For the second night in a row, I'm the only person in my floor's den at 2:40 in the morning doing homework. I NEED to stop procrastinating this much! I've gotten 5 hours of sleep per night for the last 8 days. Normally I could handle this but I've been supremely busy lately. I've got class, meetings, improv, radio, or film practically everything single hour of the day! I'm all booked! Let alone time for homework and Jason. Ugh.

Right now I'm writing a 4 page journalism paper about my relationship with media (yay livejournal, what whaat!) and it's been a while so I googled "mla cite" for my works cited page and the first link I clicked on has example citations for all types of things, books, encyclopedia, etc, BUT THEY ALL USE STAR TREK BOOKS!
http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citmla.htm
i was a little in shock. I'm like, did I accidentally click into ontd_startek instead? what? THIS IS FOR REALSIES? omfg!! XD

So yes, say you wanted to cite your book article or chapter resource:
James, Nancy E. "Two Sides of Paradise: The Eden Myth According to
Kirk and Spock." Spectrum of the Fantastic. Ed. Donald Palumbo.
Westport: Greenwood, 1988. 219-223.

niiice ;D

I have seen RENT five times in five states.

The first was a few years ago in Detroit, MI and it blew my mind. Yes, I had seen bootleg videos and the movie before, but nothing compares to live. I went with my mom, my friend Sarah (cheesey_malomar) and her mom. We stage doored and I talked with the Mark about college and being Jewish XD

Then was Broadway. New York City. My first time in the state, my first Bway play. I went by myself, my family just dropped me off because I'm the theatre kid. I met Tracie Thoms, who played Joann in the movie. And yes, her hair is that beautiful and amazing in person.

Toledo, OH, School for the Arts put on the high school production. We don't talk about that shite storm.

Next was Chicago, IL, in March of last year, WITH ANTHONY RAPP AND ADAM PASCAL. So. fucking. good. By this point, I could not believe I was seeing Anthony and Adam LIVE, these actors I have loved for years, singing my favorite songs!

And tonight, with Anthony and Adam again, in Madison, WI. I went with eyebrow_cancer and had a blast. Maureen was a little nasally, and Collins didn't have the strongest voice, but Adam Pascal's voice shocked me. I don't remember him being that amazing! He ROCKED. Anthony was perfect, again. Mimi was so so great! I usually don't like her character as much but I loved her and her voice! Joann was so effing powerful! That girl can SING. And Angel was fantaaastic. Absolutely hilarious. All the ensemble was really great, including Mr. Jefferson/swing JOHN WATSON! If they stage doored, I would've have tracking that son of a bitch down and gotten him to sign my Sherlock Holmes stub!! I had a great night :D

No other road, no other way, No Day But Today.
There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
No other course, no other way, No Day But Today.
There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear.
No other path, no other way, No Day But Today.

lol, because i rush to post and forget i have more to share, here's my staple trifecta post of the night.

on monday, me and kelsey died our hair, well i re-purpled. :]


( a few pictures of the hair! )

OH MY FUCK HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN TO POST THAT I SAW ANTHONY RAPP TODAY!

HE GAVE AN HOUR LONG Q & A FOR UNIVERSITY THEATRE STUDENTS AND FRIENDS AND I SKIPPED MY IMPORTANT JOURNALISM DISCUSSION TO SEE HIM AND IT WAS WORTH IT! THERE WEREN'T EVEN THAT MANY PEOPLE THERE, AND I WAS SECOND ROW, AND HE WAS SO:

ADORABLE
FASHIONABLE
WISE
FUNNY
CUTE
THEATRICAL
HONEST
OPEN
AMAZING
BEAUTIFUL

ETC. ETC. ETC.

I WAS STARSTRUCK THE WHOLE TIME. ANTHONY FUCKING RAPP! I'VE BEEN LOVING ON THAT GAY GUY BEFORE I EVEN KNOW WHO ZACHARY QUINTO WAS! <3 <3 <3 <3

HERE, HAVE THESE:

http://www.thefuckingweather.com/?zipcode=53706
A high of 8? A low of -4? Feels like it's -13 out? Fuck. Ugh. I'm done with winter, yeah? It's painful to be outside! Even with layers, gloves, hat, and scarf, ANY exposed skin (and even the covered) burns and freezes at the same time it's so cold!

Just a few more months and I've survived my first Wisconsin winter. I can do this.
But I shouldn't have scoffed at people who said that just because I'm from Ohio doesn't mean I understand Madison cold. It's so true! :(

However, I am still enamored with this city. Walking home from the Union, the stars look brighter and more beautiful. Passing state street and seeing this gives me the chills.

I have met the most amazing wonderful people here, which definitely makes me rest easier. My number one fear I guess was leaving my friends from Toledo and school and my life! And now I'm a staple at the WUD offices in the 5th floor of the Union. I love all four teams of Titanic Players. I've got a radio show and follow some great weird music kids on twitter. I've got a boyfriend (!).

It's good.

Cold, but good.

To round of the trifecta of livejournal entries tonight.. XD

photo dump! pics from winter break, Photoboothing with friends, MY NEW RED AND PURPLE HAIR ^__^, and visiting my high school :) oh, and some of the funniest pictures of a person I've ever seen. Ding can contort his face CRAZY LIKE. i couldn't stop laughing. god damn. XD

many piccies! and they're kinda sorta big. but first,

check this transformation:
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( uhhh ma nah mah nahh )

whew! i am updated again! :D

Before I begin, totally random, but my livejournal is in Hebrew because I took Hebrew 101 and think I'm cool, and this is my first "Friends Only" entry I've done in a while and so I had to click the button and it says החברים and I can fucking read that! It's just one little word, but still. I'm proud of myself.

ONTO THE JUICE.
( rite hurr )
Holy shit, I think I just wrote the single most confusing journal entry ever posted. I apologize, sincerely.

tl;dr: Things went amazingly well with the guy I've been crushing on for four months.

Basically, I am this right now:

my facebook live commenting of the Screen Actors Guild Awards
( under here )
on an unrelated note, here's what I've had today: a protein energy bar to wake up for my 3 am radio show, tomato soup at hand, nerds, and four month old cashews. i feel like a college student XP

If you like movies at all, you gotta watch this:



i love a solid media mash-up, and this one's pretty good. Star Trek's in there quite a few times, especially within the first 3 minutes. And it ends on one of my songs of the year, Wake Up by Arcade Fire.

Alright, I'm leaving for Wisconsin in a few minutes! Last night I was in the I NEVER WANT TO LEAVE TOLEDO! SCHOOL'S TOO HARD! I MISS MY FRIENDS! but then, i check my phone, and jason has texted me something small about doctor who and i just fucking texted him "Jason, I've missed you." I don't know if it was me being sleepy or what, but I did. And then, he texted back "I've really missed you too. See you soon!". eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
and pow, all of a sudden, it hit me that I AM really excited to get back to Madison and I miss all my new friends and I want to hang out with them and do improv and learn and yes. it's all good. :D (for realsies though, i couldn't stop smiling!)

me and my mom are driving to chicago, stopping by my grandma's place because it's her birthday today :) and dropping off brownies for her haha. Then heading to Union Station and catching the bus to Madison! *breathe* I'm ready.

YO so WSUM's music programer e-mailed be and guess when my radio show is? 3-4 am Friday nights/Saturday mornings. yeahhhhhh son. :P He asked if that was ok and I wrote back something like, "ha, well i guess all freshman have to pay their dues. That will work, I can handle it :]" and he replied with, "awesome, don't worry, this won't go unnoticed. i promise!"

Yeah, um, this is probably stupid to say, but for the next 4 months, if you're awake at 3 am central time on friday night (and come on, you know you will be) tune in to my show! Dancing for Weirdos with DJ Raina on WSUM the Snake on the Lake! haha. You can go to iTunes -> radio (on the left sidebar) -> College/University -> WSUM. Or if you're ever in Wisco, it's 91.7 ^__^ It's the University of Wisconsin - Madison's station and everyone should check it out, at any time. It's honestly one of the best stations I've ever heard in my life.

I'm so excited/anxious for the next few days! First Project Runway premiers tonight finally. Then tomorrow night, me and my parents are see The Hard Lessons at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, which will be AWESOME. I've seen THL three? four? times. They're my favorite "local" band. They've got a few free songs available on their website: http://www.thehardlessons.com/home.html They're on livejournal too. I think their name is thehardlessons or something easy like that.

EDIT:// oh wait, i'm an idiot. they've updated the WSUM website so if you want to tune in you can just go to www.wsum.org and there are links on the top :D

Discovering a new youtube -> mp3 converter site plus downloading every song DJ Party Ben has available on his website has resulted in me having the most cluttered desktop I've ever had!



oh, hai RDJude <3

Yeah, speaking of, I've decided just last night that I need to catch up on all the Sherlock Homles hubbabaloo because I freaking love the movie (I saw it again by myself last night), and now I'm watching as many Rubber Ducky Jr. and Judsie Law interviews I can get my hands on :D So, much fun with that. It's like summer and Pinto all over again!

I'm seeing Avatar 3D tonight. I don't know. I don't think I'll like it, but I'm going in wanting to like it, so we'll see. I'm going with a bunch of friends, so it won't be a waste, and it's $6 movie Tuesday. Score.

Today has been an absolutely fantastic new music day for me! Heck, it's been a great music week! I got lotsa new albums and shit:
Vampire Weekend - Contra,
Spoon - Transference,
The Beatles - Revolver (not new to me, but to my lap top. I'm Only Sleeping is my new favorite Beatles song!),
Sherlock Holmes soundtrack,
some wicked M.I.A. remix album called Piracy Funds Terrorism (Volume One),
Wicked OBCR (I'm seeing it in April so figured I should get the whole legit album instead of the bootleg audios I have XD),
Whip It soundtrack,
Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty,
Brent Spiner - Dreamland,
and miscellaneous single tracks.

From youtube I got Beard (No Beard), Bad Romance by Lord Gaga (lolol), WOAH-OH-OH-AHH-AH-AH, Kesha (idk about her yet), Empire State of Mind, Pogo, DJ Earworm, and Owl City (ehhh, it was for my brother).

My ears are very very happy :]

I'm getting my wisdom teeth taken out tomorrow. At 8 in the morning, to add insult to injury. So I'll probably be out of commission for a few days, but hopefully that'll give me time to actually update! Talk about New Years and all that jazz.

I gave blood on Saturday and got a free t-shirt and a coupon for free breakfast. Right on, Red Cross! I love giving blood. I never feel any side effects what so ever, I always have high iron, and I usually get free shit! Plus the whole saving lives, everyday hero, all that is way coolio too :D But yeah, you know how they have to prick your finger to check your iron level to make sure you're not anemic and therefore can still donate blood? Well, I think that part hurts the worst out of the whole thing. And my lady gets my finger and real quick takes the blood sample and it says I have low iron. Hold up. I iron up every time before I give blood! Raisins and cashews up the wazoo! There is NO way I have low iron! So she gets another nurse to check another finger (so yay, twice the pain) and this time she does the thing where it's like squeeze out blood, wipe, repeat a few times, and thennn take the sample. And tada, I had much over the minimum like I thought I would!

Then the next day, turns out I have a massive bruise on my pointer finger from the first lady's bad iron prick thingy! Let me tell you how inconvenient a bruise on your pointer finger is! Plus it hurt. :( Stupid stupid. At least I don't have too big of a bruise on my elbow this time ^__^

Just have to wait another 56 days to give again :)

Ah, it's nice to be back home again. It's been 4 days and I've already hung out with Nora, Sarah, Kiley, Alex, and even Dylan! It's been great catching up with each of them. Tomorrow the girls are going shopping and we all might see Avatar then a girl's night! :D

Christmas was pretty cool. My grandpa drove up from Tennessee as always and we all went up to Michigan to family friends. I got an amazing card from probing_grays and my ontd_startrek secret santa package came in the mail today! It was signed Santa, and I'm still freaking out over how awesome everything is. I just keep saying oh my god over and over again. XD I got the new yellow insignia shirt, Spock and Enterprise action figures, a William Shatner book, two sheets of stickers (one new school and one old school), a sweet card, and, get this, Wrath of Khan on DVD! Ahhh! <3 Thank you so so so so much! I want the reveal post so i can thank this supremely gq gqmf! ^___^ But yeah, new favorite shirt. I'll take pics sometime :]

Yesterday at Kileys, they showed me that youtube video, Top 60 Black Ghetto names, and this led to that and one brainstorming session later, we make this baby: TOP 60 JEWISH NAMES



um, yeah, XD in other news, mini me picspam!

( you hear that music in the hair take a train to the top of the world i'm there i'm home! )

I've been a fan of Feeling Electtric for a couple of years now, and a got the Next to Normal soundtrack a while ago and it's been growing on me. Today I was listening to I Am the One (reprise) and finally really heard the ending, and it clicked, that the dad was now seeing Gabriel and my brain just had a mini epiphany moment. Then I realized I've never seen any videos of this show being performed live! (Other than the Tony's.) I found a really good quality cam version of that song plus the finale and man, after seeing this 8 minute clip, I NEED to see this show live. It made me cry so much! It's so beautiful and powerful and touching. Scheise, I need a tissue.



That's why I live musicals. Yeah, the music is awesome, but the story and characters behind the songs make them so meaningful, you know?

OH YEAH, I had my last final today! I'm done with my first semester of college! Now I'm just chilling out playing tetris and packing, taking a bus to Chicago Wednesday morning, meeting my mom, SEEING FUCKING IN THE HEIGHTS, then going home Thursday!!



I think since I'm sure to have spare time tomorrow, I might do a Best of 2009 radio show with my friend Jonah. I haven't put together the playlist yet (and I want some of his suggestions) but here's what I'm thinking so far:
King Rat - Modest Mouse - No One's First, And You're Next
WTF? - OK Go - Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
Well-Alright - Spoon - Dark Was the Night
Cello Song - The Books feat. Jose Gonzales - Dark Was the Night
Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - Das Racist LISTEN TO THIS SONG ASAP PPL. YOUTUBE. EITHER THE ORIGINAL OR THE WALLPAPER REMIX. IDC. IT'S ..AWESOME.
And then I haven't pick the specific song but something from:
Next to Normal OBCR
Dave Matthews Band - Big Whisky and the GrooGrux King
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan
The Hard Lessons - Arms Forest
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight
Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
Florence + the Machine - Lungs
and maybe some Eminem, Kid Cudi, Passion Pit, Matt & Kim, and PJ Harvey.

This is just going to be a hodge podge of an entry. :]

So @titleofshow posted on twitter today for the first time in forever, and one link led to another, and I ended up re-watching the 9 People's Favorite Thing video they put together with fans holding up a sign of each word in the whole song. First, I notice that Neil Patrick Harris is there at like the 24 second mark. Then, there's The Todd from Scrubs. THEN, KABLAMMO, ZACHARY QUINTO! First I was like "wait.. WUT?" but then I saw that picture on the right with him and the funny face upside down and I knew for sure it's him haha.


ZQ is a [tos]ser!!! This makes me so mf happy. Omg. :D
aw, lol, i just noticed they misspelled his name in the info on the right! Zachary Qunito. bleh.

Also, I watched Awesome Town (Dude's Cut) yesterday so I FINALLY know where this beauty is from!


Websites to go to: unrelatedcaptions.com


this is photobomb.com


and awkwardboner.com.

I leave you all with my new favorite gif.

I'm sure this is going to bite me in the ass later today when I have to actually fucking write my 5 page Integrated Liberal Studies Wester Cultures: Science, Technology, and Philosophy paper due today at 5 pm BUT I went to a little Titanic movie night tonight. There were 7 of us and we watched The Hangover, Badder Santa, and ~*STAR TREK*~ (per my request, duh). Very fun. We also got into a huge brainstorming discussion about starting a website called gayorstraight.com which is just a database of celebrities, politicians, and pop culture icons and says if they're gay, straight, bi, or unconfirmed and has facts and info about them. Like, Mashley's got Abe Lincoln covered, Aaron's got Dave Foley, and I've got ZQ. mmhmm. XD

This site will happen. And I'm a co-creator. And we'll advertise the bananas of it and make moolah! haha

So, I was in a drag show last Friday. It was a fundraiser for the Ten Percent Society and they invited a bunch of clubs and orgs to do a song and dance in the show, so me and the Student Performance Committee, which is through the Wisconsin Union Directorate (a.k.a. the Union) did a 'whacking' dance to Evacuate the Dance Floor by Cascade or whatever.

Yeah, we rocked it.



( pics or it didn't happen )

My hair is the longest it's ever been in my life, and while it's nice to have long hair, I keep missing my short hair really badly and I don't know what to do with it now! Over break I'm hopefully going to dye it red professionally (I love box dye but it just doesn't last!) and perhaps get a haircut.

And because I'm procrastinating writing my final paper (shiiittttt) I compiled a hair timeline! It's.. not completely in order. I tried.

Oh yeah, WARNING, some of these are painfully junior high school-awkward. Sorry! Looking at these is really one of those "I wish I could tell younger me that's stupid" moments haha. So yup, picture heavy procrastination-induced hair!

THE BEGINNINGGG oh yes, the braces, rounded glasses, slap bracelet in black with metal studs, 8th grade was just fantastic.


( la di da di dah )
AND NOW:


I have no idea what to do with my hair! I love experimenting and crazy colors, but I don't know if I want to bleach my whole head in order to get a real red, at least not with this much hair (it's SUPER SUPER SUPER thick. hbkarlaf). I'm up for anything though- shave my head, blunt bangs, professional dye job, idk. This is the longest my hair's ever been and yeah, having a pony tail is great, but I'm kinda over the long hair if it's just flat, no layers, yuckyness. Suggestions? Likes? Colors? Anything? Bueller?