My Plug in Baby

One day I turned on the television to find that Video Hits was showing a concert whose lead was a weird lanky guy in a red suit, a little like this: 

Playing to a crowd like this:

And I thought who the heck this band was and why are they so famous yet I've never heard of them. I doubt past Marianne would have thought that I'd be experiencing my first time in the pit metres away from this:

Just Matt Bellamy playing a song dedicated to me

The concert started with the lights dimming down and the towers lighting up. I could see a very slight silhouette of the band hiding in the towers. My heart was beating 1000 beats a minute. The intro music became suspense music as the entire audience stared attentively anticipating the moment we could see the band. The wait was killing me. Then the music paused, the drumsticks clapped, the drapes fell, a moment of darkness then there they were. I shat my pants and they played Uprising. Absolute chaos. 

Muse was overwhelming to the senses. They offered lasers, towers that displayed different kinds of visuals, light up instruments (including a keytar) and a clear drum set, giant eyeball balloons popping confetti over us (i think they're called hullaballoons? You can see them in the second photo there). Unfortunately I was too wussy to carry a camera with me so when I find some pictures from the night I'll post them up. 

By the end of the night I was bruised and drenched in other people's sweat but I wouldn't have had it any other way :D

Highlights:

1. Realising that I am the youth of today (haha)

2. Us chanting as one. Just everyone jumping and pumping the fists in the air in unison and screaming the same words that I was made my feel like I belonged

3. Surprising the tall bulky guys that just because I'm a short Asian girl does not mean I'm not going to put up a fight and let them push in front of me. 

4. During Starlight, Matt stopped singing because it was the our cue to sing 'Our Hopes and expectations, black holes and revelations. Our Hopes and expectations, black holes and revelations.' It was like for a moment the world had stopped. It was possibly the greatest 15 seconds of my life

5. Matt throwing his guitar across the stage, probably the sexiest thing I have ever witnessed a human being do

Muse Concert tonight!

This will either be one of the greatest nights of my life or I will die in the crowd.

Maybe even both.

What to do...

I'm not sure if I want to do science anymore. But then, what else can I do?

'One question: do you need someone, or do you need me? Forget it, I don't really care.'

I finally got around to watching Say Anything since it's considered one of the greatest high school movies of all time (well, according to wikipedia anyway). I always feel a pang of sadness at the end of these movies. Because
a) as happy as I am for the characters, it just reminds me that people like these, especially the chivalrous dorky yet cool leading men, probably don't exist.

b) I feel a loss for my youth having grown up in an all girls' Catholic School and missing out on this high school experience, if it even exists.

Ahh if only life were an 80's movie.

 

Summer holidays

Ok, so here's my personal to-do list:

1. FINISH writing Emma and Tom's story. I feel so bad about how I've abandoned my characters on a cliffhanger but I just lost motivation to be creative and stuff. :( After doing a couple of Arts subjects this semester I realised how much I still enjoy writing. I thought that part of me died this year with all these science subjects but there was a bit that I managed to resurrect.

2. Get a job. Please please someone call me T.T

3. Do more hours of driving

4. Blog more. Blog, I am sorry. I will do my best not to abandon you ever again. Even if it means just posting up some lame poem someone else wrote.

5. Get my reading groove back. I....have only read about two or three books this year. Year 10 Marianne probably read twenty in six months. What's happening to meee

6. Do some Youtube videos. Because i also miss my script and filming too :(

7. Bond more with my bunny to the point where we become bffls

The arrival of the pink ipod

Just me an my ipod

Okay, yeah many of you will think it's not a big deal. Almost everyone I have met has an mp3 player of some sort they take around with them to listen on their walks or on public transport. So when I say 'I don't have an ipod, i never have' to someone if the topic were to arise in conversation they look at me as if I 've just stepped off a time machine from the stone age and decided to pop by and say hi in the 22nd century. Then the conversation would continue on with a little something like this
them: B-but how do you survive?? What do you do when you're on the bus???
me: nothing, look out the window?
them: I don't understand!! Why don't you have one??

And their disbelief would continue on. So here I am 18 years old with my first ipod. :P

Things I find awesome about having a portable music playing device
1. You can listen to the dorkiest song anywhere and no one but you would know
2. You have an excuse for people not to talk to you
3. You guys are probably used to it, but listening to music outdoors is a whole new experience for me

Things not so awesome about a portable musical playing device:
1. I've only had it for a day. But if you're a techno-idiot like me then you may find yourself in a bank and wonder how cool it is that they started playing music in the bank. You proceed with your transactions, receive weird looks from people then leave the bank realising the music has followed you. You wonder how that is possible. You then realise the music the whole time was coming from your ipod in your pocket. You look at the song playing. It is Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi.

Christmas is a comin

It's the most wonderful time of the year! The return of all my favourite tv shows after the break in America:

30 Rock
Community
Glee
Parks and Recreation
Pretty Little Liars
How I Met Your Mother
Grey's Anatomy
Family Guy
American Dad
The Big Bang Theory
South Park
Eastbound and Down
The Office
Modern Family

Oh dear....when I put them all in a list like that....I really need to get a life.

Why did we put our year 12 badges slap bang in my middle of our chest? Anyone else now find that weird?

A confession

I never liked E.T.
 I thought it was boring and dragged out

Baaaa

Except for a knack of always getting off on the wrong foot, Sheep can be charming company. Sheep sometimes hold back their emotions, and are not fully appreciated for their true nature. Still, they are first to complain about discomfort. Naturally pessimistic, mild mannered and even shy, the Sheep person is a sympathetic voice. Lovers of art and nature, they tend to spoil themselves. Still, they are creative, cultured and well-mannered -- A civilizing influence on others. Some Sheep are timid and easily upset, while others can be adaptable and sure-footed when the need arises. Either way, Sheep prefer to live and work with other people, and find emotional satisfaction with partners that provide them security in life

Growing up watching tv has conditioned me to believe that...

1. When a new person suddenly enters your life, they are from your childhood and are out for revenge
2. People around you will start slow-clapping-to-fast after an outburst
3. Pizza brings people together
4. Friendly old black men are there for wise spiritual guidance
5. The mysterious guy at the back of the class will change your life forever
6. A serious problem can be resolved after a short period of time
7. Any special event such as a wedding, prom, or party will end in disaster

Just another dream blog

Last night I had a dream that there was a tick in my arm and it hurt. I ripped it out and it had big gross eyes. According to the online dream dictionary:


To see ticks in your dream, indicates that something is slowly draining the energy and strength out of you. A relationship, your job, or someone is sucking the life and energy out of you


hmmm...

Another Saturday Night

Spent about half an hour trying to think of something to do tonight with Tran. It sad how it's been so long since we've had free time, when we finally do have it we don't know how to use it. What do people our age do on Saturday nights?? You know, besides the getting drunk.

'Toy Story 2 way Okay'-Demetri Martin

True, and Toy Story 3 was awesome. I laughed and cried. And I never cry to movies. So glad I had my 3D glasses on to hide it. It still makes me feel kind of sad thinking about it.

So, a certain someone on Formspring complained about me not having a 'woohoo exams are over!' blog: Holidaaay, celebraaaate it will be so nice. And it is. So yeah, after a crappy and long exam I went with the ol' uni group to watch Toy Story 3 in 3D. Then to Chaddy to meet with 'the girls.'  Had the best dinner ever. Then home and had the best sleep of my life. The next day was filled with shopping goodness. And those are my holidays thus far...

And you never write me letters

Dear guy who listens to Jack's Mannequin,

Please exist.

Love Marianne...

What's My Age Again?

There are so many songs out there titled 'Seventeen' or 'Sixteen' with the artists recalling their crazy shenanigans, teen angst, being carefree and puppy love or whatever. Yeah, you know what my song would be if I wrote a song about my teenage years?

Was doing VCE
study study study study
but not really studying more like
thinking about studying and worrying that I'm not studying

Wish I were a white girl
And not have my parents ask me why I'm not studying all the time
Everyone's going to a party and I'm at home
watching the television and eating fruit mum cut up for me
watching teens not worry about homework only stressing about their love lives

Now I'm going to the fridge because there's nothing else to do
oh wait, there isn't even anything to eat
What sort of house doesn't have eggs in their refrigerator?
Those were the best days of my life

Holiday to-do list:

-make youtube videos
-take Jadel to her first karaoke
-after exams parties
-go to the long-waited zoo trip
-science girls' sleepover
-sarn-anne and marn's british movie night
-play so much wii that i become delirious and not know what exams even were
-watch movies at the cinemas (maybe)
- heavy Guitar Hero session
-write
-read

...I guess that's all I've thought of so far. Now what to do with the rest of the month or so??

Music

 People warned me about this. After seeing Tegan & Sara in concert, there has a been a hole eating me up. I ache, I crave to feel this unexplainable feeling that I had when I was there. Music is like falling in love for the first time. The feeling you experience is intoxicating and addictive, you want to know everything there is to know about your new love. It's constantly on your mind and sometimes it's all you ever want to talk about. And when it's taken away from you it feels like life kind of sucks a little more. With music you are not alone, your world makes sense, yet the rest of the world doesn't matter.

Anyway I'll get to the punchline of why I'm writing this blog. I'm going to see Nouvelle Vague and Muse. Two very different types of music yet wonderful and brilliant in their own way. If there were specific words that can describe how happy and excited I am right now I'd yell them down the streets. Thinking about it gets my heart racing. It's like an adrenaline rush and I'm loving it! 


P.S. OH MY GOSS OH MY GOSS OH MY GOSS OH MY GOSS OH MY GOSS OH MY GOSS!

It's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)

What would you do if you found out it was the end of the world? I'd love to be in a church, surrounded by everyone I know and we'd just sing and dance to the classics and old pop songs that everyone knows the words to. We'd then say our thank yous, sorrys and confess our feelings. And then as the finale have a gigantic black gospel choir sing Oh Happy Days. That would be quite awesome.

How would you want it to end?

Some Father and Daughter Bonding

Dad: What are you holding?
Me: *Shows him the bag of almonds I found on the kitchen bench*
Dad: Hey! Those are mine!
Me: *moves to walk away*
Dad: Drop. The. Bag.
Me: *slowly picks an almond from the bag, carefully puts it into my mouth then runs off with them*

Crashin

There's this boy who every time I look at gives me that sick twisted feeling in my stomach. It makes me uneasy and nervous. They call it butterflies but to me it feels like I have way too much acid churning in there and if I don't get rid of it my chest's going to be eaten inside out by the acid and sort of, make a hole. So it's more like the feeling of flesh eating butterflies eating my insides alive. Oooh yeah, that's the Renaissance romantic in me speaking right there.

Helloss I am Mariannes

Just a little normal blog:

If you hadn't noticed I gave my little ol' blog a makeover, added a bit of a personal touch here and theres. I also enabled the comments back 'cause well, I felt bad that I get to have my thoughts expressed here while others can't so the options always there for you guys. I hope all is well with you, my friends out there. Have a good weekend? Y-yeah? Yeah no? So-so?

 And I got the messages for more Emma and Tom so your wish is my command. I'll send out the next chapter or two by the end of the week :)

I hate you already

I haven't met you, I doubt you even know who I am....

but i REALLY want to punch you in the face.

Marianne: musically devirginised

Left: Tegan(aka love of my life), right Sara (whom I also love). This wasn't one of our pictures by the way haha. You'll probably see them on Facebook within the week.


Tonight I lost my concert virginity to Tegan & Sara. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be, they were gentle and attentive and knew just what i wanted to make me comfortable. Okay, I think I'm going to end this analogy here because it's getting a tad much haha. But really, they were so casual and cool, not needing no make up or fancy clothes added just an extra something to it. You know, that they only needed their music and charisma to get our attention.

What made me appreciate them even more was that they were true musicians; their main concern is the music and in every song expose the very essence of themselves to whoever out there is listening. It's really a beautiful thing to watch metres from you. We were in the second row and got to see their faces. hehheehehe. The singing and instruments was raw, the emotion was raw and hearing my favourite songs by them being played live the way it's meant to sound just made everything perfect! When they were singing Call it Off it just made me want to cry because it was just a summary of how amazing the whole show was. Where Does the Good Go will always be my favourite, it's the first song i heard from them therefore I associate with the fondest memories which usually is the case for most artists for me haha. The sound, lighting, conversation was so genuine and personal sometimes it felt like a few friends getting together and just jamming. And so that was my perfect night...except for this giraffe in front of us and her friend who kept sticking their butt out and rubbing it on us, also giraffe girl shielded my view of Sara the whole time which annoyed me sososo much.

Thanks so much to Jade and Sana, I couldn't ask for a better two people to share this with. Argh, I'm so in love with T & S, I just didn't want it to end. I wanted them to play me music and talk to me forever. Also we share the same humour. Soulmates! I can't wait till they come back already so we can 'do it' again ;)

Back then things were simpler...but not nearly as interesting

Everybody needs somebody

Hello big break, where are you? I'm waiting.

I wonder when my time will come when life starts working out the way I want it to. With the amount of bad luck I get it's bound to happen sometime, right?

Karma: it sure likes to go around but it's taking its sweet time coming round.

It'd be nice if someone would just look outside their world for a moment and notice that I'm not okay.

Special thanks to...

Jane Austen. You now realise a part of me will always want to be part of that world :'(

A confession

I, Marianne Nguyen....







have never seen The Godfather....



...nor am I interested in seeing it

*hangs head in shame*