Pitch Perfect

Over the month I have been on vacation, I found a movie that I have fallen in love with. Pitch Perfect is a movie about a girls A Capella group and it is hysterical. My family watched it a while before I did and they loved it so much that they got it on Blue ray so we could watch it all the time. We have watched it at least five times since I have been home and we still aren't tired of it.

This movie has inspired me to try and make my own A Capella group at my college. As a music major, I have many friends that I believe would be interested and talented enough to pull this off. I will keep you posted on the details.

The Girl of my Dreams

It has been a long time since I used this blog. If you have read what I wrote earlier on then you know how this all began. It was a project for my AP Lang class. We were supposed to post three times a week for the year and that was it. No real restrictions or anything. I chose the topic of music to be the thing to hold my posts together. I tended to use this a s a place where I could vent my feelings which was not always the best idea. However, for my first post in a year and a half, I am going to express my emotions! I AM IN LOVE WITH THERESA SENGSTOCK. I began dating her on November 27, 2011 and I have never been happier in my life. She is funny, beautiful and puts up with how dorky I am. I can't wait to spend my life with her. To connect this with the theme of my blog, here is our song. I think it perfectly tells the story of my life. I have finally found the girl that all the other flings were leading up to. I finally have an understanding of what true love is and I plan to spend the rest of my life making her happy. This is for her.

As Time Leaves us

got to 1:06 for the song

I have been hearing this song the radio and thinking about what it would be like to live forever young. As the school year winds down I have realized that there isn't nearly enough time for homework let alone other things I want to do, like hanging out with my girlfriend or friends. If I had more time, there are tons of things I wish I could be doing. There are different ways to look at this theory. Would it be better to live forever or just to make the most of what little life you have? I think there are pros and cons of each.

If you live forever, you don't have to worry about the amount of time you have. But everyone else still does. The problem would be having to watch your friends grow old and die when never will. I would hate to lose everyone I loved even if I would get an eternity to do whatever I wished. It is the same idea as the story Tuck Everlasting. In that book, the family finds a lake where, if you drink from it, you live forever. It is a cursed miracle and not as good as the alternative.

Since noone can live forever, we just have to try our best to do everything we can before we can't anymore. What that is really depends on the person. I just think that everyone should do what they want so they have no regrets about it when they die. We would all be happier if we got to do that.

I just haven't met you yet

This is a great song I have just heard on the radio. It's called Haven't met you yet and it is a great love song. It was strange to hear that it was by Michael Buble because his music is usually more old style and not pop. I believe that this song sounds like a theme song for sitcom from the 90s.

How can I make them Proud?

Recently, there have been lots of award presentations for Theatre and Choir. These banquets are long and not exciting unless you actually get awards. In the past, I have done well at these events. I have recieved best in section for choir, best new member, soloist, and others. But this year was different. I was in a choir with seniors, so best in section would have been hard to get. Other people were better than me, so best new member was out too. I didn't have a solo, and all that combined made it a pretty boring night. I was sad that I didn't get these awards, but what I missed most was that I did not get the Baritone Belt of Power. This award is given to a junior baritone after a long speech that is very humorous. I felt like I had a good shot at getting it because I was an All-State Baritone, but appearently that doesn't matter. Instead it went to someone who was in chamber choir, a feat I have yet to accomplish. All of this made me sad but what made me even more depressed about it was my dad.



After walking out of those long awards, my dad was not happy that we got nothing. I don't know why but he found lots to criticize about the way I did things to explain why I had failed to accomplish anything. I know that he wasn't mad at me but I did my best so it felt like he was. I got a choir all-state and two speech all-states this year, and yet, because I didn't get recognition for anything, my dad was upset. I have made a plan, or at least started a plan, to take my school by storm and win as many awards as I can next year. I will make my dad proud of me, make no mistake about that.

Prom

Last Saturday was Prom at my school and it was amazing. We have a Senior prom only but since I am dating a senior I got to go. It was a really big thing and It took a lot of work to figure out. But it was all worth it in the end

The problem with figuring things out was that my girlfriend is a part time senior. She is home schooled for half of the time and is at school for the other part. This caused a problem because she didn't get the information about getting tickets or tables until really late. We ended up sitting at a table with couples we didn't know but that was fine because we got to talk to each other more that way.

The next step was finding a dress and a tux. she found her dress about two weeks before prom. I already had a tux so all I had to find was a vest and tie that would match her dress or a bow tie and cumber bun. Her dress was a light pink color it simple yet elegant and she looked great in it. I knew that I shouldn't get anything light purple or it might be too close to her color but not match. I decided to get a dark purple color instead. The problem was that no one in town had just a purple vest availible or a bow tie and cumber bun. We finally found a place: Center Stage Costume Shop. They had a bow tie and cumber bun that were perfect so we snatched them up before they were gone with all the rest of the purple vests.

the night of prom I went over to her house to take pictures. My mom came too and we had a small photo shoot. about ten minutes into the half hour we had planned, we ran out of poses and the will to take pictures so we headed out for the diner. We ate at Elmcrest Country Club. The food was delicious and the chocolate cake was heavenly.

After the meal the dance began. I knew that I wanted this night to be special for her since it was her senior prom so I requested our song: Music of My Heart by N*SYNC and Gloria Estafan. The DJ said he would play it and he did. I will never forget the look on her face when the song came on and she realized what it was. She was so happy and I was happy too. That was probably the best part of the dance. But we had fun and we were some of the last people to leave the dance.

Then came post prom. it was amazing. There was bowling, food, and poker. After blowing all my fake money in poker and watching my girlfriend win two teddy bears out of the claw machine ( one of which she gave to me) it was time for the hypnotist show. It was fun to watch him make our friends do crazy things that they would never do if they were awake. After a great show, we headed home. We didn't want the night to end but like all good things, it did. I will never forget that night and how much fun it was. I can't wait till my senior prom. I'm sure it will be even better than this.

Rhapsody Rampage

I have recently found a site for downloading music that has made it so much easier to get music. On Friday, I found rhapsody, a music downloading website similar to iTunes. I heard about it on a tv comercial while holding my iPod so I decided to look it up. It is better than iTunes in the fact that you can download as many songs that you want for ten dollars a month. On iTunes you pay a certain amount per song which is either $0.99 or $1.29. So if you download more than ten songs on Rhapsody, you have saved money. That was appealing but i don't have money to buy songs on iTunes or Rhapsody, and that was when the next thing about was revealed. When you open a new acount on Rhapsody, you get a free week of downloading as many songs as you want or can. That was amazing! I couldn't believe that all the songs I had wanted off iTunes were availible for free off of rhapsody. So, for the past two days, I have gone on a buying spree, download hundreds of songs and whole albums from my favorite bands. And I still have five days left to take advantage of this great deal. But what happens afterwards is the question. I don't have the money to pay every month but I want to make sure that I don't have to pay to keep my free songs. I have tried my best to load them on to iTunes but all my attemps have failed. My hope is that the app will still exist and I can put it in permanent off line mode so that I can still have my songs and it will never know that I haven't paid. I also wish I could get all the songs I want too. When I tried to get the Beatles songs and the Eagles songs I wanted, I found that you could only get tribut band and kareoke versions of the songs. Those are alright but they aren't the originals so I need to buy them on iTunes still. Besides that small set back however, I am much happier with the way Rhapsody works than iTunes and I am using an iPod to write this. So my apologies to apple but I feel that those of you who can should switch to Rhapsody. It is much more cost effective and the free trial is unmatched. My suggestion is that you don't change until you know you will have time to sit and download song for a week so that the free trial is better used. I realized my mistake to late and now I will lose some of the time that I would have used to get songs to take tests and go to school.