Friday, October 2nd 2009

I just adore this shot. He was in the middle of a song when I took it. Love the lips, by the way.

I've added a new playlist, scroll down to view it. It's a compilation of my favourite pop and rock music, from Elvis Presley to Celine Dion. This afternoon, I listened to the "new" CD called "BEAN- the album" that I bought at Cash Converters for $5. I really liked it, full of happy music. "Walking on Sunshine" is very good for depressing times.
Then, of course, there are lovely, lovely songs like "Hanging on for dear life". I first listened to it when I was four years old, I remember singing it in the shower the day after I watched "My Boyfriend's Back". I spent more than 11 years looking for that movie, it's a big, big part of my life. The sound of this track is lop-sided, I seem to only be able to hear it through my left ear-bud.

While choosing the songs for my playlist, I remembered Elvis Presley, and quickly looked for some of the tracks I like. Now that I think about it, I forgot "Blue Suede Shoes", but that's okay. I just watched him on Youtube again, and my entire torso went numb, and I felt light-headed. He seems so alive in his videos, I still can't believe he's dead.
He's not just Elvis Presley the King, he's also Elvis Presley the painfully shy singer, Elvis Presley the little momma's boy, the boy who kept going back to the recording studio to pester the people there.

I also included classics like "Any dream will do". I first watched the video of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at school when I was 12. You wouldn't believe the crush I had on Joseph! Hahaha! He was played by Donny Osmond, and now when I watch the DVD I just can't stop laughing. I like his singing, though, that's why I added another sweet number "Whenever you're in trouble". It's very comforting, I first heard it in 2007.
It was a bad time.

Mom and Dad were so angry when I told them last night that I had a voice lesson this morning. I had practised so hard for the lesson, and I was really looking forward to it. My parents were so reluctant to let me go, they said I should be studying, etc etc. Studying every day, every hour, before breakfast, after breakfast, before after everything, before I go to bed at night, and then awake ridiculously early to study again. This is unbelievable!
Luckily, I got to go anyway, and I enjoyed it so much. It was such a relief to be away from it all, just singing and singing, away from Dad and Mom and all the stupid people. The lesson was pretty good, too. I even earned an almond cookie! The practice paid off after all!

I've been writing an awful lot these few days since I saw the film "Finding Neverland". It just set something off in me, and I've been relying on my imagination to take me far away from real-life. It works for a while, but after a while, all my characters go mad.
There's the man who set fire to his house before he died, the ant who drowned itself in honey, a man who slit his wrists with his thumbs and laughed hysterically while blood stained the floor, a girl who screamed with laughter while hacking at her wrists with a saw, a deaf man who spent all eternity listening to his own laughter underwater.

All my characters turn insane, I don't know how to change it! It seems like the only way to end my stories, how can they end happy and leave a lasting effect, a strong impression?