In other news. I can't dance. I flail. And hop. That's just about it. So we'll see how musical theater goes on.
Returning soon!
- Horrible Typer Type
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inkwazsilver- January 8th, 2009
ecstatic
So I'm back. Don't shun me. Obviously, I am the worst of the livejournaler types, but have returned for the New Year. Call it a resolution. So life has returned to somewhat normal. Plus drama! Not the icky omg-like-u-ttlly-stole-my-bf-go-die-biyotch drama. The AH YES! DAAAHHHLING! Welcome to the staaage! Kind of drama. It's the best. I placed a good part and I'm very excited for it.
In other news. I can't dance. I flail. And hop. That's just about it. So we'll see how musical theater goes on.
Returning soon!
- Of Garden Gnomes and Finninneganegan
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- inkwazsilver
- October 24th, 2008
indescribable
Doing some pretty serious writing this evening. I'm in the zoooooooone. The zone de mi libro. O.... mi libro en la futura (I hope that's the word for future). But I've also just started watching Dances With Wolves and.... OMC!!! THEYRE GOING TO CUT OFF HIS FOOT!!!! This would be the time to refocus my attention on the computer screen and keyboard.
I really can't say that there's much going on. I have about 200 words. What a joke. BUT! A reperable joke nonetheless. How about a joke that wasn't reperable. John Green in all his !super! was in my neighborhood on October 30th, but I was grounded! GROUNDED!!! And he was all of an hour away. I watched the clock from 5:00 to 9:00, knowing that the made of awesome author himself was all of not very far away. Aaaaaah. But I will recover!
Thirdly, the Halloween conundrum. My house is pretty strictly religious, I myself am not. That doesn't really make a difference though. It's a little bit like being that enormous one garden gnome with the red hat that everyone sees when they come to the house, so the owner of the house tries to hide it behind the boring blue-hatted ones (What? There've been worse metaphors....maybe). But that doesn't work. Sadly, that's a few more annual haunted walks missed, a few cavities gone ungained, a few scarring childhood experiences avoided. Meh. I could have done with a few more of those. Builds character.
So this Halloween I'll be spending moseying about the internet, trying to find a facebook status that doesn't concern the festivities or the emoticon- pumpkinface :P, pumpkinface :), pumpkinface :0.. Holiday emoticons are rather lame. There is no pumpkin face other than the one that I must imagine, with its tongue sticking out, which is an incredibly difficult feat if you've ever cut out a pumpkin. Correction. If you've ever cut a pumpkin when you have no artistic skill whatsoever. Or a sharp knife. That would have simplified matters a lot.
Well that completes this post of absurdity and all its strange bedfellows. And. In case you were wondering? He kept his foot. w00t!
- The Slap-down
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- inkwazsilver
- October 6th, 2008
woe is we
Here comes a rant...I am a part of a town library focused teen group. It has always been somewhat moderated. By the children's librarian no less. It has never been a problem. But this year things are different. Not only are we moderated, we are controlled. The librarian (let's address her as Librarian D) has placed herself as head of the group and disposed of the positions of president and treasurer. That being pretty much the entire board. Librarian D holds control over most everything and speaks to us as one would speak to the lap-sit story-book set. This sort of understanding, or lack thereof, spreads out into the YA group that she supposedly oversees. Who wants to come to a "Hardcore Crafts" day? But aside from lame event names, there is a greater issue. The group is losing its voice in the town. If it has not already been lost.
How can we be expected to advise the town library if we are merely the project of the library's advisers?
How can we be expected to make changes when no one will allow us?
How can we be expected to serve our community as mature adolescents if no one will look at us as anything but children?
This is the eternal struggle of each generation. Thank the cybernetosphere for a new way to be heard.
My parents call me a rabblerouser. Is this so wrong all the time? I would love to hear your opinions.
- Green Tea with Ginzzzeng
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- inkwazsilver
- October 2nd, 2008
hyper
I am convinced that school vending machines are the guardians of earth. Or the bane of all existence.
Today I purchased 8 dollars worth of bottled green tea. And I am 6/8 of the way through that stash. In....4 hours.
????WHAT????
I feel really horrible and wasteful and generally American stereotype right now. I could have donated that eight dollars to charity. Or wrapped a freshman's locker wound. Or summoned a money Buddha (which is apparently the best kind of Buddha- and the friendliest looking).
But I didn't. I bought green tea instead. With ginzzzzeng. I will probably not sleep tonight. So don't be surprised to see a post that actually means something. I've been trying to brainstorm post ideas for the last few moments and this is what I have so far...
1. Why Libba Bray should write a second series concerning Circe
2. Why green tea rockz
3. Why banning books is lame
4. Hilarious teenage stereotypes at the library
5. Being nervous for the Nick and Norah movie
6. Green tea
7. Why I should stop staring at my World of Warcraft disc and salivating
8. Writing 15 page papers the night before they're due *cough* every time *cough*
9. The repercussions of talking about the author of Truancy in English class (sound out his name. Isamu Fukui. and yes. I accidentally (?) pronounced it that way)
10. Green tea... and werewolves.... and aliens
And that's about it. I think we can see where my train of thought is going. Erm...down.
BUT! Working on a new story. And my plot is kind of kicking ass. If I may so myself. And I never ever do. Man. I probably just jinxed myself.
- I haz returned
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- inkwazsilver
- September 30th, 2008
busy
I've been away for quite some time. And not even for a good reason. Life has consisted of school, Boy Sets Fire, reading, writing, school, Boy Sets Fire, reading, writing, and so on and so forth. So I've updated this livejournal and added a bunch to my deviantart. Hopefully I'll be posting some more in the next few days. Maybe a bit about my new story? Perhaps. It's science fiction, which is kind of a new realm of madness for me. But I think the sci-fi gods are on my side. My unhealthy love affair with dystopia is beginning to surface in a way most intriguing. Such infernal devices to drag me away from geometry. w0000... geometry....
So I hope you like the new layout and adventure-some changes!
- Videosvideoseverywhere!
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- inkwazsilver
- September 2nd, 2008
chipper
As you may know, I am a youtube troller (I have sold my soul to that url). And a blog troller. And a pretty much everything else troller. But in my journeys through random, under 100 viewed videos I try to bring credit to the good ones. So. Today there will be no Charlie is So cool like or brotherhood 2.0. Instead I amd sending you to an abstract video with a lot of abstractness to it. That was explanatory. Anyway. Check out the link. It was rather intriguing. And I can't even explain why. More videos to come I suppose. Gosh. I am such a tangent hound.
- Facebook Demons and Other Repercussions of Being Addicted to the Internet
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- inkwazsilver
- August 18th, 2008
cranky
Currently, I am in a foreign country and enjoying it immensely. But the withdrawal process has been admirable and torturous. For the first six days I had no access to a computer with internet. And every compy that did have service costed an enormous amount of euros to work with. Plus, the keyboards are terra incognita. This unexplored territory has the @ symbol on the right, where the ummerrrrrr something-or-other key usually is. And while the basic QWERTYUIOP setup is the same, the symbols are still confusing. In the words of a fellow traveler "That euro symbol will be my damnation." At the moment, I had a WTF moment. But recovered quickly into understanding when I used the computer myself.
Other than that I have done very little- danced in a few graveyards, read a few books, watched some foreign punk bands (the usual). I just wanted to check in a little bit as I have this sparse five minutes. Aren't you glad that I spent it with you? *livejournal users everywhere groan*
Like this- but dark and creepy
Also- I am reading the Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and it is amazzzzzing. Everyone should read it. Like right now. As a matter of a fact I need to get back to it. So farewell for now- perhaps I'll update you once more in my travels.
- Crazily Emo-tive Poetry *snicker* and The Cell-phonic Legions
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- inkwazsilver
- August 6th, 2008
- jubilant
I have been writing quite a bit in the past few days and enjoying it immensely. As for progress on my super-secret-shh-don't-tell-anyone story, I have hit the 32 page mark. WOOOOOOOOO!!!! After this triumph, I decided to take a break and write some rather odd poetry. These have been posted on my dev-art as I work on touching up the dialogue of the prologue and first few chapters (Inner Me: Waaaaaaaaaah....I don wannnnnnnaaaaaaaa/ Outer Me with Whip: Cease thine whining foul mentality. Writewritewrite).
I'm fairly certain that adolescents (myself being among them) are 65% on our way to becoming zombies. I purchased my new cell phone two weeks ago and it hasn't been out of my hands since. Text messaging at 3 in the morning is a horrible horrible thing when you wake up at 5:30. Is anyone else addicted to their cell phones? Or am I alone in the universe? The only person to tap their fingers impatiently and try to do that crazy ribbon hair Miho thing while they wait? My latest conspiracy theory has a great deal to do with the Cell-phonic Legions and their overmasters RECEPTION *shudder*.
So go look at my poems! Unfortunately, the general mood rather matches the sort of weather that has been going around lately, which is worse than summer colds and golden-rod allergies put together (my least two favorite things about this season- oh. and people who can wear bikinis and look good- horrifying). If another drop of rain falls on top of my bookshelf than I am going to personally become a head advocate for the anti-cloud seeding movement.
My story hints for this post are: werewolf, treachery, beast-tongued, and sight.Crazy Ribbon Hair Miho Thing:
Oh my Gideon. You don't know who Miho is? As in Miho: school girl with zombie legions (I really love this word today) at her command. I command you to go read Megatokyo. It is my absolute favorite web comic of all time and deserves your viewage. Attend! This here be the first comic strip!
- A Music Meme
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- inkwazsilver
- July 22nd, 2008
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I stole this mad music meme frommyrrhcats LJ. I have been assigned the marvelous letter I (and just came off sounding like a Sesame Stree re-run) and like myrrhcatI will be posting links to youtube or myspace. It just seems like less of a hassle.
1. It Goes Off by Skybombers
I found these guys by surfing youtube. Yay! for Australian bands. Anyway, this song is really great and reminscent of their other stuff (Always Complaining, Revolution, etc.) If Where's Fluffy had a sound, I feel like this would be it.
2. I've Been Waiting by FranKo
You may know that there is to be a movie for the Georgia Nicholson series (Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging). Those books make me laugh despite myself. And It seems as if the boy who is playing Dave the Laugh in this upcoming film is in a band of his own. This British band is FranKo and he is the singer (I think). They are well worth the listen and this song has been rather stuck in my head for the past few days. As a side note, the video for the song Ultraviolet by the Stiff Dylans (sound familiar?) is outoutOUT! Go listen to it.
3. In Remote Part by Idlewild
This song couldn't be any different from the previous two picks. Softer and definitely sadder. I recommend the rest of their myspace player as well. Give them a chance. Their songs range from midieval-y kind of folk stuff to some antiquated feeling acoustic stuff. All very nice though.
4. I Don't Love You by My Chemical Romance
The video for this is classic MCR. But I really still love the chorus to this piece. Even if Gerard Way is potentially terrifying. (Quick fact: My favorite MCR video is for Helena- it it very very cool) This version is the UK single. Sorry to any American purist-types.
5. Izabella by Jimi Hendrix
This is the Woodstock '69 recording and so completely amazingly and totally made of Hendrix awesomosity. Although he might have been high at the time of this vid. He did so many amazing pieces at that particular performance. Even watching them is a serious head rush and a half.
Thus I complete this meme. Have fun listening!
- Too Lazy
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- inkwazsilver
- July 19th, 2008
optimistic
As promised, I now give you a.... book review!
Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
Audrey just isn't feeling it for her boyfriend. You know. That special click. And all he can do is talk about himself and his band and and... it just isn't working out. So she dumps him...nicely. But even the dumper can go through post-relationship lag and regrets. And it certainly doesn't help when band-boy writes a song about it. And it certainly doesn't help when that song becomes instantly popular among her peers- and then the local radio station- and then the regional radio station- and then the nation. Audrey finds herself immediately catapulted to stardom of a stranger sort, stalked and harried by paparrazzi and a bitter American public. Suddenly, everyone is interested in what she has to say about music, the breakup, and pretty much everything else. Add awesome song references, a possible maybe perhaps new love interest, and a psychokitty mean girl who -snicker- once ruled the school and you get a totally fierce and awesome story of carrying on in your life when the world seems obsessed with making you remember the decisions of your past.
I really enjoyed this book. Not so much as Nick and Norah's Infinite Awesome -cough- I mean, Playlist, but it is most certainly welcome in this quick emerging genre. Audrey is totally believable and feels alot like that music friend you know and love so well. You know, the one who starts singing obscure bands during science class. Although I found the force of her sudden popularity due to a song rather far-fetched (she gets more publicity than her lover scorned), it was still fun to see how she handled celebrity and backstabbing all in turn. Also, there was some dialogue (Curse youuuuuuu dialoooooogueeeee) of a particularly humorous degree, which made the rare awwww-the whole world is against me- why did I break up with him- whine moan mehhhh moments seem all the more misplaced. All in all. This is totally worth the read. So go! And read it!
Book review complete. Agent Reeve signing out.
