I'm crazy for this girl
The real point is: I want to get to bed earlier. For so, so long I've stayed up til midnight or one o'clock just because I couldn't stand to go to bed while the rest of my house was up and bustling. Even really if my older brother were awake in the room next to mine, it was just too obnoxious to try. I've decided once and for all to go to bed when I'm tired and done with homework, and to get offline and just get to the grindstone so my grades don't die. I'm sort of screwed with this Stat project because I'm such a lazy bastard. That's the one grade I have that's suffering. HOWEVER, that brings me to a point that's really important.
With the exception of that damnable C in Stat, I have straight A's, which is a feat I've never in my life accomplished til now. I attribute that wonder to Gunn High School. So far, I'm more far more passionate about Gunn than any school I've attended. And one of the biggest reasons for that, I won't deny, is that this is senior year and I'm living up all of it's benefits like nobody's business. I'm taking only classes I'm really passionate about, like Creative Writing, Shakespeare In Performance, and Choir (well, Contemporary World History...goddamn.) Other than that, I'm doing well for myself.
Being big man on campus, and NEW man on campus, has done me no harm at all... Well relatively no harm. Aside from the unforgettable hate note from Tina Armanante, I've been pretty well received. I said before, and I'll reiterate, Scooter Thomas Makes It To The Top Of The World was absolutely the best introduction to Gunn theater I could have possibly asked for. The show and the reaction were unprecedented and unparalleled and bring a big, fat smile to my face whenever I think about it. And after that, I'm doing The Crucible at Gunn November 13-22 (come see it, what), as John Proctor, and that's a pretty incredible experience. It's my first show with Grayson DeJesus and Jim Shelby and those are both hugely exciting to me. Come see it! It's HELLA worthwhile.
Theater this year will be ridiculous. Dan and I finished Scooter almost two months ago, and now the Crucible's about to go up, then Ben Bellamy and I start in on Lost In Yonkers, and halfway through the rehearsal block, I audition for Little Shop of Horrors at CMTSJ. Sometime in there, pretty soon actually, Grayson and Dan and I have to start American Buffalo for our senior project, and then there's one acts to reckon with as well, and then big Miss Saigon come summer time. Somewhere in that mess, Matt Sobel, Tucker Mulcahy and I are going to put on ART. That's potentially eight shows inside a school year. That is exactly my purpose for living, puting on a thousand shows at a time.
I've become quite the concert-goer thanks to Dan. He and Grayson started going to concerts and definitely got me really into it; I went to five in October. I saw Damien Rice at the Great American Music Hall on the second, James Taylor from the fifth row of Shoreline on the fourth, Kiss and Aerosmith from the lawn of Shoreline with Ashley Windham on the tenth, Matt Nathanson (and a little Howie Day) at Slims on the 23rd, and Neil Young, Dashboard Confessional, Wilco, Counting Crows, Incubus, Pearl Jam, Willie Nelson (who was legendary), and CSNY - who by far and away took the concert with their brilliance. (I got food during the Indigo Girls...) And I sort of slept through Pearl Jam, but not really. What I saw of them was good, but not as breathtaking as everyone made it out to be; probably if I were an avid fan... Point is, I saw Willie Nelson and CSNY, who destroyed me - they were both remarkable. November holds The Crucible, a Barenaked Ladies concert that I'll miss for a performance and the Mighty Wind tour that I'll miss for opening night, but Damien Rice at the Fillmore the day after The Crucible closes. And then Maroon 5 and Gavin DeGraw at the Fillmore the day after that. Also, Jason Mraz this coming Saturday - how exciting is that? Fifteen. Next month I will see Barenaked Ladies and Counting Crows. BOTH of them??? In ONE month??? Holy crap.
I asked Svetlana to Homecoming by climbing up on the roof of Spangenberg with Dan and Grayson, who took off their shirts and wore barbershop quartet hats, and yelled out SVETLANA! I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU! Grayson and Dan then unrolled this 5 foot by 15 foot banner, asking HOMECOMING? And then I yelled, WILL YOU GO TO HOMECOMING WITH ME? So we did, and that dance was the most prime ending to the most prime week of school I've ever had in my life. Homecoming at Gunn is like nothing I've ever experienced at a school ever. I got elected to Homecoming Court, which was more than an honor, it was sheer beauty. Me and Dan and Grayson on Homecoming Court made me feel Godly, really outstandingly flattering and awesome. Like Rosa. Dressing up each day of the week - Sid Vicious on PUNK day for music (mega props to Aggie Karmelita hold me tighter), Peter Pan on Movies (with Green tights ALSO thanks to Aggie) and working like a bear cutting up my four dollar polo and those old old gym shorts, and then William Wallace, with the painted face and the big broadsword I had to leave in my car. And then there was nothing, ever, like Airbands. Dancing like Michael Jackson in the swankiest outfit imaginable in front of the whole school? Looking like the foxiest, hippest man alive for less than five minutes and being more badass than I ever will again? Definitely getting a copy of the video yearbook. And you'll all see it.
And then I've a Russian, very near and dear to me. Sigh.
AND there was Halloween, where I went to Matt Sobel's house and helped him out with his Jurassic Park dealy. The thing about that is: Matt Sobel is a brilliant, determined, magnificent person, who will definitely be famous someday. He strikes me as the kind of person who, no matter what he goes into, will make something happen so incredible that no one may deny his genius. He's just too talented and too humble and too full of perseverence to not make it. I would be more than satisfied to see Matt Sobel ridiculously famous.
I'm pretty satisfied right now though.
Brill, yo.
With the exception of that damnable C in Stat, I have straight A's, which is a feat I've never in my life accomplished til now. I attribute that wonder to Gunn High School. So far, I'm more far more passionate about Gunn than any school I've attended. And one of the biggest reasons for that, I won't deny, is that this is senior year and I'm living up all of it's benefits like nobody's business. I'm taking only classes I'm really passionate about, like Creative Writing, Shakespeare In Performance, and Choir (well, Contemporary World History...goddamn.) Other than that, I'm doing well for myself.
Being big man on campus, and NEW man on campus, has done me no harm at all... Well relatively no harm. Aside from the unforgettable hate note from Tina Armanante, I've been pretty well received. I said before, and I'll reiterate, Scooter Thomas Makes It To The Top Of The World was absolutely the best introduction to Gunn theater I could have possibly asked for. The show and the reaction were unprecedented and unparalleled and bring a big, fat smile to my face whenever I think about it. And after that, I'm doing The Crucible at Gunn November 13-22 (come see it, what), as John Proctor, and that's a pretty incredible experience. It's my first show with Grayson DeJesus and Jim Shelby and those are both hugely exciting to me. Come see it! It's HELLA worthwhile.
Theater this year will be ridiculous. Dan and I finished Scooter almost two months ago, and now the Crucible's about to go up, then Ben Bellamy and I start in on Lost In Yonkers, and halfway through the rehearsal block, I audition for Little Shop of Horrors at CMTSJ. Sometime in there, pretty soon actually, Grayson and Dan and I have to start American Buffalo for our senior project, and then there's one acts to reckon with as well, and then big Miss Saigon come summer time. Somewhere in that mess, Matt Sobel, Tucker Mulcahy and I are going to put on ART. That's potentially eight shows inside a school year. That is exactly my purpose for living, puting on a thousand shows at a time.
I've become quite the concert-goer thanks to Dan. He and Grayson started going to concerts and definitely got me really into it; I went to five in October. I saw Damien Rice at the Great American Music Hall on the second, James Taylor from the fifth row of Shoreline on the fourth, Kiss and Aerosmith from the lawn of Shoreline with Ashley Windham on the tenth, Matt Nathanson (and a little Howie Day) at Slims on the 23rd, and Neil Young, Dashboard Confessional, Wilco, Counting Crows, Incubus, Pearl Jam, Willie Nelson (who was legendary), and CSNY - who by far and away took the concert with their brilliance. (I got food during the Indigo Girls...) And I sort of slept through Pearl Jam, but not really. What I saw of them was good, but not as breathtaking as everyone made it out to be; probably if I were an avid fan... Point is, I saw Willie Nelson and CSNY, who destroyed me - they were both remarkable. November holds The Crucible, a Barenaked Ladies concert that I'll miss for a performance and the Mighty Wind tour that I'll miss for opening night, but Damien Rice at the Fillmore the day after The Crucible closes. And then Maroon 5 and Gavin DeGraw at the Fillmore the day after that. Also, Jason Mraz this coming Saturday - how exciting is that? Fifteen. Next month I will see Barenaked Ladies and Counting Crows. BOTH of them??? In ONE month??? Holy crap.
I asked Svetlana to Homecoming by climbing up on the roof of Spangenberg with Dan and Grayson, who took off their shirts and wore barbershop quartet hats, and yelled out SVETLANA! I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU! Grayson and Dan then unrolled this 5 foot by 15 foot banner, asking HOMECOMING? And then I yelled, WILL YOU GO TO HOMECOMING WITH ME? So we did, and that dance was the most prime ending to the most prime week of school I've ever had in my life. Homecoming at Gunn is like nothing I've ever experienced at a school ever. I got elected to Homecoming Court, which was more than an honor, it was sheer beauty. Me and Dan and Grayson on Homecoming Court made me feel Godly, really outstandingly flattering and awesome. Like Rosa. Dressing up each day of the week - Sid Vicious on PUNK day for music (mega props to Aggie Karmelita hold me tighter), Peter Pan on Movies (with Green tights ALSO thanks to Aggie) and working like a bear cutting up my four dollar polo and those old old gym shorts, and then William Wallace, with the painted face and the big broadsword I had to leave in my car. And then there was nothing, ever, like Airbands. Dancing like Michael Jackson in the swankiest outfit imaginable in front of the whole school? Looking like the foxiest, hippest man alive for less than five minutes and being more badass than I ever will again? Definitely getting a copy of the video yearbook. And you'll all see it.
And then I've a Russian, very near and dear to me. Sigh.
AND there was Halloween, where I went to Matt Sobel's house and helped him out with his Jurassic Park dealy. The thing about that is: Matt Sobel is a brilliant, determined, magnificent person, who will definitely be famous someday. He strikes me as the kind of person who, no matter what he goes into, will make something happen so incredible that no one may deny his genius. He's just too talented and too humble and too full of perseverence to not make it. I would be more than satisfied to see Matt Sobel ridiculously famous.
I'm pretty satisfied right now though.
Brill, yo.