popsicle_irony

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."

"If technology is so great, why do I still have to talk to people?"

"Your argument is sound, nothing but sound."

[falsetto]"Ooh, my outrage is so justified."

"Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior."

"Perfectionism is spelled p-a-r-a-l-y-s-i-s."

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

"Perhaps death is just a little bit afraid of me."

"The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction that somehow, somewhere, all of this makes sense!"

"You get the best seat in the house for Armageddon. Say goodnight, Harley. I always wanted to see my dame in lights. Heh. Even in a moment of abject saccharine, I still got it."

"The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules!"

"Some men just want to watch the world burn."

"See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."

"You are welcome to my den of sin."

"Oh, well, I'm sure we can handle that."

"Governments should be afraid of their people."

"Were you even listening when I was talking just then, or were you trying so very hard to remember how the song from the A-Team goes instead?"

"...His man-skirt is making his legs cold."

"I'm hallucinating in purple."

"That bracelet has been bad. Bad bracelet. It needs to go in the closet of naughty."

"This Rolo helped the economy, so you better well like it."

"If you're looking for the guilty you need only look into a mirror."

"America: Where even the uninformed can have an opinion."

"I'm a pretty, pretty princess."

"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having!"

"Why is it that the male stick figures get to be completely naked, but the female stick figures only get to be topless?"

"I don't think it's pronounced that way..."

"No, I don't think 'Wiffle' is an option..."

"Ahahaha, look! That sign says 'Math kills'! How great is that?"
"Nona, that's an e."
"Oh."

"When I think of what I want out of candy, the words 'interesting' and 'surprising' don't really come up."

"Whether it is a throwing star to the neck at a bowling alley, a poison spike that sails through an open window and lodges itself in the fleshy part of the leg, or a mysterious black-clad figure with a bo staff, perched up on the ceiling of your garage as you pull in your car from your awesome job, ninja attacks can and will happen anywhere and anytime."

When I was younger, the other children on the bus would have me read on command when they realized that I had an intuitive grasp of meter and sound. At least, I say that's why it was, knowing that it was just 'Look at this freak, reading like she has dreams.'

You--oh. You.
You are--how to put this--simply, neatly, in least terms...
You are a summary of me, but living, breathing, and not at all me.
A reflection of my insincerities, a compilation of my 'I don't know's.
You are the phone call that wakes me up on the verge of sleep, but it's never you who calls.
An echo of my validity.

You are more of a distraction, sitting maybe a hand and a half away, then she is, her leg against mine and her chest moving against my arm when she fidgets--and that seems to be all she does, hasn't she ever sat still for a half hour--you, perhaps emanate what I have done but shouldn't or what I didn't but should or maybe what I did and should or what never was or will be or is.

I feel less empty having seen a stranger on the street or having ordered my coffee from that same girl with a nose ring every Wednesday than I do from having a conversation with you.
What you are, is in its essence somewhere, is in its essence me but you get this by pulling me away from me and into you.
The conversation ends and I turn away and say goodbye to me.

This is why, which you wondered about, surely, I dread endings, but more than that I dread beginnings, and you, and being without you and being with you.
But more than I dread I long for.
I am inconsistency and irreconcilable with myself and yet whole and complete and utterly alone and empty.
You are an end and a beginning, maybe mine, maybe yours, maybe no one's, maybe the nose-ringed barista who takes my money, maybe everyone's.
Or maybe you are nothing, less than shirt-sleeves and half-deserted streets and ragged claws along the bottom of the sea.

If they don't sing for me, they'll never sing for you.

All times are MT, format is Artist; Song Title
 

17:04 – All Time Low; Dear Maria, Count Me In

17:07 – Cartel; Honestly

17:11 – New Found Glory; Dressed To Kill

17:15 – blink-182; I'm Lost Without You

17:22 – M.I.A.; Paper Planes

17:25 – Credence Clearwater Revival; Looking Out My Back Door

17:28 – Rise Against; Audience of One

17:32 – Kings of Leon; Closer

17:36 – Jimi Hendrix; All Along the Watchtower

17:40 – Justice; D.A.N.C.E.

17:44 – Black Eyed Peas; Boom Boom Pow

17:49 – Flogging Molly; Salty Dog

17:51 – Mayday Parade; Black Cat

17:55 – O-ZONE; Dragostea Din Tei

17:59 – Secondhand Serenade; Fall For You

18:02 – 3OH!3; Don't Trust Me

18:05 – Papa Roach; Getting Away With Murder

18:09 – We the Kings; Secret Valentine

18:13 – The Cranberries; Linger

18:18 – MGMT; Kids

18:21 – hellogoodbye; All of Your Love

18:26 – Lenny Kravitz; Are You Gonna Go My Way

18:30 – Bowling For Soup; A Friendly Goodbye

18:34 – Dashboard Confessional; As Lovers Go

18:38 – Aqua; Barbie Girl

18:41 – Third Eye Blind; Losing a Whole Year

18:45 – Sean Kingston; Me Love

18:49 – The Cure; Friday I'm in Love

18:52 – Disney Chorus; Heffalumps and Woozles

18:57 – Taking Back Sunday; Liar

19:00 – The All American Rejects; Swing Swing

19:03 – Lady Gaga; Poker Face

19:07 – All Time Low; Remembering Sunday

19:12 – Alien Ant Farm; Smooth Criminal

19:16 – 3OH!3; Dragon Backpack

19:20 – Gym Class Heroes; Clothes Off!

19:23 – Weezer; Buddy Holly

19:27 – New Found Glory; It's Not Your Fault

19:35 – The Decemberists; The Infanta

19:44 – The Rocket Summer; So Much Love

19:48 – Hit the Lights; Bodybag

19:51 – Taylor Swift; Love Story

19:55 – Brother Ali; Prince Charming

20:00 – Jimmy Eat World; Big Casino

20:04 – Justin Timberline; SexyBack

20:10 – Why?; The Vowels, pt. 2

20:14 – Fountains of Wayne; Stacy's Mom

20:17 – Gym Class Heroes; Taxi Driver

20:19 – Amber Pacific; Summer (in B)

20:23 – The Fratellis; Flathead

20:26 – Taking Back Sunday; Miami

She says "Ironically, I'm just so tired of being alone" and he says that irony's not just something you can decide on and that she hasn't made sense since he met her an hour ago. She shrugs and smiles pulls off her shirt by the sleeves instead of by grabbing the hem of the bottom and lifting crossed arms over her head. She fumbles a bit with the second sleeve a little past her elbow and the first caught on her wrist because she's maybe a tiny touch drunk off life and the Captain Morgan she pilfered from her parents' liquor cabinet this morning, but ultimately manages. She has a poorly-done henna tattoo on her chest and the edges of it sneak under the cloth of her bra like timid hands. Her smile has gone from dumbly happy to self-degrading and pleading, begging him to, even if he won't respect her tomorrow, worship her tonight.

Do you remember David-kid who was supposed to be leaving our school last year?
He didn't.
He's actually moderately amusing, in small doses.
In case you were wondering.

When I first posted on my LiveJournal, I was 15.
Now I am almost 17.
That is basically it.

What are 'fat kids reading Naruto'?
That is correct!

The Dark Knight.
Thought it was freakin' amazing.

Fail.

This blog is about the TV schedule and how it CHANGED. And how much that bugs me. So.
House is on Tuesdays and Bones is on Wednesdays and that all is nice and good and as it should be, I think. They are good shows for those days. Plus they are like right next to each other.
BUT. They, that is the FOX people at FOX, decided to change! the schedule! This angers me, a lot! Now House is on Mondays and Bones is on Thursdays (so says Bonnie). And Fringe, which is a stupid show, gets to keep its day.
I simply cannot approve of this change. It is about as pointless as the "switch to digital" (also stupid). Hate hate futile pointless hate.
That is all. Also, The Fray tomorrow!
Toodles. N.

This blog is about the TV schedule and how it CHANGED. And how much that bugs me. So.
House is on Tuesdays and Bones is on Wednesdays and that all is nice and good and as it should be, I think. They are good shows for those days.
BUT. They, that is the FOX people at FOX, decided to change! schedule!

Hilarity. Jackson Rathbone. Fourth wall what fourth wall. Totally awesome.

I removed 58 from this list for undisclosed reasons and am simply too lazy to renumber.

1.Lose that weight you've really been meaning to. Or at least qualify for "healthy
2.Fried eggs is not an acceptable breakfast when you have it every day. So stop doing that.
3.Do not buy candy or Pop-Tarts from the vending machines. Or the StuCo locker.
4.Water > soda. Juice is also > soda. Remember this.
5.Exercise twice a week. Yes, this may mean missing out on precious sleep.

6.Go fully vegetarian or cut out meat that is not fish. Again.
7.Take your vitamins, every day.
8.Limit caffeine intake to one “thing” of coffee in the mornings, with the OCCASIONAL caffeinated soda.
9. Get roughly the proper amount of sleep every night. While 12 hours is proper and then some, 3AM – 3PM is not a good sleep schedule.
10. Get four or five or twenty more baby naming books.

11. Get published. Preferably with monetary compensation.
12. Expand/finish I Have Sighted Beauty.
13. Do NaNoWriMo at least the very next time, if not the time after as well. Finish.
14. Finish all the fiction works you've started.
15. Write more of your inconsequential rants. They're funny [to me].

16. Read the complete works of Shakespeare.
17. Read [some of/more of] those science-fiction writers you've really been meaning to read. Bujold, Zelazny, Spider Robinson, Aspirin, and those back issues of Analog on your bookshelf, to name a few.
18. In fact, read every book you own. This is not as daunting as it sounds. Quit whining.
19. If reading all the books you own does not cover it, read at least 143 books. (That's about 1/week, which is already your goal.)
20. Not abandon your blog[s]. That is to say, a post a week, at the very least.

21. Obtain a phone with a QWERTY keyboard, so you can obsessively update your blog, even when not near a computer! Wowza!
22. Get an actual website for Popsicle Irony.
23. Merge the LJ posts and the Blogger posts. Keep both accounts.
24. Get more page-views on your blog[s]. Because you have something interesting to say, not because you just keep refreshing the page.
25. Write at least 3 music reviews.

26. Write at least 3 product reviews.
27. Write at least 3 book reviews.
28. Get a functional laptop/fix the one you have.
29. Get an MP3 player that will not break constantly.
30. Stop using spell check to help you spell words.

31. Complete the 700+ pages of MySpace surveys you have stored. Then you can delete the file and never do a survey again. Because you'll be really, really sick of them.
32. Actually learn CSS/HTML, instead of just faking it.
33. Learn Java Script. At least a little.
34. Learn how to use Photoshop/the GIMP. Actually, instead of just faking it.
35. Get a tattoo.

36. Gauge ears to... 10, 12, ish. Haven't quite decided. (currently at 16)
37. Get an industrial piercing.
38. Get a lip piercing.
39. Do something really stupid. Like sky diving.
40. Dye your hair a way funky color.

41. Graduate.
42. Get into a “good” college. Ivy League if you can manage. Anywhere with a good business program.
43. Study business and marketing.
44. Become more organized. Get rid of those notebooks you hold onto.
45. Get a job. Like, a real job.

46. Pretend to care about looking “professional” for school.
47. Write all assigned papers.
48. Turn said papers in on time.
49. Visit Canada.
50. Visit New York.

51. Visit Chicago. For real this time.
52. Meet Jackson Rathbone.
53. Talk to someone [relatively] famous and have something intelligent/non-creepy to say. “My parents have your wedding invitation.” is neither.
54. Do the midnight line thing for a movie. [suggestion: The Last Airbender.]
55. See all the films that Jake said you should.

56. Have a movie marathon party.
57. Do more social things.
59. Still be friends with your “best friend” right now. This will only be difficult for the '10-'11 school year, I think.
60. Make more [good] friends.

61. Be in a relationship with someone who is actually ready to be in a relationship.
62. Kiss in the rain.
63. Dance in the rain. That's not cliché at all...
64. Attend prom.
65. Discover new bands.

66. See Rise Against in concert. You just keep missing them.
67. See 100monkeys in concert.
68. Attend Vans Warped Tour.
69. Two words: Mosh. Pit.
70. Learn how to play the bass. Instead of just saying “Oh, look at me, I have a bass.”

71. Play an instrument on the street. Er, sidewalk. If you get money, hey, money.
72. Sing more karaoke.
73. Have more stories. Someone will eventually notice that you only have 12ish, and just tell them over and over again.
74. Make a coherent comedy routine.
75. Actually perform it. For someone not your family or friends.

76. Fake knowledge about something obscure to see if anyone notices. Like underwater basket weaving. Or that speech you did on why purple was the color of royalty. Good times.
77. Prepare more intelligent insults and comebacks. Because/Even though most of the people you know are total idiots.
78. Go forward with that invention of yours. It's really a good idea, and I don't think anyone's thought of it yet. Or at least patented it.
79. Perform all of your “Social Experiments”. (0/7)
80. Act like you're “someone”. See if people “play along”.

81. Be in a play. “At least” on tech or costumes.
82. Obtain a kitten. Also, you should probably stop using the word “obtain” like that.
83. Memorize Firefly.
84. Go to about 5 conventions. Cool ones. (0/5)
85. Get a new corset.

86. Go to Ren Faire.
87. Get driver's license. Yes, this means actually practice-driving again. I believe in you.
88. Fix up that junker of a car on the lawn.
89. Paint said junker like the Voot cruiser.
90. Stop collecting weird things, like envelopes. It's weird.

91. Stash away money. (Have >$1000?) Do NOT use it on silly little things. Also, yell at someone about how you do not have the bank card the bank promised you.
92. Give blood. If they'll let you.
93. Do about 100 hours of volunteer work. (0/100)
94. Participate in a protest.
95. Do all the things you've said you were going to do over the years. Well, maybe not ALL, but all the “good” ones at least.

96. Give out random compliments. Non-creepy ones, preferably, but, hey, what're you gonna' do.
97. Be more honest.
98. Stick with what you've said. If you like something, say so, then hear someone else [anyone else] say they don't like it, do NOT rescind your statement.
99. Just because it sounds like a really good idea (like doing a cartilage piercing yourself) doesn't mean it is (like making an infected cartilage piercing yourself). Think things over before acting on them. [translation: don't do anything permanent on a whim.]
100. Have someone tell you: “Wow, you're not online as much anymore.”
101. Clean out under your bed. [Yeah, this really is a multiple-year task. :| ]

'What pop star apologised to Madonna for saying: "Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot"?'
Answer some time before I go to bed.

In 2009, I resolve to be...
A better author:
-o-Write more.
-o-o-Finish the stuff you've started. Start new stuff. Merge stuff.
-o-o-2009 is the year you get published!
-o-Less computer, more books.
-o-o-Read AT LEAST 52 books this year. You have so many great authors on your shelves.
-o-Begin making contacts.
-o-o-There is nothing wrong with shamelessly self-promoting.

A better student:
-o-Write all assigned papers.
-o-o-All of them. Passing sophomore year round two would be nice.
-o-Be more focused in maths.
-o-o-Currently, you're being totally fail while not actually failing.
-o-Actually do the Latin homework.
-o-o-It's an AP class, for heaven's sake.
-o-Provide Useful Classroom Discussion(&trade)
-o-o-Participation is a good percentage of most grades.

A better Person:
-o-Be more honest.
-o-o-Lying by omission is still lying. [Lawyer-brain already working on creative definitions?]
-o-Be a better daughter/tenant.
-o-o-Keep room clean/consistently do chores.
-o-Be a better friend.
-o-Get healthier.
-o-o-Work out on occasion.
-o-o-Eat better foods, and only when hungry.
-o-o-Drink more water.

So, there's an awesome thing that's going to be right on top of my birthday this year.
It's called TwiCon '09.
It's a Twilight convention.
And you shouldn't laugh at me, it's not nice.

So, it's in Dallas, July 30-August 2, and I really want to go.
Unfortunately for me, there are two things getting in my way (but not for long):
1) $255.00 for the weekend. Yowch.
2) Being under 18 by the time of the convention, I will need a [parent/legal guardian/someone who my parents say is okay] to accompany me. So, that's $510.00, and finding an adult, 21+. (Though, this "accompany" is a very vague thing. I'm sure I'll be fine.)
Hefty chunk of change, there.
Oh, yeah, and there's that I haven't asked my parents and that I might not have somewhere to stay while in Dallas, etc.

All of this is worth it because.
JACKSON RATHBONE WILL BE THERE.
And Ashley Greene!
These are two of my new favorite people.
It'd be worth $510 to get a photograph and/or autograph from either. Or both. Definitely.

It'd even be worth putting up with Dallas in the "dog days" of summer. Really.

That is all.
I am supremely excited.

So.
Jackson Rathbone is in fact my new most favorite person.
He played Jasper Hale in the Twilight movie, and that is when I realized how amazing he is.
I saw said movie on Friday, November the 28th.
And there was Jackson, with his crazy!hair, looking all in pain and stuff.
And there was outrage, too. As they had removed Jasper's power to manipulate emotions, or if they didn't remove it, they just by coincidence failed to mention it at all. This was the topic of ranting for several days. Still is, if you ask me at an inopportune time.

The main thing I want to do tonight/this morning is to combine two things I like: what I know, and telling complete strangers (and people not complete strangers) things that I know.
What I know is many, many things about Jackson Rathbone.

To begin:
Jackson Rathbone was born December 21, 1984 in Singapore.
He then promptly traveled all over creation because his dad had/has a job that required/requires him to travel all over creation. "All over creation" includes Indonesia, Connecticut, London, California, Norway, and finally Midland, Texas.
He was very involved in sports [basketball, track, football, soccer, and baseball {trivia: he learned to play left handed for Twilight, for some reason that I don't know.}] and also the local theatre racket, joining the "Pickwick Players" {I think this name is kind of dumb. I think Pickwick is the name of the city...}.
Then he moved to Michigan and went to a nice little private school called Interlochen Academy of the Arts. {trivia: there is a subdivision that our family used to drive through that has a road called Interlochen Lane. No one lives on it.}
Then he was all "Ima go to LA, and try my fortune there!" except probably with different, better words and also with a slight accent. And so he did. His best buddy from Interlochen, Alex Boyd, had already come to live in LA, and introduced Jackson to a one Pat Cutler, his manager, who thought Jackson was way awesome and signed him straight away.
He studied under some actor I'd never heard of for a while. During this time, he interviewed many people for Disney 411 {and he was not bad at it thank you very much} including such "stars" as Hilary Duff and Raven. Then, he was signed under Paradigm Agency with Andrew Ruff. He had a number of minor roles in some minor films {see: films I haven't heard of}, and was in several commercials, including one for Proactive.
It was around this time that he and Alex got a professional movie studio set up/built in their living room. Jackson probably played his guitar, Annabelle {trivia: his guitar's name is Annabelle because his guitar is a nice Southern Resounder and needs a nice Southern name.}, in this room. {trivia: I am vaguely jealous of Annabelle.}
He got the lead in an independent film called Pray For Morning, which is a neat little name, I think. Immediately following this, he landed a recurring role [see: basically the lead, but not quite.] on Beautiful People, which was on ABC Family for one season. He played the "charming, extravagantly rich" Nicholas Fiske. {I have seen some deleted scenes and his audition for this. They are good!} It is absolutely impossible to find {trivia: I would kill for these 16 episodes.}. He briefly relocated to Toronto, because filming is cheaper in Canada or something. {I base this on the fact that basically everything is filmed in Canada.}
THEN.
Then came Twilight. {Maybe some minor roles in between, but those...}
He was originally pegged for the role of Edward, believe it or not, with Trent Ford {I don't know who this is...} to be Jasper. Then they got RPattz, so Jackson played Jasper. {I think he prefers it.}
Coming up for Jackson:
S. Darko, the sequel to Donnie Darko, wherein he'll play some minor but credited role [Jeremy], post-production; Hurt, thriller, looks cool, in post-production [Conrad Coltrane]; Young Again, looks REALLY cool from what little I've been able to piece together from its Myspace page {what kind of movie has a Myspace page only?}[Ethan]; DaZe Vol Too [sic]: NonSeNse, to which I say that any movie that has capitalization like that must be awesome, post-production [Jehosophat]; Dread [!!!], movie adaptation of a Clive Barker story of the same name {Clive Barker is awesome. Hence the exclamations}, it is possible this movie will only be released in the UK, but one can hope to the contrary [Stephen Grace].
Two exciting and interesting things:
He'll [possibly? I'm not sure if it's been confirmed or not.] be playing Sokka in the Avatar movie [live action], The Last Airbender. This is made doubly cool because said movie will be written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. M. Night fucking Shyamalan. Yeah, really. I'll be waiting in line with all the little twelve year olds to see this. Because... Damn.
His band, 100Monkeys will be putting out an album soon. This is really very exciting, considering that so far, everything they do is improvised {trivia: the hat that Jackson wears in the YouTube video for Scientists is placed among the coolest beaniesque hats I've ever seen. Check it out}. Also, [apparently] Jackson sings in addition to playing the guitar and is [of course] good at it.
The very final upcoming thing is, of course, New Moon. New Moon is almost destined to fail. According to check-out stand gossip magazines, someone has changed the role of Edward to be much much bigger than it should be, and there's of course the changing of Jacobs, which apparently people don't like. Whatever. ANYWAY. What I'm looking forward to is the birthday scene. That... that will be amazing. Or else.


So.
I am not out of things I know, because I have some other trivia bits, but 1) it is 2AM and 2) this is possibly the longest blog I've ever written.
Peace out.

{the filmography and fact-checking comes from both Wikipedia and Jackson Rathbone Online [jacksonrathbone.com]. IMDb may also have helped, through the "awesome" of cryptomnesia. [I possibly made up that word/butchered its spelling]}

i like it more than i like proper capitalization and punctuation cause that is lame but the uppy bar is not.
but i know it cannot stay.
i hated it, actually, until i saw 'undead' journal and then was all 'whoa cool' and then i loved it.
and also, my favorite sims family somehow was deleted. they were so awesome and hated each other and would cheat on the other and get really mad and stuff but it was funny.
and somehow now they're not here.
which is so sad.

Tonight's episode of House was pretty cool.
I missed the beginning of it, which was the part I was most looking forward to---because I enjoy the PG-13 sexxy of network television---but the rest of the episode was really good. Like, really good. Not the best episode ever, but I think the best episode so far this season. (Not that that says much.)
I actually briefly feared that 13 would remain fired, and was a little scared, but intellectually knew she wouldn't. Also, her brief relationship was sweet. It's sad that she has difficulties with anyone without a terminal illness, but, I have issues with absolutely everyone, so I can't really cast stones or cry when a bird hits their wall. In case that metaphor wasn't overused enough.

Also, I suspect my history teacher has the ability to read minds, or at least mine.
More on this as the story develops.