I went to SLIFF this weekend with some film club guys and had a complete blast! I'd never been to St. Louis before and the city was really cool.

The first night, we all went to the Cinematic Titanic panel and I met all the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 people! They were really funny and very nice! I got a picture with Trace :]
On Saturday, me and Josh drove to this fancy fancy mall and we each saw 5 movies at the theatre there. In between films, we walked around the mall and decorated gingerbread people, got free food, and played piano. It was awesome. That night, in a crazy random happenstance, we met All Time Low and We the Kings and got them to sign our hands.

Oh yeah, and our hotel, the Moonrise, is the fucking hippest place I've ever been in!! Super fancy and cool.

Also, wow, sorry my vocabulary apparently only consists of "awesome" and "cool." My bad.

pictures: oh, to explain why we're always pointing at Erik, it's because he saw Brother Ali on thurs. and in their pic brother ali pointed at him, so our long running joke was to get as many famous people to point at Erik as we could lol.

we're too cool.




me and erik's sick autographs


too legit ( 2 legit 2 quit )

K, here's the interview meme from auctorial. These questions are so perfect you don't even know! ..Well, actually, you're about to know. So forget that. XD

1. So, you're involved in theatre - do you act? If so, what's the favourite role you've played so far? What role do you really want to play?

Theatre is a huge part of my life. I've been acting since 2nd grade, first at my Jewish Community Center's summer theatre camps, then Children's Theatre Workshop, Destination Imagination, and of course high school. While acting is the funnest, I've also done run crew, sets, make-up, sound, and lights.

Favorite role I've played so far? I was the Professor in All the Great Books (Abridged) by the Reduced Shakespeare Company. This is a role I had loved for a while, and then found out were were putting on the show, and then I actually got it, so the whole process was extra exciting!

And my dream role would be Ilse from Spring Awakening just so I could sing the Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind duet with Moritz.

2. What is the sexiest accent?

Oi, hmm, would it be lame to say British? No, NEW ZEALAND, DUH. ;D But I do really really love Canadian accents (I have Degrassi to thank for that haha).

3. Even if you don't want children, what would you name them?
Boy: Antony, Scott, Blair, or something wicked cool and douchey like Falcon or Hunter XD
Girl: hmm, idk, maybe Madison? wow, i guess I've thought about guy names much more than girls!

4. What are the books you've read over and over, or at least more than once?
The first repeated read for me was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I have this wicked graffiti book (I left at home :P) that I look at a lot. If I'm allowed to be lame and go to ff route, I love minisinoo's X-Men story Climb the Wind. God, it's so good!

5. Would you go skydiving or bungee jumping?
Actually, me and my best friend Andrea/dolphinsrpretty have been planning a skydiving trip for our 18th birthdays since 3rd grade! No joke. We're both 18 right now, so we're thinking for real early this Spring, before my birthday, so our plan stays legit. XD We want to drive somewhere warm, southern America you know, and just fucking skydive! My Titanic Players director was telling me about how he went skydiving a year ago and it was a-fucking-mazing, so now I really really need to!

Bungee jumping I'd like to do, but I'm actually more apprehensive about it because I'm afraid it would hurt my ankles when you bounce back up! lol.

I uploaded this to send to my dad but I want to share these songs with all of you guys too because I just can't stop listening to this playlist!

1. Sum - Au
2. All Myself - Au
3. Brandenburg - Beirut
4. No Dice - Beirut
6. Glorious Dawn (Carl Sagan) - Colorpulse
7. You've Got the Love (The xx Remix) - Florence + The Machine
8. Blinding - Florence + The Machine
9. Dancing With Myself - Glee
10. What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society
11. Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel
12. Untitled Track - Neutral Milk Hotel
13. Debaser - The Pixies
14. Dollars And Cents - Radiohead
15. We are All Connected - Symphony of Science
16. Superboy and the Invisible Girl - Next to Normal
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hbs3py

And here's Pablo Picasso - Modern Lovers, because I know my dad already has this song, but it's so good:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4sp7fb

( album/band picture zeit! )

I got RT-ed by Tyler Shields again! :D It's because my background is so kick ass.


Last night, I went with a bunch of Titanic Players to this huge hill on campus to watch the meteor shower. We were there from 11 pm - 2 am. I saw 5 really great ones, and a few more small ones. We all rolled down the steepest part of the hill and went to Carson's and bought two boxes of pizza rolls. Tons of fun. Then Me Alec and Kelsey walked back to our dorms and just chilled for another 30 minutes. I love all the Titanic Players so much. <3

But in conclusion, I'm majorly sleep deprived. I've been averaging 4-5 hours of sleep for the last 5 nights! shit. And I'm just getting busier and busier, more and more shit to do! Idk. Gotta figure this out. Laundry, shower, EXAM + ESSAY, homework, film club stuff, Starlight, Sellery activites, Titanic, St. Louis this weekend... *breathe.*

Saw this on austere_mauve's journal and I like pictures soooo MEME:

The first ten people to comment give me a request for a picture to be taken of something in my life.

The only catch is-- no pictures of myself. It has to be of objects in my daily life. Then I will take pictures of the requested things, and post them in a separate entry.

Then those 10 people who requested photos have to post this same challenge in their own journal, with 1 additional rule (of their own choosing). The 10 people who comment on that entry, have to add ANOTHER rule of their own, and so on and so forth."

My extra rule? Don't make me take a picture with/of my roommate. I... don't really like her much and don't feel like explaining what el jay or picture memes are to her. haha.

Thursday night, the Titanic Players did a show in my dorm so me and a bunch of my teammates were just stalking the lobby hallways trying to get people to come. I think we succeeded 50/50 in scaring people away by being total creepers and actually drawing people into the room. lol. The show itself was hilarious, of course. I think Blown to Kingdom Come, the 3rd year team, did the best show I've ever seen them do, so that's wicked. The show was from 7-9. I hung out with everyone, cleaned up, and played piano til 10, then I went over to the Union because I was hosting karaoke with the Student Performance Committee. It was lulzy. Yeah. Me and Becca rapped Eminem's Without Me. Yeah. XD

After hearing a horrendous version of "Killing Me Softly," I walked over to two of the Founders' house for a Titanic Players get together party. I love hanging out with all of them, it's always such a blast. It's so much fun to get to know everyone. We played Abdel and had a major Stephen Lynch sing along and watched Back to the Future (I had never seen it before and Jon quickly asserted that that had to be immediately remedied.) By the time the movie was over, it was past 3 in the morning, and every single person had either left or was asleep except for me and Jason, per usual. In Chicago, we were the two up the latest too. I feel like I've hung out with Jason the most of any of the titanic kids and I think he's really cool. Everyone's like "oooh you and Jason" but he's a senior and my director and I'm totally fine just talking Dr. Who with him all the time. XD But yeah, he walked me back to my dorm and then we just talked for an hour and a half straight outside my dorm. It was so much fun! Finally we're like "fuck, it's 5:30. Sleep time." I.. skipped my first class ever this morning! I had german at 8:50 and I'm sitting in my room and it's 6 and I"m like there's no effing way I can get ready for school in 2 hours hale no. Sooooo I didn't go! eek. The Jew guilt was super hard to get over, but it's done with now.

I met with my Titanic team at 1 this afternoon and we all had lunch together at the Union for some team bonding time because usually it's all Titanic parties, but we needed some Incubator Team time. :] Olivia and Ben couldn't make it, but the other 7 of us just talked comedians and life and everything. I'm so happy with our team. Everyone is just.. awesome! :)

Now I'm frantically cleaning up my room because my family is driving up from Ohio this weekend!! They should be here in an hour! :D This'll be Sam's first time in Wisconsin. Man, I can't wait to see them again! It's been since August! They're staying at a hotel near the capitol tonight and tomorrow and I'm going to sleep over there because I need an actual real shower. I'm so happy. We're going out to dinner tonight, going to the Michigan/Wisconsin game tomorrow, and hopefully Mystery Science Theatre tomorrow midnight. Yess.

My aircheck tape for the radio got approved! The station manager e-mailed me saying "You have a really personable air voice and it's great to see some gems on there, like The Modern Lovers and Robyn Hitchcock. We've got an album by the later's first band, The Soft Boys. Worth checking out."
bitch, please. You think I don't already have The Soft Boys? You think I haven't already recorded a version of me and my dad covering "Give it to the Soft Boys?" (because I have http://www.sendspace.com/file/045d9u ) *sigh* You underestimate me, WSUM. But I can have a show now! Wooo! I'll find out when soon!

Fudge, I feel like there was something semi-important I was going to write next, and then I got distracted, and I've come back to this, and I have no idea. Bananas.

To make up for that stupid lack of idea, here are my latest random contest winnings!

That's right. Talking Psych bobbleheads came randomly in the mail yesterday. They're so cute! I love all the quotes. Rock on, Psych. <3

Oh shit, I just remember what I wanted to type. But it's kinda depressing and lame, so I just won't talk about it today.. :P

Following my insanely fucking lucky winning streak I've been having the last few months (no idea where it's coming from, but i love it!), I got a package from Simon and Schuster today. Yeah, that random contest I signed up for 2 months ago through Michael Ian Black's twitter to win a signed copy of his new book My Custom Van? I won.



WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! ILU MIB SFM OMFG YAYYY!

But seriously, this is so totally awesome. I'm almost done with John Barrowman's autobiography so I need a new funny book to read! Plus, hello, MIB's autograph. I am pumped, because I really get the whole Stella/Michael and Michael Have Issues/The State humor, unlike a lot of people.

Hmm, I realized I don't have any good "GHUROAILKWHAAT!! HALE YEAH!" icons to use. And I kind of need one a lot. I'll get on that!

also, watch this now. It's my favorite of the ST edits out there:


"I don't want to be racist, but I hate Alaskans."
"Geordie's Alaskan!!"
"yousonofabitch."

Screw writing my theatre paper on the sound design of Imaginary Invalid! Here's what's been happening:

1. I got radio board certified last night! I got a certificate and everything. I turned in my air check tape, show proposal, evaluation, and shadow sheets yesterday and if I get a show, I'll find out in a few days when it is! :D

And because I apparently enjoy public embarrassment, here's my radio audition tape for you to enjoy listen to, if you want. It's 10 minutes and all the songs are telescoped, so the first and last 15 seconds, plus all my voice breaks and a cheesy PSA I had to say about zombies.
HI MY NAME IS RAYNA AND THIS IS WSUM 91.7 FM MADISON (i hate my voice ;__;)

2. I found out Friday afternoon that I was going to Chicago with the Titanic Players to be in the travelling cheering section for the Founders when they performed in the College Improv Tournament Mid West competition! It was a BLAST! I watched 12 groups perform 15 times. The Founders got 3rd (yay) but honestly really really deserved 1st. The two higher teams both used piano and that takes so much weight off of the improvers because there's automatically never awkward silence, you know? But everyone, even the judges, admit that the Founders' prelim piece was THE best piece of the entire tourney. It was the best they've ever done even. so. fucking. funny. Those kids are genius.

In between prelims (at 4) and finals (10) a bunch of us UW Titanic Players had dinner and walked around Chicago. It was me and Alec from my team, our director Jason, Aaron, Sherri, Jon, and Julie (the 5 Founders), and Elliot, Kelsey, Claire, and Kristin. We went into a porn shop, a tattoo parlor, ghetto hardcore clothing stores, three comic book shops, and a Starbucks. I had my first coffee/energy drink that I actually liked. Those vanilla Double Shots. dayumm they're awesome.

After the competition, we headed to this guy Mike's house, who's pretty much in charge of the entirety of Titanic Players, here, at Northwester, and U of Illinois. I learned how to play Abdell, a card game, and we sang along to the 90s music and tv channel for hoursss. There were like 17 people sleeping in this one little house to me, Alex, and Jason all slept on this tiny couch. Me and Jason stayed up talking and watching Robin Hood, South Park, and Dr. Who until 7 IN THE MORNING. :D Then me, Jason, Jon, and Kristin all drove home the next day, got back to Madison at 5:30. Needless to say, I'l a little tired (but that's normal) but it was so so so much fun.

3. Patrick bought our tickets for the St. Louis International Film Festival. I'm definitely seeing 5 movies on Saturday. I'm seeing Adela, Those Three, 35 Shots of Rum, the Documentary Shorts: Communities program which is Down Here, Goleshovo, and Waiting for Women, and Shorts Program 7, which is eleven 4-12 minute long animated shorts. I kinda wish I could be there for the Comedic Shorts program because I'm not the biggest animation fan, but that's on another day. Besides, short films are my favorite style of movie. I'm super excited. I guess I'm seeing 17 films then actually! Awesome. :D 35 is French and German, Those Three is Iranian and is in Farsi and Turkish, and Adela is from the Phllipines and is in Tagalog.

4. First year parents weekend is this weekend! I'll get to see my family for the first time since August! :D yayy. We're going to the Michigan/Wisco football game. uh oh. ;] But that should be fun.

5. I'm going to Chicago for Thanksgiving, and will meet my people there for 2 days. It'll be FANTASTIC spending the holiday with my aunt and uncle who own a restaurant (what whaat!) instead of forced family friends in Michigan like every year. heh heh.

6. I saw Final Fantasy and The Mountain Goats on Friday! FF was a-fucking-mazing. The venue, the High Noon Saloon, is so small and cozy and awesome. I was completely on the stage, front row, as in sitting on the stage before the show. It was awesome. Very intimate space. I took a bunch of pictures, but didn't like using flash (it's distracting :P), so I don't know how well many turned out, and I took tons of video too. His set was too short, imo. I'd listen to them perform all night. It was weird, only going to a concert for the opening band. I heard the three older women next to me mentioning surprise at 2 people knowing the lyrics to FF and I'm like "I ONLY know FF, never heard of the Mountain Goats." Turns out she's a reporter for the Capital Times newspaper and was reviewing the show and we all ended up talking through out the night. Here's her article: http://host.madison.com/entertainment/music/article_86d58151-3a84-51a2-aac0-23f3bb9b7b22.html

I had to leave the Goats 4 songs early to make it back to the Union in time for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the 90s live action one, with Corey Felding), and it was AWESOOOME. I can't believe I've never seen that whole movie! It's so funny! Really, really bad, but I loved it. ;)

I've had a super busy week, and I was a little bummed I never got a Star Trek costume, so Friday night I planned on just watching Numb3rs and going to bed early. Of course this didn't happen in the least. My Titanic Players teammate Jonah texted me at 9:30 saying that the Founders (the upper level Titanic team) were having a party at the same place where we had that first get to know each other party. I'm like what the hell, they're funny as hell people, I want to go. So I throw together a costume which was pretty much what I wear on a normal day (purple tights, highlighter green knee socks, pink shorts, tie dye shirt) and call it an 80s costume. I walked over to Aaron's house and chilled with all the Titanic kids. He gave me one of those riot helmets and so my costume became roller derby, which was pretty awesome.

But yeah, I hung out there until 4 am. It was so much fun! I love those guys. Jason and his friend walked me home, and then I met up again with both of them to shadow Jason's radio show at noon that day. We were all so tired XD But that was really fun too- Jason has a ska show and he let me go on the radio and play songs and stuff, which I always love. Then, I headed over to Goodwill because damnit, I wanted to be a Star Trek character for Halloween! I found this yellow sweater and black boots (1 1/2 sizes too small, hurt like a bitch, but perfect for the costume!), bought them, and proceeded to make myself a girl!Kirk costume! I duct taped the arm bands and used my cereal box logo toy and was on my way!

( tl;dr halloween story: outside + party post )

PICTURE ZEIT
firstly, I was a zombie in that haunted house wednesday. hopefully i'll get more pictures from people, but here's a little one. i'm wheelchair yellow zombie, bottom left.


Kirk!


( a few more and titanic party pics and... surprise CP? )

also, i've got this new set of songs i'm obsessed with. This is what I've been listening to non stop for the last 4 days. YOU READY?
Sum - Au
No Dice - Beirut
Blinding - Florence + The Machines
Pablo Picasso - Modern Lovers
Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel
Dollars And Cents - Radiohead
Superboy and the Invisible Girl - Next to Normal
We Are All Connected - Symphony of Science

The way you begin a scene with the Titanic Players is everyone runs out on stage, the middle person introduces the scene, asks for a suggestion, they say it, we all say it, we all say thank you, and begin.

So we were practicing this and Jason and Carly, our co-directors (they're both on more experienced teams) did an example for us. Whenever we do two person scenes, you just make up a stupid little team name, usually based on what you're wearing or some random shit. Well, they were both wearing red sweatshirts so they say their names and Carly's like "And we're Team... red..shirts." And I just shout out "NO! DON'T BE TEAM REDSHIRTS! YOU WON'T SURVIVE THE AWAY MISSION!"

there's a few seconds of silence and odd glares, and then Jason, Olivia, and myself start cracking the fuck up XD It was awesome! Me and Olivia high-fived and eventually regained our composure. I have found my Titanic trekkies! :D

Ok, now that I've gotten the Trek out of the way, I had one of the busiest days of my life on Wednesday. Woke up at 8:05, left my dorm, went to German, followed immediately with Hebrew, then ran to the Chemistry building for Western Culture discussion, ran to Humanities for Theatre lecture, got back to my dorm, made oatmeal, and read all of Othello sparknotes and the first two Acts of the original, wrote a mini paper about it, headed over to Vilas for my theatre discussion, ran back to my dorm to grab my costume for the Hoofer's Haunted House, went to the Union, set up the house, got bloodied up with niiiice theatre make-up, screamed my head off scaring people from 6:30-10:00.

Side note: working a haunted house is exhausting!! Screaming and hitting things and jerky movements. Plus, it got hella hot; we were in the basement of the Union. But i had so much fucking fun! I was with the two kids in charge of the Student Performance Committee and some theatre girls. We bonded over Dr. Horrible and Spring Awakening. I got to be wheel chair patient for a while, so that was wicked. People were taking pictures, I'll post them when I track them down. :]

It was quarantine/swine flu themed, so I get out of my scrubs and run over to Vilas again for Titanic Players rehearsal. I missed the first half, but it's all good. We learned a bunch of relationship/personal gift improv things and ran a bunch of scenes. Then I finally go back to my dorm again. Now, I'm still in full zombief face/neck make-up (well, 7 hours later, so it just looked gross. people were definitely giving me strange looks walking from the union to vilas. >:D). So I get back and take a shower. By now it's after midnight. I literally did not have a single minute of free/spare time since 8:05 that morning! It was crazy! So I do my homework and get to bed at 1:30ish.

My phone is my alarm, so I have it with my on my lofted bed at a high volume. I had texted my brother with a picture of my zombie get up last night, and he replied presumably when he saw his phone after he woke up. At 6:30 am. 5:30 Wisconsin time. XI so that woke me up, then my mom texted me at 7 my time, then i randomly woke up at 8. I'm like DAMNIT, I DON'T NEED TO GET UP TIL 9! but of course i couldn't fall asleep. So it was a pretty eventful and tiring 24 hours.

And now, I have to type up the film club minutes for Patrick, write my Emmie magazine article, german project, e-mail Cryptic Corp. about getting rights to show a Residents movie (hell yeah), look up and effing plan my next semester schedule, write a Hebrew dialogue, submit a movie review, figure out what the fuck i'm doing for halloween (see third eye blind and cage the elephant?) and other misc. homework. and go out to dinner with john, because i've been too busy the last 2 weeks to.

GODDAMN

FYT/to make life better, i give you Truth - Stella, and accompanying song:
(on a semi-related note, i just found out David Krumholtz (Charlie from numb3rs <3) was on an episode of Wainy Days! How awesome is that!)


Dollars And Cents - Radiohead

I uploaded my camera! So here's a mini photo dump :]

the view from my window. i actually quite like it. i love seeing buildings and a little of the lake. it's so much different than home and makes me really feel like i'm in a big city. which, i guess i am! <3


PIcs of my view, dorm, new/old hair ( right hurr )
i like it!