Artificial Amore

I fucking love Ed Harris.

Hi!

Wow. Livejournal. It's been a long time.

I feel like an absolute traitor coming back to write here after cheating on it for so long with Facebook and Myspace. I have one miss Marie Mosot to thank for re-electrifying my love for lj, and hell, I haven't even met her yet.

Sooo..what to say..I'll be leaving soon for Carleton College(minnesota) for a three week hardcore writing program with kids from all over America (and Turkey too I think? and Venezuela?) which is where I will make some future friends, like Marie, then I'll come back to New York in time to visit some pennsylvania colleges and do Twelfth Night in the Shakespeare Summer Seminar! Pretty bee busy.

I don't have much else to say, I need a bit more time to get back into the swing of things, but I think I want to reacquaint myself with this journal once again.

Finally tried my hand at myspace.
Computer's half assed so I can't post pictures yet
which is the whole point of having a myspace.
I'm working on it.

Les Mis is over.
Pictures can be found at
http://community.webshots.com/user/one_gopher_left

So my dad and I fight every day now and today I was extra mean and then he just stopped yelling and began to walk into another room and as he walked away he said "I wish you were nicer to me" in this hurt voice and i've NEVER heard my dad sound hurt before cause he's this toaster oven bitch right, but now i feel awful and i'll feel better if i post i love my daddy here. I LOVE YOU DADDY.

Also, I love prom and all the drama it's causing + the fact that my life has become similar to every high school movie ever made and I love every minute of it.

Last year in May I made a list of potential prom dates for this year because I was afraid I would ask someone too late and have no one to go with. There were eleven people on the list and I want to post it because it's funny and shows how pathetic I was/am but I won't because it's also awkward.


I also joined Yoga Club!

Les Mis sucks.

I like the people.
I like the rehearsals.
I like the songs.

Just. This show really sucks.

They aren't even putting "Whore" in the
program for my fellow whores and I.
Apparently they were afraid we'd get angry letters from appalled parents.
I mean come on, since when did Yeara avoid angry letters.
I think being a whore in this show would merit some recognition.
Even "Woman of the Night" would work.

Sooo disappointed.
I hope we do Grease next year.

After four months, two weeks, and one day:

Day One of Break-up
Number of Kleenex boxes used: 2

Number of gloating I-told-you-so's: 1

Number of Ben&Jerry's Chunky Monkey pints consumed: 1.5

Number of times I've snapped at a friend because of bad mood: 3

Number of Disney movies I've watched where I turn it off right before the obnoxious couple lives happily ever after: 2

Number of times I've used profanities to describe the upcoming Valentine's Day: 15


I think it's going well.

I read Cat's Eye for BritLit. I liked it a lot.
Also, I was nostalgically surprised with this particular excerpt.

page 328

"Stratford is only on in the summers, though. She will have to think of something else for the winter...

She got the job at Stratford with the help of one of her Earle Grey cousins...She is one of Prospero's attendant spirits in The Tempest, and has to wear a body stocking, with a gauzy costume on top, sprinkled with dried leaves and spangles. 'Obscene,' she says. She's also a mariner in the first scene; she can get away with this because of her height..."

page 330

"Cordelia gets me a free ticket to Stratford, so I can see her in action. I go on the bus. It's a matinee: I can get there, see the show, then take the bus back in time for my evening shift at the Swiss Chalet. The play is The Tempest. I watch for Cordelia, and when Prospero's attendants come on, with music and jittery lighting effects, I peer hard, trying to see which one she is, behind the disguise of the costume. But I can't tell."

It's funny, because clearly these directors made the spirits wear black masks too.
Yeara was also going to make the Ariels wear body stockings. Pretty much everyone blew up at him for that. I miss Shakespeare.

Hey guys.

Shakespeare is half over.
Pictures are up. They're not as good as others might have and definitely not as good as the shakey website but they exist nevertheless.
http://community.webshots.com/user/one_gopher_left

Also, everyone seems to have a set mind that Yeara is retiring next year for sure. I really don't think he is. I'm not like in the denial phase, I just really don't think he would do that, not with our class. I'm not going to worry about it until he makes it official.

It's weird getting back to being home at three. There's so much time to do whatever I want. It's like summer vacation but with school sometimes.

Is anyone else getting ridiculous amounts of parental pressure about college lately?

I'm mostly asking for gift certificates this Christmas. I used to have all this specific crap picked out, like two years ago I wanted an Arctic Twister Ice Cream Maker, purple colored, with the extra ice cream mix pouches and chocolate sprinkles. I was just entering BCHS and I figured having my own ice cream maker in my house would help me make friends.

I was/am a really lame kid. I think gift certificates would be good presents now though. I'm starting to hate my old clothes (neon tights, fuzzy pink pants) and admire people wearing abercrombie and american eagle. I don't think I'm growing out of my old me, I just think I'm realizing how weirdly different I was from everyone else.

I can't believe I used to paint my shoes.
And wear lollipops in my hair.
And that homemade hat.

My god.

I thought I was so unique and cool.

This isn't a real entry or anything.


Just doing my part to promote THE TEMPESSSST because I failed at my Merchant Ads for the performance program. The guilt has been eating me up inside.

So here we go guys, everyone everyone everyone MUST see this show because:

1) It's on TWO weekends rather than one like other high schools so you can't use the "oh...i'm busy this weekend..." excuse because we made two weekends for your own convenience so take freaking advantage of that.
2) Rockmore and Liam will (hopefully if they don't suck) have amazing light and sound effects in this play that will blow your mind.
3) Some shows have Zelda ocarina and harp playing and ALL shows have singing and dancing cheorographed(sp?) by super Molly Moriarity so you will be entertained whether you like it or not.
4) Codpieces.
5) Drunken singing.
6) Transvestite teddy bear.
7) Jacob Abolafia yells a lot.
8) Intermission food.
9) Water nymph outfits.
10) 39 sexual double entendres in the entire play.
11) Popi Sen student directed. Make your own assumptions.

ALSOOOOOO On certain nights- Me, Becca Lewis, and Tess Avitabile will be bitching it up as "Tricksy Ariel 1,2,and 3." Then on other nights, Molly Moriarity, Caroline Lang, and Madison Serras will be rocking out as "Delicate Ariel 1,2,and 3." This means everyone has to come twice because we're all that good.

For to coordinate your viewing schedule:

TRICKSY - Friday 12/2 7:00pm
TRICKSY - Saturday 12/3 2:00pm
DELICATE - Saturday 12/3 7:00pm
DELICATE - Sunday 12/4 2:00pm
DELICATE - Friday 12/9 7:00pm
DELICATE - Saturday 12/10 2:00pm
TRICKSY - Saturday 12/10 7:00pm
TRICKSY - Sunday 12/11 2:00pm

Double-casting is confusing as hell so you're welcome. Good, so come twice, and I mean everyone - including you all from other schools. Yaaaaaayyyyyyy.

ummm.
bye!

So as promised, I've posted the much anticipated pictures of rehearsal at Yeara Estates a.k.a. Willow Cabin Studios (that what he called it) on Webshots.

http://community.webshots.com/user/one_gopher_left
Under Day at Yeara's House

They're not finished yet as I still have some on another memory stick because these are pictures spread across two days. It still works though, I'll put the others up later.

Ummm...lemme know what you think!
It's actually the coolest house in the world. He has all the Buffy DVDs.
And various pictures of himself. And Lord of the Rings action figures. And a giant owl statue sitting on his television. And a giant tarot card on his wall. And his walls are decorated with medieval weaponry.

I want my house to have cool stuff like that. Plus a pool. And a slide instead of a staircase. And a firepole from my room to the kitchen. And a secret passageway from my kitchen behind the fridge to the wine cellar. And a vending machine. And tons of skylights. And a jacuzzi.
I'm going to have a really cool house.