Things I want to steal from the school.

This week is my last week of year 12. That means that I'll have to give back all the textbooks I borrowed over the year. Unfortunately, I'm finding it difficult to part with some of them. So that I feel better about parting with them, I'll write the titles here so I can buy them later. Clever me.

The Century of Invention: Piano Music of the 20th Century.

Selected and Introduced by Maurice Hinson.

 Just a collection of sheet music. I performed two songs from this book, and played a few more just for fun. Such a shame to part with this one, I've had it for two years. My teacher told me that this book is quite pricey, but I found it here and could save 56 cents.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

I had to read and analyse this for English Studies, then wrote a paired text essay for it with Fly Away Peter by David Malouf. All Quiet on the Western Front is a really good read, and I really want to read it again  just for enjoyment, without having to analyse every quote for possible essay questions. I'm too lazy at the moment, though, so I just want to buy it and read it later.

Lieder ohne Worte: Songs Without Words

Felix Mendelssohn

OH, THE HORROR! I was tempted to steal this book. Another collection of sheet music, this had one of my favourite pieces in it: Op. 102 No 4. Definately buying this one at some point in my life. I don't want to forget this song.

Grande Sonate Pathetique: Piano Sonata in c minor op. 13

Ludwig Van Beethoven

C'mon. It's Beethoven. Need I say more?

The World's Contracted Thus: Major Poetry from Chaucer to Plath

Edited by J.A. and J.K. McKenzie

I like poetry. Shut up. T.S. Eliot has got to be my favourite. I would keep this copy but it's actually my teacher's from high school. I assume she did what I'm tempted to do, but I can't be sure.

I think that's all for now. If I find any more books I'm tempted to steal, I'll let you all know, because I know how much you care. And I'm touched.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

- P. J. O'Rourke

Stalking interweb celebrities since 2009.

I haven't been on the interweb in a while. But that's ok (Not for you, I know you've missed me), I've been studying for exams! Here's my checklist so far:

[ x ] Music

[ x ] English Studies

[ x ] Physics

[ x ] Maths Studies

[ - ] Chemistry

As you can see, I have one to go! I'm taking a break today because I had three exams this week, (Maths was today) and Dad is making me. I'm wasting my time on one of my favourite websites, http://www.27bslash6.com/. This is the guy that wrote the 7-legged spider email. This guy actually makes me laugh out loud, so I could write "lol" if I wanted to. But I won't. Ignore that last one.

ANYWAY. I was reading his site and I am aware he's from (R)Adelaide. I live in Adelaide so it's AWESOME that he does too. I could see him around and not know it. Why do I keep getting off-topic? Ugh. I'll start a new paragraph.

I was reading his blog or whatever it is. The funny articles. And I found a photo he'd posted that had a desk. On the desk, it had what I assumed to be his company name.

Being the stalker I am, I googled this, and I found David Thorne's workplace. It wasn't hard. I'm not a super-spy or anything, so please don't freak out and start asking me to stalk your favourite celebrity. Please, no. Stop. *waves hand dismissively* I even got to see the pictures of he and his collegues in a 'professional' light. How cute. Another interesting thing is that I have walked by this workplace many times. I MAY MEET HIM ONE DAY. If I do, I'm taking a photo. Awesome.

For those who have never seen his blog, I'll post a short quote of it here. And yes, this will count as this post's "quote."

Click here for the full post.

Google Images

Google Images is useless. I used it once to search for a photo of farm equipment and it showed me twenty thousand pictures of horse dicks.

Chatrooms

If I wanted to chat with strangers, I would pick up the phone and press random numbers. I tried a chatroom once and was talking to guy who claimed he was an obese fifty three year old man living in a caravan park but there is no way of knowing if these people are telling the truth.

Twitter

Why would I want anybody I don't know knowing what I am doing? I don't yell out to everyone in the supermarket "I am buying oranges" so why would I want to do it on my internet? When I was young, I lived in a small village where everybody knew each other and knew what everyone was up to. There was a fat italian kid who lived next door to me named Tony. One day I shot him in the leg with a home made bow & arrow from my treehouse that overlooked his yard and his parents called the police. Within hours the entire village was calling me William Tell. Having escaped the small town mentality for the last fifty two years, I am hardly going to advertise my movements now.

The Bath Mat

I realise this is not internet related but I cannot understand why it is so hard for people to hang the bath mat over the bath when they are finished using it. I don't leave the mat all soggy for other people to walk on after I have been in there.

Facebook

I have a photo album on my bookshelf full of faces of people I know which I haven't opened since 1982 so why would I want their faces on my internet? None of them are even very good looking. I tried facebook to see what all the fuss was about and was only on there five minutes before some idiot poked me. It is easy to be brave when you are on the internet.

Reddit / Digg

These sites are the online equivalent of walking down the street, finding a rock shaped like a frog and holding it up in the air while yelling for all my neighbours to come out and tell me what they think of my frog shaped rock. My neighbours can all go to hell. Especially Mrs Carter in number three who leaves her bins out all week. If I did find a rock shaped like a frog, I would throw it at her.

Email

People are always sending me all kinds of rubbish. Why would I want dozens of pictures of lots of love cats? I hate cats. I went away for a week recently and when I got back and checked my email, I had eight hundred and forty three messages. Eight hundred and forty of these were adverts for viagra and the other three were pictures of lots of love cats. I bought a 'no junk mail' sticker and stuck it on my modem but nobody has taken any notice.

POKEMON JAPAN GAME DS WOW. (Plus a new cute thing that connects to your DS :D)

OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OMG. OH EM GEE. GUESS WHAT?

What is it?

NEW POKEMON GAME COMING OUT.

Aren't you a bit old for that?

No. No one is ever too old for Pokemon. Especially not me.

Dude, I played it when I was like 8 years old. I'm over it.

WELL I'M NOT. And ever since Pokemon Yellow, the first one I played, they have been my favourite games of all time. When the next games came out, I was really disappointed that your Pokemon don't follow you anymore like Pikachu did in Pokemon Yellow.

Get a life, Ojaye.

I HAVE A LIFE. I DO. But I like these games. So for those who care as much as me, I'll list what I know about these games so far.

Please don't. I don't care.

SCREW YOU. If you don't like it, stop reading! >=(

Alright I will.

• 
  
  They'll be Gold and Silver remakes.
• 
  
  They'll have Pokemon that follow you around.
• 
  
  There will be something called the PokeWalker. Looks interesting. You can see the PokeWalker in the Japanese trailer below. IT'S CUTE. It's like a little Pedometer that you can send pokemon from your DS to this thing. When you walk around, your pokemon's health and happiness goes up and you can also catch pokemon and send them to your DS apparently. There will be items and a diary too. There's other details and stuff I've missed, because I should be studying right now. To read up more about the PokeWalker, which I think is awesome, click hereeeee!
• 
  
  It'll be out in America in Spring 2010.

SO FAR AWAY. I have to wait so long. Maybe I can get my hands on a Japanese version for a while. When Pokemon Platinum came out, I tried playing it in Japanese because I couldn't wait, then I gave up because I was too lazy to figure it out. Anyway, here are some trailers I found. One is in English and one is in Japanese.

"I haven't seen this many strange letters since I placed an ad in the personals!"
-James, Pokémon 3

The Central Station is aliveeee, with the Sound of Music (aaaahhh)

I love this. Central Station Antwerp - The Sound of Music

Over 200 dancers at the Antwerp train station, Belgium.


I would so play the game in today's quote.

I like video games, but they’re really violent. I’d like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It’d be called ‘Really Busy Hospital.’
- Demetri Martin

11:30am - 3am

Morning: Wake up.
Do homework.
Evening. Go to restaurants. Stay out til 3am. Sleep.

I'll talk about my amazing food adventures later. I love food.

SUMMER HOLIDAYS = FOOD FEST FRIENDS!

Get your notes back soon, ladies. If this thing is going to go ahead we have to start planning.

"Does China have an Australiatown?"
- Jordan, my brother.

Stuff makes me better than you.

Two comics that I love: explosm.net and theslackerz.com. They both have had something in common recently. Talking about HAVING STUFFZ. I find it amusing when people get NEW STUFFZ and they think that they're better than everyone for having NEW STUFFZ. It hasn't happened recently, but I have encountered it in the past. People can be so silly. I love you, people.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Click here to read the theslackerz.com comic you see above.

Love, Me.

"I believe he is unconscious, though with Meres it is difficult to tell."
- David Callan

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MY DEAR, DEAR CREATORMARARAM

Happy Birthday, Mara.
Let's put as many 'inside' jokes as we can into one line/paragraph/whatever.
Creator. Maram. Felix. You lose forever.
I love you!
*long, suffocating hug*


On a completely unrelated matter,

Today someone was talking about what song they wanted at their funeral. I want "Wheel" by John Mayer. Here's the lyrics and video, in case you're interested, which you're probably not, but I don't really care. You don't have to watch it, seriously. hah.



 People have the right to fly
And will when it gets compromised
Their hearts say "Move along"
Their minds say "Gotcha heart"
Let's move it along


And airports, see it all the time
Where someone's last goodbye
Blends in with someone's sigh
Cause someone's coming home
In hand, a single rose


That's the way this wheel keeps working now
That's the way this wheel keeps working now
And I won't be the last
No I won't be the last, to love her


You can't build a house of leaves
And live like it's an evergreen
It's just a season thing
It's just this thing that seasons do


And that's the way this wheel keeps working now
That's the way this wheel keeps working now
And you won't be the first
No you won't be the first, to love me


You can find me, if you ever want to give
I'll be around the bend
I'll be around the bend
I'll be around, I'll be around
And if you never stop when you wave goodbye
You just might find if you give it time
You will wave hello again
You just might wave hello again


And that's the way this wheel keeps working now
That's the way this wheel keeps working now
You can't love too much, one part of it(repeat)

I believe that my life's gonna see
The love I give return to me
I believe that my life's gonna see yeah
The love I give return to me.
I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give
Return to me





SO YES. AWESOME. Do that for me, yes?

“I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you’re really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you’re saying: ‘Hope I don’t get chased today.’ ‘Be nice to people in sneakers.’”
- Demetri Martin