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hollywood?

Last week it was Keira Knightley, this week Hilary Swank.

"Ms. P. Ms. P!"

"Yes, T, what's up?"

"You remind me of that woman in Freedom Writers."

[Ms. P thinks hard, trying to remember the actress's name.]

Dubiously, "You mean Hilary Swank."

"Yeah, that's the one. Me and D (her boyfriend) were talking about it this weekend."

Totally at a loss for words, "Om, thanks T."

posted by CP @ 9:17 PM 1 thoughts

if i were a movie...

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. When you're finished tag some other people to do it!

Opening Credits:
Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming: Sufjan Stevens. Hmm...

Waking Up:
Precious: U2... iTunes indicates I have not listened to this song in almost 2 years. I do like the crescendo at the start- it would wake me up gently.

First Day At School:
What a Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong... if only every kid viewed school this way!!! (said the teacher)

Falling In Love:
Give Reviving: Chelsey Scott. Curious. Apropos?

Fight Song:
Blowin' in the Wind [Live]: maybe this reflects my thought that fighting really doesn't solve anything?

Breaking Up:
Rain King: Counting Crows... verse 2 could fit

Prom:
Tombstone Blues: Bob Dylan... makes absolutely no sense

Life:
Old Camp Meeting Time: Packway Handle Band... again, hmm... so far, I have a really strange life

Making babies:
Deadwood, South Dakota: Nanci Griffith... maybe this indicates the setting?

Mental Breakdown:
Sweet Hitchhiker: Creedence Clearwater Revival... OK, I can see this one.

Driving:
One More Cup of Coffee: Bob Dylan... oh yes, this totally fits!

Flashback:
The Distance: Cake... I mean, this song does always flash me back to the cafeteria my freshman year at FSU.

Getting back together:
Amazing: Aerosmith

Wedding:
Stayin' Alive: Bee Gees... so it will be a fun wedding?

Birth of Child:
Miriam: Pierce Pettis: don't think I actually know this song. maybe i should name my first child "miriam."

Final Battle:
Heaven When We're Home: The Wailin' Jennys. Yep, that works.

Death Scene:
Nestled: Packway Handle Band... I guess that sounds like a good way to go.

Funeral Song:
Got to Admit It's Getting Better: the Beatles. Awesome. And true.

End Credits:
Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few: Sufjan Stevens: apparently there will be few credits, as this song is only 46 seconds long

Not sure I would watch my movie...

posted by CP @ 6:51 PM 2 thoughts

neglected

I haven't meant to neglect my blog, it's just happened. Even now, I don't actually have anything to say. There are 23 days left in cross country season, but who's counting?

I could recount a random event of the last week or so...

In one of my classes, we were reading Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book" and discussing slant rhyme. She has "roam" and "come" rhyming and I was trying to explain to the kids that in 1678, it's entirely possible that it was not a slant rhyme, but that the vowels were pronounced the same and I started babbling about the Great Vowel Shift and accents and what not. Somehow in the middle of my diatribe, I began speaking in a British accent.

Later that afternoon at cross country practice, I was relaying a bit of the story to another of my students as we ran and again slipped into the British accent. And ran, talking to my girls in said accent for the last mile and a half. I think it was very motivational. They told me I could be the next Keira Knightley.

posted by CP @ 7:19 PM 3 thoughts