Uhhhhh....Yeah...

Haven't posted in a while. I'd figured i'd update you guys on what's been happening. Band camp just got over, I just got back from an extra two hour marching practice after band camp got over a little while ago. I finally got a new web page after I couldn't get into my geocities account with my laptop. Some pop up blocker disables the scripted windows and I can't upload anything in it anymore. Anyway, I got a freewebs page now, so you can find it here: http://www.freewebs.com/spectrumrhapsody and while you're there, why not sign the guest book? :D I've still got work ot do on it. I'm also gettin' sick of having nightmares with my ex-boyfriend in them and this guy that wants to date me and I won't date him because I hate bein' controlled by men and it ain't happenin' no more! Well, there may be other things that have happened, but I can't recall it all too well right now. If I remember, I'll post some more later!

~Peace!

Song Of The Day: "Ball And Chain" - Janis Joplin
What I'm Readin': "The Jukebox Queen Of Malta" by: Nicholas M. Rinaldi
Quote Of The Day: "They say your brain stops growing once you start taking drugs...So I guess that makes me 19." - Steven Tyler

Non-existant Nostalgian Resurfacing

As confusing as it sounds it's what it is....I still don't know why it feels like you can remember feeling something that you never felt or being somewhere you never were. I don't believe in that Deja` Vuu bullshit. I think it's real. Or maybe I'm just fascinated with history...or both, ah, who cares?! Anyway, I still haven't finished reading that biography on Jim Morrison. It's a great read, yes, but it has many pages and I have little time. But the point is that his life, the way he thought and acted, it just seems like he suffered from something odd, to say the least. He was almost like a whole bunch of people in one body. There was the Lizard King that we all know and love (or love to hate, in some cases), James Douglas Morrison the poet whom could be a generally decent persom to converse and get along with, then there was the drunken, boisterous, profane Jim, and so many more. He has countless facets to his personality. I'm being pressed to get offline so I'll recount the rest of what rang through my head later...If I remember what that was! XD Well, I should end this post then.

~Peace!

What I'm Readin': "Jim Morrison : Life, Death, Legend" - Stephen Davis

Song Of The Day: "Communication Breakdown" - Led Zeppelin

Here I Go Again.....

Yesterday was the graduation ceremony for the class of 2007. I had to go because the hs band was playing two songs and was required to go for a grade. I wanted to go anyway. I had a few senior friends and I wanted to see them graduate. I didn't cry amazingly. I was about to. I was fine until they let the graduates leave and they played theri class song. When you're going through something emotional, then they play a song you know by heart and love, it gets hard not to cry. The class song for 2007 was "Here I Go Again" - Whitesnake. It was one of those moments that you never forget if you were watching it happen. I was singing along to every word, they were walking down the aisle two by two, and when it got to the chorus the seniors started singing together as they were leaving. It was just something I'll never forget. "I don't know where I'm going, but I sure know where I've been..."

~Peace!

Song Of The Day: "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" - Guns N Roses
Quote Of The Day: "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" - Janis Joplin
What I'm Readin': (nothin' at the moment)

What Happened To Yesterday?!!!!

It's the last marking period and I had a book report due for language arts class. I decided to do a collage for my report and I was going to use the last book I finished: "Life On Planet Rock". I get home from school at 4:30 and I got started on my collage around 5:00.....I took no breaks and didn't finish until 10:00.....I was drained that night to say the least. But it just seems like time flew by. I had to scan four pages of my sheet music and print that out, then cut out each individual line of notes, then paste them all over the blank posterboard to make a "musical" background. I then took one of my mom's stove top covers (they're circle shaped) and with what remaining posterboard I had cut off I traced half a circle and cut it out (because there wasn't enough paper for a whole circle). I had to use another part of the paper and finish tracing the circle to get the rest of it out and then I taped the two halves together. To make this long story short, I used some images of the musicians discussed in the book and I made a collage of them and taped them on the circle and cut off the loose edges so it would remain circle shaped like a planet. I used crazy scissors when I cut out each image so it would look nicer. I then glued the "planet" in the middle of the posterboard. I scanned three photos from the book and pasted them outside "planet rock", kinda orbiting it. Then I took my scrap printer paper and drew each letter for the title individually. I capitalized each letter in "ROCK" and made them huge. I colored my letters with a black sharpie marker and cut them out with crazy scissors, then I pasted "Life On Planet" around the top of the planet and curving in a downward direction lining the planet. Then I took "ROCK" and pasted it on the bottom curving around the planet, curving in an upward direction. Then the last part was drawing the letters: "By: Lonn Friend". I colored those with a red sharpie marker (the letters were significantly smaller than the title). To finish it off I pasted that on diagonally in the bottom right corner. And the best part was that I remembered to put my name on the back. :D

~Peace

Song Of The Day: "Heart's Done Time" - Aerosmith

Trickery Behind EVERY Corner! (Literally)

Today is the seniors last day. (Yes, I'm posting from school) Their pranks were pretty normal so far: rub vaseline all over the railings and door handles, and write in blue on the seniors lockers and teacher's windows in their classroom doors. I dunno if there is more to come or not. Oh, and some middle-schoolers got into a friendly cake fight in the cafeteria. It was a huge mess that covered a fraction of one side of the cafeteria floor. Yuck, chocolate cake! I also found out that my senior friend, Ray, will be stayin' with us for another year, while Katie, Christine, and Sean will be leaving us all. Goodbye my friends, and remember: All roads lead to somewhere! I'll be sure to keep you posted if I find out about anymore crazy happenings of today.

~Peace

Song Of The Day: "Never Say Never" - Twisted Sister
What I'm Readin': (I just finished Life On Planet Rock last night, so nothing at the moment.....)

Yesterday!

Yesterday was Mother's Day. My little brother made breakfast for Mom, while I got out a shoebox and had to use a whole bunch of plastic bags (because I couldn't find any shredded paper or tissue) and placed the book on Loons we had gotten her inside. (Mom loves Loons) I then coverd the surface of the book with plastic bags and wrote two poems for her and placed the poems on top and shut the box. I presented it to her after I was finished and she loved the poems and her Loon book! Later we drove to Grand Rapids for the Grand Rapids Orchestra and the Glenn Miller Orchestra concert. That was awesome! The first half was just the GR Orchestra and they played mostly tunes from the '40s and '50s. After the 15 minute intermission, the Glenn Miller Orchestra joined them and played for teh rest of the concert. They also had a few singers to join them. I can't remember the name of the male singer, but he had a great voice. I wasn't too crazy about the female singer. She was from Tennesee, I think her name was Julia Rich. Overall it was a great time! I'm gonna have to thank my english teacher! I also managed ot get over a piano song that was tough for me to play for a little while. I finally go it mostly down, and if I keep playing it a few more times it should be smoothed out or closer to it. That's all the exciting stuff that happened yesterday.

~Peace!

Song Of The Day: "No More No More" - Aerosmith
What I'm Readin': Life On Planet Rock - By Lonn Friend

All Roads Lead Somewhere....

I realize that I haven't been posting lately, but trust me on this, you didn't miss much. I took a break from piano lessons a little while bakc after I had a breakdown in the middle of the night where I cried to myself and vented out all my worries about my art, music, singing, body, etc. I am blessed with so many things to be thankful for, but I always let meaningless things build up until it can't fit anymore. I'm over it now. I took a break from piano because I was losing faith in my ability to be able to get better at it.....but that was when I remember what my band instructor had told me: "If you can talk yourself out of it, you can talk yourself into it." I'll never forget that. I'm way better now and I told my piano teacher I was ready to come back, adn next Friday will be my first lesson since I took almost a month off, and just this morning, I went into the high school office and decided to change my elective to what I really wanted to do to begin with. I figured: "screw art class, the teacher don't seem to fond of me anyway, and my heart is burning to do choir, so I'll switch." I was able to do it and I felt so much better. Another thing I'm finally starting to get over is calling myslef fat when I am actually really skinny, I just had this huge phobia of getting fat, so if I told myself I was getting fat, then I would do somethign to stop it from happening. I figure I'll just do a bunch of stretches and exercises then walk once a week. I have gotten that into a routine and I'm trying to get used to it so tehn I can stay healthy, like I am now. I realize this is getting long, but there was a lot of things that did actually happen while I was gone (I guess mmore than I thought). My english teacher also gave me tickets to see the Glenn Miller band with the Grand Rapids Symphony this Sunday because she couldn't go and she knew I loved music. This will be my first concert I go to that I'll be old enough to remember actually being there. Speaking of concerts, yesterday was my spring concert with the HS band. I think we did really well. As for drawing I still do it and I've improved much with it, but I don't see a future in it. I don't drwaw as mush as I used to. Which also reminds me of my pathetic Algebra II grade. I passed the first semester, giving me half a credit, but I am failing this one miserably. I'll probably have to do a credit recovery for the other half this summer so I don't end up taking two and a half years of math. I am also planning to buy The Sims2 finally. The part that sucks is that I'll have to play it on my mom's computer, because my laptop won't be able to run it. Oh, well. I'm also a little pissed when I checked the Aerosmith news on the site (which I hadn't done in a little while) and found out that Joe was on American Idol around April 25th! I never watch the show and I want to download the vidoe file so badly now! Damn my slow timing! I'm looking forawrd to the good times and the heartbreak, the sorrows and the joy. Until next time!

~Peace!

Song Of The Day: "Break On Through (To The Other Side)" - The Doors

What I'm Readin': The Beatles: Unseen Archives - by Tim Hill and Marie Clyton