Sunday, August Third

in boston ..

be back soon .. yalie <3

Obama Rally

there was a obama rally tonight at independence hall .. it was a great turn out, amazing weather, beautiful people of all ages and colors, and most importantly obama's speech was amazing, even though we didnt actually get to see him it was well worth it. I couldnt have asked for more!! followed by a relaxed night on south street with the girls, and myles.

highlight of the night:
[nasty guys walk by us at the obama rally trying to be fresh]
"mmh yes we can ladies, yes we can"
me: no we cant .. no we cant

photos:

1. realize the old man, who was weaving his way through hundreds of people .. by himself at that
2. realize the little boy with the quaker shirt on
3. realize jessica in the back of the picture of the three of us

lomography

i want:

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so that i can do:
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and,

lifer.

Springside apparently thinks this picture above is really cute because it has been the main picture on the springside home website since about 7th or 8th grade. and now to be extra cute they thought it would be a really good idea to re-shoot the picture as seniors. ta da.


*being that i am one of 3 black girls in my grade, its so obvious that they always try to stick one of us in to make springside appear diverse. haa you fooled me.

SoulGen

Isaac Ewell, who is the founder of the Soul Gen music portal and record label, is coming to my school next week and so last night i decided to go search up a little about the company.

" Our short term vision is simple - balanced and democratic media with images that are more positive and life affirming. Our long term vision is also simple - a better world; a more just and equitable world where more individuals are given the opportunity to live healthy lives and are provided greater access to realize their potential. Currently, we live in a world of imbalance; some enjoy obscene and wasteful excess while others barely survive in squalor and destitution. At a certain point, we must begin to realize our interconnectedness. Where we currently exist in the scope of humanity, this realization is now more important than ever. It is no longer enough for us to be only about self - one affects all"

i actually havent had time to really look around on the website, however, i did fall asleep last night listening to the live broadcast. I suggest you give it a look... Soulgenesis

guess who's back in the housee

clueless

i got this from kanyes blog .. and the only reason i posted it was becuase shes 42 years old .. like thats crazy.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

tweeter - July 10th, 2008

good turn out.

philly chapter party-

I like this picture so i decided to put it up. it was before our hair got messed up ha.
it was extremely hot.
some people in there were a serious mess tho..
1. like those 8th graders from my school
2. this other girl from my school with a lollipop
3. this white chick in an all camo outfit...................

I am terrible!

i never said THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to my amazing friends/ party planners for my surprise party at the chestnut hill grill.
Party Planner #1:

Party Planner #2:

you two are very clever and sneaky and i love you very much.

photo

throw back picture from my sisters prom, her date was a lame, thats why i wasnt looking at him.
prom in a couple of weeks =)

MAY 17TH.

im about to leave for highschool musical at my school!! but i was looking at kanyes blog and he was talking about the tour and this is what he had to say ..
"I can't take it anymore. I have 2 show you guys a model of the stage. This is not a regular show. I tell people, hey, this show is gonna be crazy and they say, "I bet it is!", BUT THEY HAVE NO IDEA! People expect me to come with innovative stuff... I'm sure a lot of people expect some neon, lower east side, post everybody dressing like the 80's stuff or maybe the light up jacket from the Grammies, perhaps the robot girl and light spectacle they saw on Youtube from the European run. My friends..... NONE OF THE ABOVE!!! AN ENTIRELY NEW DESIGNED SET!!! ROBOT DESIGNED BY ACCLAIMED ARTIST CHRISTIAN COLON, CREATURE'S BY THE LEGENDARY JIM HENSON'S CREATURE SHOP, LIGHTING BY MARTIN PHILLIPS AND JOHN McGUIRE RESPONSIBLE FOR LAST YEARS FESTIVAL ANNIHILATOR, DAFT PUNK'S PYRAMID, POSSIBLY THE GREATEST LIGHT SHOW OF ALL TIME!! THANKS 2 PAUL, THOMAS AND GUYMAN FOR THE HOOK UP. SIDEBAR, MY SET DOES NOT HAVE A PYRAMID IN IT OR ANYWAY FEEL LIKE A BITE OF DAFT'S SHOW. WE'VE GOT HOLOGRAMS SHOT BY HYPE WILLIAMS!!!
SAM SPIELGAL, MIKE DEAN, JEFF BAXTER AND I HAVE SPENT A MONTH AND A HALF RE-ORCHESTRATING EVERY TRACK 2 FOLLOW A NARRATIVE. WE'VE LEARNED TO SURVIVE OFF OF 1 HOUR OF SLEEP A DAY! "

so, im now extremely excited .. the month of may is going to be wonderiful.

photo of the day

a really old picture of the parkway like before i was born old

photo of the day

as summer slowly slowly approaches i cant wait to go to california with my favorite people and visit my favorite place/house in the world.

long awaited

before on nats birthday i said that i was gonna post something special when i got home from school .. but i forgot! so here it issss!!

"im going quiet now"

so im not sure if i've had a lot on my mind lately or nothing at all but either way i havnt really been able to come up with a good explanation for it. usually i just listen to some john mayer but its been deleted off my ipod by a certain someone so thats led me to nothing. anyway my point being is i was looking at john mayers blog which i used to be on a lot [becuase im obsessed] but he stopped writing, and today after an odd couple of hours i checked it again and he left a really good post. the part about kanye really made me smile and also the ending was very eye-opening for lack of better words .. anyway i know this is a lot of writing but i'd say its worth the read.

-my

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I need to write this.

I've been traveling alone in Japan for the better part of three weeks now, and It's been so remarkable an experience for me that I can't book a ticket home yet. I haven't spoken very much out loud these days, but I've been thinking to myself in what feels like surround sound. I can see so many things clearly, and feel so connected to myself and the world around me that I need to share the perspective with you.

I'm already aware that when I sing, say or write anything, 50 percent of the response will be in support of it and the other 50 will want to discount it. This blog, though, is directed to 100 percent of people reading it. If my blog truly does have any cultural effect, then it should be used for more than just pictures of sneakers and funny youtube videos. (If you don't think my blog has any effect, than you can't by definition be reading this right now and therefore don't have to respond to it in any way. Isn't that tidy?)

What I'm about to write isn't about fame or success or celebrity or the media. That's my business.

This is about us all.

This is about a level of self consciousness so high in my generation, that it's actually toxic.

This is about the girl in her bedroom who poses in front of the camera she's awkwardly holding in her outstretched hand. She'll take a hundred photos until coming up with one she's happy with, which inevitably looks nothing like her, and after she's done poring over images of herself, will post one on her myspace page and then write something like " I don't give a f*ck what you think about me."

This is about the person trying out for American Idol, who while going off about how confident they are that they were born ready to sing in front of the world, are trembling so badly they can hardly breathe.

This is about me, the guy who walks through a throng of photographers into a restaurant like he's Paul Newman, but who leaves a "reject" pile of clothes in his closet so high that his cleaning lady can't figure out how one man can step into so many pairs of pants in a week.

This is about a young guy who maintains a celebrity blog that subsists on tearing other people down but who has wrestled with a lifelong battle for acceptance as a gay man.

This is about us all. Every one of us. Who all seem to know deep down that it's incredibly hard to be alive and interact with the world around us but will try and cover it up at any cost. For as badass and unaffected as we try to come off, we're all just one sentence away from being brought to the edge of tears, if only it was worded right. And I don't want to act immune to that anymore. I took the biggest detour from myself over the past year, since I decided that I wasn't going to care about what people thought about me. I got to the point where I had so much padding on that, sure, I couldn't feel the negativity, but that's because I couldn't feel much of anything. And I think I'm done with that.

I'm not the first person to admit we're all self conscious, Kanye was. But what I want to do is to shed a little light on why we're all in the same boat, no matter the shape of the life we lead: because every one of us were told since birth that we were special. We were spoken to by name through a television. We were promised we could be anything that we wanted to be, if only we believed it and then, faster than we saw coming, we were set loose into the world to shake hands with the millions of other people who were told the exact same thing.

And really? Really? It turns out we're just not all that special, when you break it down. Beautifully unspectacular, actually. And that truth is going to catch up with us whether we want to run from it or not. The paparazzo following me to the gym ain't gonna be Herb Ritts and the guy he's following ain't gonna be Bob Dylan. It's just a matter of how old you are once you embrace that fact. And for me, 30 sounds about right.

What now, then? I can only really say for myself: Enjoy who I am, the talents and the liabilities. Stop acting careless. In fact, care more. Be vulnerable but stay away from where it hurts. Read. See more shows. Of any kind. Rock shows, art shows, boat shows. Create more art. Wear hoodies to dinner. Carry a notebook and hand it to people when they passionately recommend something and ask them to write it down for me.

Root for others.

Give more and expect the same in return, but over time.

Act nervous when I'm nervous, puzzled when I don't know what the hell to do, and smile when it all goes my way. And never in any other order than that.

And when it's all over, whether at the end of this fabulous career or of this life, which I hope takes place at the same time, I should look back and say that I had it good and I made the most of it while I was able. And so should you.

I'm going quiet now.

John

i sincerely tried to attend

but it probably wouldnt have worked out bc although i am 18.. im not 21


But ill try again in philly..


i look 21 right??? ...........................

I was right.

On my recent trip to Miami with my mom, i realized i had a lot of preconceived notions of what defined Miami. Having returned back to the philadelph, i realize that i was pretty much right.














i heard endless techno music for 3 days straight