Wrath of the Teenage Girls

The 2009 movie Avatar was both a revolutionary movie in terms of CGI capability and a box-office success like no other. Director James Cameron (of Titanic and Terminator fame) first developed the story in 1994 by writing an 80-page screenplay for it, with hopes of a 1999 release, directly following Titanic (1997). However, he did not feel that the technology at the time was advanced enough to fully convey his vision of the film. After fifteen years, his movie was finally released, raking in $24 million domestically in the first weekend alone, and $242 million worldwide, making it the highest-selling movie in history. One month later, though, Dear John topped it with $36 million. Thank you, teenage girls of the world, for totally destroying James Cameron's dream.

(P.S.: If you didn't catch that Avatar was just complete propaganda against the U.S. involvement in the Middle East, watch it again. It's completely true.)

Today was Mads Fest in Howard County. All the madrigals from all over the county come together in a competition/festival thing. Three songs per group, short clinic thing by guest adjudicator from Towson University, repeat. Not too bad, though. Saw some great performances. Got to see my friends from other schools perform. Got to miss school.

I get to miss school Thursday and Friday, too. Thursday, I have a field trip to D.C. to the Capitol. We take a tour (yawn) then we get to see the House and Senate in session. Pretty cool. Again, I get to miss school. I'll take it any day. On Friday, we're performing at some clinic in Baltimore for music teachers across the state of Maryland. My director is amazing and has some connections, so he's pretty much showing off, saying, "If you do what I do, this is what you'll get." From there, we walk over to the hotel for All-State. 26 people from my school made it, so it should be a fun weekend.

I just found out today that ice skater Evan Lysacek and gymnast Nastia Liukin are dating. Which means Lysacek isn't gay. Woah.