Return! ...maybe.

So... I haven't been here in a while. I haven't really found the need to, and, anyways, I usually write for the sake of having people read what I write, and since people weren't reading this anymore, I didn't feel like it was going anywhere. Umm... I'm not really sure where to begin. So much has happened since my last post. Lots of stuff... Okay, so I feel like whenever I have something to say, I've gotta get it all out and tell SOMEone. So, recently, I've just been texting people random thoughts I have. But then I kind of realized that I guess I do that for myself, and people probably don't care anyways. And I sort of wish I still had documentation of my thoughts on things as they happened. So I said that lots of stuff has happened. Whew. Umm... I'm not going to get into all of that, because if I'm doing this blog for myself now, I already know everything that happened within the past year. Does that make sense? Like, this past year was life-changing and I now I won't forget it (so I'm not going to explain it). I'm sitting down right now to write a couple of posts. But this one is just to kinda throw it out there that I think I'll be getting back on this more often. I think I'll also open it up to public (though I may not... but it doesn't hurt and probably doesn't matter anyways). So, yea, we'll see how this goes. Onnnnn second thought....... I had been planning on making a video blog... so maybe I'll do that. I got a Canon T5i and everything, I just gotta actually take that initiative and start filming SOMEthing. I'll do it... so maybe I'll do less writing on here and more talking to my camera? We'll just see where this heads.

Twitter SUCCESS!!!!!!!

I know that I haven't been here in forever. That's mostly because I didn't find anything worth sharing or I got most of my excited feelings out by ranting (in a positive way) to other people. In this case I don't think I can ever calm down from this. Get this. Ready? Okay okay. .... Tyler Oakley favorited one of my Tweets. And Max Schneider replied to one. ALL IN THE SAME DAY. Do you understand... no you do not understand. I have been trying to get the attention of both of them for sooo long. Obviously, I'm not obnoxious about it, not begging for a follow, etc. I finally struck gold! I'm just so incredibly stunned that they are now informed of my existence.

Ahhhhhh I love Twitter. See, Facebook is for people I KNOW in person. Twitter is for the celebrities. Through Twitter I have been able to contact others, such as Sam Tsui, Bailee Madison, Rowan Blanchard, Tyler Ward, Ashley Argota... through them following/replying to/favoriting/retweeting me. Twitter is great.

I can't wait for the day when I can bring someone so much joy as Tyler and Max just brought me. Because if I can do that for someone else, that means that I have made a difference and that I can make in impact.

After all, that's all I want to be. Someone's inspiration. That's all I want from myself.

Goodbye now, much love <3

SAM TSUI CONCERT

So I went to a Sam Tsui concert yesterday! Wellllll, technically, it was Alex Goot's, but I went for Sam. Anyway, it was a long line (we got there before doors opened) and it was raining AND really sunny at the same time. But we got in there and we actually had dinner there while King the Kid played (we didn't particularly want to listen to them, just cause we didn't really know who they are). We listened to Luke Conard and Landon Austin, who were good, as well. I was just too busy thinking about Sam being under the same roof as me! Finally it was Sam's turn, and when he came out, I was completely freaking out. He was SO pumped and energetic!! He looked so cute, jumping and dancing around the stage the entire time. He sang "Make it Up" as his intro, then also sang "Shadow," "Just a Dream," other songs from his album... "Don't Want an Ending" was special because he wanted to do it acoustically (a tradition that formed when he was on his first show and the electricity went out or something, but he wanted to continue anyway, so they just did it without any electricity). He sang "Wherever You Are," but at that point Zoe, Alexandra, and I had left to go to the merchandise table to wait for him. I was second in line, and he came out and sold stuff to the people in front of me... Then he got to me and he looked so happy and he shook my hand and said, "Hi, I'm Sam, thank you sooooooo much for coming out tonight!! Hey, I really like your shirt, going old school there!" (My shirt said "I <3 Sam & Kurt".) I got a poster and had him sign it, and I also had him sign this little book thing where each singer got their own page with a picture of them, their name, and a place for them to sign. Oh, yeah -- Kurt wasn't there. >:( He's in LA filming a video. *sigh* Oh, well, Sam was enough! He told me to come find him out front after the concert, so I did, and I was about to get a picture with him, but I went up at the same time as a little girl, so I let her go first, and he looked at me and said, "I'm doing you next, okay?" So it was my turn and I gave him a hug (I don't think anyone else did) and I had him take a selfie with me! I also asked him why he named his cat Phoebe. I just really wanted to know. :P He spent so long explaining... in short, it's because he was a Greek major at Yale and Phoebe is a Greek goddess or something, and his roommate at the time liked the name cause it was a character in 'Friends,' so it was something that both of them could agree on. Honestly, I think he remembered me the second time. :P I have pictures of him explaining to me.... Anyways, it was great and we took pictures and yeah. :)

Blue Knight and Day!

I know I haven’t posted anything really in a long time, but I thought this would be a good thing to post about. So this summer, my brother is in the Blue Knights Drum Corps, which is pretty much professional marching band. They perform all around the US. The Blue Knights are stationed in Denver, Colorado, so he has flown out there once a month ever since December. Starting the end of May, they don’t go home for three months: they train and rehearse and perform at Drum Corps International contests. Yesterday I got to spend time with them (I’m guessing they number about 200-300 corps members). I made three huge salads for them to have at dinner (which was after they got back from the competition – I ended up not being there when they ate it). I helped another girl in the food trailer wash a whole lot of dishes, and I cleaned tables and countertops. So pretty much what happens when they eat is the corps comes to get their food (which the volunteers in the food trailer help a professional catering chef prepare) and they get their choice of drinks, which is usually water and about three flavors of Gatorade. Then they find shade anywhere (behind a building, in the shadow of one of their tour buses, UNDER A TRUCK) and eat. Then one of the sections a day is assigned trash clean-up. Once I was done helping out in the food trailer, I went to find the horn line practicing. They sounded amazing… And it has been about two months into their tour, and they have four hours of rehearsal a day, so they are all so so so tan. They have the weirdest tans, too, I mean, of course they have the sock tan (they all wear flip-flops when they’re not rehearsing, so you can see everyone’s sock tan) and shorts tan, but they even have hair tans (immediately after they get a haircut), sunglasses/glasses tans, and glove tans. Glove tans sounds kind of weird, but think about it – they’re out in the sun, rehearsing with their instrument for four hours a day. The horns are made out of metal: if you don’t have gloves, the horn is going to get really hot, and you’d cut your hands on the sharper parts. My mom, dad, and I went to the stadium before the corps did. We watched the other drum corps perform. And, just because I can, I will list all of the drum corps names that I know: Phantom Regiment, Cavaliers, Bluecoats, Blue Devils, Blue Knights, Blue Stars, The Academy, Pioneers, Cadets, Madison Scouts, Santa Clara Vanguard, Boston Crusaders, Troopers, Spirit of Atlanta, Carolina Crown, Colts, Crossmen, Genesis… that’s all I know right now. That’s most of them that were there. And because I love critiquing, here is my critique on the particular corps: Phantom Regiment. I have heard so much about them and have only dreamed of seeing them in person. Well, honestly, they were kind of a disappointment, their show was kind of generic, and if they weren’t the one and only PHANTOM REGIMENT, I wouldn’t have been so excited during their show. Cavaliers… were my favorite. They are an all-male corps. They’re like a cult, though, from what I’ve heard! You aren’t considered a Cavalier until you get into the corps for a second year. And apparently they have their phones taken away and can’t call home or anything during the three month time period. And at 10:00pm they are gathered and quizzed over information from this book, random trivia about the Cavaliers. You need to know who was drum major in what year, and all that crazy stuff. It doesn’t seem like a fun place to be, but they’re good at marching and I liked their show, so, yeah. Their show was really cool… Their show’s theme was ‘The Secret Society’. They all came out in hooded capes, which they wore for the first act. They took the capes off while they were under these props that were tilted posters…probably for the use of changing behind. But when they came back out, they had blindfolds on! At first, I thought they were real blindfolds, and I was AMAZED that they could still take their formations with them on, but then I realized (after asking my dad about it) that they were probably made from a thin material that they could see out of. Their formations included a triangle, which was kind of the theme visual, as they had triangular prop and, at one point, made a huge triangle tent that the colorguard used to run into, take off their jackets, and come out with just the undercoat on… Over all, it was really cool. Bluecoats! I have always looked forward to watching the Bluecoats play. I liked their show, there was this storyline where a girl with a red balloon comes out, and she looks like she’s looking for something, and she sees the corps marching around and tries to catch the attention of them, but no one pays attention to her, and she can’t catch up with any of them. Finally, she taps the shoulder of a drummer, and he turns around and… I forget what he does… but at one point another colorguard girl came up and popped the red balloon. Then a guy came to the girl and gave her another red balloon, and they ran around the field holding hands, and it kind of had a Peter Pan feel to it… he showed her around and whatnot, then he disappeared somewhere… Maybe something happened to the balloon or something, but somewhere near the end, the drum guy from before gave the girl (who somehow had lost the balloon again) the red balloon back… It was an American theme (‘To Look for America’). Blue Devils, Blue Devils…. They ended up snatching first place. I honestly didn’t enjoy their show much, to me they didn’t sound particularly good, and I didn’t like the random vertical poles that were the main props in their show… They were just moved around and tilted, and I didn’t really understand why they were necessary… but apparently the judges did, so that’s that. The Cadets (their theme was ‘Side by Side’) colorguard had uniformed that were the exact colors of Taco Bell. Seriously. And they had these huge boxes that were their props… They just pushed the boxes around… no one, like, came out of them like I thought would happen. I guess it was kind of cool when they formed SXS (abbreviation of their show theme name). I really didn’t think they sounded good, either. The sound they produced somehow reminded me of unsanded wood. (Then again, my mind does make really strange connections… for instance, I think Robert Downey Jr. looks like ketchup, and Harry Styles looks like a can of tomato soup. Not that it’s a bad thing, I do like ketchup and… well, I actually don’t care much for tomato soup, but tomato soup isn’t a BAD thing, you know?) Santa Clara Vanguard did ‘Le Miserables’. I really liked their music. Their marching wasn’t really that memorable, they didn’t do many fancy formations or anything. But I did really like their music. Boston Crusaders! They were a VERY pleasant surprise. Them and the Cavaliers were my favorites (besides Blue Knights, cause my brother is in it, haha). Their show was so creative! There were many non-generic things that they did. For instance, they broke up into pairs and did really cool partner forms where, like, one would lay on the ground and put their feet on their partner’s back, and their knees would bend and their partner would lean back really far… things like that. There was a lead colorguard/character (she started off in the center of the field, looking all confused-like, then the whole corps came running out towards her, then they all fell down…and lay in the middle of the field… before they got up to proceed with their show. One really creative thing they did was the other colorguards made a staircase out of the poles of their flags, and the lead girl just walked up the staircase. My favorite part, though, was when the corps were sitting on the ground and they all took off their jackets and put them on the ground… then they got up and walked away, but when they left, you see that their jackets formed the word ‘RISE’, the name of their show. So, yeah, I REALLY liked the Boston Crusaders. The Troopers were a big surprise, though, their name and outfits looked generic and almost even pathetic… but theirs was the first show I REALLY enjoyed! I think they had some sort of a Native American theme to it… and I don’t really remember the highlights of the show, because I was blown away by the Boston Crusaders, who performed directly after the Troopers. My brother said he really liked Carolina Crown’s show, but I honestly don’t remember it that much. I know that they played part of ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’ by Richard Strauss (the triumphant song most usually identified with epic suspense) near the beginning. That’s all the critiquing I have. If I left one out, that means I felt they were generic and there’s nothing much to say about them. So how it ended up… poor Pioneers got dead last place, that’s the only reason why I know their name (I didn’t see their show). It was pretty suspenseful, as they announced from 22nd place (last place) up to 1st, and we were REALLY happy when the Troopers (I *think*) got 11th place, because that meant that the Blue Knights placed in the top ten! The Boston Crusaders got 10th place (which almost surprised me, the fact that they beat the Blue Knights, I just thought I thought the BK was better because I was biased) and the Blue Knights ended up with 9th place. The Cavaliers got 8th, which REALLY surprised me, cause I did think the Cavaliers were THAT much better… but I really really REALLY REALLY do hope that BK beats the Cavaliers at some point. Carolina Crown got 2nd, which left me very unsatisfied, because that meant the Blue Devils got away with first. Oh, whale. :/ I don’t really agree with that, but… all right, whatever. After the show, I helped pack up the Blue Knights merchandise. I rolled a huge seven-foot rack all the way down to where the trailers were… After rolling the rack into the Blue Knights trailer, I stood in the parking lot, in awe of my surroundings. I mean, there we were, right next to the trailers for Phantom Regiment, Bluecoats, Carolina Crown, the Cavaliers… It was especially cool how the Phantom Regiment trailer must have carried all the equipment for their 2008 World Championship-winning ‘SPARTACUS’, which, by the way, I cannot watch the closer of without being irrationably excited. I was going to get pictures of all the big name trailers, but, meh. Ya know. It’s all part of being in the staff for a drum corps. Next year, if my brother goes back to drum corps, no matter which one it is (I hope he can make a higher corps), I would really like to spend at least a week with them. Because if just one day could hold as much as it did… think about how much more there is in store!

'Beauty and a Beat' - SCHNEIDER STYLE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BXNXvTvV4&list=UUplkk3J5wrEl0TNrthHjq4Q&index=6 This. This. THIS. <3

March

I'm gonna post just to post. It's March.

Last Post of 2012!

Well, this is the last post of 2012. Great year... But 2013's gonna be BETTER! Right?? Hey, me when it's New Years Eve on 2013, comment on this post and tell me how it was. I'm gonna comment for New Year's Eve last year (if there's a post for it)... Till next year, much love -- Annasophie

MacGregor!

I just had the honor of meeting Mr. MacGregor Greenlee, who is AMAZINGLY AMAZING with films... and I really want to work with him someday, cause he's just that cool and I'm just that not-cool, so... yeah. :) PS--watch his films.

Stalking Myself... wait, whaa??

Is it wrong that whenever I read this blog I feel like I'm stalking someone?

Apologies and Letters

All right, guys, I'm sorry, I really haven't been posting much. I mean, there's nothing for me to post... or... no, there is, it's just not really worth posting if I don't get a reaction. I live off of reactions. So if I'm sitting here, talking to practically just a screen... I don't think that's a great use of my time... I mean, if someone listens to what I say, then that'd make me want to write more... see how that works? So, yep. Just a heads up: don't check every day, you'll get disappointed. And an apology to me in the past, me who was disappointed when everyone else started leaving their blogs... sorry. I know you loved this thing. But, I mean, it's yours. It was a phase in your life, when you really loved it and posted almost 24/7... that's just not really me anymore. But thanks. Cause without you, I'd never be who I am now. And everyone reading that just spent a little while listening to me talk... to... myself. Haha, wow. Cause it wasn't meant for you. Okay. Ummm... And to future me who is reading this: what, you're really that bored? XD Just kidding... feel free to look around. PS--the best posts are back in 2010 or so, just saying. :) But you know that.

'Call Your Girlfriend'--Lennon and Maisy Stella COVER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_aJHJdCHAo This is amazing... I just think that the little butter tin things are slightly distracting... but their voice are sooo beautiful... and perfect harmonizing...

Taylor!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0nai4FnvD8&feature=plcp Taylor Groothuis... wow, I didn't know she could sing like THIS!! At step up from 'This is Me'... Taylor and me, we friends now. :P

Max!

MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX SCHNEIDER!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8whCvGSGpY My favorite part is 3:06... HAHA Victoria must have been SO surprised. They did talk about this... And here's little kid Max. SO CUTE!!!! ThrowbackThursdays. :)

Taylor Groothuis!!

Let me tell you, it feels SO GOOD talking to a celebrity... Love ya, Taylor!

By the way, she's working with Dan Schneider on a new Nickelodeon show, 'Gibby', and let's just say, she's going to be so famous soon. She so inspiring because she's not afraid to live out her faith and she's suuuuch a great actress... :)

"I Like You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5H2q-Xfp4s

No explanations.
I LIKE (haha) this video.