An Epiphany

Huh... today I had a little bit of a thought. I was thinking about my show choir, and next weeks performance at my schools arts night. I was just living in a haze of happiness, because out of many things i love doing, choir is something I hold close to my heart. I love everything about it, how it is impossible to try to sing it on your own, and how you need to cooperate and listen to everyone around you in order to succeed. I Love how i would stay up at all hours of the night, (sometimes morning) listening to a new piece, learning the tempo, rhythm and parts. Then I had a thought that sort of shocked me, what if, in this world....

There was no music?

No honestly think about this for a second, imagine a world where music did not exist, no school dances, no singing, no instruments. It would be a world that has had it's happiness striped right out of it. All these famous composers, singers, and songwriters would be nothing. There would be no musicals, drama would be less dramatic, and opera, (the foundation of singing) gone. At this point, i sort of cringed in horror, because if in a week there is anything that keeps me sane, it would have to be music.

This is my typical day! I listen to my ipod every morning getting ready for school, I then listen to it on the bus to school, I listen to it sometimes even in class, (though we really aren't supposed to, :S ) I listen to it at lunch, once a week I practice with my choir, then I go home listening to my ipod, I then practice more music, piano and vocal, then after all that if there is time, I watch a movie, (all movies have music!) . Right there was pretty much my day with music, I would never want to be without this precious, beautiful, sound. It would be as though i were living in a bubble, where only what is necessary can get through and the beauty shut out. It is almost as though you are looking out the window to a wonderfully gorgeous summer day, but you are not allowed to go outside. Silently suffering from a distance.....It is days like today that I am thankful for many things in this world, today that blessing was music.


" A painter paints a picture on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence..." -Leopold Stokowski

Goodnight!

you Have Got to be Kidding me!?

It has been a pretty normal day today, not much happened, so to humor myself I decided to search google. yup, I know i need to get a life, or a hobby, but whatever i decided to do some research. While on my google conquest i came upon the weirdest statistic ever,

"On average, 100 people choke on ball point pens a year..."

huh.... a year, on ball point pens? How does this happen, and why is the pen even in you mouth? this intrigued me so I looked up some other odd facts and came up with a list of my top twenty weird statistics I decided to post as my entry for today, here it goes....

1. On average 100 people choke on ball point pens a year
2. if you yelled for eight months, seven years and six days you would produce enough energy to heat up a cup of coffee
3. when intoxicated ants always fall to their right side
4. being unmarried shortens a mans life by ten years
5. average life expectancy of an enemy soldier in a chuck Noris movie, (in seconds) 4
6. Butterflies taste with their feet
7.on average people fear spiders more than death
8. it is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
9.cigarette lighter was invented before the match
10. on average Americans eat 18 acres of pizza a day
11. a hummingbird weighs less than a penny
12. apples are ore efficient than caffeine to keep people awake in the mornings
13. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor was afraid of the dark.
14. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deat of their cats
15. Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle
16. Brazil got its name form the nut, not the other way around
17. Crickets hear through their knees
18. Cat urine glows under black light
19. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden
20. In most watch advertisement commercials, the watch is set to 10:10 because the hands frame the brand of the watch and make it look like it's smiling.

So that's that the interesting information i discovered after having a pretty average day, if your interested in reading more bizarre and interesting facts here's a pretty good website i took some of these from...

http://www.weird-websites.com/justweird/weird-facts.htm

"If you want to stand out, don't be different; be outstanding!" Meredeth West

Goodnight!!!!

Work In Progress

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and that we all see the world from a different view. That every human is entitled to their own opinion, and each person has their own story to tell. If this is true, then I would like to share my view with you.

Whoever said life was easy, was soooo wrong it isn't even funny. Being a teenager is hard, confusing, and stressful. Right now i am at that cross road in my life where everything i do basically effects the outcome of my future. I am going into the eleventh grade, and still have no idea what I want to do with my life, i feel like there is something missing, something i fully don't understand, something that I am supposed to do, but it's like i am not seeing the whole picture..... Right now, I am this stream.

I'm always moving and traveling down my seemingly endless narrow path, always one direction, ahead. I don't know where I'm going, I don't know why I'm going this way, and I don't know how to turn around if something were to go wrong. I`m always following this stream, searching for that lake or ocean. The place where i am to make it to something bigger, but I don`t know how to get there, right now i am this stream endlessly running around going everywhere but likewise, nowhere.

Right now, all I have is confusion, confusion and maybe a little bit of anxiety, because i don`t know what I'm going to do with the rest of my life! grr, I need a sign!

"the journey of a mile begins with one step" Lao Tzu, I guess I just haven't seen the next one yet.

Goodnight!!!

White Walls

snow coloured fortress,
enclosing all I am,
a realm of inner images,
that I don't understand,

is this just a dream?
just a hapless vision,
where colours dissipate,
a white on white collision,

understanding is the key,
that unlocks my hidden door,
what's wanted and what's needed,
the answer I implore,

but answers can't be given,
without the question known,
and as long as I live here,
white walls will be my home.

I was just thinking today, I have two years after this one left of high school, and I still have no clue what I want to do with the rest of my life, I am drawing a complete blank. This was just a poem to express my thoughts on my thoughts right now........

"Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope..."
-Tom Head

Goodnight, :)

Glee-itus

I am officially addicted...I don't what it is about this show but it just seems to draw me in! Being a huge musical theater lover I guess that's where it began, but i swear to you this television show is like a drug, once you try it out, you become an addict. Today, as you all know, (if you follow this show) is what I call Glee day, because it is the day a new episode is shown on tv of glee. Sadly, today i missed this show and I am soo mad, because now i have to wait until it gets posted on Global so I can watch it! Grr, i hate it when this happens, had I known America's Got Talent was going to be a two hour special I would have gladly missed it....oh well, what's done is done.

I have been foloowing this show since the very first pilot episode and I think it is just great, well the acting gets a little bit dramatic, and the storyline is off the wall, but the music and energy, and a lot of the comedy just makes me want to smile every Tuesday I turn on the television. and as for favorite characters....Kurt and Mercedes of course! Kurt is just so lovable and nice, but you want to hug him because of what the rude people in the school are making him go through. And then there is Mercedes, queen of sass and an amazing vocalist, she just makes me want to shake my head and be all like "Girl, oh NO you didn't!!" XD

I am really upset with myself that i missed it tonight i saw some parts of it and it looked like it went really well...Since I couldn't watch it I did something else to fill my musical time up to compensate i did some youtubeing and went and watched one of my favorite you tube performers ever, Kurt Hugo Schneider, (If you don't know him look him up) who i first discovered singing and AMAZING version of don't stop believing, check it out click on the link below.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIoSTbPt_PI

He honestly has some amazing talent! He hits some notes female vocalists have difficulty hitting! Excellent high c's!!!!!! :D

"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. "
Ronald Reagan

Goodnight!!!!!!!

25 Things...

Here is a little piece, that was inspired by another Blog, "The Musings of a Wannabe Rockstar" topic of today, 25 things about me to share with you.... Here we go!

1. my absolute favorite color is purple, every shade!
2. I dislike people who think that they are better than others because of their talents, money, and/or brains. We are supposed to be all equal, we do live in a democratic society people! :S
3. I love to eat grapes, (they are my favorite fruit) but I can't pick them off the vine, that for some reason bothers me so much.
4. Wednesday is my favorite day. It's the day glee used to be on, the day I go on the majority of my field trips, and most importantly, the day I have a show choir practice!
5. <3>
7. I am a very loyal and trustworthy person, friends come before myself,...most of the time, :P
8. If I could survive off or one food it would have to be meatball subs, I love them soo much, must be my inner Italian, lol.
9. when I get stressed about school, my eyes tend to twitch, when I get stressed about performances, my hands shake
10. I still have no clue where I am going with my life, all I know is it wont be in math!
11. I love to mess around with peoples heads (for fun of course nothing that will hurt their spirit, always for humor.), most people don't know I have a morbid mind, (in a good humorous way I guess) and are often surprised at how I think.
12.The glass is always half full, Apparently I am very optimistic.
13. I love music, it is so amazing, to pick one genre I would go insane, there is such a beautifully wide variety.
14. I have two little yorkies, one of which I think needs therapy, lol, she is so hyper!
15. If I had the chance to do anything in the world, I would chose to direct a movie, there is nothing like the thrill of having everything behind a camera in control to create something of your own imagining.
16. If I had it my way, imagination would be a mandatory class, :)
17. I love the rain, wind and thunder, these things always gets me into a creative writing mood.
18. I love everything about school, the work, the people, and the learning, I don't understand how people can't like it. It bothers me when people say they hate school, because we are so fortunate to be going to school where other people who do want to go aren't getting this opportunity.
19. I go to a catholic school, and I love it, religion is something I enjoy very much.
20. I love tea, coffee an cheesecake, my favorite desert combos.
21. I am a very meticulous worker, I always look at the very fine details, especially when I am working on an art assignment it takes weeks to sometimes make a piece satisfactory for me.
22. This blog was inspired by a friend of mine who also blogs and is just an awesomely nice person.
23. I love the show glee, well, the story is a bit wonky, but the music is fantastic!
24. Its one of my dreams to go and see phantom of the opera performed live, sadly it came out before I did. :( it's gotten to the point where I know all the lyrics and some of the acting from the 1980's version and the 2004 movies.
25. last but not least, I dislike Starbucks though many people rant and rave about it,(being Italian, Starbucks coffee tastes like dish water..... sorry no offense to people who d like it, i just personally don't) and the reason why I don't riot against them, is my guilty pleasure....Frappuccino's!

I dare you to do the same and on your blog post 25 things about you!

"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates." ~Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct," The Second Sin, 1973

Life in the City

The lights, the sounds, the people, the media...welcome to Toronto! Toronto is such a huge diverse city, home to so many different people, events and cultures. It's sometimes hard to believe that this one city can be filled with so many different parts. Today I went down town with my mom, personally I hate the city. It's crowded, smells worse than a sewer treatment facility, and the homeless people make me want to cry, but I just can't seem to get enough of it. I love the city, the diverse mix of business, recreation and the high focus of the arts, not to mention the people the sites and a neat subway system.
Being a girl from the tiniest town on the face of this planet, every time i go to the city, I just am struck with awe. there is just so much to see and do there, you can practically walk everywhere, and where you can't walk, the TTC will take you. I love all the shopping, the theaters, themed restaurants, the shows, media, and crazy clashes between everything around you. But, if there is one thing I always look forward to listening and seeing, it would have to be the buskers.

being a huge fan of talent and musicians, i just love to see these people perform from basically nothing. I always smile when I pass them because they bring a sort of culture I guess to the entire city theme, it's like a little bit of rural in an urban area. Buskers just have this rawness about them that I love, it reminds me of where I live and all the people I know who love music and just playing with their hearts.

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." ~Victor Hugo

Goodnight!!! ;)