I've seen and done things I want to forget

It's been a good few days, to basically summarize the unnecessary following paragraphs.



My mom got a special copy of Time magazine, or something, that's called "100 Ideas That Changed The World" and I completely, completely adore it. Even bothered taking what you might call notes(for future reference) on some of the stuff it was so interesting. On a Friday night and all! I was gonna be all like "I'm such a NERD" but that's what all the cool kids are doing nowadays and I don't know if I'm even remotely nerdy, bar a desire to read loads and loads of history books. and science books. and philosophy books. Here's to books!



I've only got to like the 15th century in the book--it's chronological--which equals out to number 40. It's embarrassing how little I knew about some of these things. I often come out wanting to know everything about them! Things that were previously known to me but have become reinforced in my mind due to this mag; #1 Modern society would be so screwed without the ancient Greeks. Socrates? Plato? Aristotle? Atomists? The Skeptics? Democracy? Kudos to them. #2 Socrates and his most famous quotes("the unexamined life is not worth living) makes me wanna delve further into philosophy, as it did for many people, which is awesome #3 'Free will' is a highly fascinating concept #4 Huamnism is fucking brilliant and #5Martin Luther is 'the shit'.



Enough of that.



I had the completely random urge to watch Fantasia on DVD a few days ago. I only have it on video so I went out and got it on DVD and spent an evening watching it. The slightly unusual thing with me is I was never like an enormous Disney fanatic. I've seen most of the popular ones, yes, but I wasn't that kid who could watch one specific movie every single day until the disk disintegrates. that wasn't my thing. For a long time my favorite movie was the 60s version of Oliver Twist. It remained my favorite movie until Roman Polanski redid it like five years ago. Then my favorite movie was Sweeney Todd. (was I supposed to be born like 120 years ago?). Anyway, in my 14th year, I have grown to LOVE a Disney movie! I was blown away with Fantasiw when I rewatched it--the color, the music, the imagery, the uniqueness of the film at the time, it was astonishing. It's kinda fun how there are some bits that I remembered very vividly and others slipped my mind entirely, as well as comparing this with my sister's memory of the movie. My favorite was always the mythological world, with the centaurs and the unicorns and cherubs, and when they're all making wine. I have no idea why I liked that so much. Something about the colors, I think. My sister says she likes the mushroom dance thing. I'm also like half way through Fantasia 2000. Rhapsody in Blue and its accompanying imagery is a masterpiece, I could listen to it all day.



I have another two days to push through, and then I find out some of V's lineup. I just want the Libertines, probably the most unlikely band of the rumors list, unfortunately. That would make my life, honestly.



And oh yeah, I actually somewhat kept up with the NME Awards this year! Surprisingly, I agreed with a lot of the people who won. Good on Muse and Biffy, also PJ Harvey, MCR, Arcade Fire(I bet they're all like "what, Album of The Year Award? Okay, go add it to the heap"), Foals, and all the other people I'm less interested in. NME has been doing "Sexiest Man of the Year" for like nine years and Matt Bellamy has won four of them. Despite Matt's utter shock and announcement of his being "too short too be sexy" when he first won this, a lot of people are obviously really quite obsessed. Don't get me wrong, I love Matt Bellamy, I argued my family who said he was "weird-looking" when I got Haarp for christmas in 7th grade, but FOUR YEARS? Why? I don't understand. It's not like there's a shortage of attractive men in music right now. What about...Simon Neil? Yannis Phillipkais? Alex Turner?(see his tumblr, he's beautiful, to be frank) They're 'sexy', right? And don't look like hedgehogs. What is wrong with the world? *end silly teenage rant*



*moves onto next paragraph of teenage silliness*



Tumblr is good for, if nothing else, presenting me with animated gifs of British comedians. I always knew this to be the case. I've had the urge to watch Never Mind The Buzzcocks again, after being reminded by this website that it's extremely quotable and Simon Amstell is adorable. Quite funny, too. I miss the old Buzzcocks. Oh Simon, you are so perfect for panel shows, please return(though I'm actually excited for a 2nd series of his weird sitcom thing. am I alone in thinking that?). I'm probably gonna have to run through all the episodes now. Someone leaked that banned one with Russel Brand in it that I HAVE to watch. I like Russel sometimes. SOMETIMES. And I always like Simon. I like all Buzzcocks, even the new ones. but oh it cannot make up for the old days. Jumping on chairs, Preston walking out, dressing up as a rabbit, Amy Winehouse talking about how she'd rather get cat AIDs than work with Katie Melua. I miss it too much.

School Monday. Fuck. where did the week go? I haven't spoken here since Monday. what have I done? well, nothing much. I bought a new edition of Q and fell in love with Kid A, and decided it has become the record of my adolescence, not that that makes sense. then I got really excited for the new Elbow out, out a week on Tuesday. tour dates, please? I spent a day in town, it's been beautiful here lately, and I wanted the snow to melt. We're dogsitting and the dog is awesome. Go away, February.

well once I go through the inevitable trauma that is the beginnings of MORE SCHOOl, I will get back to you. given that I have the time. which I probably won't.

'night.