My Humps?!

Another parody video I found for the song My Humps by The Black Eyed Peas.

Who’s it by? Why Alanis Morissette of course, she kinda shows how stupid the lyrics are.
Enjoy

IB playlist part 2

Track # 8
Slow Me down by Emmy Rossum
“Rushing and racing and running in circles
Moving so fast I’m forgetting my purpose
Blur of the traffic is sending me spinning
Getting nowhere

My head and my heart are colliding chaotic
Pace of the world I just wish I could stop it
Try to appear like I’ve got it together
I’m falling apart”

Although this one sure is fairly obvious, let me break it down for you just in case you’re in melt down mode today. Basically it’s about how we try to get so much done within such a small, constricted amount of time yet ultimately we get nowhere.

Track #9
The Rain Don’t Last Forever by Hope
Emotional breakdown day song, ‘nuff said.

“Sometimes my burdens get so heavy
And it seems too hard to bear
Sometimes I feel so empty
And it feels like no one’s there
Somebody said that nothing lasts forever
Just the storm so I’ve been told
But it seems that when it rains it pours”

Track #10
What Do We Know by Thousand Food Krutch
“What do we know?
What do we know?
What do we know?
What do we know?
What do we know?
What do we know?”

TOK much?

Track #11
Going Under by Evanescence
Everything learned in elementary school just doesn’t seem like it fits, especially in history. Have you always been taught the brief condensed, filtered version?

“I’m going under (going under)
Drowning in you (drowning in you)
I’m falling forever (falling forever)
I’ve got to break through
I’m going under

Blurring and stirring – the truth and the lies.
(So I don’t know what’s real) So I don’t know what’s real and what’s not (and what’s not)
Always confusing the thoughts in my head
So I can’t trust myself anymore”

Track #12
Wait for You by Elliott Yamin
The song your dear love one’s sing as your go through 2 years of this.

“So why does your pride make you run and hide?
Are you that afraid of me?
But I know it’s a lie
What you keep inside
This is not how you want it to be

So baby I will wait for you
Cause I don’t know what else I can do
Don’t tell me I ran out of time
If it takes the rest of my life”

Track # 13
Never Too Late by Three Days Grace
The suicidal cry of the IBers
“Even if I say
It’ll be alright
Still I hear you say
You want to end your life
Now and again we try
To just stay alive
Maybe we’ll turn it all around
‘Cause it’s not too late
It’s never too late”

Track #14
Help! By The Beatles
The Song we all sing deep down.

“Help, I need somebody,
Help, not just anybody,
Help, you know I need someone, help.”

Track # 15
Highway to Hell by ACDC
True that.
“I’m on a highway to hell
On the highway to hell
Highway to hell
I’m on the highway to hell”

Track #16
Ashes and Wine by A Fine Frenzy
Now this song can easily apply to IB when faced with a certain situation. You and your friend have been through IB all of this time, you even faced the horrors of pre-IB together, and now your friend is leaving, dropping IB!!! 

“Don’t know what to do anymore
I’ve lost the only love worth fighting for
I’ll drown in my tears
Don’t let him see
That would show you, that would make you hurt like me

All the same
I don’t want mudslinging games
It’s just a shame
To let you walk away”

Track # 17
Poison by Groove Coverage
IB enjoys watching us suffer.

“Your cruel device
your blood, like ice
One look, could kill
My pain, your thrill…”

Track # 18
You Raise Me Up by Josh Groban
Friends of yours will raise your spirits when you feel down and out. They will help you feel better about not finishing an assignment, having to redo the world lit paper, and the other pressures that you will feel through the course of this program. Always remember IB is like one giant family, we care but we still are always in competition with each other. 

“When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up: To more than I can be.”

Track # 19
Pain by Three Days Grace
If IB was a person this is the song it would sing. It would sing it loud and proud showing us all that’s screwed up in the world.

“You’re sick of feeling numb
You’re not the only one
I’ll take you by the hand
And I’ll show you a world that you can understand
This life is filled with hurt
When happiness doesn’t work
Trust me and take my hand
When the lights go out you’ll understand”

Track #20
Won’t Back Down by Tom Petty
Well your still in IB right? Well then this song is self-explanatory.

“Well I wont back down, no I wont back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I wont back down

Gonna stand my ground, wont be turned around
And Ill keep this world from draggin me down
Gonna stand my ground and I wont back down”

Track #21
Stand My Ground by Within Temptations
Goes along with the last one, but I figured you might need two songs like this in a row just for moral support.

“Though this might just be the ending
of the life I held so dear
but I won’t run, there’s no turning back from here

Stand my ground, I won’t give in
No more denying, I gotta face it
Won’t close my eyes and hide the truth inside
If I don’t make it, someone else will
Stand My Ground”

Track #22
Runaway By Groove Coverage
Now the first part kinda goes along with Runaway by Cartel, but with a more techno-ish beat.

“I want to runaway
As long as you are by my side
I’m singin’
OoO I try to runaway
But I can’t find a place to hide
…
Now the second part on the other hand is very important when faced with IB. Do not lose your individuality in this program, don’t become another homework zombie. Show IB whose boss! Take command and get control. You can do it.

No, I am not
Turning down my voice
Until you understand
There’s nothing to command
Until you realize
That we can touch the skies
Can you feel?
It’s out of control
Can you feel?
There’s nothing at all”

IB playlist

The first 7 songs  

 

Track #1

Manic Monday by The Bangles

Everyone can relate to this song, those Mondays where you just don’t want to get out of bed… not wanting the weekend to end.

“It’s just another manic Monday 
I wish it was Sunday 
‘Cause that’s my funday 
My I don’t have to runday 
It’s just another manic Monday”

 

Track #2

In the End by Linkin Park

This one should be pretty obvious, the pointlessness of IB and how some nights there are just breakdowns. Maybe deep down IB is trying to make us become more like Meursault.

“I tried so hard 
And got so far 
But in the end 
It doesn’t even matter 
I had to fall 
To lose it all 
But in the end 
It doesn’t even matter”

 

Track # 3

A Hard Days Night by The Beatles

A more optimistic outlook on the fact that IBers are all sleep deprived and overworked.

“It’s been a hard day’s night, and I’ve been working like a dog
It’s been a hard day’s night, I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you I find the things that you do
Will make me feel alright”

 

Track # 4

Runaway by Cartel

You can run and hide from the looming work, but lets be honest it won’t do you any good.

“Buried covered now, you’ll find peace – in the earth aground.
Stop now, there’s no point in breathing – it’s not allowed.
On the surface, how can you find – reason to move on?

Until then you can runaway.
Do you best to hide your face.
And oh I know you best;
I know you get what you get – you get what you deserve.”

 

Track # 5

Six Feet From the Edge by Creed

This song is about a man who is dying and trying to stay alive “holding onto all I think is safe”.  Just think slowly drowning in homework, an iop, a world lit paper, science labs, last minute history projects. Slowly we can see our decline, our grades, our social lives, and yet we still try to maintain it all.

 

More into the depth of this song, it talks about how he was going nowhere and is trying to escape.  We try so hard to keep on task with everything, trying so hard to escape from the evils of procrastination.

 

The last part of the song he thinks that he can go on, “but I still believe there’s something there for me,” but he’s down to his last breath. There’s a reason for IB, there’s gotta be something in there for each of us, right?

“Hold me now
I’m six feet from the edge and I’m thinking
That maybe six feet
Ain’t so far down”

 

Track # 6

Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy

The meaning most people see from this song is about a romance that was never formed, the girl was given so many false signals. She becomes determined to leave it all behind and move on, although is still hung up on the almost romance and feels rather indignant towards the guy, not out of genuine dislike, but out of hurt over what has happened. She wants to work it out deep in her heart, even though she knows that’s she’s better moving on.

 

Now turn and apply this to IB. The students were given so many false signals, so many lies. The students become determined to leave IB and quit, move on, but are still hung up on certain attachments to it. The students feel rather huffed up towards IB but not out of hate for the thing in general just out of what it has done, and what it gives out. No matter what thought the students will try to figure something out, someway to survive the course, even though it would be better for our gpa, sanity, social life, health, ect… to move on.

 

“Goodbye, my almost lover 
Goodbye, my hopeless dream 
I’m trying not to think about you 
Can’t you just let me be? 
So long, my luckless romance 
My back is turned on you 
Should’ve known you’d bring me heartache 
Almost lovers always do”

Track # 7

Harder, Better, Faster by Daft Punk

Admit it; this song is like some sort of IB motto.

“Work it harder, make it better
Do it faster, makes us stronger
More than ever hour after hour
Work is never over”

Everything.

I know I should know better
There are days when I’m okay
And for a moment
For a moment I find hope
But there are days when I’m not okay
And I need your help
So I’m letting go

I need you to know
I’m not through the night
Some days I’m still fighting to walk towards the light

(Courage by Superchick)

I don’t really feel like sleeping, it’s just something that’s just not on my to do list. I should probably catch up on the mountain of homework that’s on my stand, but that seems rather dull.

Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) has got to be the cutest book in the universe, especially with all the pictures. I have the feeling thought that it’s going to make me not want to grow up, because I was looking at some quotes today and it seem to favor the life of a child.

Exciting news! I used the self checkout at the library! It was superb and really easy. Best of all though I didn’t have to pay my fine hehe. Speaking about libraries reminds me that I have so much to read. I would have time to read though, if I actually sat down and read. The problem is a lot has been on my mind lately and when I start reading I feel guilty about not working on some crazy school assignment. Then I get on the computer after I finished a chapter or so of a book and try to work. The only problem with my plan is the computer has internet capabilities, and I get distracted fairly easily. For example right now I should be doing some crazy Huck Finn study questions (that should be finished) but I’m writing a blog instead.

I did work a bit though. I finished part of my science lab!

*victory dance*

The “Snow White Program” refers to a program written by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1973. The purpose of this program was to legally correct a number of false governmental reports about the Church of Scientology, its leaders and members. (random fact for you Olivia)

-Clover

oh, When you would be here in my arms!

Urg. I have a speech to write for English, which I’m completely avoiding btw.

Why on earth did I pick

Nihilism

oh well, I’ll figure something out I’m sure.

It’s just that I’m reading about the author and he doesn’t like Nihilism and his book is NOT supporting it.  (at least that’s what I’ve read, I’m still lacking a little research) It seems like the author is more of an absurdism than anything, even though he doesn’t like to be ‘labeled’.

fun quote things about Nilisium

• Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
• A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy.
• Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.  
• Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;
  Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;
  The second best’s a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
• Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question “why” is lacking. What does nihilism mean?—that the supreme values devalued themselves.

OH and some crazy songs have been stuck in my head lately, all songs that i used to love <3 (still do)

“Tourniquet” by Evanescence

do you remember me
lost for so long
will you be on the other side
or will you forget me
I’m dying, praying, bleeding and screaming
am I too lost to be saved
am I too lost?

my God my tourniquet
return to me salvation

“Graduation (Friends Forever)” by Vitamin C

Stay at home talking on the telephone
We would get so excited and we’d get so scared
Laughing at ourselves thinking life’s not fair
And this is how it feels

As we go on
We remember
All the times we
Had together
And as our lives change
Come Whatever
We will still be
Friends Forever

“Beauty From Pain” by Superchick

After all this has passed, i still will remain
After i’ve cried my last, there’ll be beauty from pain
Though it won’t be today,
Someday i’ll hope again
And there’ll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

(and last but not least)

“Revenge on the Radio” by Danger is my Middle Name

One day you’ll hear me singing on the radio
a song that I wrote for the lies you told

Lights out this joke’s on you!
Like a car crash right on cue
or a stuck trigger and my bad mood
on the radio

Guess I’ll get to work

-Clover

Perhaps this time you’ll come out fresh?

Happy Mothers Day!!!

Yay, another day, another celebration. Some how or another I thought Mother’s Day was on Tuesday, thankfully I had my mom’s gift already prepared.

How ’bout I let you in on a little secret, I’m planning this huge mother’s day thing for my mom when I turn 18. It’s going to have something to do with this song…..

That’s the only hint your getting. Now get offline and spend time with your mom/a motherly figure

-Clover

Heaven’s in New York

Bonjour!

Has anyone noticed that my blog subjects follow an ABAB pattern, well everyday but today because today a new poem starts! yay!

Anyway lets chit-chat about something fun, movies! Recently I saw the film The Forbidden Kingdom and it was not the cheesy kongfu movie I thought it was going to be. In fact is was very entertaining. Sure some parts were a little yawn-full, but what movie doesn’t have a scene or two like that! No matter, all that matters is my personal opinion on the movie.

The other movie I saw was this so called romantic comedy, One Last Thing.  I said, “so called” because of the fact that the movie was really emotional and not really the type of movie I was expecting. Before I actually tell you what I was expecting I’ll give you a brief, little synopsis; A boy, Dylan, who is a sophomore in High School has terminal cancer. Wish Givers Foundation (the equivalent to our Make a Wish Foundation) grants his last wish to go fishing with some sort of sports player, but everyone is shocked when Dylan says his true wish is to, “have a weekend alone with Nikki” who is a big supermodel. So on and so forth, I think you get the point. Doesn’t that sound like a semi-funny movie!! I think I only laughed no more than 4 times. Although the movie wasn’t the funny movie I was wanted, I still enjoyed it and found it somewhat touching. Before I stop rambling about this film I’ll let you read probably the best quote from the movie, “when you’re born you cry and the world is happy. when you die, the world cries… and you are happy.” Isn’t that deep! Makes you really have some hope for the great beyond.

The song that played during the credit made you appreciate the film a little more. The song was called Heaven’s in New York by Wyclef Jean.

If it was my last day on earth

I’d treat it like my first

go out the way i came in

so innocent so pure with no thoughts of insecurity

Live life to the fullest be what i wanna be

Last day on earth I tell my momma dont cry I’ll see my daddy in paradise

Where the blind can see, the mute can talk, the crippled can walk

but for now Heaven’s in New York

Happy Earth Day.

-Clover

Just like the homes of Rome

Happy Orange Juice day!

Being sick makes everything miserable, especially physical activity. Today I woke up at noon, got out of bed at 1pm, and right after started getting ready for ballet. Ballet begins at 2pm. Normally I’m there 10 or so minutes early, because I like to socialize a bit. I arrived exactly at 2pm today. There was a sub and well lets just say her teaching ways were a bit different. Lets just say it was a painful day. Chaînés, chaînés, chaînés !!! Could I hate them anymore? One week I’m can perform them decently, the next I’m spinning all over the room.

Today has been one of those do-nothing-days, and I hate do-nothing-days, especially when they’re on the weekend. I had so many things I was going to do today. My friends were going to come over, we were going to throw a little party, or get together Now look where I am! I’m eating applesauce in my bed and have a nervous compulsion to check my temperature every ten minutes.

What, you might ask, have I been doing in between checking my temperature?

Here’s a list I compiled of all the little ‘tasks’ I’ve accomplished.

• I read Dramacon volume 3, and of course I loved it!
• Searched the fridge for something decent to eat.
• Discovered rotting veggie dogs.
• Watch the imanga to Bizenghast. (http://www.youtube.com/user/tokyopoptv)
• Went back to the fridge to dig up some applesauce.
• And finally somehow ended up watching Avatar music videos on youtube.

This is the video that I’m in love with at the moment

I love everything about it, especially the song! “Remember The Name” by Fort Minor. Heck if I ever get good enough at dancing I want to choreograph and dance to this song, because it just makes you want to move.

I’m off to take my temperature some more

-Clover

Your burning at the stake

Good evening.

Time seemed to drag on today, in that kinda fast way. Does that make any sense? I have a feeling that I’m getting a flu or cold (who actually knows the difference anyway). So to say the least I’m miserable. It’s sad not being able to sing along to your favorite song because you have a sore throat.

Speaking of songs I finally kinda understand that song called Love Song by Sara Bareilles, since it’s a slightly popular song right now you hear it on the radio at least 10 times a day. Fortunately, it’s a nice sing-a-long song for the vast majority. It makes one hell of a pool song too, by the way. After getting the song stuck in my head I did what any sensible person does, I googled the song lyrics till I found out who sang it, then went to myspace and looked her up. I guess this could be some of the reasons I don’t get some homework done. To me it seemed like most her songs focused on the vague theme of love, but what artist doesn’t focus on that emotion? She’s pretty different though, a fresh voice (ha sounds like something a critic would say).

Mes favorite chansons par Sara Bareilles.

1. Fairytale
2. Bottle It Up
3. Love Song

Those choices are a bit biased because I’ve yet to hear tons of her songs, but hey if I can come up with at least three of the top of my head then she’s worth googling, right?

Well I’m off to get more cough drops .

- Clover