There is no life I know to compare with pure imaganation

On Friday, I went out with some friends to see another high school put on the musical, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It's based off the movie from the 1970's but is obviously very different from the original. There are extra songs, slight alterations to the story and characters, heck, even they switched Mike Teavee into Mikayla Teavee. But I digress.

~Acting~

All of the cast seem very devoted to their part; from the kind Charlie Bucket to the whimsical Willy Wonka. Every seemed to have fun playing their characters. Even when they got a guy to play Mrs. Gloop! That was my favorite character out of the entire musical! It was like Monty Python when the cast is cross-dressing and I loved it so much! Plus it was a very humorous part to go along with. The other ticket finders were played exactly how they're supposed to be: bratty, obnoxious and greedy. Though two other of my favorite characters were the Candyman and Grandpa George. I liked the Candyman because he could dance and was portrayed as a caring and fun character, and Grandpa George was portrayed as an old man losing his hearing and saying a whole bunch of random and silly things. Overall, acting's a perfect 10 out of 10.

~Singing/Dancing/Music~

This next part's a hit and miss sadly. I could immediately tell from the first song that some of the singing wasn't that great. Not because they can't sing well, but because of voice projection. It didn't help I was sitting a couple rows away from the orchestra either. A lot of the actors didn't sing loud enough over the orchestra which kinda bugged me a bit. And since I'm talking about it, the orchestra was really good. Granted of course there were a little less than ten people, they played the music beautifully. And you didn't really need a whole lot of instruments for this particular music because it works so well. As for the dancing, it was lively and energetic and I loved it. Nuff said.

~Set/Lights/Visuals/etc.~

The set was pretty simple. Not great, but simple. For the most part, scenes just took place in front of the curtain with some props. For the entire first act, the set to the Bucket home was just left there and you had to imagine that it wasn't there at a lot of scenes, but it was somewhat of an eyesore. Not that it was bad, but I wasn't too fond of it.

In the second act, they had walls that spelled "Wonka" which was there the entire time with the exception when sections of the wall were taken out for the different "rooms" they were in, like the Inventing Room and the Nut Sorting room. The only time I saw the set in the entire second act change was the Chocolate Room, but it looked too simple other than the chocolate waterfall made out of satin fabric where it was moved to look like an actual waterfall. And there was also the boat ride scene, but it was very impressive because of the lights. While there weren't any creepy footage of chickens getting decapitated, the lights were very over the top. I figured out what strobe lights were when we were warned about them and was about to get a headache cause they were flashing right in my face. I thought it was really funny when it just went black and all you hear is the actors screaming their heads off.

Another couple funny visuals were Violet turning into a blueberry and Mikayla being shrunk down. With Violet, they had the actress wear some type of shirt that blew up and I thought that was pretty cool. With Mikayla when she was "shrunk", the guy who played Wonka pulled a puppet that looked like Mikayla out of the TV. Granted it's pretty cheap, but I thought it was freaking hysterical cause I had no idea how the heck they were gonna pull something like that off and I was not expecting the puppet. So to me, that was hilarious.

Some other visuals that didn't really hit the mark were the Fizzing Lifting Drink room and the Flying Glass Elevator. Now cause it's a high school musical they could only do so much, but I just saw the characters in front of a projection screen with a blue screen. I just didn't feel like they were "flying" but that's just my opinion so I can't really complain too much about that.

~Overall~

While it's not the best production of a musical I've seen, it's not like it's total crap. For what it was, it was really well done. I enjoyed it even if some things didn't really hit the mark. I loved the music and a lot of the characters that were super funny. If I had to rate this..... probably a.... 7.9/10.

Just a few more weeks of madness

It's finally May. And as of today I will turn sixteen in two weeks. I'm so ecstatic for my birthday~!! I'll have another crazy party like I did last year and hopefully it goes just as well.

The school year will be ending in a month and teachers are cramming every bit of information necessary for our finals and for us to move on into Junior year. From planning choreography with a group of three to reading Lord of the Flies, it's all coming to us like there's no tomorrow. This will surely be a fun month in academics.

Unfortunately, Sierra LaMar still remains missing. In just a couple weeks she will have been gone for two months. Recently police arrested 5 sex offenders out of 300 interviewed hoping that maybe one of them could become a person of interest. But those five were just arrested for violating their parole so they could be completely unrelated to the case. Now they're still searching for her, even in reservoirs in southern Santa Clara county. Some small businesses are even having sales and will donate money to find Sierra. I just hope she comes back in time to finish the school year.

So nothing really big and planned out so far... well except for going to see a musical, going to a party and hosting a party within a two to three week span. Until then I'll just continue with school and social life and lots and lots of writing.

She's a female phenomenon. She's a Glamazon.

So after weeks of competition, the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race has finally been announced. Say hello to your new queen, Sharon Needles!!

Fierce!

It was a tough decision to make and I can see why it was delayed till the reunion show. Along with Sharon there was Chad Michaels, a glamorous Cher impersonater, and Phi Phi O'Hara, a young show girl. All three were determined to win but that winner had to be Sharon Needles and I was sooo happy because she's one of my favorites. While usually going on the runway with a spooky Halloween-ish look, she can also turn in the scary into the beautiful drag queen look that she's able to pull off and look fabulous.

I'm gonna be sad I won't have my favorite show to watch on Mondays for another year, but I'm glad that this was a good season and I hope there are more to come.

What I really love about this show is that you get to see the world of what it's like to be gay, dress in women's clothes and the struggles they went through growing up and being gay. While these queens look gorgeous on the outside, a lot of them hide dark pasts of bullying and abuse. A lot of these queens were picked on terribly as teens; some more worse than others. I heard a couple say they've considered suicide as an option to escape it all. One of them even said that he was put in the hospital on his eighteenth birthday by his own father.

They have a challenge in one of the episodes where they bring in very masculine, straight men and dress them up in drag to create a "family resemblance". I think they have that challenge in specific to bring in people about the world that homosexual people live in and hear of the problems they had to deal with. I don't know if RuPaul intended it or not, but it's really just an eye-opener to people who've been closed off to that world from the conservative homes they come from and they realize that yeah, these guys like men and dress in women's clothes for performing, but they're still human nonetheless. Who's cares who they're attracted to and what they do for a living? Those types of episodes are always my favorite just for that reason.

So now that Drag Race is over, RuPaul's Drag U will be premiering with a new season this summer where they take middle aged women who never have time to make themselves feel beautiful, and the "drag professors" change them into fierce "glamazons". Think I'll check out an episode or two if  summer homework doesn't overwhelm me.

You know that moment...

When you feel overly ecstatic about finishing seeing the whole Japanese walkthrough of Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance and then figure out the story via Wikipedia? It feels freaking awesome!!!

I've been watching a YouTuber called crow07211017 who's been posting an entire walkthrough for KH 3D and he just uploaded the last part yesterday. Lemme just say, it's sooooo beautiful~~!!!

Graphics: Gorgeous, as usual from the genius Tetsuya Nomura.
Gameplay: Confusing.. but amazing.
Story: Intense and cliffhanging, making me asking for the official Kingdom Hearts 3 now!!

I'd rather not spoil anything for anyone, but check out crow07211017's YouTube if you wanna check the walkthrough's with the cutscenes. Some people in the comments tell where they are so you don't always have to watch the fighting and stuff, but the gameplay's still good to look at. And don't do what I did and look at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki page for plot line or for anything for that matter. Kingdom Hearts 3D is just too good to spoil yourself with, so don't do it!!

Overall, the most epic game in the entire Kingdom Hearts series and it's gonna be a huge rage with the fans in Europe and America!

A moment of nostalgia

So this was me in the 8th grade. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it and watching it over and over again.

Shake shake, shake shake, shake it

God I'm so addicted to the song Shake It by Metro Station.




It brings back so many memories from my eighth grade year. Not lying. This was my favorite song to listen to all the time. If it came on the radio or during a school dance, I'd burst out dancing. Didn't care that it was singing about sex cause it's the catchiest song ever with a good dancing beat and people who can really sing. Speaking of, I recently found on this old computer that my photos from my entire 8th grade year are still on here and I just got swept over with a moment of pure nostalgia. Now I'm inspired to movie making with all that old stuff. I'll post it on here so you guys get to see what I looked like before high school. God I was such a ridiculous child in those days. Hahaha..

More testing this week. Luckily just today and tomorrow. Today was the math portion which gets pretty crazy with everyone taking different math classes. Most of the kids in my testing room are already in Pre-Calculus/Trigonometry but there are some still in Algebra 2 or Geometry. To my surprise it was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Some stuff I didn't remember and just had to play Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo for the answer. But I have high hopes I still did really well on it. Tomorrow's the science and last portion of the STAR testing and thank god cause I'm done with dealing with it.

A letter came in yesterday from our school district telling our parents that they have a new method of notifying if your child misses school. They'll call parents at 10:30 am for any unexcused absences along with the 6 pm notification. I'm really relieved they made this change because of Sierra's disappearance but I think this change could've been made much sooner cause you never know if a child ditches and the parent doesn't know for the entire day. With Sierra, she never showed up to school or came home and her mom didn't know until she herself got home. It has to be terrifying to come home with your child not there only to get a call from the school just as you get home that your child was never even there. I mean think about it. If they altered the policy before Sierra went missing, then her mom would know much sooner, would've called the police sooner and they may have gotten more evidence to work with and could've possibly found Sierra and her kidnapper much sooner. But what happened has happened and we can't change the past. All we have to do now is hope that Sierra is found and that she'll come home.

3 down, 2 to go

Just a couple days next week for more STAR tests and I don't have to deal with it again for another year.

Still no sign of Sierra LaMar. On Wednesday, some jerk hacked her Twitter account and sent out a fake tweet that got deleted. Hearing that really ticked me off that someone would send out false hope to friends and family who care about a girl who's been missing for a month and could possibly be dead. Hope that person's proud of themselves for pulling crap like that.

Anyway, people are gonna have searches from dawn till dusk in areas in Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy. I really think that maybe Sierra probably won't be in this area and could be somewhere else in California...maybe even out of state. I don't know but I hope she's found soon.

Today was Day of Silence. What is it?

It is a silent protest against discrimination of those LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning) identified. You make a vow to be silent for the entire day or most of it if you can. You don't need to be quiet the whole day, and you can speak when deemed necessary. It's actually more of an eye-opener than a protest. I can't go the whole day without talking and it really makes you think what it feels like for kids to not talk because they're scared of people finding out their sexual orientation. It sucks to not have a voice. By this, we work to give those people back their voice in the end of this type of prejudice.

I may not have gone through the whole day without talking, but it's enough to know how much it sucks to not have a voice. It's one of the reasons I support homosexuality and want to fight for their rights.