All Day Tech Rehearsal

I seriously don't understand how my room gets like this in a day.

Today I had an all day Tech rehearsal for the Fall Drama at my school You Can't Take It With You (the same show I'm doing the opening titles for) and I guess my grandmother thought we were late because she was running to the car. It was either we actually were late and I was just oblivious or she just really wanted to get to her car.


The set looks brilliant already!


I was really bored most of the day because there are barely any set changes and the microphones weren't there yet.


I snuck out from behind back stage at one point to watch the show. It looked funny enough.


I think a drank a fair few of those Brisk Iced Teas.


There was a live snake on stage.


We had pizza for lunch so I took some home.


I got home and I was watching some of Kanye's music videos on YouTube. When I got to watching "The Good Life" I noticed his hair cut again and I remembered that I myself needed a haircut soon (see below). I've been wanting to do my hair like that since before I got dreadlocks (see below for that picture too) when Love & Basketball came out. So the next time I get my haircut, which should be in the next week, I'll be getting a similar hair cut to Kanye and/or Quincy from Love & Basketball. The question is ... should I have three lines or two?


This would be the most "intense" haircut I've had since I cut my locks. Ever since I cut them my hair has been short, simple and clean.


So at one point while I was looking for a screenshot from Love & Basketball I found a full version of it on YouTube and I was like, "Hmmm ... I should watch that movie!" Then I remembered that it was one of Lillian's favorites too so I proposed that we watch it simultaneously.

Me loading up my DVD player on my PS2













Her loading up on her DAEWOO DVD player













Me showing off my DVD


















Her showing off her DVD













My weapon of choice: The PS2


















Her weapon of choice: Her DVD PLAYER













Me inserting


















Her inserting













Me at the standby













Her almost at the standby













I should have used Flash in this case














So my picture would have come out similar to this













ACTIVATE ... NOW!













ACTIVATE ... NOW!

Uh ... oh (read below)














Peace

Mac Day Friday, Thirty-Two Days Down (Absent)

Today I got my Mac G4! Only down side is that it has so special effects or editing programs on it. Sad face.



Here are some screen grabs.




My letter confirming I completed the first step to getting into USC came today!



Peace

Another Substitute, Thirty-One Days Down

It's 7:00 and my bus isn't here. What does that mean? It means our regular bus driver is back. Sad face.


So I just came from my fourth period AP English Literature class and Ms. Stonehill was absent once again. Sad face. We always have pretty strange substitutes who come through but today we had one of the most odd ones yet. First, she started off the class promoting this Opera and this contest to watch an Opera. She said we had to write a two page essay stating why we should go the concert. Eventually, I don't know how, the subject turn to China and how it would be the greatest economic power in the world soon and how in twenty years Los Angeles will be a polluted ruin like in Bladerunner.

Half-way through the class we finally got our actual assignment which was on Sonnents from Shakespeare. I wasn't doing the work and saving it for homework and she called me out because I was talking and then I tried to play it off as if I were talking about couplets and iamb meters from Shakespeare and then she says that I should teach her a few things because she was a history major and that somehow turn her into saying I was handsome and I said thank you. But what really got me is when she said, "And you are so articulate." Now, I being the only African-American male in the joint took this to mean "I'm so impressed with how well you speak with the current situation you are in" so I retort with a "Yeah, are you surprised?" to which the class burst out with laughter. And what really really got me after that is that she didn't get it at all and just went on talking about pollution and operas and stuff like that. She was pretty off.

Another yearbook sibling picture below.


Portrait for the Fall Drama.


And a cage I never knew about.


First practice for Whoopi vs SilentBat was really good. Whoopi has gotten a lot better from the first. I think the teasers also really help him out as well. There are four major sections in the duel. We merely practiced the first half of the first section.




Oh my! SilentBat has Whoopi pinned down!!
















Huge clash coming! Look at that balance I have! Thanks Mr. Lott!


Taking a little break.


The setting of the duel.






SilentBat with two lightsaber! Oh golly! This isn't looking good for Whoopi.



Some guy was saying "That's not pee! That's a shadow"

No, it most definitely was pee. A little two or three year old was sitting there and wet herself on the way back from practice.