Once...

Tomorrow I'm going to see the broadway show Once.  I'm looking forward to it.

I hope I'll enjoy the show. We heard a song from it in class called "Falling Slowly".  If this show is as good as the song, then it will be great.  I really liked that song for some reason.

I was thinking about it. You can interpret songs in so many different ways. Even people who have never really been in love can still find meaning in a love song. That's what I think happened with this song. When I saw the lyrics in class, I thought about how a lot of what the people are singing about can connect to my life.

I have had moments when I really wanted to get to know people. I've also had moments in which I needed to tell myself I still had time. This song is about things like that.

At least that's my interpretation.

And it's not just this song. In the past, I have also really felt attached to other songs. Music can help me get through problems, and I'm glad about that.

I can't wait to see the show tomorrow.

Tense Moments on Computers

That intense moment when your cursor is hovering over the send button and you're not sure what to do. Click it or not. There's still time to go back. You can still chicken out. But you're determined. So you close your eyes and press down.

Click! 

And it's done. There's no going back now. Now this email is working its way through the internet, where it will soon arrive in many inboxes, and you will get many replies. Or not. Not if you got the wrong address. Not if the people you're sending it to don't check their emails.  But you push those worries out of your mind. You've past the tense moment, and now you're going to be glad that you mustered up the courage to do it.

Dark Rooms

Darkrooms are very cool places.

They're pretty much what you would expect. Rooms that are dark.

Today I got to go into a darkroom for practice, because I'm going to take some photos with a pinhole camera tomorrow and develop them in a darkroom.

So I'm excited and looking forward to it. And if you've never made a pinhole camera, or been in a darkroom or any of that, you should.

Pictures Love Words

My science homework was to look at a picture taken by a pinhole camera and write a short story about it.

It was one of the most fun science homework assignments I've had in a while.

It's really cool to write a story based on an image. It's great inspiration, and looking at that pinhole camera gave me some really good ideas for my story.

I'm sure everyone sees pictures in a different way. Some people see a drawing, some people see a painting, some people see big questions to think about. In this case, I saw an interesting story.

To me, words and pictures go together very well. When you're writing you're supposed to create a picture in the reader's mind. When you're making images, you should make a poetic image, something that people are interested in, and want to describe with words.

Pictures and words, words and pictures, together forever.

Okay. Here's a Post.

I'm not exactly sure what to write about. I'm listening to "Someone Like You" right now. As I'm typing. For some reason I can do both at once. I guess because I'm just writing down what I think. And I can always think. I remember this song playing when I was playing volleyball in the gym in the beginning of the year. I liked it then just as much as I do now.

Oh, now the song's changed to "New World Coming".  I really like this song too. Well I guess I should like all of these songs, because they're in my iTunes. I really like music in general. I'm glad it exists. Without it, things would be so different.