how could you expect anything less

I've been listening to Every Avenue on repeat for the past 24 hours, with some We Are The In Crowd mixed in, but you know how it goes. I love that pre-show jittery feeling, even when you're only going to watch. I love concerts so much. In case you actually took the time to read my bio, they're so much fun. Plus, this is my first concert of the year, but I'll be going to bamboozle. I might just kidnap my sister and bring her with me. I'll also be going with my two best friends back home, that I love and miss so much. I can't wait for spring break to go home and see everyone! 

Fuck Valentine's Day. Now, onto my usual anti-v day spiel. While people think I hate the holiday because I'm single, that's not why. I like being single because it means not having to answer to anyone, not having to remember dates, not having to worry about some of the stuff I say, and being able to hook up as I please. I dislike the holiday because you should love who you're with all the time, 365 days a year, or this year, 366. I mean, it's not that difficult a concept! Besides, there have been 14 different St. Valentines, and he's the patron saint epilepsy, bee keeping, and fainting prevention as well as couples. One of the St. Valentines was also famous for persecution of the Jews... Why do we pick the stupidest people to have holidays for? 

What do I know? I'm just a teen. MUSIC TIME!

The Minstrel's Prayer-Cartel

Watch the World-Every Avenue

Only Place I Call Home-Every Avenue

Where The Wild Things Are(Monsters)-Anarbor

The Moment-Safetysuit

Whaaat?

Day 3 of continuous posting, let's go! I learned today that my spring break perfectly coincides with St. Patrick's day, and I'm so pumped to be able to go home for it. Everyone wants to go away from the break, but all I want to do it go home for it. I miss New York while I'm out here in Ohio. I'm also pretty pumped because I won concert tickets to go see Every Avenue and We Are The In Crowd tomorrow night, and I'll be taking one of my friends out here with me. I've been doing plenty of reading and studying this semester, and I finally got my sleep schedule in check yesterday, where I slept all day, and then all night. No, I'm not sick or anything, but I got it back! I'll probably fuck it up again soon, but until then, it's whatever.
I've also learned that writing a book is a lot harder than it looks, because I can never get points to connect the way I want them to. I've been working on the same story, but I don't know how I want to introduce the death of her father and the introduction of her best friend. I've also been debating with my sister about rhetoric, which she hates, but I think is really important. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos can make or break any important letter or speech. While she may still be in high school, I think that taking AP Language and Composition was the best decision of my life, because I don't have to take College Writing. All of my friends here are taking it and they all want to rip their hair out.

MUSIC TIME.
On A Lonely Night-A Rocket to the Moon
Dressed to Kill-Newfound Glory
Top of the World-All-American Rejects
Those Nights-Skillet
Prayer of a Refugee-Rise Against

You dig?

So, I've gotten better. This is 2 days in a row, bringing this to post 3 for the year of 2012. I don't know if you guys are aware, but the world is supposed to end this year. Have any of you heard that? It's supposed to be like this new craze, but they've already said that the world is gonna end 3 times, and that's just in my lifetime. There's a poem by Robert Frost, that's quite aptly named "Fire and Ice". I dig the poem, so I'm gonna post it here so that you can all read it.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Personally, I think that if the world ends in fire, then everyone who dies, it isn't going to be nearly as bad as if it ended in ice. I would rather die sweating than freezing my ass off. You're probably all thinking that I'm pessimistic for even thinking this way, but I might as well jump on the bandwagon. I don't even think the world is going to end. Now, onto other depressing notes-Whitney Houston died yesterday. One of the greatest pop icons in the 1980's and 90's, she passed away at age 48. While no one knows the cause of death, that doesn't mean that people aren't guessing as to what this magnificent woman died from. Anyways, MUSIC TIME. Put My Love On Top-Beyonce Combat Baby-Metric The Remedy-Jason Mraz Honestly-Cartel

I've decided

I'm going to write a book. My insomnia seems to have gotten worse this semester, and it seems that I've become nocturnal. I figure, if no on else stays up all night, I might as well do something productive. I think I'll make it fantasy related, just for kicks, but I want a badass main character, and a killer story line to go with it. I'm thinking that I'll make it about a warrior princess who watches the murder of her father when she's young, and she falls in love with her best friend. It can't possibly be a worse love story than "Twilight". Besides, I kind of want to draw from Paolini (Eragon) and Tolkien (Lord of the Rings), maybe through some George R.R. Martin (A Song of Fire and Ice) in while I'm at it. I might even pull from Terry Goodkind (Sword of Truth books).

Anyways, MUSIC TIME!
Revolution-Mercy Mercedes
A Brand New Day-Joshua Ritter
All The Same To Me-Anya Marina

Rock on.

Happy 2012 guys!

So I know that this is really bad, because I haven't posted in a few months, but today, after I finished watching Finding Nemo, I decided to spend some time on stumbleupon. One of my interests, being literature, came up with "top 10 banned books in the united states"(www.shortlist.com/shortlists/10-banned-books/ ). Of course this piqued my interest and made me want to see the rest of the list. Apparently, Shel Silverstein's poems, Judy Bloom's books, Where's Waldo, Harry Potter, Captain Underpants, Bridge to Terabithia, Junie B. Jones, and others are considered banned books by the American Library Association. Parents wonder why it is that the children of today spend so much time on electronics? It's because schools are no longer allowed to give children the same books that we had. To be perfectly honest with you about my childhood, I spent tons of time out on my porch, or sitting on my couch reading books. Judy Bloom's "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.", which was recommended to me by my mother, helped me realize that while getting your period can be great at first, it's always good to have your friends around with you. I mean, there are some books that are on the list that are totally understandable, if it were from school libraries. Most of the books that I read in elementary, middle, and high school are on that list, especially if you actually look at this list from 2000-2009 ( http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/2000_2009 ), and it's almost pathetic that some of these books have been banned.
The American Library Association (which I'll be dubbing the ALA) has reign over what books can be kept in school libraries, public libraries, college libraries, and even prisons. One of the books on the list that really makes me upset is "The Chocolate War". I read that my freshman year with a great teacher, and I loved it. I was surprised that it was banned because from what I remember of the book was about a kid who stood up for what he believed and he didn't want to have to deal with school politics. The reason that the book was banned is because the main character walks in on another student masturbating in the bathrooms at school, and because there's violence. Regardless of what school you attend, there is going to be violence and talk of sex-the narrator is a teenage boy.
As you all know (hopefully) is that I'm a huge nerd. What really bothers me about the burning, banning, and challenging of book is that most people see one thing of having too large of a place in the novel. For one example, "The Lord of the Rings" was burned in New Mexico for being satanic. The thing that doesn't make any sense to me is that the whole series is a double allegory for both the bible and the Great War (I'm counting WWI and WWII as one war, because it's an era). Tolkien wrote the entire series while in a mental hospital suffering from PTSD after serving in WWII. He and C.S. Lewis spent time in the mental ward together, having served together. Their books were even published within a year of each other, LOTR being published in 1955, and The Chronicles of Narnia in 1956. Both sets of books have parallels with the coming of Christ, with the rising of both Aslan and Gandalf (spoilers).
I'm sitting here at my desk, thinking that there has to be something wrong with this picture. People say that the youth of today have no imagination, or that it's limited, yet they make it so that teachers aren't allowed to read Silverstein to their students. Okay, I'll remember that when I read my child "The Giving Tree" or anything by Roald Dahl, or "The Lorax" by Dr. Suess,or "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitz-Hugh" I'll make sure to tell that these books are banned, what I want to know is why can teachers show movies based on these books. When my kids can't read "Alice in Wonderland", "Matlida", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "When I Ran the Zoo", "The Lion, The Witch, and The Warlock", "The Complete Tales of the Brothers Grimm", or any of those books, yet they'll be allowed to watch the movies on ABCFamily, or maybe even in class.
While some books are totally understandable to me, like "Uncle Tom's Cabin" or "Animal Farm", or even "The Kite Runner", other books astound me. I won't continue to rant about this, but it drives me crazy that censorship is alive and well within the system that promotes literacy and awareness of the development of modern day writing.