Having seen Daywatch on Friday night my new favourite language is Russian. I want to be Russian. I want to name my children Russian names. Like Yegor and Anton, and Svetlana. Or Olga. But my first born son will be called Søren. After that guy in Aqua. He's Finnish.
And Conor should be in there somewhere. Yeah.
- Location:T119
- Mood:
in love with Russian
HEY ELLA THIS IS AN UPDATE TO MAKE YOU FEEL SPECIAL.
HI!!
Ella my life has been crushed because I found out that Crispin Freeman is 18 years older than me. He can't marry me. I'm crushed.
- Location:T110
- Mood:
crushed
I haven't written an LJ entry in so long that I'm going to align my paragraphing to the right.
Today was our first day of make up in The Crucible. Because it's stage make up we had to go two shades darker and Brittany did my make up and poked me in the eye because I wouldn't close it. Brittany's evil.
But in other Crucible news: I miss two days of school for it. Monday and Tuesday are devoted entirely to practicing, then on Tuesday some schools come in and watch us and we're filmed. Also on Monday and Tuesday lunchtime we get to go around and promote The Crucible. I plan on going up to people and shouting at them (ie. if I saw Milly) "I SAW GOODY DOLE WITH THE DEVIL!!"
- Mood:
blah - Music:Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth - The Dandy Warhols
Lol. One.
Today's Latin lesson was so fun! All the people who take Biology are away on camp today, so in Latin Mr. Burney brought us Milo and we had to ninja sneak along the corridor to fill our cups up with water. The sneaking was ruined though, when a Chem class came out and said they wanted Milo, and the teachers were looking at us weirdly. AND MR. BURNEY BROUGHT US PAIN AU CHOCOLAT. IT WAS SO GOOD.
And we watched insane videos on Caligula and Nero. They used weird phrases like 'Evilly suggestive caresses' and 'Nero's thin, husky voice rang out across the arena'. It was great. But Mr. Burney told us we'd see Andy, the Poster Boy for Latin, and we didn't. That made me sad.
In other, more Crucible-y news:
scott's package.
- Mood:
yay for latin and caligula
On Thursday? I was in the library, had just grabbed some books to read and I sat down and looked up and there was Bonnie in the British poetry section. So we went to the art gallery so we could be pretentious and cool. And because our bags were heavy and Bonnie wanted to eat her lunch. In the art gallery we were immediately distracted by the modern Maori cloaks and how fugly they were. We really wanted to touch them but didn't. Then we went upstairs (braving the terrifying picture stairs) and found this children's art detective activity room or something. We wanted to do the art detective thing but none of the pencils were sharp. So instead we used the magnets on the magnetic wall to spell out our names. Then we were taking a picture with Bonnie's cellphone, and the art gallery attendant man came in (HE WAS SO INCREDIBLY GAY, IN THE LITERAL SENSE) and he said "You're not really supposed to be using your camera, but I'll allow it. The way I see it, it's your art and you own the copyright to it. But don't stand there too long, there's a security camera right in front of you." And we stayed in the art gallery until it closed.
On Friday night it was MOVIE NIGHT!! At Holly's house. We watched Slither at Myren's insistence, but it was gross and why was the baby holding a tomato? Seriously, no explanation, it was just there, holding a tomato. Then because Rosa didn't want to watch Reservoir Dogs we went to the DVD store and got Cube 2: Hypercube, American Pie, My Girl, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Sixteen Candles. We watched American Pie then An American Werewolf in London, then Harry Potter. But we got bored halfway through and Daniela and I started wrestling. She's such a fucking pansy, I pinned her a gazillion times. And how come Harry Potter is so long? We were fighting for about 4 hours. Then My Girl. It's so sad, I fell asleep.
Then I had Crucible practice for 6 hours. I'm not kidding.
- Mood:
tired
Last Friday was Swimming Sports, and on Saturday I got drunk at Milly's house!!
- Mood:
devious - Music:The Sound of Settling - Death Cab for Cutie
School has been the shizz this week.
Classics - Miss McDowell. Managed to freak out the whole class with 30 seconds of talking "My partner died and I have a new one." While she moved on with other stuff about herself, Lucy and I sat there wondering where to look.
Latin - Gah this looks ridiculously hard but I got Daniela in trouble because I revealed to Mr. Burney when she was 'sick' at the Cena Romana last year she was actually at Burger King/Merivale Mall with Gen-Gen. And Mr. Burney gave us Document Wallets and Bull Clips. Then he told us we wouldn't need our 2B8 books this year, so the first time I've ever gone to effort in covering my books, I don't need them.
IT - Today = Best Lesson EVAH. No one has internet yet, so our teacher (forgotten her name but she's peppy and rather like a kindergarten teacher) told us that we needed to decorate the box our Document Wallets will be held in. Milly and Ella and I took this as an excuse to put pictures of manga and movies we like on it.
English - Wide Reading sounds like the stupidest thing ever. I'm not allowed to read Garth Nix because his books 'are directed at a younger audience.' But the list of authors we're not allowed to read didn't say we couldn't read Marjane Satrapi OR graphic novels, so I'm going to re-read Persepolis and take down the man!! Oh and those bitches (actually I'm quite ambivalent towards them) Claire and Lydia stole my seat so I couldn't sit with Della and Gen-Gen.
Maths - Once again, neither Gen-Gen nor I had our calculators. So we did nothing. Well I drew some probability trees and that was it.
Theatre Studies - We watched the Girls' and Boys' High production of My Fair Lady while Mrs. Officer talked to people outside the class. It was boring. But OK.
I love Classics.
- Mood: optimistic
- Music:You're Crashing, But You're No Wave - Fall Out Boy
We have Mr. Weakley as our form and English teacher (he's so good, Bonnie cried when she found out she didn't have him), and in my class are Della, Gattey and, for the second year in a row, GEN-GEN!! So that means another whole year of jokes about anal, anime porn, and sex in general. And we get to be in the same English class again.
The only thing I'm a teensy bit worried about is that Della and Gen-Gen broke up yesterday. Della was really upset in assembly, because I think Gen-Gen did it in a bit of a dicky way. Then again, Della broke up with Myren shitfully, so Gen-Gen breaking up with Della for no reason at all is kinda like karma. But still, it's horrible for Della. She was taking it pretty well today though.
- Mood: ecstatic
- Music:American Idol on TV
And proving, once again, no one ever invites me anywhere except birthday parties, no one asked me if I was going to Sparks. Not that I even really wanted to go, but it would have been nice to have been invited. Hell, if someone had even been interested in what I was doing it would have been nice.
Harriet had Strep throat in the last two weeks or so. Seeing as I didn't spend much time around her during the days when she was 'highly contagious' I thought I'd be fine. But no. On Sunday night I felt a little tickle in my throat; I thought it was going to end up being a cold, but on Monday my throat felt worse (not too bad though - well enough that I went to Milly's house, saw the cutest, most ridiculously tiny kitten in the whole and then we went to see Borat) and I was all shaky and felt a little like I was about to pass out. Tuesday I felt shit but had to go for my Restricted test. It made me want to cry but I passed. The testing man was horrible.
Then last night (which was still Tuesday) I felt so crap that Mum took me to the Emergency 24 Hour Pharmacy Doctor place and he gave me Penicillin and Ibuprofen (which he said would be Nurofen, but he lied). And I don't know if it was because I'm allergic to Penicillin (which we don't think I am), or because I had too many drugs in my system, or because I hadn't eaten anything at all that day, but I threw up. Four times. And by the fourth time there wasn't anything in my stomach so I was just dry gagging. Which is not pleasant.
And now, after all my fucking effort of organising Della's party I might not even be able to go because I'm so sick. I feel a little better today, but I'm really not sure if I'll be OK by Friday. So everything's just great.
- Mood:
sick
Okay, what the fuck. It was Rubie's birthday party last night (and still is this morning. I got around six hours of sleep, Rosie, Rosa and Bonnie even less as they went to the beach at 4.30 a.m.) We watched three of the most bizarre movies EVAH.
The Doom Generation: Supposedly this sexual thriller or something, a couple called Amy and Jordan met up with this guy called Xavier, but all these people kept thinking Amy was someone they knew, and so everyone tried to kill her. And throughout the duration of this thin plotline, Amy lost her virginity to Xavier, Jordan to Amy, and while we were promised gay sex the closest it came to was a three-way. Then Jordan died because white supremacists who were in love with Amy cut off his erect penis. "Suck my fuck." "Anus-face!"
'"You're ah, giving me an erection"
"You're repugnant!"'
Nowhere: By the same director as The Doom Generation and starring Frank the bunny from Donnie Darko as Dark (he was also Jordan in TDG), some weird kid. And he had weird friends. I didn't really understand anything about it, but Dark kept seeing this godzilla-type alien vaporizing people and he freaked out. He was also in the shower thinking about nearly kissing his gay classmate Montgomery. Except I think that was a dream. I really couldn't tell. THEN all this stuff happened with all these people I wasn't interested in that I could tell you about but won't. The exciting thing that happened was, Montgomery, the most adowable boy in the world, who had been vaporized by the alien, went over to Dark's house and was all "I got abducted, they did tests on me. I'm not gay but I love you. You're perfect." And then Dark kissed him on the forehead, and Montgomery said "Do you mind if I sleep here tonight? I just really want to sleep next to you." and Dark said "Only if you promise never to leave." AWAAAH!! Then Montgomery started choking, and Dark screamed "MONTGOMERY! TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG!! MOONNTTGGOOMMEERRYY!!!!" and then Montgomery turned into an alien bug. And that was the end of the movie.
Coming of Age: Vince's weird porn. It was just weird. It got boring, every time someone had sex you'd think "Man, this is like an advertisement for why NOT to have sex!" They all looked so uncomfortable, and this one woman kept going "Nyeh, nyeh!" And Russell...Just, oh god. He was the unattractive 60 year-old one. It was terrifying.
- Location:Allie Ryburn's bedroom
- Mood:
what the fuck! - Music:The dulcet tones of Bonnie turning her magazine pages
- Music:Dance Dance - Fall Out Boy
I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo amped for Armageddon. I know it's in April, but it will be the shizz. I want to go see the Dragonball Z Kamehameha Contest, where people compete with the best Kamehameha. AND there's a pillow fight. AND the voice of Naruto is coming. AND OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY FUCKING GOD I DID NOT KNOW THAT BRIAN K. VAUGHN WAS COMING! HE'S AMAZING! He writes Y: The Last Man. OHMYGOD. This is fucking brilliant. And some boring Star Trek and Stargate: SG1 people are coming. BUT BRIAN K. VAUGHN AND THE VOICE OF NARUTO!! Ohmygod. I'm so getting a free Naruto card signed. Fuck yes.
ANDANDANDAND:
Heath Ledger is the Joker in The Dark Knight.
- Mood: amped
- Music:Lua - Bright Eyes
My Big Day Out itinery: (this is a just a list of people who look interesting. 'Cause seriously, there's nothing going on until about 2.)
The Tutts 1.34-2.00 p.m. (Green Stage)
Hot Chip 2.45-3.30 p.m. (leave at 3.00 to go see The Vines) (Boiler Room)
The Vines 3.00-3.45 p.m. (I don't know if I'll leave this early or go to My Chemical Romance late.) (Green Stage)
My Chemical Romance 3.20-4.10 p.m. (Blue Stage)
Wait, WHAT THE FUCK AM I GONNA DO BETWEEN 4.10 AND 7.00?!?
The Killers 7.00-8.00 p.m. (Blue Stage) OH GOD I'VE JUST REALISED THE MINT CHICKS AND THE KILLERS ARE ON AT THE SAME TIME The Mint Chicks 7.30-8.15 p.m. (Green Stage)
Muse 8.00-9.00 p.m. (Orange Stage)
Tool 9.00-10.30 p.m. (Blue Stage - I don't personally want to see them but EVERYONE I'm going with wants to see them. EVERYONE.)
Violent Femmes 10.45-11.45 p.m. (Green Stage)
And I might go see Die! Die! Die! at 12.45-1.15 p.m. if I have nothing else to do. Now I'm selecting bands from their names. Like The Demi-Whores have a good name. I don't know.
- Mood:
confused - Music:Happy Birthday to Me (Feb 15) - Bright Eyes
I saw Babel last night, because in a sort of pre-Golden Globes frenzy we're going to all the movie that are nominated.
It followed four interlocking stories, starting with...
1. Yussef and Ahmed, two Morroccan children whose father was sold a gun to protect his goats from jackals. Whilst trying to see how far the gun would shoot, they shot at an American tour bus, inadvertently hitting...
2. Susan (Cate Blanchett), on holiday with her husband Richard (Brad Pitt). The nearest hospital was an hour and a half away, so they take Susan to a nearby village, where they have to wait for an ambulance and a helicopter to take Susan to a proper hospital. Meanwhile, their children...
3. Debbie and Mike, back in America, are taken to Mexico by their nanny because she couldn't find anyone to take care of them during her son's wedding. Her nephew, Santiago (Gael García Bernal) takes them back to San Diego that night, but at the border he freaks out and makes a run for it, abandoning the children and Amelia the nanny in the desert. As we go back and forth between these stories we learn that Yussef and Ahmed's gun originally came from...
4. The father of a deaf-mute Japanese girl, whose mother committed suicide some time ago. The girl, Chieko, is going through a sort of emotional breakdown; when she realises boys her age treat her like a monster because she cannot hear or talk, she goes a little crazy and does scandalous things like taking off her panties in the JPop and trying to seduce both her dentist and a cop who comes to talk to her father about his gun.
Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt definitely won't win Best Actor globes for their roles, because in total they were both in it for about 20 minutes.
- Mood:
calm
- Music:Crooked Teeth - Death Cab for Cutie
For New Year's I watched The Brothers Grimm alone. It was ridiculously scary. Then I had to sleep downstairs alone, and I played Thirteen Tale from Urban Bohemia too loud and couldn't sleep. I'd fall asleep, then when the CD went onto repeat I'd always wake up when Horse Pills was playing. I was too stupid to take it off repeat.
In the past week I have seen:
The Queen
The Prestige
Marie Antoinette
And I liked all three, but the last two the best. I think Helen Mirren will probably get an Oscar nomination for The Queen. Yesterday after we took Hannah to the airport we went to Travis Swamp and went for a walk, and I found out that I missed Becky by about 10 minutes. We even saw the same cat! It was freaky.
Oh and I've decided I don't like Star Wars: A New Hope. In the first hour, nothing happens, but we do get to see Mark Hamill's ugly mug a lot.
- Mood: blah
The USAFIS (something abou the Green Card Lottery) is incredibly creepy. My sister went to their website, and started to fill out a Green Card application form, but when it asked for her credit card number, she exited the page...
Yet somehow they know our phone number, which she typed in on the application (BUT DID NOT SUBMIT!) So they just called her, asking why she wanted (or in her case did not want) to get a Green Card. And then, after she'd dealt with that, she opted to be taken off their mailing list. And they just called her again. I said she was out though, and then they asked if she had a cell phone, and I said no, and then they asked who I was. I told them I was her sister. WHAT did they want with my name?!?
In other news, went to the doctor about my faintness. I have low blood pressure (something about 90/40...What does that mean?) and if I stand up too quickly it drops even more. So everything's good! I just need to move my legs before I stand up.
I've been reading about everyone's great buys during the Christmas sales and now I want something incredibly cool, incredibly cheap. I don't think that's gonna happen any time soon.
- Music:Invincible - Muse
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