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- Open your music library.
- Put it on shuffle.
- Press play.
- For every question, type the song that's playing.
- When you go to a new question, press the next button.
- Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool.
Opening Credits: Bore - Emily Haines
"I get up early, make a list and go on back to bed to dream. You're slicing up my face. You like my hair and that's all that matters."
Birth song: Bodies and Minds - Great Lake Swimmers
"Down here in fear, down where none can hear. Any whisper, any word."
Waking Up: Somewhere Between - Jenn Grinels
"Your reassurance has a declining effect. Worse than my heart, I start to question my intellect. You've got yourself thinking you've got to decide between love and pride, and you've got me thinking you may never more than confide."
Fight Song: Peau de fleur - -M-
Breakup Song: Bleeder - Emilíana Torrini
"When things go wrong, you'll find you're a bleeder."
Prom: Birds - Emilíana Torrini
"I don't want to close my eyes, don't want to leave the stage now as the leaves applaud our stay."
Life: Sad Eyes - Bat for Lashes
"I can tell that you're lonely, but it seems now there's nothing you want me to do. So, I won't try to take the sadness from those eyes that I love. Leave it open for someone else to do."
Mental Breakdown: Moi qui croyais - Anaïs
Driving: Lemon Meringue - Poe
"You know I've been a good girl, but I hit a limit."
Flashback: Sunrise - Via Satellite
"I will grab your heart."
Wedding: Moon and Moon - Bat for Lashes
"If I had you here, better here together. I'd be boy and you'd be girl. Beautiful."
Birth of Child: Dead Things - Emilíana Torrini
"You're like me - we're both alone. What's the problem? I don't know. With the same high, the same eyes... But you can't borrow my clothes all the time."
Final Battle: Still - Great Lake Swimmers
"I'm still loaded and waiting with anticipation to fly. I'm still studying the patterns in the night sky."
Death Scene: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.65 - III. Largo - Maria João Pires
Funeral Song: Imaginary Bars - Great Lake Swimmers
"I was in a prison with imaginary bars. I was riding shotgun in imaginary cars. One was filled with wind, twisting through an iron mouth. One was made of trees with no keys to shimmy out."
End Credit: I Belong To You (New Moon Remix) - Muse (New Moon soundtrack)
"I can't find the words to say, but they're overdue. I've traveled half the world to say I belong to you."
The Lite-Brite has gone black and white
'cause you took apart a picture that wasn't right
Pitch burning on a shining sheet
The only maker that you wanna meet
A dying man in a living room
whose shadow paces the floor
Who'll take you out in the open door
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
It's not what I'm like
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
who couldn't get things right
A fond farewell to a friend
You said, "Really, I just wanna dance"
Good and Evil match perfect, it's a great romance
I can deal with some psychic pain
if it'll slow down my higher brain
Things full of disappearing ink
Vomiting in the kitchen sink
Disconnecting from the missing link
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
It's not what I'm like
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
who couldn't get things right
A fond farewell to a friend
I see you're leaving me
and taking up with the enemy
The cold comfort of the in-between
A little less than a human being
A little less than a happy high
A little less than a suicide
The only things that you really tried
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
It's not what I'm like
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
who couldn't get things right
A fond farewell to a friend
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
Well, except for the soundtrack, which isn't exceptionally great or anything, but without it I wouldn't have discovered Anya Marina. She's from San Diego and I've never heard of her before. But I suppose that's a given since my music taste has changed since then. She sort of reminds me of Emily Haines, but with a style closer to folk rock. Speaking of Haines, I need to listen to some Metric soon.
So, yeah. Fuck Twilight, except for a couple tracks on the New Moon soundtrack and Dakota Fanning because she's awesome. Oh yeah, and except for Rob Pattinson because despite the fact he plays Edward, he is not afraid to diss Twilight and mention how ridiculous it is for the series to go on and on about how beautiful Edward is. I watched an interview with him when the first movie came out and I remember him saying that he couldn't even finish the first book because he couldn't stand how much it went on about Edward's "beauty."
And I am still bitching about sparkly vampires. Vampires are NOT MEANT TO SPARKLE, damn it. Although I do have to tip my hat to Stephanie Meyer for writing the books because she's somehow made her own army of rabid fangirls. I want to do that one day too. Not the fangirl part... but maybe an army of rabid ninjas. That'd be super awesome. They'd be stealthy, but like... super crazy at the same time. And if they lose their weapons, they can just bite their enemies!
Yes. Slow and painful death by rabies...
So, I resigned myself to getting a B in one of my classes. I don't even care. I hate that class. Besides, it's alright as long as I don't get a C or below (the School of Informatics wouldn't like it if I got a C or below since I kind of need that class.)
I haven't really been motivated to study Japanese recently, even though I do have that shiny, new grammar book and I *cough*downloaded pdf versions of other language books off the internet*cough*
I still find it amazing how much crap you can get online for free... illegally. I even got a couple books on Korean grammar. I was like "!!!!!" when I saw them, haha. Not sure if I'm going to try learning Korean though, it seems like such a difficult language compared to Japanese. The sentence structure is the same (i.e., subject/object/verb), but the pronunciation is harder.
Anyway, my stomach hurts. McDonald's sucks.
I've been trying to get into listening to classical music. It's been kind of working. I'm not training myself to listen to it, mind you, but it's easier for me to write and finish homework assignments while listening to instrumental music as opposed to Emily Haines or Great Lake Swimmers.
I bought a Japanese grammar book at Barnes and Noble today where, incidentally, they were playing the theme song to Harry Potter. It was awesome for all of 7 seconds before they cut it off :(
Anyway, about the book, it's not like a textbook, mainly just something for me to reference to while I'm studying. The one thing that irks me about it is that it doesn't have any hiragana or kanji in it, it's all romanized. They also don't really include the "ja nai desu" and "-kunai" forms of nouns and adjectives respectively. They stress instead on "dewa arimasen" and "-ku arimasen" forms, both of which I don't like to use because they confuse me when I go to conjugate them. They don't even say that "ja arimasen" is an equivalent to "dewa arimasen."
However, considering it was only $7 and I already know enough about negating verbs, nouns, and adjectives, I suppose it doesn't really matter all that much. Besides, I only bought it because there's a section on particles that explains, to an extent, the different uses of each one. They also touch on when to use "wa" and when to use "ga."
I might be making a language blog or something in the future, just to help me study the material. I find that if I don't keep studying it, I end up forgetting a lot of the vocabulary and usages. It's the same with kanji though.
I really wanted to start learning Korean, too, but apparently no one in the state of Indiana wants to learn Korean because there was--wait for it..... only ONE book on Korean in the language section of Barnes and Noble.
One fucking book.
It seems like such a difficult language to learn... I still don't know how to correct pronounce the "eo" sounds, like in 서 (seo). And the funny thing is, I can read most Korean characters (although the "wa," "wo," and "we" ones still throw me off), but I can't speak a word of it other than "Hello" and "My name is..." I read Korean really slowly and I still mess up on some of the romanization, haha.
Oh well, maybe if I get really bored over Winter break, I'll try and study it. Maybe.
My midterm in Logic was today. I'm not sure how I did. I'm pretty sure I missed at least 2 big questions because I got confused. Of course, it may have to do with the fact that I waited until this morning to study and still only managed to really get in half an hour of studying, but I blame it on... uh... the weather. Yeah. It's the weather's fault.
I really like Logic though. It's a fun class. Or maybe I just like it because it's not that damn Finite class that I failed... twice. No, Logic is a lot better than that, or it is so far. I don't like translating categories that much, but for some reason I like drawing Venn diagrams and figuring out whether arguments are valid or not. I'm a very troubled person.
Well, this entry was extremely long. I think I'm going to go read some of that Japanese grammar book even though I probably won't remember any of it by tomorrow. Yay!
This place feels so unfamiliar and yet I know it well.
I think I used to belong here, but the only way I can tell
is that I miss you still and I cannot find you here.
You left me tattered and torn, just like that sweet Spanish doll.
I went down to the alleyway and found that you were gone.
You left no word, no message. I still don't know exactly what went wrong.
And now no matter where I go I always seem to return
to where you left me tattered and torn, just like that sweet Spanish doll.
A memory gilded in red and gold you decarded and never sold.
I keep it with me wherever I go.
And I love you still, no matter how the story will unfold.
No, I always will have a part of you here in this souvenir.
A stranger in this world without you is all that I can ever be.
All I know is that's pure and clear,
you left it with me here in this souvenir.
Sometimes I wish I could articulate myself in a way so all these jumbled up thoughts that are in my head would just lay themselves out, nice and neat, onto a sheet of paper.
I think I'm going to start using my domain again now. Thu mentioned she might be getting one again, but I've had the same one for almost two years now and I've never really opened it.
We'll see, though. Wordpress might prove to be more of a pain than a blessing, and I don't feel up to coding it right now.
As for the weather, it was sunny when I woke up at 10am or so, but now it's kind of cloudy. It's freezing, too. Not sure if I should like it, but if it's cold enough to make the house 60 degrees, well. That's not very fun for me.
I'm going to take a shower. I should do something productive today, so I think I'm going to write. Epik High is good for times like these, especially Mithra's raps. I just like listening to his voice in the background while I'm typing. There's something about it that doesn't intrude on your thoughts, like it's giving you enough space to choose to listen to it or not.
His is definitely worth listening to, however, even without the excuse of writing.
I can say that there is one season I enjoy more in Indiana than in California: fall.
Winter is just a horrible season in Indiana. It snows. There's snow on the roads when I drive, causing my tires to slip unless I drive like I'm a 105-year-old who can't go faster than 5 mph at any given time. There's ice on the sidewalks, causing me to slip in my shoes because I have refused, for the past two years actually, to buy boots. Not to mention it's shitfaced cold in the mornings and you have to warm your car up for 5-10 (preferably 10) minutes before driving.
Spring is really nothing special. Apart from the fact that there's tons more rain in Indiana than California, it's pretty much the same. Oh yeah, and the tornado warnings. Can't forget to mention that. The winds during spring make it hard to even walk across the street. It's like that feeling you get when you're doing down in a drop while riding a roller coaster. You've got that feeling of being lifted up in your seat and you frantically try not to let go. Walking and trying to get rid of that feeling that you might just actually fly away makes it kind of hard to even want to go to school.
Of course, the wind won't actually pick you up unless they're, say, tornado winds, so I suppose that's just my paranoia speaking. Again.
Summer is pretty bad, but it's bad in California too. It's the hot weather. I can't stand hot weather. It might have to do with the fact that I implore the use of black hoodies during any season that makes me hate it because, obviously, in 95-degree weather you shouldn't be wearing black hoodies, much less anything black at all.
What can I say, I really love black hoodies. Any season that rejects the use of black hoodies deserves to suffer a horrible and painful death. Oh, if only they could die.
Fall and spring in California isn't bad, I admit, but you only get a taste of fall in California. In Indiana, all the trees change color and the ground is covered in shades of orange, yellow, and red. I think I would like fall even more right now if it wasn't so cold. I'm shivering in my own house because my mom blatantly refuses to turn on the heater because "it costs too much money! Money which I don't have, Alyssa," as she keeps telling me.
Looks like it's layered clothing for me.
Still, even though it's been raining for the past couple days, fall is definitely always going to be my favorite season. And it has nothing to do with the fact that my birthday usually falls on the day of, or the day before, the Autumn Equinox. No, certainly not.
Great Lake Swimmers - Unison Falling into Harmony
Is gravity the same for you?
Or have you fallen deeply too?
Into the light of a dream,
like unison falling into harmony
The only thing between us is a breath of air,
a river of fear, a ship we can't steer.
A curtain of rain, a layer of skin,
a determined stare, a dare.
Sweep across the floor
like the wind through the isles.
Step once and turn twice,
and move like the curtains.
I will try to know you, though you defy my grasp.
Your beauty is static, but steady and fast.
Spin once and turn twice,
and fall in with abandon.
Unison falling into harmony.
Love the way that your lights come on
when you've been lit with some happy thought.
So save up your tears for the next time it rains
and flow across the floor like the unstoppable river.
I will try to know you, though you defy my grasp.
Your beauty is gentle, but forceful and fast.
