Saturday, October 22, 2005

2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake, "can you help me unravel my latest mistake. i don't love him. winter just wasn't my season.

well, after an exhausting search -- i say exhausting, but i really was just tire to begin with -- i have come to the conclusion that purple tubesocks just simply do not exist. so i decided to look them up on the internet and lo and behold, there they were at a sport site. duh! tubesocks, i mean who else would wear them in this day and age. so my next option then is to go to some sort of sporting goods store and see if can actually just purchase them there. everything else by comparison should be cake. the store has the ears, paint (of the body/hair variety) as well as a costume that can be suitably made over into what i want to use it for with just a minor adjustment or two. now that i have found the most crucial piece in my costume scavanger hunt, well at least found a reasonable lead, i have to think about how i'm going to pull this all together. there would be some minor surgery that would nee to be made t o make the costume what i want to look like. only slight changes from what it already includes. but the majority of these feaures will require me to sew. i mean not that sewing is hard, it's just very, very difficult to do. plus i'm not that adept or comfortable around sharp pointy things. in fact, i have a note from my doctor telling me to avoid them whenever possible. so any thing that i'm going to have to alter is going take a lot of patience and time, neither of which i have ample amounts to spare, so i guess we'll see how that all turns out in the end i s'pose.
one midterm coming up next week. that's all i have is one, and i am extremely stressed over it. which i pretty odd for me because i always take tests with a grain of salt. but i just feel so blindsided by this one. normally, when i'm in a class the reason i don't give to fucks about an upcoming exam is because if i do the assignments and the readings or whatever the basis of the class is supposed to be on, and i attend classes i just do well on them. i can only blame this my " either i know it, or i don't theory", it's pretty self-explanatory. but this one, the teacher has done absolutely nothing to prepare us for an exam. or at least that is my opinion. every class up until last week has been a vast majority of just empty nonsensical ramblings not even pertaining to the subject. and just last week we started the book. he lectures are pointless, and we have midterm this coming thurs, on what? i have no earthly idea. he says its supposed to be over the book, which we just began discussing in class. what the hell? well i suppose if i fail miserably on it i can always withdraw. i'm usually not one to backdown from stuff, but i know i can't fight a fire with a moist towellet.
ummmm, i can't really think of anything else at the moment. still not a millionaire, still not an actor, still think that lifes unfair as i sit on my tractor.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

that's the joint, that's the jam, turn that s#!t up, play it again.

ok, honestly and sincerely, i have been a fan of BEP since they were a trio consisting of just Will, Apl and Taboo. and while i think Fergie is a great addition to the group, in the first cd in which she appeared -- which is the third cd for the group as a whole -- she seemed to be just that, an addition. but the fourth cd, monkey business, makes it more evident that she is a part of the group, and not so much a supporting character or featured singer a la Justin Timberlake. but the black eyed peas remain true to the basic of what they have always tried to make, music that makes you wanna... the sentence could really be completed with plethora of different things for different people.
at any rate, happenings in my life. i just recently returned from my three hour tour, on which i was able to the Wallace and Gromit movie which i absolutely loved. and i also now have the most bizarre hankering for cheese, especially the Stinky Bishop.
Coco Lee has a new english cd, the second of hers to be released in english. however, it seems to still only be available in china, and quite possibly europe, but definitely no signs of a stateside release. this is similar to the original "crossover" cd release. for anyone who doesn't know, Coco Lee was born in china but raised in the states and so her first language is suprisingly english. and most of her influences are inspired by music from the states as well. so you don't often get the pop music so very sought after in that particular region, but what you do get is skillfully r&b drenched songs with a chinese influence, instead of the other way around. what great is that other artists have tried to follow suit in the maturing of musical styles like yuki hsu. not many of the male vocalists attempt this it seems, but that may also have to do with the fact that most of female artists followers are male. in fact, Coco Lee appears in this months esquire as one of the worlds most sexy women from the Taiwan voters.
this whole costume thing has gotten me in a pickle. just how much can i create of it? i think in the end, i'm not even sure i'll be able to do anything for halloween anyway. or maybe that i won't even want to. for future reference, i think i will definitely have to start planning my costumes out much further in advance so i can creatively have time to truely cosplay at the one time is perfectly ok to do so within los EE.UU.