July 2011

Is that SIMON PEGG in Band of Brothers?

What?
i completely agree!! mwahahaha!
IT’S A PLAN, THEN.
Oh. And that Harry Potter Musical that I think you would like.
high school musical soundtracks, bahahahahaha!
Bahaha! That’s not a bad idea, actually.
Next time we’re in town, we should blast it outside Kailee’s door and sing it as loud as we can just to annoy her. LIKE OLD TIMES.
Claude Debussy was a 19th century French composer who often liked to work with the piano. He also liked to write songs in a whole tone scale. I like his stuff. Yeah. I said “stuff.” I’m not very articulate sometimes.
Mr. Cullen (of the Edward variety) apparently enjoyed his music, too. I guess he made Bella listen to it in his bedroom before he turned into a human-sized spider monkey and took Bella on a ride through the treetops. (That was a very bizarre sentence). After seeing this, I thought one thing to myself, “Debussy in Twilight? Yeah, because that’s a reference your 13-year-old audience will get…”
Anyway, one time I got into a friend’s car, and she was playing Debussy on her CD player. I thought that was very cool. It’s hard to get anyone, especially kids in my generation, to listen to classical music.
“Debussy?” I said. “Cool.”
“Yeah,” she responded. “It was in ‘Twilight.’ I like it.”
I went from being impressed to wanting to throw her from the moving vehicle in the matter of, oh, two-point-five seconds? Oh, these fickle ways of mine.
But… this incident made me think of a very important question. Does the matter in which someone discovers something amazing and worthwhile really make a difference? Should I not have been excited that my friend discovered Claude Debussy, even if it was through something as irrevocably lame as “Twilight”?
Or does the fact that she discovered it through “Twilight” negate any “cool factor” she might have had? Would she have even liked Debussy if his music hadn’t have been in “Twilight”? Would it even matter?
So… these are my questions. What do youthink?
I’m thinking about downloading music later.
Any songs/bands/artists I should try out?
America - Simon & Garfunkel
The summer after my Senior year, I went on a ten-day long road trip with two of my friends. I was eighteen, and I just took my Open House money and left.
We started in Michigan and ended in Maine. It was beautiful, driving through upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, then along the coast of Maine. Just seeing new things and trying new things and meeting new people and bonding with two of my best friends.
I remember feeling young and free and cool. Yeah. I felt cool.
I could tell you a million little stories/moments about my road trip. It was the best experience of my life.
In my head, America was playing constantly. I wish I could take images from my mind, paste them all together, and make a music video of my road trip to this song.
That song was the soundtrack of the coolest thing I have ever done.

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