Avenue Q and Dustins

Blog No. 80: Avenue Q

--->Blog Start 11:30 PM

Hate the word *bitchassness*... More or less hate anything MTV, VH1, Bravo, and anything else "reality"...

Anyways, I went downtown today to see Avenue Q with Piper and Tom. We got the nosebleed seats. Tom had brought his binoculars, but we hardly needed them...

LOL Musical Review: Avenue Q

Initial warnings: NOT for the kiddies, unless they don't mind the puppet sex. XP

With that being said, Avenue Q was hilarious! It plays parody to the Muppet/Sesame Street scene and translating that to a group of people just out of college, doing whatever they can to survive. Princeton, the main character/puppet, is one who wants to find a purpose out of life. However, as what Avenue Q is a about to show him, it's not the fulfilling their dreams that makes someone feel special, but it's how they give back to the people around them.

The singers really play into their characters. One minute they stand aside and let their puppets do all the "performing" and the next they add a little bit more to them with their facial expressions and quirks. With songs like The Internet is for Porn and Everyone's a Little Bit Racist, the music, although somewhat-cheezy, is very catchy. It mainly speaks to the modern and compassionate man and woman in need of a show that actually makes sense. My favorite characters were Nicky and Rod, especially in that dream sequence where the bed turned into rockets. Either that, or when Kate Monster dropped the lucky penny from the Empire State building! XP

Four out of Five Thumbs Up--->Recommend seeing over and over again until you, too, will have a foam rubber personality! XD

Now here's a recap of last night's IM stream:

Andrew says:
Let's come op with different words for boobs
pikari. says:
XD;
HMMM.
Dustin says:
I hate the word tits or titties
Rabbiman, YO! says:
Me TOO!
pikari. says:
HOW
ABOUT
BREASTS?!
Tamuril Marie says:
i love breasts
Dustin says:
breasts is good
lol
pikari. says:
no one says it anymore. D:
april says:
breasts are nice to sleep on
pikari. says:
srsly...p:
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lets call them DUSTIN
Dustin says:
yeah!
pikari. says:
THEY'RE NICE AND SOFT!
I LOVE YOUR DUSTINS!
Rabbiman, YO! says:
So squishable!
pikari. says:
CAN I PLAY WITH YOUR DUSTINS?!
Dustin says:
and the nipple can be the calf!~
pikari. says:
LOL XD
Rabbiman, YO! says:
Mind if I stroke your Dustin calves?
Dustin says:
hey every body look
one of my dustins is bigger than the other
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I can flex my dustins
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hey everybody grab onto any dustin you see and float down the river on it
Rabbiman, YO! says:
ZOMG WATERFALLL!

Then there was something about frolicing and planting "gardens" and enjoying asian "cookies"...

The rest was pretty much was 10% conversation, 30% sex jokes, and 60% lol. XP

--->Blog End 12:19 AM

Knowing

Blog No. 79: Knowing

--->Blog Start 8:04 PM

I went to Regal, again, with my mom. I saw one of my high school friends, Andy, there. he still looked the same, only with different style glasses on. He has been working there part time since junior year I think.

When he waved us over to the food counter, he asked me, "How come you can grow a beard and I can't?"

I told him, "Your face just hates you! XD"

Movie Review: Knowing

Initial Gut Reaction--->HOLY CRAP!


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HOLY CRAP! XP

No wonder there's mixed reviews about this movie!

First, some initial warnings: This movie is intense. Not the dude that was so intense! More like the holy crap I almost peed my pants when the airplane crashed right next to him! I suggest not bringing the little ones to this movie. Also, I occasionally will leak spoilers, so yeah...

The general pro's: AWESOME cinematography. It really manipulates you and sucks you into the movie. The camera work during these intense scenes remind me of Cloverfield, where there's on person holding the camera and the camera is following the main characters, getting a sense of vertigo and mania when you see a man burning in flames or people being crushed by subway cars that much real. Then there are some subliminal effects you have to look for, like I almost missed noticing rays of light coming from the sun as the Nicolas Cage character is on the cell phone with his father. It was really strong because those halos of light usually means "the moment where the saviour is revealed" yet it was the sun that would be the cause of death of mankind!

It also has a very strong message, whatever that message may be. It deals with the major questions, like what would I do if I can hear the whispers and predict the end of the world? and is there a strong force in the universe that created life, and is that force good or evil? and how can I handle the world throwing itself into a state of chaos? The Nicolas Cage character has to bear witness to all of this crazy stuff happening and he had to have enough faith to accept that his son will be safe when the "horsemen" took him to space and to accept that they will still be together, whether it be in spirit or in death. It also reaches on the Catholic's symbolism, using the boy and girl as Adam and Eve, the Four whisperers as the horseman of the apocalypse, and using the refernce of Noah to restart the Earth.

General con's: It is scary as hell! It's not gorey or anything to that affect. It's a movie that involves your thinking power. Once you go through the intence natural/supernatural phenomena, it get's into some pretty powerful philosophical stuff. It touches on so many things, most of which we probably shouldn't have to think about. I could literally feel a layer of saline in my eyes. XD

Also, some of the movie's message will leave you with a little discomfort at the end. It's really scary to think that we as humans have the capacity to have explanations of occurances but never have the power to control or prevent such occurances. The end could really happen at any minute, and we will never know it. When we walked out of the movie theater, mom had a bunch of missed calls from Audrey, and I was thinking oh she better not be in labor after going through this movie! XP

To sum it up: It's a powerful and easy to follow movie that uses very intense scenes to keep your attention alive.

Four and a Half our of Five Thumbs Up--->Worth it to see at least once, only after you prepare yourself for it. Bring diapers. XP

Something about *Lehman Sisters*...

--->Blog End 11:20 AM (A day late...)

Chalk Adventure and Choir Concert Party

Blog No. 78: Chalk Adventure and Choir Concert Party

--->Blog Start 1:48 AM

Notice the time above! I just got home! ALOT has happened today!

It all starts with a lunch outside. Taka, Parker, and I were planning a lunch outside, so we went to the cafeteria to get food. Along the way, we added Kaitlyn and two other people I don't know... Awkward. That one girl was all fawning over Parker. LOL

Anyways, I forgot my chalk at the apartment, so me and Parker were going to Target to get some cheap ones, along with Kaitlyn and the Parker Stalker. I stole the front seat from Kaitlyn, leaving me with plenty of leg room to enjoy. It was pretty much a quick trip to and from.

We started with designing a large gaming stage like one you would find on the video game, Loco Roco. During which time, Liz joined us for some chalk and camera fun and some *zombie company* XP




Then Taka started her design on my dream Taka, which she calls LolPomegranate. To recap, I blogged about a super long dream I had and in it Taka had a funny outfit on with a fork and knife at hand. One of her lines of dialouge was simply "POMEGRANATE!" (More details on Blog No. 45).

There's a video of her in the process of drawing it on the ground on her facebook. Taka complains about not being able to draw, but she's just modest. You'll also see a lovely cameo of me rocking out to Feller from Fortune.






Then Taka posed for me while I drew her shadow on the pavement. She really looks like a Peter Pan with her pose. Everyone was lolzing when I drew from her feet to her crotch. Then Taka added a scarf after I finished.




Then we had to go to Italian. Parker joined us too. Professoressa Martinelli was very confused as to why there was a red haired man joining us for Italian. Parker's just pretty much our Italian mascot when we don't have Lomo. Of course he just used the time to sleep... Classic Parker!

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Skip to call time.



That's me doing the Captain Morgan pose with the asians!

Anyways... Dr. Hughes was a little on edge during call time, but just a little. On Tuesday, Concert Choir did not do as good as it should have. This time around, I think everyone was on edge.

After call, I had to run out to Tom's car to pick up Kaylah's mom's ticket that was in my backpack when Tom took it to his trunk. Taka went with me because she had to go out to King's car for stuff too. During our walk from King's car, we met up with Kaylah's mom, Lori, so it ended up being the three of us walking to Tom's car. Unfortuantely, I had forgotten what Tom's car looked like. I asked him if it was the blue car, he said it was green. I always hated that I can't always see the same colors as everyone else. So frustrating. So when I found it and exchanged the ticket with my cherger with Lori, I was about to close the trunk until I realized I didn't have the keys. So after searching through my bag about ten minutes, I find them still in the key hole of the trunk! Blondeness is really rubbing off on me. XD


The Choir Concert this time around was alot better. I felt a lot more energy in the choir. I'm not sure how the tenor section sounded because we're so small, (7 Tenor I's and 4 Tenor II's). That is pretty much my only worry for that concert. The Chamber Singers did pretty well too, except maybe they needed to lift their volume up higher, but other than that I heard no problems! Maybe they would've been louder if the audience applauded louder like on Tuesday. Meh, all I cared about was the one person I invited enjoyed herself that night. XP

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After the concert, a large part of the choir rounded on up to Denny's by Scandia. Let the mayhem and merriment commence!




Right...

Pictures were taken, breakfast was eaten, massages were given. The usual night out at Denny's, right? I stood up after awhile of waiting for food, and I walked over to where Taka and Kevina sat. Across from them were Jason and Blah, with whom I made lose the game, which spread across the makeshift feasting table. Then there were JT, Jason, Tom, and a couple other male Chamber Singers who started singing their opening number from the concert in a beatbox style. It sounded pretty good until the Denny's manager came and stopped them! XP (The video of that is on Jordan's facebook page).

We had to wait a long time for food and we felt somewhat left out because we sat in a a row where we couldn't really chat with each other. So, once we finally got our food, Kevina, Piper, Tom, Taka, King, Parkarr, Dictator Roze (Liz), and I moved to a circular booth in the corner to eat mozarella sticks and chocolate satin pie! =)

Then people started leaving one by one. When JT was getting ready for departure, I asked him for a hug, because he usually asks for a hug and I've become accustomed to it. However, I was sitting in the middle of a couple of people in the booth so he couldn't get to me. So what he did was he crawled under the table and made a space right next to me. I did not have a picture of this, unfortunately. All I have is a chibi version of JT made by Taka!:




[Insert JT crawling under table XD]

After this, Liz showed us this game with papers and crayons. It's kind of similar to Telephone, only we alternated back and forth between picture and sentence as we passed a stack of papers around the table. We start with a sentence, then the next person draws a picture of what they see from that sentence on the next slip of paper, then that repeats until it makes full circle. It was super fun!

There's this one part of the game I have to mention. Liz draws a picture and passes it to me, expecting to write a sentence that fits the description. Thing is, Piper wrote the sentence before her and, judging from what the picture looked like, she most likely wrote "Penis with Four Balls." I was giggling like a schoolgirl, trying to think of ways to get the next picture out of the gutter. I noticed that each testicle was hairy, so I translated that into cactus spines. What I wrote for my sentence was "A Banana Being Attacked by a Mob of Evil Cacti!" XP

Eventually everyone left, leaving a booth full of people giggling about the weird pictures people drew. It was finally 1:00 AM when we decided to leave.

All in all, it was a good day! XP

--->Blog End 10:18 AM (Two days later!)

Dreams and Deja Vu

Blog No. 77: Dreams and Deja Vu

--->Blog Start 9:22 PM

Slept in and missed nothing in Chemistry, passed G harmonic minor scales in Piano, invited Kaylah's mom to our choir concert tomorrow, and started new music in Concert Band.

Now I have to talk to you about something. I've noticed something very weird about my dreams. I would seldom have any dreams, and of those dreams most of them don't make sense and are super long. However, on some rare occasions, there's a dream that I could mistake as being real life because they were always in my point of view. It meant nothing. Just a 5 or so second clip of a moment in real life. The thing is, I did not recognize that moment. But, on that same day of that weird 5 second dream, I get a sense of deja vu that is not connected to that night's dream, but is entirely connected to the dream on the day of my last deja vu moment.

Let me explain.

I dream a future deja vu moment on the day I have a deja vu moment from a previous dream.

This happened one day at a trip to IHOP with Kaylah and her parents. Before I woke up that day, I had that 5 second clip in my head of me looking down from the second floor of a house. My view seemed to be very wide screen. I was standing on top of the stair case and I distinctly remember the black bar railings, the colors of the walls, and two sets of stairs as well as some framed pictures and windows on the floor below. In real life, I had never seen this house at all. It seemed to be too rich of a house for me to be in in the first place.

Then, on that day, I believe from a ride from school or something, I got a really strong sense of deja vu. It was because the previous clip dream was me looking down at a restaurant table, then looking up to see a brown haired woman with big glasses sitting next to a grey haired man also with big glasses, then me looking to the right at the window that had small bright lights. This clip dream was blurry, so I couldn't see who these people were at first, but I did remember making this exact head movement that day and I remembered that the sky outside was on the dark side of twilight. When I did the same head movement that night, I was freaking out. I saw Kathy and Kaylah's dad, as well as Trevour, their kid and Kaylah's brother. The only difference from that dream was that my head panned to see Kaylah's face, dark twilight background, where she noticed how fogged up my glasses were.

If you haven't caught on, I had a deja vu day today.

This time around, the dream was bright as day. It was a clip of Papa Landry (high school technology teacher) walking up to me, with Ms. Gray (9th grade english teacher) and their child, Mila, in the stoller, walking more toward my right in my peripheral vision. I remember some details, like Papa Landry's beard was very thinned out, he had a navy blue baseball cap on, the cement walkway he used had a crescent shape to it as it hugged grass, Ms. Gray walked from the sunlight to under a shadow behind Papa Landry, and my view was slanted somewhat to the right and tilted down a little bit.

The deja vu moment? It was a picture on Kelly's computer. She was scrolling through pictures of an interior of a house on the market in the Sacramento region. I looked over at the right moment as she scrolled past a certain picture that totally creeped me out. I asked her to scroll back to it and my premonitions were confirmed. It was a picture using a special lens that showed the living room of a house from the top of the stairs. Exactly the same way as the dream I had on that IHOP day.

Totally weird. It's like I can see a random 5 seconds of the future, but I don't know how or where or why the 5 seconds of a future happens... That would pretty much be a lame super power...

So, what does this mean? I have no idea.

--->Blog End 9:59 PM

We could easily be *cewebrities* if you guys spread the word of our blogs! LOL XP

Email to Professoressa Martinelli

Blog No. 76: Email to Professoressa Martinelli

--->Blog Start 11:44 PM

Instead of a blog, I'm going to show you the email that I sent to Professoressa Martinelli to explain today's absence and to negotiate a way to prevent the three day absence letter grade drop rule.

Enjoy:

Professoressa Martinelli,

This is David Cox from the TTh Italian class. I apologize for my absence today, diciasette di Marzo. I was incapable of getting to campus on time to your class and ended up not making it. I would very much appreciate getting the subjects we learned in class today so that I can prepare notes and homework before class Thursday.

I would also like to discuss options around the rule for missing three classes dropping a letter grade. I believe I proved that I can study on my own time to make up for lost days. I have missed two days in a row of class before the first chapter exam due to strep throat and I still got a 27/30 on my tema, as well as having an improved test score from 90% to 93%. The reason I'm bringing this up is because there's a school approved choir field trip coming up on the cinque di Maggio. If I can somehow negotiate some deal with you for me to make up time I have missed so that my grade won't drop any
further or perhaps raising it. I've worked hard for a good standing grade and I'd like my grade to show my abilities in the language of Italian rather than the few days I could not help being missed. I would very much appreciate and be open to the opportunity of coming in during office hours or going to a tutor session before class or extra homework assignments or anything to prevent my grade from dropping. I will understand if I am no longer physically capable of raising my grade. Regardless, I would like to know so that I can tell my choir director to give my bus seat away to someone else.

Thank you very much. I will be happy to see you on Thursday, assuming I recover from tonight's
concert. ---David

PS, Invito tu frequentare il concierto di ARC Chamber and Concert Choir il dicianove di Marzo. E dodici dollori. Ascolta Angela, Thim, e io cantiamo in il teatro di ARC.

Roughly translated: I invite you to attend the ARC choir concert this thursday (3/19). It is 12 dollars. Come listen to Angela, Thim, and I sing in the ARC theatre.

Hopefully she's not affected by the *bad economy* XP

Yeah. SLEEP!

--->Blog End 11:51 PM

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Oh yeah, EDIT: I got accepted to UC Santa Cruz! WOOT!

LOLZ XP

"Meebo"

Blog No. 75: "Meebo"

--->Blog Start 9:14 PM

OK.

First things first. Awesome Urban Word of the Day sentence: I'm not a *Whole Grazer* XD

I don't know what all this stuff is. First, there's the Facebook IM, which I get pretty easily. Self explanatory. Then Taka and everyone else uses MSN Live for IM. Supposedly I could talk with more than one person at a time with this one. Then there's Meebo, where I could sign into all of the IM's I have available to me at once. There are IM's that I did not know I have! Google talk? Yahoo Messenger? Really?

Taka wants to start a four way chat with me, herself, Piper, and Parker. At least that's what she says on the Facebook IM. You see, I was just fine with one IM. However, Facebook does not do that whole talking with more than one person at a time.

So I get Meebo.

Then I try to add Taka's MSN, but alas it does not do so because I don't have MSN.

I spin right round to my mother, sitting on the recliner behind me, for permission to download MSN messenger. She said sure, so long as I'm not on it during homework time... >D

So, I walk through that process of downloading and whatnot. Took a minute longer than expected. Then I put that log in, along with my Yahoo, Gmail, and Facebook into Meebo. Once I got Taka's MSN on my contacts, I added the other contacts she gave me.

So now I am IM'd. Or IM capable. Whichever works. XD

--->Blog End 10:33 PM

Dream Room

Blog No. 74: Dream Room

--->Blog Start 8:08 PM

I never imagined my dream house. It might contain the basics plus a hot tub, a tennis court, an ocean view, a pool/lagoon, and a helicopter pad. The normal luxuries of a house.

However, I would have these dreams where I'm already in the house, but all I remember is the spacious and unique room. I shall describe it here.

First of all, it's circular. Always circular, as if the room fits a floor inside a castle pillar. It could be more oval than round, but either way it did not have four corners. I still defined it by sides because I would have many things up on the walls.

One side changes with the season. When I travel, I would want to go someplace with a view, like on top of a hill on the Italian peninsula looking over the ocean or on top of a mountain looking over the Asian landscape. Whatever landscape I choose, I would paint it up on the wall, then change its color and weather depending on its season so I can feel I'm living there. The sky would sploosh from that wall to the cieling. It would somewhat be related to the Thomas Kinkade affect too, where the amount of light changes the time of day on the painting as well.

Of course, for that to happen, I would need a window on the ceiling to make that affect. The window would be small and would be more positioned to that side of the room. It usually had that vertical and horizontal bar in it, like rectangular windows, only where the two bars would meet, there was a circular bar, making a smaller window within the window. The rest of the cieling would have a gradient affect. From the wall with the landscape, the cieling is sky blue, to the opposite wall, where the cieling is a dark night with a starry sky.

There would also be room for at least a two person desk on that wall, one side for the computer, and the other for artwork. The desk would hug the wall instead of blocking it with its corners. The wood was a dark wood and the support had black metal beams.

Another side of the wall, the opposite of the landscape wall, would have a gallery space. I would hang framed artwork, regardless of who drew them, as well as two eisels at either end, where the unfinished sketches await for me. I would never know the color of that wall because it is usually jampacked with stuff on it. On the floor of the gallery wall, I would store musical instruments on stands. There would be a saxaphone family, next to a clarinet family, next to a flute family, then a violin, cello, and guitar, all of which would be of different colors. My favorite in these dreams was the soprano sax, which was a shiny burgundy red with golden keys. I would play these on the window seat, onlooking whatever scenery was outside.

To the right of the gallery wall was the window wall. It's a semi giant window that ran circular along with the walls of the room. There would be drapes, not along the window, but cornering the window as if to seperate the window wall as a seperate room. The drapes had vines and greenery on it. They would usually be open, regardless. Inside the drapes there were two tall book shelves filled with novels and such and a couple of fiction inspired book ends, like one set had the cheshire cat, the white rabbit, and Alice. Just below the window was the window seat that acted as a comfortable couch/storage of paper work.

There is usually a lot of paper in this room. Odd.

The floor has a circular indent, more closer to the window wall. You take the three steps down and you'll see a plasma TV with a couple of game systems, a DVD player, and a surround speaker system that hung on the would be four corners of the room and stood on the adjacent four corners of the indent. The TV faces away from the door, I presume to invite people in to see what I would be watching.

Walking across the room from the window wall, without tripping into the indent and breaking my TV, was the entrance. The door was a foresty green, and the wall around it was a gradient of purple, lighter on the left where the wall turned into a mural, and darker on the right where some of the black and white photos stood out. I would not be lying about the foresty green, seeing as there would be a picture of tree trunks and branches on the door. There was a little sliding door on the window that I could open and see who is there and have a conversation with them without inviting them in. Then the door could open in half as well for almost the same purpose. There would even be a welcome mat

Right next to the door, there would be a night stand, to hold whatever I had in my pockets and to charge any small electronics I would have, and a couple more shelves, for DVDs and games and more statuette bookends.

Behind the door, I had, not a walk in closet, but a pull-out closet. All of my clothes and whatnot would be on racks. Whenever I choose an outfit, I simply open a door, pull out the rack, and find whatever I was looking for. The racks were two sided, meaning on one side of the pole there would be casual clothes, and the other would have formal attire and shoes and ties.

I don't have a bed. I have a pillowed window seat and a couch that would also hug the indent in the floor. Both a shade of green that matched the carpeting, the carpeting made to look like grass. Both equally comfortable. But I do have a large and comfortable checkerboard patterned blanket. Good enough right?~~~

Well that was my imaginary room. You guys should *tweetup* over here sometime, if only I knew people who were on "twitter."

Toodles. XP

--->Blog End 9:45 PM