Band Name: McDull

Album Name: Enormously Improved By Death

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Web-cheating is frowned upon!

*I pre-apologize for the superfluous amount of Tori songs that will most likely appear on this list. I promise that if more than 12 appear, I'll skip all the rest so more artists may come up*

1)I've paid my dues, time after time. 
We are the Champions - Queen

2)Baker, Baker, baking a cake, make me a day, make me whole again. 
Baker, Baker - Tori Amos

3)These tears I've cried, I've cried a thousand oceans. 
1000 Oceans - Tori Amos

4)Tomorrow's just another day, another way to spend my day all by myself. 
Tomorrow - Lillix

5)Turn around, every now and then I get a little bit lonely that you're never coming around. 
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Tori Amos

6)The lunatic is on the grass. 
Brain Damage - Pink Floyd

7)Now it seems to me, that you know just what to say, but words are only words, can you should me something else? 
Lonely No More - Rob Thomas

8)A little dust never stopped me none, he liked my shoes, I kept them on. 
Honey - Tori Amos

9)Left the ground, in black and white, and when the plane went down, the colors all around. 
Rough Landing, Holly - Yellowcard

10)Looks like we made it, look how far we've come my baby. 
You're Still the One - Shania Twain

11)I'm not that smart - my siblings have been telling me that for years. 
I'm Not that Smart - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

12)One song glory, one song before I go. 
One Song Glory - Rent

13)Icicle, Icicle, where are you going? 
Icicle - Tori Amos

14)Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care?

15)I heard a voice last night, it said wake up and open your eyes.

16)White lines on your mind, keep it steady, you were never ready for the lies. 
Edit - Regina Spektor

17)I confess, I messed up , droppin, "I'm sorry", like you're still around. 
A Little Less "Sixteen Candles," A Little More Touch Me - Fall Out Boy

18)Sitting here counting the hours, waiting for the sun to kiss the sea.

19)Where the river cross, crosses the lake. 
Your Cloud - Tori Amos

20)The power of orange knickers, the power of orange knicker, the power of orange knickers, under my petticoat. 
The Power of Orange Knickers - Tori Amos

21)I want you to know, that I'm happy for you. 
You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette

22)So I ran faster , but it caught me here, yes my loyalties turned like my ankle in the seventh grade,
running after Billy, running after the rain. 
Precious Things - Tori Amos

23)Up in heaven's happy portals, where the parties never stop, all the debonaire immortals do a dance called the heaven hop. 
Heaven Hop - Anything Goes

24)Oh, I'm overdue, give me some room, I'm comin through. 
Dirrty - Christina Aguilera

25)Every time that I look in the mirror, all the lines on my face are getting clearer. 
Dream On - Tori Amos


Ta-da! And there we have it! #5 and #25 happen to be Tori covers on my Itunes, but the original artist would suffice.

Talent Show was tonight!!!

Everyone did amazing!!!

So wiped out, gonna catch some Z's.

Thanks to everyone for coming :-D

Oh man! Looks like I havn't been here in a while! Let me take care of that for you...



There we go...now if you could just scroll up and down so the whole illusion of the "dusting" could work...that would be great.

Anywho, enough with my tomfoolery! For some reason I felt very inspired to update today. And for those of you who know my updating habits, you know how often that happens! :-p

SO! So much has happened since like LAST summer that I'm not even going to TRY to recap! So I'm just going to rant about whatever I want to for 16 minutes and 32 seconds! Okay!? Okay!

My mother and brother went away to Cape Cod last night. This is the third year in a row they went without me. Surprisingly, this loss has no major impact on me. Since I don't live with them anyway it's not like their is an eerie absence in the household, as I'm sure Katie and Amanda have felt the past week/weekends. The fact that I'm not going on vacation doesn't really matter to me anyways, as long as I get to go to Florida again in the summer! That's always fun. But this week I had so many things to do anyways, like scholarships, parties, college visiting, constructing, piano playing, brain surgery giving....alright, maybe not the latter, but if I'm in an ambitious mood, you never know....

While whisking my annoying brother away for a three-day carnival in the Cape, my mother oh-so-generously left me with a bathroombeaureatoweltoiletrythingwithlotsofdrawsthingamabobby! As you can see I don't even really know WHAT it is, let alone how to put it together. In any case, she cheerfully pleaded for me and/or Sal to put it together at some point when she got it a few weeks ago. Then the first week went by and she pleasantly suggested that we mosey on upstairs, smack a few nail and put the piece together after school or something. Then that week went by and its vacation, and then before going away she tyranically demanded that we put the damn thing together or else....okay there wasn't really an or else, but she meant it! Finally, today, after procrastinating way too long, we started our venture to put together this satanic towel beaureau thing of death. However, it was not known at the time that it would consume our souls and cause us to go mentally insane. So we open the box and find that everything is nicely packed with 10 billion pounds of styrofoam. With all of the friggen styrofoam they gave us I could have built my own little white bathroom thing, but, okay I guess they REALLY didn't want it to break or get scratched or anything. ALSO, this is the first time I've ever experienced a packaging company that took the time to put all of the little hardware pieces (i.e nails, screws, dowels, etc.) into separate compartments in one big package. Each step corresponded with package 1, 2, 3, etc. Wow, putting this together is gonna be a piece of cake! Or so it was thought....

1.5 Hours Later:
"Hey, why won't these screws go in, the hole isn't big enough for them?"
"Ummm....Oh look, I think we built the whole thing upside down."
*Draws of the chest magically move back and forth, maniacally laughing in our misery*

MAYBE if in Step 1 the picture of assembling the.....UGH...everytime I go to say what it is I have to think about what I'm going to call it because I'm not even sure what it is! So I'm just going to refer to it now as the Thing of Death, A.K.A Tod. So anyways, in Step 1 Tod is pictured with the top of it on the floor! Now, I believe this would lead one to assume that that particular piece would actually be the bottom. But, no, the makers of this silly Tod wanted to see how many crafty craftsmen could look past their silly little joke to build it correctly. So the constructing of Tod was temporarily halted and the disembling began...

1/2 Hour Later:
"HEY WAIT....*picks up piece and positions in way that makes it very apparent that disembling the whole thing was unnecessary and all we had to do was flip over one bloody wooden piece of...wood and all would be fixed!"
"Okay....let's put it back together.."

By now, my dad was involved, and that's never a good thing, especially now, because:
1)He's not a handyman whatsoever
2)He has very little patience
3)He despises putting things together with tools
4)He was hungry

Now if any of you know me, if the hunger is there, the first three really don't even matter. Surprisingly, he was not as explosive as I thought he would be, although I could see the contempt for this wooden thing of darkness emitting from the looks of hatred forming on his face.

1/2 Hour Later:
Finally after much perseverance Tod was almost finished. Mind you, at this point I was ready to screw all of the screws into my foot rather than finish this thing..but the drawers still needed to be done and the back panel needed to be secured on. Now, after playing their little upside down joke on us. The direction people thought they would also be clever by making it two DIFFERENT steps in order to construct three identical drawers. Hmm...? What's so different about the first one you ask?
Well here's your answer..:


Yup, that's right...see that label on the upper right that says, "Simply Chic logo" ? That's the only difference between the first drawer and the second two. God Forbid we didn't know that logo was there! If we put the panel with the logo on the second drawer than surely the whole Tod would spontaneously burst into flames and incinerate into a pile of burning ashes. Despite this ridiculous labeling, the Tod was finally complete and after much blood, sweat, and tears were shed, she is standing in my newly refurbished bathroom right now. Only...after all that we were too tired to actually use it yet, so it's just sitting there right now. But promise me, IT WILL be used, and my mom DEFINATELY owes me a dog...or something of that calibur, for risking my life in putting together this Tod.

There you go! Very Lovely!!!

Anyways, I have been going on for way longer than my 16 minutes, and 32 seconds as intended, so I must finish up...I was going to talk about Katie's splendiforous party yesterday, but time has cut me short!

Hopefully I'll write again in the near future, and not in like 10 months from now! :-D

See ya!

That's Right. Peter. John. DiMauro. just purchased tickets to Tori's CONCERT!!!!!
My immense happiness in incomprehendable. ah.ah.ah.ah.ah.

Okay, I'm gonna go jump around my house.

Oh yeah, Christina, you are the BEST!

Byeeeeee!!!!!

"And I wonder if he's okay. If you see him...say hi."

The dawn is breaking
A light shining through
You're barely waking
And I'm tangled up in you
Yeah

I'm open, you're closed
Where I follow, you'll go
I worry I won't see your face
Light up again

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind
I somehow find
You and I collide

I'm quiet you know
You make a frist impression
I've found I'm scared to know I'm always on your mind

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the stars refuse to shine
Out of the back you fall in time
I somehow find
You and I collide

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to ryhme
Out of the doubt that fills your mind
You finally find
You and I collide

You finally find
You and I collide
You finally find
You and I collide



Oh, Peter, what are you to do?

It's really nice outside! Maybe I'll take a walk. That would be nice.

See ya.

Yay. Once again a long period of no updates.

My computer wasn't working for a few weeks so it wasn't totally totally my fault. Okay, plus I'm lazy.

So much has happened that I would most certainly be here all night writing about it, so I think I'll just make a list of the top five things that have to do with the past 3 months!

1)Music Man turned out extremely well and it was a great show.
2)I got my license!
3)I have a car!
4)I got my wisdom teeth out on December 27, 2004. It was an interesting experience.
5)Auditions for "A Chorus Line" and I will play Mike. I'm so excited!
6)I went to the NETC in Maine and had an extremely fun time!
7)While I was there I got Vanessa's new album!
8)I made it into the National Honor Society! (The dinner induction is tomorrow night, yikes!)
9)I got CABLE IN MY ROOM! Arlkyhjrlekjharleky!!!! I know like 3925832 of you already have had this privelige, but it is a very momentous occasion to me and makes me very happy.
10)Ummm...uhhh...nothing to do with me but four days ago my brother slipped on a patch of ice on our stairs, falling down the whole flight and landed on his back. He walked over to get in the car to go to school and fainted, falling flat on his face. And now has scratches all over it. hahahhahhahaha. quite humorous. he is okay, so there is no need to worry.

Whooo well there they are. If you have any questions about anything just ask my personally and I'll be glad to elaborate.

Thank goodness the student directed festival isn't this weekend as it was supposed to be. No one is ready.

Also in other exciting news, not to many of you, but to me at least, Tori is releasing her new Album The Beekeeper on February 22. Not only that but, once her album is out she will be going on tour. And I AM DOING ANYTHING TO GET TICKETS! akwetjakewjtklaejtk;aejt! I've already heard two tracks from and I am incredibly anxious for February to come.

In other CD news, I did end up getting Ms. Carlton's album and I <3 it. If only I could've won tickets to Jingle Ball Godammnit!

Oh yeah, by the way, I wanted to re-layout my journal so I could put a beautious picture of my choice in the background. I love the way it came out.

Errr....That's it for now.

See ya.


P.S: I'll be in Canada on my birthday! Grrr...I guess it won't be that bad 'cause I'll be with the chorus and band, but still...oh well.

Quick update before I have to run to rehearsal! Phew, for last week and this week Monday's are like the day of death for me. I have school, driving school, tap, then Music Man rehearsal.

Driving school is going by fast, which is good. It isn't bad at all. There is this very cheerleader-type-preppy girl in the class that is so stupid. She makes me laugh. On a happy note, since Wakefield High has a half day tomorrow, all the Wakefield kids wanted to get driving school out of the way and have it 11:30-1:30. Whoo hoo! Day off from school, cause I am totally not making up any classes. My goal is get my license by the end of November. As long as I get the road classes done at the beginning of November, I'm golden, unless I fail the road test of course.

My school ID came out really good this year. If only I bought the actual pictures..oh well!

Stupid research paper due Friday blaragharirhekfkjdkfh

Okay, I've lost all sense of continuity...Update when I actually have time...


BYE BYESH!

Oh man. It has been quite some time since I last updated, and I'm feeling random urge to right now. I'll be surprised if anyone even sees this assuming that for the past few months everyone has given up even checking my journal.

So far this year is going pretty well, although I am extremely busy. Academically, this school year is much better than last year. I think the everpresent, looming cloud of Boland stuff was just too overbearing to provide any motivation to actually do the work.

Music Man is crazy, but I hope it will be a good show. It's gonna be at the high school, which I am very happy about. Originally it was going to be at the middle school, which is just too small of a space. But the show is in November, if you'd wanna go just ask me and I can get you tickets before they open to the general public, oh yeah, go me.

I want VC's new CD. Two days. Yes!

This song Priscilla gave me is so good! "Still Hurting" from the musical "The Last Five Years" It gets stuck in my head at least once a day. I can play it on the piano alright as of now, but it will get better. Then maybe we could do it for the talent show hmm...

Well I'm done for now. I'll try to update more...maybe..

Alright, I'm definitely gonna update now while everything is on my mind and not in the morning like I was gonna do. It's extremely late/early, whatever you wanna call it, but I figure I'm probably not going to get to sleep shortly anyway, so I might as well.

I'm at a very awkward point in my life right now. I realized it tonight. At this very moment I really don't feel like I have even one person in which I have a perfect relationship with. I definitely have [a] best friend[s], and a lot of great friends in my life, but there is one major flaw in every relationship that makes it falter at times.

A discovering of the secret
Dishonesty
A troubled past
An accidental slip of the tongue
Immaturity
Confusion
Impatience
Jealousy
Misunderstanding
Distance
The inability to relate
Irresponsibility

And there we have it. The twelve vices. All of which people fall under one, or more. Reading this over I have come to the conclusion that I have made this into some twisted and sick game. One where people will most likely try to play a variation of the classic "Match Column A with Column B game." It is not my suggestion to do so of course though. Also, it would be foolish of me to say that some of these came about without the influence of myself. However, I do recognize them and always try to work past the various obstacles.

I've also had enough of the "trying to boast to people of my terrible life so they'll feel bad for me" bits. Ahem: i.e "I hate my life!" "I can't believe this! Why does God hate me?! I'm going to go cry now for 3290580239 hours!" And I imagine you get the point by now. I have discussed this topic with others and have come to similar conclusions. All these does is arouse pity. Pity for the fact that one has to resort to such behavior to insticate the sympathy of other people. These little acts only lead me to having less amounts of respect. And that's just the way it is.

Well I think I have gotten out what I needed to. Even in an indirect way I have adressed everything I need to. I don't know if I've offended anyone or said anything detrimental. If I did....Oh. Well. :)

Maybe I'll go to bed now. Maybe.

See ya

You are: Scarlet's Walk.

Mature. Worldly. Experienced. You've seen it
all, and you want to share your wisdom with
others. Your travels have opened your mind to
many different points of view and opinions.
Respectful of others, you choose to share your
thoughts with the world, hoping that somehow
you will help your fellow man. Ever the
scholar, though, you continue your journey,
always seeking knowledge.


Which Tori Amos Album Are You?
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Wheeee!!! Yay for quizzes!

So today a bunch of us went to Baker's Plays to read plays and pick potential ones to direct next year. I picked one out and there's one that's going to be coming in the mail so I can read it when it comes in. I'm still unsure as if I should direct or not. I might just end up solely acting, but we'll see.

Improv was unbelievably funny Wednesday night. I'm so glad I got in. It's a nice break in the middle of week to just relax and have so much fun.

Oh yeah, I saw 'Mamma Mia' Tuesday night. I still have mixed feelings about it. I don't know if I liked it. I was a little upset because we had to see the understudy for the lead, but she ended up being really good so it didn't even matter. The other female lead, Sophie, was an amazing dancer, although she was lacking in the acting department. And the male leads were very weak. One of the guys I could not stand his voice at all. *shiver* There were a lot of funny bits though, involving a lot of the minor characters. It was very amusing. I didn't really like the way it ended, but hey, you can't please everyone. And randomly throughout the show the cast would be in like scuba wear or swim wear. It was very odd. But Anyways, I bought the soundtrack because I love the music regardless of my thoughts onthe whole show.

I want to see 'Wicked' WICKEDLY bad. I read the book. I've listened to the soundtrack, which I think is amazing. Idina Menzel has the best voice ever. If you want a little taste of the music of the show I would definitely suggest "Popular," sung by Kristen Chenoweth. Tt's a wicked fun song that can become very addicting. However my favorite song in the show is "Defying Gravity", sing by Idina. This song gives me chills. It's great.

Well...I think that's it for now...Off to eat some apple! Mmmm!!!

See ya

I woke up extremely late today, which was to be expected I guess. Last night I was extremely drowsy and on the verge of passing out. It probably has to do with the fact that I had to walk 39589035 miles and was just extremely wiped. I know I haven't updated for a million years, but the summer has been fun so far I guess. I've laid back, been crazy, slept, etc. It is very rainy outside which is depressing. But oh well..

And I am very excited because I found 30958309 Tori Icons, so I changed it. I know you are all sooo dissapointed that you don't get to see my beautiful face everytime you come here, but you will just have to deal.

Didn't see any fireworks on the fourth, however, I could hear a whole lot of 'em.

Well, I gotta go take care of the dog I'm babysitting so it doesn't starve.

See ya.

Whoahhh ho...First time I've really slept in this vacation yet. Usually I've been waking up 9:30ish, but maybe since I stayed up 'til like 12:30 last night. Hmmm whatever! Anyways...

Saturday I saw Mystic River. After watching it I concluded that it is one of the best movies I have seen all year. (Along with both Kill Bill volumes <333 If you have not seen them GO SEE THEM NOW!) Not only is the plot great, the acting is unbelievable. I've never really seen Sean Penn in a movie before and now I definitely know why he was nominated for an Oscar (Did he win? I think he did...but just to be on the safe side..) But yeah, I loved it. I could go on forever, but I will restrain myself.

Sunday was uhh Father's Day? I definitely made the best card. Mhmmmm. The "Father's Day Festivites" were not particularly exciting, as is to be expected, but I did jump in the pool for .4 seconds. All of the past times I've gone in the pool it's just been too cold to stay in for more than .4 seconds, as I said above. There will be more extremely hot days though. Sunday night was pretty interesting though. After we got home from my grandmother's house we hear meowing from outside our door. We open it and there is the cutest little kitten ever! Now when I say the cutest little kitten ever, this kitten made me want to pick it up and not let it go for the rest of the night (which would be terribly horriffic since I'm allergic to cats, but I think you get the point.) Of course my brother wanted to keep it, always fighting to get a dog/and or cat, but my mom was very reluctant so we just let it be and they left back to their house. So then I'm just at home and I figure I should take a shower before I go to bed. But before I go to take a shower there is this very ugly moth that I decide to kill. Once again it turned into a very disgusting experience. I seem to have a knack for killing insects and having like half of their semi-alive body fall on me and twitch like crazy. After that wonderful experience I run up to take a shower. The most confusing/frightening shower ever. In the middle of it I was washing my hair and wasn't really paying attention, but when I looked down I was standing in a pool of blood. Now if you were taking a shower and were standing in a pool of blood, you would freak out too. However, unlike me, you probably wouldn't think someone was murdered in your bathroom. The first thing I did was looked out to see if anyone else was in the bathroom. (Obviously no) Then I started frantically searching my body, screaming in my head "AHHHH WHERE AM I BLEEDING?" The drops of blood seemed to keep falling from the ceiling. Eventually, lightheaded and dizzy, I realized that I had a bloody nose. Nothing too major. But it still was an interesting experience. After that I heard people downstairs and was very confused 'cause I knew my mom and brother had already left, but it was them again. And my mom was "too worried about the kitten to just go home." Because we realized then that it just would've slept in like our bush all night, and that would not be fun. So they took it with them to sleep at their house. As they left I waved goodbye, then fell on the floor in an unconcious daze!

Monday! Hmm...Oh yeah! they brought the kitten back here. It stayed on our porch most of the morning, but then wandered out most of the day. I wish I knew how to upload pics 'cause I would should you this animal I've been ranting about. But I do not. So oh well. That night a bunch of us went up to Salem Willows. It was really fun, even though I stupidly forgot money. *shakes head* But I played a game and won 214790219409214 (or 130) tickets. And we bought Pop pop's (you probably have no idea what they are, but if you saw them, heard them, felt them (hahaha), tasted them (hahrhehjrk), or smelt them, if that's possible, you'd know what I mean) and six lollipops! And Kahula ice cream is really good. And I have to pay Katie back $2.00. We got home at like 11:30, and I decided to call my mom for the nightly kitten update. Apparently it did come back and they took it back with them again. Andddddddd she said that we're probably just going to keep it!!!! Whooooooooo new kitten. It'll have to stay with them though, 'cause otherwise I would have perpetual itchy eyes and stuffy noses, but at least I'll be able to see it whenever. My mom did explain to my brother though, that if someone claims it, we'll have to give it back. But I mean, it's been wandering around our neighborhood, if you wanted it that bad you should keep it inside. It's beyond me how someone can just not care about a little kitten and let it out and hope it fends for itself. But hey, whatever! I'm gonna go read, (maybe finish) Wicked..(More on that when I'm done with it...)

See ya!

Wheee. Today was the worst final day ever! But that's okay! I think I did alright, we'll see.

After much debating with myself I decided to try out for improv. My decision must have changed 12 times, but I figured I had nothing else to do today and it's really funny. I actually did better than expected, having to play the two games I always saw as the hardest while watching the show. 1-5-1. And the Bell Scene. But they both went very well, so I am glad. If I'm in I'll get a call tonight...If not, oh well! I tried :)'

It's really hot man. I'm gonna take a shower and try to cool off. Then maybe read Othello..yeah...or most likely practice my song for the Perf. Arts final. Singing "One Song Glory" from "Rent." I <3 it..if you can DL it!

See ya.

Last day of school before finals Whoooo!!! Finals shouldn't be that bad as long as I go over the stuff the night before. At least not as grueling as the summer is going to be.
8 History Essays. 5 English Essays. Mmmm! I can't wait! *rolls eyes*

Dum dee dumm dee doooo today was so pointless, we didn't really do much of anything. Would've been nice to have had it off for the "National Day of Mourning" or such, but whatever!

The weather has been so nice! I either A)wish I had a pool or B)Wish I could drive, so then I could just drive to my grandmothers and hop in whenever I want. But I won't be driving 'til November so that won't work out, now will it.

That's it!

See ya.

Silent all these Years

You are concerned with telling your story whatever
that may be, either artistically or just saying
it.


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Whoo!! One of the best Tori songs ever!

Yeah, I'm bored. We sang at a nursing home today after school in this IMMENSE heat. The people there are so cute. There's always the woman with her mouth gaping open the whole time that appears so amazed with our singing she can't shut it if it took all her might. Then there's the endless amount of sleeping ones. The woman that continuously claps through every song, making me think "Are we that great,?" or, "Does she want us to shut up?" One woman made me thoroughly upset, for she had a frown on her face throughout the entirety of each song. However, for a few seconds after we finished she would smile ever so slightly. To know that for that second we made her happier was just a great feeling. Yeah, I'm getting all reflective and such, but whatever.

I just got out of a much needed shower that soo helped in this heat. My parents and brother got to go to my grandmothers today and swim. GRRR. Maybe I'll snag the car and drive over there myself...

See ya

Woah man..only a few more days of school.

I went for a walk last night and for some reason I'm real achey now. My knees are killing me. Oh well, I'll get over it.

I love my angry lemon. I also made Ultimate Mix 3, which I am listening to now, and is definitely the best mix I have made thus far.

Not too inspired to write anything else...maybe I will in the near future.

See ya.