Feeling :  fullfull  Listening :  Cookie Jar - Gym Class Heroes  Reading :  Dawn and the Impossible Three by Ann M. Martin

So, if you haven’t been keeping up or don’t know, Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes got into a kerfuffle with a heckler at the St. Louis Warped Tour date. For the TL;DR crowd: racial slurs were spoken, Travis tried to handle it, heckler hit his bad knee as he was climbing up onstage, Travis cracked a mic over the dude’s head. Apparently, he’s been arrested for it. I’m in shock.

I wish he hadn’t let his temper get the best of him, because the kid who called him the n-word looked like he was biracial like Travie. I just hope it gets resolved where justice is served. I had such a badass time at the Joint last Friday, it would suck that the fans on the rest of Warped wouldn’t be able to enjoy the love that is Gym Class status. But I don’t think I would be able to think straight if 1) someone called me a racial slur, and 2) hit my bad knee. So I kinda see it from both sides.

I found a site that was streaming “Cookie Jar” through the GCH LJ. I’m obsessed with “Cookie Jar” and “Press 7″ by Tyga. They are on constant repeat right now.

I went to the used bookstore again this week! Only spent $10 now. Here is a list of my newest acquisitions…

(hardcover)
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
“Jack and Jill” by Louisa May Alcott
“Little Men” by Louisa May Alcott
“Eight Cousins” by Louisa May Alcott
“Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens

(paperback)
“Murder on the Orient Express” by Agatha Christie
“In Her Shoes” by Jennifer Weiner
“Girl With a Pearl Earring” by Tracy Chevalier
“The Talented Mr. Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith
“Dawn and Too Many Sitters” by Ann M. Martin
“The Open Boat and Other Stories” by Stephen Crane

I also downloaded Kai’s self-titled album, Malyssa’s “Reminisce,” and Hoku’s “Listen Up” EP from the iTunes store the other day. I had Kai and Malyssa, but I lost them.

As for Hoku, I have some ’splaining to do. At the bookstore, they also sell used CDs. One of them was Hoku’s self-titled CD. I had a copy of it, but I lost it somewhere between here and the three houses we’ve owned/rented here in Vegas. It was autographed too. Anyways, I wanted to know what Hoku was up to, and it turns out she’s still making music! “Listen Up” is definitely a fun EP. “Closer” is so sexy. I didn’t think she was like that, considering she was really into her faith. I had to put the song on my Moneymaker playlist, haha.

Also, I watched “The History Boys” the other day, and I just have to say, I less than three the movie. The film is based on the award winning play by Alan Bennett, which ran at the National Theatre in London from May 2004 until April 2005. The music they used drew me in, “Blue Monday” by New Order and “This Charming Man” by the Smiths in the first couple of scenes. But the script itself was so good, and the actors (who starred in the first staging of the play) completely sold me on their roles.

When a 1980s class achieves the best scores ever at Cutlers’ Grammar School for boys in Sheffield (Yorkshire, northern England), the petty headmaster, who craves the prestige like the parents, recruits a young Oxford graduate, Irwin, to prepare them for the general entry exams for the world class universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He stresses that takes not just delivering what all schools prepare for, but -if they even really want to go- standing out by a different approach and perspective: surprising quotations and associations, the other side of the coin, witty phrasing… Actually good foundations were laid by the current staff, less by history teacher Dorothy Lintott, a frustrated liberal feminist without actual impact, then by the enthusiasm-arousing ‘Hector’ in General Studies, who gets their attention and makes them think trough literature, open discussion, role-play and performing declamation and song, at both of which the only Jewish (like the Muslim, fully integrated) boy, sensitive gentle gay David, excels. Alas, when the headmaster learns that the caring, paternal Hector once innocently touched a boy’s privates, he insists on ‘graceful’ early retirement, a personal drama with surprising twists in the end. Meanwhile the irresistible class flirt, Dakin, skillfully tests all borders including his and Irwin’s sexual orientation, and all consider what they really aspire and care for, in studies and life.

It also doesn’t help that they cast such gorgeous specimens for the boys. Yum. I recognized Russell Tovey (Rudge) played Toby from Doctor Who’s Christmas special, “Voyage of the Damned.” Andrew Knott (Lockwood) played Dickon in “The Secret Garden” a million years ago. And Dominic Cooper (Dakin) is gonna be in “Mamma Mia!” and “The Duchess” with my girl Keira Knightley. And I’ve got a huge crush on Jamie Parker (Scripps).

Plus it was funny to see Richard Griffiths (who plays Harry’s uncle in the HP films) in his role. Frances de la Tour (who played Madame Maxime in GOF) played the only female lead. And Stephen Campbell Moore was so incredibly good. In the scene where Dakin propositions him, you can see it in his eyes how much he wants Dakin.

I highly recommend “The History Boys” if you haven’t seen it already. Obviously I’ve like a year too late, but that’s always how it happens for me. Either I get in on the ground floor for fangirling, or I’m light years behind everyone else!

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