OH MAN!!

Well for those of you who remember my 'Last Day' post, I mention my enrollment into a new school, St Marys Senior High.

During lunch time today one of my friends tells me that she had been accepted into the school which i had hoping to be aswell. I asked her how she knew that and she replies that her mother was at home and they had send the letter in the mail. this just got me all excited and nervous and anxious until i got home. Up to this point i had been pretty confident with my application. Sure i wasn't the best student in my school but i was up there. During our career interviews we had about our futures one of the teachers said that she thinks that i would get in for sure so there i was all smug. Also my sister had attended this school in the last 2 years and was a stand out student, so maybe that was going to help me. So after hearing the news about my friend i congradulate her and get back to playing back to playing basketball, to which i totally pwned :p.
The lessons during they day we totally awesome. We had a role play lesson in which me and my friends were the best in.lol. seriously we should make our own tv show or something were that good.

So i arrive home after school and my legs are absoloutely spent after sport. I could hardly walk. I take a peek into my mail box and its flooded with letters. This is where i start getting nervous. The first letter was some stupid bank one adressed to my Dad. I flick it to the bottom. Next was the same letter from the same stupid bank but this time adressed to my mother T_T. I then anxiously flick it to the back. Then low and behold, what ive been waiting for, a letter adressed to me. I start to get really nervous and think about what this means. The immense pressure coming from my family. I playback previous conversations, 'you ABSOLOUTELY MUST get into this school', and my friends, they had all applied and i wondered what would happen if they all got accepted and i was the only one left out. There i was, i wouldnt exactly say i had the worlds weight on my shoulders but it was pretty close. Too nervous I text message my friend first and tell him im about to open it. Out of hesitation i tear it open. I start reading. To my utter disbelief the letter read 'Unfortunately I must inform you....' as this point i knew that i had been unsucessful but refused to believe what had come. I kept reading in some hope that they had made a mistake some where. ' inform you that we are not in a position to offer you a 2009 place at this time'. My heart sank. It goes on to read about how there was such a quality of enrollments and that i should not let this affect me personally + i can send in some bull of a form so they can reconsider me if any spots open up. I ring my friend and tell him that i hadn't made it, my throat was all effed up. He tells me that he hadn't made it either. This was kinf of bitter sweet because i was sad for him that he hadn't made it but happy because we would probably be attending the same school now and keep being 'bros'. My other friend of 8 years, she has made it in, i feel happy for her. And another of my friends also female makes it in. Im starting to see a kind of trend forming here, but that was jsut an excuse i was making up. The more i thought about it the sadder and angrier i got. That sadness and anger soon turned to a slight depression.
Then not being able to log onto blog spot and vent my feelings made the anger come back!!! But then i jsut forgot about it. I thought to myself ' hey life goes on, this isnt the worst thing that has every happend to you'. Then i tought back to all the times i've really wanted something. Not material things like a little kid, but things that are important and i thoguht how many times have i actually been good enough to myself to reward myself with sucesss. One.... One times out of countless. This was the point where i thought to myself that i was digging my self a hole and that i was selling my self short. I could do so much better. I vowled to get 100% in my upcoming maths test to prove something to myself that i CAN do it. Being accepted into the school would of made my weekend. I was going to go out to the local festival with a very good friend of mine that i had actually never really med in person properly yet and she isnt messaging me back. Seems like a lonely weekend for me.

Yeah so have a good weekend. byee.

- Kevin

R.I.P Isaac Hayes

http://www.nme.com/news/isaac-hayes/38778
Isaac Hayes passed away yesterday (August 10) in Memphis after being found unconscious near a treadmill in his home. He was 65. Hayes was discovered by his wife, son and his wife's cousin who returned home from buying groceries to find him on the floor of a downstairs bedroom. After being taken to hospital, Hayes was pronounced dead. Born August 20, 1942, in Covington, TN, Isaac Hayes was orphaned as a baby and was brought up by his grandparents in a poor rural environment where the family raised their own food. At 21, Hayes joined the Stax Records family in Memphis and his first paid sessions were as a pianist with Otis Redding in 1964. Going on to work with Booker T And The MGs, The Bar-Kays and Rufus Thomas, Hayes performed as a session musician with a string of acts that created what became known as the Memphis Sound. His most famous collaboration proved to be 'Soul Man' which he co-wrote for Sam And Dave. The track had been inspired by the African-American Civil Rights Movement and specifically Hayes seeing coverage of the 12 Street Detroit Riot on television. He noted that African-American owned and operated institutions were marked with the word "soul" so that rioters did not destroy them. He co-wrote the track with his regular song-writing partner David Porter, as "a story about one's struggle to rise above his present conditions. It's almost a tune [where it's] kind of like boasting 'I'm a soul man'. It's a pride thing". Hayes' 1969 solo album 'Hot Buttered Soul' was groundbreaking. The record put him on the map thanks to his unique style, which introduced new music directions, from his rap-vocals to longer songs. It was his 1971 album 'Shaft' that shot Hayes to stardom. As the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, the album was the first record by a solo black artist to reach the top of both the R&B and Pop charts, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song and landing three Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe. The album stayed in the charts for 16 months. In addition to his music, Hayes forged a successful career as an actor, with roles in over 30 movies including 'Robin Hood: Men In Tights', 'It Could Happen To You' and 'Reindeer Games'. His TV career also flourished as the voice of Nickelodeon's 'Nick At Nite' and acting roles in 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air', 'Sliders', 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'Girlfriends'. In 1997 he landed the voice of Chef on animated TV show 'South Park', voicing the popular character from the show's inception until 2006. In character, he scored a UK Number single in 1999 with 'Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You)'. Hayes left the show acrimoniously after reportedly being unhappy with an episode which criticised his religion Scientology, with the star reportedly saying at the time "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins." However with Hayes suffering a stroke just before his departure from the show, there was some question whether he could have been capable of making such a statement, or the decision by himself. Inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, Hayes's music has been sampled in over 200 songs by the likes of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Destiny's Child, Tricky, Portishead and Notorious BIG. Hayes was married four times and had 12 children. He is survived by his wife Adjowa.


Whats going on? First Bernie Mac and now Isaac Hayes. A very sad week. I'll admit that i never knew who Isaac Hayes was but from what i hear he did accomplished great things in his life. Rest in peace Hayes.

- Kevin

Rest In Peace Bernie Mac

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxU6PJjRqPOON16dBrcLCWEHcIXgD92EQFBG0

CHICAGO (AP) — Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper "Ocean's Eleven" and gained a prestigious Peabody Award for his sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show," died Saturday at age 50.
"Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital," his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles.
She said no other details were available and asked that his family's privacy be respected.
The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.
Recently, Mac's brand of comedy caught him flack when he was heckled during a surprise appearance at a July fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate and fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama.
Toward the end of a 10-minute standup routine, Mac joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity, and used occasional crude language. The performance earned him a rebuke from Obama's campaign.
But despite controversy or difficulties, in his words, Mac was always a performer.
"Wherever I am, I have to play," he said in 2002. "I have to put on a good show."
Mac worked his way to Hollywood success from an impoverished upbringing on Chicago's South Side. He began doing standup as a child, and his film career started with a small role as a club doorman in the Damon Wayans comedy "Mo' Money" in 1992. In 1996, he appeared in the Spike Lee drama "Get on the Bus."
He was one of "The Original Kings of Comedy" in the 2000 documentary of that title that brought a new generation of black standup comedy stars to a wider audience.
Mac went on to star in the hugely popular "Ocean's Eleven" franchise with Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
His turn with Ashton Kutcher in 2005's "Guess Who" topped the box office. It was a comedy remake of the classic Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn drama "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" — with Mac as the black dad who's shocked that his daughter is marrying a white man.
Mac also had starring roles in "Bad Santa," "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "Transformers."
In the late 1990s, he had a recurring role in "Moesha," the UPN network comedy starring pop star Brandy.
The comedian drew critical and popular acclaim with his Fox television series "The Bernie Mac Show," which aired more than 100 episodes from 2001 to 2006.
The series about a man's adventures raising his sister's three children, won a Peabody Award in 2002. At the time, judges wrote they chose the sitcom for transcending "race and class while lifting viewers with laughter, compassion — and cool."
The show garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mac.
"But television handcuffs you, man," he said in a 2001 Associated Press interview. "Now everyone telling me what I CAN'T do, what I CAN say, what I SHOULD do, and asking, `Are blacks gonna be mad at you? Are whites gonna accept you?'"
He also was nominated for a Grammy award for best comedy album in 2001 along with his "The Original Kings of Comedy" co-stars, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric The Entertainer.
In 2007, Mac told David Letterman on CBS' "Late Show" that he planned to retire soon.
"I'm going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit," Mac told Letterman. "I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977."
Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on Oct. 5, 1957, in Chicago. He grew up on the city's South Side, living with his mother and grandparents. His grandfather was the deacon of a Baptist church.
In his 2004 memoir, "Maybe You Never Cry Again," Mac wrote about having a poor childhood — eating bologna for dinner — and a strict, no-nonsense upbringing.
"I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy," Mac told the AP in 2001. "I decided to try to make other people laugh when there wasn't a lot of things to laugh about."
Mac's mother died of cancer when he was 16. In his book, Mac said she was a support for him and told him he would surprise everyone when he grew up.
"Woman believed in me," he wrote. "She believed in me long before I believed."

I can't believe this, comes as such a surprise, such a funny guy, lived a great life, R.I.P Bernie :(

Olympics!11!!one!

So its been almost a month since my last post
reason being i actually forgot my password =\

anyway its the 8/8/08
and all i can say is... OLYMPICS MOFO
opening ceremony was the coolest thing ive ever seen
just when you think it cant get any better
BAM! something with an even more awesome value hits you
300 million dollars
thats how the chinese roll
and it was worth every cent, china rocks y0

yeah so this is going to be a relatively short post
ive been listening to oldd songs lately
'just my imagination - the temptations'
pretty good
and a random joke i made up to finish

'why is garfield orange?'
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'because he drinks too much orange juice'
bwhaha =D