Cap'n Morgan Bonney here trying to keep my goddamn crew under control. Blushing Wesley Baldwin keeps shrieking mutiny every two seconds while One Eyed Eggs, Swashbucklin' Thatcher Sharpe, and Mad Harry Rackham are being useless. We have set sail on the Dragon's Knave to pilage and plunder and rifle and loot and we'll see how that goes if my crew ever gets their act together. I think I may have to make one of them walk the plank just to set an example, either that or get some more crew.
update: Avast mateys! I have a new crew member! She be Pepe the Pot-Bellied Pilerer!
8/13/04:hair today, gone tomor- er...right now
I went to Culture and Nature today, a hair salon, and got my hair cut. The people there praised me for my hair (right before ruthlessly hacking off about eight inches...) so if you think about it, it's kind of pathetic how the only thing I was really congratulated for in the past year or so is my hair and any idiot can grow hair.
8/9/04:very speedy
Back in the day, kiddies, people used to call me Speedy Gonzalas (sp) because I was fast...hard to believe, I know. Well, I inherited that sort of impatient temperment from my dad I think but I'm working on it; I'm very mellow, aren't I? Hah, yeah, don't answer that. But I lived up to my namesake last night when my mom was washing some frozen persimmons for the family to eat and I was at a dilemna. I was hot and gross and wanted to take a shower and then eat the persimmons when I was nicea nd clean but my mom probably wouldn't wait up for me if I were to take a shower. I decided to take my chances and took a shower as fast as I could and when I came out, my mom had just finished cutting the persimmons up. Ah, I'm proud of myself. I can take a shower in about three and a half minutes...It was probably five minutes tops but honestly, it doesn't take that long to cut up persimmons...
8/3/04:shady experiences and korean music videos
I went shopping the other day at e tae won (or however it's spelled) and it was...interesting. There's leering people in the streets that try to get you to buy knock-off watches and purses. There was this one guy that said that they had (fake) Chanel purses and we were somewhat forced to follow him since my sister's friend wanted a knock-off Chanel bag and we had been searching for an eternity for one and couldn't find any. So thus we (by we, meaning my mom, Julie, and Julie's friend (another one) that visited last week) followed the guy down these steep stairs into this underground room. The room was filled with cigarette butts and poker machines and it was very seedy.
The guy pulled out a catalog and said that if you wanted one of the bags in the catalog he would get it from a warehouse that had all the bags. He kept offering to take us although that's where we put our feet down. God, I was freaked since I thought he was going to either a)stab us, b)take our money, c)take us hostage, or d)all of the above. Still, we came out alive (money and limbs intact) and Julie bought her friend a knock-off bag in another store, so one could say that the whole skeezy experience was for nothing.
Why are all Korean music videos the same? If it's a ballad, there's always the following:
-a poor girl forced to work in a karaoke bar
It's depressing, unoriginal, and boring so I don't understand by people keep doing it. It's only acceptable when it's Tim, but he just rocks in general so he can get away with anything, even his eyes that seem to point in opposite directions.
Music videos should be more like this one I saw that was like a cross between Finding Nemo and The Ring in the way of fish and a creepy girl. I honestly could make no sense of it. A girl rises from the water and so does a quaint house. She catches a fish and is peeling off its skin (in a very graphic manner) and she cries and the fish cries too (no joke...there were tears coming from the fish's eye). Then she hangs the fish up on a clothing line and runs around the beach. Parts of the music video was in color and parts of it was in this fuzzy black and white, home movie-esque type thing. Eventually, she walks back into the water and so does the house. Well, I found it entertaining.
7/23/04:little rockstars
Firstly, happy birthday erin! It would be the 22nd in Washington at the time I'm writing this. I hope you had a fantastic birthday!
I know that picture is completely out of place on my homepage but I was so bored and I was so proud that I figured out how to use my dad's scanner. I found this picture and so I scanned it in and put it on the homepage. Oh well; it'll be moved or deleted sooner or later anyway so basically it's just there for my own enjoyment.
I watched "School of Rock" and loved it. I figured it wouldn't be a bad movie since it's about little kids who can play instruments and little child prodigies are always fun, so it was a good movie. Jack Black wasn't overbearing and cheesy, teaching the kids life lessons, like I had originally expected him to be and the children were adorable. I loved the little drummer, Freddy and the guitarist, I forget his name, and that little band manager. They should have casted the little drummer boy, Freddy, as Draco Malfoy for the (bad) Harry Potter movies since he looks like a Malfoy. Who likes Tom Felton anyway? He was an ugly kid and now he looks grossly large because he's like 6'. I wanted to watch it one more time before I returned it to the video store but blah, it's already late. Unlike Washington, however, korean video stores are $0.50 for videos and $1.00 for new arrivals and the video store in the army base is $3.00 for new arrivals and $1.50 for regular ones, I think, and the late fee is only a dollar per day unlike Blockbuster. I have over twenty dollars of overdue fee on my Blockbuster card...hmmm, I'll just have to make a new card or something when I get back.
I am bored beyond reason. Perhaps I'll find more pictures to scan and insert in random pages.
7/9/04:old school nickelodeon
Do you guys remember the old school Nickelodeon shows? They were a lot better than what Nickelodeon plays now...hell, they were better than what Nickelodeon and Disney has now put together...times ten.
Ah, I remember Clarissa Explains It All best for some reason. I remember thinking it was pretty cool that the actress' name was "Melissa" which kind of sounded like Clarissa which kind of sounds like Sabrina, that awful witch that she played later. I remember she had a pet alligator and usually I'd want something like that after watching it on TV but I didn't. I also remember her stalker *ahem* I mean best friend and everytime he'd prop his ladder up against her window and walk in, that music would play. It's like the makers were trying to subliminally tell you that her friend was a real laid-back mellow guy when he obviously wasn't. I also remember that he liked her for one episode then didn't which was kind of weird. Then there was Ferguson who was ugly and annoying but I guess he wasn't so bad. I just remember thinking, god, doesn't anyone else think she's psycho for talking to the audience...If I was a mother (will. never. happen.) and my kid started talking to an invisible audience, I'd get worried.
There was also Rocko's Modern Life and I liked that show because of two things: 1) I liked Rocko's tail and that shirt he wore. Honestly, don't read too deeply into that because that's all that it is. 2) I liked it in the beginning segment when Rocko is thrown out of the jungle and past this electric sign that says, "The Real World" and I thought that was pretty cool. yeah. I just remember always putting Rocko's Modern Life in the same bowl as Ren and Stimpy although Rocko's Modern Life kind of creeped me out less. The only episode I remember is the fortune cookie one where Rocko keeps getting the same shitty fortune and eventually he buys a big bag of them and every single one says the same thing. ahahha...well it seemed pretty funny at the time.
Does anyone else remember The Legends of the Hidden Temple or whatever? God I loved that show. I always thought if I was ever on the show I would kick ass. Those kids would always get messed up in the end, in the temple, and they'd freak out when those people jumped out at them. Other than that, I remember that the Blue Barracudas always got their ass kicked.
Everyone seems to love Salute Your Shorts but I don't know...I guess they were okay. The only thing I remember about that show is that there was this girl with long blonde hair and she wore a globe earring.
I liked the early episodes of The Secret World of Alex Mack and I remember she would always wear hats like 98% of the time. And she could turn into silver goo which was kind of cool except some kid would always stomp on her when she was goo and she'd get mad and she'd talk. And the camera would be at the goo's angle which was cool too. I never found out how the show ended because I remember there were always those people after her and she was never allowed to get sick because then she'd have to go to the hospital and the doctors would find out that there was something wrong with her so that sort of sucked. I just remember one of her pseudo-friends was captured by the bad guys and the bad guys blindfolded him and stuck a pencil in an automatic pencil sharpener and the dumb friend thought that it was like a knife getting sharpened or something so he blurted out, "ALEX MACK IS THE ONE WITH GOT RUN OVER BY THE TRUCK WITH THE CHEMICALS!" So for all I know, Alex Mack is probably dead.
I liked All That the original cast, before Amanda Bynes joined although it wasn't so bad after she joined. But when everyone got too old and dignified for the show (not that I blame them...they were probably in their 20's when they left) and Britney Spear's little sister and all the other kids took over All That the show went to hell. But in the beginning it was good. I liked Lori Beth with her Vital Information even though I didn't really think it was funny. I also remember Kenan and Kel and how they had their own show and I liked Kel better than Kenan because he had a thing for orange soda but I guess Kenan's alright since he was in the Mighty Ducks and he's on SNL now although he won't be for long if he doesn't start coming up with some sketches and whatever those people do. I just remember I never liked the musical guests. They were probably too ghetto for me; now that I think of it, the whole show was pretty ghetto, I just didn't realize it at the time, just like how I didn't realize that All That totally ripped off SNL.
I liked Rugrats. Who didn't, honestly? I think everyone loved that show. It was good until the movies and Dil and Kimmy. I don't even care if Kimmy's Asian, the show's still bad.
I don't know if people remember Pete and Pete. The show was kind of surreal and hazy, or maybe that's just my memory of it. All I remember from the show was that Danny Tamberelli (he was also in the first Mighty Ducks!) had a tattoo of a woman on his arm and he could make her move. Or maybe that was a different show and a different person...I don't really remember.
Even the old Nick Jr. shows were better. Like Allegra's Castle...or um Eureka's Castle. I think it was Eureka's Castle. That was a good show. So was the Muppet Babies even though you never learned what Nanna looked like. Rupert was good for one episode, the one about the ice castles and how when you looked in the mirror, your reflection would do different things from you. Trippy. I loved The Busy World of Richard Scary and I even had the book and it was awesome until I lost it. There was also this show that I don't remember the name but it had this dad beaver and he'd tell his two boy beavers and his one girl beaver kids a story.
Anyway...now I'm starting to wish I taped those shows when I had the chance. Now the only thing on is The Fairly Odd Parents and You Pick Live and other crappy stuff. Invader Zim was the only good, relatively new show and they got rid of that too. Hrmpf. Well anyway, I'll stop on a pensive note: does anyone remember Stick Stickley?
7/6/04:i was just thinking
i was just thinking
and i think about long distance rates
i'm tired of postcards
and i think about long distance rates
6/19/04:vegetarian?
I saw a truck today filled with ducks carted away to get eaten, I suppose. It was depressing mainly because it was raining really hard and they were all wet and they were in cages that wouldn't even let them stand up. I'm barely an animal activist but I have a heart (in there, somewhere) and it kind of made me want to go vegetarian again. Last time I tried being a vegetarian it went more successfully than I thought, for over a year until I started get sick and low and energy and whatnot and Mom figured it was because of the lack of protein (however a cold or something was going around at the time) so she made me stop. Since I don't eat hamburgers anyway I don't think it'll be that big of a deal to stop eating meat except mom and dad might get pissed at me when we go out to eat with other people and I refuse to eat. Dad's friend Alan had been promising to take us out to have beef grilled right on the table (traditional korean style) so I'll just have to figure out a way to get out of that I guess.
6/1/04: some thoughts
I guess there's some random musings to get out there, but before you guys get the wrong idea, these aren't really deep, meaningful musings...yeah, they really aren't.
*I'm about 98.6% sure that Adam Levine and James Valentine (from Maroon5)are in love. Basically the only thing that I'm basing this on is that Adam's always draping his arm around James' shoulders in concerts and whatnot. They were also on "I Love the '80's" (or was it the '70's) on VH1 together. Now where was the rest of the band eh? And although everyone claims that the c.d. is about Adam's ex-girlfriend but it is called "Songs About Jane" and although I don't know the name of Adam's ex-girlfriend, Jane....James...coincidence? I think not.
*the writers for the Mighty Ducks trilogy script really aren't consistent...or they're not into character development. For instance, Dwayne Robertson who's the goofy, dumb cowboy sort of character is all of a sudden really serious in the third movie in that scene right before when Orion gives his inspirational speech, he keeps asking for words that starts with a 'W' and Averman's being annoying and dumb as usual and he goes, "TO WORK COACH ORION SIR!" and Dwayne hits him really fast, like he's saying, "shut the hell up, respect the authority." You can read it in his expression.
*Another Mighty Ducks inconsistency (is that a word): At the end of the first movie, Connie and Guy do kiss but at the beginning of the second movie, when Charlie comes along and ruins the moment right before they kiss, Guy starts crying and whining, saying, "Guys!! I was this close!" If he's already kissed her, why does he care so much?
*Another inconsistency: if Luis Mendoza actually can stop, on skates, in the second movie, how come he can't stop in the third movie? It isn't funny, they don't have to keep bringing it back.
*Another inconsistency: the relationship between Adam Banks and Dean Portman is shady. First, when Adam's wrist gets banged up during the first game with the Iceland folk (and watch that scene, it's equally shady how Adam sticks out his wrist. His dad puts a lot of pressure on him, you can tell. He probably planned the whole thing, going out with a bang but not having to actually play, and then felt really guilty by the end of the whole charade of getting a hurt wrist but by that time his wrist was already messed up so he forced himself to take five Advils to kill the pain and pretend like he's okay and play again for the last game) Portman gets really mad and finds the guy out when he's in the penalty box and is all like "I WANT A PIECE OF YOU!"
*Oh yeah, and if the Ducks basically never really lose a game, how come they're always still the underdogs?
*I've told just about everyone already thinking I was really smart for thinking about it, but in the Pirates of the Carribean, if Will Turner got his medallion from his father, Bootstrap Bill, that means that Bootstrap Bill would also be cursed. Therefore, when Barbosa strapped a cannon to his bootstraps, he technically wouldn't have died until Will lifted the curse. So either 1) Will unwittingly killed his own father (cue scary music) or 2)Leather disintegrates in the water after a long time ergo it's a possibility that he could have saved himself and is now walking around the world somewhere with the very real possibility of conveninetly popping back up for the sequel (which would be kind of...bad).
Think about it kiddies~
4/26/04: ah there she goes
Well, most of you all know this but since it's been finalized I guess there's really no reason to keep it a secret or whatever it was. Selective information perhaps? Word choice is probably incorrect. The point is, it looks like I'm moving to Korea for a year. Before you all pull out your noise makers and confetti, I just have to say I'll miss you all (makes you feel guilty now, huh? That's right, put away those celebration balloons) and Washington too. It kind of sucks on one hand but on the other, it's really not forever and my parents have offered our home (or wherever we'll live when we go there) to whoever wants to come and visit in Korea. So I encourage all of you guys to come visit, not just for the sake of me but for the sake of you, so you all can check up on me and make sure I'm not turning into a total fob haha.
Oh right, and I hope you guys all have fun at Camp Casey. Take your cell phones and leave them on because I just may try and call you guys (and rack up your phone bill heh). I'll be leaving on the 9th after my finals (make that my ONE and ONLY final....) and not coming back for another 365+ days...well if you put it that way it doesn't seem that long. Well, so we all know what this means: better live it up while I'm still here!
5/3/04: it's like an addiction
I got the new Muse cd, Absolution, from my sister and I think it's probably one of the best cd's I've listened to, honestly. It's hard to say a whole cd is really good (usually for me), even Teitur ended up being pretty unremarkable with the exception of two songs, but I'm digressing. The point is (and for once I do have a point) Absolution is a great cd.
Just for your learning enjoyment, they're big in the UK and their cd was voted one of the best last year or this year, I forget. Basically they're pretty unknown here except on 107.7 where they play 'Time is Running Out' a lot, which is only the tip of the iceberg I might add. And the lead vocalist sounds freakishly like James Grundler from Paloalto, honestly, to the point where if their music weren't different I would mistake one for the other.
Speaking of music differences, does anyone else think that music classifications are confusing? What's "alternative punk" and "underground EMO?" Ah, I like to label everything "unclassifiable" or "alternative" because if you say "rock" or "punk" you get shot down by real hard core rockers with their nose rings and whatnot (read: sarcasm). Anyway, at least download one of their songs. Now that I've written a whole blog or whatever on Muse, I'm thinking maybe a lot of people won't like them...well whatever, give them a shot, most of their songs are really good (and my favorite song on their cd happens to be number 10 again...)
oh yeah, and Ansel was right, the battery life on my ipod really sucks but oh well.
4/26/04: smells like irony
Well it basically started when Julie and I were walking out of Taste of India and we both remarked that since the weather was so nice we didn't really want to go home right away. Then again, there wasn't really anything to do so we did start our way home. About half a mile before the exit to get off the freeway there's this popping sound but we both figure it was another car. Then the car starts bouncing and puttering along. Julie swears and somehow we get off the freeway and onto the side of the road and we get out and see that the back left tire is totally shredded. Neither of us really knew anything about spares and stuff so thank god when a random guy pulls up in his Ford and decides to play good Samaritan and help us out. I felt pretty bad since he was all sweaty and he was really working hard on changing the tire and it was taking awhile because the car kept sliding off the jack b/c we were parked where it wasn't completely flat. (interesting sidenote: this was also the same area where Julie ran into the stop sign. Now the sign's wooden post is replaced with a metal one)
Finally the tire's on and we thank the guy and get ready to drive away. But oh no, my friends, this is not the end of my sad and sordid tale. When Julie tries to drive, the car won't move and basically the smell of burned rubber invades the air. The spare isn't moving. I'm pretty sure by this time the guy is really starting to wish he didn't pull over to help us, but not one to abandon he looked through the manual and a good twenty minutes later figured out the problem and we were finally on our way. Somehow it sounds less pathetic but it was. It was really hot, I was getting sunburned but couldn't say anything since the guy was doing all the work. He was also wearing nice clothes and got his hands all gross and greasy from the jack and wrenchs and whatnot. Anyway, three cheers for the good Samaritan for fixing the car. Oh, Julie and I didn't get to go home right away as previously wished but I don't think busting a tire and having a random guy have to fix it was really what either of us had in mind.
4/25/04: birthday wish list
hey look, if you happen to have a brain freeze over what to get me for my birthday, pick any one of the following and bring it to the shindig and you'll be good:
*something entertaining to do during the soiree
There you go kiddies, I'll be eagerly awaiting any of those presents, hah~
4/19/04: don't say I didn't give an early notice
I'm thinking of having people over for my birthday (May 1, next saturday). Considering everyone's commute and homework and stuff, I guess I thought it'd be smart to throw it out in the open early, and also a lot of you are kind of anal about getting an early notice. I was thinking mainly people in my year since I'm thinking my parents wouldn't be too chipper about having a lot of people over but I don't know yet, I'll have to think things through more thorougly if people express interest (hah).
I was thinking if it happens it'd be next Friday and probably give everyone rides to my house and then have an overnight there unless they want to get picked up early (that's a hint for you, Rozie, you have no excuses to not come now...) As previously stated, it'd be an overnight maybe unless everyone leaves (which is also very possible hah) so everyone can leave whenever on Saturday, preferrably before noon however or earlier if I happen to have a doctor's appointment that day which I might.
Anyway, like I said, just throwing it out in the open, probably going to be bugging the lot of you about it anyway. So here's your more than a week notice about it.
4/18/04
realized the home icon is extraneous hah. so i'll end up changing that one to something else once i think of that something else. There's a new question on the moni says page that you can read here
today has been something short of hell mainly because of the three and a half hour ride back from ocean shores sitting in the middle. you'd think after awhile they'd think to make that seat a little more comfortable. And ocean shores...it's like watching a made marathon or something: initially entertaining until you've realized you've just wasted five hours of your life.
There were a lot of mediocre movies on tv like riding in cars with boys...I'd have to say that it's bad. You basically just feel bad for Drew Barrymore but not really because she's Drew Barrymore. G.I. Jane, one of my sister's favorite movies, was on TNT but I'm proud to say I didn't watch it. All I know about the movie is that it's got a predictable plot line, Demi Moore shaves her head, and Viggo sadly looks like nothing he did in LOTR. Some gladitorial movie was on Sci Fi or maybe it was a TV show/miniseries? Wasn't too sure...all of these were outshined by The Breakfast Club on AMC. The Breakfast Club is probably one of the best movies ever. There's something about the end scene when they're outside; there's something about being out of that library room that gives it a note of finality...That and the essay Brian writes: Dear Dean Buckley, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. And what we did was wrong, but we think you�re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms -- the most convenient of definitions: You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Signed, the Breakfast Club 4/15/04
Redid it AGAIN. I think I'll stick with this one...it's a lot less teenage angst let me be profound than the last format i had...it's still shitty, yes, but now it's cleaned up a lot. and the navigation toolbar is all thanks to Josh. Anyway...heard the yeah yeah yeahs are coming...at the paramount...knew it was too good to be true
3/24/04
Finally updated LavaLamp...Case Four tells the tragic, sordid tale about, yet again, two EEPers *written upon request*
3/13/04
I am a genius, i figured out how to change the scroll bar colors (no help from Josh thankyouverymuch...i figured it out before he could help me) Other than that, no other changes on the site...just wanted to say that the world is fucked up and we'll just have to change it or die trying.
3/10/04
kudos to Rozie for finding me a page with a lot more pick-up lines...they're still under misc. so check them out~
3/1/04
it looks somewhat better (or so i like to tell myself). I updated the shoutouts somewhat and found the pictures taken last halloween, they're under misc. if you want to see them again.
2/1/04 (at a more human hour of 10:04 at night than 2:10 in the morning like before)
I found my old shoutouts and redid them somewhat, they're at the bottom of my profile page which is also somewhat updated. Oh yeah, and if you happen to be looking through my g-book, don't click on the link that says "return to website" because that links it back to my old page in the frame and it just gets ugly from there
2/1/04 For some unknown reason, my counter broke so I lost all those hits I got with my last site which was over a thousand I might add...hah but the point of the matter is...there is none
~*~
Hey, I'm still fixing the site up, trying to find lost pages and deleting ones that are basically useless.
oh yeah, and all of you out there with your fancy shmancy websites and the professional formatting, mine is "artsy" not shitty...really...
while you're here, sign the guestbook on your way out (you know you want to)
-a gangster boy
-a gang in general
-someone either terminally ill or suffering from amnesia
-rain (it's always rain)
-someone that dies...up until recently it was always the girl that died either by gangsters or her random disease but it seems to be the trend for the guys to die also
-any musical instrument (usually a violin)
that i have been missing you for way too long
there's something inside this weary head
that wants us to love just instead
but i was just thinking
merely thinking
i've got loads of pictures
i've got the one of you in that dancing dress
but man i feel silly in that dim light
just after doing you by the side of my kodak delights
i am sinking, merely sinking
instead of kissing you babe
i'm a singer without a song
if i wait for you longer my affection is stronger
i was just thinking, merely thinking
that this boat is sinking
especially the ones with cute dogs and cupids
i'm tired of calling you, missing you, dreaming that i've slept with you
don't get me wrong i still desperately love you
inside this weary head
that wants us to love just instead
but i was just thinking and thinking
merely thinking
instead of kissing you babe
and time is running me still
if i wait for you longer, my affection is stronger
i was just thinking-i was just thinking
that i'm tired of calling you once a week
and thinking of long distance rates
instead of kissing you
baby i'm sinking
merely sinking
Then, when they're working out, Portman calls Julie "babe" and Adam's like "Her name's Julie, not babe" and then Portman calls him a cake-eater (cause that's really such a bad insult) and they start fighting. Then later, when all the Ducks are walking out of the showers in the locker room, Portman calls over his shoulder, "Come on Banks!" Since when were they chummy again?
*James Valentine and/or Adam Levine and/or Vincent Larusso
*that heart ring from Tiffany's seeing as how if I don't find mine that I lost I'm dead
*a garbage can (no joke, the one I have right now is bright orange with green spots and purple dinosaurs. really. now do you see why I'd want a new one?)
*world domination. you really can't go wrong with that
How can you not like this movie?
