It be the last day of 2010!

Another year almost gone...(it's 10:00 where I live. 2 hours left!)

I shall celebrate by erecting a shrine for my new Versailles Merch!

...meh, not really. That'd be a little extreme, even for me.

MERRY NEW YEAR!

It finally came....

...the package I ordered on Christmas! It cost me almost 200 dollars, but it was worth it!

I am now the proud owner of:

• 3 Versailles CD's. One full length album (Jubilee) and two Maxi-singles ("Prince and Princess" and "Destiny, the Lovers")
• a Versailles 2011 calendar (it is the most beautiful calendar I have ever seen)
• "Chateau de Versailles" which is a 2 and a half hour DVD of their concert at C.C Lemon hall back in 2008 and comes with a stack of awesome cards that have a picture on the front and the lyrics to one of their songs on the back.

I LOVE IT!!!! ALL OF IT!!! AND KAMIJO, I WANT TO MARRY YOU! BECAUSE YOU'RE SO KAKKOI! *fangirl squeals*

Yo.

It's Christmas Break! Yes!

I REALLY hope I get everything on my list for Christmas. Especially the seventy dollar DVD of Versailles.

Has anyone here ever heard of the Reduced Shakespeare Company? If not, check them out on Youtube! They're so funny! Their most famous performance is "The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged." I laughed until I cried.

WARNING: Really Angsty Post

Well, life really sucks right now.

To start off, there's this jack-a** in my English Class who won't shut up and is so obnoxious. He thinks he's being cool, but he's just being an idiot.

Then My lab partner for Bio is a perverted delinquent. I'll say something totally innocent, and he'll right of the bat say "That's what she said." Plus, he admits to taking drugs (his girlfriend's in my art class, and she admitted that she's been smoking pot since she was twelve) and he's given me the middle finger more times than I care to count.

Math just plain sucks. It's so boring!

My MP3 is near dead, it has so many problem and continues to frustrate the heck out of me. The screen will go white sometimes, and then I have to turn it off and turn it back on to get it to work.

My friend is starting to grate on my nerves, because she was home-schooled until freshmen year and as a result she's sheltered. She has the mentality of a sixth grader and the lewd knowledge of a high school senior, and she just doesn't get it! We're arguing more often now - we've always argued, but the other day it got really intense. And she doesn't know that anything's wrong between us!

I have hardly any social life. My friends never invite me anywhere and most of the time I'm left at home to just sit around bored out of my mind.

And to top it off, I'm failing Bio. and last quarter I failed Health. And I might fail History. I have never gotten such bad grades in my life, and it's really ticking me off.

I can't sleep at night. In the past three day I have gotten a grand total of ten hours sleep.

Plus, since it's winter I'm always feeling stuffy and congested.

Life sucks so much right now.

About to head out for the bus

It's 7:00 AM and I'm about to go out into freezing temperatures to wait for the bus (And I'm not exaggerating about it being freezing, it's only 22 degrees out there).

We had a guy come to our school yesterday and give an assembly on Rachel's challenge. I'll tell you about it when I have more time. I will say this - it was so moving that ten minutes into it I was crying my eyes out.

I gotta go. Bye!

(Have an image before I leave!)

Post Number 50!

Yay!

Oh yeah, did I ever tell you guys about my imaginary boyfriend, Matthias? No? Alright then! I shall tell you.

About three or four years ago, I was intensely into pokemon. And one thing that always bugged me was that they never revealed who Ash's dad was! So I was thinking about that one day, and I decided to make up a character to be Ash's dad. I gave him a background and a basic appearance, as well as a name - Matthias.

Then I decided that I liked him as a character and started using him in various stories, but under different names (he has had so many aliases I cannot count them all). And somewhere along the way, I fell in love with him.

His appearance has evolved over the years (His hair grew longer and his eyes changed color multiple times. Also, there are times when he's clean shaven and times when he has a bit of a goatee). And his age always fluctuates. Right now he's 23.

The good thing about having him as an imaginary boyfriend? He can't break my heart, and he's always there.

Oh yah, I found this image on a website, AND IT LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM. NO JOKE. The image is supposed to be a human version of Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon, but I look at him an immediately think of Matthias.

LeFont Coffee House Tonight! Yay!

YAY!!!

...what the heck am I gonna do for it?! I signed up to read something - a poem, a story, whatever - but I have nothing to read!

Okay, calm down, I can do this...

I'm going to check my computer's files for anything and everything I can use!

Oh, and by the way....

THIS IS AN AWESOME VIDEO OF VERSAILLES!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsY-pxnFn5w&feature=related

WATCH IT!

Excerpt from NOCTURNE (yes, another title change!)

Yes, I changed the title again. Now it's just NOCTURNE. And I thought I'd share a little excerpt with you guys. I really like this one. Heheh. Have fun!

            “Helena?” Nocturne came up besides her and looked over her shoulder at the letter she was holding. He read it quickly and arched an eyebrow. “A family get-together?” he asked. “Are you going?”   

            “I have to.” Helena sighed. “I’ll never hear the end of it if I don’t.”

            Nocturne was quiet. “I don’t want you to go.” He said softly.

            “I don’t either.” Helena admitted. “But look, it’ll be for a couple of days at most. I’ll be back before you know it. In the meantime, try not to burn down the Chateau or something else equally crazy.”

            He looked miffed. “As if I would do something like that!” He protested.

            Helena laughed. “I know, I’m just teasing you.” She told him. “I need to go pack, and then I have to call Mr. Davis and arrange for him to drive me to the airport. Mind helping me?”

            “Sure.” Nocturne agreed. “Give me a minute, I’ll be right there.”

            “Okay.” Helena said, heading off to her room.

            Nocturne whirled around to face his father’s ghost, who was lingering next to an armchair. “Are you out of your mind?” he hissed. “What if she had seen you? You’re lucky I saw you and was able to keep her attention off you!”

            You worry too much. Sinclair told his son, plopping down into the armchair. Now, when are you going to tell her?

            “I don’t know.” Nocturne confessed. “Now’s not a good time, I don’t want her worrying about it while she’s away. I’ll tell her when she gets back.”

            You’d better. Sinclair growled. Or else I’ll tell her for you.

            “No!” Nocturne said quickly. “I promise I’ll tell her when she comes back! Okay?”

            Good. Sinclair said. Because I don’t remember raising you to be a coward.

            “You’re one to talk.” Nocturne shot back. “Whenever mother got angry you’d go to the music room, lock the door, and climb out the window. Which, by the way, is most definitely not behavior befitting of a nobleman…”

            You would have done the same thing! Sinclair argued. You know just as well as me how terrifying your mother was when she got angry!

            “I wouldn’t have climbed out a window!”

            Yes you would!

            “Would not!”

            Would too!

            “Would not!”

            Would too!

            “Would not!”

            “Nocturne?” Helena’s voice called. “Are you coming?”

            Better go to her. Nocturne advised. It’s not nice to keep a lady waiting.

            “Coming!” Nocturne called back, shooting one last glare at his father. “We’ll settle this later.” He said.

            Looking forward to it. Sinclair said cheerfully.

Awww, Nocturne! It's so sweet that you want Helena to stay!

An Insanely long post that was made insanely long by nothing but pictures (with an insanely long title)

So, I promised wordbender pictures of Kamijo...and pictures she (or he, I don't know) shall get!

Ahh, yes...one of my favorite images. This is Kamijo in the Promotional Video for their song "Arisotcrat's Symphony" Which is without a doubt one of their best songs.

This photo is actually before the time of Versailles...Kamijo here is providing some of the vocals for a song called "Node of Scherzo" which was part of the Hizaki Grace Project. It takes place after Kamijo's old band, LAIRENE, had disbanded.

Also from Aristocrat's Symphony. I love this one.

I think this is from a magazine. Whatever the case, he's still hot!

Aristocrat's Symphony again.

This is from the single "Ascendead Master" which totally changed my view of vampires. Edward Cullen still sucks, but I don't hate ALL vampires now.

Aristocrat's Symphony.

You'll be able to guess this one...Yep. Aristocrat's Symphony.

Aristocrat's Symphony.

This is from their album JUBILEE, which was a bit of a change in their sound. They're still really good, but in my opinion, the old album, NOBLE, was better.

Not even gonna bother telling you, you should know...

Um...Not entirely sure about this...I think it's from before NOBLE, but after their first album, Lyrical Sympathy.

Ascendead Master. This is a screenshot from the PV.

*SEE ABOVE*

*SEE ABOVE*

Aristocrat's Symphony...AGAIN...

Kamijo's current look! This is for their newest Album: Destiny -The Lovers-

This is...old. REALLY old. This is Kamijo when he was still in LAIRENE.

Kamijo from JUBILEE, but without his jacket. I could look at that all day...

Kamijo performing live in his newest look.

Ascendead Master. He never wore the overcoat in the video, but in the performance of their concert CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES he wore it often.

Oh yes! The furry outfit! This is from their mini-album, PRINCE and PRINCESS.

Kamijo in the short movie made for Ascendead Master.

Do I honestly need to tell you?

*sighs* Why did their have to be so many Aristocrat's Symphony Pictures?

A screenshot from the PV of Serenade.

This is pretty old...like, the very early days of Versailles. From their first album, Lyrical Sympathy.

Prince and Princess.

Kamijo onstage with Teru. Probably during the Chateau de Versailles concert.

Aristocrat's Symphony!

And FINALLY...have a video that I found extremely funny!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnj32KTzu_Q&feature=related

Wow.

Holy Cow, I haven't been on in over a month...I wish I could say that it was because I was busy, but in all honesty, I plain forgot. Or I was too lazy.

Yeah, so a lot happened. I failed NaNoWriMo (quite epically, I might add), I went to New Jersey for Thanksgiving break, discovered an awesome Japanese band called D'espairsRay (Not for the faint of heart, they're kinda...very...screamo-ish), and fangirled over Versailles's new album.

This is the awesomeness of the new Versailles~!

My Life Is Average

So, I found this site called My Life is Average, Also called MLIA. It's the funniest thing on earth. Here are some things I found on there:

Today, in class, my teacher said something about loaning out the movie 'The Ring' from our library. My friend, who is new at school, said, completely innocently, "I will take the Ring, although I do not know the way." Our whole class burst out laughing, and nine of us raised our hands to volunteer to show her the way to the movie section. My teacher said, "Nine companions. So be it. You will be the Fellowship of the Ring."

Today, I was feeling a bit depressed that America seemed to rule the world - most famous people seem to be American. Here in England, Obama is more famous than our Prime Minister! Then I remembered, Twilight was from an American author and Harry Potter was from an English author. I feel like, for once, we have won.

Today i remembered my child fantasy that when i had children, my daughter's name would be Estella (who i'd call Stella) and she would fall in love with a boy named Damon. Why did i remember this fantasy?? My 20 year old daughter Estella came home with a boy who she has been seeing. His name? Damon, i have high hopes for this relationship.

Today, I held a door open for a girl. Not only did she thank me but she went in. It was the Men's Restroom.

Today I got stopped going through airport security. Why? Because all the airport staff wanted to look at my amazing socks.

Today, at work, a little girl probably no older than 7 came up to me at my stand and asked me if I liked Justin Bieber. I thought since she was little, she probably did, so I didn't want to upset her and said "He's not my favorite singer." She came back with "HE? You mean she's a BOY?!" I love children.

Most People will admit to singing in the shower, however my college roommate and I used to wait to take showers at the same time so that we could have duets from Wicked in our adjacent shower stalls.

For Christmas my best friend bought me a life size cut-out of Edward Cullen. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to make use out of the creepy, glaring, cardboard face. When my sister came home from college, we put it behind the door, so when she opened it, there was a man staring at her. She screamed and we have been placing him all around our house for the past week. Edward has ended up in dark corners, closets, bathrooms, and cars. I can't wait until my sister takes a shower tonight and sees what's behind her shower curtain.

Today, I got a txt from a random stranger that said, "Do not eat the next banana you see." Out of curiousity, I went to the kitchen and picked up a banana and opened it. It was half rotten. This is so cool.

Today one of my friends told me that the day before she had hid in her brother's backseat as he drove to work and popped out singing, "Hi Ho Hi Ho! It's off to work we go!" I remember why we're friends now.

Today, my mom sent me a text saying, "No homework today?" I replied, "I am doing homework." She said, "I'm watching you." Trying to be creepy, I replied, "I'm watching you watching me." Her reply? "Don't look in the closet." I'm scared now. I've been out-creeped by my mom.

Halloween Costume!

It's finished! And I wore it to school today! I didn't win the costume contest. But I got a lot of compliments!

Image:

Today In Health Class

...NO, it's not what you think it is!

We were in the computer lab, creating seven day meal plans using an online software. I got bored of that, so i pulled up my blog and was browsing through it, when the girl next to me sees the pic of what I want my Halloween Costume to be.

Girl: What's that?

Me: What I'm going to be for Halloween.

Girl: It looks like a chick.

Me: IT'S A GUY, thank you very much.

Girl: It can't be! That's definitely a chick!

Me: If you think THAT'S a guy, you should see Hizaki!

Girl: Whatever. *goes back to work*

Me: *fuming, opens up google images and types in "Versailles Hizaki"* Look, that's Hizaki.

Girl: *mouth drops open* THAT CAN'T POSSIBLY BE A GUY!

Naturally, she says this VERY LOUD. So everyone else in the lab is interested in what all the commotion is. After a brief explanation, I ended up fighting valiantly against those in class that began calling the band "gay" and attempting to shoot them down.

On top of it all, that girl turns out to be a Bieber fan.

I'm surrounded by mundanes!

Writer's Workshop

I'm in Writer's Workshop right now. we're in the computer lab, supposed to be doing movie reviews.

But I already finished.

So I'm on my blog.

Who here likes pie?

Eggies!

Click please! *note: it may not work*

EDIT: it doesn't work...

yWriter!

Look at the title.

Google search it.

Download.

YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.

Weenfump

Yeah, so on car ride home from church, I asked "If someone says 'I'm going outside to get some air' then what was he breathing inside?"

Mom laughed. And then we tried to find an answer to the question. We ended up talking about air pumps, and I said:

"No! Not air pumps, WEENFUMPS!"

You see, the Weenfump is our little family joke. My Grandfather came up with it, although he swears it actually exists.Supposedly it pumps steam and was made in Europe.

I love my crazy family.

Novel Plan

So I downloaded an awesome software called FreeMind, and used it to plan my Novel. Here's the result.

You have to click it to see the full size.

Book Publicity

I checked a book out of the library yesterday called "Publicize Your Book!" An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book the Attention It Deserves"

It's very helpful! There are detailed descriptions of what goes on in publishing house, the process of putting a book on the market, and much more! I'm definitely using this to help me get Nocturne's Sorrow published...once I write it. hehehehe.

Titles Galore

Okay, so my NaNo novel has had a lot of titles. Here's a list:

1. Lonely Serenade
2. Songmaster
3. Sorrow's Nocturne
4. Nocturne's Sorrow

It was Songmaster for the longest time, until I found out that it was also the title for a Science Fiction with a homoerotic subplot. And when I changed it, I had to change the MC's name too, so it would fit with the title!

Yep. My MC, Songmaster, has been renamed "Nocturne"

So Annoying!

My sister is having her birthday party today. That means a bunch of screaming sixth grade girls getting hyper of cake, ice cream and cola and chatting NON-STOP. I'm tempted to run off to a friend's house and beg to spend the night there (the only thing stopping me is that it's dark out and I'm terrified of the dark).

Yes. I am 15 and a half and terrified of the dark. You may laugh.

If their incessant chatter continues, I will be unable to sleep tonight. THAT WILL NOT MAKE ME HAPPY. NOT AT ALL.

I wish I could trade my sister for one of my MC's...that would be AWESOME.

My God...The IMAGES!

So I was showing my teacher a video of Versailles, and she asks -

"Do they sing ballads?"

And OMG...the mental images that simple question started were just HORRIFYING. I pictured Kamijo, sitting on a stool, with an acoustic guitar, singing a ballad. IT WAS TERRIBLE! *whimpers*

Remember the Titans

So, in Writer's Workshop we had to watch Remember the Titans, because we're going to do a movie review on it. At first I was a little iffy, because it was a football movie, but it's a really good movie, now that I've seen it!

And I really liked the SHOCKING plot twist near the end. It's like "yay, they won the game...HOLY ****! I was NOT expecting THAT!" (For those of you who haven't seen it, I won't spoil it. If you want to know, WATCH THE MOVIE! It's awesome!)

yeah, so that's it. Ciao.

I must try some of these!

Petit fours. I hear they're awesome.

DON'T THEY LOOK YUMMY????

Novel Summary

So I decided to post a summary of the novel I'll be writing in November on here, just in case I forget or something. Here goes!

Helena and her two elder sisters, Theresa and Kiera, inherit their great-aunt's Chateau in the French countryside. The Chateau de Solitude dates back to the Renaissance and is perhaps one of the most grand of Chateaus from that time. Naturally, the sisters are ecstatic. The first day there is spent excitedly exploring the grounds of their new home. However, when night falls and ghostly singing can be heard, the sisters become frightened.

When morning dawns, Theresa and Kiera flee the Chateau, but Helena stays. She is unwilling to return to her totalitarian mother, so she takes it upon herself to discover the source of the singing - and if possible, put a stop to it. The next few weeks she studies the records of the Chateau and examines every nook and cranny, only to discover absolutely nothing about the ghostly voice that sings at night.

But one night when she is wandering sleeplessly down the corridors, she comes upon an amazing scene - standing in the moonlight is a man, singing the same song she hears every night. Helena attempts to speak to him, but he ignores her and walks away.

Afterward Helena just ignores the man, until she stumbles upon a secret room - the music room, which houses a beautiful concert grand. Being a lover of music, Helena is eager to play such a magnificent instrument. As she plays the song that is on the sheet music before her, she is stunned when the mysterious man reappears to play a duet with her. After the song is over, the man introduces himself as Songmaster, and the two strike up a friendship that will soon blossom into much more.

Wow I'm Dumb

Remember the last post, about Versailles coming to Indiana?

Well, I read the abbreviation of the state's name wrong. It said ID, which I thought was Indiana, but it's really Idaho. THAT'S EVEN FARTHER AWAY THAN INDIANA.

Oh. My. God.

Versailles is giving a concert in Indiana less that 3 weeks from now.

VERSAILLES. My favorite band. In AMERICA.

If I want to go, I need to raise 500 dollars in 14 days.

Help! How am I supposed to raise that much money? I need ideas!

NaNoWriMo won't let me on the forums!!!

This is so frustrating! The NaNo forums won't load properly! WHY?????!!!!!

Okay Danielle, calm down...*deep breaths* Okay...maybe a picture of Kamijo will calm me down!

*swoons*

Oh yeah, I'm working on a special project! But until it's done, it's a secret! *winks*

My Desktop Wallpaper!

The title says all. I made this myself, by the way.

Signature Banner for DenimGirl

You asked for it, you got it! A signature banner that was a collage of Kamijo pics!

(This was really hard to make, by the way)

THIS IS FLIPPIN' AWESOME!!!!

Wow...major shift abuse in the title...

Anyway, I found THIS on photobucket!

ISN'T HE SO GORGEOUS????

Although I will admit, that eye is a little creepy...

Maru Music - CHECK IT OUT

There is a site I found called Maru Music, which sells merchandise of Japanese Visual Kei and Gothic bands. Versailles falls under the category of Visual Kei, so naturally Maru Music sells their merch. 

CHECK IT OUT!

http://marumusic.com/nstore/bands/versailles.html

Today at Church - Totally Unrealistic Fantasies

So I was at church, and since I NEVER go to the service (I attend Sunday School, but that's it, the service always puts me to sleep) I was pacing the halls, because pacing fuels amazing ideas and daydreams. But I was listening to Versailles on my MP3 as I paced...so...

Pretty much what happened is that I imagined Versailles moving into my neighborhood over the summer to see what life was like in America (I know, Versailles would NEVER visit a little Hick town...) and I meet them. But in this dream, I have learned fluent Japanese. So we get to talking and they make me a deal - if I teach them English, they will teach me how to play guitar. I agreed and over the next few months I become a guitar master. Then, they invite me to join their band. I immediately accept the offer (of course XD) and we begin touring.

That is SO never going to happen...

New Banner!

I changed my banner for the NaNoWriMo forums! Here, take a look!

*giggles* I must say, I'm pretty proud of it!

IT'S FIXED!!!!!

My dad fixed my mp3! *dances happily*

I am SOOOO happy!!!

It's a sansa fuze, by the way. here's what it looks like -

Yes, it has a clock! *grins*