revamped blog

as you can see, i have completely revamped the blog
now it is awesomely colored, and of course, easier to navigate, wat with the new archives and all
this is all thanx to new blogger beta version, which makes it easier for stupid people like me to change stuff, since i am clueless when it comes to html

hope you enjoy the revamping

rapunzel in black

a song for the broken hearted

this actually has nothing to do with broken heartedness at all
it is just a song i wrote


What if someone told you
You’ve got one life to live
Nothing to take
And everything to give

What if someone told you
That life is just a song
You’d say “ha ha yeah right”
But then you’d sing along

What if someone told you
You’ve got one life to live
Nothing to take
And everything to give

What if someone told you
You don’t get a second chance
To do the things you love
So now’s the time to dance

What if someone told you
You’ve got one life to live
Nothing to take
And everything to give

~rapunzel in black

p.s.
just a thought
what if someone told you that the person in reflection was the real person, and you were the reflection of them?

Come down now...

s'been a while...
This isn't my original work, but it is such an amazing song that I just had to post the lyrics...here you go

I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles
In our eyes are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate that God himself
Did make us into corresponding shapes like
Puzzle pieces from the clay
And true, it may seem like a stretch, but
Its thoughts like this that catch my troubled
Head when you're away when I am missing you to death
When you are out there on the road for
Several weeks of shows and when you scan
The radio, I hope this song will guide you home
They will see us waving from such great
Heights, 'come down now,' they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away,'come down now,' but we'll stay...
I tried my best to leave this all on your
Machine but the persistent beat it sounded
Thin upon listeningAnd that frankly will not fly.
You will hear
The shrillest highs and lowest lows with
The windows down when this is guiding you home
They will see us waving from such great
Heights, 'come down now,' they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away,'come down now,' but we'll stay...



**Such Great Heights - The Postal Service

No day but today

aaah, possibly one of my new favorite songs
and the rest of the musical is great too
if u dont know what im talking about, please go and watch RENT, preferably without your parents there
i just was in a BROADWAY BOUND performance of selections from this wonderful show
and, besides the fact that my parents completely freaked out afterwards (listen to La Vie Boheme and you will know what i mean), i cannot even tell you how much fun i had
added bonus, my big solo was in....hold your breath....
ANOTHER DAY
possibly one of the best songs in the entire musical

my suggestions for songs from RENT to listen to immediately as soon as you get your parents out of the room:
1. Another Day
2. I'll Cover You
3. Tango Maureen (wonderful use of a much beloved swearword)
4. La Vie Boheme (strongly suggest avoiding your parents listen to this one, tis really full, if you know what i mean)
5. Light My Candle (suggestive lyrics, but great tune)
6. RENT (the theme, you've probably heard it before (how we gonna pay, how we gonna pay, last years rent....))
7. Seasons of Love (i hate putting this on my list, cuz you've probably heard it before, and yes, i do know it is the most overplayed song ever, but, if you get past the annoyingness of hearing it again, it is actually a good song)
8. What You Own (more commonly known as "Living in America", but i'm using real names on these)
9. Out Tonight (o yes, this is the one we've all been waiting for...can you just say stripper song/dance)
10. Today 4 U (this is a great, hilarious song, if you watch the movie, you should know that Angel is the best character ever)
11. Take Me or Leave Me (arguably the best song in the musical, for me it ties with "I'll Cover You" and "Another Day")
12. Pretty much any other song from RENT you can get your hands on

now, if you don't know this already, my suggestion list basically is a written out song list of the songs in RENT, with added commentary
but thats just how good it is

enjoy...
musical theater freak

wow are we stupid

has anybody ever noticed how stupid it is to get manicures and pedicures? i mean seriously... my nails look fine, its not like i am a disgusting person....and yet, i have never gotten either a manicure or pedicure in my life
saying this, i want to bring to your attention an article i recently read on a flight. this entire article was about how disgusting people are that they can expose their feet on a flight. but wait, not just this, their feet are UN-PEDICURED!!! O MY GOD WHATEVER SHALL WE DO??
here's a suggestion...dont analyze other people's feet if you dont want to see them...!
also, have you ever noticed how in all these movies you watch about people on welfare and stuff, they all (well, the women) have perfectly manicured and elaborately painted nails. and all i can say is
...
if you have enough money to go do that, then why are you asking people for more?
im sorry, but nobody's going to give you any money if that is what your going to spend it on
therefore, please dont go get manicures guys, it is a really stupid thing to do, unless you are living in america, where people seem to expect it of you....
i have an alternate, better solution....
keep your hands and feet clean...???!!!

the joys of instant messaging

aaah, instant messaging (will now be referred to as IM)
what a wonderful invention
the perfect excuse for slipping grades, and at the same time, so amazingly powerful
what is there to say about it other than the fact that i absolutely love it
of course, the best IMing that can possible be provided has been done with chat rooms
simply wonderful, you can actually talk to MORE THAN ONE PERSON AT A TIME
i know, it totally beats talking to people in person, doesnt it? (hint sarcasm hint)
in general, i think IMing is a total waste of time, yet i cant seem to stop doing it
i mean, my house is so boring anyways that talking to my friends is the perfect waste of time
and of course, some things are just so much easier to say when it appears magically on screen, instead of completely unmagically out of your mouth
and for some reason, there is that small pleasure of hitting the enter key whenever u finish saying something
whenever i look at that key now, i think about IM, and how one day, when i finish typing frantically, i will hit that key and suddenly...
BOOM

Is there a shortage of cloth in the world?

The other day, I was flipping through a magazine, and of course, in a magazine, there are ads. So I in my subconscious mind was staring blankly at the page, which happened to be a clothing ad. I use the term clothing loosely, what the model was wearing is more accurately described as…nothing. This kind of jerked me out of my subconscious reading, and pulled me to turn to the front page of the magazine, just to make sure I was reading the right one. I don’t usually go for the teen zines and things like that. I am one of those people who actually try and read pieces that have some sense other than “How to make this guy fall for you”, and such. So when I saw this ad, I automatically thought, wait, is this some “teen zine”? But no, it actually turned out to be TIME magazine. And I thought, what is an ad like this doing in a magazine I thought just may be sensible? Then it really sank in, how corrupt our world is, that in a magazine that is supposed to be informing us about important news around the world, there is an advertisement for something I would doubt if any of us need. A question to all, we brought clothing into our world to keep us warm and to keep us decent, but aren’t we just going backwards? The skimpy things I see on mannequins in stores now are not classified as clothing. They are classified as small pieces of cloth that have been draped onto mannequins in different ways and colors. Is there a shortage of cloth in the world? I certainly haven’t heard about it. And another thing while I am on this track. Do these models have serious eating disorders? The anorexic people I see in ads are definitely not normal. If you’re telling me that is normal, then 99.9% of the population of the world is…fat. There is no amount of money you could pay me to become like that. I’d like to keep food in my day, thank you very much. Here I quote Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes, reading of which is one of my favorite pastimes.
“Mom, can I have plastic surgery?”
“Honey, those supermodels need the fat sucked out of their brains, not their butts.”
Mr. Watterson, we can all learn a lot from you, Calvin and Hobbes is not just a comic, it is a message to us all. We just have to look for it.