I'm currently working on Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante with my teacher and I recorded the first few bars of it. Because I'm too chicken to do the entire thing. XDDD

Pleeeeeeeeeeeease! CC and tips on the French. I do pretty well when my teacher's around but I have a feeling that I forget a bunch of stuff when I sing by myself. -_-;


http://www.sendspace.com/file/aqozce


Thanks guys!!!

So, tomorrow, I'm performing in front of about 400 people at a dinner dance. I'm getting PAID for it too! :D FIRST GIG, GUYS!

I'm singing Donizetti's "Me Voglio Fa 'na Casa." I'll be sure to post it if I can get my camera to record it.

WISH ME LUCK!!

PS: Both the music schools I auditioned for accepted me! :D Thanks SO much for your support~~~ <33!

FAILFAILFAILFAILFAIL! S.KOREA LOST! TO JAPAN! WHAT??? NOOOOOOO! HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN????

*WAILS*

I'm gonna get so much crap from Chika tomorrow. :( X_X

FAILFAILFAILFAILFAIL!!!!!!!!!

But good job guys! GREAT game! Kept me on the edge of my seat the ENTIRE time.

Excuse me whilst I cry some more~~~~

*WAILS*

I GOT ACCEPTED INTO UC SANTA BARBARA!!!!!!!!!! *SQUEE!!!!!!!!!*

Dunno about the music school yet but I'm taking this one step at a time! :D

*DIIIIIES*



I LOVE this clip!

When the guy starts yelling at Peter, he says, "You are crazy! Get out of here! I'm tired of you! I'm going to punch you in the head! I'm going to kill you with this meat!"

Well, roughly. XD

Another audition tomorrow, guys!

Wish me luck! :D

I'VE GOT AN AUDITION TODAY AT UCSB. I LEAVE IN ABOUT THREE HOURS. HOFARK.

I'M NOT NERVOUS...
I'M NOT NERVOUS...
I'M NOT NERVOUS...
I'M NOT NERVOUS...

I WILL PWN.

XDDD

Wish me luck, guys!!!

PS: I'm singing Rossini, Mozart, Wolf and Purcell. >> :D

Is it just me or is Ed Westwick getting a bit... soft?

Season 1

Season 2

I actually think it's adorable. XD

That's it. I'm feeling homocidal. ><

I've got college auditions in a few months. T___T! But it's all going well. I'm just really nervous.

Mia maestra gave me Hugo Wolf's Der Gärtner today. Usually, I'm not a fan of lieder but this one is just amazing!





Okay fine, I don't sound like THAT but that's the song. XD

Alright. I know I've been totally bagging on Valkyrie (can you blame me?) but I came across a very interesting up-coming film by the name of State of Play starring Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck and Helen Mirren. Apparently, the story's based on a BBC mini-series. Hmm. (OMG. THE MASTER AND DOCTOR AND THAT ONE GUY FROM UNDERWORLD AND THE DUDE FROM WANTED! ADJSKFL;)

I'm WAY to lazy to write down the synopsis so...

TRAILER!TRAILER!TRAILER!

Heh... Crowe could really use a bit of grooming. >>

The director is Kevin Macdonald (his previous works include Last King of Scotland and  One Day in September) and the screen play is by Tony Gilroy (all three Bourne films, Michael Clayton).

Good cast, good director, good writer. I think we can look forward to this one guys. :D

Valkyrie is like having to watch someone build a bomb and then never getting to see it explode. --Joe Meumaier (New York Daily News)

Not only is Singer’s filmmaking aesthetically frustrating (lacking coherent visual rhythm) but his juvenile regard of the July 20, 1944, plot to kill Hitler -- one of 15 documented attempts -- is intellectually insulting. --Armand White (New Yord Press)

There's the absurdity of Cruise intoning to Adolph in his broad American accent, "My Führer, if I may . . ." while the rest of the Germans are sounding as if they're auditioning for Henry Higgins in a touring company of My Fair Lady. --Brandon Judell (CultureCatch)

What's next, Clint Eastwood as Gandhi? --Matt Pais (Metromix.com)


I loled. Especially at the last one. XD

Apparently, not even epic amounts of wangst and Cruise's bitchin' eye patch and save this film...


http://emanuellevy.com/search/details.cfm?id=12037


"[A] glitzy and shallow picture that pays little attention to psychology, motivation, characterization, and broader political context [...] Arguably miscast, Cruise is stiff and unconvincing as the courageously heroic German officer.  He speaks with a distinctly American accent, though early on, he utters a few sentences in German (SERIOUSLY?? GERMAN? DAMN I'VE GOT TO GO WATCH THIS MOVIE.).  Making things worse is the fact that Cruise is surrounded by a distinguished supporting cast of English thespians (Tom Wilkinson, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Izzard, Terence Stamp), who speak in English accent.  Then there are some officers who speak with a touch of German accent, and actors like the Dutch Carice van Houten (who plays Stauffenberg's wife) and German actor Thomas Kretschmann [...] The whole production takes a wrong, overly stylized (neo-noir), approach to a theme that should have been treated with more respect to facts, events, and especially characters as they form and change coalitions within the army [...] Forced to wear a black eye-patch and a prosthetic arm, he is still amazingly adept at conducting all kinds of physical activities, some of which quite complicated, as it becomes clear when Stauffenberg himself plants the bomb in Hitler's sheltered headquarters. (LOL EYE PATCH ASDJFKL;! I READ IN ANOTHER REVIEW THAT CRUISE DOES A NAZI SALUTE WITH A PROSTHETIC ARM BWAHAHAHAHA!)"


I'm sorry for being irreverent. it's just that this movie is already full of SO much hilarity. I CAN'T WAIT FOR IT!!!

BWAHAHAHAA!



LOLERS8Z

Oscar worthy my ass. I don't think any amount of belief suspension will help be get over the Cruise!eyes patch. *HEADDESK* I'm going to go see this movie when it hits theatres but only because of the pretty period costumes and Kenneth Branagh and Bill Nighy.

And I hate how they're calling it Valkyrie. IT'S WALKÜRE!!! (Okay, okay I know Valkyrie is the English version but I just love that opera too much to let this go.)

/rant

Dear passaggio,



SCREW YOU. I HATE YOU. PLEASE DIE. WHY THE HELL DO YOU EXIST?!


Love,
Rach

Ahem...

Do any of you have any tips?

I had a lesson yesterday and I, simply put, wanted to rip my hair out.

Dear Coloratura,

Thanks a LOT for leaving for a vacation when my teacher was thinking of giving me bel canto and Mozart for my college audition. Now she's second guessing her decision.

Screw you,
Rach

PS: PLEASE COME BACK!!!


Usually, I don't have any problems with coloraturas. I'm naturally agile and able to sing quick passages with relative ease... but yesterday, I couldn't do trills let alone scales.

My teacher told me that it's probably a combination of tension and the inability to release and engage my abdominal muscles but I just couldn't fix it during the lesson.

*Sigh* I guess it was one of those "bad days" but dammit-- things just haven't been clicking into place like they used to. New Teacher Blues or is it just me?

GAH! *HEADDESK*

Congrats to the democrats! I've gotta show good sportsmanship here.

But for me, I'm officially in mourning for the next four years. In case you're wondering, I'm mourning the loss of the many ideals that started this country. All those brilliant ideas written down by Madison in the Federalist Papers, especially the one about factions (No. 10, I believe), is dead. The left now has completely control over two of the three branches of government and we all know what that means. Wiki Jackson and you'll get what I mean.

Anyways, conservatism is screwed for the next four years but we WILL have whining right so... YAY! But it's not like media's even going to cover it so whatever.

So, my brother and I decided to name our puppy...

SIR WILSON REAGAN II OF CAMELOT (Wilson for short. Guess where we got that name. *Points to icons* ;D)