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| "One more thing, I've been having this dream
Where I'm standing on a mountain
Looking down, on the street
I can hear kids in low-income housing singing
"We're through with causing a scene"
I don't know what it means
But I too, I'm through with causing a scene."-Take Your Time (Coming Home) by fun.
Now, this is a redemption song. The person, I'm going to call him Nate because the lead singer of fun. is called Nate, is recreating himself. Making himself different, for the better. (shut up, I'm bad at English). Anyway, before he was afraid of love and was coasting for the "last six years" not know what to do. Presumably, he was very concerned with other people's perceptions of him. So now, he's just saying fuck it. And good for him, because while it is important to work within society in certain regards, there are other regards in which it's good to just say fuck it.
Don't let what other people think keep you from saying what you have inside. Feelings are important and if you keep them bottled him, you will just cause a scene, which will be the opposite of what your aiming for. (These sentences are making so much more sense in my own mind that they are here) I'm through with causing a scene because what's the point? I'm so happy just being what I want to be. The point that my friend Nate here is trying to make is figure out how you feel and just scream it. Because someone, somewhere, cares what you have to say.
Honestly though, listening to this song right now makes me want to cry. It's just beautiful and even though I can't articulate what I think the meaning is, it's very meaningful to me. Same with pretty much any other song on that album.
Shut up, I'm fun.
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| During the past summer, I seemed to have developed a strange sleeping habit. That is, I go to bed somewhat late, not Sophia late but regular teenager late. Maybe 1 or 2. But then I wake up early, 8 or 9. It's strange. I thought, when I go to college, it would work itself out, either from the class schedule, stress, or time change. Nope. But what sucks is I get up this early and what is there to do? Watch tv. No one is up at these hours. This holds especially true on the East Coast because when I would wake up at 8 or 9 on the West Coast, it would be 11 or 12 on the East Coast. Perfect time to catch up on what's happening in Po-Town.
BUT, I went to college on a different coast and that means when you wake up at 8 or 9 or even 10, most people are sleeping. Especially on the weekends. But most people are sleeping everywhere. No one is up at 8AM or 5AM depending on the coast. Well, except for me. And sometimes Sophia but I would feel bad if I talked to her because she's preparing to go to bed eventually and I would feel like I was keeping her from it..
The sad thing is, right now, it's 10:30 here and I woke up at 8. The cafeteria isn't even open for breakfast yet. I've brushed my teeth, watched an episode of Dollhouse, went to the library to copy some pages of a textbook for a class assignment, and at some leftover lo mein. I'm usually not this productive. It's strange. Maybe not sad but definitely odd. For me.
Oh, on the way to the library, I saw a group of high schoolers. It made me lol because I used to be as stressed out as them. College admissions, I laugh in your face. Well, only until it comes to law school application time.
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| That is something I thought that I would never say. But here's some history between me and the fanged annoyances.
When I was in middle school, I became obsessed with Anne Rice because I was Hot Topic kid and I'm not afraid to admit it. Lestat was the best and his love or whatever you want to call it Louis was pretty kickin' too. I had/still have the entire series of the Vampire Chronicles. They were vicious vicious animals that still appreciate art and music and literature, just not the human spirit. There was something seriously messed up with that. For some reason, that was just fascinating to me.
Also, Dracula and the whole myth behind it became very interesting as well. I got The Historian and re-read it so many times, I broke it and bought a second copy. So compelling! There were more books in there but listing them would just make this post a little bit sadder. I will say that I bought a shirt that said undead. Yes, I was that cool. Also, I was a vampire for Halloween two years in a row.
Then there was Buffy. And Spike. We can't forget Spike. Or William the Bloody. (Yes, I'm a fangirl.) Not only was it involving Vampires, which at this point, there was nothing better, but it also was a show that was a metaphor for high school. (Hey, I'm dealing with all those things too. Crazy!) Brilliant writing, great actors, references to pop culture, and vampires! What can be better than that? For me, nothing.
But then these Twilight books start getting really popular. I read the first one thinking, Vampires. I'm in.
What the hell was I thinking? Twilight is a sad excuse for literature. It's written by a 13 year old with a sad pathetic understanding of how girls should act in life. Bella is a whiny, selfish brat who thinks she better than everyone else but will drop everything, including needlessly risking her life just to be around the "love of her life." Bitch, he left you. Get over it. And Edward doesn't understand boundaries is more moody than a woman who just hit menopause. There's so many things messed up about this book, it would take me an hour to explain it all. However, I'm going to assume that most people don't want to read that, mostly because there are others out there more well versed than myself who have already discussed it. Like Sophia
 I don't give a fuck if it's dangerous for you to be together. Actually, I just don't give a fuck.
Twilight was the beginning of the end. Those aren't vampires. They're wimps who happen to have fangs. And then there's stuff like True Blood. Wimps they are not. However, all they do is fuck and think about fucking. That's what humans are like. The reasons vampires were so interesting was because they were similar, but different. The differences, especially when the differences involved their mentality, are what made them special to me. They have no mystery. Sure they may have mysterious pasts or may be involved in nefarious deals, but they way they think is so predicable, the show is pointless to watch.
But since there are tweens out there obsessed with being stalked by a creepy older dude, Twilight is a hit and everyone is cashing in on the idea. There's a CW show coming out this fall, Vampire Diaries, whose premise is eerily similar to Twilight. Of course, I haven't read up on it because it just looks dumb and I don't watch anything on the CW after they canceled Veronica Mars.
They've even resurrected Buffy the Vampire Slayer. However, not the beloved TV show, the shitty movie made in 1993 where Joss Whedon was continually, from what I understand, overruled by the director. Had he had more control, I can guarantee you, the movie would have been about a million times better. Man's a genius, just saying.
Getting back to the point, they're remaking the movie. If you read my previous post, you will see that it has outraged me. Today I saw that they are making an Underworld 4. I liked the first one. It was the shit. Selene was badass. Now, I could give a crap. Also, it's in 3D. AMAZING! Still couldn't care.
But, if you want massive lols, watch Twilight the movie. It's horrible, hilariously horrible Seriously, I can't think of anything worse. When I'm laughing at vampires which are not intentionally funny, that's when you know.
Fuck you Twilight for ruining something perfectly wonderful.
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| Seriously what is wrong with the last day? Last night, I'm on twitter, yes, I twitter and it's cool to me, and I see Michael Ausiello talking about a Buffy movie but with no Joss Whedon. A Buffy Movie with no Joss simply doesn't make any sense whatsoever. That's like having a drink with salt water. It fills you up initially but you'll end up more dehydrated than when you started because deep down, you'll know there the real stuff out there. That real stuff being the amazing television show and comic book series following it. I can't even believe they're thinking about doing this. It's mind boggling and makes me want to pull my hair out. How stupid are they?
Did they not see the Dollhouse response when it was threatened with cancellation? People went fucking nuts. They broke the fox phone system and they president of Fox, or something like that, said that if he canceled it, he would've gotten a million messages expressing outrage. That would've been ridiculous. This is happening right now. Joss fans love him and love their Buffy. It's fucking holy. Don't mess with it unless you are Joss.
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, it does. Proposition 8, a.k.a. Proposition Hate, was upheld by the California Supreme Court. I can't express that sadness I feel, though I kind of expected it, which is even worse. This is absolutely horrible.
As Tom Lenk brought up on Twitter, "I mean who knew Iowa would be a trailblazing state for equal rights...what has happened to us California?"
This is unsettling. It's just so unfair and frustrating. I already gave my logic for why hating gays or at least banning gay marriage is wrong previously here and on facebook so I'm not going to write that all again but seriously? Yea, let's be more closed minded, that's definitely where we need to be.
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| Because who will I mercilessly make fun of? Normal people? No, that won't do.
Oh High School.
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