Posting Actual Content

Okay, so I might have kind of cheated the past week, having every post contain a video, a picture of Kynt Cothron, or information on Kynt and Vxysin. Today, though, it'll be a REAL post.

I've been working off and on on The Website, mostly waiting for a couple people to turn in a few things. I'm also messing around with a few HTML, CSS, and HTACCESS codes. Total gibberish, I know, but it's pretty cool! I think I've gotten one to half-work, actually. I need a couple test pages to see if it really will work out. It's a really useful little gadget, and if I can figure it out, that would make my day. Then I'll set up a Sitemeter, make a couple PDF's, and if all things go according to plan, it'll all be finished by either the end of September or beginning of October.

There's also a few DreamHost gadgets that I need to ask my site people about, too. They have this package that lets you download a bunch of different widgets and gizmos (Polls, forums, e-stores, etc.), but it'd probably be best to ask everyone before I go downloading something I know hardly anything about and possibly corrupt the site.

I also have a book report that I have to do over the weekend. In my dreams and fantasies, I'm going to make a video of me practicing for it, as well as capturing the script I did awhile ago. Of course, I usually procrastinate on these things, so the possibility of making two videos in the same weekend is kind of a distant daydream.

I'm also going to be bassooning and piano-ing a fair bit. I have a lesson either tomorrow or Sunday, and I have to be ready for that. (Just found out---it's tomorrow morning. Haven't looked at bassoon book all week. Gulp. So much for "getting ready".)

All right, so that's five paragraphs, no pictures or videos. That looks pretty good for an uneventful day!

Just so you know

I'm watching the 12th season of Amazing Race. The Travel Channel, for whatever reason, is showing reruns of it. It really aired in 2007, but they decided to replay it.

I just thought I'd inform you so you don't all think I'm losing my mind. I do realize its an old season.

Oh, and even though I know the outcome, this little button still made me happy:

"Leave Vxysin alone!!!"

I just watched the second episode of Amazing Race tonight, and as expected---there was a fair but of jabbing at Kynt and Vxysin (The team I'm pulling for).

Considering I had nothing else to post, I decided that I'd throw a slightly Chris-Crocker style message. My idea?

"Leave Kynt and Vxysin alone!"

Of course, I'm being pretty sarcastic here, as you can probably (read: hopefully) tell. I probably would be doing this for, say, TK and Rachel if I supported them and kept a keen eye to see when TK was on. However, I don't.

Tonight, there was something in Holland where one member of your team had to vault over some bog...thing. Kynt, obviously not a very physical person ("I'm actually kind of prissy"), finished it on his second try. Even then, there was a mutter of "Let's see if Pinky can do it".

You'd probably get a better post if I could think of anything, but I can't. I have a science test tomorrow, and that's about it. As for now, don't go dissing my two favorite "gothic Energizer Bunnies"!

Anime!

Okay, I usually hate Anime. The only ones I've EVER liked at any point in time were Pokemon, Hamtaro, and Digimon. YuGiOh, Fruits Basket, and any of those other ones are just plain out of my mindset.

However, I admit for wanting to see some Anime films.

Spirited Away



Princess Mononoke



And Howl's Moving Castle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hbntEofuT0

(Embedding didn't work for that trailer)

Sore Feet

If I had a theme song right now, this would be it:



Character shoes do not agree with my feet---which mind you, already go in. I suck at walking in high heels, and dancing in them isn't any easier.

Ow.

The Weekend that Never Was

The weekend is REALLY over? I personally think we should have at LEAST another three day-break. Four days was great...but three would also be nice.

I spent even MORE time today on the website that my friends and I are making (;-) to Maya), and things seem to be looking good! We're hoping (Or at least I am---I'm going to assume positive intent here) to launch it by the end of next weekend, at latest. Of course, if I can never get a 404 error to work, that may be extended...

I have a science quiz tomorrow which I actually haven't studied for. It's ten vocabulary words, though. I really don't think it's going to be that hard if I study for it during BAT.

I have nothing exciting to report, though. I cleaned my room a couple hours ago; something I've been meaning to do for weeks. Here it is, all nice and pretty:

Lab Rat

I feel like a rat. Literally.

I'm going to be up fairly late tonight, working on my website. I learned how to do popup windows, which I'm actually not using...but it's a nice thing to know. I guess I just got inspired to finish it up before the end of the month. The way things are looking right now, I might finish it by the end of the weekend.

Once I do wind up finishing it, you can rest assure that I'll provide a link and a post for your enjoyment. However, until then, you're just going to have to wait some more.

New Kids on the Rock

Yes, it's a lame post. But I just thought I'd share one of my favorite videos here:




Find more videos like this on Hollywood East TV

Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons...

I joined the E-Town Youth Orchestra today on---what else?---bassoon! We're currently working on some songs for our Christmas concert, and the queue looks really impressive. We have a Dvorak piece, something called "Jupiter", and even the Star Wars theme lined up! We've only started the Dvorak piece, and so far, it has some pretty mean bassoon solos!

We're adding a couple cellos and a tuba next week, but this time it was just me and a cello for bass. Apparently, they haven't seen a bassoon in the orchestra for awhile, because quite a few people said something along the lines of either "So great to have you" or "Oh my gosh, we have a bassoon".

I think it's going to be a challenge, but pretty fun! I need to work on about six notes in my range, (Two of which I can hit but can't remember the fingerings for) work out some rhythm things, and then I'll be more or less set. The music we're playing sounds REALLY nice, and it's great to be playing with a piano and---even better---strings.

In other bassoon-y news, I'm switching instruments. Yes, I'm going to stop oboe in school and completely dedicate myself to bassoon. I'm really excited about making that my main instrument---it's been my dream since fifth grade!

Raining on My Parade

Every other day, I cross over from the Middle School to the High School for German. So far, it's been going pretty well. I know I'm going to have to bring a REALLY BIG sweater for when winter comes around, but that's cool---I have said really big sweater.
What I'm NOT prepared for is rain. It poured for the first time today, and lets just say the crossing was NOT fun. My friend Katie and I decided to go the "covered way". It was covered---for about ten feet. Then it was just as wet, with the bonus of walking on either soggy grass or through a huge puddle. Ick.

Besides that, the only thing going on with me is that I'm watching reruns of Season 12 Amazing Race. I meant to watch it last year to watch the goth couple from Louisville---Kynt and Vxysin---but it fell off my radar. For some reason, they're re-showing it, so I'm taking that as my opportunity to see how they do.\

For those who don't know of them, here they are:

Guten Aben!

Not entirely sure if I spelled that right. Anyway, I have a German test tomorrow. I think I'm going to do pretty well---just have to look over a few things. I know the vocabulary, so that shouldn't be an issue. I know the verb endings ("e" or ich, "st" for du, "t" for sie, so on and so forth), and I know a lot of the phrases. I think that the main thing I'm doing is just making sure that I'm not going to mess up on where to use Sie and where to use Du. Of course, then there's spelling...

Then I have a social studies test on Thursday. I'm not sure if I have anything Friday---hopefully not. Two tests in a row might not be as bad as three in the same day like last week, but it's still not very fun!

Postponed

Yes, I told you I'd have a video up today. However, I wasn't able to film today---my mom was really busy helping my brother with a project due tomorrow, and it was my dad's last day.

I'm going to try and film throughout the week when time permits, and when it's up, I'll definitely post it. Sorry for the delay!

Not An Editor

I finished that 70+ page document last night! Starting out at 15,000 words and 103 pages, I've taken out duplicates, extra words, and all sorts of junk that was looked over before to 11,000 words and 78 pages. Personally, I'm rather proud of me.

I'm now spending more time editing my scripts. I finished one today that I'm shooting tomorrow with my mom's help (She said she'd hold the camera/monopod. I'm hoping we have a mini-tripod somewhere, though). I have a few more rough drafts going, some of which will probably never be finished. I'm adapting a lot of ideas that I would make skits into movies now---I'm getting a lot of ideas, and its really fun! It's going to be harder when I have videos that require more than one person---like this untitled one that I've been working on for a couple months, but haven't gotten very far in it. I'm working on lyrics to one of the songs.

So check my YouTube channel sometime in the next few days---I should have a new video posted. I really like how the script goes, and I think it's going to be really fun and simple to shoot.

Editor-in-Chief

My room remains uncleaned, bassoon mostly untouched---I got some practice in tonight, piano Exercise Three unplayed, and Watership Down unread (Do I HAVE to finish it?). What do you suppose I've been doing, then?

Editing every freaking document I have.

I'm dead serious. I reformatted my unpublished website YET again, and I keep making little alterations to it, forcing me to spend ten minutes making those changes on all four main pages. I have to go through a lot of edited documents and emails that will later become the content on the site and edit them. The one that I'm working on right now, actually, racks in at 82 pages and 12,196 words. It started out 102 pages and about 15,000 words. Just shows you how much I've been working on it this weekend.

I've also been working on a few movie scripts recently, hoping to later film them and add them to my YouTube channel (In my ongoing attempt to be the next Ryan Murphy, Neil Cicierega, or Max Pacheco). Of course, those need to be edited as well, so I'm adding those to the pile.

In case you're curious, this is what I look like when I'm editing. Yup, bad lighting, hat, and all:



Hopefully, soon you'll see some of my progress when my website goes up or when I finally post a video.

Feeling Artistic

I'd post a picture if I could, but a link's the best I could do:

My ArtPad Picture

Boring post, but you can see the steps I took to make it on the link.

Bad Mood

Quinn moved. I found this poem online, and I think it's rather nice. It'll be my content for the day.

Blast from the Past

Peace out, man.

Halfway Through

I love four day weeks.

I like them even more when there's a 4-day weekend, leading up to another 4 day week.

It makes nearly two weeks go by so quickly. It might just be me, but personally, I like it when things (Such as school) go quickly. It makes everything in the grand scheme of things go by faster: things like the first quarter, and occasionally the entire school year.

Funny thing is, tomorrow is actually midterms, I think. Either this week or next week; I'm not entirely sure. I'm pretty sure it's this week, which would make me very happy. After all, when midterms come, that's marking the halfway point of the quarter (Hint the work "mid"). That means that no matter how long or short that half way, you only have to go it again and then poof: fall break.

I'm pretty much enjoying this year, but the idea of fall break coming IS rather nice.

LOL of the Day

FRED Throwdown

Many YouTube viewers know that FRED is "a 6-year-old with anger management issues" who has his own webshow. Recently, he posted this video, challenging all of his viewers ot imitate a certain movement:



Naturally, I had to do it. With me being me though, I didn't just make a 12-second long clip. No, I spent an hour making 56 seconds of footage:



I'm rather proud of how it turned out. I meant to add Bulgarian, Russian, and Polish to the mix, but I was beat after memorizing three foreign sentences, and decoding the Cyrillic that iGoogle would have given me for Russian and Bulgarian did NOT sound like my idea of fun.

By the way: visit my new YouTube Channel!