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2003 1 September :: 8.46pm
:: Music: 102.1 (radio)
labor day and a question
today was great! woke up, pissed of my parents by wanting them to drive me to ali's house asap, and finally got myself over there.
we hung out, talked about tons of stuff, danced, and made/ate these awesome pasta things!! i forget what they're called now, but they're sooo yummy! yay for potatoe-ish pasta and pesto!!
soon got tired of staying in one place. showed up at my place (after pissing off ali's parents begging for a ride) and decided to swim. had a good time in the pool. (wow, didn't mean it that way!) played with a hose (in a very UNsexual way) and read AIM conversations. talked some more. very amusing.
swam in the pool...did some water jogging (yay for excersise!) and ate loads of yummy labor day food. this included steak, killer mashed potatoes, corn, and watermellon. o and fought our way out of a near attack from the hose and from the bees and flies. nearly had ourselves in serious danger!! luckully, our heroic skills prevailed and we were able to escape. o, and we 'bronzer-ed". sorry for all of you un-french people who can't understand that. sucks to be you!! :-p
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and now for my question.
"Listening to classical music while doing homework/studying. Do, or don't?"
pro's:
*keeps you (somewhat) concentrated
*keeps your mind working and active
*it's damn good music!
con's:
*causes me to lose concentration and close my eyes to take in the music
*keeps my mind active thinking about the MUSIC, not necessarily the schoolwork
*it's damn good music!
any thoughts?
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2003 31 August :: 9.27pm
:: Music: little red riding hood
isn't this perfect?
someone needs to sing this to me...
*howl*
What's that I see walkin' in these woods?
Why, it's Little Red Riding Hood.
Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood,
You sure are lookin' good,
You're everything a big, bad wolf could want...
*Listen to me*
Little Red Riding Hood,
I don't think little big girls should
Go walkin' in these spooky ol' woods alone.
*howl*
What big eyes you have,
The kind of eyes that drive wolves mad.
So just to see that you don't get chased,
I think I ought to walk with you for a ways.
What full lips you have,
They're sure to lure someone bad.
So until you get to Grandma's place,
I think you ought to walk with me and be safe.
I'm gonna keep my sheep suit on,
Til I'm sure that you've been shown
That I can be trusted, walking with you alone.
*howl*
Little Red Riding Hood,
I'd like to hold you if I could,
But you might think I'm a big, bad wolf, so I won't.
*howl*
What a big heart I have,
The better to love you with.
Little Red Riding Hood,
Even bad wolves can be good.
I'll try to keep satisfied,
Just to walk close by your side.
Maybe you'll see things my way
Before we get to Grandma's place.
Little Red Riding Hood,
You sure are lookin' good,
You're everything a big, bad wolf could want.
*howl*
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2003 31 August :: 4.53pm
:: Mood: contemplative
:: Music: Shostakovich-Symphony 6-III Presto
this was originally intended to be written right after church, but i had things to do.
summary of church message:
"the only person you can change is yourself" -definately words for thought concerning my actions recently
"an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is outdated and wrong" -our society still cannot understand this. i'm almost positive he was commenting on the war in iraq.
"if you sit with your friends, you are less likely to pay attention and end up being excessivily noisy" -i was sitting with ruthie, annie, and nicole. enough said. point made.
"music continues to amaze and awe me." -we sang the GREATEST anthem today. yay for summer choir!!
"music is also the most fun thing in the world." point made.
"you perform a lot better when you have a standard set by more accomplished musicians." -i was standing by Fran, a professional singer and all around amazing woman, and suddenly my voice became 100 times better. (my sightreading was already pretty flawless)
summary of clarinet sectional: (in a format other than messed up quotes and explanations)
*it's really cool to be at mr. hayman's house.
*what is it with double families?? the nielsen's are exactly the same!! an oldest daughter named sarah who just got married. they even LOOK alike. o and having a crush on one of the sons. wow... (o, and the son i am developing a crush for might take you by surprise...:-) )
*we need to teach remedial music theory to some of our section.
*we need to learn how to keep time. i can't stand people without rhythm. it bothers me. rhythm is one of the things that comes naturally to me. rarely do i have to have rhythm explained to me. i also dislike explaining it to people.
*i want the recording of colours. i want it badly.
*i would like to have a long, interesting group discussion with the section. or modified versions of the section. i would like to discuss a few things. i enjoy discussion.
i think that's all.
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2003 30 August :: 1.30pm
:: Music: He Will Lead His Flock Like a Shephard
to life!
i really need to work on summarization. (and yes, that's how it's spelled...i know, weird! i had to look it up!) so here we go. i'm going to summarize.
*sung with mark today (okay, i'm not TRYING to suck up, but it SHOULD be helping my chances of mainstreet as a sophmore, right?) at a memorial service for Ernie Newlands. incredibly inspiring. my first memorial service, i think. it focused on the life, not the death, and although it recognized the loss, focused on the joy. ernie was an AMAZING, incredibly beautiful man, and his 92 (almost 93) years were spent in happiness and productivity. the anthem we sang was also beautiful. a nice time.
*stopped by anthropology on the way home!! AHHH!! cutest store EVER!! probably my first european-style shopping experience. expensive, but GORGEOUS clothing. got the CUTEST pants...(omg it is like pant heaven there!! actually, it's also sweater heaven...:-D ) and a DARLING sweater. i look SOOO sophisticated in it. so french. now i REALLY wanna go to france for a couple weeks to shop and chat with the locals. maybe summer after next, when i know more french. should be fun!!
*dance last night: AWESOME!! danced the night away with my wonderful friends, had a lil party before hand with some more friends (tons of fun guys, thanks for a good time!!) and actually didn't have a problem with boys. i think it matters A LOT how you view yourself. (it also helps if you're wearing darling flower print capris and a sexy halter top and you have blonde hair and long legs...haha) but anyway, i danced with howdy, colin, and scott (iwishiknewhislastnamebutidon'tsosorry!) i can tell you that he's a junior, plays varsity football, and is HOT HOT HOT. but those things don't really matter. he didn't make a move on me, we talked the entire time, and he seemed really smart and interesting. you have to believe me when i say that if he WASN'T nice and friendly like that, i wouldn't have given him another thought. those of you who really know me know that that was completely honest. he's also greg's friend, and greg's really smart and a good guy, (although ALL YOURS christiana, i swear!!) so that's a good sign. we'll just see. i'm having a bit of trouble because there are 2 other guys making it obvious that they are interested in me. i think that both of them are great, even considered dating both of them, and i dont want to hurt them by going out with scott. but hey, IT WAS 2 DANCES and i'm thinking WAY too far ahead. i'll take it one step at a time.
should be a relaxing 3 day weekend. the "family" is tired, so we're hammocking and swimming in the pool. i'll do hw for a bit, but i got a lot of it done before my party last night...
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2003 28 August :: 11.42pm
:: Mood: contemplative
well i've been thinking about stuff. when i'm not completely busy in the presence of music, i tend to do that. high school is an interesting thing.
there are so many more underpriviledged and hispanic kids now. i SORT OF understand what they meant by 'eganville' because we really are all rich prissy white kids without a care in the world. the thing that surprises me though, is that i don't see the hispanic kids who are underpriviiledged. i guess it's because i'm only in honors or regular classes, but all the ones i've encountered are really bright and cool people. i expected the cool part, but not so much the intelligence. so maybe they can't write an essay for the district and get a 5 on it, but they are REALLY really bright and interested and knowledgable. that just took me by surprise. i was always warned that because they had less money or were underprivileged, they would definately be way below a los altos intelligence and unhappy. its really a shame that they don't explain that there ARE a ton of them who are just as bright as we all are, if not at the same writing level. that is just SO racist. i can't stand it!!
there also seem to be two extremes of the emotional confidence of freshman entering the school. either they are taken aback and WAY quieter and shy than usual, or they are filled with inspiration, confidence, and vigor. (i would be the second.) it seems like some of the popular people aren't contributing as much, or feeling so at ease, and some people, like me, are contributing way more, making new friends, and excelling in their academics and extracurricular stuff. it's great. i really don't give a damn that i'm not the most popular in the class. i'm gonna answer the questions and have fun. i don't care that i can't sing or play as well as everyone in girls' ensemble and marching band. i'm gonna try my hardest and maintain a positive attitude and enjoy myself. and ya know what's even cooler? for doing so, i'm actually gaining popularity. ppl talk to me online when they didn't before, people even talk to me IN PERSON when they would have passed by me before, and quieter, random people come to me for advice or just to chat. IT ROCKS! i like this whole confidence booster/happy thing! i can tell that it's soon to be confident/happy/stressed/tired/overworked, though, but i'm still optimistic and hopeful about it all!!
i was also thinking about a few of my teachers. i was told mrs. williams is hard, but an extremely nice lady. now she annoys me less. (actually, that's probably because i had lab with brett today, and we totally hit it off and he's an awesome guy so i was happy. o and he thinks she's annoying as hell too. and he's smart. totally friendly too. could this be an aquarius' ultimate friendship to relationship situation?? haha, idk! it would be cool though!) o and mr. freeman. he has his radical-ass ideas and all, but he makes stuff remotely interesting. he's very animated. and i actually cared that the ww1 was the first industrialized war and that 10 times more ppl were killed in wwI than any other war. it fascinated me. SO WEIRD! i usually couldnt give a rat's ass about history. i WILL go crazy about his radicalness though. IT PISSES ME THE FUCK OFF!! as i wrote in my english journal, people have the privilege and right to change, and should excersise that right. there is always room for improvement. he just doesn't see that. this might REALLY start to bug me. so much that i might even like talk to him after class about it. i can't stand people who think they're right all the time. no one's perfect like that.
o and on an interesting note, martin luther king jr. gave his 'i have a dream' speech 40 years ago today. isn't that just awesome? and ya know what i also just realized? this entry has really been about differences and races and stuff. i am just such the little freedom fighter, aren't i? i guess i really proved that this morning when i made my mandala for mr. smith. my 2 big symbols were a heart and a treble cleff. (the two major things in my life: love, and music) and inside my heart a drew a rainbow. the center of my mandala is a rainbow. how fitting.
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2003 27 August :: 8.46pm
:: Music: that sexy operatic thing
wtf?!?!
WHAT THE HELL?!?? i am SOOOO less innocent then EVERY SINGLE ONE of my friends!! my away message says, and i quote: "o mio babbino caro...la la la laaaa LAAAAA laaaa...more itaaalian romance sexiness...and operatic beauty laaaaa laaaa... can you tell i'm taking mr. shaull's class? *cut...for reasons* as i often say, it's no wonder the musically gifted people love sex so much..." yeah. SO HOW AM I THE INNOCENT ONE?? i could have been mysterious, princess, goth, TONS OF THINGS!! maybe i'm just internally innocent? innocent at heart?? WHAT THE FUCK?? yeah ok, you win. maybe i am... i know a ton of people who would disagree...some of my closest friends, too!
You are too innocent and sweet for your own good.
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2003 27 August :: 5.35pm
music
ahhh the music. its soo damn good.
i have the hanky pankyist wednesday schedule ever!! marching band, p.e., girls' ensemble, and french II. hanky panky, huh?? yeah. it rocks.
marching band was really cool. we learned 6 to 5 and 4 to 5's today. 4 to 5's are crazy. (that means you take four steps to go 5 yards) just think about it. crazy. it's hella fun though to try. and OMG yesterday richard said that i was 'doing fine' being center when i asked if he wanted to switch. okay maybe u have no idea what this means because 1) IT'S RICHARD EULER!! HE'S LIKE...THE MUSICAL PRODIGY!! and 2) center sets the line...if center screws up, every one screws up. so anyway, i asked if we could switch cuz like yeah...and he said i was doing fine!! omg!! yeah. it was exciting. well anyway it was awesome at the end of our practice because we started playing 'amber' and doing our drill and it sounded cool and it looked cool and i just imagined what it would be like if we were all in uniform, out on a competition field, guard looking good with their fancy flags and costumes... all of us with LA makeup...AHHH!! it was just too cool.
p.e. also rocked. although mrs. lodge is definately weird, i like her. she hasn't gotten on my nerves YET. we ran and did push ups and sit ups and it was great. i was like YESSS!! a p.e. class where we actually get to work out!! sweet... and quite sweaty, actually, but it was okay.
brunch. whatever. got my french packet for french II from the grouchy bookkeeper. woopededoo.
girls' ensemble. living heaven. singing for 90 minutes with one of the most gifted and talented instructors out there. what a deal. and i get performing arts credits for it too!! also mr. shaull likes me and he made me leader of the altos. (okay, so that was unsaid, but it was obvious and sort of implied.) he also said that he wouldn't keep me at alto cuz it really isn't my strongpoint...i've got a weird as hell voice but my chest really isn't strong. i CAN sight sing for beans though and lead a group. and i'm ridiculously hyper in that room with that group. it's really like a different melissa. suddenly i'm hyper and happy as hell while also working my ass off to sound as good as possible and lead my section as well as i can. it's AMAZING. and quite fufilling. well, it was until DEB THE BITCH came along. after we finished and even clapped for ourselves (dorky, i know, but it felt good and we were singing and trying hella hard), she came up to me and was like: 'you need to open your mouth wider. say ahhh. drop the jaw. lower. lower *and she reaches her bitchy old lady hands and touches my face* until THAT'S how much you need to open your mouth. if you think if nothing else this week, fix that.' WTF?? LIKE HONESTLY, WHAT THE HELL WAS SHE THINKING?? i was sooo pissed. so pissed that i just left even though i was planning on asking travis (who was there) to drag yahya over to the school. she WAS my voice teacher. notice the past tense? the reason why she ISN'T my voice teacher NOW is because of her own irrisponsibility. we called and called asking about voice for this year, and did she call back? NOOOO. her husband is the PALY music director now, so she's too busy to even call us to say that she can't give me voice lessons. well now i'm soo fucking glad she did what she did. SHE DIDN'T TEACH ME JACK SHIT. i learned 10 times more from one lesson with mr. troll than i did in an entire year with her. needless to repeat, i was fucking unhappy with her after 4th period.
lunch. ate with louise, marcella, and rachel. fun fun fun!! good break to relax from the shit that went on during 4th.
french II was really good!! i contributed and understood and yeah! o and i'm paired with a junior for speaking stuff, so i'll meet another upperclassman. haha. unless i transfer into acting (really unlikely i mean REALLY unlikely) it might be harder than i thought to meet the upperclassman who aren't musical. well it's the third day. what do i know? anyway, french was good. i haven't gotten annoyed with mme. youatt. it is DEFINATELY A WIG though. thats my only thing...
and then i came home and did my biology notes (took way too long) and got my stuff for my voice lesson at 4:30. mr. troll is a no show again. yeah. my mom's pissed. i'm sort of pissed b/c it would have been nice to have a voice lesson after today in school. oh well. time for me to relax!! plus i'll get like NO hw on wednesdays anyway cuz of my classes, so it's nice. and i was feeling sick and stressed after school anyway, so maybe it's for the better. i did sit at the piano and sing to myself for about 15 minutes though... better than nothing.
well, i've got to dl drill from the marching band website and stuff...should get that done before too long. hope y'all are happy!!
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2003 27 August :: 9.12pm
lmao!! i am so funny. i just am. laugh, damnit!!
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2003 25 August :: 7.25pm
first day
first day of high school, baby!! well, considering i'm pretty wiped, and it wasn't THAT eventful, i probably won't write a ton.
0) marching band. awesome, as always. definately has the potential to be my favorite class of all time. it's got the phsical, mental, and MUSICAL aspects. (the three main values in life. haha) got to watch the vets perform 'i'm a little teapot' and everyone who was late do 10 jumping jacks. wondeful way to start the day. i LOVE marching band.
1) english. mr. smith. there are only 2 words to say about him: do me. he is the sexiest man i have ever seen. haha. no he's not. but he's pretty damn sexy. smart, too. got his teaching degree from UCLA. really made something out of his life. amazing singer/writer/musician. (one of the major reasons he is so fine in my book) he's just a really awesome person. if you have his class, you know what i mean.
2) P.E. wandered around with like 7 other lost freshman for a bit and then found everyone in the multi. haha. no biggie. met some new ppl though. saw jocelyn. (the one from SETT, nicole, remember her?) totally freaked out matt widman and eric rome. OMG I HAVE LIKE ALL OF MY CLASSES WITH ERIC ROME!! it's weird. there's nothing wrong with him though, so i'm not complaining. basically just took roll and talked about stuff. then talked with the rest of the class. which is like 100 ppl!! i know like everyone too!! dan jones, alan, and like EVERYONE is in that class! its crazy. really.
Brunch. walked around with kiran (but only for a bit, i'm keeping my virginity!!) and talked with rachel and some ppl. also found louise, ali, molly, and deanna. soon realizing that we had like NO TIME to chat by our lockers, ali, louise, and i walked to geometry honors.
3) geometry honors. mrs. olson. i'm not sure what to think about mrs. olson yet. she's definately not a ms. cullimore or mrs. massarro. not up to that par. she doesn't seem too extremely hard of a teacher though, so i'm not worried about that. plus i know 80% of the class again, so i have plenty of peers to help me if i need it. got jon kaplan's phone number. haha. but to call if i need a hw assignment or something. talked about rules and all that first day shizzle. (don't you like how i'm expanding my vocabulary to include 'shizzle' and all that? yeah. i thought so.) not much happened. mrs. olson doesn't seem like a terribly eventful sort of person.
4)GIRLS ENSEMBLE WITH MR. SHAULL!! AHHHH!!! incredibly fun. everyone was completely hyper and wacked out. (be it because they were hella nervous about singing in general or completely EXCITED AND AT PEACE WITH THE WORLD as i was) it was great. we don't sound that bad either!! that was my main concern. that i'd be stuck with a bunch of broadway wanna-be's who sing like shit and don't know shit about music. that's one of my worst fears. those kidns of people....AHHHH!! well anyway we did some sightsinging and introductions and all that. very fun. MELISSA RHYMES WITH CARISSA!! hell yeah baby. haha. muchos funnos. et j'aime la musique. it rocked. o and there was a random fire alarm because of 'an accident in the foods room'. haha. but because of it, we converted from singing intervals on a D major scale to an Ab major scale. (much easier to sing for my soon-to-be-better mezzo range) all in all, it was heaven. my second favorite class. once marching band is done, my new obsession.
Lunch. sat and ate by the library with molly, louise, and claudia. it was pretty fun. i dont know what to think when i feel that my company is probably going to change soon enough. :-/ nothing much happened. we ate. we chatted. i wondered where the hell all of my upperclass sexy buddies were. probably out in their cars drivin around gettin some REAL food. ah well. i'll see yahya soon enough anyway...haha.
5) biology. mrs. williams. the first annoying teacher i encounter at lahs. her voice could kill. either kill, or put you to sleep. either/or. seems very into biology, but is extremely dislexic. being the 'i can't stand stupid people' bitch i am, it doesn't matter what the hell she's done with her disability; she'll never be as respected as, say, mr. smith or better yet, mr, shaull, will be. i'm just that way. and besides, she's annoying as hell anyway. well, thats how my first impressions were. my other first impression is that there are only 6 freshman in the class. 6. six. everyone else is a dumb-as-dirt sophmore or *gasp* a possible junior. should be interesting as all my other classes are so dominately freshman, and SMART freshman at that. seems like it'll be hella easy though. as long as i apply myself and stay consistent with the extra credit, it should be a breeze. i do understand how ppl can be intimidated by her and her class, though. i might not be so cocky about the workload in a few months...
6) French II. Madame Youatt. o lucky me!! actually, i didn't much mind her. (but i agree, adrian, it IS a wig.) i understood her entire question/answer session with the class UNTIL SHE GOT TO ME. of course. i was being so damn smart ass and whispering corrections under my breath (i mean, for god's sake, how can you confuse 'comment s'appelles t'elle?' okay i know i totally fucked up that grammar, but you get the point.) so of course, she asked me, en francais, 'how many siblings do you have at your house?' me:??? reading my confusion 'how many freres are at your house?' me: freres...damn....father or brother? *haha louise good times* and then shit...my father DOESNT LIVE at my house. her: *repeats the question, a little surprised at my lack of understanding* me: oh! okay, gotcha. u mean brother. but umm....time is running out and i dont know how to say this. so uhhh 'but...see...i'm an only child.' *stern look. translation: EN FRANCAIS S'IL VOUS PLAIT!!* her: 'je n'ai pas...' me: *slap* duh! je n'ai pas...*o shit* les freres dans ma maison?' actually, i didn't quite blurt out the entire sentence as easily as i should have, but yeah. u get the picture. whatever. first day. and i got the rest of the conversation too. i was also fascinated with madame youatt's sense of knowledge. for about 5 minutes i was filled with the wonder of discovering and understanding a foreign language more fully. well, after those 5 minutes i began pondering the wig thing again... but anyway, i'm feeling pretty good about the class, and think i'll learn a lot and have a pretty easy time in it. again, give me a couple months on this one and itll ALL change...
7) world studies. mr. freeman. THANK GOD ITS THE LAST PERIOD OF THE DAY!! ummm....he tries REALLY hard to be interesting and freshman-friendly. didn't quite work for me. not a mr. hayman. but in a way, that might be a good thing. there's one less class i have to bust my ass for an A in... i don't really know about him. he's nice. i am starting to see the 'radical' side of him though, and if i'm tired and pissy after a long day of school, i'll get HELLA annoyed with him if he goes into his 'i am always right and i believe in my ideas and am not open to change' mode. good thing is, nicky gelman and shrina are in the class, so i might have 2 really smart ppl to blow my steam on if i get too worked up. also seems to be a pretty easy class, although a bit of work and study will be needed. esp cuz history ain't my thang... but then again, i don't know. a lot will change as i settle in.
alright well, i wasnt really in the writing mood anyway, and other stuff happened after school, but i'm too lazy to get into it all. i have a new calculator now though. yeah, with a 500 pg. NOVEL that comes with it. lmao. plus school supplies galore. yeah. i'm tired y'all! goodnight!!
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2003 24 August :: 3.11pm
:: Music: All American Rejects-Swing Swing
high school
I am SO ready to start this new chapter in my life. I'm ready for the love, the passion, the hate, and the pain. I'm ready to live life to its fullest and experience challenges both academically and socially. I'm ready for the boys, (or constant lack thereof). I'm ready to try my physical and mental stability. I'm ready to relax and let God lead me. I'm ready for the trials, the experiences, the rewards. Here's to a year of joy, depression, doubt, hope, and love. Here's to four years of growth, development, change, and discovery.
HERE'S TO HIGH SCHOOL!! LOS ALTOS EAGLES FOREVER!!
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2003 24 August :: 9.30am
okay. well. seeing as i have church in like...55 minutes (haha...nevermind then) i guess i'll be a little short with you. but not too short. (after all, i am a very tall person, and i DO have a bit of time.)
before i begin i would just like to say that i love my journal. it reflects me so well!! i just read about 45 entries back and i'm just really glad that i can look back on it all and realize that i'm still the same person i was. entering high school or not, i'm still melissa. yeah okay, that was cheezy and corny and utter crap. but the point is, MY JOURNAL ROCKS!! read back a little more! you'll have fun!! i did...
so...phantom of the opera. saw it friday night in the city. (technically, san jose is a larger city, so it should be 'the city', but we all know i meant san francisco, don't we?)
it was unlike any performance of phantom i have ever seen. (and i've seen it 5 times now.) what really struck me was the casting. as soon as both roul and phantom had sung their first few solos, i got the feeling that they were cast because they were singers. true, classically trained, talented beyond the reach of most clasically trained, singers. (if anyone has a suggestion as to make that sentence correct, i'm intrigued.)
first off, phantom, or brad little, was a low baritone. how could i tell? i can tell these things. he had a similar voice quality to david cryer, m. firmin. if you are unfimiliar with the roll, it is a baritone/low baritone/bass supporting roll. but none of this means anything to you. (actually, it probably means a lot to a good deal of the people reading this, but now i'm contradicting myself and making this confusing.) the phantom must be played by an extremely talented man who has an incredible range. he must be able to support the low baritone/bass range notes, as well as have a confident, often floaty and easily sung tenor and falsetto range. usually, the phantom would be classified as a high baritone. the tenor notes are easily sung, and the falsetto is beautifully crafted, especially shown off in the last note of my personal favorite, 'music of the night'. brad little, being a low baritone, (and i have to give him this, an extremely talented and clasically trained low baritone) was NOT floaty in his tenor range, and had a VERY weak falsetto. well, as weak as it can possibly be when you support it to the best of your ability. (which, in brad's case, was very well.) but, needless to say, you could tell that those notes would be WAAAAAY out of his range if he had not been trained the way he obviously was. to be blunt, his tenor range and falsetto would be crap, utter crap, had he not a good voice teacher. it would be entirely out of his range, and he would be a happy-go-lucky low baritone. (oh, and to classify all of this low/high baritone shizzle, there is no such thing. it's just baritone. but, baritone, being the middle range for the male, changed voice, isn't saying much. it means a lot more to me, at least, when i specify the strength of the baritone. those strength being towards their higher range or their lower range. got me?) so i think that's enough about brad little. i've been confusing, gramatically wrong all over the place, and unclear. that's what i get for being busy and getting no sleep.
nevermind. more about brad little. he also spoke a lot of his lines. like A LOT more than most phantoms. it created a different, more eerie sensation. you all know the famous line 'be my guest, sir' when roul is entering phantom's dungeon to rescue christine at the end, right? well it is sung. always. michael crawford, THE phantom sung it. and you dont mess with michael crawford. or do you... well mr. little did. (rotfol) he sung 'be my guest' and spoke 'sir'. in a very creepy, phantom-ish way. it was a very interesting effect. i've never heard the line delivered that way EVER. so ummm yeah. to some up mr. little: (lmfao HAHAHAHA!!!) he was cast on his singing ability. his low baritone range made it nearly impossible for him to sing the tenor/falsetto notes in 'music of the night'. he spoke a lot of his lines.
the same, although different, is tim martin gleason, roul. he, too, was cast on his singing (although in a higher-medium baritone range). but i'm not going to nitpick on him as much. after all, he was cute, and how can roul be unloveable??
as for christine, she's a natural. she's a pro. she played christine in the 4.5 years phantom was running continuously in san francisco. she's gotten AWARDS for her protrayal of christine. i have nothing more to say. no objections. this lady IS christine. o, and 'this lady' is lisa vroman. remarkable woman.
the same really goes for the rest of the cast. (i'm getting tired of reviewing...i spent WAY too much energy on mr. little (rotfmfao). kim stengel, carlotta, has done over 2.500 performances in the roll of carlotta. (although in canada.) madame giry, patti davidson-gorbea, was wonderful as always. i just love that roll. it would be mine if i ever get a chance to do phantom. meg giry, kate wray, graduated from the london school of ballet. must i say more? yeah. that's damn impressive.
i am sooo reviewed out. it would be a tiring career. i like it though. double major in performing arts and writing...maybe some publicity/business bachelor degree. but all my cool friends would turn on me if i went into the business...
*ok, the time is now 1:31 and i realize that i have a few more things to add. 1) mr. little (lmao HAHAHA!!) was VERY VERY VERY TALL!! like 6'4''-6'5''. like REALLY tall. 2) i never understood that 'past the point of no return' was about sex. no idea. and i had such sophisticated thoughts on the meaning of it too. haha. what a loser. it's really sexy now that i know what it's about.... 3) i am completely losing it. ROLE! ROLE!! NOT ROLL!!
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2003 22 August :: 1.10pm
:: Mood: loved
:: Music: whateverthehell mtv is playing right now
i feel so loved!!
wow. if i wasn't already feeling so energetic and optimistic, what just happened would have totally made living worthwhile.
after replying in scott hayman's lj that he was ubersexy (even though i've never seen him) and that a tall, blonde, freshman clarinet wanted to marry him, i got a reply from heather saying i rocked and such. pretty cool considering i've only wanted to follow in her footsteps for like, 3 years?
but anyway, (i know, it's not like me to skip over such an event as quickly as i just did, but that just shows that i'm in a REALLY good mood) i went to LAHS with Ali today to figure out where all of my classes were and stuff. i'm so glad i didn't go alone. not only did i get to walk around and talk to one of my best friends, i got to gossip the entire time. i've been gone pretty much all summer at camp and trips and stuff, so needless to say, i needed to catch up. it's too bad we didn't have longer, cuz we could have talked for the rest of the afternoon. i also saw my history teacher, mr. freeman. very friendly man, should be a lot of fun. i have him 7th period (which he says is the best period) and he was very impressed with my schedule and probably commented on my intelligence 3 times in the 5 minutes we chatted. should be a fun class! also saw mr. ferrucci and mr. shaull, but then again, i see them every week. haha. how many freshman can say that they know 2 of their teachers on a first name basis?
well, after being unsucessful talking ali into walking home with me, we parted ways and i walked home by myself. (now, this really shouldn't be a big deal, but to my mother, it happens to be a major deal)
should have a blast these last few days of summer. i could (or could not) have a horseback riding lesson this afternoon. either way, it'll be cool. tonight I GO SEE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA IN THE CITY!! AHHH!!! if you're not jealous, you should be. i pity the people who are not enthralled by musical theatre. they're missing a lot.
tomorrow is the red barn festival all day at my barn. i didn't sign up to work this year, but then again, i didn't last year, and i got recruited for parking duty and gate duty. who knows? i might even ride. in any case, it'll be a lot of fun. i've only spent a week chillin at the barn this summer, and it's always fun to see my horsey hommies. :0D
sunday is sunday. i have a clarinet lesson at 4, but other than that, i actually don't have much going on. watch me make life interesting though. one thing you can count on melissa for is an interesting life. it probably comes from my mixture of theatre and music exposure... i'll probably obsess over every little detail of school and all that. it's not every day you start high school.
and MAN am i ready!! i have a feeling i'll be one of the people who sort of ditches the rest of their class and hangs with the upperclassmen. i've always been that kind of person, ya know? i just connect better with them. and i honestly don't mean to brag or anything when i say that i'm just sort of at their level.
ahh well, i could go on and on, but i'll give it a rest. i still haven't finished organizing my room for the new school year...
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2003 22 August :: 10.22am
haha. i just got my away message analyzed by jeff and (sort of) terrance. it was very amusing. but i know you, jeff. you just wanted me to say 'hard core', didn't you? (gramatical note: doesn't it suck that i have to punctuate that as a question? in our society today, it is very uncommon to use our voice to make that sort of sentence a question. my personal feeling is that the english language should have some wiggle-room and change according to the times and the usage of the gramatical concept. )
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2003 21 August :: 2.46pm
haha
i just took a personality quiz e-mail given to me by christiana. my answers led me to be: romantic, loving, romantic (again), and wild. that's actually pretty acurate. pretty funny...
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2003 21 August :: 1.11pm
i am so good
besides clean my room, and shave, i've been so productive. i practiced clarinet AND oboe for like half an hour. (okay, so i barely played at all, but I CAN STILL PLAY OBOE!! i am so proud)
o and i worked a lil on a stupid music theory packet.
i am SO upholding my screen name: musicalbabe. i feel so musical.
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2003 21 August :: 10.57am
i think i'll use my last 4 days of summer to be productive, but rightfully lazy.
i'll finish cleaning my room and organizing all of my clothes (quite a task considering i have to weed out and throw away about 25 shirts).
i'll work out (even though I GOT TO MY GOAL WEIGHT THIS MORNING!! YESSS!!) and keep in shape considering i won't be doing a sport this year...(wow...my first year in AGES that i wasn't doing CYSA or school soccer/volleyball)
i'll be memorizing my schedule and possibly walking over to the high school to walk it a few times (cuz i haven't done that yet...)
and i'll be reading and tanning and all that good summer stuff that i never get to do during the year. (yes, reading is a privilege that i ENJOY, and miss it greatly during the school year)
now for some updates on today.
i'll be going to the Grambling marching band concert today. here's the info in the words of my mother: "The Grambling marching band, which is very famous for it's fancy double-time marching, is performing in San Jose this evening. I thought it would be fun to go see them now that you have a good idea of how much work goes into it all. Their football team is playing San Jose State this weekend and the band came along to promote the school. The performance is free, downtown by the Children's Discovery Museum, at 5pm." -my mom
just got an e-mail from her about that this morning.
at 3:10 i have an ortho appt with sexy dr. rouleau. haha.
i got the PYT 2003-2004 season flier today. (not that i haven't known the season since the week it was posted cuz i was at the theatre for like a month this summer) but i have a question: WHEN ARE THE TRYOUTS FOR STORIES ON STAGE??? that might be my only chance for PYT this year unless i feel less-stressed enough to do Once Apon A Mattress...which is unlikely considering my mom doesn't want to pay for it anyway.
well ummm...that's about it. i am so excited that i got to my goal weight!! YAY!! 11.5 pounds in one summer. and that's a lot considering i wasn't very overweight to begin with...
have a good last 4 days of summer!!
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2003 20 August :: 4.58pm
:: Music: the end of Amber
band camp cont.
alright. so. band camp.
it was really really hectic getting on the bus and rushing everything after freshman orientation. cool hectic, but not a cup of tea. once we finally got moving (after waiting for gabe to get on the bus for like 5 minutes...)
quick break for my schedule:
0) marching band-mr. ferrucci
1) survey comp/lit-smith
2) PE-Lodge
3) Geometry H-Olson
4) Girls' Ensemble-Shaull
5) Biology-Williams
6) French II-Youatt
7) World Studies-Freeman
*Advisory 9
so back to band camp. highlights of the bus ride were jeff reading christiana's romance novel and changing all of the feminine body parts/sexual things to money. i.e. "he took the money out of the wallet and caressed it with his masterful hands" although it got old after about 5 minutes, it was pretty damn funny. especially with it being jeff hayman and all. ummm...we also filled out these hilarious surveys made by jeff. questions were: would you rather be a(n) undertaker or porn star? what is the meaninf of life? is the meaning of life? is the answer to this question no? it was great. then the results were passed around amongst the clarinets. apparently they'll be used when we do secret pals or something.
once we got there, we unpacked and had a few minutes before we worked on drill. had a safety lecture, all that good stuff. then drill for like 3 hours. actually, it wasn't THAT long, but i had a long day and it was cold and windy and we learned how to do half-steps (16 by 5 yards) forwards and backwards. it took a lot of concentration to get it right.
then a clarinet sectional and an hour with the band. it was actually a fairly quick music rehersal. didn't get a whole lot done in our sectional. ummm...i think we got new chords for Amber then, too.
dinner. mmmm...dinner.
then we had time to do stuff before game night. then game night. learned some pretty freaky stuff about leadership staff and staff. was introduced to the game 'big booty'....which turned out to be an obsession of the band for the rest of the trip. played pictionary with jeff and kendall. dizzy fun tag with brian. haha. dizzy fun tag. haha. also watched mr ferrucci play dizzy fun tag. o and telephone. we had some pretty interesting messages circulating... leave it to laura and jon to make telephone interesting. lmao.
then we uhh...'went to bed'. while our room was actually sleeping, the drumline's room was making tons of noise and getting in mucho trouble from mr. ferrucci. while getting in this 'trouble', they gossipped about gabe's brother and some other interesting things...the story was set straight the following evening.
breakfast...mmm...breakfast. well, after a shower and all that.
then drill. for like EVER. it must have been at least 3 hours. drill with and without instruments. forwards and backwards. side to side...playing scales...warmups...in the cold, weirdly salty mist crap. it was great.
lunch...mmmm...lunch
uhhh wow. it's getting really hard to relive all of the details. it's also hard because jeff and terrance are IMing me. but anyway, after lunch we had time to do stuff.
went up to the bunkers with clarinets and modified trumpets. actually, it ended up with a few more trumpets than we had originally planned. well, we crawled around...groped in the dark. guessed who each other was by their hands while slapping each other's asses....yeah...good times. haha. explored some more...hung out. pretty cool.
ummm...probably some more marching. oh yeah. haha. there was. we learned the first part of Amber. like 3 measures. ha. and guess what i do? stand. and trill. and not move. at all.
ummm...more stuff.
dinner...mmmm...dinner
ummm stuff until SKIT NIGHT!! HELL YEAH!! skit night rocked. the clarinets did a skit that made ppl strip...(props to matt who took his shirt off first) and i licked icing and oreo's and shit off of glass with derek doing the same on the other side...(consequently, it looked like we were licking each other) and yeah. we won. it was a competition. lots of funny skits. freshman guys saying corny pickup lines to seniors and falling on their asses, the gatorade skit with color guard style and stuff, matt doing a back flip (impressive!!) me on my first date pretending to be in a rodeo....haha....the color guard being silent for a whole minute (eek!) smooth and creamy by jeff and terrance (probably a crowd favorite), dirty dancing by the low brASS, a harry potter-look alike featuring richard for the leadership staff skit, and a few others. all in all, it was a wonderful evening. o, and mr. ferrucci's dog, taffy.
oh, and just as a side note, i haven't called him Ted yet!! it's easer than i thought...
ummm okay well in the morning there was
breakfast...mmmm...breakfast
and umm yeah. i'll skip to the sentimental part if i'm feeling up to it.
it's amazing how quickly you meet new people and how willing they are to accept you here. it's pretty neat to just come into a new thing with no expectations and a limited talent (well, at least for me, with clarinet not being my best instrument) and to come out of it after 8 days with TONS of new friends, an incredible amount of knowledge about the activity you are engaging in. although the amount of information i learned about marching band probably overrides the social growth of my experience so far, it is the friendships made that mean the most to me.
it was such a shock to go into freshman orientation and realize that: yes, the people who were popular last year are still popular, bitchy, and unfriendly. i had just not been around that kind of exclusion since marching band.
there aren't many places where everyone accepts each other so quickly and openly. theatre has its groups, soccer has its groups, even horseback riding has its groups. now, i'm not saying that the marching band is completely happy-go-lucky and there is no hierarchy whatsoever, but at least to me it feels like i am accepted by everyone i see.
it's too bad i got onto that whole group thing. i was doing my whole sophisticated writing style shit before...
hmm...well anyway, i think that that's just about it. a few more things.
it is really rare to admire someone for a distance (for their appearance, nothing else) and realize that they are actually a really amiable, interesting person. it's also rare that you hang out with them a ton after you realize that they're friendly.
o, and the quote of band camp 2003: "i have things to see, people to do." -terrance
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2003 20 August :: 4.48pm
:: Music: the NEW chord pro's in Amber
band camp
this might get personal if i decide to be serious and write. if not, it'll suck and i'll wish i had written more about band camp.
o screw it. i'll write more later. i'm not focused enough.
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2003 18 August :: 10.15pm
capture the flag was great. highlights were thomas wanting to take his shirt off, me playing patty cake and marking kyle, and retaliating when the adults wanted to stop. o and andrew and thomas playing piano. musical....sexy...
but not as sexy as another certain person right now. i really really really want a certain person. but ummm yeah.
i'm in the mood for some spooning. i'd leave the window open, but ya know...
so freshman orientation and then band camp tomorrow. i'm missing the annual youth group trip to the boardwalk. oh well. i'll still have a great time.
actually, a great time would involve the guy i want and some action...
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2003 17 August :: 4.17pm
back to school shopping
well i just had a VERY successful shopping trip at valley faire. i went to pac sun, american eagle, aeropostale, nordstroms and abercrombie. (i only went in abercrombie to laugh at the prices, though. i didn't buy anything)
here is a list of what i bought.
*black cami
*tan cami
*hunter green v-neck halter top
*red puff ball sweater
*fall skirt...it has leaves and stuff on it. very cute
*paul frank tank (sort of like a wife beater)
*hunter green tee shirt with gold lettering...one of those pictures with like 'be lazy' or something on it...ya know what i mean
*white w/ pink flowers and leaves capris (very cute)
*free puka shell necklace from aeoropostale
*blue shell necklace
*pink shell necklace
*white velour pants (on sale 14.99 from an original 39.99 at aeorpostale)
*dark blue sweater (like the ones at abercrombie)
*dark blue polo
*baby blue over-top thing (ya know those really thin ones?) with white sparkley lettering and a hood
* 2 CD holders from organized living
all this for only *drum roll, please* $135. my mom paid for half. pretty good, huh? well, i certainly think so.
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