this evening i went to a concert at school. afterwards my friend said i should blog about it(undoubtedly without a shred of confidence that I actually, y'know, would) but I literally don't know what else to be doing right now. hello.
I should warn you to expect incoherency, but if you've read anything at all here, and you're for whatever reason still here, then i assume you understand and accept it. you're a stronger person than i. well done.
I don't know what I actually thought about the ordeal. This much is certain:
1.) Bar stools should NOT be used in the context of music videos or performances ever. EVER. I don't really see why you'd willingly lower yourself to the standard of an early-2000s British boyband, but there you go. I don't really understand why the people on stage willingly lower themselves to the standards I saw tonight so I guess we're just very different people. These props were used I think three times tonight I think? One more time and i would've been personally responsible for removing them mid-song, I guarantee you. stop standing up and sitting down whenever the key changes.
2.) I don't recommend sitting front row for anything. Ametuers or professionals, it makes no difference. It'll just disappoint you. Everyone is more attractive and interesting and has more stage presence when you can only just make out what they look like, from fifty feet away, and you're squinting to see more. Five feet away and every flaw is on show!
3.) The dancing in these things has always bothered me. At the risk of going all Tumblr Justice Blogger on all of you, it all seems strangely objectifying...except male or female, I can never really properly identify who is being objectified... or how? I mean if people wanna dance a certain way it's up to them and i may find something objectifying (and yes, some of it is, unequivicocally so) but I honestly don't care if they don't find or objectifying or wanna be seen a cetain way. I'm mostly just interested in my own inability to locate what bothers me! I guess there's the costumes or something? Whatever! NOT PUSHING MY STANDARDS ON ANYONE GUYS PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME. It's just...interesting I guess. sorry it's too late to start forming opinions i won't regret.
4.) The theme was one hit wonders. I think this is my favorite one hit wonder if only because it accurately demonstrates why northern English accents don't work in pop music. While we're on the subject, I think we should all make an effort to propel this to full One Hit Wonder status. To be fair, this does have more than eight million views more since I last watched it. We're getting there.
5.) Amy Winehouse was not a one hit wonder I mean c'mon.
6.) There was an abundance of clunky piano chords. STEP AWAY FROM THE INSTRUMENT. please. it wasn't made for that. it's abuse. please step away slowly now just please stop.
7.) There are few things more deeply confusing to me than the obsession so many people have at the moment with the 80s. I...don't get it. What the hell was good about the 80s? I wanted to get super deep into this problem so i did a super elaborate investigation about it. (In other words, I went to find my mom and ask her. Her response: nothing was good). I'm inclined to agree. I mean...Reagan? Thatcher? Neon clothes? U2? Bad pop music? I always think big business too. I don't know. It's just all so icky, especially when sandwiched between the decades of total awesomeness that were the 70s and the 90s. I mean...you'd take big hair and lime green tanktops and duran duran over a.) being a total punk or flower child and listening to X Ray Spex and stuff (please ignore the disco) or b.) being all apathetic and shit and watching MTV and listening to smashing pumpkins? WHAT WORLD ARE YOU LIVING ON.
8.) Speaking of Thatcher, that is the middle name of our new principle. His name is so upper class English it's pretty terrifying.
9.) If you're the director of the music stuff at a school and to outsiders you already give off an air of weird authoritarianism(but in a really effeminate way?) smugness i personally just think giving us an unscheduled performance of your own as a treat makes you look silly. people could disagree with me so hard on this. my two cents.
10.) Don't perform Kung Fu Fighting. Just don't. It just won't go well. It won't. Please trust me.
11.) Oh god i'm such a judgemental dick but as it's my blog and it's late i'm not gonna limit myself too much when I say please do not willingly become a drama kid or associate yourself with drama kids enough that there's even the slightest risk you will become sorta like them. I'm sure...I mean, statistically some of them have gotta be pretty cool people right? It's just...it's gotta be possible. I don't mean people who just do the music stuff, I mean the people who just embody the whole song and dance of it all. Some of them have got to be okay. AND YET. i'm sorry i'm sure you're all lovely and i know stuff like this is your Thing not mine and seriously well done for performing and all that but please sometimes you act hyper and you ignore other people around you and sometimes you act kinda awful and sometimes you have facades that are like crystal clear and i'm sorry i'm so so sorry you just sort of exhaust me. i'm sorry.
12.) The ultimate lesson of the night: you should not perform 1985. I'm sorry. It's just...there was tinny music with no bass. There were oversized lopsided yellow tank tops. There were orange tights. there were legwarmers. there was bad miming. there was no irony. there was...a total lack of cohesion or competency in dancing or singing. there were malfunctioning microphones. there was fake enthusiasm. I'm sorry. Well done for performing. I'm not saying it's...awful? I'm just saying i've seen Holocaust documentaries that were less personally depressing to me. I'm sorry.
I'm not saying I had a bad time! It was fun for what it was worth. It really was! I'm being overly critical and stuff. PERFORMING TAKES SO MUCH BRAVERY etc etc etc.
Another day when i'm more conscious and stuff i'll talk about how it was just my birthday and i'm 16 and stuff but that time is not now. See, I blogged! Goodnight everyone.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
i have nothing worth saying just so you all know
it's april vacation everyone. It's chiefly charactierzed by playing animal crossing, listening to Cymbals Eat Guitars, and eating too much. It's been good. I can't seem to sleep enough, which is tough, because damn am I tired. So yes. I don't have anything I want to do this weekend so staying on tumblr all day is pretty much okay with me. I've sort of lost the energy to do anything lately. I went out today, actually. that's it. I really don't wanna do anything.
since I last blogged I have
--1.) developed an insatiable desire to read all things vonnegut all the time forgive me. I am 15 years old and peuso-literary it was inevitable. (not that vonnegut isn't awesome) (he is). it's fun. i'm reading the Sirens of Titan at the moment. I like it a lot. I'm a sucker for authors that reference books in their other books. See, proof I don't read. All you readers are cringing but whatever I could end this bulletpoint thing with a So It Goes for good measure, couldn't I? I don't think I'm gonna. There.
2.) also read Pale Fire like wow Nabokov you kick ass at life I wish I was you.
3.) Read a book called Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace it's very very interesting you should all read that too.
(I should stop acting like I know what I talk about vis-a-vis books)
4.) Watched Brass Eye a lot. I say a lot. It got cancelled after 6 episodes in like 1997 or something. Nevertheless it is fantastic. I mean it's really something just for 90s nostalgia and anytone with a perverse interest in britcoms (hello), as far as I can tell. WATCH IT, THOUGH.
5.) got really excited cause I found out Armando Iannucci, the super awesome scottish comedy writer (or, as most journalists think he is best referred to as, 'satirist') who wrote The Thick of It, my favorite show in the world, wrote an American spinoff. it's called Veep and it's on HBO Sunday the 22nd a 10 oclock I think? Let me shamelessly advertise this, please. Then I found out my family doesn't get HBO. I don't watch TV enough to know this stuff. Now I can 'get the DVD for christmas'. So now I'm sad. Watch it for me and tell me it's awesome please?
6.) I saw Kasabian a few weeks ago. It was a very good show indeed. As for concerts, I am seeing Florence in a few weeks, Gogol Bordello in may, Radiohead and Laura Marling in June. I'm also seeing Matilda the Musical when I go to England this morning. It's winning awards all over the place, apparently. It's all very exciting I suppose.
7.) I should stop numbering these.
the weather got nice and stuff.
I watched miyazaki for the first time and now it's like the only stuff i want to watch.
i haven't seen the hunger games yet. i should see it.
School continues to amaze me in its awfulness. See, everyone says high school is awful and I breeze through freshman year wondering how that could possibly be the case, and then things really do turn bad and it feels like there's some self-fulfulling prophecy stuff going on and it bothers me. Really, though, it is actually terrible. I've dropped a whole letter grade in gym because everyday I'm faced at 7 in the morning with the choice between walking on a treadmill or reading Kurt Vonnegut and who can blame me for going the same way again and again and again? Chem is fine although the girl in front of me likes the show off her masterful skill in the area of fucking up my calculator's settings every single day, which frequently remains a problem for some time. I'm doing well in algebra it's fine. My spanish grade is hideous. We had 'foreign language week' this week; we got to sit in on a Chinese class. it was fun.
Oh yeah and now we have to select our courses for next year which is so much fun, of course. I'm doing Gym For People Who Really Really Really Hate Gym, an as-of-yet undecided science course (I wanted to take an AP if only because the non-APs don't interest me in the slightest, but I wasn't recommended for AP because my teacher is the sort of directly relates outgoingness with capability (see my last post)), boring old spanish, creative writing, a literature based english course too (currently deciding between whether I want to take a relatively easy course that allows me to read Steinbeck or a harder one where I have to read, like, ALL OF FRANKENSTEIN but that better prepares me for AP english), pre calc, psychology, and health and stuff. I have no idea why I'm telling you this. There you go.
This week I intend to sleep and everything. Everything's been okay, I guess. That's basically all this post is saying. I'm in a good place with new music right now so I suppose I'd better show you some of that. Have some songs that don't work together at all--
1.) Hey--Pixies
2.) Green Eyes--Wavves
3.) Cigarette Smoker Fiona--Arctic Monkeys
4.) By Your Side--CocoRosie
5.) Barbie Shit--Azealia Banks
6.) Lorelei--Cocteau Twins
7.) Voodoo Child--Jimi Hendrix
8.) Dramamine--Modest Mouse
9.) Sex Rules--Sky Ferreira
10.) And The Hazy Sea--Cymbals Eat Guitars
11.) Brave As A Noun--Andrew Jackson Jihad
12.) We Don't Care--Kanye West
13.) Brothers In Arms--Dire Straits
14.) Shine On Sweet Jesus--The Flaming Lips
15.) Kurt Vonnegut--Born Ruffians (don't roll your eyes at me!)
16.) Carry the Zero--Built To Spill
17.) Cut Your Hair--Pavement
good night all
since I last blogged I have
--1.) developed an insatiable desire to read all things vonnegut all the time forgive me. I am 15 years old and peuso-literary it was inevitable. (not that vonnegut isn't awesome) (he is). it's fun. i'm reading the Sirens of Titan at the moment. I like it a lot. I'm a sucker for authors that reference books in their other books. See, proof I don't read. All you readers are cringing but whatever I could end this bulletpoint thing with a So It Goes for good measure, couldn't I? I don't think I'm gonna. There.
2.) also read Pale Fire like wow Nabokov you kick ass at life I wish I was you.
3.) Read a book called Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace it's very very interesting you should all read that too.
(I should stop acting like I know what I talk about vis-a-vis books)
4.) Watched Brass Eye a lot. I say a lot. It got cancelled after 6 episodes in like 1997 or something. Nevertheless it is fantastic. I mean it's really something just for 90s nostalgia and anytone with a perverse interest in britcoms (hello), as far as I can tell. WATCH IT, THOUGH.
5.) got really excited cause I found out Armando Iannucci, the super awesome scottish comedy writer (or, as most journalists think he is best referred to as, 'satirist') who wrote The Thick of It, my favorite show in the world, wrote an American spinoff. it's called Veep and it's on HBO Sunday the 22nd a 10 oclock I think? Let me shamelessly advertise this, please. Then I found out my family doesn't get HBO. I don't watch TV enough to know this stuff. Now I can 'get the DVD for christmas'. So now I'm sad. Watch it for me and tell me it's awesome please?
6.) I saw Kasabian a few weeks ago. It was a very good show indeed. As for concerts, I am seeing Florence in a few weeks, Gogol Bordello in may, Radiohead and Laura Marling in June. I'm also seeing Matilda the Musical when I go to England this morning. It's winning awards all over the place, apparently. It's all very exciting I suppose.
7.) I should stop numbering these.
the weather got nice and stuff.
I watched miyazaki for the first time and now it's like the only stuff i want to watch.
i haven't seen the hunger games yet. i should see it.
School continues to amaze me in its awfulness. See, everyone says high school is awful and I breeze through freshman year wondering how that could possibly be the case, and then things really do turn bad and it feels like there's some self-fulfulling prophecy stuff going on and it bothers me. Really, though, it is actually terrible. I've dropped a whole letter grade in gym because everyday I'm faced at 7 in the morning with the choice between walking on a treadmill or reading Kurt Vonnegut and who can blame me for going the same way again and again and again? Chem is fine although the girl in front of me likes the show off her masterful skill in the area of fucking up my calculator's settings every single day, which frequently remains a problem for some time. I'm doing well in algebra it's fine. My spanish grade is hideous. We had 'foreign language week' this week; we got to sit in on a Chinese class. it was fun.
Oh yeah and now we have to select our courses for next year which is so much fun, of course. I'm doing Gym For People Who Really Really Really Hate Gym, an as-of-yet undecided science course (I wanted to take an AP if only because the non-APs don't interest me in the slightest, but I wasn't recommended for AP because my teacher is the sort of directly relates outgoingness with capability (see my last post)), boring old spanish, creative writing, a literature based english course too (currently deciding between whether I want to take a relatively easy course that allows me to read Steinbeck or a harder one where I have to read, like, ALL OF FRANKENSTEIN but that better prepares me for AP english), pre calc, psychology, and health and stuff. I have no idea why I'm telling you this. There you go.
This week I intend to sleep and everything. Everything's been okay, I guess. That's basically all this post is saying. I'm in a good place with new music right now so I suppose I'd better show you some of that. Have some songs that don't work together at all--
1.) Hey--Pixies
2.) Green Eyes--Wavves
3.) Cigarette Smoker Fiona--Arctic Monkeys
4.) By Your Side--CocoRosie
5.) Barbie Shit--Azealia Banks
6.) Lorelei--Cocteau Twins
7.) Voodoo Child--Jimi Hendrix
8.) Dramamine--Modest Mouse
9.) Sex Rules--Sky Ferreira
10.) And The Hazy Sea--Cymbals Eat Guitars
11.) Brave As A Noun--Andrew Jackson Jihad
12.) We Don't Care--Kanye West
13.) Brothers In Arms--Dire Straits
14.) Shine On Sweet Jesus--The Flaming Lips
15.) Kurt Vonnegut--Born Ruffians (don't roll your eyes at me!)
16.) Carry the Zero--Built To Spill
17.) Cut Your Hair--Pavement
good night all
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