Morning Sleet

apoetreflects: “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:29:43 -0500

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”

—Jorge Luis Borges

eltangodelamuerte: Beats

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:46:52 -0500

eltangodelamuerte:

Beats

zeriddle: “I love sounds just as they are.”

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:44:31 -0500

zeriddle:

“I love sounds just as they are.”

Photo

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:41:17 -0500

nmemagazine: Picture of the day - Chris Brown gets attacked by...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:40:24 -0500

nmemagazine:

Picture of the day - Chris Brown gets attacked by a seagull

Heh

Good day

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:37:07 -0500

It’s been a nice day. Today I saved one goal (crucial for my team to win), and scored two goals in soccer. The teacher seemed really happy, and people were saying that I’ve improved. I really doubt that in one day someone can go from an absolute failure to being an ‘alright’ player. It’s really just circumstance, the goalie wasn’t looking, was afraid of something that was going to happen to him. Regardless, I’m going to try to practice sports more often, maybe try playing with my friends at the gym during lunch instead of reading. I read way too much. I’m currently reading Les Misérables, which is an amazing book but just isn’t the kind of book to get a C-/D+ grade for. The plot is absolutely amazing, and doesn’t just follow Jean Valjean and his life. God I hate that red line underneath ‘Valjean’…There it is again.

I heard that J.K Rowling is writing a new book which is targeted at adults (although that definitely won’t stop me from buying it!). I was extremely excited and have only just calmed down enough and stopped calling and talking to people on Facebook and Skype so that they too can enjoy this magnificent news. I’m honestly really excited, I’m a huge Harry Potter fan and read one of the books at least once or twice every month (I’ve been doing this for about three years) and I went to the Harry Potter premiere and it was just amazing.

Speaking of Harry Potter, I really need to see AVPM. All these people are talking about it on Harry Potter fanpages all the time, I’m going to watch the whole thing tomorrow. I saw the first two parts, and didn’t really like it, but have been advised to, uh, try to ignore the first two parts. The best parts come at the end. Except for “Goin’ Back to Hogwarts!”. That song is amazing.

cabinporn: Shipping container house in Iceland. Photo by Bryce...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:19:04 -0500

cabinporn:

Shipping container house in Iceland. Photo by Bryce Johnson.

cabinporn: Härjedalen, Sweden. Submitted by Mats Andersson.

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:17:09 -0500

cabinporn:

Härjedalen, Sweden. Submitted by Mats Andersson.

Various Talks

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:00:10 -0500

I’m really bad at gym. Really. I was the goalie today in soccer. Absolutely horrible. My team got two goals, and then I went on and let three in. I feel incredibly stupid. Maybe I should do what Jim Morrison did, and get out of class by saying I have a brain tumor. Or maybe I should just break a leg. No, I shouldn’t.

Some teachers from my school played two sounds today: Roadhouse Blues by The Doors (I think) and Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles. Never mind, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Roadhouse Blues. It was a song by Etta James (R.I.P).

I’ve got this short story project, where I have to pick a story and write about the literary devices used (allusions, onomatopoeia, symbols, hyperbole, oxymoron, etc.) and present it in class. I’m horrible at presenting…almost as bad as I am at gym, actually no, I’m much worse at presenting. I had Geography last semester, and the culminating task was to pick a topic (maybe about the environment) and present about the topic, and if it was a problem, try to solve it or provide adequate solutions. I got 16/40 on my Oral Presentations section, and got 64% on that project. I was alright in everything else. Now, I presented it alright, about half-way only though. After that I made some stuff up, stuttered, and mumbled my way through it, but that’s not the worst part. We were supposed to make a PowerPoint to aid the presentation (which I did) but I was so nervous that I forgot all about the PowerPoint and didn’t move the slides. /facepalm

But, Blur are back! Huge fan. Have all their songs, which are the most played on my iTunes. :D

My average last semester was really bad, I need to get better, and actually try. People always say that I don’t apply to myself, which I think happens to almost every kid at least once or twice when they’re in school. I started of English with 91.6% and got 100% on two assignments but I had some trouble with Art. I can sketch and shade, and draw basic things but had trouble with this exercise on the Elements and Principles of Design. Line, color, balance, stuff like that. I didn’t have gym clothes for the first week of school, and the teacher marks out of 5, and coming to the gym with proper clothes counts for 1/5. Participation 1/5, Leadership 1/5, Sportsmanship (I think) 1/5. I’m probably going to end up in the high 80s for English and Science, and low 80s for Art. Maybe 75-76% for gym. All those years of online games have ruined me…

I’m trying to stay away from online games, Facebook, that stuff because I don’t want to get distracted. Tumblr is fun though, and it’s not the kind of thing that I can get addicted to, so I can balance studies with this perfectly fine.

I played some Assassin’s Creed 2 today, really fun game. I bought it before the summer holidays and at first I didn’t really play it much. I think I got home, put the guy into the Animus and stopped played for about 6 months. But it gets more and more fun the more you go into the game. The story line seems really amazing and Florence looks beautiful.

I’ve got to set the table for dinner now.

cabinporn: San Cassiano, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy. Photo by Tim...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:12:40 -0500

cabinporn:

San Cassiano, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy. Photo by Tim Maides.

nmemagazine: The new issue! World exclusive Blur...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:43:42 -0500

nmemagazine:

The new issue! World exclusive Blur interview

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Busy

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:05:00 -0500

Busy day today. Was a volunteer in a marathon to raise money. Played Modern Warfare 3 with cousin, I ended up losing 5-8, then managed to convince him to play that Survival mode or whatever. That was fun, I like being good at things that I’m not really that good at. Then went to a family gathering, ate tasty food, trying my hardest to watch dramas, but just couldn’t get myself to take the characters seriously because about 5 people tragically die in every episode, and when someone wasn’t dying or crying or having this intense staring competition with someone, they were riding motorcycles and talking about the weather. I’m not active, but I played this really fun game of hide-and-seek in the apartment (which you’re not supposed to do, especially a teen like me…) with my cousins, but then they left. Then I remembered that I’ve got an English test tomorrow.

Oh god, please let a blanket of snow fall from the sky and just cover everything, and please make it so thick that no bus can come so that I can have a snow day. I really like English, but all I’ve done in preparation is memorized the most common literary devices, I still need to know the elements of a short story and all that other stuff. When I say blanket of snow falling from the sky, I mean, um, if you’ve read the graphic novels Bone, in the first book, at around the middle there’s a page that shows a blanket of snow falling on the lovable protagonist. I sound so stupid, I haven’t read the Bone books for a while now, I managed to read them all in September when I found the whole series in my school library.

I’m hoping that tomorrow I’ll be able to watch an independent British comedy. I don’t know why, but something about independent British comedies that revolve mostly around the coming-of-age genre interests me. What am I saying?! The teen genre is pretty closely linked to coming-of-age. I sound like an idiot.

I should probably stop typing and try to review short stories for my test. Okay, bye.

cabinporn: Muir Trail Hut, at 12,059 feet, in the Sierra Nevada...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:59 -0500

cabinporn:

Muir Trail Hut, at 12,059 feet, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. Built in 1930 by the Sierra Club of California.

Gorgeous!

cabinporn: Karlsbader Hütte in the Lienzer Dolomites of...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:55:05 -0500

cabinporn:

Karlsbader Hütte in the Lienzer Dolomites of Austria.

Submitted by photogragher Andreas Jakwerth.

Nothing to say, just amazed at nature.

Charles Mingus - Moanin’ (by mohammertime) Beautiful,...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:53:10 -0500

Charles Mingus - Moanin’ (by mohammertime)

Beautiful, lively, accessible.

I guess...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:48:46 -0500

…This is also kind of supposed to, like, be a blog or something. So I’m going to blog. Me and my friends went to a Lamborghini showing the other day. Some guy was trying to sell the cars, and I guess he felt sorry for five or six kids wearing hoodies standing out in the cold taking pictures so he let us in. I’m not a fan of cars and I don’t really understand when people get ecstatic over seeing a car, but the cars looked nice, and I’d never anything like them before. They were really small though. My little sister (7) is taller than the car. Something unrelated that I’ve gotta mention: I’m listening to Moanin’ by Mingus Big Band and it is absolutely amazing, someone commented that the intro was the one of the dirtiest pieces of music every written, and that’s absolutely true.

Jamie Oliver finds Joy Division and New Order master tapes in restaurant basement

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:40:26 -0500

Jamie Oliver finds Joy Division and New Order master tapes in restaurant basement

Franz Ferdinand (2004) (by lbrione) Possibly one of the most...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:33:25 -0500

Franz Ferdinand (2004) (by lbrione)

Possibly one of the most energetic album I’ve ever heard.

Beginning

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:31:58 -0500

This is the beginning, it was a nice day today. Tumblr site, and listening to Franz Ferdinand’s debut album: Franz Ferdinand.