words coming soon...on the phone now

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New Goal: to make a delicious pizza...true italian-style

don't you just love this video?

they guy just looks so...so...Italian! I mean, can you believe he made that fist-sized ball of dough into that gigantore round pizza crust? and the way he handles it--hardly looking at it, throwing it around with ease, while continually ducking down to peek at the camera lense and make sure it's still watching him, catching every step, so concerned that everyone sees what is going on--"you see? you see what i did there? did you see that?".

it's just so endearing and makes you think hmmm, i think i'm going to try to make a pizza today. yes, that sounds about right doesn' it? myesss..." as you muse about your future pizza making.

anyways, that's my little bit for the day

hope y'all are doin well wherever y'ar!

love,

~Lili

p.s. did any of you ever realize that the colors of the Italian flag are the same as the main ingredients of the basic topping to a pizza: tomoto sauce, mozzarrella, and bazil? cool, huh?

Magic

have you ever thought about what it would be like to carry magic around with you everywhere you went?
well, if you ever meet or see Imogen Heap in concert, you will immediately know that this women carries a head of incredible magic and ingenuity on top of her sholders.And sitting in the crowd, listening to her joke and ramble and SING and create music while you're watching you get a little glimpse of it, her magic spreads to you and you absorb it--magical bubbles filling your entire body, bursting here and there and showering an array of mindblowing magic! And that my friend, is the only way i can explain it.*

seriously. she's doing this thing where in each city she gives a concert in, she's creating a song, just for that city RIGHT there, RIGHT then, along with the crowd. so she asks the crowd what key they want and we all shout out what we want. Las Angeles's happened to be E. Flat or sharp? we chose flat. then you figure out if you want her to play in minor, major, natural whatever, we decided minor. Then, you even decide the speed, and we chosde 4/4. And just like that, she starts making a song, already knowing what sound each of those will make. So she walks over to one side of the stage, and creates sounds with a plethora of instruments that i've never even heard of, and intwining those sounds with her own vocals, recording those sounds and overlapping them with MORE vocals and more. Then she walks over to her piano and sings and plays at the same time. And Voilla! L.A. has their very own imogen heap concert, which you can all download on her website for 1 dollar. All of the proceeds from this song will be sent to the Tree People organization, which is a local charity.

In the beginning of the show, Imogen Heap introduced these two people, a man and a women, BRITISH (with british accents and everything), who she said had worked with her and inspired her a bunch while she was composing her latest albums. Primarily, they were both violinists, but besides this, they were MUCH more. They called themselves Geese, and they did kind of very similar things to what Imogen does accept only instrumental. So they would play their li'l violins for a while, then record that noise, overlap it with another violin melody, record that, then sing into the little 'f' shapes in the violins, in which there must have been microphones because this beautiful harmony would be emitted. Every once in a while, the woman of the group would walk over to her little set of chimes and computer and compound sounds from them, too.

After the performance, Jessie, Marissa, Matt, and I were fortunate enough to actually meet these brilliant people, and they were soooo......so chill i swear! We all got onto the topic of saying that we absolutely loved all of their Bri'ish accents and they replied that, actually, we were the ones with thte accents and that British people are always trying to copy the American accents they see in Hollywood all the time (you know by saying like, that's totally this and totally that). Which promptly got us onto the subject of what were common slang words in England. Apparently, Posh Spice is really not posh (shhh it's a secret) and if you ever hear her say "that's totally MAJOR"...she just made that up--that's not a commonly heard phrase in England. But apparently "bullocks" is. Get this, her deffinition for how to use the word "bullocks" is when you are trying to say something is rubbish. I mean, just like that, without even realizing what she was saying, she descibed somethign as rubbish! BUT, here's the catch--if you say something is "the rubbish," of "dog's rubbish," you're actually saying that that thing is totally awesome. ("dog's rubbish" being the higher exclamation above just "the rubbish") Somewhat like exclaiming "shit!" when you're upset, or "this is the shit!" when you think it's really cool. Also, saying that something is "well-good" is similar to saying that the subject in question is the "dog's rubbish."

this is us with them! you can't tell but she had really cool shoes.

from the left: Marissa, Matt, Geese-man, Geese-woman, Jessie, and Me:)

And, as Forrest Gump would put it, "that's all i've got to say about that, folks"

does anyone else know any fun slang words in any other language? If so please speak now and share it or forever hold your peace.

I love you all!

~Lili

does anyone know another word for magic?

Imogen Heap

Today, i am going to an Imogen Heap Concert at the Greek Theater with my friends Marissa, Jessie, and Matt! I am SO excited it should be a joke! i've been to two other concerts before, but this is the first one that i actually really like the person i'm seeing. (the first time i went with a cousin who had gotten free tickets to a KROCk concert of people i didn't even know; the second i went with my friend to see her favorite band because the tickets were only 10 bucks.) Those were fun and all but not like this.

Below, i've copied the URL for her newest album Ellips. Listen and then buy. You won't regret it! Will i see anyone there?

hello my lovely readers (if there are any of the scant few of you left)

it is I, Lili, the long-lost writer of this lonesome little blog which i am sorry to say that I have abandoned for the past, what is it, one, two, daren't i say THREE whole months?

i could try to explain my absence to the exams of the three horrible AP classes that I took this year, or the looooong SAT tests i had to endure, or the millions of finals i've had to take, or even the apparent falling apart of my large loving family I used to have, but nay I'll restrain. those are just a long list of excuses, and once you fall into using those lovely buggers your whole life can become one terrible excuse after another.

So what have I been doing with my life as of yet? (i'll imagine you ask) well, i'll tell you my friends.

On the very last day of school, i found out that the ministry director at my school, the great Mr. McG. is leaving to become the vice principle of another school--his alma mater in fact. This really hit me hard. I had been so looking forward to getting to know him better next year especially in his famous (at my school) senior religion class. Also, when Tim, the youth minister at my school, left LAST year, I lost a lot of my, like spiritual and inspirational guidance, i think are the words i'm looking for. But you see, i still had McG at my school to keep me encouraged and inspired to emmerce myself in expanding my spiritual self and doing good for the world. And now, he's leaving too. So it's like, all these people who i had held so high in my life are leaving, and i'm so scared that i'm gonna lose whatever i had left.

I'm sure many of you think, after reading a bunch of my posts, that i'm one of those annoying, whiney teens who think that the world is this hellish place or something. But i assure you this is not the case. In fact, I am awed every day with the beauty of the world. Just think: where we could have only one flat monatonous terrain, we have hills and valleys and lakes and oceans. Where we could have been given a plain brown sky, we instead have one that come in all different hues of blue dotted here and there with white fluffy clouds, all reflecting the color of the water. Not only that, but this sky even changes COLORS! We have a sun AND a moon, AND stars, trees and flours, dirt and rocks and bugs and animals and friends and families. I mean really, can you think of anything more to ask for? my gosh!

So anyway, rather than choosing to wallow in my own grief over this feeling of loss of outside guidance, after talking with one of my best friends Emily, (although, to give myself some credit, too, this thought had already crossed my mind but was set in stone after talking with her), i've realized that this now means that I must draw from within myself my OWN inspiration. my own knowledge and crazy thoughts. So, this summer, i am rounding myself in all aspects:

I'm becoming more responsible: i brush and floss my teeth twice a day, I'm excercizing and eating healthy WOOHOO! and i'm not gonna let myself get bored or lazy.

And i'm reading. like a ton. I've already read one book that was just a little silly adventure/romance book, that i really liked, and now i'm moving on to more knowledge and thought provoking books. Right now, i am reading Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and i've gotta tell you, i'm absolutely LOVING every page, everu word of it.

I'm sure most of you have already heard of this book, especially now that it's being turned into a move and especially because it has the famous Julia Roberts and James Franco in it, but i had no idea. I was just on this website, looking for a book, and a picture of EPL's front cover popped up, and, after reading a short summary of it, i thought that it was interesting and bought it. It was only after, when i was talking about recieving it with my friend Marissa that i learned of its fame.

I've become more responsible in terms of this book, too: i already knew that i REALLY want to expand my vocabulary, so i've been good and i read this book with a dictionary and a bunch of note cards. on the cards, i write words that i've never known or that pop out at me even if i do know them but want to start using them. Words like diaphonous (transparent or translucent), kalos kai agathos (Greek for singular balance of the good and the beautiful) and schizo. I've also made a list of some of the people she mentions that I would like to learn more about, like Katharine Hepburn and Boccaccio and Bono and Eleanor Roosevelt, as well as some of the food that i want to try to make like Pasta alla Carbonera with sauteed spinach and garlic. It's made the reading go a lot slower but it's worth it, trust me.

Man, i have SO much more to say, but this post is already humoungously long, so i won't keep you. and i'll write the rest later.

Au revoire!

~Lili

Just a Happy Picture...

looking through photos because I don't want to study for my A.P.s :) don't judge me haha.

this is one that i came across and really loved:http://weheartit.com

i think that i will never cease to be awed by the rays of the sun

Lovely Recipe

Warning: Prepare to be overloaded with pictures.















One of my favorite things to do....well pretty much my absolute favorite thing to do, is bake. There's something about it that is so zen that I just can't get over. One thing that I love making, and in fact make practically every week is banana bread. (actually i think i make it so much that my family is now bored of it). I've tried a bunch of recipes, and I think I've come up with a favorite. Actually. I've had it the whole time and I just keep coming back to it.
So, I've decided to depart the recipe with you all.




The recipe's really easy and the result is more than satisfactory; the bread is a lot different than any other banana bread i've ever had, partly because the color is a lot lighter and it's just a bit sweeter i think. Anywho, you'll soon see for yourself!

Banana Nut Bread:
Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tbsp. shortening
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup milk
• 3 cups flour
• 3 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. salt
• 3/4 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 35o degrees.
2. Grease a loaf pan 9 by 5 by 3.
3. mix sugar, shortening, and egg thoroughly.
4. Stir in milk.
5. Measure flour and blend dry ingredients; stir in.
6. Add bananas and stir in nuts.
7. Pour into pan; bake 60 to 70 minutes or until toothpick stuck into center comes out clean. (crack in top of loaf is characteristic.)
8. Cool thoroughly before slicing with a thin, sharp knife.

Enjoy!

The Cookbook is this really old Betty Crocker edition that belonged to my great grandmother. It's really neat because it's one of the if not THE first edition that contains color pictures. So the whole book is scattered with pages of pictures here and there, and they are all those black an white pictures which were given color after they were taken so they have this nice, old, vintage-y feel to them.
Here. I'll show you a picture:


It was really funny taking all of these pictures because I was near a window that faces into my neighbor's kitchen, and I could just imagine them watching me and wondering what the heck i was doing moving around a loaf of bread and a cookbook and taking pictures of them every few seconds. HA!