yessss

Dear Hillary Clinton,

THANK YOU.

Love (finally), Me

it's alright

In light of recent events, here is my "Jesus Christ Annay, chill the fuck out" playlist.



Oh man, I need this.

senior year schedule

1st semester:
1st: AP Studio Art w/Molskness
2nd: Contract - Pre-calc (APEX)
3rd: Japanese 7 w/Kawasaki
4th: Creative Writing w/Henshaw
5th: World Religions w/Johnson
6th: Contract - Senior Seminar w/Trish

2nd semester:
1st: AP Studio Art w/Molskness
2nd: Contract - Pre-calc (APEX)
3rd: Japanese 8 w/Kawasaki
4th: Contract - Art w/Linda
5th: Contract - PE w/Dad
6th: Contract - Senior Seminar w/Trish

Yessss. I'm so glad I got this worked out. I can't take the actual senior seminar class because it's 1st period only, and I am NOT switching out of AP studio art, so I get to do it as a contract, and I think I'd prefer it that way anyway. I switched into APEX math mostly because I didn't want Swanson second semester, and because it worked really well for me last year. Japanese is going to be incredibly pointless this year, as there's only 5 fourth year students total including myself. I might be taking art lessons with Linda first semester and just not counting it as a contract. Creative writing with Henshaw should be...interesting.


I am going to see Radiohead tonight, ftw. I'll write back tomorrow, or whenever, but all I have to say is bitches better play Idioteque. They didn't last night and so now I'm nervous. I want spazzy dance time!

surrender

It's raining outside and I am drinking rooibos and listening to Vespertine, and oh lord this album is just perfect. Fucking perfect. I've heard it countless times and I never lose that same feeling of awe and deep, unspeakable comfort.

Undo has me this close to sobbing. I wish I could play this song for some of the people in my life. I wish I knew how to be there for them.


My brother's birthday is tomorrow, and I already posted this on my Deviantart, but I wanted to wait until after I gave him his gift to post it here:


(Oh, also, we got a scanner. FUCK YES.) I finished my own self portrait for Linda at the end of second semester, and Chris asked for one of him, and I only just got around to finishing it, for various reasons... I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Also, I painted my wallet with the Art is Resistance logo:

Just for the hell of it!


I'm currently attempting to teach myself how to use watercolor. I've never really had the patience for it, but I figure it's something that I should learn how to do. Oils is my next plan. So, my senior project - my plan is to produce several pieces - each in different mediums - each with personal meaning - each based loosely on a song. I have a couple in mind. Right now the one I'm going to focus on is based on One More Time by Daft Punk, which is kind of an odd choice, but I got this idea that I know I have to do. That song really represents my childhood to me, so I'm going to do it in acrylic, which is the first medium I really learned how to use when I started getting more serious about my work. It'll be in various shades of blue (I want to incorporate my synesthesia into as many paintings as possible.) There's a lot of emotion here - my childhood and leaving stuff behind, my religion or lack there of, oddly enough (I never thought I'd consciously associate One More Time with Christianity, but there it is. I think it's been there all along and I never recognized it), how much I've changed.

(omg, stream of consciousness paragraph of DOOM.)

I have a couple other songs/ideas in mind, but no other really detailed plans.

still can't brain

Okay, I lied. I'll write about the project when I have a better grasp on what it is I'm doing and can actually explain in words what I'm trying to do.

mrph.

I visited Cornish today, and I got struck with an idea for my senior project on the ferry on the way over. And I want to write about it now, but I've been awake for too long already and I can't brain anymore, I have the dumb. So I will tomorrow.

Lights in the Sky over Seattle, Washington

I know, I know. I didn't get the opportunity to sit down and write about it until now - my week ended up being a lot busier than I thought it would be.

So, the setlist:

999,999
1,000,000
Letting You
Discipline
March of the Pigs
Head Down
The Frail
Closer
Gave Up
The Warning
The Great Destroyer
1 Ghosts I
25 Ghosts I
19 Ghosts III
Piggy
The Greater Good
Wish
Terrible Lie
Survivalism
The Big Come Down
31 Ghosts IV
Only
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole

Encore:
Echoplex
The Beginning of the End
The Good Soldier
Hurt
In This Twilight

And it was perfect. Seriously, this was just an amazing, amazing show. I couldn't have asked for anything more (except La Mer.) Personal highlights were:

1,000,000: I love this song sooooo much and experiencing it while being crushed in the pit was a lot of fun. Everyone's just going completely nuts and I'm having that moment that I always do at concerts when I'm still processing the fact that "omg [so-and-so, in this case TR] is actually RIGHT THERE playing this song". Whee!
Discipline: This is probably my second favorite song on The Slip and I am completely unashamed. I love when NIN does gay disco anthems. I am disappointed that I didn't see anybody take their shirt off and dance, but it's okay because it was still awesome.
Head Down: Most-wanted song, and I got it!! I wasn't too impressed by the DVD rehearsal vid, but it sounded like the band finally had it down. Also, the tambourine made its triumphant appearance, and I was pleased.


1 Ghosts I: This was AMAZING. This is where I mention that this was as much a lights show as a music show - the visuals were absolutely stunning. I was kind of wondering before the show started how they were going to integrate the Ghosts stuff with the rest of the show, but they did it.


The Good Soldier: The other song I really really wanted to hear, hooray! And more tambourine.
In This Twilight: I FREAKED because I knew he'd never played it before. It was really beautiful, especially the piano outro. The show ended on the perfect note.



I'm really lucky to be a NIN fan at this point in time - now that Trent's got himself straightened out he's churning out amazing material and putting on equally amazing shows in such a short period of time. He continues to be a huge inspiration to me.

(Oh, while I'm here, Crystal Castles was awful. Like, seriously awful. And it's too bad, because they have potential, I think - some of their beats were pretty cool - but that girl needs to have her mic taken away from her until she learns how to sing. And I mean SING, not just alternate between unintelligible whisper and equally unintelligible spazzy whine.)


And now that I'm talking about epic fail, let's talk about the most epic fail of all!


As evidenced here, here, and here.

Seriously. I have no words. Except for WHY ARE THESE BOOKS POPULAR. WHYYYYY. At least they are here for me to laugh at. Just. omg. SO AWFUL.