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Drop Dead Cynical, by Amaranthe
(R.I.P headphone users)
I really want to see I Prevail this summer, and if I have to drive back out to college three states away to see it with friends then goddammit that's what I'm going to do. But they aren't the headlining group - Amaranthe is. I figured I better listen to their stuff, and I found this GEM on Spotify. I can't stop listening to it.
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I saw the trailer for Chappie way back in January, and I really, really, really,
It's taking me a while to write though, because in high school a lot of my friends were/are into electrical engineering, and whatever those people are called who focus on building electrical appliances (apologies for not knowing the name, they are very important and key members of our tech-centered society). These friends were mostly all staunch supporters of the progression of AI, and I was always afraid they'd get mad at me if I told them my opinions were slightly different than theirs. Ergo, I'm very careful with my wording and making sure my stance is perfectly clear. Ergo ergo, that takes time.
Chappie is SO CUTE THOUGH. He has these two antennae-like receivers on his head that look like rabbit ears, and the animators use them like animals ears - when there's a scene where Chappie is nervous or scared, the antennae fall back parallel to the ground. When he's excited or happy, they stick straight up. It's almost like personification, but animalification - giving a robot animal-like qualities.
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That makes me think of 6th grade English, when we first formally learned about personification and onomatopoeia and metaphors and whatnot. We were told that whenever an animal exhibited human-like behavior, it was personification. But now that I'm thinking about it, we label a lot of universal emotions as belonging to humans only. Crying, for example. Holding of funerals. When in fact a lot of animals can also do these things (Rats can laugh, for instance - that's one of my favorite links). A happy rock, or a proud nation - I think that's personification. But saying animals exhibit human-like emotions is silly.
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I just shaved my legs for the first time in four months two nights ago. I feel like a beluga whale.
SO SMOOTH
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I went to the Downtown Denver aquarium yesterday, as a class trip with my Island and Marine Ecology class (plus the Oceanography class). An interesting thing is that there are so many people at my college that I see dopplegangers of my high school friends everywhere, and consequently I frequently do double takes. I had two double takes on that trip alone.
On the topic of the actual aquarium itself - meh. I guess it's hard to be impressed by an inland aquarium when you've grown up by the ocean and gone to aquariums located on the actual shore, but it wasn't bad. They had a mantis shrimp, which I thought was cool because apparently they can break aquarium glass so they aren't often kept in captivity. They also had Cassiopeia jellyfish, which anyone who's gone to any good aquarium has seen. They're the ones trolling around upside down on the bottom of the tank:
Yeah. Those idiots. Evolution works in strange
They also had three Sumatran tigers? And an animatronic orangutan?
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I live in a single room in my dorm, so I'm often alone. I figured I would go to a friends room (she lives in a different dorm off campus) because she said she needed to study and so did I. Because of the aquarium trip, I didn't have breakfast or lunch until 3:00 PM so we got a 14" pizza. It was delicious.
The cool thing is that her roommate decided to transfer colleges to be with her boyfriend in Texas, so now she has an empty bed. We got carried away and by the time I thought I would leave (around midnight) we found out the bus wasn't running anymore due to daylight savings. I ended up staying the night, and didn't get back until a couple of minutes ago. So basically, I just lived somewhere else for 24 hours. It's kind of weird that you can do that. Even regular sleepovers don't last that long. I like to think that if I had had a roommate, that's what we could've done all the time.
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I found out today you can't recycle plastic spoons or Pringles cans.
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Last weekend we had a huge snowstorm that dropped about 3-4 feet of snow, and it's still on the ground. However, right now it's a balmy 46 degrees out so I'm hopeful that was the last snowfall we'll see. But I still stand by what I said earlier. Snow is much prettier from inside a building. I don't have any snow boots, so I can't exactly go tromping through the drifts like I'd like, and if I counted the amount of times I almost ate some on the way to class I'd have to have an extremely impressive memory capacity. Plus, hot salt smells gross (They scatter salt to melt the snow on pathways, but it gets stuck in boot treads. The first set of doors in my dorm opens to a small room being blasted with heat, presumably to heat you up from the cold, but it makes the salt STINK).
I was walking around late one night though, and the snow was glittering like you'd see in the movies. My neck, nose, and ears were painfully cold, but that kind of snow kind of made up for it.
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I showed the friend I stayed with last night my "album" of compiled mashup songs, three of which were my own. I didn't tell her which ones were mine though, because I wanted her to honestly tell me which ones she liked. I was therefore overjoyed when one of mine, Clock Kids, started playing and she told me she really liked it. I think that's what's given me the confidence to put it up here.
This time the album artwork only took an hour for me to do, but I had to cut out 30 minutes still for it to fit in the music duration. I made it with the intention of giving it to my dad for his birthday because he really likes Coldplay, as the last time I showed him a sped up video he got really excited.
I don't think just one is enough though, so I'm already working on another Coldplay mashup for him, made up of Things We Lost In the Fire by Bastille, and Low by Coldplay.
It's more fun to make up my own album covers than to just crop two existing covers together.
I'm very self critical, so I can hear all the places where I messed up the cues, but it's not bad, especially given the quality of the acapella version of Cool Kids I had to work with.
Songs used:
Cool Kids, by Echosmith
Clocks, by Coldplay
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