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I was gonna do this earlier, but instead I did it online on the Oscar website. But it's too slow, so I'm posting my predictions here. As of the time I'm updating this...I'm 4/4 4/6 6/8 8/10 10/14 12/20. WHoo! Final: 15/24 Not bad!

( My Predictions... )

Got this from Facebook, but didn't particularly feel like posting it there. I feel like I write too many notes. ^_^

1.Put your iPod or MP3 or cd player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag 10 friends who might enjoy doing the quiz as well as the person you got the quiz from.

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Greased Lightning
By: Grease Soundtrack


WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
My Gypsy Heart
By: Steve Reid


WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
He Can Only Hold Her For So Long
By: Amy Winehouse


WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
By: The Ramones

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Faggot
By: Mindless Self Indulgence


WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Late
By: Ben Folds


WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Oh My God
By: Pink


WHAT IS 2+2?
Cocaine and Toupees
By: Mindless Self Indulgence


WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Ghost of Corporate Future
By: Regina Spektor


WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Triple Trouble
By: Beastie Boys


WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Can't Stop
By: Maroon 5


WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
River Deep, Mountain High
By: Celine Dion


WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Jukebox
By: Ani Difranco


WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
My Heart Will Go On
By: Titanic Soundtrack


WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
And Your Bird Can Sing
By: Beatles


WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Protect Me From What I Want
By: Placebo


WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Born As Ghosts
By: Rage Against The Machine


WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Aberinkula
By: The Mars Volta


WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Money, Cash, Hoes
By: Jay-Z


WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Bruise Pristine
By: Placebo


WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Spirits in the Material World
By: The Police


WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Doobie Wah
By: Peter Frampton


WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Tired of Sex
By: Weezer


WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Aja
By: Steely Dan


WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Colorblind
By: Counting Crows


DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
The X-Files Theme
By: Pure Moods


IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Diamond Dogs
By: David Bowie


WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Lounge Act
By: Nirvana

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Pure Massacre
By: Silverchair

So it's about time I updated with some pictures of where I live and all. If you don't already know, I'm living with a family in Torino, Italy. I take care of the three girls: Eleonora who is 15, Eugenia who is 13, and Elisabetta who is 9. I've been here a month or so and life is good. We live in Torino, but up in the hills a bit which is quite a prestigious place to live I've been told (like the hills of Hollywood I guess?) Umm, here are some pictures of where I live.

Pictures of my Italian family's house, where I spend the most time

Pictures of my room and my little house. It's like a guest house in relation to the main one.


Aaaaand, here are some things I've noticed while living here:

- No, Americans' impression of Italians is not exaggerated...they eat a LOT of pasta. And pizza, pork, and gelato (ice cream).
- It is very hard to find a public toilet. And many of them are simply a hole in the ground...you feel slightly accomplished after using it.
- Torino has very very very good kabobs.
- I can't get used to the computer keyboards. GRR. The letters are all in their regular place, but all the other symbols are jumbled. The apostrophe is up with the numbers, the quotations mark is with the number 2, the question mark is up with the apostrophe, the @ sign is where the apostrophe should be except with an Alt Gr, which is used when there are three symbols on one key. AHHHH. I hate it. Good thing I have my laptop here that I can use sometimes.
- They do not have orange (cheddar) cheese.
- The host of Italian TRL is hot.
- Everything closes on Monday (even the H&M doesn't open until 3pm). It's some sort of extension of Sunday. Except it's more likely that things are open on Sunday than on Monday.
- You must pay to drive on the interstate. Similar to tolls. Except you take a ticket when you enter the motorway and pay depending on how far you drive.

So, check out this picture. It was posted by one of my facebook friends...a girl I used to work with. Background on this girl: she's been pregnant like 3 times in the past 8 months (not that it really matters, it's just annoying when she can't lift anything or even work an entire shift because she's 1 month pregnant. It affects me. And why would an 18-year-old girl be ecstatic about having a baby...unless she wasn't really pregnant in the first place? *cough* attention whore. And even if she was telling the truth, people I know don't usually announce a pregnancy to the entire world until they're more than 1 month pregnant...or they've at LEAST told their PARENTS. OH, and she's supposedly on birth control. *shakes head* Making her poor boyfriend drop out of school only for her to "miscarry".)

I think this picture is from her recent photoshoot. She's going to be a model you know.



Now WHY THE HELL would you post this on facebook?! I only saw it because I was looking at my album and this picture popped up on the side of my screen advertising her model-whore pictures! HAVE SOME FUCKING SELF-RESPECT. PUT SOME CLOTHES ON. You'd think her boyfriend would be embarrassed. If you want to put pictures of yourself

Our society is so used to objectifying women that we don't stop and think: 'Hey, she's almost naked.' And instead, the women think: 'If I look sexy, then guys will give me more attention.' And I say: I want a guy to like me because I have a wonderful personality and I can stimulate them intellectually...not because I put my boobs on display. When girls act like whores, it gives women everywhere a bad reputation and raises men's sexual expectations. They expect girls to have sex before marriage...hell, they expect girls to put out after a month. I know I've been dumped because I refused to sleep with a guy, and I know I'm not the only one. Girl, tuck your boobs back in, pull your pants back on and stop giving a free show. Don't you respect yourself?

Besides, it would gross me out to think that some 50-year-old man is jacking off to my picture during his lunch break.

So, because I am who I am...I couldn't resist ( leaving her a friendly (HA) message...points for adding in a Mean Girls quote... )

It's no surprise that she deleted my comment. Some coked up guy named Adam Jackson (who likes to stick his head between girls' boobs) commented and called me a bitch. Oooooh. I'm scared. Big deal. I know I'm a bitch.
Am I in the wrong here?! Don't you all think that's slutty?

When I'm bored and I have nothing else to do online, I venture to Craigslist.com. Now my favorite section of this website is the "Missed Connections" page, where people (mostly pathetic guys) try and find that hot girl they 'shared some looks with' at the red light or saw walking through the WalMart. And I don't know if all of these are real or if some people are just posting funny shit on here (cause that's what I would do)...but it's funny.

TODAY'S WINNER: HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA...Tractor Supply romance...hahha

Tractor Supply -- Franklin - m4m - 54
Tuesday, 7/11 around 10-11 a.m. As I was walking out of the store, our eyes met long enough to know. Yours were the most intense blue. Great smile too. Me: Tall, handsome, bearded guy in a green shirt. Was it real?


Here are some of my other favorites that I found today.

( You got out of your truck with Morning wood... )

*dies* HAHAHAHAHA

1. I quit smoking. --> www.cigarrest.com

2. Monday I had the worst case of food poisoning in the entire world. My mother actually drove 45 minutes to kidnap me so I wouldn't die.

3. I have a parasite. A pork tapeworm...quite rare in the US. And actually very dangerous. With my luck it figures that I would get a rare tapeworm, and get the one tapeworm that makes you gain weight instead of lose. But at least they've finally figured out what was making me so sick. I have to take medication for A YEAR. ARGH. And at least I can finally get back to my normal activities (which includes livejournal and you kids). ^_^

4. I have sworn off most meat. After the food poisoning incident I am not eating ANYTHING questionable. And not that I ate much pork in the first place, but after catching this pork tapeworm, I will eat NO PORK. And no beef. And only fish that I cook myself. And little chicken. And I'm not drinking soda because it's evil. I'm not putting anything artificial into my body.

5. I had colon hydrotherapy (colonics, whatever you call it) done. Alot of people think it sounds really gross and it felt a bit weird...but I felt 10 pounds lighter after I had it done and my stomach looked noticable smaller. Plus your digestive system is the most important system in your body, so it's nice to keep it healthy. And it wasn't expensive. I would recommend it to all of you!

6. I gained 50 pounds since last summer...must lose it!!!! I have maxed out Aeropostale and Target. That's kind of depressing. I think I'll keep up with my weight loss in my journal. Anyone else trying to lose weight? I could use a buddy. ^_^

Our apartment buildings are being painted. Let me show you.



GREEN, BLUE, AND YELLOW. ?!?!?!?! What the hell kind of crack was someone on when they came up with this?! SERIOUSLY?!

( Here's what they looked like before )

I think they looked fine before, but now they look like either: A) A My Little Pony Nursery B) Vacation condos in Florida C) An Easter Egg. And there are *16* of these buildings. I mean, what the fuck?!

So I'm on Myspace looking up obscure French music when I suddenly get THREE messages. Unusual for me. One is from a band, and the other two turn out to be from stupid horny guys. I couldn't help myself...I had to be mean.

( Myspace Boy 1 )


( Myspace Boy 2 )

Oh, you all have to check out the MUSIC on my profile. It FUCKING ROCKS. It's African Hip-Hop...and is better than 99% of the popular English music. I love it.

This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
I received the letter B from forthesky. If you want a letter, just comment.

Blue Coast Burrito: The best place to eat EVER. You can get a quesadilla, chips, fruit tea, brownie, and the little squares of gum for $6. Whoo!

Bones: I LOVE this show. That's about all.

Black: At one point in high school, all of my clothes were black.

Binky: I had these friends (guys) that would play a game entitled Binky. It consisted of them punching each other in the balls and yelling "Binky!" It was a dumb game.

Brooke: It's my name. Duh.

Brian Molko: is a genius. And very pretty. His music is amazing and if I ever met him I would probably ramble incoherently looking for the right words to say.

Barbie: Is awesome because everything she has is pink.

Ben Folds: I fucking love this band. He lives somewhere in Nashville y'know...I've met a few people who have stalked him. Someday I'll go to a Ben Folds concert.

Bjork: Another musical genius. Saw her in concert 8 years ago.

Blinky: I really wanted to be taking an Astronomy test and when we were required to name a star, I wanted to name it "blinky". But my Astronomy test is multiple choice. Damn.

I hate myself right now. I fail at life. I can't wake up on time for *anything* and I'm afraid I'll make C's in my classes. And I break everything I own.

Last night I accidentally knocked over my drink on my BRAND NEW FUCKING COMPUTER. My $1,400 Sony Viao laptop that I got three weeks ago. (I'm on my old laptop right now with the fucked up internet connection). I'm SO fucking mad at myself. I immediately turned off the computer and took out the battery, then I spent 2 hours turning it upside down and sticking paper towels in between the keys to try and get all the water out. I still haven't turned it back on so I have no idea if it works. And I don't know anyone who has ever dumped a drink on their laptop...so I don't know what to expect. I cried for an hour last night. This sucks.

Now I'm watching American Idol. And I must make new predictions. My old predictions have expired.

( American Idol Predictions )

What I would like to say to each American Idol Contestant after tonight's performance.

Chris: You Brad Pitt-ish good looks are not fooling me; you can't sing anything except Nickelback-sounding mediocre rock songs.
Paris: You were born to sing jazz. I love you.
Taylor: Please marry me.
Elliott: In case you don't get voted off this week, can you please kill yourself before next week and spare me?
Kellie: Your Lizzie McGuire bangs do not hide your hideous southern accent. PS. You look anorexic. Stop singing.
Ace: *stares* If you fuck me, I'll take back every bad things I've ever said about you. Ace = HOT.
Katharine: Aren't you done pretending to be Kelly Clarkson? We have enough generic white girls in the music business. Oh, and you ruined that song.

Love, Brooke.

Stolen from my sister's MySpace bulletin.

Put numbers in the boxes instead of x's

(example: 1, 2, 3, 4, ...)

Repost as "I have lived through ___ of these 149 things. "

( I have lived through 116 of these 149 things. )

So the layout for my new RP character's journal, (the character that still has not been approved yet, AHEM)....I think it officially looks better than mine. For my limited knowledge of livejournal coding and *especially* graphics making, I think I did pretty damn good.

I took this Premade LJ Layout (birdlayout), and turned it into THIS: devonrocks.

Now it is 6am...I've managed to stay up all night working on this. Oh well, at least I installed my new graphics software and figured out how it worked. OH, and that picture....on the left side, the real picture ended at his knee, but it didn't fit so I had to draw the rest in. Can you tell? Does it look bad / obvious?

So, I am typing to you from my brand new computer! And I loves it so much. It's a Sony Vaio that has a huge honkin screen. 15 1/2 ". Gosh. But it's so little and thin and cute and ACTUALLY WORKS.

I saw a license plate yesterday that said "SHNGAMI". I was like 'hell yeah'. But I couldn't remember if it meant 'God of War' or 'God of Death'. ? I'm thinking that it's the war and I'm getting death from Deathscythe. I don't know.

I bought the new Placebo CD, "Meds", on Tuesday. It's fab.

We bought Brokeback Mountain Monday night at midnight....there was a group of people waiting for it at the Wal Mart.

devonrocks New RP character. It's more of an experiment...

I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY VOTED MANDISSA OFF AMERICAN IDOL!!!!! BITCHES!!!!!!

I mean, you know that this is not based solely on votes. So they could have left her on for a few more weeks. Out of all the girls, she has the best voice. FUCK AMERICAN IDOL! Fuck shallow people.

Brokeback Hospital = House + Brokeback Mountain

On YouTube I have found a crossover, parody video called Brokeback Hospital. It has made my life COMPLETE. Watch this video and then try to tell me that House and Wilson aren't doing each other in the ass every night.

BROKEBACK HOSPITAL...WATCH THE HOUSE / WILSON YUMMINESS NOW

Do any of you remember The Moffatts? A band, of 3 triplets and an older brother. Around at the same time as Hanson *cough* Devil Angel. Anyway, I used to be in love with the band. Saw them in concert when I was like, 14. Had their CD's, posters, pictures, yeah.

WELL, for those of you who remember The Moffatts...while looking for a Player Body for my new RP character, I ran across some Moffatts stuff. Apparently Clint and Bob have moved to Thailand, formed a band called 'Same Same', and released an album entitled 'The Meaning of Happy'.

Check out the Myspace page for 'Same Same'

The funniest shit ever, hahahaha

I have seriously been laughing for like, an hour. Their music is possibly the WORST MUSIC EVER. And the fact that they're signed to Sony BMG hurts me. I showed this to nanet and she was as amused as I am. I mean...nobody ever liked Clint anyway! Stupid asshole. And Bob, well, poor Bob. HAHAHAHAHAHA. *dies* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....

( LJ Cut to 'Same Same' Publicity shot )

I have a question for you all:

If you own a laptop/notebook, what brand is it and have you had any problems at all with it?

Particularly, a Sony Vaio FS715P, HP Pavillion, or Compaq V2500 series. Or just those manufacturers in general.

I'm getting my faulty HP replaced and have been offered a few choices. I'd really like some input!