Music of... Confusion?

    This song is just too funny. Babymetal's my new thing!

And this one...

Why I Don't Mind (Too Much) Summer Isolation

    Summer, so far, has been pretty good for me. I live on the other side of town from where everything's quote-unquote happening, so I don't really go over there so often because my mom has expressed to me that she does NOT want to be our family's designated chauffeur and constantly be driving around our large town... understandable, but somewhat unfortunate for me.    
    So I've mostly stayed at home/gone on various day trips, which is okay by me for now. I really don't mind being antisocial for a week or two before I get shipped off to sleepaway camp; in fact, that way I get to  play piano like a boss, have Death Note marathons, talk to Kruuuup about Death Note marathons, go to the beach, and make pancakes in the morning. Not bad, yes? Next on my list is making Run-DMC t-shirts, woot woot! And filming a Dance Moms parody with my neighbor/friend and a few other people. Doesn't that sound great? It sho' nuff does to me.
    I gotta say that I'm never really THAT intensely excited for summer (that's probably exaggerating too, I'm less than excited) for a few reasons.
    1. I live on the opposite side of town from most of my friends, which is very inconvenient and means that I can't just walk over to their houses whenever I wish. And my mom will drive me over there approximately once a week. So that takes care of that.
    2. I really, really, really like school... call me crazy, but I do. I don't really mind most of the schoolwork (don't quote me on that), all my friends are there, and... yeah. Isn't it a no-brainer at that point? So I'm always sort of sad when school ends.
    3. I don't go to all these nonstop day camps that a lot of kids my age do, so (1) I miss some friends, and (2) I have a lot of free time.
    Those are my main reasons. But I really think that I'm quite lucky for getting camp for a few weeks, AND going to Europe in August! I'm extremely pumped for that. So summer's going just as planned. Hurrah, me!

"everybody's talking bout a new kind of walking"

"everybody's talking bout a new kind of walking" by pinkyallamoda featuring head wrap headbands

Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to the Jungle by pinkyallamoda featuring printed socks

On My Desk

On My Desk by pinkyallamoda featuring black pearl jewelry

Pop Culture: Hedwig, Marina, Masquerade, Robert, and Elaine

The world is sometimes just too cool for words. Okay, my computer is officially freaking out because there are TWO gifs in one post, so I need to stop typing or it'll crash or something disastrous like that

Why We Should All Abide by the Hayao Miyazaki Rules

    Know what backwards-opening graphic novel picks me up when I'm alone in the deserted "young adult" section of a strange library in an unknown town that houses a school that my younger brother used to go to? My Neighbor Totoro. 
    Know what I've watched mazillions of times since it came out in theaters in August '09, not to mention bought exactly on the day it came out on DVD because it was on my birthday, and sang the words of the CLOSING SONG with my dear friend Chuck? Ponyo. 
    Know what scared me for a few nights after seeing it because of the CREEPY RADISH GUY and also No-Face's practically nonexistent voice, but prompted me to declare that my favorite name in the whole wide world was Chihiro? Spirited Away. 
    Know what movie made me want to buy tons of sugar cubes just so I could stealthily noisily steal them and laugh hysterically when my parents didn't even notice my expert espionage skills? Arietty.
    Know why I've been spending the past ten minutes writing run-on sentences upon run-on sentences about Japanese films, probably half of which you viewers (pop. approximately 4, but only two commenters) don't even know about? Because Studio Ghibli, the maker of all these great movies/graphic novels/general awesomeness, is so totally tubular and all that, of corpse!  I've decided to compose a list of movies that are just Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli GOLD, y'all, in hopes that ole Chuck will remember the good old days of Spirited Away and sleepovers.
     Ponyo: This was so fabulous! My grandpa took me to see it when it first came out, and I was totally in love with it from that moment on. Plus, Matt Damon! I have no comment about how Ponyo and Sosuke are played by Little Cyrus and Little Jonas. This was the very beginning of my penchant for Studio Ghibli. Now my little brother watches it, and since we own it (we got it on my birthday a few years ago because that was the exact day it came out on DVD), I watch along every single time he does! The Devonian-age fish are the coolest thangs. I had to look them up afterwards because I was so interested in them. Dipnorhynchus, now I know a big word.
 My Neighbor Totoro: Okay, I'll confess...
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