Just a little push...

I had some really good and much needed conversations this week. I got some really good advice from them. Here are some good ones.

These are from a conversation earlier today:

"Take a risk, Jody Hinkley... Don't let something that could be so good for you go by... I just don't want you wishing you could fix things after the fact. I went a whole year wanting to do just that and was lucky enough to do so but those things don't always happen."  I really needed this push. [This was (obviously) directed towards me specifically, so I wouldn't take the advice unless you feel you are the same way or are in the same type of situation.]

Another person told me this:

Something along the lines of "You can't go searching for love, it will find you." Not really thinking about it, I actually told someone this today: "Sometimes love is different than we expect it to be." Don't these 2 tie together really well?

I've never really thought about life like this before and really understood it.

I'm in a Kerry Butler mood today, so here are 2 videos (well audio) of her singing for the BBC Radio 2 Celebrates the music of Disney.

Ashley Brown and Kerry Butler singing "He's a Tramp" from the Lady and the Tramp movie.

Kerry Butler singing "Part of Your World" and Kerry Butler, Titus Burgess, Adam Pascal, and Drew Sarich singing "If Only" from The Little Mermaid Broadway musical

BAM!

Six and a half hours...

... of  Rockband and Guitar Hero World Tour would drive anyone insane, except, of course, my family. It's a bit ridiculous if you ask me. I hope this is not how the rest of the holidays are going to be like because if it comes to that, I'll just stay home and get Chinese takeout.

A couple short stories

I'm in a story telling mood, so I'm just going to tell you a couple small stories.

So, my best friend from high school, Burt, told me that his mom was googling his name one day, and somehow she stumbled upon my blog. She just happened to stumble upon one of my sad blogs, I think it was one of the ones from the end of the summer.  So she read it, and thought I was seriously upset about the whole situation of summer ending (I was, but not the emotionally disturbed way). She was so worried that she told Burt to call me and make sure I was okay. Hahaha. I don't know why, but I find that hilarious! Maybe it's because I know the way Burt's mom is or the fact that I can see her telling doing all of this. Hahaha!

Earlier tonight, I went to Quiznos to get myself some dinner. I had woken up 5 minutes before, was frumped out, and not looking my best-dorm shorts, flip-flops, and a t-shirt. So I walk in, and the guy making a sandwich for another customer totally stops and stares. I realized a couple seconds after I got in line to order my sandwich that this was the same guy that I kind of flirted with the last time I went to Quiznos-eye contact, big smile, a small hair flip. He kind of got my order wrong. I don't know if he was distracted by me (weird) or if just heard me wrong, but I didn't say anything because it wasn't a big deal. Now, I'm not one to gloat about stuff this, but damn, that was a good ego boost I kind of needed. Maybe I am making this up in my head. Maybe he is straight. Maybe he was just a little all over the place. But maybe there is a cute gay guy in Belle Chasse. [That would be out of this world.] Who really knows?

Ok, last one. About 30 minutes ago, I got a phone call from a close friend. [No names will be given because it might ruin the surprise for another person.] This person wants to get their significant other, who is also a close friend of mine, a gift, but this person was unsure if their significant other already had this gift. I told her to get it. It's really thoughtful. Isn't that cute? This person wants to their gift to be perfect for their somebody. After that phone call, all I can think is "I want that." I'm going to spare you my whining and yearning for that someone. All I am going to say is that I am one confused individual that can never make up his mind. But I do know one thing: I want someone to kiss at 12:00:01 AM January 1, 2009.

This is Xanadu's performance of "Don't Walk Away" on the 2008 Tony Awards. I'm sure all of my friends have seen this performance, but I just can't get over how astounding Cheyenne Jackson and Kerry Butler's belt in this video. Jsyk, they did not perform this number exactly like this during the real Broadway performances of Xanadu. This is just a special version. Soak it in because it's ah- mah-zing! [Thank you Seth Rudetsky.] The intro before the performance is hilarious!

BAM!!

I think it's time for a revue!

So, it's been a little while since I've blogged. I don't count the last one I posted. I think I'm gonna prevent this from being ridiculously long blog. So yeah. Here I go.

So, I'm participating in a musical Christmas revue called REVUE THIS: Christmas. The majority of the revue is Christmas music, with a few exceptions. I think there is about 4 songs that are not Christmas affiliated, like mine. I'm singing "Goodbye" from I Love You Because. I think the revue going to be pretty amazing. Personally, I think the group numbers are awesome. If we could do a revue of mostly group numbers, that would be like the most incredible revue I would ever see or be a part of. So, here's my shameless plug: Come see REVUE THIS: Christmas!! Click the link for the Facebook event with all of the information. Saturday and Sunday (tonight and tomorrow) at BMHS. Both shows are at 8PM. Admission is $7.

The only downside to this revue is that I haven't been able to see all of my friends who are coming home for break, but after Sunday night, I am pretty much free to hang with all of them all the time. Woot! Weird reaction, but that's how I feel.

This is a video of Kerry Butler singing "Somewhere That's Green" but with a little bit of a twist. It's a musical madlib. You'll understand when you watch it. I don't know if you know this, but I love Kerry Butler. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

BAM!

Bored- funny, then informative

Game #1

Dear Blythe,

I don't really know how to tell you this, but our romance is over. I think I realized it when I quoted Forest Gump and you were at the Elton John concert and I saw you pull the clothes off my salt-beef bucket. I'm sure you're cowardly enough to understand that you need a sex change. I'm returning your toe ring to you, but I'll keep your left ear as a memory. You should also know that I am better off without you and I will haunt you when I’m reincarnated as an Eskimo.

Greetings to your frog Leonard,
Jody
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NOW ITS YOUR TURN!
Dear (someone you recently talked to),
I don't really know how to tell you this, but (1). I think I realized it (2) (3) and I saw you (4) (5). I'm sure you're (6) enough to understand (7). I'm returning your (8) to you, but I'll keep (9) as a memory. You should also know that I (10) and (11).

(12),
(Your name)

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1) What's the color of your shirt?
Blue - I'm in love with your cat
Red -Our affair is over
White - I’m joining the Convent
Black -Our romance is over
Green- Our socks don't match
Grey - You're a leprechaun
Yellow - I'm selling myself for candy
Pink - Your nostrils are insulting
Brown - The mafia wants you
No shirt - You're mean
Other -I dislike your eyelashes

2) Which is your birth month?
January - That night you picked your nose
February -When I quoted Forest Gump
March - When your dwarf bit me
April - When I tripped on peanut butter
May - When I threw up in your sock drawer
June - When you put cuffs on me
July – When you smacked my ass
August - When I saw the purple monkey
September - Last year when you peed your pants
October - When we skinny dipped in the bathtub
November - When your dog humped my leg
December - When I changed my underwear

3) Which food do you prefer?
Tacos - In your apartment
Chicken- In your car
Pasta - Outside of your office
Hamburgers - Under the bus
Salad – As you were eating Kraft Dinner
Lasagna - In your closet
Kebab - With Jean Chrétien
Fish - In a clown suit
Sandwiches - At the Elton John concert
Pizza - At the mental hospital
Hot dog - Under a street light
Annat- With George Bush and Stephen Harper

4) What's the color of your socks?
Yellow - Ignore
Red - Put whipped cream on
Black - Hit on
Blue - Knock out
Purple - Pour syrup on
White - Carve your initials into
Grey - Pull the clothes off
Brown - bit of
Orange - Castrate
Pink - Pull the pants off of
Barefoot - Sit on
Other - Drive over

5) What's the color of your underwear?
Black - My boyfriend
White - My father
Grey – The Catholic Priest
Brown – The Montreal Canadian’s goalie
Purple - My corned beef hash
Red – My knee caps
Blue - My salt-beef bucket
Yellow - My illegitimate child in Ghana
Orange - My Blink 182 cd
Pink – Your ‘My Little Pony’ collection
None – My prized statue of Michael Jackson in the nude
Other --The elephant in the corner

6) What do you prefer to watch on TV?
One Tree Hill - Senile
Heroes- Frostbitten
Lost - High
Simpsons- Cowardly
The news - Scarred
American Idol - Masochistic
Family Guy - Open
Top Model - Middle-class
Annat -shamed

7) Your mood right now?
Happy - How awful you are
Sad - How boring you are
Bored - That I get turned on only by garbage men
Angry - That your smell makes me vomit
Depressed – That we’re related
Excited - That I may pee my pants
Nervous - The middle-east is planning their revenge on you
Worried - That your Ford sucks
Apathetic - That you need a sex change
Silly - That I'm allergic to your earlobes
Cuddly - That Santa doesn't exsist
Ashamed - That there is no solution to you being a dumb kid
Other - That your driving sucks

8) What's the color of your walls in your bedroom?
White - Your toe ring
Yellow - Your love letters to me
Red - The pictures from Vegas
Black - Your pet rock
Blue - The couch cushions
Green - Your car
Orange - Your false teeth
Brown - Your nose hair clippers
Grey - Our matching snoopy underwear
Purple - Your old New Kids on the Block blanket
Pink - The cut toenails
Other - Your Hannah Montanna underwear

9) The first letter of your first name?
A/B - My virginity
C/D - The results of that blood-sample
E/F - Your neighbors dog
G/H - The oil tank from your car
I/J - Your left ear
K/L - Your photo with the moustache drawn on it
M/N - Your glass eye
O/P - My common sense
Q/R - Your mom
S/T - Your collection of butterflies
U/V - Your criminal record
W/X – Your sucide note
Y/Z - Your credit cards

10) The last letter in your last name?
A/B - Love your sweetsweet ass
C/D - Always will remember the pep talks
E/F -Never will forget that night
G/H – Will not tell the authorities you stole the whale from the back yard
I/J – Mocked you behind your back constantly
K/L - Hate your cooking
M/N - Told in my confession today about the moose poaching
O/P - Told my psychiatrist about the bruises
Q/R - Always wanted to break your legs
S/T - Get sick when I think of you
U/V - Will try to forget that you broke my heart
W/X - Haven’t showered in a month
Y/Z – am better off without you

11) What do you prefer to drink?
Wine- Our friendship is ruined
Soft drink – I’m off to lead a new life as a lemon
Soda – I will haunt you when I’m reincarnated as an Eskimo
Milk - The apartment building is on fire
Mineral Water – I'm scratching my ass as you read this
Cider– I have a passionate interest for mice
Juice – You ruined my attempts at another world war
Water – You should get that embarrassing rash checked
Hot chocolate – Your Cucumber-fetishism is weird
Whiskey - I love Oprah Winfrey
Beer – Thanks for the Cocaine
Other – you should stop picking your nose

12) To which country would you prefer to go on a vacation?
Thailand – Warm tingly sensations
Australia - Best of luck on the sex change
France - Love always
Spain - With tears of sadness
China – You make me sick
Germany – Please don’t hurt me
Japan - Go milk a cow
Greece - Your everlasting enemy
USA - Greetings to your frog Leonard
Egypt – Kiss my butt
England - Go drown yourself

Game #2

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 16 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 16 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you

1. Normally, I don't like to read, especially when it's "require" or forced upon me. I do like Harry Potter and Twilight (so far).
2. Somehow, my parents run my life. They make major decisions for me. They give me the illusion that I am running my own life. Like college, for example. They told me to do what makes me happy, and what happens? I'm manipulated into a major I don't want to be in, and I'm not heading towards exactly what I want. I do believe hypocritical is the word that fits here. I thought once you hit college, you starting YOUR life, not your life for your parents.

3. Sometimes I get online and on facebook just to wait for somebody to chat me up.
4. I don't like people who are 2-faced.
5. I over-indulge on TV and internet.
6. I don't cry. Because of this, I come off cold-hearted in emotional situations. I've cried maybe 3 times in the past 2 years. When I do cry (yes, it is possible), it's for a good reason.
7. I always feel like I have to justify everything I do. Sometimes I justify others people's actions too.
8. Even though I know deep down I don't want it because it's not really me, I crave the storybook type Christmas.

9. I want the perks that come with a relationship, but at the same time I think I'm subliminally afraid of being so close to a person.
10. I'm very independent when I'm around my family, but everywhere else I need others. [I love my friends.]
11. My ultimate dream is to star in a Broadway musical.
12. The majority of the music on my iPod and most of my time spent has something to do with musical theater and Broadway.
13. I'm such a facebook stalker/creeper.
14. I rarely regret anything.
15. I'm not perfect. I make mistakes. Small mistakes I don't care about. Big mistakes really get to me.
16. I'm gay. Apparently, it's fairly obvious, but if it's not obvious to you and you didn't know, here is my official, semi-public statement.

Bad...

A bad decision led to a bad day, but I'm glad at least some good came out of a today.

Winter Wonderland

Finals are done, which means I am finished with my first semester of college!!!! I'm going to skip over talking about them so as not to bore you with pointless details.

Yesterday (Thursday), as I'm sure everyone in south Louisiana could see and probably the rest of the U.S. ha heard, it snowed!! I'm not even kidding. It actually snowed in Hammond, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. I think we got about 1-2 inches of snow. It's one of the only times I have ever been so genuinely excited about something so simple and ordinary, even though it's not ordinary here in New Orleans. I got up at like 8AM somewhat still hungover to look at it through my dorm window. That is how excited I was. Thursday was the 2nd time I had ever seen real snow. [The week before it was fake snow, aka Sneaux.] My first time seeing snow was Christmas Day 2004. That was a good day, but not as good as this time. What made Thursday even better was that I was almost done with my finals. I had none on Thursdays itself, so I chill carefree. 

I think I'm going to take you through the events of my day Thursday:

I was woken up by Blythe and my mom, and saw snow. Went and played in the snow with Katie. We met up with Blythe after, and got lunch with practically everyone I could've asked to hang out with (Blythe, Katie, Casi, Simon, Miki, and Amy). After, we chilled in Miki and Casi's room. Then Amy and helped Miki with the mail, which was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. After, we walked with Katie to go meet up with her brother at Tulane (she was going home). We said goodbye to each other like 4 times, and we ended up chilling and waiting on her brother for like 2 hours, a little ridiculous, but lots of fun. So we said goodbye to Katie when her cab came, and we went back to Loyola. We chilled til like 7ish and ordered Chinese food for Grey's Anatomy night. So, the Saints game was on ABC, so we weren't able to watch Grey's. [I found out today that it wasn't a new episode, so it is totally ok now.] Also, the Chinese food delivery-guy got kind of lost. It took me 10-15 minutes to find him and get our food. So we ate, chilled, and watched TV. Oh! While all of this was going on, my neighbor across the hall from me got busted for pot. We watched it all through my door's peephole and the cracks of the door. That was probably the most eventful thing besides the snow. Later on, everyone left, and I went to bed. So all-in-all, Thursday was a damn fun, good, relaxing, chill day.

Today, I cleaned out half of my dorm room for the possibility of getting a roommate next semester. My room won't be the same again. If I get a roommate next semester, I hope he wants to be good friends because if he doesn't, he's gonna hate me for having my friends over at all hours everyday. Now, I'm home and all unpacked for the month that lies ahead. Somehow, my bedroom does not feel as homey as my dorm room. Odd. At least I have a comfy couch in my room to sleep on. Also, Whit (my brother), his girlfriend (Melissa) [I just had the sudden urge to call her my sister. I hope he proposes soon because she is a part of this family, and he just needs to make it official.], and I decorated the tree while my mom put the TV on a channel that played Christmas music and took pictures. Cute, I know. I have no idea where my dad was.

This is the scene from the movie "Enchanted" where Pip the chipmunk is trying to tell Prince Edward that Nathaniel has an evil scheme with Queen Narissa to get rid of Giselle. This is probably my most favorite scene from the movie. I love the little gestures and other things in this video. I can watch this video over and over and over again. Katie, Blythe, Casi, and I actually do. Haha. Our favorite line is "It's good!" Look for it. It's hilarious!!!

BAM!!!

Wasting precious time

It's 12:47AM, and I'm supposed to be studying. As you can tell, I'm obviously not. 

Before I recap about my last couple of days which have been pretty good, I'm going to tell you about the next 24 hours.  I have 2 finals tomorrow morning: the written portion of music theory and music industry.  Theory I am not worried about. I've been studying the same subject since midterms, so I think I'm in a good place for my final.  Music Industry I  pretty much screwed. The final is cumulative. I don't really remember anything from the 1st half of the semester, I gave up on reading for the class, and I stopped paying attention. As you can tell, I'm kind of screwed. I'm going to study, but I think none of the information is going to sink in. These are my thoughts that I plan on telling my parents after I fail the class: "I don't care. I have no interest in passing a class for a major I had no interest in taking. Thank you for jeopardizing my large academic scholarship on a major you wanted me to take instead of allowing me to do what I like and know a hell of a lot more about. Thanks." I know it's kind of childish to blame someone else who isn't me, but I feel like I am right in this. Sounds self-centered, but you have to be a little self-centered when you are thinking about your future.  Ok, that's my mini venting session, for now.

Now for my recap. Friday, we saw Little Shop of Horrors. It was great. Shout out to Kaleb for a great performance. Saturday, I went to DHS's Neat n' Sweet with Monique. Lots o' fun. Sunday was Christmas at Loyola. It was kind of long, but beautiful music was made, even if some of it was classical. Ok. now to the big stuff. Monday was the beginning of finals week. Monday I had my World Religions "final" and my Music Theory musicianship final. All I had to do for World Religions was present my website.  Apparently my website was pretty good since, it was voted 2nd best in the class. 1st place got an automatic 110 A for their grade on the website. I'm surprised so many people liked it. Musicianship final was nerve-racking. I had some mess-ups, but I think I did ok. One of the teachers really like me, and they were being fairly lenient with the grading, so I have heard. So, Monday was a pretty good day. Tuesday was a big day for me. Tuesday was my voice juries. Voice juries are like an audition. You go in, you sing, and you leave. The only exception is that you are graded on your performance. That was my main worry. I got my grade a couple hours after I sang. I got 3 A's and 2 B+'s which I believe average to an A, so I'm psyched!

After my finals are done tomorrow, I think I'm going to throw caring into the air, let loose, and get a little drunk. I have nothing to do on Thursday, and Friday all I have is my piano final, which isn't going to be very hard at all (from what I've heard). Now we have hit the present.It is 1:15AM, and I'm not closer to being more intelligible in the field of music industry. Awesome. I might give up in like an hour or 2 and try to sleep. I'm tired. Sleep is good. Sleep is VERY good. 

This is Lisa Brescia singing the beautiful song called "And There It Is" from Scott Alan's new CD called KEYS at a CD signing held at a Barnes & Nobles in New York City. Go buy it! It's amazing.

BAM!

Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit!

I miss it.

Do I miss all of it? Do I miss parts of it? Why does my mind constantly change? Why does my mind never really know what it wants? Actually, I think I can answer that last one. My mind and my heart don't communicate! Thank you for not talking to each other. [Did you catch that sarcasm?]

This is where my blog title comes into play. This is probably my favorite scene from a movie ever. This is from "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." It's so fucking hilarious. Thank you Kristen Bell.

Bam! I guess?