Author: Bri

Posted in Music

You should be careful what you wish for!

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One thing I’ve noticed about music is that it’s really hard to imagine most people listening to it, unless they’re stereotypical indie types or boy-band loving preteens.

I remember once in middle school where I was once asked if I ever listened to music, not including Beethoven.

Ok, seriously? Do I really look like I listen to classical music? But since then, I’ve watched people closely (do I sound creepy enough yet?) and noticed the exact same thing. I can’t see any of these people listening to music. Even my friend Kelli (SROTS), who is a huge music lover that I’ve personally seen listening to music, and I STILL can’t see it. It’s so weird!

However, there are those people, like our new admin, Shawn, who I can definitely see kicking back with a retro cassette player listening to obscure bands that no one’s heard about. Shawn, like every other cliched (sorry, Shawn) indie rocker, is the kind of person who wears colorful, seizure-inducing graphic tee shirts and skinny jeans. He rocks the straight, shaggy blond hair that’s swept to the side over his eyes, the over-sized skater shoes, and the handmade beanies. (Has anyone else noticed this new trend… colorful hand made stocking caps? Or the fact that boys are learning to knit so they can make them themselves? No se…)

I can imagine Shawn rocking out on an actual guitar listening to bands like Run Kid Run, Metro Station, and INSERT NEEDLESSLY LONG OBSCURE INDIE BAND NAME HERE. Not to diss your music or your look, indie rockers, I like a lot of that stuff too. Red Jumpsuit Aparatus and Death Cab For Cutie are bands I regularly enjoy.

But really, can you actually imagine just some normal person listening to music? Everyone has their specific musical tastes, but not matter how much you understand that the cowgirl listens to country, can you actually imagine her, sitting in her room covered in pictures of her and her prize winning rodeo horses, rocking out to Keith Urban?

Posted in Books

And even when your hope is gone…

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The Twilight Obsession.

You’ve all heard about it, don’t try to pretend otherwise. Stephenie Meyer’s novel Twilight and the following three books have exploded in sales for young adults, specifically among teenage girls. There’s a movie coming out in November, fan clubs littered all over the internet, and merchandise being sold left and right.

I’m only a little ashamed to admit my part in this. My laptop is named Bella, my camera is Edward, and the truck I drive is Jacob. I got roped, unwillingly, into a Twilight book club at school, I’m planning on going to the movie as soon as it comes out, I went to the midnight release party for the final book, I dressed up as a Cullen for Halloween freshman year, and my copy of Twilight is so worn it looks like it’s been through a weed whacker. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been infected with Twilight-induced insanity.

But if you haven’t read these books, you’re missing out exponentially. The writing is incredible, the characters alluring and captivating, and the plot contenting. Stephenie Meyer, who has another book out, The Host, is an excellent writer and should not be shunned merely because her books are now “mainstream”. That’s the problem with people today. Once something becomes “mainstream” it loses its value. I like this book far before it was insanely popular, and Rachel read it even before that. I’m no poser, ladies and gents. I fell in love with Edward years ago.

And that one thing I saw on the internet was right… Twilight makes human boys suck.

Posted in Teenage Life

Your lack of intelligence astounds me

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It’s 7:49 pm and I realized that I haven’t posted a blog yet. I posted a video blog, though, on YouTube, so check it out!

So I was gonna do a music review as planned, but I’m about to start jumping up and down and screaming profanities. PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID SOMETIMES. OH MY GOODNESS.

No, I’m not going to elaborate, so don’t ask me to.

But just let me say something…

You deleted ALL THREE YouTube subscriber notifications? Are you serious? You don’t delete Nano upgrades, but you delete the messages telling you that I SUBSCRIBED TO YOUR FEAKING YOUTUBE CHANNEL? Seriously??? Dang, I must have done something REALLY wrong.

Ok, I got a bit of that out. I’m going to go write now.

Oh, before I go, I want to let everyone know that I’m now in the middle of writing three novels. Yeah, three. I’m crazy.

Posted in Blog, Teenage Life

A little something I wrote a while back…

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Boys suck.

 

Excerpt from Bri’s diary in 2-7-07

I’ve realized what the trye meaning of a jerk is.

A jerk is someone who pretends to be your friend for a while, then decides not to talk to you much or starts being rude to you, and then, when they need help, they come to you. After you help them, they lapse back into ignoring you.

That is a true jerk. A jerk isn’t someone who calls you fat, stupid, or ugly. Those people don’t even know you. A jerk is someone who actually gets to know you, learns about your strengths and insecurities, and THEN calls you names, while still expecting you to help them out. A one-sided deal.

Parasitism is the relationship between two organisms where one benefits at the others expense. Parasitism. Like a bad friendship. A jerk is a parasite. A bad friend is a jerk. Therefore; STOP PRETENDING TO BE MY FRIEND. IT’S NOT WORKING ANYMORE. YOU AREN’T WORTH MY TIME, SO STOP WASTING MY LIFE AS WELL AS YOUR OWN AND GO AWAY.

–end of transcript–

 

And now, I’d like to add a bit more.

I trusted you. I forgave you. I believed in you. I helped you. I cried for and over you. Is this how you repay me? Is this the reward for being a good friend?

Five years of my life I wasted on you. I knew all along that I would get hurt, but I waited for you anyways. I was your friend anyways. Do you see this quote above? That was a little more than a year ago, but that’s not the only quote I have. I’ve been saying the same thing about you in my journals ever since I met you. Does that make this my fault? Maybe. But at least, before I sleep at night, I know that I did my best to you. I was my best for you, because I thought you deserved that.

Don’t I deserve some respect, if not a little credit? Don’t I deserve your acknowledgment of my existence? Apparently not.

“Dorky, nerdy, strange, annoying. I’m done.”

Those words will forever be burned into my mind. And you know what the worst part is? I would do it again. I’m so emotionally dependent on you that I would risk my feelings and my psychological health to help you through your hard times. I haven’t even learned anything. So where do we stand now?

You’ll never read this, but that’s ok. Maybe one day I’ll email it to you, but I doubt you’ll even give it a second glance. I know you deleted the notification that I subscribed to you on YouTube. I know you deleted all the texts from this summer and from the beginning of the school year. I know you got every single email I sent you in the past few months, but I also know that you don’t care. Destroying my life and mental well being means nothing to you, does it?

You say you’re done. Maybe this time you’ll mean it. Maybe I’ll be better off. Or maybe we’ll just start over again, with me apologizing for your cold heart, and you pretending that what I do even matters.

Posted in Blog, Music

I’m just gonna say the railroad tracks

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I love newspaper class. I always get the controversial articles. The whole school is going to hate me by the end of the year.

So firstly, I’d like you all to welcome IRideTheLines, who has posted an introduction blog, and Cairo, who should be posting soon. New admins! Should I be worried that most of my admins are at least a year younger than me? Sigh.

So. Music. I got a Sansa dock this week. It’s where I plug in my Sansa e260 and it’s got speakers and I can hear my MP3 all over my room! Which is cool. But we had to update my MP3’s firmware, and it totally screwed up all my music. So now I can only listen to my playlist or specific albums. I can’t click “play all”. Luckily, most of the new music I have is on the playlist, so I just listen to that. I’m waiting for a day after school where I don’t have anything to do so I can take evrything off the MP3 and then put everything back on. This is going to take forever, and I have absolutely NO TIME.

Monday I had speech and debate after school, went home for ten minutes, and then went to training for a Kids Voting thing I’m volunteering for. I got home at seven and then ate dinner and did homework.

Tuesday I had speech and debate after school, went home and did homework for four hours.

Today I have a haircut right after school, then I go home to feed my animals, then I have about an hour to do my homework, then I get all fancied up to go to the Academic Awards Ceremony until about eight.

Tomorrow I have speech and debate after school, then I go home for about a half hour, then I leave to go volunteer until eight or eight thirty at that Kids Voting thing. Then I will do homework.

Friday I’m going to out school’s play at seven. And then I rest. Maybe Saturday.

Posted in Blog

Wish me luck

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Lots of news today!

First, I just signed up for a YouTube account, and once I figure out how to save the videos (vlogs) that I record, I will be posting stuff up! I’m very excited, and I think this will bring us more traffic! So once I get some things up, I’ll let you all know so you can go watch it!

Second, I am partaking in a social experiment so riveting that those with weak stomachs should go read my old Various Ramblings to calm themselves down. Actually, you should do that anyways, and the social experiment isn’t that crazy. I am going to see how long I can be a vegetarian, while also attempting to live green. Here are my rules:

 

-No meat. Dairy and eggs are ok, I’m not going for vegan, but no meat. No chicken, steak, beef, goat, dog, anything.

-5 minute showers. Because of my very thick hair I’m not sure how well I’m gonna be able to live with this, but we’ll see.

-I was gonna just ride the bus from now on, but then I realized that even the desicrating planet couldn’t force me to do that. I hate my school bus. Plus I have activities after school I need to get to. And my job on the weekends. Maybe one day a week I’ll ride the bus. (Shudder)

-Minimize energy use. Run my computer, MP3, and cell phone on battery as much as possible. Use natural light as much as possible, shower in the dark. And maybe (cringe) use such technologies like the computer less

-Air dry clothes, and wash them only when I absolutely need to.

-If I go out to eat, eat there to minimize waste from take out boxes and stuff.

-Track gas mileage; don’t accelerate so fast.

-Don’t waste so many notebooks; use every bit of paper I can before getting a new one.

-Try to cut out as many preservatives as possible from my diet

-Exercise without using energy, like doing weights and walking instead of Wii Fit and treadmill. (heh, or exercise at ALL)

So let’s see how long I can hold this up. Anyone got bets? A week? Two weeks? I don’t completely fail until I’ve only got two of the many rules left. So If I break all but two, I fail. Cheer me on! Try it yourself! GO HIPPIS!!!

Posted in Music

I am calling on you now

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So as many of you know, I went to homecoming last friday. Because this is a dance, of course, there was music. And because this was a high school dance, of course, the music was crappy.

No offense, Taylor, but really? They all sound the same. Here was our selection:

Rap
Save a horse, ride a cowboy
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All Summer Long (I CAN’T STAND THIS SONG)
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TNT
Rap
Shake It
Rap
Unidentifiable slow song
Rap
Baby Got Back
Rap
Cotton Eye Joe
Rap
Unidentifiable slow song
Rap
Rap
Rap
Unidentifiable Slow Song
Rap
Rap
Rap
Rap

…you get the picture. Of course, I danced to most of them, unless I was out in the courtyard because it was so hot inside the gym. But did I actually enjoy the music? Not so much. I sang along to Shake It and TNT. I enjoyed those songs. Then I just lapsed into mechanical teen-dancing, which consists of shaking your hips and flailing your arms.

Ok, I did actually have fun. Just because the music stank like a trout that your cousin hid under your couch three weeks ago, doesn’t mean that the company was lacking. Or some of it. Most of the people that filled up the tiny little gym were not the people I typically enjoyed conversing with, but we had our own little group of about seven people, so it was all good.

Posted in Issues

I couldn’t get into it (This blog is about gays) (read it)

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I’m not going to post a music blog today.

No, no I won’t. Because I’ve got something on my mind. So you all know I’m in newspaper class. One of my articles (big suprise) is about the gay marraige disputes in California, Florida, and another place that escapes me at the moment. Unfortunately, we’re putting it under “news”, meaning that I can’t express my opinion on the dumb people I interviewed.

But then I think… I have a website!! I can dig into the dumb people as much as I want! I won’t mention names, just know… these are exact quotes from actual interviews that I conducted. Keep that in mind.

BRI: What is your opinion on the people polling for the rights for gays to marry?
DUMB KID 1: It’s WRONG. They don’t deserve rights.
B: Why not?
DK1: They’re not real people (laughing)
B: So gay people are not real people.
DK1: No
B: Why not
DK1: Because they’re less than human.
B: What makes them less that human
DK1:They’re gay
B: What defines a human, then?
DK1: Um, that you’re attracted to the opposite sex
B: That’s the only thing that makes you human?
DK1: In my opinion

Ok, dumb kid 1, in your opinion, what makes something a human is that is attracted to the opposite sex. Notice he did not specify physical attributes. Using his logic, the two dogs in the park that you don’t want to look at are human. You know, the ones who are being ignored by their owners until they start making a… scene. They are humans. And the proud duck parents trotting around with their ducklings, they are humans too.

BRI: What’s wrong about gay marraige?
Dumb Kid 2: Uh, a guy liking a guy is…. way beyond belief.
B: Why?
DK2: I can’t wrap my mind around it… I dunno. It’s just my opinion
B: There has to be a reason for your opinion.
DK2: I really don’t know
B: Is there a basis for this opinion of yours?
DK2: Actually, no, it’s just a choice I made
B: Choice? You don’t have to be gay to be pro gay marraige.
DK2: Yeah, but, I’m not FOR gay marraige
B: Why not?
DK2: I hate gays
B: Why.
DK2: Because they’re gay

So this interview with Dumb Kid Two just went into a circle. I was getting very frustrated. I thanked him and walked away, then lamented to Bart about it. He just laughed.

PLEASE NOTE: I am not making fun of people who are against gay marraige. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I am making fun of the people who are against gay marraige for reasons they don’t even understand, and the people who have silly arguments. I mean, come on. The what is a human argument should be enough to tell you that some people just don’t get it.

The reason I don’t take these people seriously is that they
A. Have no basis for their opinions, or
B. They can’t back up their arguments

Now, I want to address one more thing. Dumb Kid One told me that marraige should be between a man and a woman, because it’s in the bible. Because it is his belief, and because I know other people who agree, I’m not going to make fun of this. I wouldn’t have, anyways, because hey, if that’s what you believe, I respect that.

But here’s my problem; people forcing others to believe. In our Constitution, we are awarded the “freedom of religion”. The religious people against gay marraige recognize the right for others to worship in their own way, or not worship at all. And yet they still expect everyone to abide by the rules of THEIR religion. Does this make any sense? No, no it does not.

So, citizens of the United States, here is my proposal. Give us unrestricted religious freedom, or take it away altogether. Stop withholding my rights as granted to me in the Constitution, or force me to convert! There is no middle ground, America!

Posted in Music

Making a memory

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Usher is doing an all ladies tour. “What better way to get up close and personal than to make it all women?”

Apparently, the 29 year old rapper believes that his new CD is very intimate, and in order to get closer to his audience, he thought an all-woman tour would be a good idea. Which seems weird, but hey, it’s Usher. No offense. (Take it. Take offense! Yell at me!)

But the intimacy issue isn’t the only pro of the tour. “The ladies like to see that masculine build,” he said. “They question if I still got it.” So apparently Usher is also questioning his masculinity and wants to be reassured by thousands of woman that he’s attractive, all at the same time. Yeah, read that again. Usher has masculinity issues. So he’s going on an all woman tour. Hm.

He also re-hired his mother as his manager, which suggests that he has fired her before. I’m sorry, but that just made me laugh. almost as hard as the masculinity issues.

When I’m a rock star (yeah, you know it’s coming), I’m gonna go on an all-man tour. and then sing about female issues like periods and childbirth so men and women can get “closer”. It’s like those videos they showed in fifth grade, how they separated the boys and girls and taught them about the other gender and sex. It’ll be like that, except more graphic and not as much about sex since most grown men know what that is.

If you would buy a ticket to my all man concert (ladies, I expect to see you trying to get in with fake beards), let me know and I’ll start scheduling my tour. (I think I’ll start in Greece and make my way around Germany….)