colorful personalities... all dressed in black

The Goth people are the wonders of the seventh earth.

Also, listen to this video. You have to. It's a song that is a mash up of all these certain parts from the cartoon "Alice in Wonderland". It's so great that I cannot give it justice with words. It's so beautiful, a full and uplifting orchestra. The music fills you up with it's smooth and wavering tremors, so your very head is rambling and overflowing with pure, splendid notes. IT'S VERY EMOTION IS VOLUMINOUS OF-

Okay, I'll stop talking. I bet that sounded super weird, but that's what it is! (it's super weird! no. i meant, my super weird description is what it is) At least, that's what I encounter when I hear it. Here it is. Listen to it! It's so beautiful.

"...a delicate flicker of light darted through the crisscross of triangles and parallelograms, traveling west to east in a clean, zigzag line..."

(the Robie House in Hyde Park, Chicago)

Okay, maybe you can't actually see the light through the windows in this photo, but I wanted an old picture. This one is dated 1963.

We did more testing today, this time it was science. It was pretty easy, which worries me. However, other people finished before me, so they'll probably get worse scores than I will.

I switched from reading The Jungle in my free time to reading The Wright 3 by Blue Balliet. It's a very alleviating book, but, unfortunately, it made it so I couldn't read The Jungle. Emerging from such brightness and whimsy to that was too depressing. Hopefully, later, I will be able to read The Jungle, when I am stronger.

On another note, reading The Wright 3 makes me want to go to Chicago to see the Robie House. I am not saying that like any other reader eager to spotlight the prose of a favorite author. The first 2 or 3 times I read it, I didn't want to see the house as much as I do now. It's very hard to explain. I- I just want- (sigh). I want to see the orange sunlight glitter off the candy-sepia windows! Okay, that's not right.

Hm. Okay, so the reason is because I want to touch, to feel, the life that Frank Lloyd Wright put into this house. I want to see the special beauty and fragility this house possesses. I want to place myself in the folds of cozy and welcome that are contained in the carpet, to sit and absorb the true artistry of such a beautiful landmark. This house is very old, about a century, and I long to grasp and witness the stories of joy and sadness it can tell.

Okay, that was super corny. If you could read the actual thoughts in my mind, it would make more sense.

So, that's it. It was a pain italicizing all those titles.


About 5 minutes later- Ah, ha! I've finally got it! The Number 1 word I would use to describe this book is heartwarming. Remember that, peoples.

the filth of a lifetime...

(No, I'm not referring to the girl.)
Since we're 8th graders, we must take the CSTs (California Standardized Tests). They're these tests on math, english, history, and science that students take all over California to "measure our progress", but they're really to give the school money. I like it though, because we don't have to go to our classes and we get out early. Our schedule for Monday thru Friday is: homeroom, testing, lunch, testing. Each testing period is about 2 hours, and since each section of the test we're taking during that time is about 30-35 questions, we usually have a lot of free time. They advised us to bring a book.

The book I'm reading during this time is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I got it because I like to read old books, but only the most influential or the ones considered "classics". Plus, the passages I read of it on the internet were interesting.

Since it was written in the early 1900s, it's literary style is a bit different than books from this century, but, surprisingly, not that much. Actually, I wasn't that surprised. I can read it as easily as any other book, but sometimes I find that I went over a whole paragraph without visually comprehending what it said. That might be because of it's tiny print.

So far, it's very good. Although most people think of all the "Pure Food Laws" it brought, it has many great qualities as a novel. Upton Sinclair is a good author. Unfortunately, people care more about their stomachs than their hearts. In addition, most students will only think of it as homework and see no point in gaining any literary enrichment by reading it again.

So, that's it for today. If you haven't guessed, the title of my post is a quote from The Jungle. Page 104, to be precise.

First edition cover, 1906

Upton Sinclair when he first achieved muckraking fame. Isn't he cute?

dey guns

I must strangle my science teacher...

He's making us do an astronomy project, and, for our topic, me and my partner picked black holes. Then, when I went up to tell him that, he told us we couldn't do it because IT WAS ALREADY TAKEN. Now, we have to pick another one. We already came up with a title! And it was a good one.

Well, at least it was the topic she picked.

I'm thinking of doing nebulae, the topic I originally wanted. I just went along with what she said, because all I really wanted to do was put glitter on our board. Plus, I drew a picture of a nebula. I've never actually seen one, it's just what I pictured a nebula to look like. So, I would've told her I picked a new topic, except SHE WASN'T HERE TODAY. Of all the days...

Sigh.

the synthetic gives vintage a rather plastic taste.

The song "So Invincible" by Victoria may sound nice at first, but there are really undertones of pure stupidness. Here we go again with the "get famous quick in L.A." revolution that's sweeping the nation. Because of that, people see Hollywood for L.A.! (kind of like seeing the forest for the trees) Los Angeles is not made of silicon, you know. Plus, nowadays, everyone believes they can get along with fancy eyelashes and a catchy beat. I do not agree with people's finding affinity in her with Lady Gaga. I even found one person commenting that she was better than Lady Gaga! Obviously, they have not ears.

Hear the song, if you must. But, I will not show you it, since it's so terrible. You'll scour the internet for it, only to find it and cower at it's dreadfulness. Ha! I laugh at your misery.

Okay, I changed my mind. Here it is. See it if you must.