I have a bunch of memes to do, but they can wait. This is just a tiny post to say that I watched the pilot of Glee on hulu and I really liked it! what? yeah, that's all.

:)

OH MY GOD I AM SO BORINGGG. haha. All I seem to do lately is watch Star Trek (I saw the movie two more times, lol. also I've started watching the original series) and read (I finished Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! it was SO GREAT) and sit around being boring.

Oh yeah, I finally saw High School Musical 3. and Up. Man, that movie was hecka sad :( but also pretty sweet. And colorful.

The weather is getting sucky again, which is ridiculous. It was gorgeous all throughout May and early June and now it's all grey and rainy and Washington-y. I stayed inside all day today, bleh. I was going to watch Stop Making Sense on netflix instant play but then the Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement was on tv so I watched that instead (Chris Pine is in it so shut up haters). Not that I haven't seen it like six times already.

Oooh, my mom said I could have our dictionary!! This sounds lame until you hear that it has a history of Canada. SERIOUSLY. In an American dictionary! Also it weighs like eighty billion pounds but it's worth it. So yeah. This is what happens in my life.

ps the main reason I made this post was so I could use this icon.

I GRADUATED, YOU GUYS!!!! WOOO!!!!!!

...anyway. Prom was great and graduation was great. what else? ummmm I saw Star Trek finally! It was AWESOME.

For graduation my mom and siblings wrote on my car...my sister wrote "man love rules ok" on it, which is pretty much the best/funniest reference ever. She also wrote "frailty, thy name is woman!" haha.

I got tickets to see the Decemberists + Andrew Bird + Blind Pilot (don't know who they are) this summer at Marymoor Park, then tickets to see Death Cab for Cutie + the New Pornographers + Ra Ra Riot the next day!! I'm super excited.

My (former) English teacher made me borrow The Once and Future King and it's so good! Also, I can't wait for the US premier of Merlin! One week from today~ oh yeah, today I bought Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and so far it's hilarious.

Anyway, I think that's it? I still need to catch up on fic etc. yep.

I feel like such a space case right now! I've been ignoring the internet for a month or two, hmm. Not that I completely interesting things to say anyway.

The weather here has been gorgeous, bright and sunny and actually warm. I've been sitting outside and reading a lot lately. For instance right now I'm reading The Once and Future King by TH White which is pretty much the BEST.

Oh man guys, also, prom is next Saturday and I am in charge of the music for the ride to and from Seattle, so what are some good fun songs?? We're mostly thinking classic rock and stuff that everybody would know. My group has 6 people, my date is a fan of classic rock (and disco, which I find adorable, haha. he's also 6 and a half feet tall whereas I'm like 5ft, but that's a story for another time). UM SO if you guys have any fun song suggestions, that would be AWESOME.

I am trying to catch up on fic and other internet stuff, especially all the stuff that she_burns1 has posted lately!! I'm majorly behind, but that will all be taken care of in due time. I graduate from high school on June 12 and I seriously cannot wait.

Woo! The show was so fun :D I went with my sister to the second of three shows at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. We had pretty shitty seats (like, against the wall in the back. Still, it wasn't the balcony) but it was completely amazing anyway.
( no pictures but a TON of probably-boring text about the show )

PS does anybody have mp3s of Stana and I Told You I was Freaky (or whatever it's called?) that they might be willing to upload for me?

a few things:

-the decemberists on the colbert report last night = awesome
-stuff I've been reading lately: atonement by ian mcewan, middlesex by jeffrey eugenides, and (currently) howards end by e.m. forster
-flight of the conchords in two weeks! YAY
-ap exams next week

I'll do a proper post soon, lol.

I saw Los Campesinos! last night at Neumo's in Seattle. Actually it was the second time I've seen them there and they were just as good this time. For some reason they'd moved the bar downstairs, so all ages was on the balcony. Which is ridiculous. But the bands thought it was strange too; the LC! frontman said "that's fucked up," which actually made it less sucky haha. And man, I forgot how awesome they are live. The singer sort of dances in this really stupid endearing way and during the encore came up to the balcony :D

And at one point, a chunk of the ceiling fell? And hit somebody on the head! I'm not entirely sure what happened and I don't think the band even noticed since the person who got hit was in the back of the crowd. They roped off the area and at later the singer went into the crowd and we could see him from the second floor, he looked confused. He tried to climb on the 'no parking' signs that were supposed to block it off but the signs fell.

I'm going to see Franz Ferdinand on Monday. I finally found out who's opening and omg I'm even more excited now! Born Ruffians are opening and I really sort of love them. I really really hope I get there early enough to be close to the stage but I don't have any idea when we should get there. There's an art to it, being in the front of the line. You have to be able to judge the relative fame and popularity of the band. How many people are going to be there - how big is the venue? I know FF is more famous than the Decemberists, and when I've seen them at the same venue, people start lining up pretty early. I know I'll have a good time no matter what but still. I'm short, I'd like to actually be able to see the band. lol.

I'm watching Torchwood at eight! I knew BBC America did reruns of it. Episode numero dos. I'm excited! My sister and I love Jack! haha. OH AND PS we're on s3 of doctor who and we really dislike Martha. I don't know why. We just don't like her at all.

So Western & Bellingham were great! I went to this one bookshop - it looked small from the outside but inside it was ENORMOUS - and I bought Le Morte d'Arthur, which is a thing I should probably read eventually. I love love love Western & the town and everything. The college radio station was giving away stickers and adorable little buttons.

Anyway. Right before I left on Friday, the netflix envelope showed up with the last three episodes of the second season of Doctor Who, so when I was in the car my sister kept texting me all these sad faces (because she was watching the dvd). Anyway. I watched the episodes today. (awwww, I really liked Rose! she was the exact kind of girl I would normally hate but for some reason I loved her instead). AND we're starting to watch Torchwood too, but we've only seen the first episode so far.

today was not so great a day, so have something lovely:



rupert everett & colin firth in 'the importance of being earnest,' singing.

something else: I am now doing the Doctor Who thing (by which I mean I've started watching it). I'm waiting on netflix (also, I just got netflix) for the first disc of the second series...not the old ones, (they play those on pbs haha) but the first episode with David Tennant, who my sister adores, just as probably half the world does.

also: I had to explain rickrolling to this girl today, I probably sounded crazy to her? whatever, she's the one who's been living under a rock for two years.

ps Kaitlyn, you better love merlin OR ELSE

sorry these sentences are making no sense, I... really have no excuse for this, actually.

there are a few large, probably boring pictures under the cut, just so you know.

( so I saw Ra Ra Riot on Wednesday... )

And I might as well show you guys some of my other ticket stubs etc. as long as I'm making this post, not that you'll care much. Whatever:

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in April I'm going to see Los Campesinos! at Neumos, and maybe the Thermals there too, and then Franz Ferdinand at the Paramount. And all of those shows are during the same four day span, but I really want to see them all :/

I'm leaving in an hour to see Ra Ra Riot! woo :D

...yeah, that's all. I was sick the past few days so I don't have anything else to say.

The other day I felt really blah so I watched the Princess Bride, and it made me happy, and then I watched it again today. haha.

Yesterday was lovely - sunny and gorgeous. I went on a field trip to city hall with like eight other people from my school and like twenty from other schools in my district, and I wore a dress, which I never do, and I hung out with these two guys, Evan and Patrick, who're in a few of my classes. I didn't know/like anybody else on the trip, and Evan used to annoy me so much but it was actually really fun (the three of us were really bummed that we missed European History though because everybody else in the class was doing a mock trial of Martin Luther). I love going on the bus. We got back early and the school let us leave right away. We would have anyway, but it was nice.

Then my friend came over and we watched Psych (she'd never seen it! I wish I could've showed her last week's episode, but we deleted it from the dvr) and my neighbor/friend/sister & brother's friend too came over and then we watched Zoolander, 'cause my neighbor had never seen that, and then we were talking and hanging out and then it was nearly one before my friend left, and then I slept in til two pm today, oops. and that's my life story.

my tickets for Ra Ra Riot on Wednesday arrived, I am excited.

you guys should tell me interesting stuff, because you all have more interesting lives than I do, etc. etc.

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also, my conchords tickets came today! I'm excited :)

so I went to my friend's house last night and watched all of this season of FOTC, and omg, the 'Friends' song was so cute! my friend said "I want to put that moment into my pocket" and I quite agree haha. And somehow over the past few months I managed to forget how really really ridiculously good-looking Bret and Jemaine are (seriously, I don't know what's wrong with me) and watching the show last night remedied that ♥

I finished reading American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld, and A Separate Peace by John Knowles, which I had to read for school. I don't know if any of you guys have read this, but let me please tell you what it says on the back of the book:

"GENE was a lonely, introverted intellectual.
PHINEAS was a handsome, taunting daredevil athlete.
What happened between them at shcool one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of
A SEPARATE PEACE."

Well, I read it, and it turns out it ISN'T about their secret gay romance. Who knew?

What's going on for you guys????

LOL Stephen Colbert mentioned King Arthur & Camelot on his show today and I started flailing, haha. WHATEVER SHUT UP YOU GUYS I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY. It was amazing. Also, Rahm Emanuel. I just love his segment the DaColbert Code, is basically what I'm saying here.

What are you guys reading now? My English teacher gave me American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld to read and it's really good so far, I think. Plus we exchanged valentines in my English class today, I love it :) I haven't done that since like sixth grade, it was really fun. I gave out valentines with Gustavus Adolphus to everybody who is also in my European History class, lol. (he was king of Sweden for a while in the 17th century).

also, haha, my English teacher wants me to burn her the Department of Eagles album. This is funny to me, for no real reason. She's like fifty or something? not that that means she shouldn't like them. anyway this means that I've burned cds for like...four of my teachers. Some of them have surprisingly good taste.

UGH I AM BORED, somebody tell me an interesting fact. Or something.

OH PLUS (how could I forget???) I got tickets to see Franz Ferdinand in April! I'm so excited. Also, Flight of the Conchords (and Arj Barker) in May! and we reserved tickets to the Daily Show for when we're in NY in July. On my birthday! it's like all my dreams are coming true :)

I was driving around today and I actually sort of got lost. Oops. But I found my way back home! haha it was so embarrassing but there was nobody with me so it didn't really make a difference...anyway.

I've been really busy lately and I feel like I should have something interesting to say, but I don't. It's my last semester of high school! I'm excited for it to be over, lol. One of my teachers this semester is really weird and kind of a creeper. He teaches my foods class and on the first day we had to say what food we would be and why. I was trying SO HARD not to laugh, it was really difficult. And the girl next to me said she would be chicken nuggets, and my ~new friend~ said he would be shrimp scampi. Okay. It was just a really strange experience okay??

My neigbor gave me a rad plastic dinosaur toy the other day (she's six haha). It's orange and SO COOL guys I really like dinosaurs? Okay.

I'm going to use this icon because it makes me LOL.

First of all, John Oliver's segment from yesterday's Daily Show:



...yeah, actually, that's about it.

So people are still calling me and asking for Carla D: It's making me sad.

...I don't know. I'm just kind of bored right now. I finished watching Merlin over the weekend and now I don't have anything to watch, lol. But my brother is watching the first episode right now because I kept trying to tell everybody about it and nobody really listened. I think he's only watching it to shut me up, haha. Whatever~

So I'm completely obsessed with the new Franz Ferdinand album, it's soooo gooooood. Yeah, I really have nothing interesting to say. Have fun at dinner.

Okay so people keep calling me and asking for somebody named Carla. I'm not Carla. I think she probably has the same phone number but a different area code, but in the past two days like five people have called for her. Weird.

also: music meme!

Check the bands you've HEARD OF. Not just the ones you like.
Be honest people! If you really have never heard of them, don't mark it. it just makes you look fake. (this whole meme sounds fake, all the genres are wrong! it kind of made me cry inside.)

( music meme below...I didn't bother to count very carefully lol )

So, it's a new year (okay I know it's been a new year for over a week but whatever just deal with it) and I want new stuff to obsess over (ha). Anyway:

can you guys rec me something? music - what's your favorite song/album/band (at the moment)? - tv shows, books, fic, movies, etc. Anything. LOL I'm so desperate for something new to watch/listen to/read.

also, I have to post this clip from the Daily Show the other day, featuring Anderson Cooper and dogs ♥ haha.



plus Rachel Maddow was on yesterday, I adore her! yay.

I've seen the first eight episodes of Merlin so far, and I loveeeeee it! seriously, omg. I'm like forever indebted to immortalgrl :)

p.s. happy birthday, David Bowie!