Today at school was "Risky Behavior Day," which does not, as implied, mean that I participated in risky behavior of any kind. Instead, I had to make a poster about nicotine. There is a lot of poster-making at my school. I had such a fabulous weekend that "Risky Behavior Day" kind of pales in comparison.

After dinner at the African restaurant, Charlotte came over for Cranium and what my dad once called "Guitar Rock."

We also filmed another fabulous music video!

By the way, Chad is not asking me to marry him.

We filmed a scene in a barren wasteland, with nine kids. It was insane, but fun.

Elephant Gun

My two new favourite albums

Recent activities

I feel like I haven't posted on my blog forever. I know I haven't been doing a fantastic job, but oh well; I've been busy. I also apologize for the fact that I just posted a web address instead of an actual YouTube video on that last update. YouTube is annoying, and it would not allow me to post a video. Anyway, here are a couple of notes on things I have been doing lately:

1) I watched the Wilco documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, and I LOVED it. It was very interesting and well-made, and because of it I am now semi-obsessed with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Listen to it. It's fantastic.

2) Today it's raining heavily and we have 40 mph winds, which have already knocked down two of our huge (100 ft tall) pine trees, and three across the street. It's sad.

3) On Saturday, I attended my friend Kayla's birthday party, which was great fun. We went contra dancing, something I had never before considered trying, but it was very, very fun. We also ate homemade falafel, which was almost as lovely.

4) Yesterday, Artemis and I took a long, lovely walk down to the Old Port in the rain. We had matching fluorescent rain jackets and ugly umbrellas, and we stopped at One City Center to go up and down in the glass elevator a few times before continuing on our way. Then, we played a nice game of Scrabble and watched My So-Called Life (good rainy day activities.)

5) We are going to New York on Wednesday!! I am so excited!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv_jQVP58mk

LAME!

Just a quick post to complain (lamely) that I have a DURNED BIG HOLE IN THE KNEE OF MY PREMIUM JEANS! I know, you didn't think I was so materialistic as to complain about this on my blog, did you? Well, you were wrong. I ripped them while I was playing a game with two-year-old Elliot, which he calls, "Let's Go To Leander's House," and entails running around in circles and falling down, and then repeating this endlessly. (It took about ten minutes and "Monsters, Inc." to convince him to stop.) So now, since this game was, indeed, invented at Leander's house, I am going to call Leander and demand that he pay me the $175 my jeans cost.

Just kidding, of course.

This movie was absolutely adorable, and also very crafty. Lots of the scenes included things made out of paper, plastic, cloth, etc. Despite its overwhelming cuteness, I really enjoyed it. My favourite parts were definitely the scenes involving the imaginary TV show, and also the scene featuring the stuffed telephone and typewriter.




We watched An Inconvenient Truth at school yesterday, and while it is perhaps the complete opposite of The Science Of Sleep, I still loved it. I thought the way the information was presented was very effective and mater-of-fact. Also, like Rafaela, I was (pleasantly) surprised at how seriously my classmates took it.




I meant to stay up and watch This American Life last night, but I changed my mind because I thought (for some reason) that it was an hour and a half long. Instead, I watched it today after school, with my mom. My vote is: splendid. I could never prefer it to the radio show, but I enjoyed it. I thought it translated well to television, and unlike Boaz Frankel and his worst interview ever, I didn't find it weird seeing Ira Glass actually present on film. "An Animal They Loved" = sad. I wish the show was longer than half an hour, though.

A sad story

While cleaning my room this weekend, I discovered this hip, cool Keith Haring colouring book, which I recieved for my sixth birthday.

Strangely, this is the only page that I filled out:

This is funny considering that when I was little, I LOVED stickers. But I also find it funny that I recieved a colouring book with lots of pages to fill out, like "Things I found in New York City" and "Things I would like to put in a blue purse," and the only page I used was the sticker page.

Click directly on the play symbol, and it won't open a new window.

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