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!

If Life Is A Joke, Why Aren't We Laughing?

Ah, sweet boredom.

Honestly, waking up just before 5 in the morning and delivering papers only takes up at least 2 hours of my long 25-hour day. Yes, 25. It sure feels that way. But Melanie, 1 hour more then everyone else isn't that much. Oh, but it is.

Boredom is no one's friend.

Tomorrow could possibly tie as one of the longest days of my life. Tied with what, you may ask? Well that would be tied with the last two weeks of my life. Sure, not being at work is grand, but the video for I Kissed A Girl and every other crappy song on all the music channels I waste my life on gets old after about the 2,500 time. And sure, Michael Ian Black is highly entertaining but after watching I Love The 80's more times than the average homo sapien, you wish you hadn't lived in the 80's. Even if you didn't live during the 80's.

bore·dom /ˈbɔrdəm, ˈboʊr-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[bawr-duh . m, bohr-] –noun the state of being bored; tedium; ennui.

Oh, but I forgot to explain myself. Why will tomorrow be one of the longest days of my life? Not because this particular day has 26 hours, but because Breaking Dawn becomes available to my eager hands at 12:01 a.m. August 2nd. And I will be eagerly waiting to attend the Breaking Dawn release party event at my local Barnes And Noble to pick up said novel. With Alissa, Maddy and Kaitlyn at spat camp and Zoey at the lake I will have no one to ease the wait. So I'll be stuck with the above-mentioned life-wasting TV crap. But Melanie, the internet is always available. Well, that would lead me to, as Seth the webmaster describes it, B.D. Countdownitis, on the Twilight website (see, http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/index.html. The Breaking Dawn quotes are also nice). Watching those silly silly milliseconds wind down the hours of my wait. That would be bad. And Twilighting is not good for the brain either.

Oh, the pain.

What is Melanie listening to right now?: Untouched - The Veronicas
P.S. I recommend the homo sapien article.
P.S.S. HAPPY 75th post!

I Can't Prove That This Makes Any Sense

So, to be organized here, we'll go in order...in order of time, not of importance:

This weekend, as most of you know (if you can read), I was in Arkansas for "spring break." It was a long drive, a.k.a. 9 hours one way. A good 22 hours in the car altogether. Good times visiting my family up there (down there?), though. We hadn't seen them for awhile, and a lot of things changed. It's funny how you forget how funny your relatives are when you haven't seen them in awhile...

On our way there, we stopped in Kansas City to hit an American Apparel store, and I FINALLY got an American Apparel hoodie like I've been wanting. A nice addition to the trip.

In Arkansas we did a bit of shopping too, especially at the A to Z stores, i.e. several warehouses full of everything you know you don't need but buy anyway. We brought back gifts back for most of you (you know who you are...). We also gambled...I lost. And on a more exciting note, we got to go 4-wheeling through the open plains of Arkansas. Between the everyone's properties, we had a lot of acres to 4-wheel through. So that was pretty fun and frightening, and other F words I do and don't know!

Next up, I'm hoping most of you know of the big event that was yesterday. All I can say is

WELCOME TO THE SOUND OF PRETTY. ODD.

It was amazing, because I got my Deluxe Edition copy yesterday in the mail, so I didn't have to wait for three weeks like I thought I would. I've semi-listened to the whole thing as of now, and I'm really excited (funny, iTunes keeps playing all the Pretty. Odd. songs. And it's playing my whole 405-song playlist. Odd. PRETTY odd. Hehheheh. I've been doing that a lot...). It's a lot different, less techno-dancey with !'s, and more laid-back, folky and Beatles-ey with .'s. I'm hoping to get a chance to listen to it all closely tonight, following along with the lyrics and all. I'm so happy Ryan Ross (guitarist) gets to sing, as well! We all knew he had a good voice, so it's good he gets a little mic time, along with Spencer and Jon. In other Panic news, my mom got the tickets for the Council Bluffs concert yesterday. Lots of Panic love on the 25th...

Oh, and I got my Powerspace T-shirt, too. Hopefully it will be washed by tomorrow and I'll be sporting it around. It kinda got lost in the Pretty. Odd. excitement.

Well, due to lack of sleep, I feel that I've been rambling and adding details where they don't need to be added. Can't. Concentrate.

What is Melanie listening to right now?: Dear Maria, Count Me In - All Time Low
P.S. Kait and Liss went to a Three Days Grace concert last night. Check out their blogs for more details...I'm sure it was great!
P.S.S. I'll be uploading the Arkansas pictures soon, too. Stay tuned!

goHod relatiUonships goRne baTd

Sorry about the grim title. Seems like there's a lot of that going around right now though. Spring cleaning? I seem to be shunned out of a lot of things, at least...

But enough of that..."spring break" starts tomorrow. We'll be jetting off (in a car) to Arkansas to visit family, gone all "break." As if two extra days amounts to anything. Take it or leave it, though, I guess. So, if anyone is planning on making plans, plan not to cuz I'm planning to not be planning here. Plan. That's one of those words that don't look right after typing it 6 times.

I was looking up lyrics for my new songs yesterday on Google, and guess what I found?!?!? My blog on the hitlist. Oh yeah... no wonder you stalkers can find me. Google magic my friends...


iTunes needs to go update somewhere, if you know what I mean, cuz they won't put the freakin' ne Scenes & Sirens album on! It came out FRIDAY. It is WEDNESDAY! Do I have the ability to listen to The South Will Dance Again on my handy iCRAP? No. *twitches into a rage*

CONGRATS TO ALL BLOG READERS AND MYSELF HERE AT YOU DON'T KNOW ME! THIS IS THE 50TH POST!!! WHOOO!

Alissa! Remember to give Kaitlyn the CD!

FSOTW coming soon!

Leaving for now,
your blogger.

What is Melanie listening to right now?: Puppet On a String - The Hives
P.S. I never realized until today how much it bothers me when some people don't have to work to get to where they are, while some of us are stuck in the back, trying to work our way up. But it's pointless, right? Because the people who got there already by not working have already taken the spot we're working toward. I don't know, maybe it's just me. Anybody else?

Welcome To the Gun Show

SO much to talk about. It's unbelievable. I never have things to blog about...well my day has come. To start off with, I just got an E-Mail in regards to my Fueled By Ramen package, and it has started shipment! YAYAYAYAY! PRETTY. ODD.! Also, I can take on 17 five-year-olds in a fight. And not that you noticed, I just took a 2-hour break between the last sentence and this to watch The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream. I predicted the whole thing, seeing as all the Cutting Edge movies are exactly the same. But ya gotta love 'em. #2's still my fave.

On Friday, Kaitlyn, Alissa and I went to Alissa's church for a concert of the Christian kind. What I want to know is how we ended up with hardcore, pig-squealing screamo for all 3/5 of the acts. Oh, well. Five bands for $2 is a pretty good deal in my mind. The first one and the last one were good, whereas the middle three, not so much...we sat out. And tried to decipher what exactly they were saying. Or screaming. "The rats ate the radio?" I also happened to get hit with EVERYTHING while we were there. Fat screamo guy throws water bottle? Hits Melanie. Fat screamo guy runs into crowd? Melanie gets covered in sweat, and promptly wipes it on Alissa. Nihilio's drummer (Pete) throws drumstick into crowd? Melanie gets hit in the shin with said drumstick. That last one wasn't so bad, seeing as I wanted a drumstick...especially from the band I really liked. We bought their merch (thanks Lissa's mom!), and you should see me in a nice robot shirt tomorrow. We also got to meet the band members. Justin got a nosebleed and thought he had a Hot Topic tag on him (we know where he gets his shirts), Ryan sang us Moulin Rouge since we didn't want to smack him in the belly for buying our t-shirts... Ask about it sometime if you want more details. I'm tired of typing it all.

So, Kaitlyn and Alissa spent the night, and we organized Pokemon cards, played hide-and-go-seek, listened to the EP we bought the night before, and, oh yeah, extinguished the flaming corndog my sister put in the microwave...for 10 minutes. Our microwave was billowing smoke when we walked into the kitchen, and our house still smells awful, even though my mom Pine-Sol'ed the walls. What scares me is that our fire alarms didn't go off, even though it was hard to breathe through the clouds of noxious honey-battered frank smoke. Not to mention the paper towel and styrofoam plate, a.k.a. fuel for 'da flame.

Well that's about it. Turns out it wasn't much, but it took up a lot of space!

What is Melanie listening to right now?: The Interview - AFI
P.S. I hear Who's too...

Maddy, You're My Hero!

While some people say that Panic! at the Disco is horrible live, I could agree otherwise. Well, at least when they played in Denver. Now I've just been searching and searching for the songs live from Denver. And guess who could provide me with the said songs? MADDY!!!! That is why Maddy is my hero.

In other news, Lincoln may have burned down by now, for today, as I was leaving school the fire alarms went off. We were all herded out of the school like cattle (sorry actors). I could almost guarantee that it was just the construction workers emitting so much dust from remodeling the foyer (as if it could get any uglier), but wouldn't we all be happy if we could just go to Roosevelt? Hahahaha...no.

And why yes, Alissa's sweater guy does now, in fact wear sweaters. Very soft (yes, I would know *shifty eyes*), cashmere sweaters in a nice hunter green. They're not very warm though. Who wants to venture a guess that he got that on Saturday at Old Navy?

My model is coming along quite nicely now, even though I'm still probably very far behind. I have the stage completely assembled, now I just need to add my set. I'm a nervous wreck about semester tests too. And trust me, I do not make a nervous wreck.

Countdown to my birthday: 7 days
Number of presents for Melanie under the Jon tree: 5 (where's our presents, G-ma?!?)

What is Melanie listening to right now?: G.I.N.A.S.F.S. - Fall Out Boy
P.S. We got our semester two schedules. My semester two sucks. And high school in general.
P.S.S. Watch this: TUFTY THE SQUIRREL IS VERY NAUGHTY (courtesy of Kaitlyn)
P.S.S.S. I also have my lunch period with the posse. ALL OF THEM. "Hey guys! Look who's a new member of the posse?"

Another Tally on the Chalkboard

Today is December 5, for all you non-calender types. Do you know what happens on December 5? Well I'm not entirely sure, but December 5 was supposed to be the day the video for A Beautiful Lie was released. You don't know what A Beautiful Lie is? You don't know me. But was it released? No. I was sorely disappointed, and called Jared several bad names (right, Kaitlyn?), and blamed the whole ordeal on him. Was it his fault? Probably, but there's no proof of that. It made me feel all better to accuse him, though. Since I didn't have anything NEW to watch, I found the video for Your Guardian Angel by the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. While this was new to me, I'm assuming it didn't come out December 5. Here's several snapshots that I would like to elaborate on.

This one appears throughout the video. Ronnie...alone...in a dark hallway...with one, not two, but one light bulb that most definitely needs to be changed because the friggin thing keeps flickering on and off. Now who would want to meet Ronnie in a dark hallway? (Put your hand down, Maddy).

This one here gave me a nice round of giggles. Due to the lack of a microphone, Ronnie decided to sing his little heart out to the lonely light bulb. Good thing he's closing his eyes, otherwise that might burn a bit.

Even though I have a lot of fun making fun of this video, it was very good and I love them all. I'm glad Ronnie doesn't have my hair anymore, though. I also sang to my dog. Today I also watched a lot of Underoath videos. They make me feel very claustrophobic. Just go watch them. You'll understand. Turn down your volume if you don't feel like listening to constant screaming.

Today in English, we watched the video version of The Odyssey. As if reading it wasn't enough. I won't go into any detail, for your sakes. But let me tell you, there were at least three sex scenes...not to mention Hermes.

Countdown to my birthday: 13 days
Number of presents for Melanie under the Jon tree: at least 4

This weekend, I have to both babysit two spastic dogs, and do the paper route. Plus work on my model, which I should start working on now.

What is Melanie listening to right now?: Let Go (Acoustic Cover) - Boys Like Girls