Well, this is my last post before going off to Live Earth... (remember when you watch it, if the TV calls it the New York concert, it's actually in East Rutherford, New Jersey... they're just too afraid to admit that the NY Giants and their Stadium should really be called NJ Giants.)

Anyway, last night I thought of the PERFECT song to describe these concerts. It describes both what's trying to be accomplished and all the people who are working towards it. Actually it could describe everyone in the world, how we've all been basically complacent towards Global Warming, and now we're finally realizing that we have to do something and "get ourselves back" to a healthy planet. So, without further ado...

Joni Mitchell - "Woodstock"

I came upon a CHILD OF GOD
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, "Where are you going?"
And this he told me...

I'm going on down to Yasgur's Farm
I'm gonna join in a rock and roll band
I'm gonna camp out on the land
I'm gonna get my soul free

We are STARDUST
We are golden
And we've GOT to get ourselves
BACK to the GARDEN

Then can I walk beside you?
I have come here to LOSE THE SMOG
And I feel to be a cog in something turning

Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
I don't know who I am
But you know LIFE is for LEARNING

We are STARDUST
We are golden
And we've GOT to get ourselves
BACK to the GARDEN

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was SONG and CELEBRATION

And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into BUTTERFLIES
Above our nation

We are STARDUST
Billion year-old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've GOT to get ourselves
BACK to the GARDEN.

The 4th of July celebration my family went to. On the 3rd of July. lol.

(video has no sound... just hum 'Stars and Stripes' and you're there)

http://s48.photobucket.com/albums/f209/earwhacks/?action=view¤t=fireworks.flv

I've seen this probably 100 times and it still makes me crack up.

1. Click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGgchv-4po
2. Fast forward to 4:26
3. Laugh.

(Make sure your volume is up)

I am sooooo happy right now.

For months, I've been searching desperately for the piano sheet music to 'The Millionaire Waltz' by Queen. I could not find anywhere,not even Amazon, that was selling a book with that song's sheet music in it, and it wasn't available to download anywhere.

I did find it one place... a guy was playing it on a piano at Kean University when I went for open house. But I didn't get the chance to ask him where he'd gotten it, which only made me want it more.

Well, tonight, i'm proud to annouce that I FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Soon I will be doing something similar to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWl0hGQVgQ

(the crazy thing is, even that's a simplified version. If you go over to the related videos list on the side and you click on the live performance... his fingers move soooo fast!! No wonder they called him a legend...)

This has got to be the FUNNIEST celeb vs. paparazzi video I have ever seen.

That photographer must've completely lost her head, seriously. Trying to climb in the car with everyone, and then complaining about getting kicked out... WTF???

It's hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aXRGQ35Kjk

Is there some requirement that charity music for great causes must be crappy??

I've just bought the Instant Karma CD... and I knew not to expect an amazing album... but seriously, it's so boring and forgettable.

Really it's greatest accomplishment is making me realize just how truly great John Lennon was, because his version of all of these songs are better than these covers.

The only ones that come close are U2's version of "Instant Karma," Regina Spektor's "Real Love," Jack's Mannequin's "God," Postal Service's "Grow Old With Me," and Green Day's "Working Class Hero."

The rest (18 other songs) are just "eh," except for Aerosmith's "Give Peace A Chance," The Black Eyed Peas' "Power To The People," and Jakob Dylan's "Gimme Some Truth," which are huge disappointments. Aerosmith's version is 100% crapified, I expected something cooler from the Black Eyed Peas after they did a great version of a song with a similar message, "Get Up, Stand Up," at Live 8, and I really wished for something harder-hitting from the son of one of history's greatest protest song writers. I guess maybe it would've helped if I ever listened to anything by The Wallflowers, but I haven't, so I was hoping Jakob was more of a chip off the old Dylan block vocally.

So in short, just like every other charity release, buy it because it'sa great cause, but don't be surprised by the disappointing songs.

:shock:

*is stunned*

This is insane. Maybe I should stop wanting to relieve stuff from my childhood... I end up finding out there's bunch of stuff i REALLY didn't need to know.

Like, how bad is Pokemon that there's a whole big Wikipedia article about various episodes banned from airing in North America??? I mean yeah, we've all heard about the seizure one... but reading about some of them, I have to wonder what the hell they were thinking. Meowth dressed as Hitler WTF!?!?!?

Some of these are so bizarre that they seem made up by somebody, so it's insane to know that they're actually real plotlines in real episodes.

Likethis one, probably the most disturbing...
I will warn you if you click the link.
James. has. BOOBS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gZQLT_B_KM

lol, I love how when TV.com glitches and puts my level back at 1, I can do the same amount of stuff on this site as I normally do and gain 20%, and then when it gets fixed, i've only gained 3%.

This'll probably turn out to be horribly, horribly boring, but whatever.

My friend did this in her LJ, and I kind of wanted to do it to.

1. Hit shuffle on iPod.
2. First lyrics (unless they gave away the title of the song, and talking in the beginning doesn't count either. First sung words.) to the first 30 songs
3. Guess what song they are/who they're sung by.

Okay, so I'll write the 30 lyrics, and you guys guess. Ready?

1. Josie's on a vacation far away
3. When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
4. Look out the left, the captain said
5. I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing
6. All I do is grunt and groan, hurts me to walk anywhere
7. I can't find a reason to let go
8. Rows and flows of angel hair
9. Oh, why you look so sad?
10. A long, long time ago, I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
12. September '77, Port Elizabeth, weather fine
13. Here's to you, I sing for my daddy-o
14. Well the doctor comes 'round here with his face all bright
15. Ramona, come closer, shut softly your watery eyes
16. Oh no, I see, I spun a web and it's tangled up with me
17. Sitting, thinking, sinking, drinking
18. Standing in line to see the show tonight and there's a light on
19. Sometimes I get to feeling I was back in the old days, long ago...
20. I need a sign to let me know you're here
21. Any minute now, my ship is coming in
23. Empty spaces, what are we living for?
24. I'm just a normal boy that sank when I fell overboard
26. Steve walks warily down the street with the brim pulled way down low
29. Well I guess that this is where I left my heart
30. Let's dance in st.yle, let's dance for a while

The following have been guessed by horseygall:
11. Ask if we can have 6 in, if not we'll have to have 2 (Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured - Arctic Monkeys)
22. I remember it all very well looking back, it was the summer I turned 18 (Fancy - Reba McEntire)
28. Beauty queen of only 18, she had some trouble with herself (She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5)

The following have been guessed by justsayyes:
2. I've been traveling, but I don't know where (Laugh, I Nearly Died - The Rolling Stones)
25. Threw some chords together, the combination D-E-F (These Words - Natasha Bedingfield)
27. Oh mama, I'm in fear of my life from the long arm of the law (Renegade - Styx)

Woooooooooooo last day of school!!!!!

Grand total of times my lifeless friend came back: 6.
She even came one day and sat through the mass we had to have. And she's Lutheran. And it's MASS. And it was 9 am. WHY?????

I hope the summer's fun. But my mom's making me get a job this year. :(
Also, I have to do my Girl Scout Gold Award, and a Math packet for Pre-Calc next year, and take a Pre-Calc placement test in August, and write letters to 2 incoming freshman to tell them about the school... (yeah I know, it's a dumb tradition. They're called our "little sisters"! My big sistercompletely and totally abandoned me my freshman year. She didn't write, didn't even acknowledge me. I didn't know there was such a program until someone else told me, and when I finally saw her, all she said was, "Oh. I have two." And I was like "So what, you just decided to pick the prettier one?" lol. So you can see how I don't exactly like this thing.)

Oh, and I also have to learn how to drive. I have my permit, but I'm so freaking terrible it's not even funny.