Hooray for Kylie Minogue! Arc
Hooray for Kylie Minogue!
Arc of a diva | Salon.com
song of the hour: goo goo dolls – here is gone
runner up: common rotation – savior
“So smile for the camera
(hand shaking for the front cover)
Make sure you capture the good side of the…
(breathtaking for a last supper there are no party favors when everyone feels they’re the…)
Savior, they’re the Savior…”
discoveries of the past few days…
So many people I know have such interesting stories about their love lives, from the charmed romance to the heartbreaking disaster. I was thinking how fun it’d be to do a little collection of short stories documenting short and sweet vignettes offering insight into the modern college student’s experiences in love. now, how’d i’d write it and pull it off is another thing. it’s time to work dem writing chops!
.. and speaking of writing chops. what happened to mine?? at one time, I was sort of decent at doing this “english” stuff. ok, I’m going to brag here, since it sort of came up over the weekend, and I hadn’t thought about it for quite a while. this miss pearl whose blog you are reading now was, despite her crappy high school gpa (hahaha) was quite the test taker. I got a 1430 on my SAT, which I took 4 times trying to break 1500. I probably should have studied a bit, although the time I didn’t study, the test was easy enough for me to nap after finishing my verbal sections early — and for me to get a perfect 800! the only catch was that I got a 620 on math (ouch!). I got a 790 on my SAT II writing, after getting a 590 the first time. (yay!). AP testwise, I got a 5 on my English Language and a 4 on English Lit (I slept a little bit too much during the test on this one. heh). I napped during *all* my important tests. and while I didn’t too fantastic, I did decently well.
so the big question is: what happened? see? test scores are clearly not everything, as proved by ME. it gives me a little bit of consolation in how smart I supposedly am, but it doesn’t really make me feel any better. i’ve been on dead brain mode for the past couple of years and have been struggling to get back in the swing of things. I miss my brainy environment at home. how did I get so ditzy?! oh yeah.. that’s right, I started majorly slacking. -sheepish-
.. which is exactly what I’m doing now, isn’t it? heh. ok, I guess it’s time to get back to work.
a few pearls of wisdom from a new friend…
paraphrased from my very faulty memory.. but this is what i got out of it:
it’s easy to forget a thing’s uniqueness after a while. you take for granted those qualities that make it lovely and good. and the thing’s uniqueness that’s easiest to forget is often your own, because, well, you live with yourself, you spend the most time with yourself. but you take for granted those very things that make you special, and it sometimes takes an outside person to say “hey” and remind you.
the goal of our time here is to maximize one’s own identity, because after all, there’s only one you out there, and it’s your job to be the best you you can be. so make the most of what makes you unique, make the most of what you can bring to the world, because no one else can do it the way you do. and once you get to that point where you can make the most of yourself, then you’re in this place where you’re at peace with yourself, you realize what you can do, and who you are and what matters and what doesn’t in this world… it’s a beautiful thing.
song of the hour: goo
song of the hour: goo goo dolls – here is gone
BOY does johnny reznick know how to write a good hook!!!
oh goodness! I forgot to update music since my birthday! two new additions to my cd collection:
kylie – fever
the first one (the one I specifically requested since that “outta my head” song was, well, being true to its name) was kylie minogue’s new album fever. remember kylie? I was a fan of her back when she made her debut in the 1988. 1988!!! that’s what, fourteen years ago?? my gosh. anyway, she’s still been around, constantly reinventining herself. she’s the australian madonna!
her reintroduction to American audiences pushes her new even more hot-sexified image,* from the J. Lo style dress she wears in the video for “outta my head,” the pictures in the liner notes, to the porn style way she performs some of her songs. and oh yeah, kylie sings too. Fever is a shameless dance/pop album.. but a really GOOD shameless dance/pop album. each track is at once infectious and funky, tricking out with the computerized synth beats and effects while filling out with sexy bass grooves and 70s style anthemic disco funk. it gets a little over the top at certain points, especially with the cheesy “give it to me.” however, that one major misstep is made up for tenfold by the rest of the CD, especially by standouts “love at first sight,” “outta my head,” and “in your eyes.”
avalanches: since i left you
I’ve taken a couple of listens so far, and it’s EXCELLENT. each song is a dizzying amalgam of a crazy assortment of samples — of random music, tv shows, movies.. I heard something like 10,000 different samples?! — but this mixup madness somehow makes for glorious music. I haven’t listened to closely to this cd just yet (haha, I’ve been in a cheesy pop mood, if you couldn’t tell), but i’ll update this review after I do. =)
footnotes:
*kylie’s image for the album right before this one, light years, which came out during the sydney olympics, made full use of her amazing legs and ass-revealing boy shorts. this is how mariah carey SHOULD have worn her “loverboy” era daisy dukes.
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thank you for a wonderful birthday!
to those of you who came by to help me celebrate my birthday on friday, thanks. =) it was wonderful seeing so many of you come out! it felt like a joyous reunion, not just for me, but for everyone else who got to see people they also don’t often get to see. seeing you again reminded me that i am so so so incredibly lucky to have such wonderful people in my life, that I have such good and loving friends, and that i am, for whatever reasons, someone you care about. a huuuuuuuuge hug to the folk who made it and those who sent along well wishes! i love you all.
whoohoo!!
so trashed.
I’ve never been so trashed in my LIFE.
18 shots of soju. 2 of them as soju bombs. in two hours. boy did I have a lot to drink! but boy was i having a good time! brian won has kindly documented the evening’s festivities and shared them with the world. 0_o. It’s kind of embarassing, but i guess i permit you to have a couple of laughs at my expense. -smile- feel free to message me and poke fun at me. i’d at least like to know who’s looking at them! YEEESH!
morning after was no good. woke up at 7am with a terrible hangover. I took a glass of water and went to bed, and woke up around 2 or 3 feeling much much better.