I've been up to stuff, yes.
Umm...wow, so much is/has happening/happened!
So, the other day, my mom and I went into Berkeley and tried to search for good thrift stores that my mom's friend's daughter said were there...but we couldn't find any. *sadsad* But, we did spend about the whole afternoon in Half Price Books. ^^ I got my summer reading books Frankenstein and Crime and Punishment, as well as How To Understand Music (not that I don't, it's just a must read) and The Belljar. I've dying to read the Belljar for a while now, so if I ever finish my summer reading and the essay that comes with each, I'll get a start on it. Thank goodness I've already read Crime and Punishment, so I just have to skim/read to review it. I also got CDs while at the bookstore: "Tommy: Deluxe edition" (with all these bootlegs and studio extras on the second disk!!!!), a Greatest hits of Duran Duran (because 80s music is actually good. My mom grew me up on that 80s stuff), as well as "No Quarter" by Page and Plant. Haha, it's an unplugged album! I've been dying to hear it, but the computer always freezes up when I try to rip it. :( Anyways, back to the books. Of course, I'm going to read the new Harry Potter...man, I'll be a busy reader. I dunno about HP, though. It's been falling from my favor since the 5th one. >.< Hopefully the last one will redeem the series. I used to be a huge fan, but now...I'm just reading the last one so I can know the end. *shrugs* Anyways, another afternoon, we were out to breakfast/brunch and had some time to walk around, so I voted for another half price bookstore (I swear, I'm obsessed), where I leafed through a bunch of books, but mostly The Autobiography of Monty Python by the Pythons (or something like that) and somehow, I convinced my mom to get it for us. ^^ It's this huge volume all filled with pictures and stories about how they wrote for the show, filmed, and everything. I'm having fun with it, no doubt. Just hearing about the start of the Parrot Sketch or the Gumbies or the coconuts in Holy Grail etc. etc. is fascinating! ^^
Oo, and we have these two foreign exchange students from China at our house. They're middle school aged girls. They're really shy, though. :( But, thankfully, we had my dad's business partner and his neice from Taiwan over to dinner last night, so we were able to talk to the girls through them. He always threatens to take us to Taiwan to stay there with either him or his neice. They're really awesome people. I really hope they take us someday, even though I don't know a lick of Chinese. ^^ Anyways, during dinner, we asked them to start and take some food, but they only took a little bit. They said that they were afraid they'd get fat! I was really taken aback by that. They're way to young to be worrying about such a thing! Hey, I think I'm even too young to think about getting fat. :P But seriously, they won't drink soda or eat too big a portion for dinner. And it's not just that they think American food will do that to them, they're like that even with Chinese food! I dunno. That just really irks me. REALLY irks me...
So, since they're staying in the guest room, which is where my computer is, I'm on my mom's computer in the office (in the middle of everyone tromping about... heh.) It's kinda weird not having my own computer to go on...without my music...unable to get new music...none of the sites remember my password for me (oh what a headache that part is, haha)...etc etc. Plus, there's no printer on this computer. I STILL need to look for a good picture to print out as a poster on the rasterbator. Seriously. I cleared out a whole bunch of wall space next to my Pirate flag and my Mew poster for a few posters! Now, I need one.
I spent all day watching rockumentaries. ^^ Go me! I watched one on Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast" album and one on The Who's "Who's Next" (aka: Lifehouse rehashed), as well as a bit of "Gimmie Shelter" about the Rolling Stones and their free concert on the motorway near SF. I really love the clips from the concert. ^^ That poor Mick Jagger has no fashion sense. :P It makes me laugh the whole thing through! That's ok. That's why we still love em, right? ^^ Anyways, the other two rockumentaries were awesome as well! I've always enjoyed what Iron Maiden I've heard, as a friend gave me a CD of titleless tracks. I can't listen to titleless songs, sorry. I just can't. But, he told me some of the titles, so I've heard a few, really. I dunno, I really to like em! Watching about an album, though, is really quite fascinating! Cuz then they show what inspired them and about the band at the time and what they really meant in the song, etc. etc. I've had the song "The Number of the Beast" stuck in my head the whole day, too. Ooo, but the one on "Who's Next" was AMAZING! I think of most Classic Rockers, I can relate to Pete's songwriting the most. Like he was saying that he didn't enjoy the acid trips so much as actually pinning down the generation to figure out who they were. And I have a hunch, that I could understand "Lifehouse" even though nobody else really did. Seriously, give it a try! I wish they could've done that film. Either way..."Who's Next" is a brilliant album! And the rockumentary was filmed when John Entwhistle was still alive. *sniff* That was really cool. They had bits of him rocking away on his bass to "My Wife". They do that on this rockumentary series. They pull back one of the mixing faders and then they play the guitar solo, sing, whatever live right there. Like in the one I saw for "Night at the Opera", they had the guitar solo from Bohemian Rhapsody! Oh...to die for. ^^ Anyways, those pretty much are awesome. I have the DVR set to record all of those, so I'm sure I'll be getting quite educated about the Classic Albums. ^^ Shame I'm the only one who'll watch them. Well...my mom watched the one about U2's "Joshua Tree". She's a die-hard U2 fan... I, well, they're just ok. Bono's cool and all, but we all know who's way better. ;) Pretty much every Classic Rocker. ^^
We've been watching movies that we've recorded on the DVR too. (Yeah, we recently switched from TiVo so we could record the extra cable channels like Vh1 classic) We watched "Alice's Resteraunt" with Arlo Gutherie actually in it! That was pretty cool. I liked the plotline when it coincided with the song, but otherwise, it was alot about the hippie lifestyle of the kids that lived in and around the church that Alice and her husband owned. It was kinda sporatic to me. And someone always dies in those kind of movies. lol, they always do. Hmm...Yeah, it was alright. It was worth it to see Arlo Gutherie play and for the song played out in the movie. ^^ Literally, they had the lines that he says in the song in the movie. He actually says "Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envalope under that garbage." XD That part's really good. Heehee, especially the judge with the seeing eye dog! ^^ Man, I love that song. Oo, another movie that we watched, I just wanted to watch because Ringo was in it. It was called "That'll Be the Day". It was basically the story of this guy who drops out of secondary school in his last year and becomes a "failure" because he doesn't go to university. And then it's all about his love life. The whole resolution, though, lamely enough, is for him to run away from his wife and baby just like his dad did to his family. Then, it shows him buying a guitar...then the credits roll. >.< Not a very good life lesson, really. But Ringo is funny! ^^ Heh, he has quite the tatoo in the movie. I was the only one in our family really laughing at the jokes in it, too. Ah well. It was just ok. If you're gunna watch it, just watch it for Ringo.
Man...I'm long-winded, eh? Anyways, I just got a call from my uncle from Nebraska. Their family's taking a roadtrip across the states. They're going to be here between our trips to theBob Dylan concert and the Christian Music festival (which none of my friends can make it to). That'll be fun. We'll get to do the touristy SF stuff with em. *sigh* And my uncle's travelled all over and picks up languages amazingly fast. I did inherit that gene (if only just partially), but I have nobody to teach me any languages. He got me all hyped up talking about Copenhagen and where our anscestors are from in Sweden. Now I REALLY wanna go...now. Please? *sigh*
And now to my f-list browsing...
Katrina
So, the other day, my mom and I went into Berkeley and tried to search for good thrift stores that my mom's friend's daughter said were there...but we couldn't find any. *sadsad* But, we did spend about the whole afternoon in Half Price Books. ^^ I got my summer reading books Frankenstein and Crime and Punishment, as well as How To Understand Music (not that I don't, it's just a must read) and The Belljar. I've dying to read the Belljar for a while now, so if I ever finish my summer reading and the essay that comes with each, I'll get a start on it. Thank goodness I've already read Crime and Punishment, so I just have to skim/read to review it. I also got CDs while at the bookstore: "Tommy: Deluxe edition" (with all these bootlegs and studio extras on the second disk!!!!), a Greatest hits of Duran Duran (because 80s music is actually good. My mom grew me up on that 80s stuff), as well as "No Quarter" by Page and Plant. Haha, it's an unplugged album! I've been dying to hear it, but the computer always freezes up when I try to rip it. :( Anyways, back to the books. Of course, I'm going to read the new Harry Potter...man, I'll be a busy reader. I dunno about HP, though. It's been falling from my favor since the 5th one. >.< Hopefully the last one will redeem the series. I used to be a huge fan, but now...I'm just reading the last one so I can know the end. *shrugs* Anyways, another afternoon, we were out to breakfast/brunch and had some time to walk around, so I voted for another half price bookstore (I swear, I'm obsessed), where I leafed through a bunch of books, but mostly The Autobiography of Monty Python by the Pythons (or something like that) and somehow, I convinced my mom to get it for us. ^^ It's this huge volume all filled with pictures and stories about how they wrote for the show, filmed, and everything. I'm having fun with it, no doubt. Just hearing about the start of the Parrot Sketch or the Gumbies or the coconuts in Holy Grail etc. etc. is fascinating! ^^
Oo, and we have these two foreign exchange students from China at our house. They're middle school aged girls. They're really shy, though. :( But, thankfully, we had my dad's business partner and his neice from Taiwan over to dinner last night, so we were able to talk to the girls through them. He always threatens to take us to Taiwan to stay there with either him or his neice. They're really awesome people. I really hope they take us someday, even though I don't know a lick of Chinese. ^^ Anyways, during dinner, we asked them to start and take some food, but they only took a little bit. They said that they were afraid they'd get fat! I was really taken aback by that. They're way to young to be worrying about such a thing! Hey, I think I'm even too young to think about getting fat. :P But seriously, they won't drink soda or eat too big a portion for dinner. And it's not just that they think American food will do that to them, they're like that even with Chinese food! I dunno. That just really irks me. REALLY irks me...
So, since they're staying in the guest room, which is where my computer is, I'm on my mom's computer in the office (in the middle of everyone tromping about... heh.) It's kinda weird not having my own computer to go on...without my music...unable to get new music...none of the sites remember my password for me (oh what a headache that part is, haha)...etc etc. Plus, there's no printer on this computer. I STILL need to look for a good picture to print out as a poster on the rasterbator. Seriously. I cleared out a whole bunch of wall space next to my Pirate flag and my Mew poster for a few posters! Now, I need one.
I spent all day watching rockumentaries. ^^ Go me! I watched one on Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast" album and one on The Who's "Who's Next" (aka: Lifehouse rehashed), as well as a bit of "Gimmie Shelter" about the Rolling Stones and their free concert on the motorway near SF. I really love the clips from the concert. ^^ That poor Mick Jagger has no fashion sense. :P It makes me laugh the whole thing through! That's ok. That's why we still love em, right? ^^ Anyways, the other two rockumentaries were awesome as well! I've always enjoyed what Iron Maiden I've heard, as a friend gave me a CD of titleless tracks. I can't listen to titleless songs, sorry. I just can't. But, he told me some of the titles, so I've heard a few, really. I dunno, I really to like em! Watching about an album, though, is really quite fascinating! Cuz then they show what inspired them and about the band at the time and what they really meant in the song, etc. etc. I've had the song "The Number of the Beast" stuck in my head the whole day, too. Ooo, but the one on "Who's Next" was AMAZING! I think of most Classic Rockers, I can relate to Pete's songwriting the most. Like he was saying that he didn't enjoy the acid trips so much as actually pinning down the generation to figure out who they were. And I have a hunch, that I could understand "Lifehouse" even though nobody else really did. Seriously, give it a try! I wish they could've done that film. Either way..."Who's Next" is a brilliant album! And the rockumentary was filmed when John Entwhistle was still alive. *sniff* That was really cool. They had bits of him rocking away on his bass to "My Wife". They do that on this rockumentary series. They pull back one of the mixing faders and then they play the guitar solo, sing, whatever live right there. Like in the one I saw for "Night at the Opera", they had the guitar solo from Bohemian Rhapsody! Oh...to die for. ^^ Anyways, those pretty much are awesome. I have the DVR set to record all of those, so I'm sure I'll be getting quite educated about the Classic Albums. ^^ Shame I'm the only one who'll watch them. Well...my mom watched the one about U2's "Joshua Tree". She's a die-hard U2 fan... I, well, they're just ok. Bono's cool and all, but we all know who's way better. ;) Pretty much every Classic Rocker. ^^
We've been watching movies that we've recorded on the DVR too. (Yeah, we recently switched from TiVo so we could record the extra cable channels like Vh1 classic) We watched "Alice's Resteraunt" with Arlo Gutherie actually in it! That was pretty cool. I liked the plotline when it coincided with the song, but otherwise, it was alot about the hippie lifestyle of the kids that lived in and around the church that Alice and her husband owned. It was kinda sporatic to me. And someone always dies in those kind of movies. lol, they always do. Hmm...Yeah, it was alright. It was worth it to see Arlo Gutherie play and for the song played out in the movie. ^^ Literally, they had the lines that he says in the song in the movie. He actually says "Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envalope under that garbage." XD That part's really good. Heehee, especially the judge with the seeing eye dog! ^^ Man, I love that song. Oo, another movie that we watched, I just wanted to watch because Ringo was in it. It was called "That'll Be the Day". It was basically the story of this guy who drops out of secondary school in his last year and becomes a "failure" because he doesn't go to university. And then it's all about his love life. The whole resolution, though, lamely enough, is for him to run away from his wife and baby just like his dad did to his family. Then, it shows him buying a guitar...then the credits roll. >.< Not a very good life lesson, really. But Ringo is funny! ^^ Heh, he has quite the tatoo in the movie. I was the only one in our family really laughing at the jokes in it, too. Ah well. It was just ok. If you're gunna watch it, just watch it for Ringo.
Man...I'm long-winded, eh? Anyways, I just got a call from my uncle from Nebraska. Their family's taking a roadtrip across the states. They're going to be here between our trips to theBob Dylan concert and the Christian Music festival (which none of my friends can make it to). That'll be fun. We'll get to do the touristy SF stuff with em. *sigh* And my uncle's travelled all over and picks up languages amazingly fast. I did inherit that gene (if only just partially), but I have nobody to teach me any languages. He got me all hyped up talking about Copenhagen and where our anscestors are from in Sweden. Now I REALLY wanna go...now. Please? *sigh*
And now to my f-list browsing...
Katrina