January 2011
53 posts
2 tags
corinne bailey rae
i recently randomly decided to listen to all the songs on corinne bailey rae’s first album and i’ve only listened to the whole thing 3 times, and a few select songs (like a star, breathless, i’d like to) over and over again. but i realized although she’s not a special favorite- more like a childhood friend?- my style of lyrics, rhythms, and the harmonics i use are a lot...
1 tag
best compliment ever
heard this going to the bathroom during intermission...
mr. rosado: do you like the show so far?
8 year-old girl: it's kinda boring, except i really liked that girl that played guitar by herself and sang.
and then they came around the corner and ran into me. haha
“It is a rich man, [the poor] say, who can take a day off in a pretty dream of...”
– LA Times article “At Cairo bakery, protest is a luxury; bread is not”
2 tags
don't know
people often talk about our subconscious as if we can never know what’s going on down there. i’ve found that my dreams are useful for realizing parts of myself i didn’t know were there before. but there’s another way, too.
so i’ve been thinking a lot about how a lot of what we do; we don’t think about it. we just do it. so it’s like a reaction. life is a...
i want answers
so i made a list of questions i want to ask people who i think would have good answers or just who i want to get to know better. not necessarily what they say, always, but maybe the manner they answer. if you want, (i’d like you to), please answer at yiannimal.tumblr.com/ask. you don’t have to do all of them, and feel free to be a ninnymouse.
1 What do you think the point of life is?...
1 tag
ryan lerman →
shockingly amazingly talented musician/producer/arranger.
4 tags
mean girls trauma?
it’s weird for me to see karen (i know her real name but i refuse to use it) acting not stupid in other movies. it’s just really confusing.
it’s really weird to see regina george act nice. ok, mean girls just really ruined the notebook for me. it just felt so wrong the whole time.
but i love mean girls.
plot
out of the 8 people i’ve been planning to get to know better, i haven’t because they’re either upperclassmen or korean (try hanging out with people who speak another language and talk about kpop celebrities all the time. it makes you feel like an ELD kid.). or i have gotten to know them only because they’ve taken initiative to talk to me extensively, which is very nice. or...
recipe for people who can't cook
i was hunger. i found a yucky pack of ramen. good ramen. bad flavor. take ramen, throw away flavor that didn’t taste like its supposed flavor. see chicken msg broth powder….no. pho broth powder…ok! microwave 4 min. yay! yummy! unhealthy!
felt like talking caveman, that’s all. and efficient.
Anonymous asked: your chronicled compositions of contemporary cuneiform are charming, compassionate, creative, comprehensive, and cultivated.
cease not.
cease not.
waste
i only go to that meeting every other week because my parents payed already and i supposed i should learn from this if i get to. but i can’t shake the feeling that debate club is a fostering environment for arrogance. maybe it’s because it’s a club where people talk about their opinions as a hobby (hoho irony…this is a blog.), which has been largely portrayed as a symptom...
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody;...”
– Flannery O’Connor (Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose)
because many don’t care about the message behind a song, story, piece of art, dance, etc…though i like catchy stupid songs, too, sometimes, and not everything has to be meaningful. and i like things too just for the sound,...
7 tags
the f***?
my mom has totally changed over 2 days. LITERALLY. she is now holds my dad’s hand, hugs him, and they have real conversations. she speaks much more patiently and doesn’t seem like herself. it’s freaking me out how different she is. it doesn’t sound that amazing the way i’m putting it, but it’s just too much to describe the before and after. it’s so so so...
foiled
i just caught a fly with ONE HAND after it waved itself in my face one time too many, checked to see if it was dead by opening my hand, only to let it fly away.
Robert Reich: American Competitiveness, and the... →
robertreich:
Whenever you hear a business executive or politician use the term “American competitiveness,” watch your wallet. Few terms in public discourse have gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.
President Obama just appointed Jeffry Immelt, GE’s…
jon thurlow's my facebook friend
AW YEAH
i thought it was his fan page and after clicking what i thought was “like” automatically clicked the “send request” button and decided to see how it would go anyways instead of sending a weird apology message. because i was nursing a secret hope…
no but i actually haven’t gotten around to stalking looking through his pictures and stuff yet. don’t...
IF YOUR PARENTS KNOW MY PARENTS
don’t tell them about yining’s engagement.
not until next week.
yeah even though it’s all over facebook.
“don’t worry, i’ll still meow all the time after i’m married!”
– yining
(okay, i set her up by asking- even though i meant it- but still!)
“hohoho hallelujah merry christmas amen!”
– what yising said before proceeding with her fit of wild laughter
“Laughing at/telling rape jokes is a pretty clear indicator of how little you can...”
– Harriet J, ‘A woman walks into a rape, uh bar’ (via starsgowaltzing)
take that, majority of teenage boys
Anonymous asked: what kind of guitar do you use?
note
they’ve been coming back recently and it’s pretty bad even though they won’t touch me, just walk around. i don’t really know what to do, but i have to remember: if it’s just fear, just a feeling i have to go through to get to jesus, then i’ll do it.
that might be oversimplifying the matter, but it’s part of what i can do to keep my eyes on the vision. i...
3 tags
so there was this boy. no, i never had a crush on him or anything like that. but he was just there. i saw him around all the time at my elementary school playing skill ball with all the japanese ELD kids and just acknowledged his existence, that’s all. i knew his face for 7 years, but i didn’t even know his name.
i finally found out who he was in 7th grade because he was in my math...
richard tran- pea coat (original)
see on youtube.
2 tags
within your eyes
warning: this is not good writing or very coherent. tired of leaving this in drafts. also i used the word ‘I’ a lot.
i’ve heard many people say everyone is beautiful. i know most of those people don’t know what beauty is. i know they mean to say it as encouragement, but how can everyone be beautiful unless the standard you are referring to is very, very low? plato once...
overthinking it
sometimes i have this crazy desire just to be myself. it sounds like it shouldn’t be crazy, doesn’t it? but it is crazy, to really be yourself. not in the way that society says it’s okay to be yourself, but in the way that i don’t even know who i am because i’ve never really had the chance to try it out. what would happen if when you met people you didn’t have...
“There Will Be” by June (Sam Ock, Evan...
kinda makes me want to cry too
i feel like when most people see someone crying or suffering, their reaction is to make themselves feel better. like they did something. but it just makes it worse when it doesn’t help. i guess for me personally, mostly, i’m really peeved when people ask me questions about the situation when i obviously can’t talk and don’t want to. especially if the person persists and...
QUEER ODOR ▽ ⚧: So there’s this dinner table,... →
neutresex:
So there’s this dinner table, right? Okay. So there’s this seat the dinner table, right? Okay. And the cost is about 1 grand, right? Okay. Alright, so this organization that “serves to represent all” finally, FINALLY, makes it to the table. They’ve got the rhetoric now, they have plenty of money…
sad
UN trip to Stanford: Ambassador Donahoe
She spoke about how the Obama Administration changed the U.S. position on the U.N. from ‘boycotting’ it to being a part of it’s leadership. How it’s a game of persuasion. How other countries need to be braver in stepping up and saying how they really feel instead of following the crowd. How the U.S. government needs to push issues more. How the U.N. needs to help right away...
3 tags
Anonymous asked: What are your top 10 favorite music artists?
Do you draw inspiration from them?
Do you draw inspiration from them?
right after i ate it.
this was in chinese.
me: mama, this medicine is expired!
mom: i know.
me: what?!
mom: it still works just fine. besides, it's chinese herbs so it doesn't make that much of a difference.
me: but you shouldn't risk it!
mom: fine, if you insist we can just give it away.
me: i don't think that's a good idea.
mom: hmm...yeah if anything bad happens we'd probably get sued.
me: if anything bad happens to me, you'll know not to give it away.
Robert Reich: The Shameful Attack on Public... →
robertreich:
In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. Eventually the sanitation workers got their union. And in subsequent years millions of public employees across the nation got…
yet the republican party supports less taxes for the rich.
we were playing mafia
this conversation is not completely accurate, but it was this ridiculous.
girl 1: i bet it was ___.
girl 2: yeah! she's talking more now. it HAS to be her!
___: it's not me!
guy 1: she's defending herself! it's her!
guy 2: i vote to put ___ on trial!
girl 3: i second you!
___: what?!
guy 2: okay, what's your alibi?
___: i would never push anyone off my dad's plane. my dad's the pilot.
guy 1: who votes ___ out?
*everyone raises their hand.
it wasn't her. fail.
not as real
i’ve been absent for the first 3 days of school after break (have been indoors for 4), but i’m doing as much work as i can. if i didn’t bike to school, i would’ve gone sick. i was so determined to go spread the germs but my parents said it would be mean. i’m not too far behind, though, thanks to teachers who post PDFs. (now here comes the weird transition)
it’s...
i think my lit teacher slightly resents me and thinks i’m annoying because everything i write is always somewhat sarcastic. i don’t mean to be, but i end up doing it anyways because almost everything is pointless and therefore stupid to me. aghasjglav;d
