Dazed

I watched Dazed and Confused sometime back and man, I have no idea why I waited so long to watch it. I remember reading somewhere that Quentin Tarantino mentioning it in his favourite movies and I seriously dig that man so, well, yeah, I wanted to watch it, basically.

I watched it with my sister and she thought the movie was made in the 70s. When she found it released in 1993, she was like, "Wow, that makes it so cool!"

And it does.
I love it. I loved the music, the whole stoner 70s feel, Wiley Wiggins's facial expressions, "See You Later Alligator" (I laughed for ages over that).

I never get why people flap their arms when they've been smoking and an adult enters the room. Then, again, it's not like I've really smoked so I wouldn't know if flapping wafts the smell away.

Mitch's expressions. Every single one of them. Priceless.

This guy. Was the cutest person in the whole movie.

Oh man, she was precious.

Long day.

It's fun talking to cousins. I should really try and keep in touch with more of my cousins.

Still have pimples.

eternal summer in the grateful heart- a mix for sunny days

1. Electric Light Orchestra- Mr. Blue Sky

2. Backstreet Goodbye- Summer Drive Song

3. Beastie Boys- Girls

4. Neon Indian- Deadbeat Summer

5. Panic! At The Disco- When The Day Met The Night

6. The Vaccines- Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra)

7. Animal Collective- Summertime Clothes

8. Phosphorescent- It’s Hard To Be Humble (When You’re From Alabama)

9. Coconut Records- The Summer

10. Wilco- I’m Always In Love

11. Ezra Furman & the Harpoons- Take Off Your Sunglasses

12. MGMT- Kids

13. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John- Summer Nights (Grease Soundtrack)

14. The Weepies- I Was Made For Sunny Days

15. Kings of Leon- Where Nobody Knows

16. Sublime- Summertime

17. The Drums- Let’s Go Surfing

18. Blitzen Trapper- Summer Town

19. Bonnie Somerville- Winding Road

20. Vampire Weekend- Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

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Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

-William Henley

This is one of my new favourite poems. I love it so much. It hangs on the bulletin board in my classroom and there's something really touching, really... strong about this poem. The last verse always gives me goosebumps. The story about the poet is also really inspiring. He had tuberculosis of bone which spread to his foot. The doctors had no choice but to amputate it (whenever somone mentions the word amputee or amputate the Flagpole Sitta lyrics go through my head- they cut off my legs/now i'm an amputee/god damn you) when he was seventeen. He wrote this when he was recovering.

It's so powerful.

seventeen year old girl's problems 2011

I hate pimples. I hate them so much.

I'm decent looking, okay and I've got the worst pink shit on my nose and I have school tomorrow as well. The thing is, pimples are okay. It just becomes really bad when people mention them/stare at them.

Also, I have an awful cold. I hate blowing my nose.

On the bright side, we've got elections in school which are- creepy Rebecca Black voice- fun fun fun with dirty politics and drama and exercising our rights are jailed students.

I could whine forever about school.

I like a boy (a little) who doesn't like me back.