Happy New Year!!!

Well, my new year wasn't that great, but hopefully everyone else's was.  I actually decided to come up with real resolutions that could be accomplished, so I'm pretty proud of that.  

They are:

1.  Stop biting my lips.
2.  Watch less mindless television (ie Tila Tequila, anything mentioning Britney Spears, etc)
3.  Finish two fics and start at least one more.
4.  No more procrastination.  Seriously!
5.  Post to LJ at least once every two weeks.

Okay, so number four might be a problem, but I think I could do the other four.

In other news, I just watched this movie The Invisible last night, and oh how I love it!  It was really great.  I'm not usually into scary/suspense-filled movies, but I handled the violence well and was able to really get into the movie.  The ending was beyond sad, but it made sense to me at the same time.  I don't really want to go into too much more detail so that I don't give anything away, but I advise eveyone to watch it.  It is seriously underappreciated.

So, yeah.  That's all for now.

I finally got around to posting my Harry and the Potters article.

Here's Sarah's cameo:

Were you one of the many loyal Harry Potter fans who stayed up the night the last book came out?  You probably put everything aside, including sleep, to finish it.  You cried when you learned what happened to your favorite characters.  You then sat in shock realizing there would be no more Harry Potter novels, and that the next movie won’t be out in a year and a half.   You may have even cried because of it.

It is more than likely you also suffered from Post-Potter Depression.  The term, invented by a group on Facebook, has come to define the feeling of restlessness Harry Potter fans feel now that the series they grew up with is over. 

But wait!  There is a cure, in the form of year four Harry and year seven Harry, otherwise known as Joe and Paul DeGeorge of Harry and the Potters.  This amazingly creative band is just one group of a subgenre of music known as Wizard Rock.  Wizard Rock artists all write about the Harry Potter books from the point of view of various characters in the series.  Roonil Wazlib, Remus and the Lupins, Draco and the Malfoys, and the Luna Lovegoods are among the artists in Wizard Rock.  However, Harry and the Potters are the most well-known.

It all started one day five years ago when at a Battle of the Bands concert that the DeGeorges were hosting.  All but one band pulled out of the show the day of the performance. Any normal person would have had a panic attack and called off the show.  But not the DeGeorge brothers; they took this as an opportunity to expose their newest idea, which was to create a band based on the Harry Potter books.  Within the time span of a few hours, Joe and Paul wrote seven songs. 

Since then, they have toured across America and England, have produced two CDs and have been acknowledged in publications such as The Boston Globe, US News and World Report, and Forbes.com for being outstanding musicians. Their MySpace is extremely popular, as well.

Fans of Harry and the Potters have great enthusiasm about the group.  “I found out about them on MySpace and got a CD from a friend and got hooked on it.  They’re awesome live and so unique,” Hayden Stanford, a junior, said, who saw the band when they came to Masquerade last year.  “I have songs from pretty much all of their albums.”  

“My favorite song is ‘Stick it to Dolores’,” Lauren Major, a sophomore, stated.  “They’re really funny, and they give good concerts.” 

Sarah Batchelor, an aspiring actress from Louisville, Kentucky, also saw the band live and loved them.

“I went and saw Harry and the Potters back in July and they were simply amazing.  [They are] just really fun to sing along to and really funny.  The band has this amazing energy that makes you want to jump and scream as much as them.”

Most of the venues Harry and the Potters perform are of very little or no cost. They usually play in places like libraries or bookstores. However, they have also played at a doughnut shop and a hot dog place.

With clever songs taken from passages of the various books in the series, such as “Save Ginny Weasley”, “This Book Is So Awesome”, and “The Human Hosepipe”, Harry Potter fans can find another element of the whole Harry Potter experience to enjoy.  As Stanford explained, “I’m a big Harry Potter fan and [Harry and the Potters]  are a fun addition to the Harry Potter world.

 



Makes me happy!

My articles for my newspaper formerly known as "The Silver Lining" (I will not give you the new name of the paper because it embarrasses me...) are due tomorrow, as is a lab write-up and a summary of the black cat.  So what am i doing now?  Posting on Livejournal.  Way to go, dork.  You really know how to stay motivated.
Is it just me, or is it really hard to write something just because you have to?  I feel like I can only work when I have a really super awesome idea for something.  Which really sucks when it comes to writing papers and stuff.
I think I might be coming down with another ear infection.  Seriously, I have permanent ear damage because of all the ear infections I had when I was little.  Plus, my shins are hurting so super much, too.  I wouldn't be surprised if something was wrong there, too.
Although, knowing me and the fact that I'm a bit of a hypochondriac, the only thing wrong with me is that there's just a tad of a problem in my ear.  Whatev.
I recently wrote a short little one-shot for a community, but I don't know how to load it up.  Does anyone else?

I am exhausted right now.  School has this really weird way of draining all the energy from you.
In the past week, I've had two tests, two quizzes, and two papers due.  Junior year really sucks.  And now i have to do an essay tomorrow and i have no idea what it's going to be on because my teacher feels the need to surprise us.  Even though we're supposed to have all this background information on the topic, which i can't know because I don't know what the topic is about!!!!!!  Grrrrrrrrrrr.........

I just reread my last two entries, and my spelling is terrible.  Not like anyone is reading this now, considering i only have one friend at this time, but whatever.

I saw this really awesome picture from Harry Potter the other day, and now the saying in the picture is my motto.  

High School Musical wasn't as good as i thought it would be.  Actually, it was more like a string of badly made music videos.  It didn't even have a plot.  Plus, it was Troyella the whole time.  I mean, I like Troyella, but i need a balance of other couples, and i just didn't see that.

Haha -- In other news, my friend and I decided that we grow up, we're going to marry the Phelps twins.  She gets James and I have Oliver.  We have this whole inside joke that we're going to spend the summer before college in England and stalk the Phelps brothers.  But I swear we're really not.  I promise we're not htat freaky.

On another note, I'm writing an article for my newspaper about Harry and the Potters.  I'm so flippin' excited!!!!

Now, I wish i could stay and chat all day, but I've really got to get back to work on my essay and my paper due in another class.  Wish me luck tomorrow!!





Oh -- here's the picture i was telling you about:



Sooooo true.

PEACE!