Starting Over

The Amazing Morgan Karr with Starting Over, by my new discovery of a awesome songwriter Will Van Dyke!

"The past isn’t past; it’s still shaping the present. But even more than that, I believe that the study of history is essentially an exercise in empathy. You have to imagine what it was like to be a peasant in eighteenth century France. Or to be King Louis XVI, or to be Marie Antoinette, or Robespierre. What the study of history forces you to confront is how people who are acting rationally, who think they’re acting in their own best interest- and in many cases think they’re acting in the best interest of their countries- can end up killing so many people, and in many cases killing themselves! I believe that thinking about those questions makes us better at living our own little lives even if it is in a less fancy costume."

- John Green, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyZsLYxaIuM

Twenty Something

My whole life is right in front me.
I can go anywhere.
Two whole decades can’t prepare you for the moment,
When the page is blank before you,
And you’re barely even twenty-something.
Nothing’s standing in my way.
No one’s holding me back.
College ended and there’s no one here to tell me
Not to hit the bars and rent some cars.
I’ll fuck around
But then I’m gonna change the world.
It’s the generation twenty-something ascending.
We might be young. We might be poor.
But we know we deserve much more than what our parents have.
Who knows what that’ll be?
But we’re ready to discover
If there is life after the Wii.
‘Cause as long as we’re still young and fresh
And twenty-something, we’re free.
This is it. This is what’s hot.
It’s your moment. It’s your decade.
But you’re only twenty-something til you’re not.
Hurry up. Do it now.
If you don’t, if you blink,
Then it’s over.
Show me something I can get behind.
And I’m already there.
I have more free time than I know what to do with.
I’m in twenty different places
But I guess it’s ’cause I’m twenty-something.
Single with a bach’lor pad.
Now I just need a job.
I’ve got time to kill until my life becomes more real.
The time is now for wearing heels,
For roommates, drugs,
For chance encounters.
Raise a glass to the generation twenty-something ascending.
We might be young. we might be poor.
But we know we deserve much more than what our parents have.
Who knows what that’ll be?
We’re the target demographic.
We’re the reason for tv.
We’re obsessively and definitely twenty-something and free.
Don’t think about tomorrow,
There’s enough to do today.
I’m young, smart, on my way.
This is my day.
You blinked.
You’re not twenty-something.

This is it. This is what’s hot.
It’s your moment. It’s your decade.
But you’re only twenty-something til you’re not.
Hurry up. Do it now.
If you don’t, if you blink,
Then it’s over.
Don’t think about tomorrow,
There’s enough to do today.
I’m young, smart, on my way.
This is my day.
You blinked.
You’re not twenty-something.

Raise a glass to the generation twenty-something ascending.
We might be young. we might be poor.
But we know we deserve much more than what our parents have.
Who knows what that’ll be?
When you’re twenty you’re just starting…
When you’re twenty-four…
You’re twenty-five…
You’ll never feel more perfect when life starts at twenty-three.
Because we’re ready and we’re waiting
And we’re twenty-something and free.

-Kerrigan and Lowdermilk-

http://www.kerrigan-lowdermilk.com/

This song is finally appopriate to my life and I want those things, now I just need to go and get/find them. =)

RSO.... FTW

Ryan Scott Oliver New Fav Person!

Have a listen. The Harmonies will blow your mind!



Never



Caralee



Hemming and Hawing




The Ballad of Sarah Berry




The Song of the Dead Fairy



Halfway

Eyeko..... places....

So I have a little problem it's called online shopping, In about 2 months I made about six orders but this was the final one. So I have to control myself. Must Save.

Anywho... This is what I ordered from Eyeko, I got two free gifts becuase i put in two codes, but they were exsactly the same as the things I ordered... of well they will make great presents.

My set of 12
(From L to R: Indigo, Vampira, Cosmic, Saucy,Coral, Vintage, Lilac, Nude,Posh, Tea-Rose,Petite and Rain)

A close look at the polishes with glitter, the camera doesn't do it justice.

I haven't tried them out yet, but from the reviews I've seen and read, they are very good quality and most are opaque with two layers. Can't to try them out and will definatly post pics.

Eyeko Magic Eyeliner


This is suppose to turn any eyeshadow into liquid eyeliner. Which is a very cool concept. I recieved two of these, as one was a gift. I tried it out and it works quite well didn't really wear it long enough to check its longevity, but the colour was very true to the eyeshadow colour. The only problem i found with it was that you have to remember to wipe down the wand before you put it back or you will contaminate the product.

You've got Mail...

So while was I away in Sorrento for four days, which will what my next post will be about, I recieved somethings in the mail... check it out...

Bitches Be Crazy!
( From the Phillip de Franco show on Youtube)

A Very Potter Musical....?
(think I mentioned them in a previous post)

I love them both although the 'BbC' is a little on the large side.

The Ann Arbor T-Shirt Company made the VPM t-shirt, and on the receipt there was a hilarious stamp that said '"Warning: This Package is full of Awesome." and then at the bottom hand written it says, "Thanks! You're the best!". I thinkt hat is gorgeous and really add a personal touch to the service!

BTDubs... I am aware I am a major nerd, with too much free time.

Sorority Girls

This is a awesome and catchy by Nick Blaemire, who is part of my slight obsession with contempary musical theatre.

Pretty Girl Blues

From Tales of the Bad Years by Kerrigan and Lowdermilk, Love their stuff love this song... Also 'The Bad Years' and 'Two Strangers'...*love*

Avenue Q

So the Awesomeeness of Avenue Q came to Melbourne.

I went on the 18th of July and it was great I loved every moment, even the really weird but fun to watch puppet sex. The puppeteers were great as were their voices, top notch on both the singing and the accents. I thought i twas going to be hard to concentrate on the puppets, but my eyes were instantly drawn to them. Especially there is one scene where the same actress is the voices for two of the characters on stage, I hardly even noticed with the perfectly timed puppeteering and change of tone in the voice. Amazing stuff!
Princeton - Could really see the naivety in the character, Fun to watch, very easily relatable.
Rod - Played by the same actor (Mitchell Butel) as Princeton, was great as Rod, extremely flamboyant, and whiniy fitted the character really well.
Nicky/Trekkie Monster(Luke Joslin) - I liked his voice, thought it was very good, but my friend thought it was wasnt monster/ Erine-esk enough.
We had the understudy for the Kate and Lucy the Slut i think her name was Natalie Alexopoulos, she was fantasic, great voice, fantastic acting.
The only character that I had a little bit of a problem with was Gary Coleman, she was a bit to, lets face it,white, and the ac6ting seemed a bit forced. Maybe it had to be, becuase some of the jokes that were centreded around Gary Coleman weren't really got by the Australian audience.
Thats another thing, although i thought it was fine, maybe becuase I have watched so much of it on youtube, was the americaness of it. I know that sound pretentious, by my friends asked me at interval, why it was called Avenue Q, and I had to explain about Alphabet city and other things like that. Although I must say they did try their best to make it more realtable, especially when they changed the words in For Now, from 'Geroge Bush', to 'Swine Flu' that defiantly got a laugh.

My mates that went with me, hadn't really heard much of the soundtrack, besides the songs they heard when I was obsessed with the musical. They loved them, thought they were very witty and cleverly done. Crude, but good crude, spoke the truth. One of the songs called "What do I do with a BA in English" at interval, Nick turned to me and said what do I do with a BA, as that is what she is studying in Uni. 'The Internet Is For Porn' was a definatly crowd pleaser but caused a problem when signing it in public, as is the song 'Everyone is a little bit racist', although when someone accuses me of being racist I do break into song. Schadenfreude is very true!
And the song For Now helped me get though last year, becuase I knew it wasn't going to last forever only for now!

I deifnalty walked out of the theatre with a smile on my face!

Torchwood

So UKTV was kind enough to fast track, I mean Super fast track the new season of Torchwood: Children of Earth from the UK. Basically a mini series of 5 episodes that all link together and make one story arc.

I really enjoyed it, there were some major events that could have been left out, because it was too sad =(, and you could see that they tied off lose ends just in case they get cancelled, and they also left a wide opening to let Captain jack return to Doctor who, which i would also be very happy about. The Children speaking together was well creepy, the aliens were a bit weak, seeing as we never actually see them. The team didn't seem to be that much affect by the lose of 2 members in the last season, i think they were trying to make this a stand alone season, so everyone could watch it. Definatly liked the fact the cliff hanger only lasted one day. Loved the Janto wish there was more.

Overall a very good story, will defiantly watch again soon!

Harry Potter + the Musical!

One more post for today before I go to bed.

Tonight I saw Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
I really enjoyed it, although they did cut out most of the story of the Half Blood Prince, which might make it a little bit difficult to link up with the seventh movie, but I'm sure they will find a way. The general idea of the book was shown, with the start of Harry's 'quest', it was nicely set up. The movie was much less darker then that of the Order of the Phoenix, there were some nice lighthearted scenes with Ron(Chocolates) and Harry(Spider). There was some nice D&M moments with Harry and Hermione. The romance between Ginny and Harry seemed a little forced and although it is all well and good to have the same actress play Ginny, someone maybe a shorter then Harry might have been better.
Overall I think is one of the better Potter films and a 8.5/10.

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A VERY POTTER MUSICAL

This is one of the best things i have seen all year it is a musical written by students of UMich loosely based on most of the Harry Potter books. I loved every second of this, the acting is awesome as is the singing, but the songs are hilarious! My favourite character is Draco, and although deep down it pains me to say this, Voldermort is FINE! It is Camp-tastic!

Act 1, Scene 1

Blue Eyes

Mika has got a new album out called 'Songs of Sorrow' and I am really liking a song on there called Blue Eyes, it is beautifully written, very melodic. You use to be able to listen to this song plus two other on his site, www.mikasounds.com, but they took Blue Eyes down which was a shame, but here is sung live.



I have only ever disliked one of Mika's songs and it was the hidden track, Grace Kelly reminds me of my trip to France because I first heard it there, and it was playing is every shop.