Banal Rubbish

Bye!

2005-10-10T19:20:00.000-07:00

I've decided I'm going to switch to LiveJournal, at least for now. My address is www.livejournal.com/users/minnowdog1992. But I'm still going to work on www.ilovepesto.blogspot.com, so please check that blog often! And PLEASE comment!!

Blogger or LiveJournal?

2005-10-10T19:00:00.000-07:00

Right now I'm basicly trying to decide whether I want to use Blogger or LiveJournal, because I think it's dumb to try to use both. Hmmm....

The concert!

2005-10-04T08:34:00.000-07:00

I'm sure everyone has been waiting to see my post about it! Well, the reason I haven't been posting is I have a LiveJournal blog as well, and I've mostly been focusing on that. The address is http://www.livejournal.com/users/minnowdog1992/, if anyone wants to look at it.
The concert was fantastic!! The first half was Anoushka Shankar with eight or so other people, and then after intermission Ravi Shankar came on the stage and everybody cheered really loudly for him. It was just wonderful! Then he and Anoushka played together, and it was just incredible. The sitar is such an amazing instrument, you know?

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow....

2005-10-01T06:36:00.000-07:00

Do you know what is happening tomorrow? I am going to Cambridge to se Ravi Shankar! I can't wait! Right now I'm not feeling well; I'm actually kind of sick, but I'm going even if I'm deathly ill!
Fun!

This post is especially for my dear brother

2005-09-29T06:26:00.000-07:00

I don't have much to say

2005-09-29T06:11:00.000-07:00

Well, only that I HATE WRITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My writing class, I mean. It's alright when I do it because I want to, but not when people make me do it. I hate all my classes. I don't have time to do anything I want to do. I got this book out of the library that has all these pictures of different kinds of guitars. It's really funny because the book has markings all over it. The person who marked it all up added an exclamation point after "still in production" and drew little smiley faces and frowny faces next to characteristics of the Fender Telecaster. Apparently he is in favour of the "contoured body" but not the "Strat-like headstock".

Poem

2005-09-25T07:17:00.000-07:00

I really like a book called "The Leaf and the Cloud", which is a really, really long poem by Mary Oliver. Here is my favourite part of the poem:

Later, the pollen shakes free.
Races this way and that way,
like a mist full of life, which it is.
We stand at the edge of the field, sneezing.
We praise God, or Nature, according to our determinations.

Then the grass curls or breaks, or we cut it.
What does it matter?
Do you think the grass is growing so wild and think for its own life?
Do you think the cutting is the ending, and not, also, a beginning?

This is the world.

- Mary Oliver

Bad news

2005-09-21T17:16:00.000-07:00

I am very sad because Audioblogger does not seem to be working, and I just figured out how to use it! I was also looking forward to playing my George Burroughs song for you. Oh, well. I have a ton of homework due tomorrow, sadly.

Eleanor Rigby

2005-09-20T06:36:00.000-07:00

Picture

2005-09-19T20:02:00.000-07:00

I like to draw these little pictures using the Paint program. They're really fun! Greeting cards with my drawings on them are available at Casco Bay Books in Portland, Maine.

Well...

2005-09-19T19:23:00.000-07:00

I took George Burroughs off my interests list, because that is a dumb thing to put on an interests list even if he was a very interesting character.
I wrote a song about George Burroughs and sang it to my history class while I played the ukulele. Here are the lyrics:

In Salem, Massachusetts back in 1692,
Was it false or could it possibly be true?
Abigail Williams started the fad
Of girls throwing fits and going mad.
They claimed that the Devil was there,
Sucking their blood and pulling their hair.

Chorus
Go back, Reverend Burroughs, go back to Maine,
If you stay here, then your life is surely down the drain.
Though the Indian raids have killed old and young,
If you stay in Salem you'll surely be hung.

He shouldn't have messed with the Putnam clan,
Powerful John Putnam and his daughter Ann.
A dispute over money from several years back
Set the stage for the Putnams' ugly attack.
Ann's accusations made him leave the frontier,
And stand trial as a witch, a crime most severe.

Chorus

He was about to be hung, when out of nowhere
He accurately recited the entire Lord's prayer.
The whole crowd gasped, for everyone knew
This was something a witch could never do.
But then Cotton Mather stepped out of the crowd.
"Satan's just trying to fool us," he vowed.
So poor George Burroughs, to many a friend
Was among 19 hanged before the end.

It's not great, and I'm sure it's not very accurate, but I think it's alright considering that I wrote it in about 20 minutes.

I now declare this bridge open!

2005-09-18T15:52:00.000-07:00

Adrienne has a funny new blog address! I changed my template so that if you click on "Adrienne" under links, it takes you to her new-but-not-new blog.
It feels weird to just love something that a lot of people do. I mean, I know millions and millions of people like the Beatles, which is why it's such an insane thing for me to be obsessed with. I've always been the one who likes really weird stuff.... And now Adrienne is just mad about A Hard Day's Night, like I am. Which is fun! I love it. But it feels odd to have a friend who likes the Beatles as much as I do. Not bad, just different. It'll take a while to get used to.

New blog!

2005-09-18T12:58:00.000-07:00

I have a new blog! It's not going to take the place of this one, don't worry, but in addition to it. It's a rather dumb idea for a blog, actually, but I'm going to try it. What's going to happen is this: I'm going to post questions like in my get-to-know-your-friends quizzes, and people can comment with their answers. Yes, I know, no one will actually comment, but it doesn't hurt to try, does it? You can help me out by commenting on my new blog whenever possible. The address is www.ilovepesto.blogspot.com. You can also get there by clicking on the link "a man, a plan, a canal, panama".

George Burroughs

2005-09-18T12:31:00.000-07:00

If you look at my Blogger profile, you'll notice that I've added George Burroughs to my interests list. Who was George Burroughs? He was a very interesting character. Unfortunately he was hanged as a witch in 1692. About ten years earlier he had been a minister of Salem, but the town was unhappy with him, so they took his salary away. He owned money to the Putnams, but since he wasn't getting his salary he couldn't pay it back, and this made the Putnams very angry. In 1692 Anne Putnam started having fits, and accused George Burroughs, who was then living in Maine, of being a witch. When he was about to be hanged he recited the Lord's prayer, which shocked the townspeople, as they believed that no witch could say the Lord's prayer. They hanged him anyway, though. It's too bad.

Homeschooling fun

2005-09-16T07:28:00.000-07:00

My mom signed me up for all these classes, and I can't stand them. Do you know how many times I've played my ukulele since I got home from Cambridge? ZERO. Ukulele is much more important than classes. I also have so much homework I can't keep track of it all.
Let's see:
Latin (due on Thursday): Look at prepositions, study for quiz.
Biology (due on Tuesday): Do worksheet, read chapter, study for quiz, make poster of the five themes of biology (or whatever they're called.)
Writing (due on Thursday): Work on two essays, do a TON of research, cut out as many book reviews as possible, write a page in the style of Dickens. (DIE!)
History (due on Monday): Write a song about the Salem Witch Trials.
PRACTICE PIANO! Ohhh, I forgot to practice yesterday....
Wow, it's FUN to be a homeschooler!

Dance class

2005-09-12T14:22:00.000-07:00

I just got home from my first dance class this year. It's an intermediate class (instead of beginner) which doesn't seem quite appropriate since I'm pretty much the worst dancer ever, but I have been taking dance at New Dance Studio for three and a half years. I have a new dance teacher (in addition to Lisa), and her name is Maria. She's okay, but not as nice as Lisa. She also moves at a really fast pace and doesn't really explain things. Today I had dance for one and a half hours and we did some pilates, some yoga, two phrases, this skipping thing, some stretches, made up a couple things, more stretching, and that's not all! I don't think I've ever been this tired. It was really difficult but I know I'll get better at it. I hope they don't kick me out of the class before I do. This is unlikely, though, since there are only three people in the class (including me.)
Today my mom told me that Lisa is looking for a new studio. That would be so weird! My dance class has been in the Bakery building since Alison was my teacher. There's this painting on the wall of a blanket that I would miss so much.

Sitar!

2005-09-10T18:20:00.000-07:00

The sitar is one of my favourite instruments. You might not know what it is. It's a guitar-like instrument from India. Here is a picture of one:

I am SO excited because on October 2nd my grandfather is taking me to see Ravi Shankar play! I can't wait!

Essays

2005-09-10T18:02:00.000-07:00

I have to write two essays for writing class, one on a piece of literature and one on a subject of our choice. For homework we have to choose both our subjects, do some research for the one we chose the subject for, and write a short, practice essay on why we chose a certain book. I already finished mine; I'm doing my essay on Oliver Twist (of course) and I'm still not sure about the subject of my choice. I was thinking maybe the Beatles since I know a lot about them, but I think that would be really hard.

Excitment at Oliver rehearsal

2005-09-10T17:57:00.000-07:00

The guy who plays Fagin in Oliver (Adrian Fox) seems to have a really bad temper. A couple weeks ago he had a screaming fight with one of the moms and yesterday, according to my mom, he lost his temper again and threatened to quit the show. Hmmm.... We're all half-hoping that they'll fire him and get David LaGraffe to play Fagin instead, but since opening night is September 23rd this seems unlikely.

Sufjan Stevens!

2005-09-09T06:03:00.000-07:00

Last night Mom, Mana and I went to see Sufjan Steven and it was so much fun! I have never had more fun in my life, INCLUDING the time Melissa gave me Beatles trivia! Somebody opened for him and her voice was very nice but they really needed to turn the bass down, and I didn't like it very much. But once Sufjan Stevens came on I didn't mind at all. It was so, so much fun, and he has this song called "The 50 States Song" that I like a LOT, and after the little intermission in between Sufjan and the person who went before him, the lights got dark and then the drummer came out onto the stage and started drumming really loudly and my mom whispered, "Zoe, is it 'The 50 States Song'?" And then all the other people came out onto the stage and they were wearing the strangest costumes, sort of like cheerleader outfits. They had on blue T-shirts with big orange I's on them, and bright orange pants with white stripes on the sides. They ran in holding pom-poms and it was very funny. Sufjan was wearing this odd Rex Kwon Do-like jumpsuit. And then they started singing and it was the "50 States Song", and it was just so great. They played my other favourite song, too, which I can't remember the name of. And every so often they'd stop playing and Sufjan would say, "Well... I guess we'll do a cheer now. This is a really great cheer..." And the guy in the back would hold up the Illinois flag and the others would do a very funny cheer, and then after they were done they'd keep playing songs. At the end Sufjan Stevens announced that it was the bass player's birthday, and so they played a special birthday song, which was not "Happy Birthday", but a song that he had most likely written. And then they brought in a cake and it was fabulous.
That was just so terrific.

Oliver! (again)

2005-09-07T18:12:00.000-07:00

Today we watched Isaac's Oliver rehersal and they did "Consider Yourself" six times. It was fun. Isaac told us that after Bill Sikes is shot he gets to fall off of the stage, and Mom said, "What? What does he fall onto?" and Isaac said, "A matress. He falls backwards." How exciting! I can't wait. I still hope that the kid who plays Oliver does not fall off of the bridge when he faints. It seems rather dangerous to me.

"..afore he sets upon his travels..."

2005-09-07T18:02:00.000-07:00

My mom suggested that maybe the Artful Dodger has been banished to Australia. According to her, a lot of criminals from England were sent there. When you look at the paragraph this seems likely. He says things like: "the Artful's booked for a passage out," "afore he sets upon his travels," and "going abroad." Isaac is still convinced that this means he is to be hanged, but I hope not. I hope he is sent to Australia.

I feel very depressed

2005-09-07T14:48:00.000-07:00

I am depressed because right now I should be playing ukulele or guitar or something, and I'm not, because I'm bored of it, and that is a horrid thing. I have nothing to do. To enlighten myself, I'm going to make a list of things I like.

The Beatles
Oliver Twist
Freaks and Geeks
tea
music
sitar
words
art
Miranda July
minds
trees
colours
England
Oxford
charcoal
plans
True Stories
David Sedaris stories
blogs
ties
characters from Freaks and Geeks
Mr Rosso
Nick
Lindsay
Neal
Daniel
Kim
Millie

Ties!

2005-09-07T10:57:00.000-07:00

I love ties. I am wearing one right now, actually. It's red, yellow and green and I found it in the back of my dad's closet. I'll post a picture of it if I someday find out how to use Hello.

What does this mean?

2005-09-07T10:39:00.000-07:00

I read Oliver Twist extremely quickly because when reading every word slowly and carefully it is impossible to understand. Here is a little paragraph, what Charley Bates says soon after the Artful Dodger's capture. I hope that the Dodger only gets put in prison and isn't hanged like Fagin, but it is impossible to tell.

"They've found the gentleman as owns the box; two or three more's a coming to 'dentify him; and the Artful's booked for a passage out," replied Master Bates. "I must have a full suit of mourning, Fagin, and a hatband, to wisit him in, afore he sets upon his travels. To think of Jack Dawkins - lummy Jack - the Dodger - the Artful Dodger - going abroad for a common twopenny-halfpenny sneeze-box! I never thought he'd a done it under a gold watch, chain, and seals at the lowest. Oh, why didn't he rob some rich old gentleman of all his walables, and go out as a gentleman, and not like a common prig, without no honor nor glory!"

What is a sneeze-box?

Wish list

2005-09-06T18:38:00.000-07:00

Here is my current wish list:

· Gunne sax dresses

· Records!

· A tea set

· Freaks and Geeks box set

· Pretty skirts! I can always use more skirts. I like ones that are knee-length or longer

· A red-and-yellow striped tie

· In His Own Write by John Lennon - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568491476/qid=1125279152/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl14/104-6246076-7657504?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

· An iPod

· Really weird clothes. I mean it.

· A carnelian necklace from Silver Hammmer

· A fancy, old-fashioned fountain pen

Guess what?

2005-09-06T18:04:00.000-07:00

Today was my first day of Musica and we have an America-themed concert coming up in October. Fun, fun, fun. You know how I LOVE patriotic songs. I was hoping that it would be on the day I am going to see Ravi Shankar but it's not. Sad. I have to wear a different dress this year and it's very unflattering, especially on me.

Gosh durn it!

2005-09-06T14:20:00.000-07:00

I've been a-changin' templates like there's no tomorrow!

Isaac made up two songs, here they are:

Song 1:
This play is our play,
It is not your play,
From pick-pockets
To the Bow Street runners
From Nancy's death,
To the Artful Dodger's capture.
This play was made for only us.

Song 2:
This book is Zoe's book,
It is not my book,
From Widow Corney
To the Artful Dodger
From Bill Sikes
Who looks like the Artful Dodger.
This book is only Zoe's book.

They are very funny! Isaac is splendid at making up songs. Isaac wants me to tell you that they're to the tune of "This Land is Your Land". Except they're much better. I hate patriotic songs.

Funny

2005-09-06T05:47:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I saw a funny T-shirt that said, "Life is okay." I guess it was kind of a spoof on "Life is good" which I am not mad about. This T-shirt was really, really funny though.

Exclamation point fun!

2005-09-06T05:22:00.000-07:00

I love how in Oliver Twist they use exclamation points like this: "Oh! oh! he's killed Nancy!" I suppose it's just an old-fashioned thing, but I think it's splendid. From now on I am going to use them in the middle of the sentence.
I finished Oliver Twist yesterday, sadly. I don't like it when I finish books that I love. Oliver Twist is probably my third favourite book. Here are my favourite books:
1st: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
2nd: Beatles Anthology
3rd: Oliver Twist
4th: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
5th: Watership Down
6th: The Box Children
7th: A Step From Heaven

New template!

2005-09-05T17:31:00.000-07:00

What do you think? My old one seemed a little bright....

Day-care

2005-09-04T14:34:00.000-07:00

These are all names of REAL day-cares. Can you imagine sending your child to any of these?

A Joyful Noise (Quality Christian Day Care)
Grammy's Lil' Monkey House
Ladybug Lane
Lil' Firehouse
The Little Red Caboose
Toddle in Too
Lil' Folk Farm
Pooh Bear Care
Precious Moments Childcare
Dottie's Daycare
Paddycake Daycare
The Purple Crayon
Pooh and Tigger Daycare
Little Guys and Gals Daycare

Oliver Twist

2005-09-04T13:24:00.000-07:00

I love Oliver Twist.

Cambridge!

2005-09-04T07:23:00.000-07:00

If you're wondering why I haven't written in my blog for a few days, it's because I am spending five days in CAMBRIDGE! Fun! I've having a splendid time. Here is what I've been doing:

Thursday: My mom and Isaac drove me down to Trader Joes and we met Mana there. Afterward, Mana and I went to the Buddhist Cultural Center for lunch - we got dumplings and the vegetarian special, which was a plate with cabbage, broccoli, rice, and two kinds of tofu. It was very simple but also terrific. We also got lotus tea, which was very... interesting. But good. Then we went to the library, but I didn't get any books since I am in the middle of Oliver Twist, which is terrific but much too short. I have like 20 pages left and Bill Sikes already killed Nancy and Fagin was captured and Bet went insane. After the library, we got some iced tea at a cafe called 1369, in Inman square. Then we got some lovely Indian food even though I was still quite full from lunch. That night we watched a whole bunch of Freaks and Geeks.

Friday: For breakfast we went to Carberry's and then stopped by Walgreens to get wart medicine, Cortaid and sunglasses (I left mine at the Buddhist Cultural Center). We then went home for a while, and I took an oatmeal bath and read my book, and after that we walked to Peet's, which has a limeade-jasmine iced tea that is FABULOUS. We stopped at a record store and Mana got me American Beauty - I can't wait to get home and listen to it on my turn table! For lunch we had falafal sandwiches, which were lovely. We watched more Freaks and Geeks (including one of my two favourite episodes, The Little Things, in which Vice President George Bush comes to speak at McKinley High.) For dinner we had savory crepes.

Saturday: Annah came to visit! She arrived at about ten, and for a while we hung around listening to True Stories on Pop's new iPod (Annah's favourite song on that CD is Wild Wild Life.) Then we went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History, which is really cool. They have this exhibit of glass flowers that is so amazing, they look so real. While looking at this hawaiian art we spotted a very interesting person. He was very, very tall, very skinny, and very old, dressed in black, with long black hair and glittery earings. As soon as Annah saw him she whispered, "Zoe, is that person a man or a woman?" I said I wasn't sure. When he left, Annah asked Mana and Pop about it, and they told her he looked like a man to them. "But he was wearing earings," said Annah. "Pretty earings." "I'm telling you, he was a rock star," said Mana. "He looked like a Rolling Stone to me. Yes, I think so. I wanted to go up to him and ask him, 'Sir, are you a Rolling Stone?'" That made us laugh so hard. After the museum, we went home and watched some True Stories, baked a lovely cake, and then had a picnic in the park for dinner.

Sunday: My wart stuff is working! YESSSSSS. I have, like, seven or eight warts left! Today for lunch we went to this place in Chinatown called Buddha's Delight, and it was FANTASTIC. Everything is vegetarian, so I didn't have to worry about if something had meat in it or not, I just tried everything. I thought it was splendid, but if you're a person who doesn't like fake meat, you'd hate it - everything has tofu or seitan or something in it. Mana thinks that my shoes were re-infecting my feet with warts, so she threw them away. After we went to Buddha's delight we looked everywhere for some new shoes, but unfortunately we couldn't find any flip-flops in my size. Instead, she got me a pair of slippers and two pairs of lovely flats (one is for me to wear to my chorus concert, they're quilted mary-janes.) Now we are just hanging out at home. We plan to rent Waiting For Guffman tonight.

Today was just lovely!

2005-08-29T20:23:00.000-07:00

Right now it's about 11:30 and David Meiklejohn is still here. I had a wonderful time playing Cranium and eating a lovely vanilla cake! Before that, I went over to Adrienne's house and we had a fabulous Yellow Submarine celebration of specialNESS! I had a great time. We also started A Hard Day's Night and I hope we can finish it sometime soon.
Do you know what happened 39 years ago today? NOTHING! How lovely. Well, something must have happened, but nothing that I know of.

My bookmarks

2005-08-25T19:05:00.000-07:00

Here are the websites that are currently on my bookmarks list:

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/MapGreece.html

http://www.isholf.is/gardarj/folk/jola.html

http://beatlesite.info/

http://www.georgeharrison.com

http://www.davidbyrne.com

http://dailyzen.com

Fun!

Cake number two

2005-08-25T16:45:00.000-07:00

The cake I made a couple days ago came out so well that I decided to make another. This one was just splendid. It's sweet and has a lot of vanilla in it, but it's not sickly-sweet like a birthday cake, and it doesn't have any frosting on it. It's a perfect tea-party cake.

Oliver!

2005-08-24T15:23:00.000-07:00

Poor Isaac has Oliver rehersal about every day.... He hasn't been writing about it on his blog, so I thought I'd let you know on mine. Yesterday my mom and I stayed and watched the whole rehersal (they did all of act one) and it was really fun. The kid who plays Oliver is fantastic at saying, "Please sir, I want some more."

More New York pictures

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The Feathered Friends in New York

2005-08-24T10:54:00.000-07:00

In February Charlotte, Isaac and I went to New York together, and it was fabulous! This is sort of a weird picture of all of us, however.

A lovely cake

2005-08-24T10:21:00.000-07:00

Today I baked a cake all by myself while my mom was at Marterial Objects, and I am very proud of myself. It was such a beautiful cake. I deccorated it with powdered sugar and nutmeg and my mom took a picture of it with her camera phone. Maybe she'll put it on her blog.

A fun fact

2005-08-23T06:23:00.000-07:00

I'm sure that you'd rather not read about every song that comes on, but I just wanted to share a fun fact about She Loves You, which I just heard. It got a few bad reviews when it came out, one of which declared it was "banal rubbish". None of the Beatles knew what "banal" meant. When I read this I immediately looked it up in the dictionary and now it is probabaly my very favourite word. Thank you, Beatles Anthology!

Still listening to the radio

2005-08-23T06:16:00.000-07:00

I usually never listen to the radio, but this radio station is extremely amusing. It plays stuff over and over, and also plays Beatles songs from, like, 1960. I have never heard these songs. It's kind of fun.

A nice thing

2005-08-22T18:54:00.000-07:00

This horrid radio station I'm listening to that plays stuff over and over again is now playing What is Life and it makes me very happy.

Please comment

2005-08-22T18:15:00.000-07:00

A splendid way to let me know that you've been looking at my blog is to COMMENT. Do you know how? Click on "Zero Comments" underneath a post, type your comment and click "anonymous" (if you don't have a Blogger identity) and that's pretty much it! Sorry if my directions are rather unclear. Anyway, I'd really, really appriciate it if you would comment on my blog, so please do. Thank you!

Rock and Roll Music

2005-08-22T18:10:00.000-07:00

There is a BEATLES song on the radio! This makes me very happy! I actually have never heard this song, it's probably on Meet the Beatles or something like that. Now Ruby Tuesday is on; I am listening to a very funny radio station.

Favourites

2005-08-22T17:38:00.000-07:00

Here are a few favourites of mine.

Favourite book: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Favourite band: The Beatles

Favourite song: Give me Love, and Once in a Lifetime, and... let's see... Great Intoxication, and
All the Umbrellas in London, and Something, and Strawberry Fields Forever and Eleanor Rigby and I Want To Hold Your Hand (because it was the first song I learned to play on the ukulele)

Favourite film (some people call them movies): True Stories!!

Favourite quote from True Stories: "This is not a rental car, this is privately owned." Also, "I believe that my extra-psychic ability is connected with the fact that I was born with a tail." And, "I like sad songs; they make me want to lie on the floor."

Favourite colour: maroon

Favourite TV show: Freaks and Geeks

Favourite character from Freaks and Geeks: Mr. Rosso

Favourite food: ice

Favourite real food: almost any sort of Indian food

Favourite drink: Spring cherry green tea (that sounds like some horrid sweet iced stuff that comes from Shaws, but no, this is real tea and it is actually quite bitter)

Favourite activity: climbing trees, cleaning, playing my ukulele and having one-person tea parties

Favourite flower: tulips, but I like trees more then flowers

Favourite tree: oriental cherries and red maples

Favourite animal: no idea, I used to love animals so much and I still like them, but I think I'm going through a sort of animal backlash, if that is a word

Favourite CD: I've already made a very long list!

Favourite instrument: guitar and sitar to listen to, ukulele to play because it's the only one simple enough for me to actually learn

Favourite Beatles song: it changes, today Something

Favourite sweet: I don't like sweets very much; when I'm in the mood for something unhealthy I usually eat something fried, but if I must choose my favourite candy is homemade praline

Favourite David Sedaris story: The Ship Shape

Favourite bracelet: for those who don't know, I usually wear about nine bracelets at once and I must say my favourite is the star one Holly gave to me when I was a flower girl in her wedding

Favourite scene in True Stories: A History of Texas

Favourite school subject: I'm homeschooled, but I take classes sometimes; my favourite is Greek

That's a lot of favourites! Whoever was reading this probably isn't anyomore; they probably decided the sports section of the newspaper was more intresting. Hmmm...

Freaks and Geeks

2005-08-22T14:50:00.000-07:00

I love Freaks and Geeks, it's by far the best TV show on the planet. Someday I will most definitely have a Freaks and Geeks marathon and it will be fantastic! I don't know what my favourite episode is. I guess probably Carded and Discarded because of that moment when a character (I'm not telling who!) unexpectedly turns out to be the lead singer of Feedback. It is just the best moment.
www.freaksandgeeks.com

CDs that I love

2005-08-21T06:49:00.000-07:00

I just got a new turntable so I haven't been listening to many CDs lately, but here are some that I love:
Look Into the Eyeball
All Things Must Pass
Let It Be
The Milk-Eyed Mender
Stop Making Sense
The soundtrack to Imagine
The soundtrack to A Hard Day's Night
Grown Backwards
Rubber Soul
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
69 Love Songs
The soundtrack to True Stories
The soundtrack to Pieces of April
My goal to get as many of these reccords as possible. So far I have ZERO, but Melissa was kind enough to loan me All Things Must Pass. Thank you Melissa!

Hmmm...

2005-08-21T06:43:00.000-07:00

Well, I decided that I don't want to have a blog because my writing is so horrid, but I guess I'll continue for a little while because I'm sure people like to know what I've been up to.
Here is a list of some favourite words:
banal
rubbish
event
lycanthrope
kite
broken
indigo
I can't think of any more but if I do I'll add them.

Thank you very much!

2005-08-17T08:28:00.000-07:00

Thank you for commenting on my blog! I didn't expect anyone to comment, since I have not told anyone about this blog. Please keep commenting!

Hello there!

2005-08-17T08:22:00.000-07:00

Today I am not feeling well, I feel rather ill, actually, and there's a man on the radio talking about "inspiring classical music" and this stupid box keeps popping up to remind me that "virus protection is out of date", and I can't get it to go away.

It's been a hard day's night.

2005-08-10T17:11:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is August 11th, my dog Minnow's 3rd birthday, and also the 41st birthday of A Hard Day's Night! Tomorrow I plan to use the word "clean" as many times as possible. If you have not seen A Hard Day's Night, or have not seen it for 41 years, tomorrow may be the day to rent it -- the DVD has lots of lovely extras.

I Must Say....

2005-08-10T16:56:00.000-07:00

I must say that this is about the seventh blog I've created and then deleted. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get into the habbit of posting things online, but it's unlikely. So enjoy this blog while you can....