As usual it is hard to continue something after one loses interest. But, seeing as it's a three day weekend, what better way to spend it than to update all of the social websites I belong to? That includes this. The update I made to FB, Google, and other sites I belong to was to change my profile picture. Petty? Not so much. As a highschool senior, supposedly I will be leaving soon to head off to college. But before that, there is one prerequisite to graduating: a portrait of the soon-to-be-graduated so people can remember them in order to hate them or love them. So that's what I did. I went into our guestroom, shut the door, and started taking pictures of myself. Not the, "Look at me and how supposedly pretty I am" kind of picture, but a decent one that makes me look normal. Out of the many that I took, most were a piece of digital junk; either they were blurry because I was moving, out of focus, or just plain 'ole dumb. But there was one that came out pretty well:
This picture is likely to be my Senior portrait, plus my new profile picture for my networks. I'll head off to college; people will remember me (hopefully in a good way), and they will continually see this picture. Hopefully I will not lose interest... as usual.
Here is day one of "A Messenger's Journey." Hope you like!
Evening of Day One.
The 35th day of the 8th year
of King Naurond.
I have finally left that dreary castle with all its
tradition, tittering ladies and proud servants. It has been good to be out in
the free air without both male and female perfume in your nose all the time.
Just me and my horse out on the road in the company of several other messengers
with their horses. The King has amply provided us with food, which is well
because after so long sitting in the saddle, I’m glad to get down and eat
something. We left early this morn, but without pomp and ceremony. Thank heaven
for that, just the King and a couple of Lords came to bid us farewell and give
us a year’s worth of counsels.
I have waited for my chance to go out on messenger duty
and my turn has finally come up. I just can’t get over it. As I turned back to
have a finally look at Ruglemindand, I felt just a tad homesick, but when one
is on duty, one cannot let oneself give in to personal feelings.
We
have ridden approximately ten and one half hours, not counting waiting for the
animals to rest and refresh themselves. Hopefully in three days we will have
reached Mugum where the four of us will separate, each to carry out the King’s
messages. Now I must get some rest, or else I will have no strength for
tomorrow, and whatever comes after.
This is the story of a messenger for King Naurond. The
messenger’s journal was found in the vaults of Nauronds’ castle during the
reconstruction of the castle’s foundations. This messenger was sent on many
daring and dangerous missions, as will soon be told. The lands which this
messenger passed through contained many different kinds of peoples. Many
contained half animal-half person creatures: fauns, centaurs, wer-wolves and
satyrs. Other lands were composed of ‘regular’ people, both good and bad. There
were also the elven lands, though very few had ever traveled there. A few lands
even had talking animals for their inhabitants! This talking animal land was
very far away, and very few knew where it lay. Only the very wise knew anything
about it, and the messenger. But now, on with the story!
Oh my, it has been quite a while since I have posted. I am very sorry for the delay as I have been busy, especially with choir which takes place when I normally post.
I decided to do a story in installments, like in a magazine. I have had the first couple parts ready for years, not know that I was going to do this. Hopefully I will be able to write more as the need arises. If you absolutely hate the story, let me know and I will find something else to write about! (grin) Of course, because I am a little absent minded, I forgot that the story is on another computer, doh! So this post is just to get your hopes up in anticipation of the great things to come! I will probably have the first part ready by this Saturday.
See you then!
Right now, my favorite things to look up on Youtube are videos of the X Factor and Britain's got talent. Some performances are shoddy, bringing tears of frustration to your eyes. Others, like the one I am about to show you will bring real tears to your eyes. Tears of happiness and unselfishness. This video is one such tearjerker. I present to you: Emmanuel Kelly, auditioning at the X Factor, 2011:
Not only is his voice great, but his story shows that good is still in the world. I do not know if his mum is a Christian, but the very fact that she is willing to take these two boys in is great. Hope you enjoyed the video. I am rather brain-dead right now as a result of a long test and a long English class. Hopefully next week I will have something better to give you! Maybe even something original, for a change.
-Andre
PS: Check out the tabs at the top of my blog! If you remember seeing a certain post, but now that it was a movie "review," or something original of mine, you can (probably) find it in one of the tabs. Not only that, but the newest links will be towards the bottom.
Following is a poem I wrote about two years ago. I found it while looking through stuff I had written over the past couple years and thought, "this is pretty good." Good enough that I thought I would put it up on my blog!
The Recital There are few people and yet enough. I want people to listen to our music, But still, the fewer, the better. We are next to last and our turn finally comes. With throbbing heart and shaking fingers, We make our way towards the front. I set my fingers on the piano, Forcing, hoping, that they would settle. Our fingers ripple over the keys, Happy to have something to do. I think that I will calm down after I get into it, but, as the applause starts I'm still shaking.
First, you must understand that I am a huge fan of Phantom of the Opera. As I trawled through Youtube, finding something to listen to, I hit upon the great idea of listening to string quartets playing the theme from Phantom. I found one that I especially liked. When I first watched it, it had about 80 views. I thought that it would be cool to feature this quartet on my blog in the hope of generating more views for them. Unfortunately, since I watched the video about five days ago, they have gotten about 200 more views. And so, for the sake of my little promise, I give you: Quartet Moderne- Phantom of the Opera, by Youtube user kimjoven!
The video is not great quality, but the music is!
There are many other videos that do the Phantom of the Opera, but this is one that I really feel has the passion to play it well. I love this quartet because even though there are only four instruments, but they play them so well that it does not matter that the original score was meant for a whole orchestra. The fire with which they play is beautiful. Call me strange, but when a musician smiles as she plays a difficult piece, I feel like she is a real musician. Watch the young woman on the right and you will see what I mean.
