Monday, April 30, 2007

The Search For Perfect Hair


I'm tired of being a flapper. In my attempts to become French, I really want to be:


AUDREY TAUTOU


Ok. This is grreat hair. It's gooorgeous. And I'm jealous.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

My Guilty Pleasure is Hole

I like Hole. At least, I like Live Through This. Cuz I haven't heard anything else by them, lol. But when I was a lil seventh grader I would totally rock out to Miss World and Peices of Jennifer's Body. I remember watching MTV at like seven in the morning (don't know why the hell I was up so early back then) and the video for "Violet" came up. I was like, OMG RIOT GRRL WTFBBQ!!"

I still stand by my seventh grade self. Those were some good ass songs. I cannot convince my brother of this. But it's true.

Friday, April 27, 2007

More

I can't wait until I start my job, because I really do need the extra cash. No, I guess I just need cash. I've been living on Christmas gift certificates.

As much as I love shopping, though, I feel like I'm cheap. I feel guilty whenever I buy something expensive. I found these adorable eye color palettes (sp?) by a company called Fresh! (or something), but they're $40-$50... and I'd feel really guilty buying them. Plus, it's just not on my budget...I mean, yes, I could shell out the cash. But then I'd be broke for a bit, and not able to go shopping for another month or something.

It's a delicate balance, lol.

I'm off to sleeeeep now. Tomorrow I'm going to sleep as late as possible, and then do laundry and read about Eisenhower. Bleugh.

Ok, Christian Bale...


Why are you so good looking?

my sub basically summed up my life for me today, and it was all very true and personal and it was all very OMGWTFBBQ. For reals. Basically he told me that guys know I'm too smart for them and I wouldn't let them pull shit on me. He was like, you're atypical girlfriend material but not for teenagers.

Ummm, screw teenagers.

Whatevs. I have to work on a powerpoint tomorrow, and I H8 Powerpoint like a bitch because it's mad difficult to write Shape Poems with. Dear Lord, I'm a Junior and I'm still writing Shape Poems.

I'm scared right now because I just watched Red Dragon ahhhh!!! And it's late, and I'm the only one up. Plus, I just googled: Rex 84 program. And I'm convinced the visitors are watching me ahhhhh

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Thank You, Prestige and Covergirl

Thank you, Prestige and Covergirl for creating my favorite cosmetics. A girl cannot live on MAC alone, especially if she is unemployed. Therefore, I always depend on my handy dandy Prestige Classic Eyeliner in Chocolate and Kiwi.

It must be fourth marking period, because instead of writing notes on Eisenhower I am writing lists of my favorite celebrities in history class. And celeb guys I like. Here's what I came up with.

Joaquin Phoenix
David Duchovny
Christian Bale
David Gahan
Benicio Del Toro
Damon Albarn
John Cusack

and a few others that if I put up here everyone would be like, omg omg omg omg but liam neeson is so old!!! omgwtfbbq!!!!

All of the English department is going around calling me Anne Frank. Thank you lol.

Anyway, my friendly friends, I'm going off to re-watch Tissue Gate on American Idol last night.

uklgfjds

Haven't been able to post in a while because Mozilla Firefox won't let me get onto Blogger. Whatevs.

So American Idol last night was a total let down. Half of the celebrities they promised DIDN'T SHOW UP. No Gwen Stefani, no performance by Bono. Instead RASCAL FLATTS. WTF. That's so upsetting to me.

Plus, the whole "let's not vote anyone out" thing was such a cop out.

Worst episode of Idol ever.

(except for the fact it raised a lot of $ for poor people)

And they showed that commercial with Benicio Del Toro several times :-)

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Top Ten Favorite Albums: American Water



DC Berman of the Silver Jews is friends with Stephen Malkmus of Pavement fame. And Malky Malk even played on a few Silver Jooos albums, including the classic American Water. Rumor has it that after cutting a few Silver Jews albums, Malkmus realized that Pavement sucked in comparison, and decided that he had to disband and form the Jicks.

Even if that's not true, The Silver Jews are certainly > than Pavement. The album, American Water, is kind of alternative/folky/indie/country and paints a portrait of Americana. For someone who is so paranoid about their country, it's really amazing for me to like something like that. But anyway, the music and the lyrics stand up on their own and The Silver Jews are mad underrated.



The Silver Jews basically sound like if Pavement and Bob Dylan hooked up with Walt Whitman and made a band.

In fact,

Laura Reviews A Confederacy of Dunces

Yes, my friends, A Confederacy of Dunces is one of my favorite books.

I was hanging out with my brother in the mall, walking out of some inevitably shitty store, when he told me that I should really pick up ACOD. We have similar tastes, so I figured I'd go out and buy it instead of borrowing it from our town's shitty library.

I think I read it in two days.

Granted, I was at a crappy school back then that didn't give me any work to do in the Spring Quarter, so I'd go home and have hours without homework to kill, and then get up in the morning, and manage to kill six hours of school somehow.

But even if I were taking AP classes back then, I'd still zip through the book.

Because ACOD is one of the greatest books ever written. Here's wiki's summary of the book:

Ignatius is something of a modern Don Quixote — eccentric and creative, sometimes to the point of delusion.

The story is set in the city of New Orleans in the early 1960s. The central character is Ignatius J. (Jacques) Reilly, an intelligent but slothful man still living with his mother at age 30 in Uptown New Orleans, who, because of family circumstances, must set out to get a job. In his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.
He disdains modernity, particularly pop culture. The disdain becomes his obsession: he goes to movies in order to mock their inanity and express his outrage with the contemporary world's lack of "theology and geometry." He prefers the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages, especially that of Boethius. However he is also seen as enjoying many modern comforts and conveniences, and is given to claiming that the rednecks of rural Louisiana hate all modern technology which they associate with progress.



One day I was called down to the guidance office to talk about what classes I wanted to take next year. I had to explain to my guidance counselor (who I had never seen before in my life) that I wasn't going to be coming back next year. Part of me wanted to tell her that I was pregnant and going to get married to the manager of a local Burger King who wanted to travel out west to seek fortune in Las Vegas. But I ended up telling her the truth, that I just couldn't stand the school and needed to go back home.

Surprisingly, she was really cool about it. Before I left, she said,
"I see you're reading A Confederacy of Dunces."
"Yeah! It's a really good book."
"My mother was friends with the author, you know."
"Really????"
"Yeah."
"What was he like?"
"Well," she smiled. "he was really something else. Very funny."

Then he killed himself, of course.

But still, isn't that awesome? I had just picked up the book like a day ago, and here I was, already two steps away from the author!!

A Confederacy of Dunces is funny, brilliant, and warped. It's an American classic. I'd love to see John Kennedy Toole take down Scott F. Fitzgerald in a fight. You should all go out and buy this book. The characters you meet are unbelieably odd, and the gay ppl are hillllarrrious.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

What I'm Thinking

Everytime something heartbreaking and disasterous happens, I'm flooded with empathy and sympathy for the families and people effected.

Events like that are a part of you for the rest of your life. Whether it's fair or not.

It's like, you can mourn and grieve and then you're forced to go on. And then you move on in life, but you always get flashbacks and experience memories you tried to repress.

Then I start to think about the absurdity of the events, and why it's always the innocent that have to suffer.

After all these years, I still have so many questions and I still feel sad and I guess mourn in a different way. Like, what would our lives be like if any of it didn't happen? And although the victims of VTech are older than I was at the time, I can still relate; because I know what it's like to have your life change forever from a traumatic and insane event.

I really hope that they can recover and move on the best they can. As nicely as possible. Because the truth is, a part of them will never recover because something was taken from them. But I just hope they make an ok transition, and I'm thinking so much about all of them.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Blur Memories

Also, Blur reminds me of flying to San Fran, with my face up against the window and just beginning to wonder about my life and America and what everything all means.

That's some pretty heavy memorable stuff, right?

::Just got really nostalgic and kind of sad::

Thank you, Blur, for growing up with me. And being so lovely and British.

Part One Of Ten Favorite Albums

Hello there, little ones. I plan on writing, over the next few months, about my top ten favorite albums (in no particular order). So today let's gather round and listen to some The Universal and hear about Blur.



So is it wrong that one of my favorite albums of all time happens to be Blur Best Of? It's a greatest hits album, so I guess that's kinda anti-hip.



But I love each and every one of those songs. Blur= one of my favorite things ever. If I had been living in England in the '90's (and a bit older, since I was a youngin' back then), I would have been a space cadet for Blur.

In my factual opinion, Blur is greater than Oasis.

They were like artsy intellectual types for the middle class.
While Oasis just got drunk and grew a unibrow.

I can't tell you how much these songs mean to me. I always say that, but I think Blur is kind of the soundtrack to my life. I love them. I'd like to give each member a hug, and maybe more so with damon, but anyway- To show my love for Blur, let me say some pretentious statements about them.



1. They are the best English band after The Beatles. Or Queen, however you want to look at it. (Actually, this is true)
2. They are mad under rated, and should be worshipped as Gods. (This happens to be true as well)
3. They have helped me develop my faux cockney accent.
4. They make me want to dance around AND buy trainers!



(If you've managed to read this and not listen to all these songs you are going to Hell)

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

i'm mad

i'm mad because saturday, first day of break, i sat down and wanted to do all my homework to get it over with. ok. well that's not happening. because on top of homework i have from other classes, my ap english teacher went insane.

we had to:

1) Read the whole A Streetcar Named Desire.
2) Answer questions, do this whole packet about themes and motifs from the book, which includes basically going through each act and writing down an example of each theme/motif that was included.
3)Two Current Events- I hate these things. We're not in fifth grade.
4)An AP test packet with SEVEN entries and seventy-something questions. Not bad, right? except we have to go through each and ever question, write them down, and go through each possible answer and write why they are/ are not the answer to the question. I've been working on this since Saturday, still not done.
5) An AP style essay

I want to cry, lol. So I'm working on my Italian report for a while, then going back to the english hw. and to think we once all had lives!!!

many questions

name: laura
birthday:
birthplace:
eye color: dark hazel
hair color: dark brown, almost black
height: five four and a half!!
weight: you have got to be kidding me.
right handed or leftie?: I'm ambi.
Your Heritage: Irish, Scottish, Italian and a little bit German that I try to deny/forget about.
worst habit: touching my hair!
shoe size: anywhere from five to seven.
pants size: anywhere from nine to eleven (don't know why, my butt is actually really small)

innie our outie: innie, innie, innie. i don't think i know any outies.
The shoes you wore today: purple old navy flip flops.
your weakness: chocolate, david gahan, joaquin phoenix, math.
your fears: well, this is an interesting one. i have an odd phobia of things falling on my head. but other than that, i can't think of anything else except sharks (everyone hates them) and global warming.

your perfect pizza: lots of pepperoni, sausage.
your most overused phrase on instant messanger: LOL
thoughts first waking up: depends on what day it is. I usually wake up imagining something, or I wake up dreading a test or thinking DAMN I HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL
best physical feature: i think i have pretty eyes and a nice nose.
your bedtime: i like to be in bed by ten on school nights because i need tons of sleep.
your most missed memory: too personal.

favorite color: green.
food: oatmeal, pasta, bread, skittles, cookie dough, pickles, shephard's pie, and potatoes.
sport: sports kind of suck. i enjoy watching soccer, but i'm only good at playing golf.
animal: anyone who knows me knows how much i love lambs.
ice cream: cookie dough
candy: skittles and lollipops
Store: H&M
Salad Dressing: I like Caesar more and more.
Actor: Robert Deniro <3 <3 <3 Joaquin Phoenix, John Cusack, Robert Downey Jr., James Dean. Lots of them.
Song: Linger by the Cranberries, Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying by Belle and S, a Velvet Underground song which unfortunately escapes me at the moment.
Letter: L or R.
Number: Twenty-four.
Gum: Orbit's Lemon Lime.
Holiday: Christmas!!!
Season: Fall or Spring.
Toothpaste: colgate whitening.
radio station: I hate the radio, I really can't stand q104.3, and 106.3 plays a lot of shit in between the occasional good song.
Perfume?: Wind Song.
Scent Besides Perfume: Soap, rain, Fabric Softener.
Body Part on the Opposite Sex: The back and the hands because I'm a freak.

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?: Either a psychologist or an English teacher or a professor.
How Do You Want to Die?: In my sleep, after I tell my family how much I love them.
Turn ons: Good singing voices, dark hair, a sense of humour, good taste, slightly muscular guys.
Turn offs: Conservatives.
When Have You Cried the Most: Ohhhh, my gosh. Well, that's a personal one. Let me just answer for recent times- when I screwed up the mock trial competition. cried for two days i was so embarrassed.
What Is The Best Feeling in The World: Finding something you have lost.
Worst Feeling: When a teacher acts like a biotch to you. Then you know IT'S ON.
Where Do You Want to Live When You Grow up? I don't know. Hopefully anywhere in New Jersey and UP. You will not find me living anywhere else in the states. I'd like to live in the city for a while, and then retire to Scotland.
If You Could Change One Thing About You What Would It Be? I wish that I didn't have anxiety at times.
How Long Do You Think You'll Live: I think I'll live until I'm in my seventies.

Finish the sentence.

Let's walk on the- beach.
Let's look at the- animals
What a nice- bum
Where did all the- flowers go?
Why can't we- lie in each other's arms?
Silly, little- mouse
Isn't it weird that- humans can't fly?
Never under any circumstance- Would I eat hair
I wish- I was better
Everyone has a- dream
I am- so relieved!

Have you ever...

Been in Love? I have fooled myself many times, but no, I have never truly been in love.
Been to Juvie? Are you kidding?
Mooned Someone: Yes.
Been Rejected: Of course, everyone has.
Ran Away From Home: WTF is this, a survey for delinquents?
Skipped School? Nope, only when I fake sick.
Slept Outside: No.
Laughed So Hard You Cried: All the time!!!!
Cried in School: All the time!!!
Thrown up in School: Honestly, I don't remember ever having thrown up.
Wanted to be a Model: No, I'm too short.
Gone skinny dipping: Nooooo.
Shoplifted: Nope.
Been Drunk: No.
Been Called A Tease: a "tease" is so breakfast club.
Been beaten up: No.

Do you...

Swear? Yes.
Sing well: Yes.
Shower daily: Yes.
Want to Go to College: Yes.
Want to Get Married: See the above.
Believe in Yourself: more or less, yes.
Get motion sickness- nope!
Think You Are Attractive: Sometimes I think I am, then other times I'm convinced I'm ugly. It's all a part of being a girl, I suppose. And having a period.
Get Along With Your Parents: Yeah, yeah, I'm boring.
Like Thunderstorms: Yes, very much!!!!! I love waking up to a good thunderstorm.
Play an Instrument: I play guitar.
Own an IPOD: Yes, it makes me mad, but I love it.
Pray? Yes.
Go To Church: Yes.
Sleep with stuffed animals: Yes, I sleep with two little lambs.
Keep a Journal?: I've kept one for five years now!!!!
Sing in the Shower: That's what they're for.

This or That

Pepsi or Coke: COKE ALL THE WAY.
McDonald's or Burger King: BK.
Single or Group Dates: Group dates for now.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate.
Strawberries or Blueberries: Blueberries.
Meat or Veggies?: MEAT MEAT MEAT
Adidas or Nike: Wow, I am not a chav.
Chinese or Mexican: CHINESE food is a gift from God.
Cheerios or Corn Flakes: I represent the cheerios. Looooove cheerios.
Cake or Pie: Depends. I mean, if we're talking about fake cake here, I'm all for the pie. Especially if its flaky and crusty and nice. But if we're talking about a luxurious chocolatey cake oozing with chocolatey goodness, skip the pie.
MTV or VH1: Neither, but I like VH1's I Love the ________
Boxers or Briefs: ugh, idk. I guess boxers.


What's The Last

Time You Laughed? A few minutes ago, someone posted something really funny at a message board I go to.
Time You Cried? I think a day or two ago, in my room over some stupid trivial thing I lost.
Movie You Watched? Heir to an Execution.
Flavor of Gum You Chewed: Mint.
Joke You Told: Two blondes walk into a bar...
Song You've Song: Mercy In You

Right at this moment.

Where are you? In the office.
What Can You See Out Your Window: Darkness.
Are You Listening to Music? Yes, Tender by Blur
What Are You Wearing: PJS and a thermal shirt.

Do You believe

There is life on other planets- There's got to be.
Miracles- Yes, I believe in miracles.
Magic- No, unfortunately this is not Harry Potter.
Love at first sight?- Yes, I"m certain that it happens all the time ha hahahaha
God? yes, I believe in God
Satan: Not really
Ghosts: Yes
Santa: I wish
Evolution: you are slightly retarded if you do not believe in evolution in the year 2007

IN A BOY

This is where it gets interesting.

Fav. Eye Color: I suppose blue, because a lot of the guys I like have blue eyes. But then again, there are some hot guys I like who have brown eyes.
Fav. Hair Color: Dark brown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I'm a contradiction of sorts, because the guy I really like now has light hair.
Short or Long Hair: SHORT. Please. For the love of God. Not many people can pull long hair off. David Gahan couldn't even, and he's hot as hell. cut your hair. please. i used to like long hair but now I see how sad it is. guys. short it up.
height: obviously taller than me.
weight: i don't really know much about guy's weights, but it'd be nice if you weighed more than me because i don't want to crush you.
best clothing style: i have something for mod boys, guys who really have it together like franz ferdinand. but honestly, i don't really have a preference .

What Country Would You Like to Visit?: I want to go back to Scotland again and again and again and live there forever.
Number of CD's I Own: Hundreds.
Good Luck Charm: Nothing really.
How many pillows do you sleep with? Two.
Person You Hate Most: can't really say I truly HATE anyone
does god have a gender: no, but i always picture him as a guy.
where do we go when we die: a bar called Heaven.
Did you play with Barbies as a child: HELL YES. Played with them until I was twelve.

Monday, April 02, 2007

aah

Mercy In You





I really hope my son doesn't hate me when I name him David Gahan.