Oooh Love, Oooh Loverboy, Watcha Doin Tonight?

Oh my god. Oh my god.

Jason Mraz did a cover version of my favorite song ever: Queen’s “Good Old Fashioned Loverboy”

Now when I first heard he did a version, I was really skeptical, because more often than not, song remakes are terrible (More Than Words by Frankie J anyone?) but this one was fairly good (Like No Doubt’s cover of It’s My Life).

Actually, the part after the first 20 seconds or so is good. In the beginnig, Mraz sounds like he’s a teenage boy with a cracking voice, and then he hits the part “I can seranade and gently play on your heartstrings” And his voice gets sooo perfect and smooth. I was freaking charmed by it, and it’s rare that I can simply be charmed by someone singing…

Now I’m actually having second thoughts about who did it better: Freddie Mercury or Jason Mraz.

Of course, nothing could compare to the original but… Mraz’s voice is more musical and romantic, like the song and it’s lyrics… better suited than Mercury’s… oh I feel like I’ve betrayed my favorite song.

Some people I know are actually surprised this is my favorite song. People think I’d prefer something New Wave-ish, sailormoon-ish, or some cheesy romantic song.

Although I do admit in a tie for my second favorite song are the ever-too-mushy “Only Yesterday” and “I Just Fall In Love Again” by The Carpenters

Not that I usually admit to liking the Carpenters, because if you look at me, and hear the carpenters music, I probably wouldn’t strike you as a person who listens to what I call “Lovesick Teenager Music” but hell. Karen Carpenter sings like an angel. People don’t think I like Queen either. My cousin told me because Queen is listened to mostly by 50-year old stoner guys who still long for the glory days of riding thier bikes down Route 66. But really what’s more believable: Old stoner motorcycle guys listening to a romantic song about seranades and romantic young men, or a teenage girl listening to it?

My point exactly.

Also. Beach trip.

Uhh. well. Nosukii said everything I was gonna say, but I  suppose for the sake of our readers, I’ll elaborate on the subject.

I had about 7 clothing mishaps within a span of around 7 hours- one mishap per hour, not  bad Mina!!- and that sucked.

For my friends who read this, (I’m not sure if the few friends who know about this blog check it for updates, but w/e. their loss) those knew me in 7th grade (like Alex), and/or have heard about the huge water fight that happened on a certain unpleasant day- all I can say is that at the beach, it was confirmed that myself, my bra, and water should never be combined.

That’s all I”ll say about that.

Oh, and Nosukii the brave said she saw a cute squirrel she liked, but i saw what happened… She wouldn’t let us get near it because it might have rabies and attack. Hahahaa nosukii!!!

And I took pictures:

I have dubbed this one the stupid-happy pic. We were in the car, I put the camera on flash and night vision, and we ended up looking like this. We’re really not that pale in real life. We would probably be dead if we were. Nosukii is on the left, I’m on the right. You can see my glorious braces in this pic. This is also the first pic I have ever released of myself on the internet… voluntarily, that is.

My nose isn’t that huge. I hope. We were being stupid again… and this happened. I laugh everytime I see the stop sign near my eye, I don’t know why… It’s not even funny.

Another car pic. Nosukii was doing a sexy fan dance for me ;D

Uh. Not sure why I took this one. Or why I have so many pics of nosukii… kinda weird…

And… the last decent pic I have (I didn’t take many):

Uh. I’m not sure where I am. I didn’t take the picture… sooo yeah. Nosukii on the left, her brother on the right, his friend in the middle, and I’m dead. Closest thing I have to a group photo…

So overall, the beach was fun. Except I tried to do my make up (liquid liner no less) in a moving car. I got laughed at. Also my hair was poofy. I normally straigten it. And I forgot chapstick. And all of my clothing problems. And the sand. I hate sand >.<

Oh, on a side note… I went clothes shopping. The clothes don’t look like they belong to me. But I figure It was time for a change.

I mean, I can’t wear Techincolor tights and shirts emblazoned with cute little characters forever… it had to change sometime. I look really different now. All the clothes I bought are neutral colors, and i got some longer skirts and classier tops… and a turtle neck. I have never (well, since i was 3) worn a turtleneck. I also bought a short dress… All clothes being black and/or white of course, old habits die hard. But still. Any step forward is good. I just don’t take to wearing t-shirts that are a predominantly bright color. Makes me feel uncomfortable. Black and white are very comforting.

I do feel strange wearing clothes like these, like… I don’t know. I feel not like myself… I suppose they look better on me. Well. I’ve never dressed nicely before so, yeah. Lets see…

7th grade- Huge black shirts. Huge blue jeans. Same pair of converse everyday. small black earrings. Frizzy hair (never combed it). Horrid acne, like really bad. Delicious anime shirts. Crooked condaleeza rica teeth. Also I’m ashamed to admit I stuffed my bra a little in 7th grade. It sucked being tall and flat chested. I wasn’t even skinny enough for that to be my excuse. I figured I could do something about one of problems…

8th grade- Slightly smaller shirts. More anime shirts. changed to black jeans this year. Started wearing eyshadow this year. Still bad acne. Started wearin glasses more. Attempted to tame my hair. Didn’t work, so I just let it hang there. Really chapped lips- i never wore chapstick. Crazy eyebrows- I stopped taking care of them that year. Gleaming braces. Started wearin shoes that weren’t converse for the first time in years. 

9th grade- Babydoll shirts. Slightly less acne. Straigtened my hair. wore eyeshadow only on top lid. wore miniskirts combined with neon tights. Lots of hello kitty. At the beginning of this year, I said I was going to be more feminine. So I wore skirts, non black and white shirts. It lasted the first two weeks. Then I was my normal black t-shirt and jeans self. Started wearing lipgloss this year. Wore neon hoop earrings this year. Lots of yellow plastic jewelery. Really long nails, almost ghetto fabulous they were so long.

End of 9th grade to present- Off the shoulder tops (uhh… black and white). Ditched the eyeshadow. As of July, started doing cat-eyed makeup. Got bangs- sometimes side swept, sometimes not. Less neon colored nail polish, nails are currently light pink and silver ( I used to wear bright blue, pink, and one time green). Dresses. Rarely acne (my father dragged me to a dermotologist. She is indian and I can’t pronounce her name). No more neon tights at all, sometimes black ones. Turtle necks. Longer skirts. New jewelery (all silver except a pair of earrings and a white ring with “amour” written on it in pink).  Nails are slightly shorter…

It’s really odd when you look back and see how your tastes have changed. It’s like in a way you miss it, but then you don’t. Like in 7th grade, I didn’t even care what I looked like, and thus I looked like crap.

It’s shamful really, how shallow I have become about how I look and how people see me, but what can I do? I can’t go back to how I used to look. I mean, I’m not spectacularly pretty or anything, but I don’t look like I died in a hot topic after being dragged through the ocean. It’s strange though. I really don’t pay attention to how other people look (except a few), so I doubt they pay attention to me, and yet I still care.

Well, I care to a certain extent. I won’t dress a certain way because someone told me to, but I’ll still straigten my hair and wear makeup because it makes me look just that much better. But I suppose most people worry about things like that. I think.

I just hope I never get so deep in my shallowness (is that a type of an oxymoron?) that I find myself completely disgusted by someone’s looks or  discriminating them based solely on their attractiveness…

Maybe I’m not shallow, just vain.

Well, enough of my self-depressing talk. I like my new style. I did however cheat and bought a queen shirt online, along with a debbie gibson (black with neon script) one, and a red shirt with a cameo and a gun on it, and a cool elvira shirt.

But that can slide for now.

I also got a nice hello kitty school bag:

Surrounded by my hamtaro plush and Hello Kitty. Also my comforter is black this week. It’s reversible, so I change it every two weeks. Last week it was red.

Bye.

But the Prince Hides His Face From My Dreams in the Mist

I don’t recall ever blogging about my dreams, so I figured I better start somewhere. I also warn you that my dreams aren’t what teenage girls usually dream about- like boys, and fashion disasters, or showing up to school in your underwear- they often involve the apocalypse, communists, flying cars, people trying to kill me (in really stupid ways, I might add). And Nosukii turning into Wedding Peach. She might kill me for telling you that, but hell, the dream was hilarious. For those of you who know what Nosukii looks like, I had a dream she was dressed like this character:

horrifying, no? But that’s not the end. the character also has a battle uniform!!!!

Now. Looking at Nosukii and looking at the above pictures, you know they don’t go together. But that’s what made it all the more hilarious!! But, this was weeks ago…not the point of this post (I’m not sure if it has one…)

Anyway I had a dream two days ago (oddly I haven’t had many dreams lately) that It was the first day of school. And Valentine’s Day (Yeah, go figure.). The dream pretty much featured prominent characters of my school life (Me, Nosukii, and our self-proclaimed “Lunch Cult”), but also the girls of my 9th grade P.E. class, a guy in my Spanish class, a brief cameo of the school’s french teacher, my perverted P.E. teacher, and Wayne Newton. Yeah. WAYNE NEWTON. The guy that sings “Danke Shoen” was in my dream. I have no idea why, but the guy in my spanish class managed to convince all the people in the school that he was Wayne Newton. And Nosukii fell in love with him, but only in his “Wayne Newton Form” (he looked exactly the same as he always does, I don’t know why he was Wayne Newton…)

Backtrack a minute…

I forgot to mention i was asleep in my dream, dreaming that Michael Myers/Freddy/Jason were all trying to kill me. And then in my dream, i woke up (still dreaming) and went to school which led me to the above events. So yeah…also I apparently had a secret admirer (wow. only in my dreams) and I woke up THE SECOND before he (or she…idk) was revealed. I never saw him (hence the title of the blog. I thank my knowledge of 80’s hair/metal Bands) Yeah, that pissed me off. I almost killed my kuromi pillow when I woke up from that. Maybe Mr.Sandman didn’t want me to see my secret admirer. Maybe it was someone soooooo strange it would have driven me insanity.

Like Buddha Boy.

AAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNDDDDD, I don’t feel like elaborating on my dream, for it would be too long. Oooh! but before I forget, Nosukii’s brother is letting me use his card to buy more unecessary (how do you spell that word? i always get the english and spanish confused…) and gaudy cell phone items!! whoo! Pics now! :

Cute huh? Nosukii’s getting a matching one (it is silver with a black pig though.)

This is so cool!! If your phone is on and turned a certain way, people next to you cannot see when you text!! Which would come in handy because someone-whose-name-shall-not-be-mentioned is always watching Nosukii and I text each other. Plus, as seen in the picture, when the phone or backlgiht is off, it turns into a mirror!! Convienient!

And last but certainly not least:

Just what every phone needs: a bra. Nosukii and I saw it and wanted it just to be weird, but when I looked at the site, the mini-bra is actually a love charm. The purple one is love at first sight. The one we were originally going to get was all black for “emotional seduction”, but it sold out today (it was in stock yesterday), along with the cute cheetah print. Although purple is the cutest, black would have matched our phones better though. No worries though! I’m still as happy as ever!! Also, i failed to mention that nosukii is not getting a bra- she is getting the matching panties:

I am going to have the cutest flip phone ever!!

On a side note: I found an old wind chime in my junk drawer when I got back from Nosukii’s yesterday and hung it up in my window. Now everytime the chime jingles, it sounds like the bells from Queen’s “Bicycle Race”, and I laugh like a little schoolgirl. Except I take it down to go to sleep because it is loud.

More Later! Tabloid TV aka Celebreality Fights (jeebus, I’m turning into my mom) is on VH1! Must watch!

Up Ventura, There She Goes, She Just Bought Some Bitchin’ Clothes

7/9/08

“I’VE NEVA BIN SO HOPPY IN MUH HORE RIFE” – Long Duck Dong, “Sixteen Candles”

That is so how i felt today. I was looking at cell phone accessories and my grandma said that she would buy me the ones i wanted!! They won’t arrive for another 4-12 days, but i have pics from the site:

YAY!! A rabbit on the moon!! I liked this because in a PGSM pic I saw long ago, Tsukino Usagi had one similar to it!! Hooray for Sawaii Myu!!

hello kitty as foam cherries. nice.

The cutest little voodoo Kuromi I’ve ever seen!!(and the only one)

My current phone has jewels and bows like these (they came in hello kitty theme, nosukii has the same ones) but they are pink and silver. Now i have MOAR!! HAHAHAHA.

Annnnnnnnnnnd. That’s it. Also, in exchange for two of my pokemon games (blue and leaf green), my little brother gave me the money to preorder a pinky street kuromi!! It’s so cute!! Plus he save money becuse the doll cost 18.00, and pokemon games are sold used for like 30.00 (why pay that much for pokemon i have no clue…) I also got pics of it. It will arrive at my house this month!!

She comes with an alternate outfit, and the kuromi plushie she has is detachable!!

More pics when i get them!! Also, i won’t argue with anyone who wants to buy me the My Melody version…jk.