A Tale of Two Orchids, Man

We had a debate today in class, I was dreading it the whole day. It got so bad that I had to pray before leaving to get through it. I do NOT do well in debates, and it wasn’t so much as the speaking publicly that got me on edge, but the actual debating of a point and the fact that I’m more laid back than what is normally expected of people in a debate. All through it, I kept thinking that what I would have to say would somehow be irrelevant to the topic at hand and someone would look at me with dull eyes and basically tell me I was stupid or something like that. Now, in the past I wouldn’t have said anything and let my group or the side I was on speak, but I did say SOMETHING (although I didn’t quite get it out right the first time which was embarrassing).

Oh, forgot. I should probably tell you what the debate was about.

We read Susan Orlean’s “The Orchid Thief” about John LaRoche after he stole a bunch of orchids from the Fakahatchee strand in Florida. We also watched the movie “Adaptation” about Charlie Kaufman and what he goes through during the time he tries to adapt “The Orchid Thief”. Then, we had to find the central argument of each one and debate on which one conveyed the message in a better way.

I thought both were boring. The book was more boring than the movie, but I thought the movie was a bit wacky in some places — *cough* the end *cough*. However, I could say more stuff about the movie. Maybe I shouldn’t have gone over to the book side. Whatever, It’s too late now since we’re done and my participation grade probably isn’t gonna go up now.

Man, I really wish I didn’t freeze up during debates.

Cupid–While In A Chokehold–Eats Breakfast In America

I was surfing around youtube the other day and came across this video about where Daft Punk gets their samples. I love Daft Punk, by the way. So I started wondering who else sampled music because I know other artists did–Kanye West is an abundant music sampler. I wen to the site that was in the link www.ishkur.com and checked out Gym Class Heroes just for fun. It turns out that they sampled “Breakfast In America” by Supertramp. I heard the song and was surprised at how similar it was even up to the “Take a look at my girlfriend…” part. So, for your listening pleasure or displeasure, here it is “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp :

Crap… I can’t upload music on here… that sucks! I guess I’ll just paste a link to it

Breakfast In America

I Will Accept Nothing Less Than Your Complete Respect…

I went to work yesterday… it was fine when I got there at around 3:00 but then at around 5:00 or so, I wasn’t feeling cheerful at all–well, less than cheerful than I was that morning. I used to get bad headaches before and I started getting them again… maybe this time I really need to get new glasses, or maybe it was just the stress of school starting tomorrow. I’m not ready at all, and on top of that, my French class starts at 8:30 and ends at 9:20–which is early for me because I have to take the bus at 7:21. (My friends get up at around 6:30 everyday and basically make fun of me for thinking 7:00 is early… I haven’t been used to getting up that early for almost three years) Oh, and my Music class starts at 9:30. So I have 10 minutes to walk from one side of campus to the other… I’m trying to change it but I don’t think I can. I’ll just have to walk quick then.

So anyway, I was in the break room complaining to my friends that I was starting to get a headache and wanted to leave–I seem to do a lot of that–it got better though during the day. Sarah came over to Wal-Mart on my lunch break because her mom had to buy blinds so we just hung out for about half an hour. I was so forgetful yesterday though. I forgot to get people change, I forgot to ring up coupons, I also forgot my locker combination for a while, I forgot to clock out for lunch–but then I did that five minutes later. I forgot to clock back in… someone had to remind me. It was not a good day at all.

Moonlight Sonata (First Movement, Op. 27, No. 2) — Beethoven

Yes… that’s the piece I’m practicing right now. Notice that it’s “piece” and not “song” because there are no words. Um… I wanted to write about something but I don’t remember what. Crud… well, my head hurts. It’s been hurting since church this morning. It got worse at work around 8:30 and kept getting worse. The immense pain is dying down though because I ate something when I got home. Although, I do attribute the headaches to the fact that I have been wearing my glasses all day for four years when I’m supposed to wear them at school to see far or at work and I was supposed to change them about two years ago. What can I say, immense laziness is one of the things I’m extremely good at. Anyway, I’m thinking about going with my mom to get new glasses because she hasn’t changed hers in over two years also and I heard there was a buy one get one deal somewhere… yeah. I’m so glad I don’t work again until Friday but my name badge is busted. I really don’t want to have to wear it around my neck but I might have to.
And for your listening enjoyment (If you like classical music)…

Moonlight Sonata…not by me!

It’s Your Turn To Take A Seat, We’re Settling The Final Score

This was a long time ago, back when the only console my cousins had was a Nintendo 64. Back when Nintendo 64 was the most recent Nintendo game console so far. Back when my cousin was still crazy as hell doing his signature “Oh woolfy” dance–a parody of one of Tex Avery’s cartoons where the blond woman is singing about a wolf for some reason–but let me get back on the subject.

So we were playing Mario Party… I don’t remember which one and I actually don’t remember if it was even Mario Party or Mario Kart… maybe it was Mario Kart. Of course I was Luigi, while my younger cousin, Dennis, was Bowser or something. So we’re driving along when suddenly Luigi says “O-ho… Niño!” or maybe it was “Ojo… Niño!” because he ran into a wall–that performance was a mess (it was my first time playing N64, I had a playstation and that was all I played)–and then I thought, “He spoke Spanish!”. I think I said that out loud also because I was surprised that he spoke for the first time–at least it was my first time hearing him speak–and not only that but it was Spanish–well, I thought it was Spanish, I still don’t know…. So at that time I was thinking that Luigi spoke two languages thus coming to the fact that he at least knew something Mario didn’t. This made me very happy.

Remember, I was in jr. high at the time.

King Bowser… Mutated Turtle?

So I was talking to my friend a while ago while I was playing Paper Mario. I was at the 2nd or 3rd act, or whatever it is, when I realized that Bowser was roughly the same color as koopas in the game and has a shell. I’m guessing that koopas are evolved turtles that walk upright… and talk.

I did some research–wikipedia–into what Bowser may be, apparently nobody knows either but according to one of his names in Japanese “King Koopa” it got me thinking that he may be in “reality” a giant koopa, but then I thought, “Weird yo…” because of the fact that he has spikes on his shell and breathes fire.

Are they evolved specimens with the same common ancestor and Bowser is just more evolved than them… or are they, in fact, a completely different species?

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Sorry, too much Human Origins, now I can’t even enjoy video games like this

The iPhone

This is a post from vox’s question of the day… that’s the  only reason I’m keeping my vox page really. I’m kind of tired of how it looks but I like the fact that you can write something even when you don’t have anything to write about. Too bad wordpress doesn’t have a feature like that. Anyway, here’s what I think about the iPhone

I thought about getting an iPhone, but then I decided not to because 1. I don’t have enough money and 2. I don’t really want to be able to surf the net on my phone, though listening to music on there is great. I don’t care about all those doodads, personally, I’d only want to watch movies on a BIG screen–my TV screen is not that big but you get the point. I want to go back to the days when a phone was just a phone… good times

Cinderella Told Me To Tell You To Have A Magical Day!

This happened a while ago… I don’t know why I didn’t write about it yet, but here goes.

I’m signed up on deviantART–if you don’t know what it is, it’s a website to post up your artwork, poems, all that–so I logged on a while ago and I saw that I had a new note from storiesthatneverwere. Anyways, it said that she and a few people were trying to write a script for a new Nancy Drew game and she asked me that if it ever got picked up by HerInteractive, if I wanted to do the conceptual drawings. Wow… well I said yes. That was so awesome I mean, it’s so surreal you know? I’m just waiting to hear anything else about it.

How Emo I Is

I was bored and wanted to take a quiz so here it is…

La Sua Figlia…

Well, I got a B on my Physics test last week. It was on trigonometry and conversion, but this acceleration stuff was hard! I got my history test back and I got a B too. I was so surprised, I usually don’t get a good grade twice in a row on tests in different classes… that was my lucky week I guess. I was so happy that I couldn’t wait to get home and tell people–or rub it in to people that didn’t think I was serious enough to pull off anything higher than a C–but now, I guess it’s not that big of a deal anymore.