sorreh

haven't been blogging lately
sorreh
on winter break
is fun

quote-searchin'

There is a car alarm going off outside. beepbeepBEEP-beepbeepBEEP. It is gradually more annoying...
anyway, looking for senior quotes. Thinking about "I catch dinosaurs."-Bob Dylan, "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."-John Lennon
but I just found this by Kurt Vonnegut and though I won't use it I thought it's rather brilliant:

I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.

Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997

ALSO ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. the car alarm just stopped and COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ONCE GOES OFF WTF.

when/if

When/if I get a new ukulele (concert, i wanna concert uke) I wanna get a Sharpie and cover my cheapo soprano uke with Beatles lyrics quotes. my god I'm a Beatles dork. is this one of those things you should try and keep rather secret if it's, yknow, too fanatic? I mean, I've got like 5 Ringo albums. that is a little lame. BUT I LURVE RINGO. (see below.) and I dun wanna start beatleranting (I do but haven't the time)..so yahh

what else

uh
tonight was the school music concert- i'm in choir so i had to sing. it's a little depressing because do you know what? anything you do someone is always better then you. Sigh. i make myself feel better by thinking things like, well that person is hella good at music but uhh I have a personality? and hilariousness and fuck you, i can crochet things... anyway those things always get me down, i hate it when people are better at something than me. ugh. but that's everyone at everything really so I better get over it.

i'm knitting & crocheting things for relatives now, and I forgot how much i LOVE crocheting. jesus. so fun and gorgeus..
I want to crochet BEATLES.
/needs skin-colored acrylic yarn...
hnnn
and black
grrr
anda a pattern

i love ringo starr

and i don't care who knows it.
today we were at Hastings..well, I was at Hastings with mom but it's Dad weekend with us, but I was bored so..anyway, we were wandering around looking at books (her bf has been trying to find a book on The Who for me which is very sweet of of him) at Beatle-y things (and laughing at the pure absurdity of a 500-piece White Album cover PUZZLE.) and then I wandered off and idly looked at musics (one Dire Straits album and no Kinks? WHAT KIND OF WORLD.) and I wander over to Mom who's looking through cheap Christmas albums and scoff, saying, "pshaw Christmas music." and she says idly, "did you know Ringo Starr has a christmas album?" and I stop and go "WHAT WHERE IWANTIT BEEN LOOKING FOR AGES OMGOMG" so she's like CALM DOWN here it is and it was on SALE and so now i have the RINGO STARR XMAS ALBUM. /dances with joy. I LOVE RINGO STARR AND I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS. because he is RINGO and god I'm so secretly hoping that since he's got that new album out in Jan. he'll do a tour or something and come within a few hundred miles of here so I can go to a concert of his. Seeing Paul Live would be awesome, too, but he's on tour in Europe, so...yeah. Ringo. LOVE. uhm. but I still couldn't tell you my favorite Beatle.. (george...I love George...but uhm. yeah. I keep listening to Cloud Nine over and over again...is spectacular album.)
Alsooo what else hmmm....somethingsomethingsomething ah'm rather hyper and all, like, yeah...

oh I was just thinking the other, I am one of those crazy Beatles fan. I know it and so do the record companies- they know I'm gonna buy the new Paul DVD, the new Ringo album, the re-release of the old albums. dang. but also..the Kinks. I love them. and I've got to listen to some Dire Straits bootlegs I got. I heard Sultans of Swing on the radio and...something about the song just...like, you know when you hear a song and it, like, sticks with you? yeah, Sultans of Swing did that for me.hnn hnn OH right I wanna Kinks shirt.

it snowed here which is like an Xmas miracle since it never snows till like...January. :d cold.

being bored at dad's house

Today I took the ACT. I guessed on the math bits and wrote jokes and stuff in the 'do your figuring here' bit. 'what kind of name is guban and why does he want this sweater so badly dude just buy the sweater.' 'i have no idea, i guess i should'nt of failed so many math classes haha' 'look! batman!' 'i am upset because i cannot pattern my answers A C D C'. and like that.
And the internet is depressing. Because anything you can do, someone else can do better then you in every single way. Which is both terrifying, depressing, and strangely comforting at the same time. Ah well. I...forgot what I was going to say...Mom was talking to me over Facebook. Uh. I...oh, I just wish I was good at something, y'know? dangnabbit. I mean. Knowing very specific things is not 'being good' at a thing. (so much Beatles knowledge.) and playing a few easy tunes on the easiest instrument to play is also not impressive. I want to learn how to read music..I want to write songs...I want to go to bed and listen to Tuned to a Natural E and read With Strings Attached. Two of my MOST FAVORITE THINGS IN THE WORLD THAT I CAN PUT ON MY IPOD. which doesn't sound like a lot but is, considering the MOST FAVORITE THINGS IN THE WORLD I CANNOT PUT ON MY IPOD are, like, my ukulele, my mom, and pizza. And some other stuff. But music/books/movies, etc, those are ipodable. Anyway. TTANE and WSA (which I am reading for a second time. and is still spectacular. swear to god. double spectacular. i love it so much i want to draw fan-art for it. and i can't draw fan art.) will have to wait for later 'cos I wanna watch SNL tonight because Sharkboy is hosting it. Well, Taylor Lautner, the werewolf in those shitty Twilight movies. Also. He is really good-looking. He's got nothing on most of the celebrities I have crushes on (most-to-all of them from the past. paul john george ringo, eric clapton, roger and keith and pete and john, etc etc)
anywayy
we're watching Funny People
and Paul has a song on that movie
so yeah

how i roll

So I figured out FLAC files. And it's tricky. and takes a while a few different steps. First, download the file you want..(I've been getting the Tuned to A Natural E volumes which I've been liking quite a bit) then once it's taken an hour and half to download, extract the files, 'cos it's RAR right now and you can't do anything with that. So now you've got extracted FLAC files. Open up Winamp and make sure your something or another is set to decode those, then click..play file/folder and it will decode your Flac files to WAV files. Right, then, go into itunes and do the same thing, play/add file/folder, and add the WAV files. Then highlight all the files which will have names stupid names like Track01_01 or whatever and click 'Create an MP3' and let those convert. Now, go find and delete the WAV files, they're huge and take up space. Don't delete the MP3s. The WAVs. From your files, then make sure to delete them from itunes, too, otherwise it'll say 'this file cannot be found! would you like to find it?' Now you've got these MP3s with no album, artist, or names. Got to edit that. Highlight all of those- click Get Info. Add the Artist Name, Album name, and album artwork. Then go in to each single track and add the song title and track number- if you don't add the track number its gonna just alphabetize them and you'll have no order whatsoever.
There's gotta be a better way.

sunday night

Sunday nights are for downloading Bootlegs, apparently, more often 10 o clock Sunday night I find myself trying to figure out FLAC files and waiting hours for downloads..right now I'm getting Tuned to a Natural E Volume 1. looks good. <3 beatlegs.

argh

today I found the White Album at goodwill- but it's only got the 1st disc. argh.

I'm pretty sure the radio station I listen to plays just the Beatles, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (JUST DARK SIDE, THO.) and the Eric Clapton song Layla. Which I like. And have nothing wrong with. MORE KINKS I say. Whenever they play the Kinks, it's the song Lola. How about Low Budget? or Village Green Preservation Society? love that song. also lots of the Who. BUT YEAH. BEST STATION EVERR.

bored and cold.
gotta crochet 4 little Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Kody for xmas. They're gonna be FRIGGIN ADORABLE. gotta get em done this weeekk...
I have Layla stuck in my head. LAAAYYLA. stupidericlapton. ah i kid. he is a rock god.
...should learn that for uke..
huh...
should go to bed...
should go to bed & read With Strings Attached for the 2nd time...yeah, it's that awesome. :D

and oh quick another thing in me being weird/random:
this week in Gov class, we was talking 'bout the news, which is largely Tiger Woods. and the teacher, Mr C was saying something about Tiger having a prenup in which his wife gets like 300 million..and then he says, "Paul McCartney, singer/songwriter, used to be in a band called Wings, and oh, another band before that.." lol, haha, "a few years back, got married to a girl, much younger then him--" me, interjecting: "shewasonlyoneyearolderthenhisoldestdaughterFORREAL." which got me a weird look and a, "yeah, only a year older then his oldest daughter..anyway, he was sure this was true love, and decided to not have a prenup...and then she divorces him and takes him for, oh, I don't know how much-" and me: "twenty-six million. pounds. 26millionPOUNDS." and another weird look: "err, yeah. that much.." and I only knew all that 'cos I had JUST READ IT THE NIGHT BEFORE, the whole Crazy Heather Mills thing, and so, yeah. and then Friday he did the "TODAY IN HISTORYY" thing and one of the things was the 11 people being trampled to death at a Who concert- and then Mr C mentioned that the Who was playing the Superbowl, and I frowned and said, "well. half the who." and he's like, "it's roger daltrey, the voice, and pete, their guitarist, so.." and I'm like, "and he wrote most of their stuff, too--- but it's not the Who without Keith and John." and I was for serious ready to debate the hell out of this with him..but he went on. argh, amirite, I can never find anyone to talk about muuusic with. Well except Blake. and he gets tired of me going on about JohnandPAULandtheBEATLESandomgCLAPTON! all the time. but today he said, "I listened to that song Here Today today..." and he got this look on his face, and I was like, "YES. I KNOW: YES. right? SAAD." the one that Paul wrote about John- v. sad. and secretly I do believe Blake is something of a Beatles fan. bahaha.

and one day I missed Gov and then I was going to Brit Lit and the BL teacher always stands outside the classroom and says, 'howdy' 'hello' 'thanks for coming' and all that, and that day I mised Mr C's class he happens to be standing by the door with the BL teacher and he calls my name (my first name, which, I have learned through practice, I am called whenever people are angry- most of the time I am AJ but if I piss you off I'm gonna be called by my First Name- what the A stands for) and was like, "where were you today?" and I was panicking slightly, two teachers glaring at me, so nonchalantly I said, "I wasn't there." and booked it into the room and hear some other kid who was standing about chortle at my answer. Anyway. BL teacher- Mr P- is taking role- ("AJ?" "yeah") and he starts asking me, oh AJ why'd you skip government? I didn't, I just missed it. Oh AJ do you not like Mr C? no, I- AJ why do you hate Mr. C? it's not that it's- or is it Government you hate? me, snapping under the pressure: Yeah, no, it's THE government I hate. Then I sort-of chanted, ANARCHY! and raised a fist into the air and added, "up the workers and all that." Because in panic mode, I will make obscure Beatles movies quotes. -facepalm- anyway- some kids laughed and he went on with the role, thereby diverting him from asking me anymore questions I didn't want to answer.

also as such from missing a gov. class, mr C, who knows my mom, now has a joke when he sees me at class on time, he acts all shocked: OH MY GOSH AJ YOU'RE HERE ON TIME. WOAH, AJ, NICE TO SEE YOU. me, mumbling:shutyourrepublicanface.

a joke I've taken to making around mom and her Republican friends, who happen to ask if I'm Democrat or Republican, is "I'm a goddamn tree-hugging hippie liberal." :D

hahah

so quick: me and H did our Foods project (creating and designing a food) on Fish 'n Chip Flavoured Chips (because we wanted to do something Beatle-y) and on the side of the box we put "quotes" from famous British people. Harry Potter- "There are two things I love in this world: magic, and Fish and chip flavored crisps.", the Beatles-"FAB!", Oliver Twist-"please sir, may I have some more..fish and chips?", and Winston Churchill-"As much as I hate Nazis, I love these chips.". Blake found the box and he was like, really just FAB? and then we went on to make some awesome ones. "FORGET all you need is love, all you need are THESE CHIPS!" "I'd live in a Yellow Submarine FULL OF THESE CHIPS." "My guitar is gently weeping because I'm OUT OF CHIPS!" "I hope these chips are still around WHEN I'M SIXTY FOUR." The possibilities are endless. OMG.