Road Trip Diary, Pt. 1

I'm all packed and leaving! I'll miss you all. But although the trip is to Savannah, I think my favorite part may just be Nashville. After spending my whole life utterly despising country music, I'm starting to like it. Just not mainstream. *Shudders* I still despise Carrie Underwood and Gretchen Wilson and Taylor Swift and all of them. But some of the alt- and indie country is pretty decent. Plus I'm a sucker for Johnny Cash and also bluegrass.

Mini-rant over, I will be purchasing as many Elvis bobbleheads/magnets/keychains/anything as I can find and handing them out as souveniers. My dream is to find a singing cactus, possibly in a snowglobe, but that's unlikely, seeing as I'm not going to Texas.

That reminds me, my next trip will totally be to Austin, possibly to see SXSW. Anyone want to come with me? (this offer is obviously open only to those who actually know me, not random internet creepers/blogstalkers)

Also, the reason Corey hasn't posted in so long is because she is in Argentina! She called me today and said that everything was find a dandy and I am trying to encourage her to post.

But yeah. Peace out, yo!

Summer Driving!

Summer is here! And Corey got her license! So yeah, total amazingness here. But there is one problem with driving with Corey: her sister.
As much as I love her, riding with the little girl is so annoying. When Corey is about 100 ft from a stoplight, going about 40 mph, Casey starts screaming her head off "Corey, stop! Corey, oh my God, stop!"
Like she doesn't see her slowing down. Like she'll just drive right through the four or so cars ahead of us.

Anyway, that was on my mind. But in more exciting news, I am going on a road trip! Road trips are exciting, but also very expensive, I am learning. More news to come later. I may even do on the road posts!

Sun

So yeah. I haven't posted in a long time, as Corey reminds me every day. But since then, I have learned a valuable lesson.

When you're nearly half Irish, don't let the anyone convince you that it's okay to go lay in the sun for two hours with no sunscreen. Because right now my skin is bright red. And in pain. And the lotion I put on it smells really bad.

And the moral of this story? I burn. Really badly.

Just thought I would share that insight with you.

Also, I was going to post a picture of a lobster on here, just to show how red I am, but then I realized how hideous lobsters are and how I don't want to see one every time I log on. So instead...
Nice, right?

Because We Need Some Incentive To Get Jake to Our Blog

Jake thinks he has a sense of humor.

Just kidding. I think it's funny and kind of cute. And plus Jake has not visited our blog yet. Maybe he will now that he thinks he has contributed.



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Two Epic Stories From My Day

So... I got a few stories to tell.

Today, I took my license test. And GUESS WHO PASSED?????

The kid before me. I ran a stop sign which I guess is an automatic fail. It's really not my fault though. They should make better stop signs in Chaska. Haha. The examiner was really cool about it though. He was kind of laughing at me though. He was like "Did you even see that stop sign back there?" And I'm like "What stop sign?" And the stupid part about this was that it was a railroad crosswalk. EPIC FAIL.

I also knocked over a cone while parallel parking. I should just not be allowed to drive heavy machinery. EVER! Maybe it's good he failed me. I'd be like a complete menace to society.

The second story was told to me by my friend Sarah who is really cool.

So anyway, her sister's friend's brother's friend (this is starting to sound made up, i know), well, he found a glass bottle and labeled it "My Soul." Then he sold it on E-bay for $15.

I must say now that whoever this sister's friend's brother's friend is, he is officially my hero.

Who would even by it? That is such a horrible thing to sell/buy. And for $15. What a gyp.

Okay, so let me end with a question. If you bought a $15 jar labeled "My Soul," what would YOU do with it?

Public Safety Warning.

Yeah. Don't do any of the these things.

You will get electrocuted and probably die.

Check out more awesome drawings at such at this dudes blog.

Cool Indie Band that YOU should check out.

Yeah, shameless plug.

Anyway... Dendrophobia.
Check them out at Myspace or Facebook.

Tell Your Friends.

Artwork by Melissa Geise

Facial Hair Obession Taken So Much Further

Actually, we don't really have an obsession with facial hair. That would be weird. I think facial hair is a slightly weird looking actually. Why would you want hair around your lips? That just sounds so unpleasant.

Anyway. Cool Clip. From the good old days when game shows used to be cool.



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Salvador Dali is sooo my idol. (I think the result of this video though is mostly because of his English skills or lack thereof.)

Check out some of his art here and prepare to be awestruck. And slightly weirded out.

Surreal.

We Really Like English

So this is why we like English class so much. Since we're in the advanced class (ooh, pretentious), we have a lot of in-class discussions. This is the absolute best way to spend them. Also, just so you know, any good drawing is Corey's. I think I drew the beard and the hand, though. You can probably figure out whose handwriting is whose.

JOAQUIN, R Pattz, and The Incredible Stench

So first of all, you kind of have too know how insanely bored we get. And when we get bored, we like to surf the interwebs. While I tend to just do my dailys, Corey surfs all over the tubes, and finds the strangest things.

Also, we've never been huge fans of Twilight. Harry Potter, yes, but not for too long. So you can imagine my surprise in finding that the OST to the Twilight was actually, well, pretty decent. Especially the two songs by R Pattz (if y'all didn't know, that's the name they use for Robert Pattinson on the Twilight forums, which my sister frequents).

This is all just build-up to this story we created. I'm just gonna post it in the form it is on Facebook, cause I'm lazy.

Corey - http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/05/poets-ranked-by-beard-weight.html

speaking of pedophile beards...

Em - Were we really talking about pedophile beards? I think it is amazing that one of them is named Joaquin and looks like Joaquin Phoenix.

Corey - haha. do you still have the picture? maybe i have it. well, whatever.
that was beautiful. is joaquin phoenix the dude who plays johnny cash in walk the line?

Em - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajourneyroundmyskull/3495469649/sizes/o/
http://images.starpulse.com/news/media/Joaquin-Phoenix-beard-1.jpg
See, the resemblance is uncanny.

Em - haha. it looks so dirty. like if rob pattison had a beard that is EXACTLY what it would look like.
seriously though, is joaquin phoenix the dude in walk the line?

haha.
i just looked it up on imdb. he is. haha. great job casting that one guys.

Em - Well he wasn't a creepy rapper back then, just a generally creepy guy.
I think it would be amazing if R Pattz (Yes, I'm using the twilighter name, but it's easier to type. Stop judging me.) teamed up with JOAQUIN (His name deserves full caps.) and made an album where he croons sweetly and JOAQUIN just mumbles incoherently, like the hobo he is.

Corey - that would be epic. they could make a band like she & him. except for not as excellent. they could call it two hobos with guitars or something along those lines. haha.

Em - And Reese Witherspoon and Kristen Stewart can walk in, all confused. Then they'll try to join in singing, but will be so repelled by the stench wafting from JOAQUIN, they'll have to leave.

Corey - and R Pattz as well because he like never showers. Together their scent will combine and create super smell.
it'll be vile.

Em - And then their scent will grow a matching beard and try for a hip-hop career, only to find out that it's creepy and no one likes it.

Corey - and then they'll get shot. seeing as they're two smelly white guys trying to perform hip-hop.

Emily - But the stench will repel bullets, forcing them to record two more painfully bad albums. Finally, someone will get the idea to spray them with a hose. This will only cause the stench to break the tether binding it to the two and it will go off to wreak havoc on it's own.

Corey - like the blob. except for more intangible. and deadly.

Now you get a brief glance inside our minds. Keep checking back for more fascinating stories.

Yellow Rocketship... well that's strange.

Greetings.

This is our geek blog. It's not actually a blog about geeks though. But it is made by geeks for geeks. And for ordinary people too. Heck, it can even be for you cool cats out there.

Obviously, there is a story behind the name. Yellow Rocketship. You're probably thinking "what an effed up thing to call a website!" Well if you knew the story, you wouldn't think it so effed up anymore.

Here is the story: When I was in fifth grade, my mom's boyfriend got this huge rocketship from this creepy amusement park from the sixties. Honestly, it was pretty much the most screwed up thing I've ever seen in my life. It had a video that went with it of Buck Rogers. Or some other space dude.

Oh well, so for about a few weeks it was in front of my house, which is pretty much in the middle of suburbia. (Yes, I have that kind of upbringing.) Then it was moved to my friends house for a while. Then we sold it. To Buck Rogers.

Just kidding. Buck Rogers is fictional. Sorry to burst your bubble there. But the memories will always last forever and we are here to honor the memory of all the wacky, weird, and awe-inspiring things in life. Or on the internet at least.

And with that being said, I hope you become a fan of the Yellow Rocketship.