Points to me for cheesy use of song lyrics? Or something. Anyway, I remembered that I had not yet made an intropost for the last friending meme I was in, even if it was over a couple days ago.

I'm tired. And rambly. So this should be interesting.

I'm Chris. Age 17-almost-18, going to be a senior at an all-girls Catholic school, music junkie, occasional writer (mostly Waycest), artist/photographer sometimes, icon-maker when I have nothing better to do, not that this has been updated in the past century, and resident transboy. I also play bass. Sort of. I may actually be worse than Pete Wentz. (Sorry, Pete. I still love you.) I am all in favor of all things bandom, though MCR are my favorites always and forever. Honorable mentions go to Pete's everything with a side helping of Patrick and Joe, the Used and their shenanigans, Cobras, whether they are fanged or in my basement (it's actually colder down there), and Empires, though I think they would probably get lost on the way to receiving the award. Also, Mikeyway is cooler than your face.

I'm probably going to regret this part, but ( have a video as well )

... apparently I am less rambly than I originally anticipated. Well. Ask me things? Complete random and/or TMI completely allowed, of course. Also, for more information, my profile has detaily goodness and quotes of random shit that I have made people say.

If anyone lives on or near this route and would be okay with one me crashing on the couch/roof/driveway/under a bed/wherever for one night later this month, let me know? I'm trying to do trip planning and I am not liking how much hotels would run me :/

Reposting what restless_jedi asked: "Bonus points to anyone who knows the kind of berries Kanga, Roo, and Tigger like in Winnie the Pooh. Is it cloudberries?"

We're trying to name our newest unicorn right now.

Today is still fired, but talking with her on the phone for a while did help a lot. Also, earlier in the evening, I met this girl that was at Travis's house--turns out she's an ex of Dale's, and, ah... it seems I dodged a bullet. Apparently "I'm still not over my ex" actually means "if I hadn't dumped you I'd be cheating on you with her the whole time."

Eh. Fuck him with a rake, I'm done. Speaking of rakes, I have a small part in Travis's ultra-low-budget horror flick he's making--I run from a crazed maniac carrying a rake and yell "OH SHIT" really loudly. I was going to try to fake scream, but I can't actually do that.

Stardom, here we come?

eta: oh my god why can I not be driving to Colorado NOW. The desire to do so is overwhelming.

So after two days of relationship, I got dumped this morning because he got cold feet. TWO DAYS. Also, for reasons I do not understand, my internet service (email, browser, and Twitter) on my blackberry has decided to commit seppuku. The phone is three weeks old. What the hell?

In conclusion, today is fired.

eta: urawrd wins! My internet is cooperating again. Phew.

Still dumped.

I'm having an insomniac moment (day? Week? Month?) and I've been moodswinging all over the place all day. Also, mwestbelle, I think my mom may have seen your LJ, so, um, I'm sorry for that, it was in the browser history on her laptop from me checking it ages ago.

Anyway! I can't be the only insomniac around here, so if you're up, you should take this as an opportunity to picspam with pretty girls. I'm making icons (current one is one of said new ones). :D? :D?

93 degrees, feels like 95. Muggy as hell.

No air conditioning whatsoever, and my fan is fucked.

DYING.

Hung out with the new boy [has a name, Dale] all today, along with his friend Travis after a while. It was the one day of the year where something actually happens in my town, as there's a carnival all this week and a parade today, so we hung out at the parade, met up with people I haven't seen in years, jammed a little at his friend (and my friend's brother) Rob's house, and then did basically the same at the carnival. He knows a fuckton of people (he knows basically everyone in town that I know and more besides); I thought I recognized a lot, but in comparison? Just--wow. So that's cool, and we're meeting up again tomorrow and either doing the movie-watching thing or being broke with Travis and Iris at the mall. (Seriously, why does anyone think it's a good idea to hang out at a mall when everyone involved is broke? I do not get that.)

... though, my god, having a social life all of a sudden is exhausting.

Two things! One, the video is so-so, but I was introduced to the awesome that is this song, and there is no way Rammstein and Tatu should work as a combination but they actually do here.

Two, I figured I should post this a few days after my bigbang, but I did a mix for my bigbang as well--basically, just songs that were good to listen to while I was writing it. Tracklist:

Calling - Midori Hirano
Tired All The Time - Treaty Of Paris
Redrum - Tom Waits
The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Zerospace (Album Version) - Kidneythieves
Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking - Snow Patrol
From 24C - The Matches
Sowing Season (Yeah) - Brand New
Cells - The Servant

eta: Also, how much do I want to read Pete/Mikey and/or Gabe/Pete/Mikey right about now? So much. Gerard can come too. For kicks.

I posted my bigbang! So very nervous about it. I've never done a challenge like this before, unless you count nano, and I never posted that.

*nerves nerves*

I'm sorry I've been such a fail LJ friend recently! I've basically done nothing but obsessively refresh the liveposts on ontd_political (which tends to make me a little guilty about making what I consider to be trivial posts, I guess?) and try to get my phone sorted.

Speaking of phone sorted--I got a blackberry! It's my new baby, even if I'm terrible at typing on the keyboard right now. Random b and p's keep sneaking into my wooords. But I managed to get the music transferring to cooperate, and I've got a couple workable ringtones (and I'm downloading Pandora right now \o/) so that's always good times.

Any of you have one? What are all the awesome apps I am missing in my life?

eta: also, this song has been my jam of choice the past two days. You should listen to it. It is awesome.

Two things you may not know:

1. I have become hopelessly addicted to ontd_political

2. Thanks to said comm, I found out about the situation with Iran's election pretty much as soon as I got home. Words are escaping me on how to describe it simply, but ( essentially )

Twitter seems to be the best place to get any information out right now, if you look under #iranelection. There's also a post-election live thread here, which gives a good sense of the level of chaos going on. Some bits from that post:

From ABC's Jim Sciutto: "inside the protests tonight, if you support ahmadinajad, no police, you criticize him, get pepper spray, tear gas, batons... Anti-govt protests have spread to other Iranian cities, incl Rasht... We witnessed police spraying pepper gas into the eyes of peaceful female protesters... Two worlds in Tehran tonight. Support Ahmadinejad, free rein. Oppose him, risk police attacks, tear gas, batons, arrest8 minutes ago from web"

'Telephone report from my wife – They are open firing on the crowd. The police are refusing entry into the hospitals unless it is the basij. refusing wounded protesters saying; “You Deserve To Die”'

@IranRiggedElect: sources: "pepper gas in the dorm. They shoot students with air guns & break windows." #iranelection

'tehran is like war zone. it is unbelievable. i have not seen this for 30 years. fires everywhere. shooting, people shouting.'

Tweets from the Green Revolution.

Live-Blogging the Uprising

Photos and more photos.

Some informative twitter accounts

I know all of that is long, so if you're not up to reading, rhombal has a summarized version here. I don't know what any of us can do, but the least we can do is be informed.

So, this evening, I'm going to start this volunteer thing. Four days--ends on Sunday morning--no going home, no phone, nada. We're supposed to be 'living in solidarity with the homeless' while going to various volunteer organizations and helping out, so we're actually going to be sleeping and eating at the shelter. I'm in a group with three other dudes, which is good, though our group leader is massively pregnant and I don't know how she is going to manage four days of constant work and walking.

Eh, we'll see.

Anyway, I will see you all on Sunday! Don't blow up the internet without me.

ps: So, last night, the brothers and I decided to go hit up Walmart. At one thirty in the morning. We're a little crazy (but we have Sims 3!). Anyway, we get there, and lying sprawled out in the middle of the parking lot is this doll. Not a porcelain one, but one of the ones with creepy eyes nonetheless.

Seriously. So creepy. It was staring at us, I swear. The worst part?

We came out and IT WAS GONE. No other random parking lot debris had been moved! But there was no doll.

... I made my brother check under the car for it before we left.

The BBB I illustrated is up! Fic is here and my art is here, and yes, I am being a showoff, but I like that art. (And normally scanning pencil is a disaster because it's always too light, but this time it actually worked, so. \o/)

ps: read the fic too, obviously. *order order* You won't regret it.


Another BBB fic you should read today: Gerard Way's (Vampire) Detective Agency. Hilarious and oh-so-well-done and more details than you can shake a stick at. (And haunted furniture, and suspicious plants, and James DeWees the zombie, and vampire Q & As, and...)

"This tooth has already had a root canal, so you shouldn't be able to feel anything we're doing."

Aha. Ha. Ha. Haaaaa. Tell me another one. No, really, keep going, this is amusing.

"And we shouldn't need to numb this one, because of how shallow it is."

Again. Haaaaaa. It becomes mysteriously not-shallow as soon as you set to work! Whoops!

Fucking ow.

(Also, an article you should read! Probably NSFW)

I got my posting date! Expect to see my bbb on the 20th, along with art that literally made me have a moment of clappyhanded glee and a mix that I have been listening to for most of the afternoon. Both are made of win.

So, my fine feathered friends, when are your dates?

Also, watched Chasing Amy and Let the Right One In yesterday. Talk about a contrast, right? Both were good though, even if I wanted to punch certain people in Chasing Amy in the face occasionally (though I think that may have been the idea).

This mostly comes to mind because of the recent KRXQ debacle, but I feel it deserves to be said.

I have never been beaten with shoes. I have never been called an "idiot" or a "freak." In those respects, I am luckier than some.

I am not mentally ill. The most I can claim is a natural shyness and a bad case of Seasonal Affective Disorder. And yet, there are people that are all-too happy to condemn what I am. To be honest, I don't care what they believe. I know what's true and what's not. What is true:

I am a good student. I am successful, by most standards. I have a job. I have more than a few close friends. I have been in more than a few relationships, with varying degrees of success, and considering my age, I don't think I'm outside the norm. I am not abnormal. I don't dwell on being male, because it's nothing to dwell on. It just is. I cannot change it, nor would I want to. I am uncomfortable when I look noticeably female, but it is not and never has been about the clothes that I'm wearing.

I don't have a sign on my forehead that labels me, but I see no reason to deny it if asked. If someone has a problem, that is their problem, and all I can do is make them aware of the fact that I'm every bit as much of a human being as they are. If someone sees me as a freak?

Good. I'm a freak.

And I am a freak who is confident, who knows what I am doing with my life and how to get there, who is loved and valued, and who is only made stronger by the punches people throw.

And I'm not planning on sitting down or shutting up any time soon.

So, world? Look out.

On a lighter note...

I have only one question, in regards to the Star Trek movie.

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A link you need to see today.

And, to follow up, what you can do about it.

And if this doesn't seem like any big deal to you, if it doesn't bother you, then you know what? I've got some shoes. I'll lend you a pair.

Just make me first in line when you start throwing 'em.

Survived junior year, as it is now finished! *victory dance*

I also fixed my internet. I know, right? I just figured out what was wrong with it yesterday. Some program called jittr.exe apparently is supposed to fuck with your CD drive but in my case, well. Every time my internet 'crashes' it shows up and then I end-task it and, lo and behold, internet is mysteriously restored once again.

I'm not complaining.

So, who's got their posting dates for bbb so far? I'm a little nervous for mine, because I know restless_jedi got an email back for hers saying that they'd gotten them and I didn't get one. If by some horrible computer glitch my bbb has been eaten in-transit, I will not be happy.

...

...

SUMMERRRRRRRR

eta: and I'm going to go see Star Trek tomorrow!

It seems Bandit has stolen the hearts of the My Chem crew.



... somebody had to say it.

and now, for something completely different

SCENE - senior hallway after school yesterday

My mom: "Oh, you're going to [random college in Michigan]? You should go to Hell while you're there!"

Awkward pause

My mom: "... Hell, Michigan."

Senior: "I'm so telling my parents my theology teacher told me to go to Hell."



In other news, because I have done every fix under the sun and nothing has changed anything, I have come to the conclusion that it's probably a hardware issue that's causing my internet to go down so much. Which... sucks. I don't even have the money to renew my paid account, much less get a new motherboard (motherboard's been a problem period, and my network card is integrated) (and possibly new everything else, if my old stuff isn't compatible with a new one). Bleh.