Evil Tree!

In Texas there is this high school specifically for broadcasting-Crockett Film Academy. This high school made up a fictional high school called "Clinton High". Clinton High is making a (fake)  movie called Evil Tree. They are creating a mockumentary about the making of this movie. It's really funny and I think you should check it out.  They came out with the "preview" today and it's really episode 10 but I think you should start with episode one. It's great :)

My favorite is Bernando.

(I know I've given this link to some of you before so  sorry for the lack of something new and exciting.)

A Most Excellent Adventure

Albrecht Duerer, Melancholia

I've decided to use bullets today because I think this post will be random enough as it is without me trying to organize it into a paragraph.

• I watched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure yesterday. It was most excellent and I loved it.
• I went to Ann Arbor today. I went into this store and saw "Angry Mob" action figures. It had little guys with torches and pitch forks and grimaces on their faces. It was pretty cool and I was this close to buying them. 
• I went to a local book store in A.A. and got the following three books: Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems, T.S. Eliot: The Wasteland & Other Poems, and Wild Nights. Wild Nights is about several famous authors (Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, etc.) and the days before they died. I'm looking forward to reading them. 
• I'm kind of obsessed with Edvard Grieg at the moment. Especially the Peer Gent Suite, Prelude to Act IV: Morning Mood. I was baby-sitting this toddler and he was watching Little Einstein. (They had sketchings from Albrecht Duerer and a painting by William Pitts!) I heard it on there and came home and I've downloaded the whole thing onto my playlist. 
• I'm in need of watching 5-hours of Pride & Prejudice. Maybe I'll pull an all nighter. 
• AP Euro is really starting to scare me. 

Quotes!

Here are some quotes that I've heard recently which I like and thought I'd share:

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." Emo Philips

"Works best with country, soft rock, and western: hip-hop and rap may cause self-destruct." Bob Thompson (in reference to some cordless speakers) 

"Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep." Fran Lebowitz

"Sometimes the road not taken is not taken for a reason." Jerry Seinfeld 

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." George Orwell

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other." Charles Dickens 

"All generalizations are false, including this one." Mark Twain 

"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love." Friedrich Nietzsche

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. " Jane Austen 

"At fifty everyone has the face he deserves." -George Orwell

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain 

Another great word: 

flummox \FLUM-uhks\, transitive verb: To confuse; to perplex.

Questions and Other Things

I feel like I have a lot of questions that just simply go unanswered. I think it also helps that I don't tend to ask a lot of them. 

Did you ever stop to think that you see the world from only one vantage point? Like the whole world you see is through your eyes and to me, it just seems...biased. 

Someone told me recently that they overestimated me because I didn't associate Kimchi with Korea. I don't know....I'm still not sure how to take it, really. 

Quiz Bowl Fact #259: pi in binary=11.00100100001111110110

Probably the best word ever that everyone has encountered:

longueur \long-GUR\, noun: A dull and tedious passage in a book, play, musical composition, or the like.

How hard is an AP test? I mean, really. Can someone just tell me?

Oh, and picture courtesy of LIFE images. I just really like it and thought I'd share. Plus the hat is cool. And I love black and white. And the early 1900's. Which is now my favorite section of history. Other than the Victorian Age. And I love fragments. 

FREE HUGS!

Yes.

Today is April Fool's Day.

Gotcha, didn't I?

Today was Historic

I went to MSU for a QB tournament today. It was exciting. I got some buzzes but towards the end, my brain just kind of turned off. I missed a question about Grant Wood and I just sat there. The question kept going and when they said " he painted the midnight ride of Paul Revere" I thought to myself, "Grant Wood." But did I buzz in? No. I just sat there and let Anand get it on "American Gothic." I also missed an Ibsen question, of which I am ashamed to admit. I did the same thing with the Grant Wood one and I just sat there, thinking to myself "Henrik Ibsen." 

Two words: FAILURE. 

Well, at least it was in my mind. 

But we somehow qualified for nationals which is REALLY exciting. Even Mr. Baker admitted to us afterwords that he didn't really think we could do it. Thanks for having no real confidence in us but pretending to anyway, Mr. Baker. Thanks.

I also played on the Varsity A team. It consisted of T.J., Claire, Ani V., Peter, Conni, and myself. The "B" team was Andrew, Eshwar (he went for the math questions), Stephanie, MaoMao, and Yunbo. I don't know why we switched the teams around because I was supposed to be on the "B" team. But oh well. It doesn't mean anything other than I can't play on the JV level anymore. 

Overall it was fun. I still have to write an abstract for AP Euro which is kind of confusing. Hopefully I'll come up with something.

Tonight's Forecast: DARK

I saw this on some girl's shirt today at school. I had a good laugh by myself. I was in a pretty good mood fourth block, actually. I spent a good half hour on the Republic of Pemberly and that always makes me happier. My newest favorite Pride and Prejudice quotes:

"For what do we live, but to make sport of our neighbors,

and laugh at them in our turn?"

"I am particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so well

able to expose my real character, in a part of the world where 

I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit."

"If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient."

I am particularly on the lookout to use the last one. "I  basically know nothing about this subject, but if I had ever learned I would be the very best and better than you." 

Oh man, I love Lady Catherine. But Pride and Prejudice is a rant for another time.