so my former website, devinalexander.net, expired last week and though i may not blog quite that often i needed some sort of outlet so here i am finally using my tumblr. i don’t really have any intentions in renewing my hosting service or my domain. i’m not sure if i still have another year with my domain, but i’ll check. if i do, i’ll redirect it to here. anyways, i don’t understand why everybody is practically creaming over blogspot, it’s nothing special. i personally find it to have a rather unappealing appearance and difficult input methods and low integration options, but that’s my personal opinion.
i’m actually rather glad my website is gone, no more having to hassle with layouts and constantly update (which i never did anyways). i’ve had a tumblr for a while, i just never put it to use but now i am! life has been rather plain and simple lately. i have lame summer school and even though i get out rather early, it’s a pain in the ass to get up so early when my sister is practically still sleeping when i get home. i learned my lesson and i’ll definitely be making sure to do my work in classes from now on.
this weekend that just passed was rather interesting for me. my cousin, carlos, graduated out of high school on monday and we held a graduation party for him on friday night at my house. he invited some of his close friends and family from his mom’s side of the family and other family friends. it ended up being a great night with minimal drama and all ended well. everybody (but me) was drunk, but for the most part… no drama.
so i know most of you might not know, but me and my cousin carlos have a slight obsession with zooey deschanel and we’ve both been waiting for her new movie “(500) days of summer,” co-starring joseph gordan-levitt to release in theaters for months! well i happened to run across tickets to an advance screening in hillcrest on tuesday and i took him. we waited in line for an hour and a half before doors were to be opened and it payed off because we got in. these kind of things are always over booked just to ensure full capacity during the screening and it’s a first come, first served basis so you’re not guaranteed a seat but we got in and with good seats too! we ended up city next to two critics, one who worked for “city beat” and another who critiqued online. anyways, i liked the movie. it wasn’t one of those cliché chick flicks where they fall in love. i don’t want to ruin it, but go watch it. also, the soundtrack was amazing! i knew regina spektor’s lovely voice was going to be in there and then in the middle, leslie feist’s song “mushaboom” started playing! i was happy, go watch it. it released july seventeenth :]
speaking of regina spektor, her new cd released tomorrow and i’ve been waiting for this album as long as the movie! i feel bad, but as i’ve been writing this, i downloaded a leaked copy of the album and it’s amazing. i listened to it constantly for the few days it was uploaded on her myspace, but now it’s in my itunes library! i have every regina album ever released and they’re all so amazing.
today was interesting, i went to school and everything went as planned. i was scared because we were taking this humongous test on a book we were supposed to read last week, and i didn’t read any of it. i think i got to page six out of three-hundred-something. anyways, luckily that didn’t set my back too far and i now have a solid C instead of a B. big jump, but there’s not many assignments in the gradebook so it’s understandable. my teacher said if i do well this week (our last week of the session), i could bring it back to a B by the end of the session. i’m going to try my best. anyways, after school i went to the shopping center near our school to see if target or walmart had low-crop, no-show shoe liners because i bought new shoes from urban outfitters this weekend and i think they’d look odd with socks showing but i would never not wear socks so no-shows would work fine. i went to target first, since it’s closer to the bus stop, and unfortunately i couldn’t find anything of the sort for my size of feet so i was going to see if walmart had anything. as i was approaching the exit, i passed by hair dye and i had a sudden urge to want to dye my hair black. i took a while contemplating and i decided i’d see if walmart had the socks i needed and if not, i’d buy hair dye. as i was heading for the exit, i saw a middle-aged woman leaning up against a wall and crying. i asked if she was okay and needed anything and she bluntly yelled at me to fuck off and started yelling for security as though i was harassing her or something. it was really petty of her to do, especially since i was just trying to help. oh well, i left and walked across the shopping center to walmart. they didn’t have what i was looking for so i ended up buying hair dye but i’m not sure if i’m satisfied with the shade of black i chose. oh well, we’ll have to see.
i think this concludes today’s massive post. i’ll most likely be using this a lot since it has such a user-friendly interface. look out for small photography postings or more blogs. bye guys!
