get that money back before i ship it.

and lastly in tech news it turns out sonys new copyright protection software is horrible. see when you put the cd in your forced to download a special player to listen to it. but when you do it also installs a little trojan horse (root kit) which reports to sony what you do with the CD. this thing is invisible, you can never find it without special detectors. It opens up humongous security holes because hackers can use it to hide themselves. its overall just very bad and kind of illega. california's sueing. but so far its windows only! haha mac users rule!

Funny Story from Last Night!

2005-11-12T22:16:00.000-05:00

For some reason Nikola chose to wear a Russian/Eastern European fur hat. Imagine the Davey Crocket cap sans tail and a bit taller and furrier. So after the movie we're in the Ice cream place next to the theatre, Hershey's I believe, and everyone outside is staring at his hat through the window. So he gets the brilliant, and hurmorous, idea to start tipping his hat at random passer bys. Its a trigger happy TV moment. Some people ignore him, others smile, others are wierded out, others return the salutations...but one guy (mighta been a little drunk) smiles like the dickens and starts waving at us. Then he points to me and starts gesturing for me to remove my "hat" cause my hairs so long, curly, and afrolike. ha...ha. But it was great. Then his partner pulled him away while scaulding him. It was pretty great.

Favorite Jarhead Quotes:

"Hey! Its like a cock, but smaller!"
"Whos fucking around now?" *Flick off*
"The earth is bleeding."

So the 4 day weekends afoot

2005-11-11T23:14:00.000-05:00

Half over already! Well two more days. Ive been staying up too too late so Im gonna try and go to bed earlier. Had some rehersal for the greek chorus piece on thurs but ended up really just doing text work instead of blocking. Except for the flower thing, thats cool. Then Nora gave us a ride to her house before the Cappies show. She has a really nice house and a big ass room. The pizza we ordered came just as we left so had to eat in the car. All the gates to Episcopal were locked except for the seminary gate so we went through that. Turns out that one of the closed gates was the high school and there was someone there to open it but we didn't see that. Well anyways we ended up crossing a little lawn and going through the schools dormitory/dining area. The place is a boarding school and is almost like a small college campus. Finally got there. The show was interesting, pretty nice theatre. The building where we were suppose to meet was locked and it was the first cold night and I had left my jacket in the room but I toughed it out. Got into the building but the room was locked, so we rushed through the evaluation, finally got our stuff and left. I took the metro with eric, which was stalled, and then got a ride from his dad. Phew it took a long boring while. Plus I think I'm signed up/volunteered for a show every weekend for at least 3 weeks. O well, we'll see how good they are.

Went to Georgetown to meet with the whole gang, ate at an italian place, Paradiso? and then went to see Jarhead. It was pretty good. I don't really know why so many critics haven't liked it. It was all the more powerful cause my cousin went into the army and is now finally home. Got a ride with mike home and now here I am. Well rehersal tomorrow, yeah! Plus I think we'll finally get the kitchen, yeah!

Half Week!

2005-11-09T23:08:00.000-05:00

So this week was a paltry half week. So I have very little hw, the obligatory chem of course, but not too much. The masks in theatre are coming along great. We just started painting today. Everyones having their own little comedic bouts with their mask. Erics is a bit...large and has a michael jackson nose, hahaha. Nora's is cool, its a got a freaky smile/chesher cat grin going on but we're doing a tragedy. Mel had a bit of trouble finding out where her eyes were gonna be so the eyes are long ovals that go down on the cheeks and up on the nose. Ms Rambows is probably the best of them actually. And finally mine is just messed up. It looks more surprised or frightened than tragic. That combined with huge lips and mouth and eye holes that don't really line up with my face. But everyones been having that problem to some extent. For instance Ms Rambows mouth is in her masks nose. hahaha. It seems that upon entering the auditorium for theatre many people seem to deage. It might be the mold, but especially mel whose always doing her annoying kiddie voice. argh. erics is hilariou cause it looks like a wierd parrot. whatever, none of them are really good and my mom will be able to see it tomorrow.

Today was also the TOK half day which meant we missed 1st - 3rd. Heard 3 student orals on plastic surgery, music as a language (billy) and the SAT pros and cons (Alex/Zaine). They were all pretty good. Plus everyone went to the lecture by Judge Kaine (he needs his own Judge Judy spin off) about how the American court system works. BOOOOORRRIINGGG! And it preped me for the headache I got from math with all the 'z's and 'i's and 'z*' and all these crazy rules I don't know how or where to use. HEAD ACHE! Plus all the spanish ppl were missing for a field trip! Argh.

Rehersal was fine, the new lighting guy came and so Peter and Tom were there as well. I felt so so sorry for that guy, he was just looking at the ceiling and you could see in his eyes that he was thinking "what the hell is this??!! A lighting board??? Fuck this, ive got the Kennedy Center on my resume! They better pay me good" and he ended up just typing on his lap top most of the time. It was hella hard to run through the play, with new people watching, with scene changes we've never done, and with scenes alot of the smaller roles haven't learned yet. And I haven't learned!!! I was trying to memorize my greek chorus piece at the same time and I think I've been fairly successful! Well anyways this has been a long entry but it was for the week so meh?

"Behind them/in their rear Ares PANIC struck they here, for zeus who hates the braggarts boast beheld that gold bespangled host!" o yea from memory baby, o yea. PS i might be going to a movie fri (Jarhead?) with friends but thurs is crazy. Theatre arts rehersal plus a cappies play!