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Random thought

You know those insurance comercials where the people say "I'm there" and then the camera shows them standing on big red circles? well what i am about to type and what you are about to read has absolutley nothing to do with insurence but it does have to do with being there.

So I was listening to All American Rejects' new album this morning (When the world comes down) and have to say that i think that it is their best by far. Of course they only have 3 but still. Anyway I decided that they are really at that place. I'm hesitant to call it a peak becasue that implies that there will then be a fall and that may not happen for a while. Anyway they are there, turning out great music and I think that they really know what they want to sound like from now on. Like they have found that particular muse or opened the flood gates.

I also think that Panic at the Disco are there too. I don't know if Fall Out Boy ever got there (I only listen to their latest cd). I think the Academy Is... is almost there, maybe with their next album. VersaEmerge... There is no telling for a while, I mean they just got signed. And with other bands I listen to: Oasis, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, i think that they have been around for so long that they are there and have been there.

Ok I need a disclaimer before i go further: Yeah I'm writing like I am an expert or something in music, like I know what it is to be there or what its like. Well I don't I dont even know the ins and outs of music. I know what i like. I know what i don't like. I am not a music major or anything even. I took a music class this semester and I don't even know why it was hell. (its over today cuz i have the final this afternoon). This is all just my opinion so you don't necesarily have to agree or believe what i type. That goes for the entire blog.

anywhoo

Harmony
Peace
Love

coming to an end

is THE WORLD!!
JK
my semester and sophomore year is though tg!
This year has been awful and amazing. I like my friends and I had fun at the parties I went to. The work load was not too cool, and still isn't. I still have my 4 finals to study for, which I have been doing, don't get me wrong, its just that I really don't want to take these tests, 2 of them are supposed to take 3 hours! I have 2 this week and then 2 next week so this weekend I am gonna be packing my room and cleaning it. I can't wait to get out of the dorms.

Anyway a week from tomorrow @ 5pm I will be officially done with my second year here and soon to no longer be a resident of this dorm! then the day after that I will be home!

I can't wait to see my parents again and have all the animals around me. great that means clothes covered in dog and cat hair again : /

cross your fingers that these next 9 days will go by quickly and that before I know it it will be the 6th of may. Thank god I already have my sister's b-day present!

Anyway
Harmony, Peace, Love

bragging rights

Today in my hip hop class we had the end of the semester battle. My team won! woot. We were awesome!

Love
Peace
Harmony

Listening to now...

Black Gold's debut cd Rush, "Shine"


Harmony, Love, Peace

Jodi- "don't look at me. I'm too embarrassed"
Charlie-"You were saying how you felt. What's embarrassing about that?"
-Center Stage


Love Peace Harmony

btw

Oh so Wednesday was Earth Day
but as one of my t-shirts so greatly proclaims: Earth Day Every Day

or it may be Every Day Earth Day.... not too sure

Harmony Peace Love

Listening to now...

Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux - the entire cd actually... at the present second "What a Catch Donnie"

Peace
Love
Harmony

breaking boundaries

For the past year or so I have been letting my guards down and letting me be myself. I have also been trying to find out who I am and who I want to be. Luckily I am not attached at the hip to someone else, like SOME people are so I can do that. Anywho I found out that by going places and being social I have made some really great friends and that feels good. It really does even though it can take like 10 minutes to walk through the sunpoarch... I don't care cuz it is nice to be stopped and chat for a little bit.
I am just glad too that for like every evil person I have met in my life there are like 7 really amazing sweet people. That's a pretty good ratio but it could always be better and so once more I come to the point I always end with. Make that ratio better by spreading

Love Harmony Peace

Ballet

has the right idea about relationships: the men are just there for support, they are just there to look pretty.

Love, Harmony, Peace (I thought i'd switch it around)

Listening to now...

All American Rejects, When the World Comes Down, "Gives you Hell"

Harmony
Love
Peace

perspective

Well hello is this thing on?
Is anybody listening?
A brand new day has begun

The first thing that I want do
Make sure that you feel it too
So I'm not the only one

C'mon and lift me up it's a brand new day
Open up a little happiness today
So I can be someone new (so I can be someone new)
C'mon and lift me up to a better way
Open up a smile on another face
So I can feel something new

Open up, open up some happiness
Open up, open up some happiness
Open up, open up some happiness
Open up, open up some happiness

Ahem ahem
Let me clear my throat
So you can hear clearly every word spoke
Today I woke feeling lovely
Happiness overflowin' knowin' somebody loves me
Just think yesterday I was down and out
Now there's not a single thing for me to frown about
And the same thing can happen to you
Smiling so hard my mouth look like a capital U

I want the sun to shine
All the time
Is that too much to ask
Oh, I want to have some fun
I want all my friends to come
'Cause it's now or never
Learn the words and sing together


C'mon and lift me up it's a brand new day
Open up a little happiness today
So I can be someone new (so I can be someone new)
C'mon and lift me up to a better way
Open up a smile on another face
So I can feel something new

Your heart deserves your trust
A choice made by all of us
The sun will come back tomorrow
There's a message in the bottle
So come on I'll meet you there
There's enough sunshine to share
As long as you know
The bridge between us is a rainbow

C'mon and lift me up it's a brand new day
Open up a little happiness today
So I can be someone new (so I can feel something new)
C'mon and lift me up to a better way
Open up a smile on another face
So I can feel something new

This is a song written for coke for their new add campaign
it is really catchy and peppy and happy and it makes me happy
plus it is just a reminder to not let things get you down. to have some perspective.
I definatley have that this morning.

Peace
Love
Harmony
; D

i feel horrible

So here i am sitting here wallowing in my own personal problems and there are so many people who are in a worse condition. My problems will end in 15 days. 15 days and I move out of my dorm. Other people are stuck in combat zones or 'poverty' or poverty or addicted to drugs or even people who are dealing with abuse of all kinds. And yet the only think I can think of is how i pissed off my room mate and how she is acting like a little 2 year old. I just have to endure a little longer and then its over. Those other will have scars on them the rest of their lives.

At least i can still emit

Peace Love Harmony

beauty

Everyone talks about inner beauty and that that is what counts, especially as people are in their teens. "It's not how you look on the outside, its what's inside that counts"

Well that is bullshit in this society.

Too much emphasis is placed on people's looks. Its what first attracts people to each other. Its what makes the famous famous.

Today I watched this movie called "Music Within." In it is this man with cerebral palsy (idk if that is how it is spelled) anyway he and his friend are asked to leave a pancake house because he looks weird and can not talk normally and shakes.

Also on Britian's got Tallent, or whatever that show is, a woman came on, she was not exactly a knock out and said she could sing. Nobody believed her and i was like "What! Just because she's ugly means she can't possibly have a good voice? WTF." I mean that makes no sense I mean there are pleanty of pretty people who are tone deaf and i mean TONE DEAF! And even though she proved everybody wrong, the next time people are still gonna judge someone on their looks, unless it is like the same freaking scenario.

I'm not saying that I don't judge people by their looks, I do. I will try not to too much anymore. It's not like I'm anything special, I know I'm not ugly, by any means, but I am just kinda plain Jane.

All I am asking is that next time you see someone who is not exactly a knock out, maybe don't turn away automatically maybe talk to them a little bit before writing them off. I'm gonna try.

Peace Love Harmony

All you need is Love

I have listened to this song since I was a little girl. It's pretty easy to understand but hard to agree with. Exspecially in this day and age, almost 50-40 years after the Love decades. Well I began to say that, no someone can not live on love alone, for one thing you need money and a job and food and clothes (social stigma) etc.

This morning I listened to the song again and I finally realized that the Beatles were right. All you need is Love.

There are two ways I can see that it makes sense.
1)All those material things are really unnecessary and if no one had them you wouldn't want them either. So people should worry more about not having love then not having a TV or computer.
2)If you are loved and you know that, then you have the strength to do what you need to to get everything else. If you have love, everything else is attainable if you want it.

Panic at the Disco said: We must reinvent love. I think that in some ways they are right and in some ways this goes hand in hand with "All You Need is Love." See I think that today the word love has taken on new meanings. I think that people throw it around too carelessly. "I love those shoes" "Omg I love him he's so cute!" "I love it when we don't have class." Uh no you don't you like it you may enjoy it but I'm pretty sure you don't LOVE it. Also I think that our culture puts way too much emphasis on relationships and therefore people focus on finding love romantically. And because they are so desperate to find love, they prematurly say those three little words "I love you." I'm not saying that every one does but a lot of people. I have to wonder how much some one really means it. I think that the young people are led to this more. Yes I am thinking of a specific couple. I also think that because of the emphasis on romantic relationships and that they mean love, people forget to look for the love they get from their family and their friends.

I would be nothing without my friends love and support and that goes a trillion times for my parents and my sister's love.

I have a lot of support going for me right now and I am really greatful. And I feel like because I know I have their love, I can do anything. So Thank you guys. I love you too.

So yeah in a sense I do also agree that "we must Reinvent Love," or maybe we just need to redefine it.

All this is one reason that I always, or most of the time, end my posts with:
Peace, Love, Harmony
because those are the three things that the world needs more of and I try to live by them and I believe that if others do too then the world will be a much better, prettier, happier place.
So
PEACE, LOVE, HARMONY

I meant what I said and I said what I meant and an Elephant's faithful 100%!

-Horton the Elephant.

How come doing the right thing makes you feel like shit? no like "rock bottom then fifty feet of crap, then me"

Love is real, real is love,
Love is feeling, feeling love,
Love is wanting to be loved.
Love is touch, touch is love,
Love is reaching, reaching love,
Love is asking to be loved.
Love is you,
You and me,
Love is knowing,
We can be.
Love is free, free is love,
Love is living, living love,
Love is needing to be loved.
-John Lennon

the beatles

The White Album

Magical Mystery Tour

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Help

A Hard Days Night

Abbey Road

Revolver
Rubber Soul

Let it Be

Beatles For Sale

With the Beatles

Yellow Submarine


Favorite Band EVER

they were and still are full of
Love Peace Harmony

thank you

Since I love music so much i thought that maybe i should really say thanks to all the artists who record and play the music. Of course they will never read this but whatever.

that brings me to another note: thanking people. I think that if everyone just took the two seconds it takes to tell people thank you for doing something this world would be better. Like the bank teller who helps you out or the checkout person who scans your groceries or the person who holds the door for you even if they didn't mean to.

it is just another way of spreading the
Peace Love Harmony!!!

friends

I love that TV show but that is not what i wanted to write about.

Lately I've been hanging out with a new group of friends, and i love that. We've had a lot of fun together. I mean I sort of feel like I am flippy and just move from group to group to group cause the beginning of my frosh yr here i hung out with completely different people but they became majorly annoying (how evil is that way of thinking) so i began avoiding them. So for the second half of my frosh yr I met two new people who are currently my room mate and her boyfriend. Well I hung out with them and a few frosh last semester quite a but I don't anymore. There are alot of reasons for this one 1) the boyfriend annoys the crap out of me (seriously can't stand him any more) and 2) I don't enjoy doing the same things they do (basically drink to get drunk and walk around campus).

So these new-ish friends (I've known most of them since last year but am just getting to know them better) see we don't hang out all the time but when we do we always have fun.

I was thinking about how awkward I am today and I began to realize that I think I like these people because, well, even though I'm weird and I am awkward and i say really stupid things sometimes, they let me be me. They don't try to influence me or change who I am. They just point and laugh at me until I laugh with them. Like my friend Nat promised me (she'll be my room mate next year in the apartments) If i fall down the stairs and break my leg she will point and laugh at me and then call Josh to come and see my humilliation, who will probably bring Katie, and then she'll call 911 while they take pictures!

I love them so much!

Peace Love Harmony (we can alway use more)

coincidence?

today while deciding what shirt to wear, i picked out one that has 2 dates on it. one for october and one from april. every year i try to remember to wear the shirt on those dates, well i thought i missed the april date and so i decided to wear it today cause i hadn't worn it in a long time. when i was in class i realized that the date was not april 6 as i thought but april 14. today.

I wonder if it was just coincidence or what...
sometimes things happen and sometimes, well alot of the time, i think why.

really no point to this story ...

Oh well

Peace Love Harmony!!!

beautiful people

So beautiful people seem to be famous people... are they really beautiful or do we just think they are because they are talented and are on magazines everywhere?

think about it

Also think about
Love, Peace, Harmony

Congratulations to Miss H 2009! My dear friend Sharpay Evans!!! So much more than a beauty Queen and the only one to get a standing ovation! You go Girl!! Luvies to you W.P.

Its a true friend who waits to welcome you to the party. ; )

and now and forever more Peace Love Harmony!

I love....

I love life! I love music! I love my friends! I love my family! I love spring! I love summer! I love birthdays! I love cleaning to an extent! I love the 1960s! I love Love!! I love Peace! I love Harmony!

VersaEmerge

VersaEmerge is one my favorite bands. They are fairly unknown right now since they just got signed in December 08. I really like their stuff for their lyrics just because they seem to express exactly what I am feeling this year. Their ep Perceptions is what I'm mainly talking about because well it all has to do with perceptions hense the title. I don't know i just really enjoy their sound and they are like nothing i've really listened to before.

"We were all so undone that we couldn't think of one"
"Clenching my teeth to perfection"
"And I -I see through rose colored eyes"
"They're letting their eyes cross cause they dont know they don't know what we know"
"cause people are the same -they are the same-only habits change-habits change"
"Patterns don't feel right still talking like you know what i'm all about"
"Granted we take the things we grow to see more clearly lost in reverie"

Those are some select quotes from thier lyrics off of both their eps Perceptions and VersaEmerge. In an interveiw they said they would have a full length album out buy the end of the year. I hope so. I really love their stuff but I've also listened to it like 50,000,000 times not likt that is a bad thing I won't ever stop listening I just really am ready for something new. The same with Black Gold and Panic at the Disco. I think Panic are actually working on demos though... I hope so.

More later Probably

Peace Love Harmony--Always

Explaining what i meant last night about looking to music all the time. Well today I was really annoyed this morning. Why is not important ... anyway so I was about to put on Taylor Swift because her song "Fifteen" was in my head this morning. Instead when i scrolled my ipod menu of albums A Fever You Can't Sweat Out by Panic at the Disco was right under Fearless. So I thought hmm I haven't listened to AFYCSO recently so I put it on and it was great because like all the lyrics are dripping with disdain and sarcasm and it really helped me work out my annoyence at some people *cough cough*

In class this morning i was having a bad time of it and i decided that I needed some "Open Happiness" which is the song writen for the new Coke a Cola campaign. Well I am listening to it now over and over because it is just about the happiest song I've heard.

It's amazing how sometimes you can listen to a song over and over and over and over again and not get tired of it. It's those songs that make it into my All Time Favorite Songs Playlist so far there are only 8 in there:

Here, There and Everywhere-The Beatles
Imagine- John Lennon
Hallelujah-Jeff Buckley
The Luckiest-Ben Folds
In Your Eyes-Peter Gabriel
Round Here-Counting Crows
Valerie-The Zutons
Eidleweiss-from the Sound of Music


Peace Love and Harmony

one more thing...

So I realized that while I am more innocent than alot of people my age or even younger than me, that innocence is disappearing more and more everyday and that makes me a little sad. It also makes my desire for rose colored glasses, round ones like John Lennon's glasses were, even stronger.


As always

Peace! Love! Harmony!!

favorite song title ever...

Just wanted to say that my favorite song title ever would be "From a Mountain in the Middle of the Cabins" off of Panic at the Disco's second album Pretty. Odd.

Peace Love Harmony... I really mean it too, they are not just words to me...

time of stress

Being very close to the end of the year i know everyone is becoming really stressed out and allergies definitely don't help. Believe me I know. Anywho I want to apologise if i say or do anything to make you upset at me because i know neither of us mean it. That is just in general to anyone. not like anyone reads this but at least i'll have proof....

In times like this I turn to music. and when i mean times like this i mean crappy days that could always be better, of course today could have been worse...
Anywho i had to run around campus carring coolers up and down stairs for work. then i decided to grab a quick lunch before voice. So by the time i was there for my voice lesson i was not in a great mood. I began getting a blister on my foot and i was very hot because i had raced across campus to get to my lesson. not fun. not to mention that i was incredibly sore in my left leg from dance on monday so going up and down stairs all morning was Not Nice.

Well voice was fun, which was nice. I love singing.

Anyway back to the music. I said i turn to music in times of stress or times of unhappiness or times of rain or times of sun or times of morning or times if evening or ... well you get the idea. music pretty much rules my life. True story.

I'm currently listening to Ryan Star. There is just something about his voice that is so beautiful. it is not polished at all like some people's voices but there is just something about the roughness that makes it work. idk. I have his album Songs From the Eye of an Elephant, which is just an amazing title anyway becasue i love elephants. I still think that my favorite song of his is "Losing your Memory" but I also really love "First Time" and "Dance with You." These songs don't really have anything to do with my mood but music just makes me happy.

So anyway just remember
Peace Love Harmony...

Classic Song

So I didn't used to be a big fan of music, I always liked it but it was never that important to me. I just watched Almost Famous this weekend for the 2nd time and i remember not being very impressed with it but i also think i was too young when it came out to really appreciate it. Anyway I really like it now for alot of reasons but i took the soundtrack from my sister and put it on my computer over spring break so lately i have been listening to Tiny Dancer by Elton John. I've never been a huge fan of his either but there are just some songs that are classics and i also think that since i'm older it takes on a new meaning for me.

"Blue jean baby/LA lady/seamstress for the band/ pretty eyed/ pirate smile/ you'll marry a music man/ballerina/ you must've seen her/ dancing in the sand/and now she's in me/ always with me/tiny dancer in my hand/ Jesus freaks/ out in the streets/handing tickets out for gone/ turning back/ she just laughs/ the blvd. is not that bad/piano man/ he makes a stand/ in the auditoriun/ looking on/ she sing the songs/ the words she knows/ the tune she hums/oh how it feels so real/ lying here/with no one near/ only you/and you can hear me/when i say softly slowly/ hold me closer tiny dancer/count the headlights on the highway/ lay me down in sheets of linen/you had a busy day today ..."

Great song. I love music

Peace=Love=Harmony=What we all need...

feel...

So right now I am feeling very unappreciated and very invisible. The funny thing is that I always wanted my super power to be invisibility. Anyway I just began playing this Flogging Molly song that everytime i listen to it it sums up that inadequate feeling anyway here are the lyrics and maybe you'll see what I mean.
drank away the rest of the day
wonder what my liver'd say
drink, thats all you can
blackened days with their bigger gales
blow in your parlor to discuss the day
listen, that's all you can

chorus:
ah but don't, no don't sink the boat
that you built, you built to keep afloat

sick and tired of what to say
no one listens anyway
sing, that's all you can
ramblin' years of lousy luck
you miss the smell of burnin' turf
dream, that's all you can

chorus

singled out for who you are
it takes all types to judge a man
feel, that's all you can
filthy suits with bigot ears
hide behind their own worst fears
live, that's all you can
it's all you can
it's all you can...do

no matter where i put my head
i'll wake up feeling sound again
breathe, it's all you can
tomorrow smells of less decay
the flowers greet this bloomin' fray
be thankful, that's all you can

chorus

a ripe old age
that's what i am
a ripe old age
just doin' the best i can.

They are such a great band. Check them out if you have time.