Here's the link to my Newsom Award-winning poem, "While You Read".

Actually, looking at the comments, I remembered that this photo by 

sweet_beanbag

Hey, if you can, and wish to hear both my beautiful voice and taste in music, listen to the Mann Show tomorrow (Wednesday.) at 7p.m. (link to listen is here: http://www.live365.com/stations/kpoet?site=pro)

Directly after that, at 8, I have to get to "The Crucible", in which my lesbian lover, Branden, is playing Abigail. So my day tomorrah is gonna be packed. Then Midterm on Thursday in AICH, followed by a test in French right after that--yikes!

Meanwhile, due to the fact that we're getting ever deeper into grammar in French, I'm pulling out my old Italian notes and grammar book, because I feel like it's fallen to the wayside. So, this summer, I *need* to take an Italian class... and voice lessons. *crosses fingers* Oh, yeah, and I'll need a job too--however will I find that? I guess I'll just temp, m'kay? That's what I suggested 

hikari_leo

1. Saw "Gangs of New York" for AICH2, and discussed it this morning. Very good movie, actually; you were right, Dorothy. Not about Leo, of course, because I do not find him attractive. Titanic was me and my sister's movie, so she got Leo and I got my persisting crush on Winslet, which wasn't abated by "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Not that I want to be Carey (Heavens, no!), though he was actually really good in that film, surprisingly... Wait, what was my point? Oh, right. That I think Kate Winslet is hawt? Yeah, I have strange taste...

2. The Mann Show started airing again tonight. Sorry, guys! Scheduling conflicts got it moved, just for this week though. The usual awesomeness, got to play a bunch of new music I brought. And they have all of Kate Havnevik's "Melankton" at the station! I need to burn that shit, somehow...

3. Second meeting of the Gender Club. Was down to two attendees, old Rosealee and relatively new Rita. It was a good meeting though, excellent discussion, and passed the petition to Rosealee. Formalized group mission, set meeting time for Thursdays at 6, and did I mention the actual discussion?

Neither of these girls are actually feminists, though to hear them talk they definitely are on the same page with me in that "extremism is bad; some feminists rub us the wrong way; but we also don't like the image of man-hating." Oh, and Rosealee will bring her book on sexual vs. gender identities. Should be fun.

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Meanwhile, I'm still obssessed with "Closer". Well, that movie was good, but I'm talking about teh pretty Travis song, actually. ;P

P.S. Oh! I forgot! And I spent most of the afternoon reading *all* of the reading of Mill's "The Subjection of Women". So proud of myself! (It's an excerpt, but still a lot. I'm sure I'm the only one who managed to both read it and understand it. So double yay for me!)

My recent post for Dude, You Gotta Hear This.

It's is a blog that "...hopes to give more exposure to great bands and artists, many of whom you won't hear on Top 40 radio or see on TRL." My post was on my Mann, obviously...

I also started writing a whole big essay on here (you can see the link at the bottom of my post). This is obviously a great revelation to me, and I'm sure a (revised) draft will see it's way here sometime in the near future.

*clickityclicky*

Do you ever think that somewhere, right now, someone is having sex?

Not just that, but someone you know RIGHT NOW is getting it on?

Or--not even *that*--but that *you* are already getting it on, and you didn't even know it?

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Earlier, I couldn't get that song out of my head ("Don't Dream It's Over" by Sixpence None the Richer--or is it a cover?).

Now I can't get KT Turnstall's "False Alarm" out of my head. I seriously want her album, her shit is teh... well, *shit*.

Meanwhile, if I can get some blank CDs, Matt has promised me copies of Emilie Simon... huzzah for some songs a la francaise! ^_^

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Yesterday, I was talking too much.

Today, I was talking just enough.

Tomorrow... who knows?

I'm sorry
Two words I always think
After you've gone
When I realize I was acting all wrong

So selfish
Two words that could describe
Oh actions of mine
When patience is in short supply

We don't need to say goodbye
We don't need to fight and cry
Oh we, we could hold each other tight tonight

We're so helpless
We're slaves to our impulses
We're afraid of our emotions
And no one knows where the shore is
We're divided by the ocean
And the only thing I know is
That the answer isn't for us
No the answer isn't for us

I'm sorry
Two words I always think
Oh after you've gone
When I realize I was acting all wrong

We don't need to say goodbye
We don't need to fight and cry
We, we could hold each other tight tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight...

You know, I really love music; it's one of the things I could never live without. I love to sing, too; though I'm not sure how good I am...

So I leave it to y'all to decide. I present unto you a crappy YouTube video of me singing along to Frou Frou's "Breath In"... walking the dark, rainy back streets of Sacramento. :P

Here are some songs that come up on my Unwoman station over at Pandora that I really like (just to give you an idea what other artists, supposedly, are like Unwoman :P):

1. "Early Winter," Gwen Stefani
2. "Second Skin," Carfax Abbey
3. "Megathurts," Telegenetic
4. "Ghost in the Water," Julian Velard
5. "Starcrossed," Emma Gryner
6. "Take Me With You," Tori Amos
7. "Flood," Hurts to Purr
8. "Worms," Beth Orton
9. "September," Endless Blue
10. "My Old Friend," Emilie Simon
11. "Again and Again," Umbrellas
12. "By This River," Carol Lupnik & Spookarama
13. "Ninety-Nine," Endless Blue
14. "In the Lake," Emilie Simon
15. "Never Let Me Down Again," Tre Lux
16. "Eye," Smashing Pumpkins
17. "Speeding Cars," Imogen Heap
18. "Under the Nights of Germany," Act
19. "Sea of Light," Siouxsie and the Banshees
20. "Time to Let Go," Sally Shapiro
21. "Something," I Am Jen
22. "Edit," Regina Spektor
23. "Exodus '04," Utada
24. "The Operation," Charlotte Gainsbourg

It occurs to me that this is as much a reflection of Unwoman as my ecletic musical tastes. *shrug*

This shit is both fucking hilarious and awesome at the same time:

1. "Guys Like Me," Aimee Mann
2. "The Little Mermaid," Unwoman
3. "Getting Scared," Imogen Heap
4. "Sullen Girl," Fiona Apple
5. "Luka," Suzanne Vega
6. "Spark," Tori Amos
7. "Talk to Me Now," Ani DiFranco
8. "Fall Apart Again," Brandi Carlile
9. "Worn Me Down," Rachael Yamagata
10. "Everything," Alanis Morissette
11. "Humpty Dumpty," Aimee Mann (theme song)
12. "The Little Mermaid," Unwoman (fade into Neslie's show)

Today's theme was female singer-songwriters, and some feminism proppred up, you can be sure. ^_~

Yesterday was good, because they had pudding in the cafeteria. (Though they call it the 'C.I.' here; in reference to the building that originally housed it and much else besides, which is currently under renovation--we eat in what is little more than a circus tent erected on a back parking lot. Though it looks more permanent than that...XD)

Anywho, today also had some awesome, though it started out pretty sucky--but don' worry, I got the essay in eventually...:P. In French we got to recite poetry! I got to read Baudelaire in front of the class! L'Invitation au Voyage. I gave by far the best reading (why do people mumble?). This is all in preparation for a show on Tuesday for French week, where some French actor will recite these poems (by the likes of Hugo, Verlaine, Rimaud, ecc.)

Actually, "L'invitation..." is one of his happiest go-lucky poems. I'm really fond of one of the banned ones, Les Metamorphoses du vampire. Go, read 'em, or you're not my friend anymore! >XP

Also today, for music, I went to the 'Poet Musicale'. Basically, the staff and resident artists performed on their various instruments. I think I was one of the few to appreciate the mezzo-soprano resident artist, though I'm sure everyone got a kick out of Muller's bassoon solo of "Da Blues". He is really awesome-rad sometimes.

I also particularly enjoyed the piano duo with Cook and... I forget her name; but she was really energetic, didn't stop smiling. XD It was that one by Darius Milhaud, y'know, the one about the bull on the roof? =^_^=