Disney?

My sister Mimi and I have always dreamed of one day working for Disney making movies or doing something AWESOME! I love Disney with all my heart, my family and I even have annual passes this year.. that expire in April :(.After much thought and deliberation, one of my best friends Amber, and I have made the decision to apply to intern for the Disney College Program! It's a paid internship for 5 months, August-January, and we'd get into the parks for free! And we'd get to work for DISNEY! How awesome is that?! Well, both Amber and I have applied, got invited to take the web based interview, and now all that's left to do is to have a phone interview! Mine is tomorrow at 11:30. I'm kinda freaking out about this step! I haven't had to interview for a job since I worked for the symphony when I was 18! And to top it off, I've been fighting a cold/sickness thing, so my voice is not at it's best! Anyways, I hope we both get it. I mean, why wouldn't we? We're THE BEST! 

Any and all positive thoughts are welcome! :)

2012!

I have a feeling that 2012 is THE year.

I graduate school this year with my degree in sound design, I'm going to film school next. Who knows what's in store, but I feel that it's going to be awesome!

Well, of course it's going to be awesome...I started out my year off right by celebrating New Years at the most happiest place on earth!

And man was it happy making! :)

And packed. I've never seen so many people there before! I've been for New Years before too! There's seriously no crowd like a Disney crowd, though. Usually I get super claustrophobic, but I don't even notice it there!

The CD that we recorded in Salt Lake, Messiah in America, has debuted #1 in Billboard's Traditional Classical charts!! MCO starts recording a Christmas album towards the end of this month, get ready for awesome music this upcoming winter!!

I can't wait to see what this new year brings! :) :) :)

Wowza.

So, a few posts ago I made a list of all the things that I was going to do this summer..and I'm here to report that I have only completed TWO things!

-Finish LOST

and

-Get a "real" job . . . (well, it felt dang real to me!)

Okay, let me explain.

I finished LOST. And. It. Was. Awesome.

Okay, in early June I went to Utah.
I never thought I would love it as much as I did!! I especially loved Salt Lake City! I went with my EVMCO group combined with the OCMCO group (together we're Mormon Choral Organization of America MCO :P) and we recorded an album at Abravanel Hall and played two SOLD OUT concerts! One at the TABERNACLE and the other at Abravanel Hall!
I felt like I was in one big dream. All throughout my high school and jr. high existence all I wanted was to be in a DECENT orchestra...and no offense, jr. high and high school orchestras aren't the best...well at least at the schools that I went to. And two years after high school I'm in UTAH recording a CD and playing sold out performances with a PROFESSIONAL group!!!
I was elated. I thought that that would be the (only) highlight of my summer.

(Sorry I'm using all caps. Writing about all this is getting me all excited again. It STILL feels unreal to me.
I did that?!)

Oh, did I mention that I traveled to 8 different states with my fam? AND two dogs?! We're crazy, right? It was my favorite vacation! :)

THEN, at the end of June my sister, Mimi, got an awesome job filming/editing for The Mormon Bachelorette. A few days into her job, she finds out that they are in need of a sound person . . . and she just happened to have a sister studying audio production and her life goal is to work for film doing sound . . . so, I got the job.
At first I was terrified, I didn't know what to expect! But after my first day of shooting (their fifth day) I loved it! I work with the best crew anyone could ever ask for and with the best director (Luke Johnson) anyone could ever have! I've met so many awesome people and have done so many cool things! Like, go to the lake, go to an Alex Boye concert, go to fancy dances at fancy hotels, eat at so many different and cool restaurants, talk to people that I never would before (like John Bytheway!!)...there's so much more but it's way too much to write about, if you wanna see what I did, then just go watch the episodes yourself! ;) A few crew members and I have even started a website for Mobach! And I've even made that site cuter than my own blog! It has raked in more than 7,300 view in less than two months!! I have learned so much by doing Mobach this summer. And because I did Mobach, I was able to go to the beach in Cali to help film a commercial  for Propusganda . I've had the opportunity to help other Mobach crew members shoot short films!
This is the best summer that I've ever had. Ever. Period.

Now that school is back in session, my work life has cooled down considerably....kinda. I'm certainly not working 80 hour weeks anymore! Haha! I love my classes this semester, even though I have an extremely sexist teacher, I still love that class. He doesn't quite know my full potential yet, but I'll show him! ;) I just know that I am doing what I am supposed to be doing and it feels dang good to know that. :)

Sweet, Sweet Summer!

Thought of the Day:
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
- Mark Twain

After a long, tedious, and nightmarish semester, summer is finally here! And that makes for one, happy Brittany! I've learned a lot this semester, but the most important thing is (or one of the most important things) is to never, EVER, take an online class. Ugh. Just typing about it is making me want to hurl.
Anyways, this summer is going to be awesome.

On Friday, I am leaving for Utah for two weeks (keep in mind this is the FIRST state I've ever been to other than California). I'm pretty stoked. The EVMCO and OCMCO groups are going up to SLC to record "Messiah in America". We are also having a performance in the Salt Lake Tabernacle (tickets for it sold out in 20 minutes!!!) I am so excited and can't believe that I am a part of such an amazing group. My family and I will also go to Yellowstone!

In late July Mimi, Shelby, Amber, and I are going to the San Diego Comic-Con and Disney Land. This year will be a girls-only trip seeing as our two movie buddies are off serving their missions at the moment.

In between all the road trips I am making it a goal of mine to watch as many movies as I can and to read as many books that is humanly possible. To kick the summer off right, I've started re-reading the Harry Potter books. I've forgotten how funny those books are!

Oh, Summer of 2011...We're going to be best friends, I can already tell! :)

Two Weeks!

Thought of the Day:
"Every artist was first an amateur"
  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Attention everybody!! Summer is just two glorious weeks away!! Or just one week away if you have early finals :P I cannot wait. Oh to be free of my stupid online class! Maybe online classes are okay, but online HONORS classes are no bueno. Blech.

Anyways. As many of you know, my sister is amazing at pretty much everything she does. She is a photographer with such a good eye, she also makes dang good videos. Well, I was always super bored and sad whenever I went on photo shoots with her, so my wonderful parents got me a good digital camera to play around on. It's no Canon 7D, but it's a Canon with 12.1 MP! So, I can't complain :)

My sister was trying to explain to me a while back that if you are an artist in anyway, you've pretty much got the "eye" for another kind of art. Well, seeing that I'm a musician and all.. I like to think that she's right haha. I recently went to Disneyland with my little camera and came home with some pretty decent shots.

I'm not going to let any "haters" out there make me feel bad about me just getting into photography. I'm going to do what makes me happy. And right now, that's taking fun pictures and editing them. Once I've edited all of them, I really want to make a cool video with them. :)

 P.S. World of Color was amazing! I was totally not expecting something so awesome.

Six More Weeks!

Thought of the Day:

"We always strive after what is forbidden, and desired the things refused us."
   - Ovid

I've officially decided that I HATE Spring Break. I mean sure, it's great to be school free for a whole week...but going BACK to school is the worst! I've had a whole week of freedom, and it got taken away from me. What jerks. This week, my mantra shall be, "Six more weeks, Brittany. Six. More. Weeks."
Since I can't seem to get summer and freedom off of my mind, I've decided to make a list of what I'll be doing will all my free time in 6 weeks.

- Take random trips to the beach.

- Concert. It. UP! 

- Finish Lost. I've been on the end of the fourth season forever now!

- See every single movie out in theaters. I get free tickets, why not?

- Re-read all the HP books. Yes, I'm a Harry Potter nerd. Deal with it.

- Finish reading all the books I have checked out from the library.

- Get a "real job".

- SLEEEEEEP!!!

- Have a social life. My stupid online class and it's stupid Saturday night deadlines this semester is        seriously cramping on my social life.

- Practice my pianos and cellos. 

- Work a ton and make tons of money! Haha, like that's even possible at a movie theater. I guess my plasma donating job is going to have to stay for a while.

There's so much more that's on my list....This will have to do for now, though. ;)

20

Thought of the Day:

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

-Albert Einstein

What's that? You want to know 20 random facts about me? Ok!

1. I have recently got hooked on the show Lost. Actually, hooked isn't the right word...more like addicted to!
2. I love love LOVE my dog Boston.
3. Things I say always, without a doubt, come out wrong..so don't get offended.
4. Music...is kind of my thing.
5. So is procrastination. 
6. I am already running out of things to say.
7. I really hate online classes. But I kinda like the one I'm in now. Does that make me a hypocrite?
8. I hate hypocrisy.
9. I love the band Muse because they are all about rebellion against screwed up governments. But mainly because I love Matt Bellamy :)
10. I drop my phone multiple times a day.
11. I like to put my own words to songs and sing them while in a conversation instead of talking.
12. I secretly love watching "Teen Mom" and "16 and Pregnant". Don't hate.
13. I love watching movies.
14. My sister and I have dedicated accent days.
15. I believe George Orwell can tell the future. Read 1984.
16. I work at a movie theater, and it may or may not be because I get free tickets.
17. I'm in an electronic music class...and I really suck at writing songs. So far, my stuff sounds like a sucky, less cool version of the music on Tron.
18. I have the worst sleeping schedule. I'm a night owl and a forced early bird.
19. I love books. Especially books about rebellion...and hot guys. ;)
20. I can spend hours on YouTube watching Fail Blogs. They're just so funny!

Chivalry Is NOT Dead...It's Mostly Dead.

Thought of the Day:
"What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say"
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can tell this semester is going to be great. I am taking DAW II (I loved DAW I so much!), Electronic Music (I have to admit, I'm super nervous for this class...), my honors class Women In Film, and of course French 102. I have the perfect schedule, my classes are très amusante et intéressante....it's going to be a great semester :)

On another note, chivalry is not dead, it's mostly dead. I was at a "party" a few weeks ago with some friends, we were going to watch movies. The room was pretty full and all the chairs were taken by the time I got there. I know I've been watching Jane Austen films a lot lately, but correct me if I'm wrong.. aren't guys supposed to offer their seat to girls when there aren't any??? Well....I guess not, I got in the room and stood against the wall and made some awkward eye contact with "men" who knew what the polite thing to do was and guess what? They DIDN'T DO IT! Instead, I spent the night on hard floors with a lovely back ache to keep me company.

HOWEVER! Last weekend I was at a "party" and again, all the seats and couches were taken. My (female) friend comes into the room and sits on the floor but ONE nice young man stands up and offers her his seat. It was so happy-making that everyone in the room cheered applauded him for his chivalry.

Any and all good deeds done by ANYONE should be rewarded. Let's bring back politeness and chivalry!

Freedom!

Thought of The Day:

"There is time for everything"

  - Thomas A. Edison

School is finally over! Well, the semester is at least. So far, I know that I have two A's...let's hope all my hard work has paid off and my 4.0 GPA will not be ruined! How shall I reward myself for all my dedication to education? I've made a list.

1. Read, read, and read some more!
2. Catch up on Friday Night Lights.
3. Catch up on my REM sleep.
4. Get back into "workout mode".
5. Clean my room, and KEEP it clean.
6. Update myself on all the music blogs I follow.
7. Get better (I've had this nasty cold (?) thing since like September..)
8. Oh ya, maybe I'd better become social again! :)

The list can get pretty long, so I'll stop there.

I have learned so much this semester. I feel pretty awesome when working with DAW's..and heck of a lot better with technical stuff! I'm no longer super scared of recording consoles...well, maybe a I'm still a little scared. I feel pretty darn sexy when speaking français. Paris, here I come! Although psychology definitely isn't my thing, I really appreciate it (maybe not honors psychology!). Plus, without that class I would have never known that I have a INFJ personality!

Vampire-Zombie Apocalypse

Thought of the Day:

Warning: The contents of this blog may be considered violent/and or disturbing. Read at your own risk.

I have always been known to have crazy "Picasso" dreams, meaning they never make sense or are completely random, like one time it was the zombie apocalypse and I was able to save my friends and family from them..it was totally like Zombieland. Kinda. Usually, in my dreams I am able to fly... kinda. It's more like swimming, but in the air..? I can't really explain it, but if you get it..you've earned your gold wings and 25 house points for Gryffindor. ANYWAYS..The other night I had the CRAZIEST dream!
I was just flying around the city at night, no biggie, when I noticed some guys fighting in the alley. So, I went to check it out, and me being in a dream, I decided to help this one (attractive) guy fight off these 3 men...and we ended up killing them, no biggie. Me and the attractive man were talking and I learned that he was a vampire and we were battling some other vamps. He noticed that I got bit by one of the guys during the fight, and before I knew it... I was a VAMPIRE! (Ya, totally painless, unlike Stephanie Meyers' vamps!) Since I was a vampire, I had to run away from my family and live with this sexy vampire man, who became my new hot boyfriend :) Let's call him Jace (it may or may not have something to do with Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instrument series..).
Me and Jace were just chillin' in the room he was renting from this lady, when this said lady appeared in the room all creepy-like. Jace said 'She's a vampire, if we don't kill her, she will kill us!" She wasn't just a vampire, she was a ZOMBIE-VAMP! So he kills her, and we had to bash in her skull, otherwise she would just keep on "living". Jace and I thought it was really weird that our landlord turned all zombie-vamp on us, we've never seen that before!
We spent most of our time hanging out in his room. It was up on the upper level of the house and it was the highest room, so we were able to just walk out onto the roof from our window. I noticed there was a little boy waiting on the roof, looking in the window. I go over to talk to the boy and he starts trying to recruit me and Jace into his vampire team to fight off the "others", we thought he was talking gibberish and made him go away.
Later, my brother Alex came to visit us (so much for running away from my family), keep in mind that he still doesn't know that we are vamps. We were in our room, when I notice that there were like 10 zombie-vamps on the roof! Jace went out to "take care of them", I tried to distract Alex from seeing Jace go all "Sweeney Todd" on these people. But it was in vain, one of the zombie-vamps broke through our window, I told Alex to close his eyes and started to fight off this guy. Then another zombie-vamp came in and started to attack Alex, I told him that he could open his eyes and help me kill these guys! Don't worry, everything ended OK, the zombie-vamps had broken necks and bashed in skulls, Alex was alive. Of course, since he helped me I kinda had to tell him what we were, and all he said was "OK," he was strangely cool about it! Only in dreams, right? As we were talking, we discovered that Alex had a scratch/bite mark on his arm! Unfortunately, he turned into a vamp. But he was a good one, like us! And guess what? He was cool about it!
Alex, Jace and I just happened to be turned into normal vampires and we were ALL able to fly/swim in the air! The zombie-vamp population was increasing rapidly, and there were very little humans left. The streets were full of the zombie-vamps, just waiting to kill us. So we flew around town, attacking them from above.
We found a human shelter that promised safety from the zombie-vamps, so we decided to try it out. In order to be in the shelter, we had to pretend to be humans. Otherwise, the humans would kill us or leave us to the zombie-vamps! But there was a problem, upon entering the shelter it was mandatory that everyone get their blood tested to ensure that they were free of the zombie-vamp virus. They handed us needles to prick our fingers with, and were waiting in line to give them our BLOOD. Oh no! I started praying that we wouldn't be discovered (only I would pray in a dream...while I was a vampire, no less). It was time to give them our needles, and somehow they overlooked us! We were walking away from the table when I heard "Brittany!" I slowly turned around, bracing myself for the worst, and the nurse that called me said "you forgot your papers". Relief filled me, I grabbed the papers and made my way towards Jace and Alex.


After that I woke up. Who ever said that dreams only last a few seconds? If only I were able to finish that dream! Maybe, I'll write a book about it. Oh wait, somebody already wrote a book about vampires that she happened to dream of. Dang it.