Liverpool

I'm really looking forward to being out of school for the summer. I like staying up late every night and watching Conan O'Brien or watching movies until like 3am. Waking up whenever I feel like it and not doing anything or going to hang out with friends all day. But this summer I won't be able to do that as much because of my job at Moviestop. But I don't care. I'm making money and I desperately need it.

I'm going to England in the winter for Christmas break. My parents are paying for the plane tickets, but I'm paying for everything I'm doing there. I'm going to be flying over by myself to my grandparent's house in Wargrave, England. My brother will be over there for Christmas too because he's staying in Paris for next semester.

I'll probably be doing a lot of stuff on my own, but I really like that idea. I need to start doing things on my own so I'll be ready for after college when my parents aren't going to do much for me. My mom is not ready to let me do any of this though. But I think after I've been away to college for a couple months, she'll get used to it.

I've been planning a trip to Liverpool while I'm in England. I have to take a train there and the trip could last from either 4 hours to 12 hours depending on when I leave and the lay-overs in between train departures. The 4 hour trip would be ideal. But of course, I was looking at fares in July. I couldn't look at fares for past August, but I don't think it would be much different. Hopefully the prices don't go up due to the holidays.

I'll have to get a hotel while I'm in Liverpool, but those are EXTREMELY expensive. So I'll probably be staying at a guesthouse or a hostel. The cheapest place I saw was 12 pounds a night which is REALLY cheap for me and that is fantastic. Maybe if my grandparents have a friend in Liverpool, I could stay with them for free! I need to look into that. I need to e-mail my grandparents with my plans for Liverpool.

I want to do the All Day Beatles tour while in Liverpool. That's the only reason I'm going to Liverpool lol. That city is a port city and there are tons of shipyards and it is very industrious. My dad says it's pretty ugly to look at, but the history there is awesome. My dad lived in England for the first 20 years of his life, so I'll take his word, but I'm still going there. No doubt. I also want to hear everyone around me talking in a Liverpudlian accent. I LOVE THAT ACCENT! :)

I found a website that gives the Beatles tour. It's pretty expensive for the All-Day one, but I'm doing it. I want to see everything there is to see. I might even get a second job so I'll have enough money. I'll ask my dad if there are any chairs that need caning this summer. Because I can get $80 plus for each chair. I'll also ask for more hours at work over the summer. I'll also most likely get a job in Athens when I go to college. I'll save money from graduation too. The only other expenditure that I'm making this summer is for the American Idol tour. I MUST SEE JASON CASTRO. I love him.

So the theme of this summer is: MAKE. MONEY. NOW.

Wow

It has been a LONG time since I last wrote in this this. A lot has happened. Fiddler on the Roof is over and everybody loved it. We had another show The Learned Ladies that ended last Saturday. I was in it and had a pretty big role. But it was my last show and I'm glad it's over lol. We had a project in AP European that took up most of my life. We had to study for 32 hours for the AP exam which is on Friday. My AP Calculus exam is tomorrow and I am freaking out. I'm just accepting that fact that I'm going to get a 1 lol.

I got a job though! At Moviestop. I'm pretty psyched about it. All the people who work there are really nice. I need to buy my uniform though. I opened a checking account on Saturday so my paychecks can go into it. I'll finally have some money!! But I have to let them know that I'll be gone for a lot of June, what with Bonnaroo and the beach.

Speaking of Bonnaroo... it turns out that my roommate for next year is going too! So we're going to try and meet up there. It's going to be so awesome!! It's getting pretty close too! I'll finally be 18 by the time that rolls around. But my mom will still treat me the same way... like a 7 year old. She won't even let me go to Atlanta with some friends to see a movie in IMAX. Ridiculous. I can't wait to go to college to escape her chokehold that she has on me.

I found out fantastic news about the DMB concert in July. TIM REYNOLDS WILL BE WITH THEM THE ENTIRE TOUR. I cannot believe that I'll be seeing Tim Reynolds!! OMG! I'm going with David, Will, and probably some of Will's college friends. I paid my dad back for the ticket plus the overages from my cellphone bill Saturday while getting my checking account... $77. Ouch. But my dad has FINALLY agreed to get us unlimited texting! WOO!!

AHH! The new Coldplay single is amazing. I can't wait for their new album. And hopefully the tour that follows the release. Since I'll be making money this summer, I'll be able to go to more concerts. Hopefully, my roomie will go with me to the Coldplay concert! I want there to be a new Third Eye Blind CD soon.

Graduation is in like 15 days. I CANNOT WAIT.

Music

Well, my summer plans have changed yet again. Since Dave Matthews Band is coming to Atlanta on July 7th, I'm going to go to England for winter break. haha. Yes, I care about DMB that much! I just need to find people to go with pretty soon so I can buy my tickets the day they go on sale, which is March 29th. My brother might go, but he has to start saving up money for Paris. I'll probably end up going with the Darnells again lol. Jake might go too! It was fun last time at Piedmont Park.

Speaking of concerts, I hope John Mayer announces his summer tour soon. My mom and I will probably go to that. That's kind of our thing now haha. I don't care if she goes as long as I get to go and we get good seats. I don't know if we'll be able to beat our 5th row seats from last August, but still maybe floor seats? I want John Mayer Trio to tour soon!! That would be soooo awesome!

Bonnaroo is coming up slowly but surely!! I'm am soooo excited for that. More and more artists are being added to the line-up and The Disco Biscuits was one of them!! I love them. I'm still really excited to go to Kanye West's show haha. Glow in the dark is going to be awesome. DJ Pope is going! haha. Meredith and Kaitlin haven't bought their tickets yet I don't think. I hope they aren't sold out by the time they can buy them!!

Coldplay's new CD is supposed to come out this year! And so is Third Eye Blind's. I really can't wait for them. I still need to buy Radiohead's In Rainbows. I was going to try to get Radiohead tickets since they are coming to Atlanta this year, but the price was ridiculously high. Like over 1000 dollars. I'm sorry, but I don't like them THAT much lol.

It's a good thing that my parents are paying for Bonnaroo. That was over 200 dollars. But I'll have to pay for DMB, but that's okay! I CAN'T wait to see them again! :)

It's Been A While

I really haven't had anything to write about in a while. Mock Trial was taking over my life, but it's over now. We had our competition on February 23. I was really nervous for the first match, but after that I was okay. I did a British accent for my character and I actually won an Outstanding Witness award for the first round. Second round went well and FPD made it to the final round with Central who had won it 9 years in a row. They were really good! I met Ekene Agu, who is friends with my friends from church, and she was really nice. We lost, but they deserved it. They were awesome and VERY intimidating lol. One of their teammates looked like Mac from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. I wanted to tell him, but I never got the chance to. :(

Fiddler on the Roof is going okay. We started rehearsing with the actors last week. The first night was HORRIBLE. But the next night was muuuuch better. The music isn't too hard. It's very Jewish sounding, which is the whole show, but still. So there are lots of accidentals in the music and weird phrasing. But it's coming together nicely.

I finished reading The Other Boleyn Girl on Saturday so I could see the movie. The movie was AWFUL. Did not follow the book hardly at all. But Jim Sturgess was SO cute in it! I fell in love with him from Across The Universe as Jude. :) He has another movie coming out soon called 21 and it has Kevin Spacey in it too. I love Kevin! Oh, and since I'm done with that book, I started reading a Jimi Hendrix biography. It's really good so far. Jimi's about 14 years old and has his first guitar! Aw yeah!

I started making a 1960's collage last night when I was mad at my step-mom. I had an old Rolling Stone magazine that talked all about the Summer of Love (1967) and I started cutting stuff out and kind of piecing it together. It's got Bob Dylan, The Doors, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. There's also a huge Beatles thing that'll hopefully look cool.

We have a HUGE English research paper due at the end of this month. I chose to write about the shadow of the soul and the duality of man using Heart Of Darkness, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Fight Club. In theory, it should be an awesome topic and an interesting paper. But the only thing that stands in the way of that is me actually typing it into a comprehensible paper lol. We're going to the Mercer library tomorrow all day to research in there. I get to miss school ALL day Tuesday for that and all day Thursday for a band competition. What really sucks though about Thursday is that I have a Psychology test and a Calculus quiz that day. So I'll have to make those up.

My mom bought my Bonnaroo tickets while I was on my ski trip in February! I'll have a different post for the ski trip. Well, not about the ski trip, but what happened after the ski trip. Our youth pastor went psycho, but like I said... that's another post. Along with information about some other things that are REALLY ticking me off lol. ANYWHO... Bonnaroo is going to own my soul. Jose Gonzalez! :) And more artists are being added! Woooo!

I saw Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford on Saturday. I had a Casey Affleck mini-marathon. I love that guy! Both those movies ROCKED. I need to buy those, and No Country For Old Men, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood, and I want to see Into The Wild really bad.

So many movies!!!

Near the end...

Why is it I feel closer to my schoolmates towards the end of my highschool career? People who used to make my life a living hell are being nice to me and joking around with me now. Why couldn't they have skipped those awful, tormenting feelings towards me and just have been nice to me the whole time? Now it's getting harder to leave the school. I still want to get the hell out of there, but now I think I'm going to miss it some. Spirit Week was really fun and I wish that I had had a better outlook on my classmates throughout high school. I won't be bawling my eyes out like some girls haha, but I'll be sad.

Bonnaroo tickets go on sale in exactly ONE WEEK and I am excited! Kanye West is going to amazing. And all the other acts too. Hopefully, Kings of Leon and all the others I want will be added to the line-up later. Kaitlin, Katelyn, and Meredith are going to carpool with Eric, John, and me. Hopefully, it'll be an awesome experience. While I'm in college, I'll probably try to go to more music festivals. It costs a TON of money though.

Speaking of money, I spent 40 bucks at Moviestop today. I got Harry Potter 3, Pirates 3, Count of Monte Cristo, and Little Miss Sunshine. I just watched Monte Cristo and I had forgotten how awesome it is. I saw that in theaters when it came out in like 2002. I traded in Empire Records and Boy Meets World Season 1 and only got 8 dollars worth of store credit though. I thought that was kind of... low. Every time I go into Moviestop, the same guys are working and they pretty much know what movies I like and they started reccommending them to me today haha. So maybe when I get my license back in April, I can apply for a job there and get it since they, like, know me. But then again, Kaitlin applied for a job there and got turned down for not having any "stocking experience" so who knows?

Mock Trial is almost over. Thank the Lord. David and I were cross examined and direct examined by two lawyer interns who have been to law school and everything. It was really scary lol. I hated every second of it, but I think I did okay. I just can't wait for it to be over. Fiddler on the Roof is getting better though, which is good. I have to transpose some of the music from alto flute to flute though, which is really tedious to do on his computer. I'm so glad I'm not doing track though. My schedule is full enough!

I'm going to North Carolina next weekend for President's weekend with my youth group. That ought to be fun. I feel bad because as part of going to Bonnaroo, my mom is making me go with the family to Myrtle Beach and not go on my last summer mission trip with the youth group. But Bonnaroo is worth it lol.

By the way, John Mayer is looking better and better every day...

Famous Graves Around the World

These are the graves of Duane Allman (left) and Berry Oakley (right). I took this picture yesterday at Rosehill Cemetary which is about 3 miles from my house. Surprisingly, as much as I love the Allman Brothers Band, I'd never been to their graves before yesterday!

But, a while ago, I decided that one summer, I'm going to travel the world and visit famous gravesites. I've already got a loooong list going. I'll have to travel all over the US and then hop on planes to go to places like Italy, Australia, England, and France.

The main grave I want to visit is Jim Morrison's in Paris. After reading a book about Jim Morrison, I really wanted to see his grave. And that started a chain reaction leading to a list of over 30 graves to visit. The list includes people such as James Dean, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Chris Farley, John Bonham, Andy Warhol, and (added VERY recently) Heath Ledger. I'll need to save up a TON of money to fly to Australia, but I really want to see his grave.

Some of the people's graves I wanted to see don't have graves! They've been cremated! Like Marlon Brando, Janis Joplin, and Jerry Garcia. But for the most part, I'm finding a lot of people's graves, thanks to findagrave.com. haha.

I'm going to England this summer, so maybe I can convince my dad to let me go searching for the graves of the people in England. There's only four (so far). There's Princess Diana, Keith Moon (even though he was cremated, his ashes were spread in a plot at a church cemetary), John Bonham, and Brian Jones. Maybe if I save up money, I can ride the Chunnel to Paris for like two days so I can see Jim Morrison's grave! That way, I'd already have most of the graves visited before I set out on my own! That would save me a lot of time AND money.

Well, two graves down, about 30 more to go!

Me Being a Total Girl

So it's really nice to be flirted with hahaha. It boosts the ole self-esteem up pretty high to be quite honest. At the Starcadia lock-in, I was helping some friends pick out what to get for their tickets and the 2 guys up there started making fun of me! So I called them on it and it's all downhill from there haha. One of them wasn't too cute... he had half a thumb. I'm not even lying!! But the other guy was pretty cute. :) HAHA. I love being a complete loser. And I looked like CRAP tonight. I rode the go-karts and my hair was all messy and gross, I had a wooly hat on, and I was in a sweatshirt. But still I guess I radiated self-confidence and I was able to pull off full flirt mode.

It kinda reminds me of a boy I REALLLLLLLY liked in 10th grade. He was a senior. I was still in my awkward years. I mean, AWKWARD years. I had acne, braces, unkempt hair, the works. Yet, he still wanted to hang out with me and he texted me and IM'd me all the time. I guess because I kinda know who I am and I just act like myself. He laughed genuinely at all my jokes. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I think I'm a pretty funny person. I've got good timing with my jokes and all that. And if a guy tries to make me look dumb, I reverse it on them haha. Sometimes it works, and other times it backfires completely. Like tonight. I was asking what I could get for like 10 tickets and the cute guy said "Lots of candy!" and I was hyper enough so I said, "Ugh.. I don't need candy..." To which he replies, "Well, we have hummus!" I have no idea what that is, and I told him this. "It was a joke, we really don't have that.." "Ha... great joke!" "It would have been had you known what hummus was!" haha. I guess you have to be there.

What I'm saying is... it's nice to be noticed. :)

Last Week

Wow, last week was a weird week. I was a wreck Tuesday night after coming home from the basketball games. Meredith had called me at like 5 o'clock that day and told me that Heath Ledger had died. I seriously think my heart stopped beating for like 10 seconds. I couldn't breathe. It was so unexpected and random. And I had to hold in my emotions about it until I got home from the basketball games at like 10 o'clock. And I looked up stuff on the internet and just started sobbing. I didn't know that a celebrity's death would have effected me so much, but it did. What really got me was the picture of his body being taken out on a gourney. It was too much for me. It's still hard to believe that he's gone, and I had just watched A Knight's Tale the Saturday before his death. It's so weird.

But I had Spirit Week to distract me from that. Seniors came in 3rd which I find hilarious since we actually tried this year. Our theme was Musicals and I dressed up like Sweeney Todd. Everyone said that my outfit was the best outfit of the day, hands down. That felt good since I actually worked pretty hard on it lol. The shoes just killed my feet though.

I saw Bye, Bye Birdie on Friday. It was really good. Kaitlin was cracking me up in it hahha. I went with Katie Franklin and she always takes forever afterwards because she has to say "hey" to everyone haha. But I got to talk to some people I wanted to and some I didn't. This 8th grader, Kevin, is soooooooo creepy. He hugged me... TWICE. It still haunts me to this very minute. Blegh. :(

I saw Juno on Saturday FINALLY! Michael Cera was so cute in it! I liked it a lot. :)

OH! I have a serious chance of going to Bonnaroo now! My brother and Eric want me to go with them and my mom doesn't seem too opposed at all! My dad is a different story which is weird because he used to be the easy one to convince. But now that my mom is all into the Allman Brothers, she's gotten cooler about that stuff lol. I'm listening to Bonnaroo Radio right now as I type. I really hope I can go. And I hope Led Zeppelin shows up. And Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. And The Flaming Lips. And Kings of Leon. And Flight of the Conchords and Demetri Martin lol. Okay, that's enough...

Chipping Away

Man, things seem to keep chipping away at me. Soon there's gonna be nothing left of me. My friendships with people are slowly slipping out of my hands. I'm trying all that I can to stop that from happening, but it's all out of my control. Yet, on the flipside, I'm making new friends, so that's keeping me up above the surface.

Mock Trial is just taking up chunks of my life. It's not fun, nor is it interesting. Meredith isn't on my side and so I can't talk to her. It's boring being a witness. All you do is sit there and have people tell you what to say and how to respond to things. I don't even have to think for myself! How wonderful! My art skills are getting better as I doodle away on the pages of my court statement. So that's a plus. I can't wait for this to be over! Ugh.

We started playing the music for Fiddler On The Roof and it's very discouraging. Granted, it's only the second day of rehearsal, it just sounds horrible. And we didn't get much better during the practice. There's a LONG road ahead for this too. So it's only just begun.

My Christ & Culture teacher is a moron and tries to force his opinions on everyone he teaches. It's a pain in the ass and it bothers me. I started some friction today though. We're talking about the War on Terror and someone asked how he knew we were winning. And he said because we are a "world police" and we took out thousands of terrorists and there have been no attacks on the US since 9/11 and blah blah blah. And I asked him, "So when were the last bombings on London?" and he said, "Oh, that was in '07... very recently." To which I replied, "So we let some terrorists slip by... oh okay." That shut him up. Such a dumb man.

The only thing keeping me going right now is this man.

Nicknames

For some reason, I've been thinking a lot about nicknames and how they can mean different things. I guess because I'm called a constant stream of nicknames, mostly in varying forms of my last name. But there are differing connotations for nicknames, I think. You can be called a nickname and you are being accepted as a friend. Another use of a nickname is to demean someone and hurt their feelings. Or a nickname can mean that there is no chance for a relationship with a guy/girl. The last one is a little different from the other two noticeably.

But first, being accepted. It always feels good to be accepted by a group of people. Nicknames can make a friendship more inclusive. Or it can mean they don't remember your name, but let's go with inclusive. For example, my friends call me "Tank" or "Tankdawg" or "Tankie" depending on the person. Having a nice nickname just feels good. Feeling accepted is a big part of life. Nobody wants to float through life nicknameless and unaccepted. That's just not natural. It's not natural for people to be alone. Otherwise there wouldn't be like 6 billion of us on the earth.

Having a bad, mean nickname is a different story though. Now, I'm sure everyone has been called names by an older sibling or bullies at school. Does not feel good at all. Maybe it's butthead, moron, retard, wide-load [for the heavier ones out there], but regardless of what name it is, it hurts. It can tear you down inside and out. You'll dwell on the negative thing portrayed in the nickname and it can truly hurt. I know. For years on end, my brother continuously called me Ugly and it used to not bother me. Up until middle school I never let it bother me, but then the awkward years hit me. And I believed him every time he said that. I never went out with friends or anywhere. I hated going to school because I thought that everyone was making fun of me like my brother was. But I eventually got over that hump in my life and now I couldn't care less what my brother says about me because I know he's just trying to be an ass... and succeeding. So, I guess what I'm saying is, try not to listen to everything people say too closely? I don't know.

But when a nickname comes from someone you like, that's a killer. Because you know there will NEVER be a relationship in the future. When you get a nickname from a guy/girl you like, it's game over. It's like you are shut into the FRIENDS ONLY vault in their mind. That place sucks, by the way. There's nothing worse than hearing that nickname come out of his/her mouth because you know it's friends from here on to the end of time. You start to hate that nickname haha. I know I did. I just wanted to scream. It's happened on a few occasions and it's just annoying. You wish you could turn back time and have them NOT say it. But I don't know. All I know is it sucks to like a person and they don't like you back. But that's common knowledge I suppose.

This post is kinda lame and cheesy, but I just have been thinking about that a lot. Because I frequently hear all three types of nicknames on a daily basis. And I wish it was only two of them.

The Bovie Club!

So, as of Friday night, Meredith, Mrs. Weems, and I started The Bovie Club. We went to see The Kite Runner [more detail about the movie later] and we had all loved the book. When we were in the car leaving, we decided that we should do that more often. We are going to read books and then watch the movies! Yes, it is nerdy, but really awesome. The next one is The Other Boleyn Girl. They've both read it, so Meredith is letting me borrow the book so I can catch up. We are going to do that with Atonement as well. But again, we still need to read it.

Then, tonight, after Monica, Meredith, Mary Grace, and I saw Sweeney Todd [even better the 2nd time!!], I told Meredith I wanted to go to Barnes & Noble. And lo and behold, Mrs. Weems is there grading mid-terms! HA! So we talked with her and it has been decided that we are going to meet in the summer to watch movies that the other people in the group haven't seen. For instance, we're going to show Mrs. Weems Sin City, Meredith will be shown The Shawshank Redemption, and I will be shown Walk The Line. It's going to be GREAT!! Oh yeah, I bought Scar Tissue [Anthony Keidis biography] and Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde. :)

Anyway, about The Kite Runner. It was only us three in the theater at the 10:15 showing. It was awesome though because we could talk as much and as loud as we wanted to. And we did haha. But the movie was amazing. Granted, it did cut out some good parts from the book, but they had to cut it for time. And we wished it had been rated R instead of PG-13 so they could have shown more, but nevertheless it was awesome. There was one point in the film where all three of us were SOBBING. Like uncontrollably. It was a good bonding moment haha. Especially when you are hanging out with your English teacher. It's not new for Meredith because they hang out all the time, but I was a n00b lol. We even went over to Weems' house and watch part of a movie beforehand with her and her good-looking husband, Brant haha.

I was kind of worried tonight, mixing two groups of friends. Meredith is a good friend, but she is in a different group of friends as Mona and MG. Monica and MG are at my lunch table and have been my friends for a while and are usually who I hang out with more. So I was the bridge between them. It's always awkward mixing groups of friends. I don't think I could mix up my youth group friends with my school friends. And even with my school friends. I have my Cross Country buddies, my band buddies, my all-around buddies, my Mock Trial buddies, my theater buddies. Some of those overlap, but for the most part, they are separate. It's just crazy I guess.

I let my cousin borrow my Superbad DVD and my 40 Year Old Virgin DVD. I told her to mail them back when she was done with them lol. Those are my babies!! haha.

A nice bowl of Ramen is calling my name... laterz.

Whoa

So I've decided to change my major... again haha. This time I know for sure I do NOT want to do law. It's too much reading and critical thinking for my liking. I plan on going into business now and follow that up with music courses. I want to be a music producer. And I need to talk to some people who have done that. My mom has a co-worker whose son just got done with a 6 week internship in London for SONY and he said he would be glad to talk to me about that field. He's only like 20 which is crazy. I asked my parents if I could do this camp at UGA this July called Fusion where you are in a group of about 14 other students and you have a musical group project for like 4 days and, all the while, you get to tour the venues in Athens and meet with different people. I hope the dates don't conflict with my summer plans.

Meredith, Kaitlin, and I were planning on going to Bonnaroo this summer, but I'm afraid I won't have the time or the funds. I'm going on my church mission trip, England, Myrtle Beach, and Athens. I wish there was more time, but there isn't. But I'm inviting Monica to go with me to London. I originally invited Carrie, but I don't know if she'll be able to go. And it might turn out that none of my friends can go! But I hope that's not the case.

I've been back at school for about 3 days now and I already want another break. AP Calculus is just crazy and all my other classes are unusually boring now. In AP Lit, I get really depressed because we're analyzing poems about death and talking about death. It's just a real downer. In band, we're sight-reading a bunch of awful marches. The chemistry room is always about 634 degrees. The only glimmer of good in my day is my 4th period study hall, but in 2 weeks, that's gone and I have to take Christ & Culture. Kill me. Ugh.

I really hate how conservative my school is. I have some friends who are liberal like me, but we are a severe minority. I'm tired of people being close-minded about things and only believing things that their parents tell them to believe. People need to get a backbone and think for themselves. College is going to be a major shift going from a tiny, close-knit school to one of the biggest in Georgia. By the way, I got my UGA ID today. So I have a UGA e-mail account now! Woo! haha. Anyway, I really am excited about all the diversity that's going to be there. Since there is absolutely NO diversity at my private, Christian school.

I saw Sweeney Todd and LOOOVED it. Johnny Depp is a surprisingly good singer! The soundtrack is awesome and I can't stop listening to it. I had Sweeney Todd songs stuck in my head all day yesterday at the 6-hour defensive driving course. [3 months and 5 days until my license is returned to me!!] I'm seeing Juno with Mary Grace on Friday. She's already seen it, but she wants to see it again. I need to see me some Michael Cera, baby! lol. Oh, I also saw Walk Hard and it really wasn't that funny. John C. Reilly has a good voice though and some of the songs were good. Paul Rudd was funny in it as John Lennon and Jack White was good as Elvis.

Man, I watch too many movies...

New Years

Well, 2007 has come and gone. It doesn't feel any different. It never does. It's weird to see the date as 1/1/08 on my phone though. I had a lot of good times in 2007, but also some bad ones. One that sticks out in my mind is Thanksgiving. Grounded for the slightest mistake. But that was the only time I got grounded... I think. I really can't remember that far back. OH! Another horrible thing that happened... getting my license suspended. I'm still feeling the wrath of that. And I will until April 12th. But at least it's 2008 now. Not too much longer.

But more of the good stuff that happened. Tons of concerts. Good concerts too. Okay, maybe not tons, but you know. I saw John Mayer TWICE this past year. Once in January in Jacksonville, FL with my mom. I got to skip school for two days. Even though our seats were REALLY far away, it was still amazing. John Mayer had his long, shaggy hair then. We had binoculars haha. And I could see those curls in his face. ;-) Then, I saw John Mayer again in August. 5th row that time. It was one of the best concerts ever. Ben Folds opened and was amazing. John Mayer played Covered In Rain, which is one of my favorite songs of his. He also played Slow Dancing In A Burning Room acoustically which was sooooo good!

Then in September, I saw Dave Matthews Band and the Allman Brothers at Piedmont Park. ABB was okay; their set was kind of long. David and I were dying from the heat. We started looking around and saw that there were some funky looking people there, so we started saying who was each other's boyfriend/girlfriend. I guess it's only funny when you are dying of thirst and about to have a heat stroke surrounded by 50,000 other people haha. DMB was SO on it that night. You Might Die Trying gave me chills and The Dreaming Tree was kickass. They played Two Step like 3rd and Will and I were losing it haha. It was crazy awesome. I'm so glad they made a DVD/CD of it. :)

2007 marks my Senior year in high school. It marks my last season of Cross Country. I'm going to miss it. Not for the running aspect, but for my friends on the team. The practices were fun. Also, 2007 marks the end of my marching band career. Finally. I've been in band since 5th grade, and I've marched since the 6th. It's about time for it to be over. And of course, during my last year, we get a new, good director and we finally start getting some respect haha. Oh well, that's life I suppose.

But 2008 is a big year. I'll probably go to more concerts [hopefully]. And I'm going to UGA in the fall. Still searching for a roommate, but that'll get figured out soon [again, hopefully]. I can't wait to get my license back though haha. I miss driving so much. I still have about 103 days left and it's killing me. I bet my friends are so tired of hearing me say, "Can I get a ride?" haha.

Anyway, I've been obsessing over Michael Cera for the past few days. I've always loved him, but since I got Superbad for Christmas, I've re-fallen in love with him. He's SO adorable. :) He's my wallpaper. It's a picture of him playing the geetar. I even thought he was cute back in the Arrested Development days. Back in the days of George-Michael Bluth. I want to see Juno really badly, but stupid Macon doesn't show it. Lame. And I still haven't seen Walk Hard or Sweeney Todd. Every time I make plans with someone to go, they always end up breaking them. Grr. This week, I will see one of them! I saw No Country For Old Men the other day on the computer. GREAT movie. Wow, I digress... back to Michael Cera. He's cute, funny, musical, talented, and young. :-P Man, how pathetic am I?

I bet no one reads this haha. And that's not the point of me writing in this, but still... kinda lonely. I guess I could put a link to this on my FaceBook or my AIM thing. But then I'm kinda uncomfortable with putting my thoughts and feelings out there to people I know. Makes me feel vunerable. But I guess that's the price I pay for putting this on the internet haha. BLAH.

By the way, Apocalypse Now is a great effing movie. Watch it now. But not the extended version. 202 minutes. There are scenes in it that were cut out for a reason. But the rest of it is awesome. PCU with Jeremy Piven is good too. But let's be honest, anything with Jeremy Piven is good.