Cosmic Girl, by Jamiroquai

I must've died and gone to heaven,

'Cause it was a quarter past eleven
On a Saturday in 1999 - 
Right across from where I'm standing,
On the dance floor she was landing.

It was clear that she was from another time,
Like some baby Barbarella
With the stars as her umbrella.
She asked me if I'd like to magnetize.
"Do I have to go star-trekking?
'Cause it's you I should be checking."
So she laser beamed me with her cosmic eyes.

She's just a cosmic girl,
From another galaxy.
My heart's at zero gravity.
She's from a cosmic world,
Putting me in ecstasy,
Transmitting on my frequency.
She's cosmic.

I'm scanning all my radars - 
Well, she said she's from a quasar,
Forty thousand million light years away.
It's a distant solar system,
I tried to phone, but they don't list 'em
So I asked her for a number all the same.

She said, "step in my transporter,
So I can teleport ya
All around my heavenly body."
This could be a close encounter,
I should take care not to flounder.
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face

She's just a cosmic girl,
From another galaxy.
My heart's at zero gravity.
She's from a cosmic world,
Putting me in ecstasy,
Transmitting on my frequency.
She's cosmic.Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face.
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face...

She's just a cosmic girl,
From another galaxy.
Transmitting on my frequency, yeah, cosmic, oh...
Can't you be my cosmic woman?
I need you, I want you to be my cosmic girl
For the rest of time.

(Only one of each of us)

Two big things:

One: "Quadruple Fugue for String Orchestra", by Randall DeBruyn, is stuck in my head.  And has been for the past week and a half.  Especially the first subject.  Especially the part where the firsts have the first subject about two octaves higher than we've played it before and the seconds are doing the second subject and the thirds the third and the violas the fourth....
If anyone is reading this (XD Yeah.  Right.  Pfft) and knows what I'm talking about - that's really great.  If you don't know, come watch the TRL Orchestra competition on March 15 - it's in the Lakeridge auditorium, is completely free, and Lakeridge will be on stage as school lets out.

Two: "In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets.  And in this universe, three million million galaxies like this.  And in all that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us." [Paul Schneider, for ST:TOS: "Balance of Terror"]

It's really hard to put into words exactly what this quote means to me.   It's kind of the summation of my beliefs, my inspiration.  It makes me feel special - valuable - on a sort of cosmic scale, connected to something larger than I have the power to truly comprehend.  It also makes me feel achingly small.
Part of me wants to work this into my concentration.  There's a few ways I could do that - but none of them would satisfy me.  This quote and, far more importantly, the concepts it represents, invoke emotions that I cannot visually represent and still feel as if I am presenting truth.  (It would be more natural - but never easier - to explain with words, to labor in "the agony and the sweat" of my heart with a pen and a piece of notebook paper.)

Ah ha ha!!! JK, JK

So the "Howlin' for You" movie trailer WAS a hoax.  It's actually a music video in disguise for the Black Keys song of the same name.

They even had three different fake "movie reviews".

*facepalm*  I feel like such an idiot now, to be taken in by this "War of the Worlds" wanna-be.

Here's a link to the video:

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi695638553/

Also Blerk

I think I'm getting sick.

Also I'm not sure how I'm gonna pay for college (even in-state tuition, if I end up going to U of O is... not pleasant to think about) (on the upside U of O gave me a scholarship [yayyy!!!], on the downside, it's only $2,000 per year - doesn't even come close to paying for a dorm forget classes).

Also I still don't know what I'm going to do in art class tomorrow (I'm in the middle of a project right now, and can't quite move it... um).

Also I have a crapload of AP Physics homework to do.

Also an essay for AP English.

Also AP tests to think about because I was dumb enough to sing up for all the AP classes when I only needed an English class and a semester's worth of an elective to graduate.

Also I'm not sure if I want to pay the $87 dollars (because my parents will make me pay for it) for the AP Art portfolio/test/whatever the hell it is because I'm not going to art school or majoring in art or art history or anything (actually, I really want to go into astrophysics) and it's a possibility that I might take an art class as an elective but why should I try to get exempted from the beginning art class when I take art because I enjoy it and it helps me calm down and concentrate like meditation and therefore why not take Art 1 just for the fun of it and then blow them all out of the water when I reveal that I'm actually more talented than the rest of the people in Art 1 will most likely be because I was in advanced art and they're all taking the class because it's an easy A that can staisfy elective requirements?

Also I'm not even sure if that above monster of a run-on even made sense.

Also I've run out of things to go "Also..." about.

So...
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Have you guys heard about that new Tricia Helfer (super model and Number 6 of BSG fame) movie coming out?  "Howlin' for Me" or something.  It looks really really REALLY stupid.  I was kind of amazed and not in a good way - Helfer was in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!!!!!! Possibly one of the most intense, intelligent, thought-provoking sci-fi TV shows EVER!!!!!!! AND NOW SHE'S DOING THIS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?  (I'm trying to tell myself that it's a hoax.)

Dilemma Averted!

Or at least postponed.

Got sick last night, so I didn't have to go to school.  Which means my question of "What I am I going to do in art on Tuesday?" is now "What am I going to do in art on Thursday?"

Joy.

Hey y'all

Not sure if I was supposed to update this week or not, so I am anyways.

Don't have much to rant about - my life's flowing pretty smoothly right now.  My biggest problem is what to work on in art class tomorrow.  XD  I have two projects planned for my February concentration with a third as back-up just in case.  The thing is, the one I want to get done with first, I would really, really prefer to do at home.  I have all of the supplies I need here and I'd rather not deal with having to lug them back and forth (especially because there are kind of a lot of them).   The second one I would also prefer to do at home - or at least do the first few steps here.  It involves printmaking, so I think it would be nice to use the actual printing press (the way I do it works, and I can get everything lined  up pretty well, but it's time-consuming.  Also, my mom's paranoid about me getting ink on her rolling pin...).  My third on, the back-up, also would work better if I did it at home.  If I do it, it'll be a photography based project, and will probably require quite a bit of manipulation - I can't take the pictures at school and I can't edit them on the school computers because I don't know photoshop well enough to do that.  I need to use the program I have on my home computer.

So, basically, unless I spend the rest of the afternoon getting most of my print carving done (not happening due to my other homework) or come up with a fourth idea of what to do for this concentration, I have no clue what I'll be doing in class tomorrow.

Hmmm... maybe I could plan Sydney with Katie.  Well, we already have a plan.  But I could always draw another sketch!!!!!  Roseneau would probably really enjoy it....