posting from my iPhone ftw!

I have not blogged in a hella long time (yes I just used the word 'hella' don't judge me everyone here has been talking like that around me for the eight days I have been here). Anyway..I'm in NYC for this college program & I never, ever want to leave. NYC is definitely the place I was born to live. I will go into detail at a later date about all my awesome stories but I am not about to do that on my iPhone (yepp I have been without my MacBook for nine days, I may or may not want to cry just thinking about it..I'm pathetic). What I am really here for is to tell you the blogosphere has changed and now you my like three readers need to go to socarolinesays.wordpress.com for the blogger formerly known as girl goes east (and she is totally worthy of the Prince reference I just bestowed upon her) also you have to go to thefagazine.wordpress.com for my queen gay @zachzapatoamigo's blog!! So anyway more to come once I am back on MACkenzie (I name everything, shut up).

No favorite tweets this post because my favorites are too numerous, just go read the convo Zach, Caroline, Cam, & I had about out real life SATC.

Peace, Love, & Happiness =)

"umm..wtf are you singing??"

In responding to one of Caroline’s (@thecarolineann) tweets I said “I’m blue (da ba dee da ba die)” as in that song that was all too popular for being generally an awful song during my early childhood and it made me recall completely misunderstanding the lyrics as a seven year old. I was adamant about the lyrics saying “I’m blue, if I were green I would die” (shut up, I know you have messed up lyrics before too & these were the days before I knew about lyrics websites so I have an excuse). My hilarious friend Annemarie (follow her on twitter, @thelegitam), who I don’t believe reads this blog but should write her own, is the BEST at messing up lyrics. I believe once in her french class (Olivia, correct me if I’m wrong in the comments) she revealed that she believed the lyrics in Toni Basil’s ‘Mickey’ (video below) were “Oh Mickey you’re so fine, you’re so fine you draw the line” instead of “Oh Mickey you’re so fine you blow my mind”. Again while in a restaurant in Paris, I got to experience the hilarity of mistaken lyrics when Annemarie singing along with Sheryl Crow’s cover of “The First Cut is the Deepest” (why they were playing American music in every French restaurant I went to I will never comprehend) was singing “the first time is the deepest” the inner 12 year old boy in me died laughing.

(EDIT: Just as I published this post Olivia texted me and said "Annemarie just sang california gurls as "so hot we'll knock your popsicle"" This my friends is why I love her.)

I love mistaken lyrics, so in the comments tell me some of your lyrical errors to entertain me through my night on lockdown. =)

Favorite tweet: @LivitLuvit “RT @mashable: Top 10 Geekiest Marriage Proposals - http://bit.ly/cMPOPf” (I love them all, watch the vids, they are so cute. especially the Mario one & the iPhone)

Peace, Love, & Happiness (& enjoy this music video..)

i drank the purple koolaid (or I guess in this case its red)

I saw Eclipse tonight *bows head in immense shame* and I liked it. All you “Twihards” (I believe thats what you call yourselves) out there: cool your shit, I know I “just don’t get it” and “really its magical” (which by the way confuses me, I know wizards such as those from Harry Potter are magical but what are vampires? Are they too “magical”?) but the books are written poorly and I am a literature snob. Stephenie Meyer uses too many adjectives and I cannot get past it. The plot may be fantastic but if you are too descriptive (Nathaniel Hawthorne, I am talking to you) I could care less how fabulous the plot is, I will not read it (see: The Scarlet Letter). Also, I saw New Moon and as an actress I positively wanted to explode at the fact those actors were getting paid obscene amounts of money for..that. It was atrocious. That being said the eye candy was delightful; Taylor Lautner I’m pretty sure was the only reason I survived that film. Anyway, Eclipse was heads and tails (pun was not intended but now that I notice it I’m leaving it in) above New Moon. Xavier, Jackson, and Taylor were gorgeous and the new director made the film so bearable I was shocked. The changes he made in Kristen were subtle enough that she wasn’t a completely new character but accomplished the goal of making Kristen Stewart play someone other than Kristen Stewart.

The film was acted & shot well enough that I actually was able to pay attention to the plot and I got kind of into so now my dear friend Zach (follow him on twitter at @zachzapatoamigo, you won’t regret it) is making me read the books. Maybe I will be able to get through the excessive usage of the words “icy” and “cold” enough that I can at least enjoy the plot. Here’s hoping.

Favorite tweet of the day: @zachzapatoamigo summing up our fabulous summer day “Today was a fantastic day. Shopping, seeing all my favorite people, #TaylorLautner & #Eclipse made an encore appearance too. #lovesummer”

Peace, Love, & Happiness My Lovelies

insomnia induced chaos

It is now 3:17 ladies and gentlemen and I am still awake. Three days (well I guess technically if you aren’t a crazed insomniac like moi, they are nights) in a row I have seen at least this time of night. I think I’m going insane. No. Joke. I am not diagnosed with OCD but I promise you (I keep wanting to call you tweeps) I have it & my ticks (is that the right term? I am too tired to go check Web MD and even if I did it would just tell me I am dying of some disease you can only contract in Antarctica and I will proceed to freak out and schedule doctors appointments consulting them about the tumor Web MD told me I have that is really just a cold..I digress.) are completely boiling over, a la Miles from Bravo’s Work of Art (great show+gorgeous boy=watch it.).




INTERJECTION: background info- I am an actress and was playing Eulalie in The Music Man at my high school until I got into a summer program at Pace University that conflicts with the show dates forcing me to become a part of the production staff.

Anywho, as I was saying, my OCD ticks (?) are overflowing: I spent an hour of my life making sure all the paper clips on several hundred packs of raffle tickets were going the same way and then proceeded to lay them perfectly in the box; I alphabetized every ticket order form and every envelope of tickets and checked them 7 times to make sure they were right; *drumroll* the worst insomnia inspired OCD meltdown: I was filling ticket orders for the show and the colors of the tickets for each night were various colors of the rainbow but when lined up in order of the shows they corresponded to they were not in the wonderful, logical ROYGBIV order and..and..well, I cried.

I am no longer a functioning insomniac. Comment if you have any methods of getting to sleep & staying asleep or any funny insomnia/OCD stories.

Peace, Love, Happiness (& Sleep)

Ohh! Also, follow me on twitter: twitter.com/laurieloulou22

OHH! I've decided I need a thing like Caroline of girlgoeseast.com (read it)'s Awkward Wednesdays & Throwback Fridays so to fulfill the name of this blog we are doing my favorite tweet of the howeverlongitsbeensinceilastposted..deal?

The first is: @blakebashoff: "everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."

I will try to do lighter ones in the future but I liked that one too much =)

Now for real at 4:07am..

Peace, Love, Happiness (& Sleep)