Woo-hoo!!! First post! Sorry, just had to say that. Yessiree, it pays to be homeschooled!
Hmm…if I understand the point of this thread correctly, I’m supposed to suggest that fellow Musers do or watch or read certain things…or something like that. K, I think everyone should watch 5 “old” cartoon Disney movies over the next 2 weeks…it’s a great way to connect with your childhood!
I recommend everybody join band, RPG, eat choklit, read (not that i need to recommend that to most of you XD), watch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead because that’s my new fav movie (not my absolute fav movie, and not a fav movie that’s new, but a fav movie recently watched by moi), do nano, join the ko-konspiracy (well, you’re already a member, but become active in Mostly Harmless anyway), and…idk what else. Have a nice life.
Anyone have some good authors they could recommend? I’m fresh out and will be at the library tonight. I call it “SUP-er Library” because it’s huge. I’m serious. 783,x books and its own cable channel. WiFi. 317 computers. 4 stories. A garage. Insane fun.
Oh yeah, and the Science Fiction section is whackingly large.
I recommend that everyone make a list of things they want to do in their lifetime (run up a down elevator, go all the way around on a windmill, learn Norwegian, date a fugu chef, whatever), and try to get them all done. Before age 30. That’ what I’m doing.
Office supplies: Papermate “Pink Pearl” erasers (basic pink, get the job done); Uniball Vision pens (or Vision Elite for air travel, because they don’t leak when the pressure drops); small pocket notebooks.
Science-fiction (Juliette take note!): short-story collections by Cordwainer Smith. Three-volume short-story collection called the “Science-Fiction Hall of Fame.” Classics all. Also C. J. Cherryh’s “Chanur” trilogy.
Fantasy: If you like “The Princess Bride,” try “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle. It’s gentler and more poetic but has the same sort of humor.
Humor recordings: If you like Douglas Adams, try the Firesign Theater’s hallucinogenic humor from the 1970s. (Also perhaps Kurt Vonnegut’s book “Sirens of Titan.”)
Board games: Latruncles, the ancient Roman ludus latrunculorum, explained in a book called “Games Ancient and Modern Oriental and How to Play them,” which you may find in your library. One of my own eighth-grade obsessions.
10. My school
11. NaNo
12. Five for Fighting
13. Quark Victory
14. Sticker Machines
15. Going to the Art of Being An Alien thread
16. Pretty much anything to do with paper mache
17. Heelys
8 – 1. Larry Gonick 2. Diana Wynne Jones 3. Homer 4. Douglas Adams 5. Yann Martel 6. William Shakespeare. I highly doubt that you have read all of those author’s books.
Hmmm….Now for some real thought on some real recommendations. How about:
1. Mac Computers
2. Oopsie Erasers; I have no idea where you can find them, but they’re REALLY good erasers. Pink Pearl is good too.
3. Pentel Twist-Erase mechanical pencils. I have loved them since the start of my using mechanical pencils.
4. NaNoWriMo, big time.
5. Living an enjoyable life
1. Try baking something. Not from a box. It sounds weird, but you feel really good afterwards and, of course, you get to eat it.
2. Ferrero Rocher chocolates. I have officially fallen in love with them.
3. Watching the Ig Nobel awards and reading either the Annals of Improbable Research or going to their website. (www.improb.com, come on, GAPAs, Please? I swear I am in no way affiliated with them)
4. Listening to Whadya Know on saturdays. I used to love it, now I never get up early enough to listen.
5. Watching Nova and Sunday Morning
6. Yoga. It is reallllly relaxing.
7. Reading some Dave Barry books. I found a couple on the bookshelf in our basement from maybe the 80’s. Some of his stuff is really hilarious.
8. Reread all of the Hitchhiker trilogy+any old books you liked but haven’t read in a while. You’ll be suprised how much you forgot.
9. Talk to your parents.
10. Take a step back and appreciate life once and a while, especially if your feeling overwhelmed or depressed. There are a lot of things we take for granted.
8~ date a…fugu chef? What? You want to date a fugu chef? Okay…
hmmm….
Yo recomiendo:
-doing research before going on trips. For instance…if you plan to visit the Tower of London, read a few books, and you’ll start to sound really intelligent. Not that you all arent intellligent anyway.
-Moleskine notebooks. If you’re prepared to drop $15 on a journal, these last FOR EVER.
-Reading the opinion pages.
-learning at least 3 foreign languages (well, not necesarily fluently. Just enough to buy a baguette or whatever)
Ah, what larks. Today was international day. I, being the geniyus I am, COMPLETELY FORGOT, and had to bribr Vegetable Foot with a borwnie to let me borrow her knit beret, and I was France. One little sixlet was also France, with a beret (pulled down…not very French…) and a little mustache penciled on.
When I ran into the sixlet, I smiled REALLY widely and shouted: “Ah, Pierre! Ça va?” (yes, I know I got the quotations wrong. Give me a break.) The sixlet screamed and ran away. Hmph. She obviously didn’t speak French.
If anyone’s interested in reading something fantasy/sci-fi but heavier, I highly recommend HP Lovecraft. Not only does his vocabulary keep me running to the dictionary every 5 minutes, but his insanely horrific stories keep me up all night listening to Gorgoroth.
climb a tree. that is fun. as long as u hav a way to get down. heehee.
ive always wanted to ride a golfcart. but u wouldnt get 2 do nething fun, cuz of laws nd such, so a police golfcart. so if u ride down some steps or somthin, u can say its police business.
Read Abarat by Clive Barker. And books by Charles deLint. I should really start writing a list of things to do before I die. What are some of you guys’?
watching the movie labrynth. It’s so bad it’s good. Much like Plan 9 From Outer Space except less so (i also recommend you watch plan 9 from outer space, obviously, if it’s labrynth but more so. Although labrynth is fantasy and plan 9 is sci-fi. Both are pretty painful though XD)
i love watching horrible movies. I don’t know why.
One of my goals in life is to make a duct-tape beret. Yes, i’ve been hanging out with bill too much. XD but seriously, we were talking about duct-taping stuff, and it’s all been done! But who’s duct-taped a beret before? Nobody i’ve heard of! Mwahahahaha!
Need to buy a beret first, of course.
OMG and i totally realized last night that i must owe the downtown library SO much money…i still have Thud. *hides in shame* lemmee see how overdue it is…
heckz, i can’t find it. must’ve been checked out on dad’s account. oooh man….
i recommend turning books in on time
see i lurve the columbus library, but i hardly ever go there, so i always forget i have books checked out from there…
I’d reccomend curling up with a classic book,( like Pride and Predjudice or Anne of Green Gables. Or watch the movie, if you want. ) ((just so ya know tho, the new Pride& Pred. is really lame, please, watch the BBC version.)
writing a letter to someone, not email,
volunteering at a local historic site to learn stuff,
maybe volunteer at a not local historic site w/ a parent,
play music you love with a friend,
read Muse,
have fun on museblog,
LOVE LIFE!!!
(sorry, I had to say that!)
If you are looking to buy shoes, for any season, try Merrell’s. They’re the AWESOMEST shoes ever. In the whole world. Really, don’t get me started about how fantastic they are.
Also, if you really like getting mail but never get any, I reccomend that you fill out random college “give-me-information” things on websites. Then you get college info. It’s super fun! I just got a letter about some college in the middle of nowhere about agriculture. It was really funny!
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The Insane Blue Sage, the insanest, the bluest, and the um...sagiest? eradicator of sense in the known (and unknown) world says:
i reccomend these if your feeling slightly depressed:
1) The Gospel According to Larry and its sequel, Vote for Larry*
2) a good home cooked meal
3) hot coco/herbal tea
4) A long pointless walk
5) a cat to pet while you’re reading and drinking hot coco
6) stirring a pot of hot soup while emoting to anyone who is with you
7)chocolate of any sort
9)books of any sort
10) muse or museblog**
*this actually may make you more depressed
** this may make you hyper/insane
18. Going for a bike ride in 40-degree weather, then coming in to your house, having a nice crackling fire, and drinking a cup of hot choklit. Perform preferably with a friend.
19. Introducing your friends to Monty Python, HG2G, and Muse.
1. My Neighbor Totoro, the best movie ever made
2. 99 Luftballons, old one on German, not the new synthesized one
3. Procrastination, it’s very theraputic
1) Gilmore girls marathon(if you have the DVD set, they include a booklet where you can figure out what they are talking about such as Noam chomsky or margeret thatcher).
2) Dreyers cookies and cream
3) Watch the meteor shower this saturday
4) Read a loverly book
-The year of the secret assignments
-Everything on a waffle :]
-series of unfortunate events AND
-Of course, HP
Plus Muse. AHH i still haven’t gotten my nov. issue :[
(8 Queenie) If you’re at all interested in impressionist-style writing, there’s this book Light by Eva Figes that’s phantastique. Mellow, unhurried, poetic, and conveniently short(’bout 60 pgs.). It’s about a day on the life of Claude Monet. ALSO
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. (WW2 novel-not for the faint of heart). Read it. Hysterically funny and yet suicidally depressing.
Other recommendations:
Waking up
Set your alarm ten minutes earlier than you need to get up. Make sure there is a lamp within reach of your pillow. The second your alarm goes on, turn on your lamp and stare at it for a minute or so. Then take then next minutes to coax yourself out of bed.
Sleep outside. Don’t plan it. Just take some blankets and spread them out in your backyard one night.
Band Geek advice w00t!!!
-Scan all you music the second you get it. This will be extremely helpful in the case of: 1) loss 2) theft 3) forgetting it in your locker the day before a playing test 4) severe rainstorms turning all your paper material into pulp.
-If your marching band uses drill books the way my marching band does- tie loops of string through all the holes in all your drill sheets!! that way, if your drill binder breaks open when your marching on the feild, instead of all your drill flying all over the place, it will all be neatly tied together! (why yes, i do speak from exprience, however could you tell?)
-practice. It works. and your director will like you, which always comes with benefits (like if you lose your ligature and are late for practice because of it…they might not eat you)
-play a cool instrument like bass clarinet, then switch to a nice easy to carry light one like clarinet for marching season
1) eating ice cream with some form of chocolate in it
2) read
-Tamora Pierce
-Brian Jaques
-LOTR
-HP
-Shannon Hale
-Celia Rees
-Robin McKinley
-Terry Pratchett
-Eva Ibbotson
-Roald Dalh
3) journaling on a regular basis – it is theraputic and interesting to look back on even a few months later
4) playing an instrument (especially band instruments)
5) listening to music
6) not procrastinating (even though I am a horrible example of this)
7) love what you’re doing
8) have fun
9) be challenged
10) read MUSE!!!!!!!! (duh)
Homeschooling is not an option for me. Not even a beautiful dream. When I lived in Nova Scotia (from the age of 3 mos. to about 5.5 yrs), on the Little Piece, my uncle taught me, in French, things like how to swear in Cantonese, crochet, bake, cook, ballroom dance, and drive a motorcycle, and then rescued me (heroically) from a peacock. It was on the grounds of this big house in Charlottestown, and I went up to pet it ‘cuz I was little. It bit me savagely on the right index finger. My half-brother (who’s 14 years older than I am) pulled me back from the peacock and my uncle snapped its neck. I cried for a really long time and I still have the scar. Oh, and I ruined both of their handkerchiefs, which made me feel bad.
I recommend not petting peacocks. I am all in favor of our dumb chums, but if they savage you when you stroke them, not touching them is the better route. A thing of beauty is a joy forever, as the fellow said.
Thank you for all the suggestions. I will certainly look them up. Oh, did I mention that library has EVERY WODEHOUSE BOOK EVER? Even the golf series. Even Yes, Sirree Plum. Amazing. Bloody amazing. The nice chap at the desk told me where to go, and I came down there like young Lochinvar out of the west and into a land beyond my wildest dreams. If they’d keep Woiwode out of it I’d be much happier. But you can’t have everything. I recommend reading Wodehouse. Lots of him-as much as you can get your slimy little mitts on.
Someday, when you’re really bored, take a picture of your bedroom with a digital camra and print it out(if you have a picture printer. As an alternative, find a previously taken picture of your house and use that instead). Then take a peice of paper, heavyweight or matte paper(normal kind is to thin) and glue it to the back of selected photo. Draw a line down the middle of the paper and writ one of your friends adresses on the right side. Place a stamp in the upper righ corner. Vola- you have made your own post card. Now, write on the left hand side, “Hello. I’m in my room now. The view isovely- wish you were here. From, [your name here]“ Then send it to your friend and see what they have to say. Very amusing.
#39: I used to be able to sit on the roof at my old (one-story)house – All I had to do was climb up the antenna! But now I live in a three story house, and we don’t have an antenna to climb up, either. Oh well…
#41: Ooo, I love caramel lattes.
Speaking of coffee, I’d recommend tin roofs – It’s coffee mixed w/ caramel and peanut butter, w/ whipped cream on top. *Daydreams*
Sleep is important. No, let me rephrase that. Sleep is extremely important. You die faster without sleep than you do without food (I think). So make sure you get enough of it. Don’t stay up doing silly things (NaNo is not silly, so you can stay up all hours of the night doing it…lol), if you’re tired, get the rest you need.
Clothing
If you want my recommendations on what to wear, I would recommend not matching. I always wear different socks, non-matching stuff, etc. It’s really fun and you don’t have to think about what you wear in the morning. Yay!
Random Hobbies
Fencing is really fun, so is sailing. I would also recommend playing with iMovie. I’ve just become really obsessed with it. I can take photos, movies, etc. and format them on iMovie, then export them to iDVD and make a DVD! And it is really easy! I am not even close to being a computer expert and I can do it…so I would recommend trying it (if you have iMovie) because it’s super fun!
25 – And write to random companies. Once, we wrote to Kraft, and they gave us a coupon for Macaroni&Cheese. Of course, we never used it before it expired, but it was fun to get a personal letter back.
Here’s a comment to everyone else about PP and Merrell shoes:
She can take a whole hour describing them. Beware.
23) Labrynth scares me. Especially that rock star’s pants…… And his weird obsession with the MC. Creepy movie. Again, that rock star was so creepy that when I first saw him, the ugliness of him made me cry. I hated it.
42- I was sitting on the roof of my school, actually. The theatre, actually. It is very pretty up there. Apparently a lot more people have been up there than I thought (who are involved with theatre at least) and went up there before me
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Zyka, Ruler of the Universe, Queen of All Things Un-Cursive, and Procrastinator of the Highest Degree says:
*bleh*I recommend not gulping bubbly soda. You know how it takes up more space when the bubbles appear, right? It hurts your throat and the rest of your gulping-ness whatever all the way down to your stomach. (My family calls it swallowing square)
Yes, I just did that.
(37) Ow. Peacocks are nasty. Pretty, but rather unkind. I took care of the peacocks at camp one year. Something I recommend not doing.
(39) I slept on the roof of my house once. That was nice.
I recommend sleeping outside. Did I already recommend that? Oh yes. I did. Umm, well, I also recommend pure cranberry juice (not the sweetened cocktail, like Ocean Spray), iced tea, crushed ice and a dash of juice from an orange. Or a lemon.
I also recommend watching the Macy’s Day Parade this year to see Skipper’s marching band perform!!! (see post 265 on the random thread)
I recommend mixing millions of different drinks and finding your favorites. I was at camp, and I did it, and it was so much fun.
I recommend the musical “The Frogs.” It sounds a lot like Into the Woods. I’m listening to the soundtrack of it right now. It just so happens to have the old retired muses in it. (They weren’t retired when it was written)
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FrigidSymphony We Came, We Saw, We Conquered You All, We Came, We Saw, We Live By The Sword! says:
Just finished 3 books by some english guy named Jasper Fforde. Despite them being lent to me by the crazy maternal figure of the insane family that lives across the street who have a daughter my age, they were really good. Try to borrow the Thursday Next series from your library. Lots of literary refrences so great for people who read alot (like me) but will really confuse people who don’t (though I doubt many of them are on museblog, but watever) Ugg. I have a really bad habit of saying “but whatever” at the end of my sentances. I have no idea where I got it from and can’t stop.
53- Ah, yes the obviously Welsh Jasper Fforde. Just look at his name. He’s Welsh I tell you! Welsh! I second the recomendation of those books. SpecOps 26 right? and then JurisFiction. And Ms. Haversham. ah, yes. those books are excellent.
GAPAs- i am reccommending to you: a Veggie Tales thread
to everone else: goldfish dipped in skippy/jif/whatever peanut butter
you will NOT be disappointed, unless you for some reason, DON”T LIKE either of them
if not, i suggest taking circus class
TELL ME ABOUT THE KOKONVENTION! I MUST KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
54- SpeckOps 27. And he might be welsh, but the books are set in England, but he could be a welsh guy living in England or have welsh ancestors, I really don’t know nor do I think it’s very important. And its Havisham, not Haversham, though thats probably just a typo. I just read them, so I remember, but if you haven’t read them(or great expectations, I guess) recently its an understandable mistake. They’re certainly interesting and different. My new recomendation: Don’t babysit for people who have an un-housetrained dog. Never. Again.
#43: Hm…Sleeping. I don’t really do a lot of that. I do, however, clash…pretty much every day, LOL. And my random hobby this week is making stuff w/ play-dough. I made this abstract thingie yesterday, which I called My Soul…But then it cracked and kinda broke while it was drying. So my soul’s kinda broken now, sniffsob. Hehe.
57- I’ve read all of them and Great Expectations and I was pretty sure it was Haversham but it could be Havisham too especially since I haven’t read any of them or Great Expectations in a while.
I reccomend listening to TMBG (They Might Be Giants).
yo recomiendo…
playing an instrument…(Orchestra instruments…OF COURSE)
reading
doing HW…
hangin’ w/ yer homies
sleeping
eating
breathing
listening to good music (indie alt/rock…)
NOT DOING BAD THINGS!!!!!!
giving hugs
dancing
smiling…it makes everything better
being responsible (brownie point anyone?)
respecting others
listening to teachers
having pillow fights
making faces
spending time on MB
singing
drinking copious amounts of hot chocolate
EATING copious amounts of chocolate
ummmmm… Frigid Symphony… one little question. what is Cthulhu? cause when I’m driving home… there’s this building that has cthulhuthemovie.com painted on it. my mom and I keep on saying “oh, we need to see what that site is” so what is it?
52) Yes, literally made me cry. I watched it at a family reunion. The room had a gigantic screen. (A movie screen, not full sized) I was scared to pieces. Did NOT sleep well that night.
38) Hah! Did it! But I don’t have any of my friends’ addresses (excluding email addresses) and one of my friends has a principal for a mom….. They NEVER give out their address or phone number (to hide from angry mobs of parents with children who get F’s)
So, I’m ruining half the fun and handing my two postcards out.
63: Read “The Call of Cthulhu”, by H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft invented an entire religious cult, called the Cult of Cthulhu, featuring Great Old Ones such as Nyarlathotep, Dagon, and of course the mighty Cthulhu himself. No one knows how to pronounce Nyarlathotep, and there are many different spellings of Cthulhu, from Ktulu to Cutuluhu. His made up religion then mutated into a cult, because there were a bunch of people who believed he hadn’t made all this up, and that there really were Great Old Ones. Bogus copies of the Necronomicon (a book on the Great Old Ones mentioned in many stories) started showing up, as did Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten (same).
But Lovecraft is an incredible writer, he uses an insane vocabulary and generates brilliant images. The Call of Cthulhu is also a short story, not a novel, so it shouldn’t be that hard to finish.
(you could have also checked the website or looked it up on wikipedia)
Google Crawlspace Eviction. I am convinced that they are the greatest improv troupe of all time. I also reccomend getting hugs from them, if that is possible. Their fil, Comic Evangelists is FANTASTIC!!
But on something you might actually have accessible: This is Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman.
Mork and MIndy is awesome, too.
34- Oooh, good band advice. With the marching drill-book thing. The problem with mine is that is was just big enough to not fit into my pocket, and with flute flip folders being as they are(attached rather uncomfortably to your elbow) things have a tendincy to slide out.
*is glad that a flute is both a band and orchestra instrument and now can stay out of the argument*
Umm… I recomend listening to Butterfly Boucher. She’s good, in my opinion. Ooh, any of you fans of her(if there are any) in England or Europe over there, does the European version of her CD really have two more songs than the American version? That’s not fair.
65- Ha ha, good job. Just stick it in their locker if you don’t have their adresss. Write on it instead:
[their name]
Hallway by the [room]
locker number [#]
If you haven’t yet read teh graphic novel of V for Vendetta, READ IT. It is GREAT.
I also reccomend:
– wandering the halls of an expensive hotel at three in the morning, hanging out with friends, meeting RADICAL people and eating Toblerone.
– double espresso
– running around crazy in a rainstorm
– embracing imperfection
– lying on your back in a light snowfall
– befriending your sibling’s significant other/fiance
– Italian sodas from the Radisson
– singing as loud as you care when listening to your music
– getting hugs from AWESOME improv actors…&heart
– coming up with a WICKED name for a rock band just by misunderstanding something 8)
– sharing an awesome hotel room with a couple of friends
– LIVING for the MOMENT
– saying what you wish you could say
– sitting on a porch during a thunder/lightening/rain storm and eating snacks and drinking yummy beverages
– going zero-g in a Piper
Oh yes.
ANI DIFRANCO!
I am telling you NOW. She is GREAT!! Google her and find her website and listen to some sound bites from Little Plastic Castle and Imperfectly. The songs I really suggest off of those are:
– “The Waiting Song”
– “Imperfectly”
– “Coming Up”
– “In or Out”
– “Little Plastic Castle”
– “Fuel”
– “Swandive” (but the live version from So Much Shouting, So Laughing is a lot better than the studio version)
Of course, those are NOT her only good songs.
Oh, and “Both Hands” off of Ani DiFranco.
They are FANTASTIC!! Period. So fresh, original and honest…
72- Ooooh, cool! I’ve been to her website, but she hasn’t updated in about a year and only does things on her myspace, and I don’t go to myspace. I’ve been planing to drop by there again soon. I think I will now…
71-so’s a trumpet! w00t w00t! speaking of which, i’m debating trying out for full orchestra. i probably won’t, cuz it’s a lot of work and suchlike but idk…i think the only other trumpet that’ll try out is billy…and mebbe high tower…and crandall knows me so i’m kinda scared she’s gonna be all like “try out! try out!” and i’ll be like meeeep…
also 71- we don’t have drill books, just bits of paper every two weeks or so. once we finish a show, it’s pretty much done with and we don’t need the sheets again. except for the away games show which everybody knows by the first week anyway since we learned most of it during band camp.
I would highly advise eating menny pretzels. soo good. oh and somehow my foot fell asleep so don’t let your foot fall asleep.
76. I highly recomend full orchestra. Full orchestra = love. Like last weekend, my full orchestra played a concert, and the trio on this Mozart entirely fell to pieces in our hands. That was love. Don’t think I’m not serious about this. Band people often miss the joys of playing sucky concerts.
78- Oh, we have plenty of time to ‘enjoy’ bad concerts too. Our school does’t have an orchestra. Poor, poor us. Recently, we got chimes though!(no, not the little windchimes. The big metal ones that are taller than you are(unless you’re over 5’8)) And they’re fun. Jake who plays them durring the one song is always trying to figure out the theme to somthing, Futureama or somthing like that, cause it’s pretty much the only thing with chimes as a main part. Every day our director askes him “Work out that song yet?” and Jake glares at him and says somthing like “I’m getting there.”
Anyway, another fun thing to do when you’re really bored.
If you have any pictures of yourself lying around(school pics are fine, like the millions your parents order when they don’t really need to), grab a few of those, or print off a few from the computer. If you want, take a new one of yourself striking a pose or somthing. Then, once you’ve got your lovely photos, take a sharpie(black, silver, whatever color you prefer) and sign them, adressing them “to my biggest fan-[your signiture]”
Than, hand them out to your friends at school. Say somthing like “I know you’ve always wanted one- Merry[Chrismihanikwanza, or any other holiday]!
As an alternative, hand them out to random people in the hallway.
And if youre reeeeeeealy bored, before compleating the above create a fan page for yourself and put places for you’re beloved fans to rant about how much they love you. Put the web adress on the bottom of the autographed pictures.
Funfulness.
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FrigidSymphony We Came, We Saw, We Conquered You All, We Came, We Saw, We Live By The Sword! says:
“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
H. P. Lovecraft has warped the minds of more than one generation, you see. When my high school newspaper published college acceptances, I put Miskatonic University on my list. People must have assumed it was my backup school. I don’t think I’d recommend Lovecraft particularly, though. He’s fun, but he wasn’t really a very good writer.
81-did he make up a language? I love fantasy languages! if he did i’m totally reading those. Although i might anyway for thanksgiving, because i get to spend 12 hrs in a car this week. Oh joy…
any other suggestions? i really need stuff to read this week…
Scientific calculator- Sharp EL-531 W. It’s easy to use. Also, it looks normal, but if you’re determined, you can write notes on it as long as it stays on and isn’t cleared. B()7+Wr171n6+(00K5+(IKE+7)-(15
Actually, Lovecraft was a very good writer, his vocabulary was insane, and there was more to it than delighting macabre-loving teenagers. And as to the language, I don’t think he made up an entire language, just certain sentences… and now that I read the translation it all comes flooding back to me…
Apart from the kinda cheesy “Herbert West- Reanimator” Lovecraft out-horrors even Edgar Allan Poe.
Recommendation: if you’re studying a foreign language, find foreign translations of English-language books you’ve enjoyed and read them in that language. For example, if you’re studying Spanish and like Isaac Asimov’s robot books, read them in Spanish. It’s amazing how much you can learn that way.
I recommend that brass players do not empty their spit valves on the floors of shared band/orchestra rooms. And don’t do what the band teacher at my school does and tell me that it’s “condensation,” not spit. It comes from your mouths, therefore, it is gross.
90-Kind of hard to find Asimov in latin. Good idea though.
91-Where do you want us to empty them, on our heads? In the cases (just so you know, no that’s REALLY GROSS! it gets all moldy. Don’t even think about it)? On the stand? There are limited options in a band room. Besides, it’s not actual spit per se. Sure, it comes from our mouths. Sure, most people find it gross. But it’s a different grossness.
The french classes watched finding nemo six times in french. hewwitt said he didn’t even see it in english until after his second or third time in french.
16- I liked that book. So twisty! And the ending….!!!!
20- Lovecraft is amazing. And creepy. I went to my rat-owning friend’s house the day after I first read The Rats in the Walls. Scarring.
22- Arabat pwns.
23- With Bowie? He is so amazingly amazing I can barely stand it.
27- Civ IV! w00t! I love when tanks get attacked by people with lances or something of the like.
69- Dude, I love that comic!
81- I am so doing that next year. You are brilliant! *hero-worship-attack*
87- He was a bit pompous, though…
I recommend a Lovecraft thread. Or short horror stories. Whichever.
Anyway, if you like sci-fi stuff, there are a lot of stories archived at the Sci-Fi channel’s website. It’s awesome.
90- Great idea. And there are wonderful sales tomorrow…
91- I am now deathly afraid of band rooms.
I recommend classic horror movies. They are both cute and funny. Especially King Kong.
I also recommend the old Jason and the Argonauts movie/ THE OLD ONE!
And Langston Hughes.
And Thanatopsis by Bryant. That poem is amazing. Death meets Nature. Actually, Nature revering Death and its power over it, but at the same time, Death’s respect of Nature’s ability to come back again and again… Romanticism. Just Google the title to find the poem.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. Amazingness.
I recommend that band rooms acquire sinks or buckets or something for brass players to empty their spit valves into. Either that or that schools schedule orchestras before bands so that the “condensation” has lots of time to evaporate.
I reccomend dancing ballet, because even though your toes die, it is a beautiful feeling to be on stage. Even though there are only about 50 people in the audience. Well, that was Wednesday. Today, there will be alot more. But anyway.
I have The Little Prince in French (and English) but I’m not advanced enough to read and understand all of it.
You’re right about “buscar.” (If you were looking for Don Quixote the person, though, you’d say “Yo tengo que buscar a Don Quixote. People get the preposition a after transitive verbs.) And “español” isn’t capitalized en español.
Okay, I do not really recommend For Your Consideration. Chris Guest is a BRILLIANT director, writer and actor, but he shot kind of off-target. Wasn’t the same as his old films… *whaa*
I recommend…
dancing in the rain
doing at least one thing you think is totally impossible (and ends up with you in the hospital)
visiting the RRR
NaNoWriMo
Photoshop
tofu
Mandarin
fencing
boarding school
living.
Get one of those potato peelers with a self-levelling blade. Very simple invention, very cheap, but utterly effective. Works like a plane, and peels better and finer than any knife. BUT – I have two in the drawer that look exactly the same. One works beautifully, the other doesn’t. It’s something to do with the blade angle and the little gap in front of it, both of which need to be exactly right. It’s one of life’s little mysteries.
I know. I should get a life. The trouble is, I HAVE a life. I just like efficient kitchen equipment. And badgers. I like badgers.
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81-You know you’re a geek when…Did I ever tell you about the SPASM wheeze? Oh, and Unseen University is MINE. M. I. N. E.
99-I have both versions. Try getting the Asterix or Tintin books en francais. If you’re learning. It’s my first language. Very near, very dear, my Quebecois accent is truly atrocious. Oh, and don’t get the Fanny movies to learn. C’est un abattoir du le langue du France.
106-Good to know.
107-You do that, Monsieur Mister Herr Sir Lord Gospodin Baker.
109-Got a problem with that?
110-Crime de passionel. Hey, he snapped it in two. It would have been cool if it wasn’t my hand. I was crying like a baby at the time. It hurt me, he got rid of it.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtan.” I am so writing that on my science notebook. How do you pronounce it, anyway? I’m running out of cough drops here.
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I recommend
1. not letting modern society eradicate who you are
2. checking out the Complaints Choir of Birmingham on YouTube
3. going to bed earlier than eleven pm
4. reading more Dave Barry books, but not while you’re eating
5. falling in love
23- just saw the Labyrinth! Bowie is AWESOME but his pants are too high, and too tight. It’s KIND OF gross. and the girl bugs me, because she’s so needy and whiny and i wanna PUNCH her. but oh well. i like Ludo. and the little worm dude. and the things that take their arms and legs and heads and stuff off.
I recommend:
a. Wearing a big piece of jewelry, preferably a ring, every day and being mysterious about it
b. Star Trek
c. Not reading Tolstoy
d. Avoiding Tolstoy unless you want a good way to get to sleep without ending up in a chemical dependency unit
e. Hitting people who tell you to “believe in yourself”
f. Evading the ‘rat race’
g. Learning all sorts of cool French slang. It’s just funny. There’s a phrase that means someone is lucky that when translated says “His bottom is fringed with noodles”.
h. Learning to dance really well.
i. Reading classic science fiction: “Slan” A. E. Vogt; “Cyteen” C.J. Cherryh: Asimov’s “Foundation” novels; “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” Robert Heinlein; Adams’s H2G2 trilogy
j. Working hard all through the school year, getting good grades, and pandering to the teachers, and then giving them the finger on the last day of school.
Memorize random things, like Lewis Carrol poems and old childrens’ books and recite them at random moments(for L.C., use an odd accent. mostly british and slightly australian/irish works really well if you get it right).
Twas’ brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe
all mimsy were the borogroves
and the mome raths outgabe
(please do not correct my spelling, I know fully well it’s horid)
“Each peach pear plum, I spy Tom Thumb — Tom Thumb in the cubbord, I spy Mother Hubberd — Muther Hubberd in the celler, I spy Cinderella — Cinderella on the stair, I spy Three Bears — 3 bears out hunting, I spy Baby Buntingthey spy Baby Bunting — Baby Bunting safe and dry, I spy plum pie — Plum pie in the sun, I spy… — Everyone”
Each Peach Pear Plum
Yes, I know. It is a bit sad. But fun to recite at random moments. More Lewis Carrol, though.
Oh no! Half my story went away. And now i can’t see my post either. Anyway, reciting random things is fun!!
“Each peach pear plum, I spy Tom Thumb — Tom Thumb in the cubbord, I spy Mother Hubberd — Muther Hubberd in the celler, I spy Cinderella — Cinderella on the stair, I spy Three Bears — 3 bears out hunting, I spy Baby Bunting — baby Bunting fast asleep,I spy Bo Peep — Bo Peep on the hill, I spy Jack and Jill — Jack and Jill in the ditch, I spy the Wicked Witch — Wicked Witch over the wood, I spy Robin Hood — Robin Hood in the glen, I spy the Bears again — 3 bears still hunting, they spy Baby Bunting — Baby Bunting safe and dry, I spy plum pie — Plum pie in the sun, I spy… — Everyone”
Oops. I see it now. Please excuse the double post.
also, eat Choklit. And read. And sleep is good to. Also, go to book club, which is what I will be doing soon. And don’t not do your homework. Which is also what I am doing. Meh.
i suggoost taking pictures of your feet. and watching the charlie brown christmas special.
IT’S CHRISTMAS CHARLIE BROWN!!!!!!!
Christmas time is here
Happiness and cheer
Fun for all that children call
Their favorite time of the year
Snowflakes in the air
Carols everywhere
Olden times and ancient rhymes
Of love and dreams to share
Sleigh bells in the air
Beauty everywhere
Yuletide by the fireside
And joyful memories there
Christmas time is here
We’ll be drawing near
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year…
Has anybody here seen spaceballs? Apparently it’s the hilarious movie that i absolutely have to see. We’re watching it next week (tuesday’s our random hangout day where we annoy our parentals exceedingly by not coming home until after jazz band (9) as of today) I can do the salute though. XD
I recommend joining jazz band if you can. I know i probably recommend this like every week but seriously, it’s amazing. ♥ ♥
I also recommend buying an octopus (the little rubber things, not an actual octopus) and carrying it around. It’s extremely amusing. If you wind it up and let it spin around and hold it above your head and look up and stare at it you feel like you’re on drugs. Speaking of being on drugs, is rubbing alcohol addictive? Jacob found one of those hand wipe things at the park today and he didn’t know what it was (?!?) so he started sniffing it (because that’s what jacob does with random stuff he doesn’t know what it is) and he’s like “what is this?” and we’re like “you’re not supposed to sniff it smart one” and he’s like “what do i do with it, eat it?” and we’re like “Wow…no, you wipe your hands with it.”
125 – seriously, vinegar smells AWFUL. but that’s okay. i can’t really say anything, because i like the way that my fish’s tank smells. which is really bad, because that means i don’t clean it and they die.
97-Ew. Jason and the Argonauts? I had to watch that twice. Double-ew. I thought it was terrible.
I used to have to wash my hair with vinegar, before we found some froody shampoo that actually works. Ergh, it smells terrible. I recommend you find froody shampoo before you have to resort to vinegar.
Would you people recommend south park? Everybody says it’s great and tells me like all the plotlines and stuff all the time and i feel kind of out of it because i don’t watch it…but i’ve never tried to watch a show regularly and i don’t really want to start now. i might go to bill’s saturday and watch the movie. Oh and i highly recommend donald duck hats that squeak when you press the bill. She has one. Yes. ‘Tis amazing.
i also recommend starting your journalism hw sometime BEFORE…oh…10:15? Yeesh. Bad Ebeth. Bye.
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Woo-hoo!!! First post! Sorry, just had to say that. Yessiree, it pays to be homeschooled!
Hmm…if I understand the point of this thread correctly, I’m supposed to suggest that fellow Musers do or watch or read certain things…or something like that. K, I think everyone should watch 5 “old” cartoon Disney movies over the next 2 weeks…it’s a great way to connect with your childhood!
I recommend.. too much.
1. MuggleCast
2. Coming to the Kokonvention on the 26th
3. Caramel Hard Candies
More later.
Oh yeah,
4. Muse (duh.)
2-Hold up!!! Whatawhatawhatawhatawhata?!?!?! There’s a Kokonventionon the 26th?!?! Where?!
Allegedly Pickles. Listen to MuggleCast!! I command thee.
I recommend everybody join band, RPG, eat choklit, read (not that i need to recommend that to most of you XD), watch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead because that’s my new fav movie (not my absolute fav movie, and not a fav movie that’s new, but a fav movie recently watched by moi), do nano, join the ko-konspiracy (well, you’re already a member, but become active in Mostly Harmless anyway), and…idk what else. Have a nice life.
3- Café Express at 2:00. In Chicago.
5. Googlewhacking
6. Not forgetting your assignment book @ skool
7. Chasing Vermeer
8. Sleeper
9. YouTube
I would recommend doing your homework. It pays off.
Anyone have some good authors they could recommend? I’m fresh out and will be at the library tonight. I call it “SUP-er Library” because it’s huge. I’m serious. 783,x books and its own cable channel. WiFi. 317 computers. 4 stories. A garage. Insane fun.
Oh yeah, and the Science Fiction section is whackingly large.
I recommend that everyone make a list of things they want to do in their lifetime (run up a down elevator, go all the way around on a windmill, learn Norwegian, date a fugu chef, whatever), and try to get them all done. Before age 30. That’ what I’m doing.
I am a bit confused about what we do on this thread, but if it is about recommending stuff, I recommend:
1. Sailing
2. Fencing
3. Muffin Films/Making Fiends/Big Bunny
4. NaNoWriMo
5. Playing an instrument
6. Reading
The list goes on…
A few quick recommendations from me:
Office supplies: Papermate “Pink Pearl” erasers (basic pink, get the job done); Uniball Vision pens (or Vision Elite for air travel, because they don’t leak when the pressure drops); small pocket notebooks.
Science-fiction (Juliette take note!): short-story collections by Cordwainer Smith. Three-volume short-story collection called the “Science-Fiction Hall of Fame.” Classics all. Also C. J. Cherryh’s “Chanur” trilogy.
Fantasy: If you like “The Princess Bride,” try “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle. It’s gentler and more poetic but has the same sort of humor.
Humor recordings: If you like Douglas Adams, try the Firesign Theater’s hallucinogenic humor from the 1970s. (Also perhaps Kurt Vonnegut’s book “Sirens of Titan.”)
Board games: Latruncles, the ancient Roman ludus latrunculorum, explained in a book called “Games Ancient and
ModernOriental and How to Play them,” which you may find in your library. One of my own eighth-grade obsessions.That’s enough for now.
I highly recommend “Larklight” by Philip Reeve.
8- Heaven…… My library has it’s own cable channel and two stories. 10 computers.. Ih.
10. My school
11. NaNo
12. Five for Fighting
13. Quark Victory
14. Sticker Machines
15. Going to the Art of Being An Alien thread
16. Pretty much anything to do with paper mache
17. Heelys
8 – 1. Larry Gonick 2. Diana Wynne Jones 3. Homer 4. Douglas Adams 5. Yann Martel 6. William Shakespeare. I highly doubt that you have read all of those author’s books.
Hmmm….Now for some real thought on some real recommendations. How about:
1. Mac Computers
2. Oopsie Erasers; I have no idea where you can find them, but they’re REALLY good erasers. Pink Pearl is good too.
3. Pentel Twist-Erase mechanical pencils. I have loved them since the start of my using mechanical pencils.
4. NaNoWriMo, big time.
5. Living an enjoyable life
hmmm….I recommend…….SPELLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s fun. i like spelling
I know some of us have read it already, but The Sight by David Clemente-Davies is superb. I highly reccommend it.
I also reccommend Remioromen. Fantastic band, Konayuki gives me shivers.
Also, L’Arc~en~Ciel, more so, actually. xD
1. Try baking something. Not from a box. It sounds weird, but you feel really good afterwards and, of course, you get to eat it.
2. Ferrero Rocher chocolates. I have officially fallen in love with them.
3. Watching the Ig Nobel awards and reading either the Annals of Improbable Research or going to their website. (www.improb.com, come on, GAPAs, Please? I swear I am in no way affiliated with them)
4. Listening to Whadya Know on saturdays. I used to love it, now I never get up early enough to listen.
5. Watching Nova and Sunday Morning
6. Yoga. It is reallllly relaxing.
7. Reading some Dave Barry books. I found a couple on the bookshelf in our basement from maybe the 80’s. Some of his stuff is really hilarious.
8. Reread all of the Hitchhiker trilogy+any old books you liked but haven’t read in a while. You’ll be suprised how much you forgot.
9. Talk to your parents.
10. Take a step back and appreciate life once and a while, especially if your feeling overwhelmed or depressed. There are a lot of things we take for granted.
And that is my top ten list of things to try.
8~ date a…fugu chef? What? You want to date a fugu chef? Okay…
hmmm….
Not that you all arent intellligent anyway.
Yo recomiendo:
-doing research before going on trips. For instance…if you plan to visit the Tower of London, read a few books, and you’ll start to sound really intelligent.
-Moleskine notebooks. If you’re prepared to drop $15 on a journal, these last FOR EVER.
-Reading the opinion pages.
-learning at least 3 foreign languages (well, not necesarily fluently. Just enough to buy a baguette or whatever)
Ah, what larks. Today was international day. I, being the geniyus I am, COMPLETELY FORGOT, and had to bribr Vegetable Foot with a borwnie to let me borrow her knit beret, and I was France. One little sixlet was also France, with a beret (pulled down…not very French…) and a little mustache penciled on.
When I ran into the sixlet, I smiled REALLY widely and shouted: “Ah, Pierre! Ça va?” (yes, I know I got the quotations wrong. Give me a break.) The sixlet screamed and ran away. Hmph. She obviously didn’t speak French.
18- Right at this moment, I am wearing a blue beret that I knitted! You sould like a menace to the school…
Read Garth Nix, or ath least the Abhorsen series, because I am sadly obsessed.
Must leave. Quite sad. Goodbye…
If anyone’s interested in reading something fantasy/sci-fi but heavier, I highly recommend HP Lovecraft. Not only does his vocabulary keep me running to the dictionary every 5 minutes, but his insanely horrific stories keep me up all night listening to Gorgoroth.
climb a tree. that is fun. as long as u hav a way to get down. heehee.
ive always wanted to ride a golfcart. but u wouldnt get 2 do nething fun, cuz of laws nd such, so a police golfcart. so if u ride down some steps or somthin, u can say its police business.
Read Abarat by Clive Barker. And books by Charles deLint. I should really start writing a list of things to do before I die. What are some of you guys’?
watching the movie labrynth. It’s so bad it’s good. Much like Plan 9 From Outer Space except less so (i also recommend you watch plan 9 from outer space, obviously, if it’s labrynth but more so. Although labrynth is fantasy and plan 9 is sci-fi. Both are pretty painful though XD)
i love watching horrible movies. I don’t know why.
One of my goals in life is to make a duct-tape beret. Yes, i’ve been hanging out with bill too much. XD but seriously, we were talking about duct-taping stuff, and it’s all been done! But who’s duct-taped a beret before? Nobody i’ve heard of! Mwahahahaha!
Need to buy a beret first, of course.
OMG and i totally realized last night that i must owe the downtown library SO much money…i still have Thud. *hides in shame* lemmee see how overdue it is…
heckz, i can’t find it. must’ve been checked out on dad’s account. oooh man….
i recommend turning books in on time
see i lurve the columbus library, but i hardly ever go there, so i always forget i have books checked out from there…
I’d reccomend curling up with a classic book,( like Pride and Predjudice or Anne of Green Gables. Or watch the movie, if you want. ) ((just so ya know tho, the new Pride& Pred. is really lame, please, watch the BBC version.)
writing a letter to someone, not email,
volunteering at a local historic site to learn stuff,
maybe volunteer at a not local historic site w/ a parent,
play music you love with a friend,
read Muse,
have fun on museblog,
LOVE LIFE!!!
(sorry, I had to say that!)
Hmm. What else should I add…
If you are looking to buy shoes, for any season, try Merrell’s. They’re the AWESOMEST shoes ever. In the whole world. Really, don’t get me started about how fantastic they are.
Also, if you really like getting mail but never get any, I reccomend that you fill out random college “give-me-information” things on websites. Then you get college info. It’s super fun! I just got a letter about some college in the middle of nowhere about agriculture. It was really funny!
i reccomend these if your feeling slightly depressed:
1) The Gospel According to Larry and its sequel, Vote for Larry*
2) a good home cooked meal
3) hot coco/herbal tea
4) A long pointless walk
5) a cat to pet while you’re reading and drinking hot coco
6) stirring a pot of hot soup while emoting to anyone who is with you
7)chocolate of any sort
9)books of any sort
10) muse or museblog**
*this actually may make you more depressed
** this may make you hyper/insane
1. Read the catoon History of The Universe(and the two sequels)
2. Play Civilization 4
3. Sing “It’s peanut butter jelly time”
25- Merrells!! i have a pair of black Mocs.
18. Going for a bike ride in 40-degree weather, then coming in to your house, having a nice crackling fire, and drinking a cup of hot choklit. Perform preferably with a friend.
19. Introducing your friends to Monty Python, HG2G, and Muse.
19~ Well, I’m only a percieved menace.
1. Nirvana
2. Any kind of Rock
1. My Neighbor Totoro, the best movie ever made
2. 99 Luftballons, old one on German, not the new synthesized one
3. Procrastination, it’s very theraputic
1) Gilmore girls marathon(if you have the DVD set, they include a booklet where you can figure out what they are talking about such as Noam chomsky or margeret thatcher).
2) Dreyers cookies and cream
3) Watch the meteor shower this saturday
4) Read a loverly book
-The year of the secret assignments
-Everything on a waffle :]
-series of unfortunate events AND
-Of course, HP
Plus Muse. AHH i still haven’t gotten my nov. issue :[
6-Thank you very much for the info, but I’m not sure if I can come!
Phooey. I’m going to try, though.
(8 Queenie) If you’re at all interested in impressionist-style writing, there’s this book Light by Eva Figes that’s phantastique. Mellow, unhurried, poetic, and conveniently short(’bout 60 pgs.). It’s about a day on the life of Claude Monet.
ALSO
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. (WW2 novel-not for the faint of heart). Read it. Hysterically funny and yet suicidally depressing.
Other recommendations:
Waking up
Set your alarm ten minutes earlier than you need to get up. Make sure there is a lamp within reach of your pillow. The second your alarm goes on, turn on your lamp and stare at it for a minute or so. Then take then next minutes to coax yourself out of bed.
Sleep outside. Don’t plan it. Just take some blankets and spread them out in your backyard one night.
Band Geek advice w00t!!!
-Scan all you music the second you get it. This will be extremely helpful in the case of: 1) loss 2) theft 3) forgetting it in your locker the day before a playing test 4) severe rainstorms turning all your paper material into pulp.
-If your marching band uses drill books the way my marching band does- tie loops of string through all the holes in all your drill sheets!! that way, if your drill binder breaks open when your marching on the feild, instead of all your drill flying all over the place, it will all be neatly tied together! (why yes, i do speak from exprience, however could you tell?)
-practice. It works. and your director will like you, which always comes with benefits (like if you lose your ligature and are late for practice because of it…they might not eat you)
-play a cool instrument like bass clarinet, then switch to a nice easy to carry light one like clarinet for marching season
My Neighbor Totoro! I love My Neighbor Totoro!
I would add
1) eating ice cream with some form of chocolate in it
2) read
-Tamora Pierce
-Brian Jaques
-LOTR
-HP
-Shannon Hale
-Celia Rees
-Robin McKinley
-Terry Pratchett
-Eva Ibbotson
-Roald Dalh
3) journaling on a regular basis – it is theraputic and interesting to look back on even a few months later
4) playing an instrument (especially band instruments)
5) listening to music
6) not procrastinating (even though I am a horrible example of this)
7) love what you’re doing
8) have fun
9) be challenged
10) read MUSE!!!!!!!! (duh)
Meditate.
There are a million ways to meditate…You just have to find a way that really works for you.
Homeschooling is not an option for me. Not even a beautiful dream. When I lived in Nova Scotia (from the age of 3 mos. to about 5.5 yrs), on the Little Piece, my uncle taught me, in French, things like how to swear in Cantonese, crochet, bake, cook, ballroom dance, and drive a motorcycle, and then rescued me (heroically) from a peacock. It was on the grounds of this big house in Charlottestown, and I went up to pet it ‘cuz I was little. It bit me savagely on the right index finger. My half-brother (who’s 14 years older than I am) pulled me back from the peacock and my uncle snapped its neck. I cried for a really long time and I still have the scar. Oh, and I ruined both of their handkerchiefs, which made me feel bad.
I recommend not petting peacocks. I am all in favor of our dumb chums, but if they savage you when you stroke them, not touching them is the better route. A thing of beauty is a joy forever, as the fellow said.
Thank you for all the suggestions. I will certainly look them up. Oh, did I mention that library has EVERY WODEHOUSE BOOK EVER? Even the golf series. Even Yes, Sirree Plum. Amazing. Bloody amazing. The nice chap at the desk told me where to go, and I came down there like young Lochinvar out of the west and into a land beyond my wildest dreams. If they’d keep Woiwode out of it I’d be much happier. But you can’t have everything. I recommend reading Wodehouse. Lots of him-as much as you can get your slimy little mitts on.
Someday, when you’re really bored, take a picture of your bedroom with a digital camra and print it out(if you have a picture printer. As an alternative, find a previously taken picture of your house and use that instead). Then take a peice of paper, heavyweight or matte paper(normal kind is to thin) and glue it to the back of selected photo. Draw a line down the middle of the paper and writ one of your friends adresses on the right side. Place a stamp in the upper righ corner. Vola- you have made your own post card. Now, write on the left hand side, “Hello. I’m in my room now. The view isovely- wish you were here. From, [your name here]“ Then send it to your friend and see what they have to say. Very amusing.
If you can, go sit on the roof. It is amazing to look out over the view. At night you can see the lights of what ever is around you.
38- Great idea..
38- Haha, that’s really funny. Although the view in my bedroom ISN’T very lovely, haha.
I recommend caramel lattes… they are really good.
#39: I used to be able to sit on the roof at my old (one-story)house – All I had to do was climb up the antenna! But now I live in a three story house, and we don’t have an antenna to climb up, either. Oh well…
#41: Ooo, I love caramel lattes.
Speaking of coffee, I’d recommend tin roofs – It’s coffee mixed w/ caramel and peanut butter, w/ whipped cream on top. *Daydreams*
My recommendations for:
Sleep
Sleep is important. No, let me rephrase that. Sleep is extremely important. You die faster without sleep than you do without food (I think). So make sure you get enough of it. Don’t stay up doing silly things (NaNo is not silly, so you can stay up all hours of the night doing it…lol), if you’re tired, get the rest you need.
Clothing
If you want my recommendations on what to wear, I would recommend not matching. I always wear different socks, non-matching stuff, etc. It’s really fun and you don’t have to think about what you wear in the morning. Yay!
Random Hobbies
Fencing is really fun, so is sailing. I would also recommend playing with iMovie. I’ve just become really obsessed with it. I can take photos, movies, etc. and format them on iMovie, then export them to iDVD and make a DVD! And it is really easy! I am not even close to being a computer expert and I can do it…so I would recommend trying it (if you have iMovie) because it’s super fun!
Ok, that’s all for today.
25 – And write to random companies. Once, we wrote to Kraft, and they gave us a coupon for Macaroni&Cheese. Of course, we never used it before it expired, but it was fun to get a personal letter back.
Here’s a comment to everyone else about PP and Merrell shoes:
She can take a whole hour describing them. Beware.
42- Tin roofs?? That’s an odd name for coffee… Hehe. But it sounds good though.
I also recommend MuseBlogging. HAHA!
23) Labrynth scares me. Especially that rock star’s pants…… And his weird obsession with the MC. Creepy movie. Again, that rock star was so creepy that when I first saw him, the ugliness of him made me cry. I hated it.
42- I was sitting on the roof of my school, actually. The theatre, actually. It is very pretty up there. Apparently a lot more people have been up there than I thought (who are involved with theatre at least) and went up there before me
*bleh*I recommend not gulping bubbly soda. You know how it takes up more space when the bubbles appear, right? It hurts your throat and the rest of your gulping-ness whatever all the way down to your stomach. (My family calls it swallowing square)
Yes, I just did that.
(37) Ow. Peacocks are nasty. Pretty, but rather unkind. I took care of the peacocks at camp one year. Something I recommend not doing.
(39) I slept on the roof of my house once. That was nice.
I recommend sleeping outside. Did I already recommend that? Oh yes. I did. Umm, well, I also recommend pure cranberry juice (not the sweetened cocktail, like Ocean Spray), iced tea, crushed ice and a dash of juice from an orange. Or a lemon.
I also recommend watching the Macy’s Day Parade this year to see Skipper’s marching band perform!!! (see post 265 on the random thread)
I recommend mixing millions of different drinks and finding your favorites. I was at camp, and I did it, and it was so much fun.
I recommend the musical “The Frogs.” It sounds a lot like Into the Woods. I’m listening to the soundtrack of it right now. It just so happens to have the old retired muses in it. (They weren’t retired when it was written)
I recommend Lovecraft again. Don’t ever pronounce his name backwards or the Evil Great One Cthulhu will get you.
46-Made you cry? He’s ugly, but i don’t think he’s that ugly. Of course, i basically looked at his hair instead of his face…
but I agree, the pants were too much
FS-what, tfarcevol? or craftlove? i want to see the Evil Great One Cthulhu. XD
Just finished 3 books by some english guy named Jasper Fforde. Despite them being lent to me by the crazy maternal figure of the insane family that lives across the street who have a daughter my age, they were really good. Try to borrow the Thursday Next series from your library. Lots of literary refrences so great for people who read alot (like me) but will really confuse people who don’t (though I doubt many of them are on museblog, but watever) Ugg. I have a really bad habit of saying “but whatever” at the end of my sentances. I have no idea where I got it from and can’t stop.
53- Ah, yes the obviously Welsh Jasper Fforde. Just look at his name. He’s Welsh I tell you! Welsh! I second the recomendation of those books. SpecOps 26 right? and then JurisFiction. And Ms. Haversham. ah, yes. those books are excellent.
GAPAs- i am reccommending to you: a Veggie Tales thread
to everone else: goldfish dipped in skippy/jif/whatever peanut butter
you will NOT be disappointed, unless you for some reason, DON”T LIKE either of them
if not, i suggest taking circus class
TELL ME ABOUT THE KOKONVENTION! I MUST KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10- my father is not letting me near the Firesign Theater. He says something about me not being old enough.
I recommend
1 sharpies
2 choklit
3 books
4 running around in circles
5 because you have an essay due tommorow
6 and you are procrastinating.
Am gonig to finish that essay.
54- SpeckOps 27. And he might be welsh, but the books are set in England, but he could be a welsh guy living in England or have welsh ancestors, I really don’t know nor do I think it’s very important. And its Havisham, not Haversham, though thats probably just a typo. I just read them, so I remember, but if you haven’t read them(or great expectations, I guess) recently its an understandable mistake. They’re certainly interesting and different. My new recomendation: Don’t babysit for people who have an un-housetrained dog. Never. Again.
(55 Cheesemonkey) We actually already have one. Seems like museblooger sthink of everything, don’t they?
#43: Hm…Sleeping. I don’t really do a lot of that. I do, however, clash…pretty much every day, LOL. And my random hobby this week is making stuff w/ play-dough. I made this abstract thingie yesterday, which I called My Soul…But then it cracked and kinda broke while it was drying. So my soul’s kinda broken now, sniffsob. Hehe.
35. I think we’ve gone over this. Orchestra instruments are better.
57- I’ve read all of them and Great Expectations and I was pretty sure it was Haversham but it could be Havisham too especially since I haven’t read any of them or Great Expectations in a while.
I reccomend listening to TMBG (They Might Be Giants).
yo recomiendo…
playing an instrument…(Orchestra instruments…OF COURSE)
reading
doing HW…
hangin’ w/ yer homies
sleeping
eating
breathing
listening to good music (indie alt/rock…)
NOT DOING BAD THINGS!!!!!!
giving hugs
dancing
smiling…it makes everything better
being responsible (brownie point anyone?)
respecting others
listening to teachers
having pillow fights
making faces
spending time on MB
singing
drinking copious amounts of hot chocolate
EATING copious amounts of chocolate
…and more
ummmmm… Frigid Symphony… one little question. what is Cthulhu? cause when I’m driving home… there’s this building that has cthulhuthemovie.com painted on it. my mom and I keep on saying “oh, we need to see what that site is” so what is it?
35-who doesnt?
i read all this…. yeah. course i did….. how could you doubt me?
anyway, i recommennd………… yeah. ill get back to you on that.
52) Yes, literally made me cry. I watched it at a family reunion. The room had a gigantic screen. (A movie screen, not full sized) I was scared to pieces. Did NOT sleep well that night.
38) Hah! Did it! But I don’t have any of my friends’ addresses (excluding email addresses) and one of my friends has a principal for a mom….. They NEVER give out their address or phone number (to hide from angry mobs of parents with children who get F’s)
So, I’m ruining half the fun and handing my two postcards out.
Labrynth? We’re gonna watch that in Drama this year.
63: Read “The Call of Cthulhu”, by H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft invented an entire religious cult, called the Cult of Cthulhu, featuring Great Old Ones such as Nyarlathotep, Dagon, and of course the mighty Cthulhu himself. No one knows how to pronounce Nyarlathotep, and there are many different spellings of Cthulhu, from Ktulu to Cutuluhu. His made up religion then mutated into a cult, because there were a bunch of people who believed he hadn’t made all this up, and that there really were Great Old Ones. Bogus copies of the Necronomicon (a book on the Great Old Ones mentioned in many stories) started showing up, as did Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten (same).
But Lovecraft is an incredible writer, he uses an insane vocabulary and generates brilliant images. The Call of Cthulhu is also a short story, not a novel, so it shouldn’t be that hard to finish.
(you could have also checked the website or looked it up on wikipedia)
At least the name of the Crawling Chaos is easier to pronounce than “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtan.”
Google “Hello Cthulhu” hilarious webcomic, but hardly ever updates. Very random and museish. combinations of Cthulhu and Hello Kitty
Google Crawlspace Eviction. I am convinced that they are the greatest improv troupe of all time. I also reccomend getting hugs from them, if that is possible. Their fil, Comic Evangelists is FANTASTIC!!
But on something you might actually have accessible: This is Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman.
Mork and MIndy is awesome, too.
Nano-nano.
34- Oooh, good band advice. With the marching drill-book thing. The problem with mine is that is was just big enough to not fit into my pocket, and with flute flip folders being as they are(attached rather uncomfortably to your elbow) things have a tendincy to slide out.
*is glad that a flute is both a band and orchestra instrument and now can stay out of the argument*
Umm… I recomend listening to Butterfly Boucher. She’s good, in my opinion. Ooh, any of you fans of her(if there are any) in England or Europe over there, does the European version of her CD really have two more songs than the American version? That’s not fair.
65- Ha ha, good job. Just stick it in their locker if you don’t have their adresss. Write on it instead:
[their name]
Hallway by the [room]
locker number [#]
Works just as well.
Jadestone (71),
I like Butterfly Boucher, too. I’ve invited her to drop by the blog, but she’s probably too busy. I’ll give her another try sometime.
If you haven’t yet read teh graphic novel of V for Vendetta, READ IT. It is GREAT.
I also reccomend:
– wandering the halls of an expensive hotel at three in the morning, hanging out with friends, meeting RADICAL people and eating Toblerone.
– double espresso
– running around crazy in a rainstorm
– embracing imperfection
– lying on your back in a light snowfall
– befriending your sibling’s significant other/fiance
– Italian sodas from the Radisson
– singing as loud as you care when listening to your music
– getting hugs from AWESOME improv actors…&heart
– coming up with a WICKED name for a rock band just by misunderstanding something 8)
– sharing an awesome hotel room with a couple of friends
– LIVING for the MOMENT
– saying what you wish you could say
– sitting on a porch during a thunder/lightening/rain storm and eating snacks and drinking yummy beverages
– going zero-g in a Piper
Oh yes.
ANI DIFRANCO!
I am telling you NOW. She is GREAT!! Google her and find her website and listen to some sound bites from Little Plastic Castle and Imperfectly. The songs I really suggest off of those are:
– “The Waiting Song”
– “Imperfectly”
– “Coming Up”
– “In or Out”
– “Little Plastic Castle”
– “Fuel”
– “Swandive” (but the live version from So Much Shouting, So Laughing is a lot better than the studio version)
Of course, those are NOT her only good songs.
Oh, and “Both Hands” off of Ani DiFranco.
They are FANTASTIC!! Period. So fresh, original and honest…
Oops. I need to practise HTML a little more, I think.
Another one:
JUST HAVING A GOOD BLOODY TIME! You’re young. Take your childhood by the wings and FLY.
72- Ooooh, cool! I’ve been to her website, but she hasn’t updated in about a year and only does things on her myspace, and I don’t go to myspace. I’ve been planing to drop by there again soon. I think I will now…
71-so’s a trumpet! w00t w00t! speaking of which, i’m debating trying out for full orchestra. i probably won’t, cuz it’s a lot of work and suchlike but idk…i think the only other trumpet that’ll try out is billy…and mebbe high tower…and crandall knows me so i’m kinda scared she’s gonna be all like “try out! try out!” and i’ll be like meeeep…
also 71- we don’t have drill books, just bits of paper every two weeks or so. once we finish a show, it’s pretty much done with and we don’t need the sheets again. except for the away games show which everybody knows by the first week anyway since we learned most of it during band camp.
I would highly advise eating menny pretzels. soo good. oh and somehow my foot fell asleep so don’t let your foot fall asleep.
Harry and the Potters. They are absolutely zarkingly fr00dy.
Read Heartlight by T. A. something or… wait… yeah, T. A. Barron.
76. I highly recomend full orchestra. Full orchestra = love. Like last weekend, my full orchestra played a concert, and the trio on this Mozart entirely fell to pieces in our hands. That was love. Don’t think I’m not serious about this. Band people often miss the joys of playing sucky concerts.
78- Oh, we have plenty of time to ‘enjoy’ bad concerts too. Our school does’t have an orchestra. Poor, poor us. Recently, we got chimes though!(no, not the little windchimes. The big metal ones that are taller than you are(unless you’re over 5’8)) And they’re fun. Jake who plays them durring the one song is always trying to figure out the theme to somthing, Futureama or somthing like that, cause it’s pretty much the only thing with chimes as a main part. Every day our director askes him “Work out that song yet?” and Jake glares at him and says somthing like “I’m getting there.”
Anyway, another fun thing to do when you’re really bored.
If you have any pictures of yourself lying around(school pics are fine, like the millions your parents order when they don’t really need to), grab a few of those, or print off a few from the computer. If you want, take a new one of yourself striking a pose or somthing. Then, once you’ve got your lovely photos, take a sharpie(black, silver, whatever color you prefer) and sign them, adressing them “to my biggest fan-[your signiture]”
Than, hand them out to your friends at school. Say somthing like “I know you’ve always wanted one- Merry[Chrismihanikwanza, or any other holiday]!
As an alternative, hand them out to random people in the hallway.
And if youre reeeeeeealy bored, before compleating the above create a fan page for yourself and put places for you’re beloved fans to rant about how much they love you. Put the web adress on the bottom of the autographed pictures.
68: It’s been a while since I read Lovecraft, but I recognize R’yleh… What does that sentence man again? I used to know the correct translation, but…
(80),
“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
H. P. Lovecraft has warped the minds of more than one generation, you see. When my high school newspaper published college acceptances, I put Miskatonic University on my list. People must have assumed it was my backup school. I don’t think I’d recommend Lovecraft particularly, though. He’s fun, but he wasn’t really a very good writer.
79: That sounds FUN!! I just might do that sometime! And when I randomly have $500 laying around, I think I’ll get an action figure of myself!
81-did he make up a language? I love fantasy languages! if he did i’m totally reading those. Although i might anyway for thanksgiving, because i get to spend 12 hrs in a car this week. Oh joy…
any other suggestions? i really need stuff to read this week…
78 and whoever else- What’s in a full orchestra?
Scientific calculator- Sharp EL-531 W. It’s easy to use. Also, it looks normal, but if you’re determined, you can write notes on it as long as it stays on and isn’t cleared. B()7+Wr171n6+(00K5+(IKE+7)-(15
84 – A whole lot of instruments:
Strings
Violin
Piccolo
Viola
Flute
Cello
Woodwinds
 Oboe
Double Bass
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English Horn
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Harp
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Clarinet
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Bass Clarinet
Percussion
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Bassoon
Snare Drum
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Contrabassoon
Cymbals
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Saxophone
Bass Drum
Brass
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Tambourine
Trumpet
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Triangle
Trombone
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Castanets
Tuba
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Guiro
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French Horn
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Timpani
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Glockenspiel
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Xylophone
Keyboards
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Chimes
Piano
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Harpsichord
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Organ
I just copied that off of a website. If you want something better, look it up.
I recomend not playing the french horn. It is absolutely disgusting.
Actually, Lovecraft was a very good writer, his vocabulary was insane, and there was more to it than delighting macabre-loving teenagers. And as to the language, I don’t think he made up an entire language, just certain sentences… and now that I read the translation it all comes flooding back to me…
Apart from the kinda cheesy “Herbert West- Reanimator” Lovecraft out-horrors even Edgar Allan Poe.
86- I play French Horn! What’s disgusting about it? That reminds me, I should be practicing right now.
78- oh man, symphony orchestras are so much fun- you get an amazing amount of adrenaline..
yes, performing is my drug, thanks.
Recommendation: if you’re studying a foreign language, find foreign translations of English-language books you’ve enjoyed and read them in that language. For example, if you’re studying Spanish and like Isaac Asimov’s robot books, read them in Spanish. It’s amazing how much you can learn that way.
I recommend that brass players do not empty their spit valves on the floors of shared band/orchestra rooms. And don’t do what the band teacher at my school does and tell me that it’s “condensation,” not spit. It comes from your mouths, therefore, it is gross.
90-Kind of hard to find Asimov in latin. Good idea though.
91-Where do you want us to empty them, on our heads? In the cases (just so you know, no that’s REALLY GROSS! it gets all moldy. Don’t even think about it)? On the stand? There are limited options in a band room. Besides, it’s not actual spit per se. Sure, it comes from our mouths. Sure, most people find it gross. But it’s a different grossness.
I recommend pumpkin pecan pie
IT’S SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
90: It also works with movies. Watch a movie you know pretty well in spanish with spanish subtitles and it works.
The french classes watched finding nemo six times in french. hewwitt said he didn’t even see it in english until after his second or third time in french.
86- Have you ever had all the spit explode out of the ball and onto your pants? Thought not. Also, I smeel like brass after I’m done playing.
16- I liked that book. So twisty! And the ending….!!!!
20- Lovecraft is amazing. And creepy. I went to my rat-owning friend’s house the day after I first read The Rats in the Walls. Scarring.
22- Arabat pwns.
23- With Bowie? He is so amazingly amazing I can barely stand it.
27- Civ IV! w00t! I love when tanks get attacked by people with lances or something of the like.
69- Dude, I love that comic!
81- I am so doing that next year. You are brilliant! *hero-worship-attack*
87- He was a bit pompous, though…
I recommend a Lovecraft thread. Or short horror stories. Whichever.
Anyway, if you like sci-fi stuff, there are a lot of stories archived at the Sci-Fi channel’s website. It’s awesome.
90- Great idea. And there are wonderful sales tomorrow…
91- I am now deathly afraid of band rooms.
I recommend classic horror movies. They are both cute and funny. Especially King Kong.
I also recommend the old Jason and the Argonauts movie/ THE OLD ONE!
And Langston Hughes.
And Thanatopsis by Bryant. That poem is amazing. Death meets Nature. Actually, Nature revering Death and its power over it, but at the same time, Death’s respect of Nature’s ability to come back again and again… Romanticism. Just Google the title to find the poem.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. Amazingness.
I recommend that band rooms acquire sinks or buckets or something for brass players to empty their spit valves into. Either that or that schools schedule orchestras before bands so that the “condensation” has lots of time to evaporate.
I reccomend dancing ballet, because even though your toes die, it is a beautiful feeling to be on stage. Even though there are only about 50 people in the audience. Well, that was Wednesday. Today, there will be alot more. But anyway.
I have The Little Prince in French (and English) but I’m not advanced enough to read and understand all of it.
99- I love that book. But I know a grand total of two French phrases. Which I cannot even spell.
Yo tengo que buscar Don Quixote en Español.
I think “for” is included in the meaning of “buscar…”
We get a Spanish channel with cable. The talk shows are so funny. Even if I only understand about half of everything being said.
SM (100),
You’re right about “buscar.” (If you were looking for Don Quixote the person, though, you’d say “Yo tengo que buscar a Don Quixote. People get the preposition a after transitive verbs.) And “español” isn’t capitalized en español.
101- It isn’t? Oh, I always forget that about languages en español. But never the “personal ‘a'”
Oh, and thanks.
Great, now I have to make this post non-pointless.
I recommend….. re-reading books that were your favourite books ever back in the day every once in a while. Like, your favourite childhood stories.
I’m partial to the ORIGINAL Nancy Drew series and The Phantom Tollbooth.
Okay, I do not really recommend For Your Consideration. Chris Guest is a BRILLIANT director, writer and actor, but he shot kind of off-target. Wasn’t the same as his old films… *whaa*
I recommend…
dancing in the rain
doing at least one thing you think is totally impossible (and ends up with you in the hospital)
visiting the RRR
NaNoWriMo
Photoshop
tofu
Mandarin
fencing
boarding school
living.
37 – Also, never play bagpipes near a peacock. They like to join in.
Get one of those potato peelers with a self-levelling blade. Very simple invention, very cheap, but utterly effective. Works like a plane, and peels better and finer than any knife. BUT – I have two in the drawer that look exactly the same. One works beautifully, the other doesn’t. It’s something to do with the blade angle and the little gap in front of it, both of which need to be exactly right. It’s one of life’s little mysteries.
I know. I should get a life. The trouble is, I HAVE a life. I just like efficient kitchen equipment. And badgers. I like badgers.
i second the motion regarding the lovecraft thread.
106, 107- AHH! Double posting! *scary music*
37: he broke its NECK??
If you must pet a pea-bird, pea-hens are much nicer to little kids than peacocks.
81-You know you’re a geek when…Did I ever tell you about the SPASM wheeze? Oh, and Unseen University is MINE. M. I. N. E.
99-I have both versions. Try getting the Asterix or Tintin books en francais. If you’re learning. It’s my first language. Very near, very dear, my Quebecois accent is truly atrocious. Oh, and don’t get the Fanny movies to learn. C’est un abattoir du le langue du France.
106-Good to know.
107-You do that, Monsieur Mister Herr Sir Lord Gospodin Baker.
109-Got a problem with that?
110-Crime de passionel. Hey, he snapped it in two. It would have been cool if it wasn’t my hand. I was crying like a baby at the time. It hurt me, he got rid of it.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtan.” I am so writing that on my science notebook. How do you pronounce it, anyway? I’m running out of cough drops here.
Metalocalypse. Totally cool.
I recommend
1. not letting modern society eradicate who you are
2. checking out the Complaints Choir of Birmingham on YouTube
3. going to bed earlier than eleven pm
4. reading more Dave Barry books, but not while you’re eating
5. falling in love
111- Maybe……
23- just saw the Labyrinth! Bowie is AWESOME but his pants are too high, and too tight. It’s KIND OF gross. and the girl bugs me, because she’s so needy and whiny and i wanna PUNCH her. but oh well. i like Ludo. and the little worm dude. and the things that take their arms and legs and heads and stuff off.
wheeeeeeeeee!!!
*backflips in glee*
I have lots of Spanish books. I’m pretty much fluent in Spanish, though. I don’t have any French books, however.
Bowie owns. Majorly.
I recommend:
a. Wearing a big piece of jewelry, preferably a ring, every day and being mysterious about it
b. Star Trek
c. Not reading Tolstoy
d. Avoiding Tolstoy unless you want a good way to get to sleep without ending up in a chemical dependency unit
e. Hitting people who tell you to “believe in yourself”
f. Evading the ‘rat race’
g. Learning all sorts of cool French slang. It’s just funny. There’s a phrase that means someone is lucky that when translated says “His bottom is fringed with noodles”.
h. Learning to dance really well.
i. Reading classic science fiction: “Slan” A. E. Vogt; “Cyteen” C.J. Cherryh: Asimov’s “Foundation” novels; “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” Robert Heinlein; Adams’s H2G2 trilogy
j. Working hard all through the school year, getting good grades, and pandering to the teachers, and then giving them the finger on the last day of school.
Memorize random things, like Lewis Carrol poems and old childrens’ books and recite them at random moments(for L.C., use an odd accent. mostly british and slightly australian/irish works really well if you get it right).
Twas’ brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe
all mimsy were the borogroves
and the mome raths outgabe
(please do not correct my spelling, I know fully well it’s horid)
“Each peach pear plum, I spy Tom Thumb — Tom Thumb in the cubbord, I spy Mother Hubberd — Muther Hubberd in the celler, I spy Cinderella — Cinderella on the stair, I spy Three Bears — 3 bears out hunting, I spy Baby Buntingthey spy Baby Bunting — Baby Bunting safe and dry, I spy plum pie — Plum pie in the sun, I spy… — Everyone”
Each Peach Pear Plum
Yes, I know. It is a bit sad. But fun to recite at random moments. More Lewis Carrol, though.
Oh no! Half my story went away. And now i can’t see my post either. Anyway, reciting random things is fun!!
“Each peach pear plum, I spy Tom Thumb — Tom Thumb in the cubbord, I spy Mother Hubberd — Muther Hubberd in the celler, I spy Cinderella — Cinderella on the stair, I spy Three Bears — 3 bears out hunting, I spy Baby Bunting — baby Bunting fast asleep,I spy Bo Peep — Bo Peep on the hill, I spy Jack and Jill — Jack and Jill in the ditch, I spy the Wicked Witch — Wicked Witch over the wood, I spy Robin Hood — Robin Hood in the glen, I spy the Bears again — 3 bears still hunting, they spy Baby Bunting — Baby Bunting safe and dry, I spy plum pie — Plum pie in the sun, I spy… — Everyone”
Each Peach Pear Plum
Oops.
I see it now. Please excuse the double post.
also, eat Choklit. And read. And sleep is good to. Also, go to book club, which is what I will be doing soon. And don’t not do your homework. Which is also what I am doing. Meh.
i suggoost taking pictures of your feet. and watching the charlie brown christmas special.
IT’S CHRISTMAS CHARLIE BROWN!!!!!!!
Christmas time is here
Happiness and cheer
Fun for all that children call
Their favorite time of the year
Snowflakes in the air
Carols everywhere
Olden times and ancient rhymes
Of love and dreams to share
Sleigh bells in the air
Beauty everywhere
Yuletide by the fireside
And joyful memories there
Christmas time is here
We’ll be drawing near
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year…
I LOVE THAT SONG
Has anybody here seen spaceballs? Apparently it’s the hilarious movie that i absolutely have to see. We’re watching it next week (tuesday’s our random hangout day where we annoy our parentals exceedingly by not coming home until after jazz band (9) as of today) I can do the salute though. XD
I recommend joining jazz band if you can. I know i probably recommend this like every week but seriously, it’s amazing. ♥ ♥
I also recommend buying an octopus (the little rubber things, not an actual octopus) and carrying it around. It’s extremely amusing. If you wind it up and let it spin around and hold it above your head and look up and stare at it you feel like you’re on drugs. Speaking of being on drugs, is rubbing alcohol addictive? Jacob found one of those hand wipe things at the park today and he didn’t know what it was (?!?) so he started sniffing it (because that’s what jacob does with random stuff he doesn’t know what it is) and he’s like “what is this?” and we’re like “you’re not supposed to sniff it smart one” and he’s like “what do i do with it, eat it?” and we’re like “Wow…no, you wipe your hands with it.”
I know these are sort of little-kid movies, but I found them
hilarious.
1:Hoodwinked (some parts)
2:Wallace and Grommit, The curse of the Were-Rabbit
I do have an odd sense of humor. But they were so funnny…
123- My friend sniffed bottles of vinegar.
125- Odd……. what did they smell like?
125 – seriously, vinegar smells AWFUL. but that’s okay. i can’t really say anything, because i like the way that my fish’s tank smells. which is really bad, because that means i don’t clean it and they die.
i recommend cleaning fish tanks.
97-Ew. Jason and the Argonauts? I had to watch that twice. Double-ew. I thought it was terrible.
I used to have to wash my hair with vinegar, before we found some froody shampoo that actually works. Ergh, it smells terrible. I recommend you find froody shampoo before you have to resort to vinegar.
Would you people recommend south park? Everybody says it’s great and tells me like all the plotlines and stuff all the time and i feel kind of out of it because i don’t watch it…but i’ve never tried to watch a show regularly and i don’t really want to start now. i might go to bill’s saturday and watch the movie. Oh and i highly recommend donald duck hats that squeak when you press the bill. She has one. Yes. ‘Tis amazing.
i also recommend starting your journalism hw sometime BEFORE…oh…10:15? Yeesh. Bad Ebeth. Bye.
South Park is pretty funny, but you might be turned off of it by the vulgarity. Lots of swearing and graphic stuff.
I recommend seeing the Pick Of Destiny. Hilarious.