Why Not
i feel these tunes right here. the first magnetic fields album--underrated? i think so. just thoughts.
some more thoughts. the year is coming to an end. i feel it. too bad i'm not doing as well as i'd like, and i stopped doing homework because i felt like it. oh hey, future, i'm totally opening the window for you to fly away!!! ha, NOT. maybe? eh.
another thought. i'd like to make incredible music. take that for whatever you'd like, but that's that. beautiful, outstanding, incredible music. bah it's great.
a few more thoughts. pudding may be a favorite thing of mine. an early memory: emma frank giving me pudding for my birthday at creative arts at park the summer before seventh grade. so much, and so little, has changed.
just one more, i promise. i realized in the shower that in the cha-cha slide, i always do the part "REVERSE REVERSE" the same way, no matter what the previous movement was. i always wiggle my arms and kind of tense up my shoulders while moving them slightly backwards, which i guess looks like going in "reverse." thinking about what that movement would look like going "forwards" is funny. hi-ho.
i guess i'll answer that interview thing that wes asked. i'm bad at asking questions, so none of you get to do it, i guess. go comment on wes's page.
from wes:
1. i sense that i definitely turned out to be different from the person you may have thought i was. maybe talk about that whole thing a little?
it's funny you say that, because i kind of feel the same way, but about me, not you. it's funny "getting to know someone" without actually having a lot of in-person experience them, because you're bound to assume some things about the person that just aren't true in person. i guess that's why some people fall in love through letters, like this woman in a short story we read in spanish class once. just know that you've never disappointed, as i feel like i may have. we'll discuss in further detail l8r, i assume.
2. this stands out to me about you in particular; i think we have a lot in common but maybe just as much not in common. what do you think of this?
i think what's really interesting about you and me is that (from what i know) when we were younger, on the surface we were really really different, and we seem to have gotten to be more and more similar as the years go by. it seems like in the same environment, we might be the same person, but i think that just the fact that we go to different schools and are surrounded by completely different people effects our personalities enough to cause some differences. i think that on the whole, we're far more similar than we are different, but i think it'd be interesting to "further explore" our differences...on our own time, and when i'm not nervous about pointing out personal information about you for the public eye to read.
3. something not about me-- how does the feeling of being the lead singer in a rock band compare to being an actor? this really interests me.
it's just weird to me that that's the order that you listed it. i think i'll always be an actor in my mind first, then maybe a "lead singer" which is such a ridiculous title. acting is an old, old passion of mine that i think will always make me feel the most at home. singing and performing music is funny, just because of the distinct and very specific tastes people have when receiving what you're putting out there. while acting, people usually can't point out a specific technique that you're using, or have a specific taste outside of a like/dislike kind of thing. does that make sense? i just think that in terms of performing and acceptance, acting has thus far proved to be far more black and white than singing music in a band. performing will always be performing, but i definitely think that my confidence lies in acting.
4. what's the thing you're most excited about this summer?
honestly, getting to see people like you who i don't see enough. it's going to be great!
5. for all of your talents and various things you're interested in, is there something you know absolutely nothing about but has always seemed like a cool thing to try that you just haven't gotten to yet?
writing for a publication, and just writing in general. i tend to be really schizophrenic in my activities, so there aren't many things i know absolutely NOTHING about, i just know very little in many different fields, which i think is much worse. i wish i was a better musician, and could play an instrument. i wish i could speak another language really and truly fluently, and then when i learn that one, learn a few more. i think it'd be cool to be a translator. i want to be a really good card player, or a really good painter. i'd like to be an awesome chef, but only for my "significant other." there are so many things i want to do, and i won't finish until i've done all of them.
-sam
some more thoughts. the year is coming to an end. i feel it. too bad i'm not doing as well as i'd like, and i stopped doing homework because i felt like it. oh hey, future, i'm totally opening the window for you to fly away!!! ha, NOT. maybe? eh.
another thought. i'd like to make incredible music. take that for whatever you'd like, but that's that. beautiful, outstanding, incredible music. bah it's great.
a few more thoughts. pudding may be a favorite thing of mine. an early memory: emma frank giving me pudding for my birthday at creative arts at park the summer before seventh grade. so much, and so little, has changed.
just one more, i promise. i realized in the shower that in the cha-cha slide, i always do the part "REVERSE REVERSE" the same way, no matter what the previous movement was. i always wiggle my arms and kind of tense up my shoulders while moving them slightly backwards, which i guess looks like going in "reverse." thinking about what that movement would look like going "forwards" is funny. hi-ho.
i guess i'll answer that interview thing that wes asked. i'm bad at asking questions, so none of you get to do it, i guess. go comment on wes's page.
from wes:
1. i sense that i definitely turned out to be different from the person you may have thought i was. maybe talk about that whole thing a little?
it's funny you say that, because i kind of feel the same way, but about me, not you. it's funny "getting to know someone" without actually having a lot of in-person experience them, because you're bound to assume some things about the person that just aren't true in person. i guess that's why some people fall in love through letters, like this woman in a short story we read in spanish class once. just know that you've never disappointed, as i feel like i may have. we'll discuss in further detail l8r, i assume.
2. this stands out to me about you in particular; i think we have a lot in common but maybe just as much not in common. what do you think of this?
i think what's really interesting about you and me is that (from what i know) when we were younger, on the surface we were really really different, and we seem to have gotten to be more and more similar as the years go by. it seems like in the same environment, we might be the same person, but i think that just the fact that we go to different schools and are surrounded by completely different people effects our personalities enough to cause some differences. i think that on the whole, we're far more similar than we are different, but i think it'd be interesting to "further explore" our differences...on our own time, and when i'm not nervous about pointing out personal information about you for the public eye to read.
3. something not about me-- how does the feeling of being the lead singer in a rock band compare to being an actor? this really interests me.
it's just weird to me that that's the order that you listed it. i think i'll always be an actor in my mind first, then maybe a "lead singer" which is such a ridiculous title. acting is an old, old passion of mine that i think will always make me feel the most at home. singing and performing music is funny, just because of the distinct and very specific tastes people have when receiving what you're putting out there. while acting, people usually can't point out a specific technique that you're using, or have a specific taste outside of a like/dislike kind of thing. does that make sense? i just think that in terms of performing and acceptance, acting has thus far proved to be far more black and white than singing music in a band. performing will always be performing, but i definitely think that my confidence lies in acting.
4. what's the thing you're most excited about this summer?
honestly, getting to see people like you who i don't see enough. it's going to be great!
5. for all of your talents and various things you're interested in, is there something you know absolutely nothing about but has always seemed like a cool thing to try that you just haven't gotten to yet?
writing for a publication, and just writing in general. i tend to be really schizophrenic in my activities, so there aren't many things i know absolutely NOTHING about, i just know very little in many different fields, which i think is much worse. i wish i was a better musician, and could play an instrument. i wish i could speak another language really and truly fluently, and then when i learn that one, learn a few more. i think it'd be cool to be a translator. i want to be a really good card player, or a really good painter. i'd like to be an awesome chef, but only for my "significant other." there are so many things i want to do, and i won't finish until i've done all of them.
-sam