I should’ve put Roald Dahl on that list to the right. He’s a freakin’ genius. Honestly. I could name 20 classics by him on the spot. Roald Dahl rocks.So next week is gonna be busy as hell. The first issue of the Laureate and my Senior Project are both due. Gah. I spent 7 hours typing my Senior Essay today. 3100 words, 33 citations, 39 works cited. Gah. And that’s just the rough draft, heh. I’m gonna change a few more things before I hand in this draft, but I think it’s pretty good. Gotta get the argument a little better. Work on the organization a bit. But I’m pretty confident. The paper is about how the Supreme Court has dealt with Constitutionality of Congress’ expansion of Copyright Law, and what that says about the DMCA and CTEA. It’s a little dull to get into here, but if anyone cares, feel free to ask me.
Holy God! This is the coolest car I’ve ever seen. It’s made in Japan, of course, by Sony and Toyota. The car is emotional. You pop a tire? It turns blue with sadness. Honk the horn? It turns red with anger and plays soothing music to calm you down. When you approach, it turns orange with happiness, opens the door, and swivels you seat out for easy access. Not only that, but you drive with a joystick instead of gas and break pedals! I want one! Actually, you know what I really want is a car with a throttle and ‘half-steering wheel’ like on a plane, with a La-Z-Boy to sit in. That would rock.
I got to play a bunch of football this week. Football is so much fun. Me and Nick beat Eric and Matt 33-16. I actually threw 3 touchdowns. Who woulda thunk it? I’m playing in a tennis tournament tomorrow (doubles with my stepdad) which Mr. Kelly is in. I want to play him so I can gloat about it in Spanish. Mwahaha.
Wednesday was fun. I went to a newspaper conference up in Corvallis. Pretty fun, though I didn’t learn too much. Some good ideas from the workshop on infographics. I can’t wait until the paper comes out. Gah. It’s gonna be good. There actually aren’t that many good school papers in Oregon, heh. McMinnville’s and South Eugene’s are both incredible, and Dallas and Crescent Valley aren’t bad. Those are the only ones I’ve seen that are better than decent, though. We could be in the top five in the state, heh. Me, Andrea and Z have written half the paper, heh. Ah well. I’ve already recruited four more people for the paper (three photographers and a writer), so we’ll have a good staff by year end. By the way, this is a great site about high school journalism.
When I came back, I had to meet with my Senior Paper Advisor down at the U of O. Since I had an hour to kill, I walked into a lecture at the PoliSci building. There were hundreds there, so no one really noticed that I wasn’t in the class, heh. It was interesting. “International Students Perspective on the Attack”, though of course it was all muslim students. Why are people afraid to say what it is? If they had a Brazilian, a Japanese and a Saudi, then it’d be an international perspective, but what it was was a muslim-American perspective. Ah well.
I went and saw Joyride the other day with EB, Trav, Lauren and Mel. Good lord was Lauren freaking out. It was funny. The movie is pretty good, though I dunno about the ending. That was a weak way to end a horror movie.
Wow, my Friday nights are at a low, heh. I hung out with Antilope and Urs yesterday, and they were telling calculus jokes at university park at 10:30. “So a guy on a bus pulls a gun and says ‘I’m gonna derive you all!’. Everyone freaks out except one guy. The gunman walks up to him and says ‘So what’s up with you? Aren’t you scared that I’ll derive you?’ And the guy goes, ‘No, I’m e^x’”. Hardy har har. Actually, it was pretty fun. Word. I got to freestyle, which is always fun.
Tonight, I went to a play about Rachel Carson at school with Andrea, cuz we hadda cover it for newspaper. The actress they got was, I guess, pretty famous. She won an OBIE for her stage acting and has been in Law & Order and a bunch of movies, which was cool. I guess it was well-done, as far as monologues about middle-20th century biologists go. There were tons of hippies there, though. You could smell the hemp clothing in the air, heh. And they served unprocessed food afterwards. That stuff tastes wierd. Gimme back my Oreos and Cheez-Its!
Y’know what I just noticed? There’s no architectural history out here. I didn’t even think about it when I lived in Massachusetts, but that stone wall at my house was probably 250 years old. The buildings downtown had tons of history. And modern architecture is sorta bizarre, as far as cities go. It pushes the eye outward, off of the street. The street should be the focal point. A good city, I think, should be subdivided into squares with their own local organization, maybe 2000 residents per square (by Square, I mean like the squares in Italy and whatnot). The industrial cities should be entirely separate from the residential cities, too. And houses should be smaller, on average. Denser. With more of a common plan among them. Less organic and more planned, so that everything has a little extra, like the old apartment buildings in the ghettos on the East Coast. Oh, and every good city looks better at night, if you want to know how to judge them.
MP3 Prime Cut: No Matta What by Toya
Great track from the girl who did “I do”. Especially on Friday.
MP3 Prime Cut Extra: Meet Her at the Love Parade 2001 (Radio Edit) by Da Hool
Great trance track. And there are lesbians in the music video, heh. Word. Other good tracks of late: “The Music in You” by Monoboy ft. Delores (but only the last 3 minutes) and “Ligo Ligo” by Antique, which is a dance/pop track sung in Greek. Greek music is like a combo of arabic and latin rythym’s which is really cool.
