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Apr. 13th, 2009

  • 5:14 AM
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a smile to remember

we had goldfish and they circled around and around
in the bowl on the table near the heavy drapes
covering the picture window and
my mother, always smiling, wanting us all
to be happy, told me, "be happy Henry!"
and she was right: it's better to be happy if you
can
but my father continued to beat her and me several times a week while
raging inside his 6-foot-two frame because he couldn't
understand what was attacking him from within.

my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"

and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw

one day the goldfish died, all five of them,
they floated on the water, on their sides, their
eyes still open,
and when my father got home he threw them to the cat
there on the kitchen floor and we watched as my mother
smiled

Charles Bukowski

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One of my latest memories of my great grandfather was when I sat in his room, and he told me about all the paintings in there, who made them, who was their kin, where the kin lived, what they did. I remember zoning out a bit when he started talking about some great uncles farming out somewhere and coming back in to laugh with him over something he said. I was amazed on how much knowledge he had, not about the paintings but the people around them. I felt like it mattered more to him, people then facts.
i wish I had one, to remember him by, I know which one I'd like to, because I remember staring at it when I was a little kid, not quite understanding it. admiring it.
My family would talk about his rambles, how he went off in something non-sense making, how senile he had gotten. I remember he would repeat himself a lot, but he didn't sound senile, he always sounded really together with me.

I just wish I had something to remember him by.
I wish people would just stay, for once, but I'm the one that left I guess, so I can't say that.

They're butch

  • Feb. 11th, 2009 at 6:56 PM
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'NOUGH SAID

G. K. Chesterton is awes

  • Jan. 9th, 2009 at 8:00 PM
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

G. K. Chesterton

Boys and Girls Together
by Neil Gaiman


Boys don't want to be princes.

Boys want to be shepherds who slay dragons,

maybe someone gives you half a kingdom and a princess,

but that's just what comes of being a shepherd boy

and slaying a dragon. Or a giant. And you don't really

even have to be a shepherd. Just not a prince.

In stories, even princes don't want to be princes,

disguising themselves as beggars or as shepherd boys,

leaving the kingdom for another kingdom,

princehood only of use once the ogre's dead, the tasks are done,

and the reluctant king, her father, needing to be convinced.


Boys do not dream of princesses who will come for them.

Boys would prefer not to be princes,

and many boys would happily kiss the village girls,

out on the sheep-moors, of an evening,

over the princess, if she didn't come with the territory.


Princesses sometimes disguise themselves as well,

to escape the kings' advances, make themselves ugly,

soot and cinders and donkey girls,

with only their dead mothers' ghosts to aid them,

a voice from a dried tree or from a pumpkin patch.

And then they undisguise, when their time is upon them,

gleam and shine in all their finery. Being princesses.

Girls are secretly princesses.


None of them know that one day, in their turn,

Boys and girls will find themselves become bad kings

or wicked stepmothers,

aged woodcutters, ancient shepherds, mad crones and wise-women,

to stand in shadows, see with cunning eyes:

The girl, still waiting calmly for her prince.

The boy, lost in the night, out on the moors.



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Do sometimes wake up in a weird mood? I do.
My friend sent me an email the other day, telling me about what she dreamt, her dreams are beautiful, and it makes me glad that she writes them down. Maybe one day they will make someone else glad too.
I had meant to write back that I don't dream much, but she knows that and I believe I have wrote down my dreams here before. See when I do dream it's really messed up, or it's extremely frustrating, or it's a nightmare.
The few times when I dream it's usually me trying to get somewhere, or get out of somewhere and going in circles. People touching me, dragging me down, trying to kill me with an axe and such.

Tonight I did have a dream and it was weird as usual, but it didn't feel like a nightmare, and yes I was constantly on the move like in my other ones, but I didn't go in circles.

That's not the point of this but I feel like the dream should be included.
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You were my loveliest disaster

  • Dec. 14th, 2008 at 7:51 AM
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Image heavy.


So yeah, I've been thinking about tattoo's for a while. I really want one but I worry about stretching and fading a lot. Also about being able to cover it up, I'm pretty sure that I won't be working in a job that requires me to completely hide everything but I want to have it on a place where I can hide it pretty easily. My biggest problem is that all the tattoo's that I imagine are HUGE. I want a big tattoo! something that like covers the whole part under my stomach or goes from my lower back circling to the front and everything. I want a lyric under my knee, a lyric on my rib, everything on places that will hurt a lot, a piece on the back if my neck. . . I'm also worried that I'll grow tired of my tattoo in 3 seconds.
I'd really like a straight edge tattoo on the inside of my lip.
What I want right now is something like Pete Wentz shoulder piece or Frank Iero's gun piece. I need to find the name of that style! Does anyone have pictures of them?? I love Franks "I wish I was a ghost" red tattoo on his wrist, writing in red lyric is a nice step away from the classic black ink.
So I googled tattoo's ooone mooore time.

To my extreme happyness bmezine.com (an awesome tattoo site, it's so big that I was kind of overwhelmed) had a huge section just for straight edge tattoos.
Death Before Dishonor )
I kinda like pinup girls, but I wasn't really finding any that I really like, I don't think I'd want a pin up girl on me. I saw some luis royo tattoo's when looking for it, pretty cool.
Here are some that I like:
http://www.bmeink.com/miniport/A81202/high/osi2-corset.jpg
That's a good place, easy to hide it.
http://www.bmeink.com/A81208/high/ot9j-banksy-stencil.jpg
Oh if i'd get a bansky tattoo it would definitely be Flower Chucker, I just love that piece
http://www.johndavies.org/pic-banksy-wallandpiece.jpg
Krista! I could see you with that one!
http://www.bmeink.com/A81213/high/oxcc-untitled-image.jpg
mmmm does that guy come with the tattoo??
http://www.bmeink.com/A81208/high/ouu2-trust-and-believe.jpg
I'd love a white ink tattoo on my wrist, now you see it, now you don't
http://www.bmeink.com/A81208/high/ouws-white-ink-lettering.jpg

Someone tattoed the word Twilight on their back. . . someone really needs to get whipped on her behind, of course it was a girl!
oh, I'd totally get Sandman tattoed on my calf though
I'd never get a full sleeve, but I could imagine getting a bunch of tattoo's on my arm and when there's enough of them I'd fill up the empty space with stuff like stars, musical notes, cupcakes, cassettes, pacman ghosts and mario mushrooms.

a little more )

Let me entertain you

  • Dec. 8th, 2008 at 2:35 AM
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So, I went to the Jingle Bell Bash on thursday and it was SO MUCH FUN.
Sadly I went alone, which I know is really lame, all my friends kind of pulled out one by one until I was alone. When you're by yourself you don't have yo worry about anyone else, does he need to like, pee? Is that person getting crushed? is everyone having fun? nope you can just have a good time by yourself. I'm ok at making friends at shows to, not friends that I keep contact with afterwards thought, but people to chat with while everything is going down.
I was afraid that my seats were bad but actually they were really good which made all the difference. I was on the main floor and everything.
So I'm standing there next to some grown ups, a whole lot of parents brought their kids but those people were too young to have kids, and they never left to check on their . . . niece or anything so I'm pretty positive they were there by themselves but THEY SEEMED SO HORRIBLY BORED. Through the whole show they hardly clapped, they did not sing along, they did not jump or dance or even smile. This is really weird to me.
I ON THE OTHER HAND, was all over the place! the girl next to me didn't show up for The Academy is. . . so I had 3 seats to jump around in, I surprised myself on how many songs I could sing a long too, not being a hardcore Academy fan. They gave a super good show, I think their new CD, Fast Times at Barrington High, is sounding really good, what I've heard at least. I might even buy it :D
I think the singer of Boys Like Girls has skinnier legs then William Becket, just to throw that out there. Maybe he was jsut wearing tighter pants but I'm pretty sure. He's really nice, there's a store behind the paramount named Cyber Dogs, it's tiny, all vegan, open from 10-12 p.m and looks like they sell pot there, I bought a coke and when I got back he had come out and was taking pictures and giving autographs and everything. maybe he was a little drunk, he stands really close to you, but he's nice, gave me an autograph on a dollar bill which was all I had! haha. Boys like Girls are super good live I think and I know Tayler agrees with me.
Ok, I had not found out that FOB had those matching light show guitars in I Don't Care and it totally blew my mind! it was so awesome! They're so good live! I wish they played more of Take This To your Grave. They did Saturday and Grand Theft Autumn though so I'm happy. They talked in between all the songs, mostly Pete, Patrick said that he could entertain us, but wasn't in least entertaining so he didn't talk as much.
In the riff for beat it Ian from The Cab ran onstage and did it with them, unrehearsed and everything! I've seen like one picture of the cab so I didn't recognize him and thought to my complete despair for a moment that the front man of the jonas brothers was on stage. How silly! then it clicked that this was the wild haired Cab boy that Krista's all over. Joe's right, he does know how to shred! Speaking of joe, HIS HAIR HAS GOTTEN SO LONG, it's going tot take wind in one of his circles and carry him away! kind of what happened to beyonce! Well she fell down, he'll fly away^^
I wish krista was there, seeing them was really surreal, growing up in a country where you just have to learn to accept that you'll never see your favorite bands is something I'm used to, so suddenly having the chance is really special.
I really just wish she was here.


Saturday in Seattle from clandestine on Vimeo.


I was there!!!!
5 was actually on the other end, so you can't see me. Lookin' at Sisky Biz playing and stuff. I somehow didn't want to go up and touch them, I feel that it must be really annoying to always have all those girls and people touch you, grope you and stuff. It was enough for me to be up there with them, it was crazy actually, I'm so happy about it that I'm kind of ripping of pride.

Sooo I was gonna say something moore.
Stuff I'm listening to right now
Bomb - Rancid
Ricochet - Shiny Toy Guns
About a Girl - The Academy is. . .
MakeDamnSure - Taking Back Sunday
Call it off - Nineteen
Earthquake - The Used
Wonder Vendor

Nov. 27th, 2008

  • 7:24 PM
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DID YOU GET HIT BY THE HUGE ASS RICK ROLL THAT RICK ASTLEY JUST GAVE HIMSELF?? HE SANG NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP IN THE MACY'S NEW YOURK FAIR. HE SO CURRENTLY HAS THE HIGHEST RICK ROLL RATE HAHAHA!

dang it now I just lost the game
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HEEEYYYY! *scatters of dust*

Pete Wents had a baby boy late thursday which is AWESOME. congratulations to him but one question:
Bronx Mowgli Wentz? That's an. . . interesting name? Does that mean that Pete and Ashley are wolves? I always thought Pete looked like he wasn't completely evolved ^^
But yay baby!

Which brings me to an add that I saw on tv a couple of weeks that almost made me snort my icecream over my living room floor



It's the most advanced piece of technology! . . .
you will ever pee on!

Is that fluid stuff supposed to be pee? wtf?

When looking for the youtube of that comemrcial I saw another funny one, and hey there's a connection, it's a baby boy too!


American commercial are either really bad or completely hilaratious, kind of because of how bad they are, take that one!


There is something so disturbingly wrong with that!

So I'm reading Twilight. Whaaat theeee heeell?
This book is CRAP. IF she talks about Edward Cullens chest muscles ONE MORE TIME I'm going to die! The two adjectives "amazingly beautiful" I never want to hear again either. I think Krista put it perfectly into words when she said that all the characters had "the emotional range of a frying pan. "

BELLA, YOU'RE MY KIND OF HEROIN, I DROVE ALL THE WAY TO ALASKA TO CONTROL MYSELF, LOOK AT MY SHINY CHEST MUSCLES GLISTENING IN THE SUN! AIN'T I HOT??

Bella and Edwards relationship is completely bipolar, they're always fighting, and the go from a single conversation which pretty much consists off "hey let's work in this science project together" to "NO I LOVE YOU MORE HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT? OH YEAH AND I EAT MOUNTAIN LIONS."

As much as I could make fun of the horrible writing I do agree that if you look beyond that it is an interesting story, yeah it might be the Mary Sue thing that gets all those girls to like this book (it must be, Bella is the most annoying vapid person I know and more then 4 boys are ALL OVER HER, of course they hardly even give a back story to that) and it kind of got to me when I was told that Stephanie Meyer agreed that her writing was no good and that she could never be as good as the people she wanted to be like, but she had stories that she wanted to tell. I can say that I kind of feel the same way, that way that you want to tell this amazing story in your head but when it comes to putting it to words it all comes out corny and understated, or when you have this amazing piece of art in your head but you don't have the talent to create it.

So I'm giving her a chance, hell I'm even going to finish the book and see the story. maybe just because I think the actors are kind of hot and I love vampires but still, money in meyer's pocket ^^

I might be stopping in vegas for my spring break. YEAH BABY!

Have a good thanksgiving everyone!

Beauty is pain

  • Oct. 8th, 2008 at 1:42 AM
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Marina Abramović is a Yugoslavian artist that was born in Belgrad in 1946. She has been active for over 30 years and is now a lecturer at Bard College. Both her parents were both fighting in the world war II, her mother was a major in the army (and later the director of The Museum of the Revolution and Art in Belgrade) and her father was a commander and after the was he was claimed a national hero.
Abramović´s dad left them and in an interview published in 1998, she talked about how her

"mother took complete military-style control of me and my brother. I was not allowed to leave the house after 10 o'clock at night till I was 29 years old. ... [A]ll the performances in Yugoslavia I did before 10 o'clock in the evening because I had to be home then. It's completely insane, but all of my cutting myself, whipping myself, burning myself, almost losing my life in the firestar, everything was done before 10 in the evening.”

She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade for five years.
My attention was drawn to her for the first time when Mr. Mills mentioned her in a discussion about extreme art.
He talked about how she had stayed for 6 hours naked in her gallery, nothing there but her and a table of weapons, a knife, gun and more. Although the audience was quite awkward and modest to begin with, with time they became more aggressive. He said she got stabbed, she could’ve been shot and she could’ve been killed, but she gave herself completely to art, suffered for art and stayed completely vulnerable for art.
She later commented about this saying

“The experience I learned was that…if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed.” ... “I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

One of her most extreme performances she did in 1974 with a large- petroleum drenched start. The performance was called Rhythm 5. She stood outside the burning star and cut her hair and nails, throwing it on the flames. She addressed the political traditions of her past in the act if mental and physical purification. In the final act of purification she stepped through the flames and stood in the middle of the five-four rayed communist star. What the audience didn’t notice is that she lost consciousness inside the start due to a lack of oxygen. Members of the audience intervened and got her out of the star.
Abramović later commented upon this experience:

“I was very angry because I understood there is a physical limit: when you lose consciousness you can’t be present; you can’t perform.”

Her art and performances might be extreme and some people would maybe think of it as simply reckless and stupid but I feel that she has completely dedicated herself to the purpose, to what she’s trying to get through. She has not only given her mind but also flesh bones and pain.





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I got my homecoming dress today, I love it, it's really beautiful. The nice lady that assisted me said that I came like a breeze into the store because american girls just wanted flashy flashy flashy, beads and pearls and open back and skin but what I wanted was old and elegant. I was really flattered, it totally made my day.

http://www.scritchscratch.com/scratch/index.php?id=117#comic
notice the black flag "reference " ?? :D

Bucket's of awesome.

  • Sep. 30th, 2008 at 4:54 AM
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So last few days have been kinda awesome. I wrote a paper on Thoreau that I'm pretty proud of, went to a masquerade ball where I met a cute magician who likes Sigur Rós, and got a Tarot telling saying that I will soon get a job, get in problems with the government and get a boyfriend.

October is gonna be pretty expensive, I have to start thinking of christmas presents to ship home, homecoming is in 2 weeks and I still have to dye my hair, buy a dress and shoes. Halloween is coming up and I have to find a costume or something. Speaking of that, I had a total geek-out moment at the masquerade ball the other night because there was a woman selling masks there. Apparently she owns a store in Bellevue called Masquerade which is PERFECT because i need a halloween costume. So far I have found sexy maid, sexy nurse, sexy pirate, sexy marie antoinette, sexy cop, sexy bee and sexy lady bug.
So of course I'm totally all over renting a renaissance dress but that might be kind of a lot if all the other girls I know are just gonna rip their shirts and jeans and go as sexy bike chicks?
but anyways, that's not the reason for my geek out moments, I don't lose my cool that easily, my geek-out was because of their VENETIAN MASKS OMG.
http://www.amasquerade.com/store_masks.asp
Everything there that starts with colombina NEEDS TO BE MINE OK?? SRSLY.
I had a discussion with the lady about the awesomeness of masks but it totally didn't get me anywhere so I'm going to storm down to that store and spend all my money. Which suddenly isn't much because the icelandic stock market is pretty much done for right now.

To other bits of awesome. I totally just stared at Neil Gaimans home site for 20 minutes because approximately 15 minutes ago THE GRAVEYARD JUST CAME OUT IN THE US!!!!
Originally my trip to his site was because I'm trying to find out where i can get my hands on THIS BEAUTY
Since I recently moved into my room my walls are empty except for my Phantom Of The Opera Poster (bought at the paramount theatre) and my skullcandies.

I WANT IT OH I WANT IT FOR MY OWN.
So I went through a few places and YES, I KNOW it's a special edition released at the comic con BUT WHERE CAN I BUY IT? LIKE, AT A STORE? I haven't made the trip yet to a near comic store because no comic stores are exactly near when yo only have your two legs but CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF I WOULD GO THERE, WOULD I BE ABLE TO BUY THAT POSTER?
It's one of my higher purposes in life right now (the plural of purpose sounds weird.)

Moving on to more awesome.

Fall Out Boy's new album coming out November 4th, Krista I don't mean to be a spoiler but I think we've found your christmas present! I?m super exited, I actually haven't watched their new video "I Don't Care" but believe me, I'm working on it right now.

The Academy Is. . . and We The Kings are playing here in the middle of the month, IF We the Kings will play first then I might be able to go, it's on a school night so otherwise I would've gotten a straight no but I'm content with watching only We The Kings and maybe just 1-2 songs of the Academy is. . .
The problem is that I don't have anyone to go with me, dang it! I need a person with a car!

YOU GUYS, I'm in such a dilemma! Criminal Minds first show of the first season aired last wednesday and the second one will be tomorrow, of course I'd run right to the couch but I haven't seen the third season! I can't just hop over a WHOLE SEASON!
If you missed the first show you can see it here :D and just because of that reason I'm sitting here thinking "to watch or not to watch D:?"

I am SO EXCITED to see the Alice In Wonderland movie. It's gonna rock you guys. It's gonna be so much better then Sweeney Todd (which I thought was real good don't get me wrong) and I just know I'm gonna love it. I can't believe Lindsay Lohan actually wanted the part! Of course Burton is an artist not an asshole and totally didn't listen to that mumbo jumbo. Sneak peaks of the set here
(isn't their baby just the cutest?)

and OH! OH! more Neil Gaiman love! I almost forgot! Coraline is being made into a motion picture! It's the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas,(which funnily I always thought was just Burton, did he just write it or was it a collaboration in the direction part?) that's helping out, and even though it doesn't look really like Ipresonally imagined it I know it's gonna be SO, SO AWESOME. Actually the only thing I think I have a problem with is her blue hari , but I bet I'll love it when watching the movie. Sneak peaks here and the trailer is there somethere too!

I feel like I'm forgetting something but I really need to go to sleep now so enjoy!

The Angel In Hell.

  • Sep. 24th, 2008 at 4:05 AM
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Christine you didn't deserve him! Go away with your pretty boy! You died first anyway! . . . whore.

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Last Sunday I went to see the Phantom of The Opera in the Paramount Theatre. I LOVED IT. Oh my god I had goose bumps the whole time. I actually thought it was way better then the movie. The singing was so powerful and I just sat there going "wow, they just did that".
Like always I got all mushy in the end. the part where the phantom is singing with his music box and goes

"Christine I love you"

...is my breaking point.
I always vote for the losing team.

Yes I'm a sad little creature but I love that musical so blindly.

masquerade,
paperfaces on parade,
masquerade.

hide your face the world will never find you.



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p.s. Travis, you'll pull through<3

Fat babies

  • Sep. 14th, 2008 at 5:16 AM
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'NOUGH SAID!!

Delilah

  • Sep. 6th, 2008 at 10:24 PM
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THE ATTIC


Praise to my older brother, the seventeen-year-old boy, who lived
in the attic with me an exiled prince grown hard in his confinement,

bitter, bent to his evening task building the imaginary building
on the drawing board they'd given him at school. His tools gleam

under the desk lamp. He is as hard as the pencil he holds,
drawing the line straight along the ruler.

Tower prince, young king, praise to the boy
who has willed his blood to cool and his heart to slow. He's building

a structure with so many doors it's finally quiet,
so that when our father climbs heavily up the attic stairs, he doesn't

at first hear him pass down the narrow hall. My brother is rebuilding
the foundation. He lifts the clear plastic of one page

to look more closely at the plumbing,
-- he barely hears the springs of my bed when my father sits down --

he's imagining where the boiler might go, because
where it is now isn't working. Not until I've slammed the door behind

the man stumbling down the stairs again
does my brother look up from where he's working. I know it hurts him

to rise, to knock on my door and come in. And when he draws his skinny arm
around my shaking shoulders,

I don't know if he knows he's building a world where I can one day
love a man -- he sits there without saying anything.

Praise him.
I know he can hardly bear to touch me.

--Marie Howe

I really want to go and play with make up but I can't think of anything pretty to do. (I want to draw something on my face, haha!) My siblings and I are going tonight to see Pineapple Express. I'm looking very much forward to it.

let's watch the ocean burn

  • Aug. 29th, 2008 at 9:08 PM
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OH MY GOD I don't know what happened to my entry but it's

<A HREF="http://community.livejournal.com/jr__nal/4189518.html#cutid1">here</A>

Go and love some more.

  • Aug. 21st, 2008 at 4:44 AM
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Been in the US for a week now I think. I like it here and I love my fosterfamily, they're really nice and laid back and I'm starting to feel right at home. I miss my native language though like a lot. I listen to icelandic music a bit and stuff but it's kinda weird not having anybody to talk to. I'm good though it's nothing to worry about. I don't really drink coffee but when my brother took me shopping yesterday (IT WAS SO MUCH FUN OMG) I bought a frappuchino that was some kind of a moccha frappochino with caramel and no expresso or something and it tasted SO GOOD. I'm so ready to pay 4 dollars for another one hehe!

Before I went to the US (I'm an exchange student) I was starting to read Dante's Inferno. My dad says he's gonna take me to a library here so I'm thinking if I could find it there to keep on with it. I've been watching a lot of Big Love and I watched a family favorite here named Harold and Maude and it's probably one of the best films i've ever seen.

Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
fecemi la divina podestate,
la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore.
Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate

Translation: Through me is the way into the woeful city; through me is the way into eternal woe; through me is the way among the lost people. Justice moved my lofty maker: the divine Power, the supreme Wisdom and the primal Love made me. Before me were no things created, unless eternal, and I eternal last. Leave every hope, ye who enter!

I start school in about 12 days and I'm super nervous. It's a really pretty school and apparently my brother is going to introduce me to an army of short asian girl. This is all so intensely exciting!
My mom called me the other day and I ahve to admit that for a fraction of a secondI thought I was going to cry, I miss them and I'm so happy that they're proud of me being here. Rebekka called me too and it was nice to know that someone back home missed me. My best friend hasn't called me at all. . .

Aaaanyways whatever. I'm gonna post some pictures in my next blog of what I've been doing in my moleskine how about that? I'm nothing special though so be prepared :D
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YES, I finally found a computer with internet connection! Verslunarmannahelgin was aaawesome. I went to 2 dances and worked a bit too. the first dance was with Páll Óskar and he rocked of course. He re-did some old song he had named Sama Hvar Þú Ert and I WANT IT WANT WANT IT. We danced so hard that nobody could walk on the way home. I hate it when I'm at a dance or something and the group i'm in only wants to "walk around" or something ridiculous. I'm lucky enough to have friends that usually don't participate in such ridicule so when I go to a party, I go to party hard. The second one was with some dj's that were called n3 or something which wasn't as fun but plenty fun though. I can't write much because I'm at this dinner party in Kópavogur. But seriously, versló? sooo much fun. It was an excellent last weekend at my dear hometown Akureyri. My last days in Akureyri kind of reminded me on Gunnar in Brennunjálssaga, "aldrei var hlíðin svo græn" kinda stuff. Yeah, sorry I don't have time to explain in english right now.

Gay Pride was last weekend and I went to see Rebekka and her friends in the parade, I even got a rose :D We hung out a bit that night but then I had to say goodbye. I'm so sick of saying goodbye to people, how do you even say goodbye to people that you're not gonna see for 10 months? "ok see ya later!. . . in a year or so!"

I don't know when I can get to a computer long enough to post anything, on wednesday I jump on a plane for seattle and it will take me approximately 12-14 hours to get there. Can you imagine how BORED I'll be on the way??? Inga told me that when she went as an exchange student she had cried when saying goodbye to everyone and more people have told me that they cried the first 3 months.
The first 3 months, that's my mountain to climb.
I haven't cried at all but I've been feeling sick for almost a week now, I can't define the feeling. I guess it's a mix of stress, nausia and that I've already started to miss everybody. (what's the noun for miss??)

I think I can understand what Holden meant when he said
What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye,

because it seems like it haven't completely hit me yet. You're going away as an exchange student. you're not supposed to see your friends and family and you're supposed to contact them as little as you can. meanwhile you shall gain a new family, new school, and understandment on a new world and etc.

Pardon my french but FUCK. It'll probably hit me at minneapolis airport, I'll sob like a baby at the airport! haha!


... God I want a Tegan and Sarah CD... (you were all mine, I was yours right?) and the song She will be loved by maroon 5
But anyway. I gotta go now. See you when I see you.

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Deap poetic canine (k9!)

  • Aug. 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 PM
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It's verslunarmannahelgin back at iceland! It's pretty much the biggest party weekend in iceland, and tonight I'm going to a dance! Of course I have nothing to go in like always, but I gues wet pants and a dirty t-shirt will just work. I can mosh in dresses if needed.

Reykjavík

  • Jul. 28th, 2008 at 10:09 PM
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I went to Reykjavík straight from work on friday for an interview on monday in the american embassy. I like the streets where all the embassies are, it's really long and has lot of big houses with all kinds of flags. My interview went nicely and the woman was really nice to me, especially when she heard where I was going, she said that she really enjoyed herself in Seattle and was sure I'd do too.
I sure hope so
I'm going away from iceland in 16 days. I've never loved my country as much, my ipod died on the way so all I did was just play with my little sister and watch nature passing by. On the way to reykjavík we drew straight through Iceland, the highlands or something I can't remember the english translation, but it's the biggest desert in europe my dad tells me. It's covered in black sand and rocks and there are sandstorms and all you can see is the horizon. no mountains blocking your view like in most places in iceland. I also got to see my 2 favourite mountains on the way I don't remember the name of them either I'm sorry.

When I got home I found Peter (Peter Pan Supermouse, that was his name)dead under his wheel. He was my pet mouse. I don't know what happened to him, there was water in his cage and even though there was no food mice can survive without food for days, and I reckon that he was approximately 1-2 days without food. My mom says it was probably because of old age (in her attempt to make me feel better) but I've only had him for 6 months or so. He had his eyes closed and his pink little tail was all white and stiff. The few pictures I had of him are in my laptop that's still being repaired so I can't even look at pictures of him or post them or anything,
He was starting to look so good, his fur had been kinda bad-looking and I thought he was a bit skinny, but he had gotten a bit fat and his fur had gotten smooth and nice.
I hope he liked me, I liked him a lot.

Rest in Peace little friend.

tongue of wood

  • Jul. 24th, 2008 at 8:38 PM
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There was a man with tongue of wood
Who essayed to sing,
And in truth it was lamentable.
But there was one who heard
The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood
And knew what the man
Wished to sing,
And with that the singer was content.

- Stephen Crane

I still haven't found the source to the problem that I don't recive e-mails when someone comments me, this is extremely uncomfortable.

I went to see Batman yesterday along with half the world, and I agree with half the world when I say that movie rocked and was totally worth the 2 years I waited for it. I couldn't help but to feel a bit sad because god do I miss Heath Ledger so!

I don't get that need that americans seem to haveto make anything theirs. They did the american version of The Office, The ring, dark water, the eye and etc. and most of these american versions SUCK! Why americans? why can't you just let these thing be!? what next, an american big ben?

I am so completely addicted to coke it's ridiculuous. This is a horrible addiction.

I have a small story in my head and when I ger my computer back I'll maybe post it here. I've also been doing some stuff in my moleskine but I don't have the guts to put it here, plus I don't have a scanner.
My posts are extremely boring I know, they're pretty much just notifications that I'm alive, I'll post something decent or so when I get my computer. promise!

Jul. 10th, 2008

  • 1:52 PM
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Recently I've stopped getting e-mails about comments and stuff I get, as you can imagine that's extremely uncomfortable, does anyone know how to fix it?