Bestest. News. EVER!

Okay, guys, sit down if you faint easily, or stand up and get ready to jump up and down screaming:

Skye Sweetnam has released a new single.

W0000000000000000000000ttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yayayayayyayay!!!!!!!!!! x33333333+++++++++++++++++++++ yayay :D xD :)

New single's called "Human", played at least twice on the radio in Canada. CFRB's the name of the station (whatever that is). No word on rips or ways to hear it yet... More info on the board...

And Skye has an *OFFICIAL* Facebook group here

OMG I am now an advanced member on the Skye board *cheers* 30 posts w000t!

This has been a really great afternoon, considering how I was totally embarassed and miserable in school... Reading Twilight for an hour, Friending the MySpaces of all the actors/characters on The Office, AND finding out about Skye's new single? I should have bad school days more often...

My "Camp Rock" Analysis

So, "Camp Rock", the writers:

Julie Brown Sounds to me like she's directed and acted in a few failed chick flicks, but I'm not interested enough in her to find out...
Paul Brown Star Trek. The X-Files. Sounds like he's going where no geek has ever gone before...
Karin Gist "Jump In". Great...
Regina Y. Hicks "Jump In" as well. Perfect...

And several of them have worked on "Girlfriends", which seems like a rather odd piece to add to this puzzle...

Director: Matthew Diamond.
Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, That's So Raven... Okay, so the shows I chose to mention are very not-representative of his career, but I gather that he can do just about any semi-fluffy TV show if he puts his mind to it...

Producers:
Kevin Lafferty - Cow Belles, Twitches, Jump In, Cadet Kelly... Not the best, but not the worst either...

Alan Sacks - Pixel Perfect (x33333333!) You Wish, The Other Me, The Color of Friendship, Smart House... He may be a bit rusty, apparently doing nothing but "His Holiness The Dalai Lama" between Pixel Perfect and now, but I'd trust those credentials. I mean, Color of Friendship won a freakin' Emmy!

And just go here for the full cast's bios....

Overall, not great. I like Alan Sacks' resume, and Paul Brown might add an interesting touch, but I'm not crazy about the rest of them...

And in case you haven't read it yet, the summary:
"Camp Rock," centers on a teen girl who desperately wants to spend her summer at a prestigious rock camp, but can only attend if she works in the kitchen as one of the cooks. When she's overheard singing - but not seen -- by a teen pop star at the camp, he is completely taken and sets out to find the girl behind the beautiful voice. But first she must confront her fears, step out of the kitchen and into the spotlight.

So, the future looks slightly dim... I foresee another ooh-Cowbelles-kinda-sucked-but-I-suppose-I-have-to-love-it-cuz-I-love-Aly-&-AJ... Then J.O.N.A.S! will probably be a My-Super-Sweet-16-The-Movie-okay,-Aly-&-AJ-CANNOT-choose-good-scripts... Man, too bad Joe and AJ broke up, they were made for each other. Or at least she might make him realize what a bad script looks like...

But you know I'm a pessimist. Well, no, but I have to bring myself down before the movie does.

Knock Knock!

Best. Knock-Knock Joke. Ever.


Knock, Knock
Who's there?
You know
You know who?
That's right, Avada Kedavra!

Thank u so much Muggle1990 for using it as your signature on IMDb and not murdering me for reposting it here without your permission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Oh, and now for some real news, it was posted on the "Camp Rock" board of IMDb, and CHECK THAT MOVIE OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jonas Brothers are set to star, filming begins really soon in Toronto. Still checking the deets as to who's writing & directing...)

When Songwriters Read the Minds of Fictional Characters...

Okay, still not telling you about California and whatever inside joke-type thing I mentioned last time. (Oh wait, was it "Last week, I died and went to heaven. Or, as you mortals call it, California."? I made that up to put as my Facebook status, but I couldn't get online til we got home... Ah well... It seemed quite clever at the time.)

This post shall be short (still haven't done quite ALL my work due tomorrow *grimaces*) and dedicated to...

SONGS THAT ARE TOTALLY ABOUT FICTIONAL CHARACTERS!!!!!!! (except not really)

You know when you hear a song and could swear the songwriter was channeling a character in some book, since the song fits the book perfectly?... Well, you may not, but I get that a couple of times, and I thought I'd devote a post to it, since it's better than going to fan forums and being all "LYK OMG+++ this song is SOOOOOO just like the book!!!!!!!!!!!" Okay, I am way too mean to fangirls. But mocking them is almost as fun as being one *grins deviously*

So, first off, the song I'm listening to right now:

"Still in Love With You" - Jonas Brothers
This song always makes me think of Brandon and Callie in the It Girl books by Cecily vonZiegsaricantspellhername. I think this song pretty much sums up Brandon's feelings. And I can't really imagine a girl doing that to Joe, Nick, or Kevin... or anyone for that matter... I still don't quite get how Brandon went to get Callie a drink and all of a sudden she and Easy were running off to make out... That's the only situation I can think of where you would forget to tell your boyfriend you were breaking up... So, yeah, I think JB was channeling Brandon when they wrote this, cuz it's just too perfect...

And is that song about the same thing as "7:05"? Just asking...

Okay, next song...

"Hero/Heroine" by Boys Like Girls
I was listening to this song a few days ago (actually, yesterday, I believe...) and it really reminded me of Twilight. Of course, I am a bit obsessed with reading that book right now, but the lyrics seemed to fit perfectly with Edward's whole we-shouldn't-be-together thing ("Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?", " Never felt so good to be so wrong") And just this whole part sounds just like Edward:

"I never thought that you could break me apart
I keep a sinister smile and a hold of my heart
You want to get inside
Then you can get in line
But not this time

Cause you caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming"

I was going to include the line " And I feel a weakness coming on", but I don't think weakness would be the best thing for Edward to feel... Well, I haven't finished the series yet...

But seriously, isn't that one a bit freaky how well it works?

(DISCLAIMER: Okay, it may not work as well as I think; I haven't even finished the first book yet... but it works with what I've read so far!!!)

And finally...

"Movin' On" by Good Charlotte
This whole song is basically what Steinbeck was trying to say in Grapes of Wrath, condensed into 3-and-a-half minutes of pop-punk (Yeah, I'm half-kidding. But only half.) It tackles the themes of "life sucks" and "suck it up" that were so prominent in Steinbeck's classic novel.

The line "Like all my friends, they just keep dying" is similar to the Joads's situation; their family members (Grampa and Granma) and friend Casy died in the course of the book.

The line "the hard times will come, and we'll keep movin' on" should probably be the Joad family motto. Seriously, Ma is wayyyy too into not crying and getting over it (Poor Rose :( )

So I guess " People 'round me always crying/ In this place that I like to call my home" wouldn't quite be true, since Rose of Sharon gets to cry, like, twice before Ma makes her stop, and the Joads leave home pretty early on...

But overall, I think the theme of the song and the theme of the book are the same. Or, themes, rather. Including...

" Life,
Hope,
Truth,
Trust,
Faith,
Pride,
Love,
Lust,
Pain,
Hate,
Lies,
Kill,
Laugh,
Cry,
Live,
Die"

I'm sure a person with more time on their hands could find all those things in Grapes of Wrath...

...So, if Steinbeck was born in my generation/the one before mine... would he have been a punk rocker instead of a whiny author?...

Videos that Make Me Smile (and some that are just a bit bad)

Haha, the video for "Rockstar" makes me smile :) I love that song. You rock, Nickelback.

I wish I were one of the kids in that video... And the little kids are so cute! x3

But "Imaginary Superstar" by Skye Sweetnam is still the best video in the history of the musical world.

I absolutely LOVE that video... Skye made it herself, did all the stop-motion animation and everything. Gosh, I wish I could do that... It must take a LOT of time though... I'm still working on writing the song I wrote about her all prettyly so I can send it to her fanmail and 6 months from now she'll read it and be like "OMG! Must write a lovely thank-you note!" Since she writes lovely thank-you notes sometimes, you know. *sigh* It's so cool liking an obscure singer no one knows about who has time to reply to her fanmail...

And while I'm watching Skye videos, might as well post the WNBA version of Number One. I would so download that.

The WNBA always manages to get alll my favorite singers to do ads for them... Er, they got Aly & AJ and ...someone else...

And hopefully by now, you are somewhat curious as to who Skye is, and this video does a pretty good job of explaining it...

Wow, I hope these videos work... That will be sad if they don't... And hopefully you don't hate me for posting so many videos. You don't have to watch them (except for the first two. You absolutely MUST watch them.)

OMG! Okay, only for the Skye-obsessed, but this video made me smile too. James looks sooo young; I've never seen a picture of him before. And I LOVED seeing the Capitol Records building since I saw it when I was in LA and was like "OMGOMGOMG Skye could be in that building RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!" That's what I tried to focus on when I got to LA, how Skye talked about being scared of such a big, important city. All the other people I like are on tour somewhere, so Skye was the only person I figured could be in the city... Let's just watch Skye go to LA...

So, not that interesting but... still good... I'm wasting time; I should stop... Right after this next video ;) ...

(Skye's) Homemade video for "Shattered". Not the best homemade-video-for-a-bonus-track, but "Imaginary Superstar" is a bit hard to beat...

Yeah, it kinda sucked, but you know... It WAS homemade...

And I will leave you with that crappy video, before you start throwing tomatoes... I need to do my summer homework on Grapes of Wrath (just finished reading today. the ending was CRAP!)

Beavers Don't Like Dresses

Dresses hate me. They have a conspiracy where they ALL make me look bad, then they choose one that looks good on most people, so I figure, gosh, this dress looks good on her and looks like it looks good on me... Yeah, it fits, I'll get it. Then I take the dress home and finally wear it and I look in the mirror too long and decide, the dress really DOESN'T look good on me. I'm too tall for it. Or too hippy. Or I don't have boobs. (Gosh, I hate it when people blog about boobs. I am SO SORRY to mention them here and make it all awkward, but they are a major factor in Why Dresses Do Not Fit) So then I figure okay, after this, looks like I'll have to get ANOTHER dress...

I swear, the manufacturers have figured out. They totally planned this conspiracy and taught the dresses how to look really bad then decent then bad again. They have little schools where they brainwash the dresses into looking freakish and making everyone who wears them look dumb. And the only way to escape is to pay at least $200 for an absolutely beautiful thing that costs over $200...

So, I'm going to my friend's quinceanera. (Isn't that awesome? I never figured I would be friends with anyone HISPANIC enough to have a quinceanera! I mean, all my other Spanish-speaking friends are too lazy to plan one, or their parents don't wanna throw one, or they ARE having one but can only invite like 5 friends cuz they need room for their seventh cousins and junk...) But anyways, FORMAL!!!!!!! I'll have to wear the (ugly) black dress my mom got me for Homecoming or some other equally lame thing I ended up not going to... And I need shoes. Cuz all I have are ugly Payless things that look like turkeys & pilgrims (Seriously, they do. You have to see them.) So, SHOPPING! We go to Macy's, cuz for some unknown reason my mother loves Macy's, and check out the shoes. They have more AWESOME Ked's flats, like the ones I already own but better looking but not on sale, and then... fancy shoes. :(

And of course, boring or ridiculous, they all cost WAY too much for dumb shoes, in my opinion. WE go through, see a few nice black flats (and some sweet blue-and-white stripedones I'm not allowed to get), but I don't wanna get the shoes just yet cuz, well, I haven't looked at the dress in about a year... It's black... I think the fabric is not shiny but not soft either, kinda glittery meshy, totally unexplainable. So, off to dresses to find a similar-looking dress and jog my memory!!!!!!!!

We find the exact same dress I own. The EXACT same. Probably marked down to abotu 20 bucks by now...

Well, we're here, might as well check out the other dresses... Semi-wearable sundresses (too casual)( >:P I hate you Mommy)(just kidding Mommy x3 )... Super-formal prom dress-types (including Bride of Frankenstein at the Under the Sea Dance and Bride of Frankenstein at the Spring Fling Dance)... And...

OMG A SUPER-CUTE BLACK & WHITE DRESS WITH LACE & PLEATS & FLOWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, I lied. I mean, it WAS super-cute, but my first thought was...

OMG A HILARIOUSLY UGLY BLACK & WHITE DRESS WITH LACE & PLEATS & FLOWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It looked sooo goth... I had to point it out to my mom so we could laugh at about it and decide which horror movie character would wear it to what dance... But her first thought was "How beautiful!" Then, pretty soon I realized, wow, it WAS beautiful... In a goth-meets-teacup-pattern kinda way...

So I fell in love with it. It is the perfect dress that I will wear someday when I become a rock star... and can pay $200 for it...

But there were a few more decent if not goth-pretty-perfect dresses out there. And my mom let me try them on (I asked to try on the perfect one, but she said no cuz I'd look so good she'd have to buy it. Wow, though annoying, that was actually pretty sweet... Huh. Mothers...) Anyways, I tried on this cool Hawaiian-looking dress that was black with bright blue stuff on it. My mom said it would be very versatile (quince to luau, oh yeah!) And this black dress that my mom liked but I didn't, which was good cuz I didn't quite... fill it out... enough. Then I tried on this babydoll (oh, how I hate that style!) dress with black and white circley, swirly patterns on it that was... actually really fun... Wow, I hate the babydoll-ness, but... This is actually a really cool dress. It's fun to swirl around in. AND it has thick straps so you can actually wear a decent bra under it. That is quite a rarity.

And I tried on this kimono thing I really liked on the rack but hated on me cuz I felt like an old Asian lady. No offense.

But whatever, cuz I was getting the stupid-but-nice babydoll! And possibly the quince-to-luau.

...But...

The only REASON I could get them was they were on the SALE $40!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111 rack... But they weren't on sale...

:(They were on the wrong rack. They cost about $100 each.

So, the Ugly Back Dress it is! Yay Boringness!!!!!!! >:/

And, yeah, that is my story of why dresses hate me. Looking back on it, it was not much of a story. I could've just told my evil-brainwashing-school-for-dresses theory cuz that was the most interesting part... Ah well... You read it, too late, I'm posting it...

Oh, and some posts on the time I died (It'll make sense in my next post, and if it doesn't, comment and say you'll murder me again if I don't explain it) later... Ciao for now, my good-bye rhymes are lame for any time! wow, I'll shut up...

Save Lilo & Stitch!

Oh, I totally forgot, today is Save Lilo & Stitch Day, in honor of the movie being aired on Disney Channel tonight. Go here and bitch about how much you love the movies & show! And start chatting with the automated response from Disney Channel Member Services, it is such a good listener and always replies to your e-mails!

And for all you confused lazy-butts who can't find the e-mail program, it's here. Just type in your name, e-mail, and the subject, and voila! You've just harassed over 30 Disney employees about it!

Leaving for *CALIFORNIA* tomorrow! Tty in 2 weeks!

Where to Get Your AWESOME School Supplies

So yesterday I went to Target for...

BACK TO SCHOOL SHOPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every year, I get most of my supplies from their super-cool line of stuff for high school/college students. The stuff that's all blue and green and brown with circles and lines and looks amazing. Last year, I got there a bit late and couldn't find much, so I reused a lot of stuff from 8th grade (the year before).

So this year I got there early in the summer, ready to soak up the awesomeness!

And there wasn't any :(

Not "there wasn't any LEFT". There wasn't ANY. I think they may have discontinued the line or something. I did get a couple notebooks that were matching cardboard with colored stripes. Gosh, I hope that isn't the remnants of their great collection of folders, binders, notebooks of all sizes...

But never fear! I just discovered a new place to find incomparably amazing notebooks & folders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fueled By Ramen webstore. Yeah, it's 5 times as expensive as Target was. BUT YOU CAN GET A FOLDER WITH PARAMORE ON IT OMG+++!!!!!!!!!!11111111

So, time for you to soak up the awesomeness.

Actually, scratch that. I can't figure out how to post pictures of the stuff. Stupid Blogger. No smilies AND difficulty posting images? Maybe I will go back to being a loser who blogs in myspace :P

So, anyways, links to the awesomeness. You can soak it up once you click on them

Paramore notebook

Paramore folder

Cute Is What We Aim For notebook

(^ I am so totally buying those 3, so you better not steal them if you go to my school :P)

Cute Is What We Aim For folder

Fall Out Boy notebook

Fall Out Boy Stationary (for school of course)

And there are more, and a Fall Out Boy folder I couldn't find the second time I looked, so since I don't really care about the other bands, you can look for yourself.

Oh! Wait! I LOVE this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GYM CLASS HEROES GYM BAG + T-SHIRT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! x333333

I think that is the cutest idea in the UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wanna get a deal with Fueled By Ramen so I can have my own school supplies...

Yeah, hope you love that half as much as I do. And I hope your parents (and mine!!!) see the beauty and genius and are willing to shell out a few extra books for the coolest notebook their child has ever seen...

Masters of Science Fiction: So Subtle... It's Impossible to Find

I LOVE science fiction short stories. I remember reading The Veldt by Ray Bradbury in eighth grade and being so stunned but feeling so proud when I realized that the parents were eaten by the lions and that was what the kids were imagining all along (ooh, spoiler there. Hopefully that won't make any sense if you haven't read the story yet..) My mom thought it was disturbing, but I thought it was awesome and that Ray Bradbury was a genius (yeah, I guess your kid loving a story in which the kids kill their mom would be a bit disturbing...) And the BEST part was that realization of what was going on.

So, last night, after realizing that Stu Wolff, the fictional rock star in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, is hilarious when drunk but unbelievably sappy when sober, I stayed on ABC long enough to watch the premiere of their new series "Masters of Science Fiction." In other words, I stayed on ABC an hour too long.

The show was either unfathomably deeper than my small brain can handle, or completely pointless. (Spoiler alert) Here's the plot of the first episode, "A Clean Escape": A psychiatrist is trying to help some guy regain his memory. Everyone tells her to stop, he's a waste of their resources and her time. But she just says she needs a little more time. (Oh, if only she'd given up after the first 10 minutes!...) The man can remember the first 41 years of his life as if they were yesterday (er, he actually thinks they WERE yesterday...) but not the next 24 years. Back in his forties, he developed defense systems for the US government. But apparently, after that, he became president and blew up Russia in a preemptive strike (using the weapons he developed, I'm sure). So they blew us up. And then apparently everyone else blew themselves up. So now we've been stuck in nuclear winter for a year, and he can't remember any of it. But - oh look! - here's a video of the blown-up Western White House! And there's his wife! And there are the organs inside her burnt-to-crisp body! And we can see the kids next! No, wait... He's crying... He remembers! HE REMEMBERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The psychiatrist's obsessive quest has been fulfilled! Now we can all live happily... uh... oh no! Psychiatrist has a gun! Mr. Prez begs her not to shoot him. So she takes mercy on him! And shoots herself, we presume. At least, someone dies a bloody death. And now her best friend is trying to make the Prez remember again. Apparently he forgot... So... Show's over... Wasn't that a biting parallel of... something... we would understand...

I mean, my dad pointed out every Bush stab (which there were surprisingly many. Was that in the short story the episode was based on, or did they just write it in so the show would seem edgier?) And I learned that nuclear war = bad. And from a few side comments, I learned that presidents who don't believe in global warming will destroy us all.

And, to tie this all back to my enthralling tale of what I read in 8th grade, this show was lacking that one little thing: realization. The point where you get the point. (Actually, it was missing a lot more than that. More later.) Why was it so important to make the guy feel bad? And WHY did they have to do it again after the psychiatrist died??? One of the guys in charge made it sound like Mr. Prez was a waste of resources, so they should hurry up and kill him. So they wait until she makes him remember what a shit-bag he is. Then they let her best friend make him reremember he's a shit-bag. So what's up with these wasted resources? Was the PSYCHIATRIST a waste of resources? Was that the point? And what about that weird-o first scene where it looks like we see a psychiatrist clone floating there and some guy tells the (presumably) not-clone psychiatrist she has 3 or 4 months to live? (I think that's what happened, but of course you understand a word they say. My dad decided to turn on the closed-captioning so we could follow it.)

And why do the last 871 humans alive have nothing better to do than make the president remember he destroyed the world, only to have him forget again 40 minutes later? Wouldn't they be better off trying to seduce him into repopulating the Earth?

Speaking of repopulating, the psychiatrist says that humanity will survive. Let's hope they have a lot of Viagra in there... Not to mention food. Sure, you could say it's worth wasting food on your mentally-damaged president since he's, you know, the president. But then you torture him into remembering he's president. Do we value his life or not?

One more complaint: the show is about as cheap as you could imagine. There are only about 3 scenes that take place outside the psychiatrist's office. The only futuristic equipment we see (other than those random tanks of floating clones) is a projection panel and a cool little light-up control pad on Crazy Psychiatrist's desk that could possibly just be a light under some frosted glass... But of course it's a super-hi-tech control pad that was quite expensive to make. Of course.

One specific example of cheapness: Crazy Psychiatrist shows Mr. Prez a wide range of big cities after the nuclear holocaust. But except for still-smoking New York & London, we get to watch Mr. Prez's facial expressions!!! You know that's the exciting part...

Actually, it might be. The best part of the show by far was the actors. Crazy Psychiatrist is intense, stony, determined, a bit too intense... Like any good crazy psychiatrist would be. Mr. Prez is nice & lovable but totally determined not to talk about this project at work. And waaay too stubborn to believe he's the president... Sound like how any presidents we know would act? Oh, ABC, you slay me...

The rest of the actors get about 5 lines each. No sense letting minor characters talk...

Oh, and I think Sam Waterson (the actor who plays Mr. Prez) is supposed to be a BIG DEAL, so if you know why, be satisfied in knowing that he does not disappoint. Even his character mostly makes sense. Wish we could say that for the rest of them...

Oh, and the flashbacks and "OMG HOW DARE U NOT REMEMBER ME YOU KILLED MY CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" mini-rants by Crazy Psych made me think she & Mr. Prez were married. And I think that would've added a more-fathomable layer to the story. Just saying...

Oh, and apparently everyone at TV.com liked it, or at least is willing to see more... Curse you, cookie problem that won't let me in!!!!!!!! I need to share this brilliant review...

This review is decent. I don't get why the reviewer still wants to see more, but I guess hope springs eternal.

I'll try posting this on IMDb.

And sorry I'm a whiny bitch ;)

W00t first post!

Oh gosh, the title sounds like I'm one of those people who obsessively post on their new MySpaces and Facebooks "first comment!", or worse, those odious creatures that do it on bands' blogs "first comment! lyk ong!!1" :P Except when they're actually the second or third comment. Then it's hilarious xD

I sound so pretentious. Wowww... And there are no cool smilies here :( Screw credibility and absence of child predators, I want my MySpace smilies ;( But at least this tells you when you spell things wrong. I guess MySpace assumes you misspell stuff on purpose in you blog but accidentally in your About Me... Weird...

So. I posted 2 blogs on MySpace today, so I'm afraid I'm a bit out of new material. And my my eyes are starting to hurt. So, um, welcome; I'm Meredith; I like beavers, long story; sorry this post was so lame; I'm off to read Out of the Silent Planet and hope I can pass it off as summer reading that's above 10th grade level (you really don't want me to start. I'm sure I will some other time. In short, Harry Potter pwns all of Thoreau, Steinbeck, and Fitzgerald's works combined.)

I still miss my smilies :( This is so cold and unfeeling...