1. The Fashion Show Game: Pick out the director with the most fashion sense!
Variations: Pick the director with no career in fashion design! Pick the girl in each choir who seems to fit her dress the best! (Don't worry if none of them do, losing the game usually has no consequences).
2. The "Find Your Doppleganger Game": Find the girl in a choir who looks the most like you!
Variations: Find the girl in a choir who looks the most like someone you know (or don't know)! (I swear I just saw a male version of Kate Winslet...)
3. The "See How Long you can Stay Awake" Game: Count how many songs you can sit through without nodding off! 1 - Don't worry, we're all human. 2 - So you have some musical appreciation, good for you. 3 - Maybe you just had an extra cup of coffee this morning. 4 - We'll make an appointment with your doctor. They can prescribe some sleeping pills. 5+ - There's something seriously wrong... or you're thinking of bieng a music major... but there's still something seriously wrong.
(Music majors, don't take offense. I mean this all in good fun.)
Signing off,
-Me
Monday, March 30, 2009
This Website is not Blocked by St. Bernard.
Wow.
You can't get on Facebook, Myspace, Youtube... but you can access blogger.com. Actually, that's pretty awesome. I should give the poor spanish computer-lab kids the hint.
I'm using a school computer right now by the way... St. Bernard is the firewall that the school puts up on websites that it thinks are 'inappropriate for school'.
Anyways, I should return to researching obscure French words for my music video.
The song is "The Legionnaire's Lament" by The Decemberists if anybody's interested. (Unfortunately, I can't post a youtube link right now because the school won't let me...) Look it up. It's good.
Adios.
You can't get on Facebook, Myspace, Youtube... but you can access blogger.com. Actually, that's pretty awesome. I should give the poor spanish computer-lab kids the hint.
I'm using a school computer right now by the way... St. Bernard is the firewall that the school puts up on websites that it thinks are 'inappropriate for school'.
Anyways, I should return to researching obscure French words for my music video.
The song is "The Legionnaire's Lament" by The Decemberists if anybody's interested. (Unfortunately, I can't post a youtube link right now because the school won't let me...) Look it up. It's good.
Adios.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Useful Stuff
A couple observations:
1. All of the Best Buy stores have the same hold music.
2. When you take a wrong turn, you can usually get away with it by calling it a "detour".
3. Archery is an extremely phallic sport.
4. Led Zeppelin is good movie music.
5. Cell phone alarm clocks are extremely annoying.
Hypothetical Questions for you:
1. Can I give up religion for lent?
2. If I have wander lust, does that mean I can give somebody the travel bug?
1. All of the Best Buy stores have the same hold music.
2. When you take a wrong turn, you can usually get away with it by calling it a "detour".
3. Archery is an extremely phallic sport.
4. Led Zeppelin is good movie music.
5. Cell phone alarm clocks are extremely annoying.
Hypothetical Questions for you:
1. Can I give up religion for lent?
2. If I have wander lust, does that mean I can give somebody the travel bug?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
I Want Enchiladas
Yes. Sad to say, I am coerced by Yahoo.com commercials/news reports.
Allow me to explain: I was opening my web browser and saw a rather delicious looking picture of two enchiladas on the Yahoo news stories box. So now I want some... even though I just had a most glorious dinner with a friend.
ANYWAYS! That being said, I had a very... interesting day.
For my psychology class, we have an assignment to "break a social norm". I agreed to help my friend out with hers and since we needed to document it somehow, she got me to be the sneaky, not-so-innnocent-looking video camera person.
Her project went like this: (Keep in mind that we all look seventeen or eighteen) She waits around in some public place and a guy friend of ours that she recruited earlier comes and proposes to her. He would give her a bouquet of flowers and then get on one knee to propose. She then answers in surprise and skepticism and tells him that she thinks they're too young and wants to wait, essentially rejecting him.
They had a little trouble with the acting at first, but they got it down eventually. It was 80 percent convincing, but I had to hide out so that people wouldn't be... disturbed by the sketchy looking teenager with a video camera.
The point of the project was to get bystanders' reactions to such a young proposal and consequent rejection. Most people actually ignored us and walked away. A few figured we were doing some school project and one guy was really awesome.
She'd sat down next to him while he was reading a book and when our friend proposed to her, I watched him do his best to mind his own business. He glanced at them a couple times and it was pretty clear that he wasn't reading his book anymore. :)
Anyways, we got an interview with him afterwards and he was really cool about it. He told us that he was a little unsure at first but when our friend got down on one knee, he knew. He also told us that he was surprised/a little amused that she rejected him. This guy was really cool to talk to and probably gave us the best 'evidence' of the night.
Haha. Anyways, that's why I spent two hours in the mall on a Wednesday night... Not because I was shopping, but because I was watching a friend propose to and get rejected by another friend at least eight times in a row.
G'night all!
-Me
Allow me to explain: I was opening my web browser and saw a rather delicious looking picture of two enchiladas on the Yahoo news stories box. So now I want some... even though I just had a most glorious dinner with a friend.
ANYWAYS! That being said, I had a very... interesting day.
For my psychology class, we have an assignment to "break a social norm". I agreed to help my friend out with hers and since we needed to document it somehow, she got me to be the sneaky, not-so-innnocent-looking video camera person.
Her project went like this: (Keep in mind that we all look seventeen or eighteen) She waits around in some public place and a guy friend of ours that she recruited earlier comes and proposes to her. He would give her a bouquet of flowers and then get on one knee to propose. She then answers in surprise and skepticism and tells him that she thinks they're too young and wants to wait, essentially rejecting him.
They had a little trouble with the acting at first, but they got it down eventually. It was 80 percent convincing, but I had to hide out so that people wouldn't be... disturbed by the sketchy looking teenager with a video camera.
The point of the project was to get bystanders' reactions to such a young proposal and consequent rejection. Most people actually ignored us and walked away. A few figured we were doing some school project and one guy was really awesome.
She'd sat down next to him while he was reading a book and when our friend proposed to her, I watched him do his best to mind his own business. He glanced at them a couple times and it was pretty clear that he wasn't reading his book anymore. :)
Anyways, we got an interview with him afterwards and he was really cool about it. He told us that he was a little unsure at first but when our friend got down on one knee, he knew. He also told us that he was surprised/a little amused that she rejected him. This guy was really cool to talk to and probably gave us the best 'evidence' of the night.
Haha. Anyways, that's why I spent two hours in the mall on a Wednesday night... Not because I was shopping, but because I was watching a friend propose to and get rejected by another friend at least eight times in a row.
G'night all!
-Me
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Introductions!
So this is a blog...
I started this pretty much purely on whim. My thought process: I should start a blog... Just for kicks... Thus, I have absolutely no idea what to write.
I suppose an introduction is a good place to start.
My name is May, I'm a senior in high school near San Diego, California and I waste way too much time on Facebook. Starting a blog seems like a more respectable way to goof off on the internet when I should be doing homework.
Anyways. My life consists of writing, friends, film/video work, coffee, homework I've procrastinated on, good movies, good books and recently, a feverish attempt to find a job in order to pay for the gap year I want to take next year. So far, I'm still unemployed.
In all honesty, I'm getting bored introducing myself-- somehow, I think that's a bad sign... So! I'll wrap this up soon.
If you're wondering where the name of this blog came from: "More Crazy than My Goat", it's a reference to a quote by an artist named Remedios Varo. The only quote I could find of hers was "On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat."
Varo was a surrealist who painted at the same time as Dali. She was just less well known but she actually worked with him for a while. I discovered her about a year ago when I was in Mexico with my dad for a day trip. We'd gone down to Rosarita and we were looking around the little shops with obscenely cheap mass-produced-yet-indie-looking tourist stuff and one shop had a wall of interesting paintings. We asked the shop owner and she said that they were reproductions of Remedios Varo paintings. I didn't buy any, but I did some more reasearch when I got home and decided she was one of my favorite artists.
Anyways! I'm not sure if I'm crazier than a goat, and I don't actually have a goat to compare myself to, so don't consider the quote a personal description... ;)
Thanks for reading my introduction! I'll be posting again soon... Until then!
-Me
I started this pretty much purely on whim. My thought process: I should start a blog... Just for kicks... Thus, I have absolutely no idea what to write.
I suppose an introduction is a good place to start.
My name is May, I'm a senior in high school near San Diego, California and I waste way too much time on Facebook. Starting a blog seems like a more respectable way to goof off on the internet when I should be doing homework.
Anyways. My life consists of writing, friends, film/video work, coffee, homework I've procrastinated on, good movies, good books and recently, a feverish attempt to find a job in order to pay for the gap year I want to take next year. So far, I'm still unemployed.
In all honesty, I'm getting bored introducing myself-- somehow, I think that's a bad sign... So! I'll wrap this up soon.
If you're wondering where the name of this blog came from: "More Crazy than My Goat", it's a reference to a quote by an artist named Remedios Varo. The only quote I could find of hers was "On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat."
Varo was a surrealist who painted at the same time as Dali. She was just less well known but she actually worked with him for a while. I discovered her about a year ago when I was in Mexico with my dad for a day trip. We'd gone down to Rosarita and we were looking around the little shops with obscenely cheap mass-produced-yet-indie-looking tourist stuff and one shop had a wall of interesting paintings. We asked the shop owner and she said that they were reproductions of Remedios Varo paintings. I didn't buy any, but I did some more reasearch when I got home and decided she was one of my favorite artists.
Anyways! I'm not sure if I'm crazier than a goat, and I don't actually have a goat to compare myself to, so don't consider the quote a personal description... ;)
Thanks for reading my introduction! I'll be posting again soon... Until then!
-Me
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