My Love Is Unrequited

I had a great Christmas! How about you? I won't go into the details, because I really don't want to (and most of you have heard them), but I got a lot of nice things and didn't burn down the church at the candlelight service and played an intense game of Pictionary with the family and had a good time in general. And I'm also ready for New Years. It's kind of a dumb holiday, celebrating the last 365 days of your life, but whatever. We're having a party tomorrow and it should also be fun. New Years is the new Christmas, right everyone?

Anybody have any good music for me? I'm hoping 2009 will be a good year for music. Everyone is saying that music is really sucking now and the scene and industry are going down the drain and everything, but I'm not so sure. I really don't know about record companies and the scene and the industry, and I really don't know a lot about music, but I thought '08 was alright. Nevershoutnever!'s new EP comes out January 27 I've just learned, and I'm very excited. I think there were some other new bands dropping music that I needed to remember...but I don't. So everyone...feel free to post some dates for me so I don't have to Wiki every band in my library!

Well speaking of Nevershoutnever! and my unrequited love...














This would be Christofer Drew of Nevershoutnever! But wait...there's more... (and I hope the formatting of these pictures don't look dumb on your screen. They look nice on mine...)













Let me introduce you to A Rocket To The Moon. You have no idea how long it took to find a picture of the whole band (and yes, that is a wolf). Like the aforementioned band, Nick Santino is the sole member of A Rocket To The Moon. He's the one holding the camera over on the right, in case you were interested. But, I felt the rest of the touring band deserved to be included here, because they helped in the whole falling in love with the band thing. If the pictures here don't help you, watch THIS. Or any of the other tour videos on that website...

What is Melanie listening to right now?: America's Suitehearts - Fall Out Boy

For all I thought I’d ever need, it's hard to face the holidays without.

Ahh...Christmas break. Two weeks of FREEDOM. No more homework, crazy teachers, studying, semester tests, failures or stress for TWO WEEKS. It feels so nice. Last year around this time I really got down in the dumps. I don't know what it was, just the feeling of doing nothing I suppose, but not this year! I don't know what happened to me because this is amazing. Then again, it's only fourth day of break. But, thinking of school for the first time, I'll post you my semester grades and next semester schedule...

GRADES

- Geometry: 92.89% A
- Spanish I: 95.76% A
- Chemistry: 88.57% B (STUPID CHEMISTRY! I'm not complaining, though. I'm glad I passed with something better than a D.)
- Psychology: 98.02% A
- Acc. English II: 94.53% A
- Mod. Civilization: 97.79% A

SEMESTER TWO

1 - Spanish I w/ Oros
2 - World Geo. I w/ Pooley
3 - Chemistry w/ Bechard
4 - Geometry w/ Wilson
5A - Lunch
5B - Study w/ Powell
6 - Acc. English II w/ Klawonn
7 - Psychology II w/ Aukerman

Overall, I'm quite happy with both, especially with my next semester schedule. I was going to have a hard time letting go of my classes, especially Modern Civilization and Psychology. But alas! My schedule change went through and I got into Psych II and have World Geography I with Mr. Pooley. I was ecstatic. And I found that out on my birthday. Some things just work out so nicely. But please post comments! Tell me if you have any classes with me!

Speaking of my birthday...I'm 16 now! And my mom already wants me to get a real job...and I've been 16 for less than a week. Some of my family decided to come to the party on the day of my birthday. It was kind of a disappointment, but I don't expect much more from the Dumdei family. Then, on Sunday I had my party with my friends. The original plan was to go sledding, but I didn't think anyone wanted instant hypothermia in the -35 below zero weather. So, we played board games and hide and go seek and sardines and had a great time.

Well, just because I'm on break doesn't mean I have to do chores, so more later.

What is Melanie listening to right now?: Starving Your Friends - Envy On The Coast

There Is No Odyssey, There's No Penelope

So, on the line of Envy On The Coast, and because I feel like blogging more...

I've often pondered the lyrics and other parts of the Envy On The Coast song "I'm Breathing...Are You Breathing Too?" First off, I'm not good with lyrics to start with, so I don't know what this song is saying from the beginning. And after the initial part by the band, there is another part to the song. From what I've read, it is a girl singing a poem Ryan, one of the band members, wrote. But, she sings it in Russian, which explains why I've never understood a word of it. Apparently the poem doesn't make sense in Russian because it is translated directly, but the English version is frightening to say the least. Not to mention the fact that the whole Russian thing makes it even more eerie. I was amazed and freaked out by it. It's posted below, as are the rest of the lyrics of the song, just 'cuz they're great. I'm not quite sure why everyone hates this song. Sure it's confusing, and slightly annoying, semi-pointless and an awful closer for the album...but I like it!

"I'm Breathing...Are You Breathing Too?" Lyrics

There is no odyssey
There's no Penelope
Just maids and suitors
take this gun from me
Let all the angels see
This intoxicated barely breathing
Debauchery

And they all come marching in
With the mass artillery
And they won't consider thee
You're nothing but a
Cocktail hour with an open bar
And the dance floor is
Begging for your feet
And the maids all ruminate
Your intentions dissipate
12 rounds for 12 shots at the bar...
You just had to take.

Poem (I wish I knew it's title)

Celebrate the skeleton
Pull out your hair.
Pull out your hair.
Puke up all your sentiments.
Please don't stare.
Please don't stare.

The owl lost his voice within
He's full of shit.
He's full of shit.
We'll clip his wings and try again.
The vultures spit.
The vultures spit.

This is the year of the skeleton.
This is the year of the skeleton.

Set the bar below your head.
And tax your dreams.
And tax your dreams.
Wrap the bar around your neck.
Hang from your seams.
Hang from your seams.

Feed the leech and nurse her grief.
Now starve your friends.
Now starve your friends.
Eat the owl, salute the thief.
We'll love again.
We'll love again.

This is the year of the skeleton.
This is the year of the skeleton.

BOOM like a firework

Envy On The Coast is the epitome of the most powerful lyrics ever sang on the face of this planet. Or my iTunes library, whichever you feel more comfortable with.

In other news, I stole Maddy's caribbeaner (yes, that is what they are called. And yes, that is how you spell it. Thank you, Urban Dictionary), and I don't intend on giving it back. I wish giving didn't have that awful 'n' in the middle, because then the word would be the same forward and backward. Like racecar or kayak. Giving could be a sport like all the cool kids too, if it didn't have an 'n'. Did you know level is the same forward and backward? Does anybody know what words like poop and givig are called so I don't have to keep typing them as words that are the same forward and backward? Kaitlyn gave me a rock from New York, and it was amazing. I'm glad I got a souvenier, and I feel sorry for the poor rock, because it now has to live on my shrine in my house in South Dakota instead of one the crazy, smelly, dirty, amazing streets of New York.

I suppose you people want to hear about my life instead of stupid things like this. But too freakin' bad! I didn't say I "find stupid things like blogs really funny" for no reason. And yes, I did have to go and look at what I typed as my description when I first made this blog. And I did in fact copy and paste that little tidbit, to be honest with you.

Honesty. I think it's time for some depth in life. I really just don't feel like going there right now. It seems that the world is just getting too serious for me these days. Why so serious? I won't mention anything specific, but I'm sure everyone could pinpoint a few things in their own lives that are probably the same as mine. Maybe not. But, maybe some of you wish I took things more seriously sometimes. Honestly? I like being happy most of the time. Carefree and optomistic, if you will. It always doesn't work, but I don't like thinking into things too deeply, and a lot of things in life I just find really stupid. People could avoid a lot of pain if some of the stupid things just didn't exist. I don't really know what I'm trying to say here, and this stupid blog post just got much stupider. Did it, though?

Whatever. It's just a blog and it's just life.

I'M JUST LIKE ME, I'M JUST LIKE ME. SO WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?

"Cause I fall three times as hard if it's from nothing at all. You all seem twice as tall as I will ever be. Cause I feel terribly small when my head works too hard. When you think with your chest, there's not a thing that you don't see..." (Starving Your Friends)

"It's not as deep as it seems. And as unfair as it may be, I'm just here to remind you. Remind you not to forget to remember me." (Lapse)

ENVY ON THE COAST: Dropping it like it's hot longer than you.

"Just because I'm losing doesn't mean I'm lost! Doesn’t mean I’ll stop. Doesn’t mean I'm across. Just because I'm hurting doesn't mean I'm hurt! Doesn’t mean I don’t get what I deserved, no better and no worse." (Coldplay works too, Lost!)

What is Melanie listening to right now?: Knights Of Cydonia - Muse
P.S. Countdown for my birthday, anyone?
P.P.S. I just learned that when you have more than one post-script, you add more P's, not S's. Oops. That makes countless posts by myself wrong. Double oops.
P.P.P.S. Happy December!