In James Franco's Car

Dream Installment #2: In James Franco's Car

I'm back at dance rehearsal in the Vashon Island High School Theatre.  My dad and our family friend Doh swing by and we start walking down the highway in search of mushrooms and booze. As we walk down the road in the hot sun, a small, rickety, clown-like car pulls up with James Franco in the driver's seat. "Hey, do you guys wanna ride?" Somehow we all pile in, Dad and Doh in the back seat, myself and some cute boy sitting on my lap in shotgun. "Hey, I'm headed down to Portland to get some good weed. Is that chill?" asks Franco. My Dad and Doh are already lighting up in the back seat, and despite my requests to get back to dance rehearsal, we're on our way to Portland.

After a couple seconds in the car, we're all drunk and high. Without warning, the boy in my lap opens the door and begins to vomit. Rubbing his back as he pukes, I whisper sweet, comforting nothings into his ear. He sits back up and I hug him close. The door shuts. "That was really impressive. You didn't get any vomit on the car. Good Job." I say. James Franco turns to me, furious, "How could you puke in my car? You couldn't even tell me to pull over?" he yells. "No sorry, that was me," says the cute boy on my lap. He saved my from the wrath of James Franco.

After a while of driving, we arrive at a truck stop. A woman comes out from the camping shelter, sees the car and begins to yell at James Franco. "How could you just leave me in charge of this stupid, ramshackle shit hole of a truck stop?! James, you think I give a shit about your truck stop? And you brought friends? I hope you guys don't trust him. He's a piece of shit boss!" We see her room, a beautifully sparse meditative room. Then we all pile back in the car, Franco's friend too, and head back to Vashon.

Before It Happens Again! (Part 1)

So, the Winter Concert is going to happen next weekend. Maia and Dad are coming which is really exciting! Now, I would say 100% of my followers have seen me dance before, but for the billions of viewers who don't follow this blog, and haven't seen me dance, here is a little re-cap. Now, I don't feel bad posting a bunch of pics of just myself in the same way I would on facebook.  These pictures are from last Spring Concert, and I'm going to point out some themes:

This little sequence is one I'd like to call "Simone Falls Down for a lot of the Piece":

Center stage. 

(click on these to see the fun things my face does)

 (soo uncomfortable)

You guys keep dancing, I'm good down here.

Now here are two great action shots where you can tell I'm really trying to get some place:

What grace.

So, hold on tight, because there's a Part 2 (which is my personal favorite), and Part 3 (which is my least favorite, but obviously still really good.) And I just had a GREAT idea, which is, to do a true flashback series from some past dance performances... here's a sneak preview (but not THAT sneaky because it's also on facebook):

Some Music From Dad

As promised, here is a sampling of some of the music my dad has sent me:

Before I received the most recent mix-cd in the mail, my dad sent me this video and a link to some live Coco Rosie.

Scott Dunbar in two different videos. If you guys didn’t already know this, I love the accordion.





Now, I’m a sucker for good beatboxing.
Here’s one my dad sent me:



Sometime last year when I told my dad that I was into Die Antwoord, he responded with these videos of South African dubstep. Here’s the first one from that page. It’s about a widow mourning the death of her husband and trying to bring him back to life:


SPOEK MATHAMBO - WAR ON WORDS from spoek mathambo on Vimeo.

I’m not that into the second song. The third video is the artist talking about some Nike shoes that he’s advertising and his music. Just kinda a fun video.

Finally, a Reggie Watts video that has a Seattle dace crew in the background:

LOOSEWORLD x Waverly Films: Reggie Watts in F_CK SH_T STACK from LOOSEWORLD on Vimeo.

The Wonderful Things My Dad Sends Me

Here are a couple things my dad has sent me. Mostly old stuff, but enjoyable none the less. I'm going to leave out the music stuff he sends. I'll do another post for that (gotta keep things organized, ya know?)

Demon Cat:



Really old Reddit thing:

Mini horror movie my Dad titled "Creepy Kids":


Helping Johnny Remember from ashleigh nankivell on Vimeo.

A little something he titled "Stoner Light Video":


ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo.

Weird Star Trek video... It gets the weirdest at the end.



Star Wars remake that uses clips and soundtracks people send in, pasted together, to re-tell the movie. It's fairly strange.


Star Wars Uncut "The Escape" from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.

ok... that's all for now. I'm going to exclude a couple things that are particularly weird. But seriously, my dad's up on his internet so I figured I share some of the gems he has sent me over the last couple years.

Captain's Log

Captain's Log
11:30pm
L17: The Dungeon


Recent Activity:
-Tweeting #twitter
-Dropping a class #slacker
-Avoiding a paper #slacker
-Avoiding the reading #slacker
-Looking at pictures of food I've taken #reallyhungry
-Looking at pictures of Hawaii #SPRINGBREAK2010
-Fantasizing about Hawaii #SPRINGBREAK2011
-Thinking about Twitter and how awesome it is #twitter
-Thinking about basketball #sports
-Thinking about The Blazers #underdogs
-Thinking about The Lakers #kobe
-Food
-Food
-Food

-I've been wanting a kitty! Really bad. And I have an ever-growing appreciation for dogs
-I'm currently procrastinating
-I made really cool shorts out of sweatpants today... I think I'll  take a picture of them as soon as I get home and post it. They're really goofy. Only a gross boy would wear them. And me.



















Missions (without code):


-Don't drop out
-Stay positive
-Eat ASAP (I WANT MAC AND CHEESE!!!!)
-Do my reading
-Stop thinking about Hawaii
-Stop driving like a testosterone-filled gotta-prove-how-badass-i-am dude when driving alone.
-Finish that paper that was due yesterday
-Clean my room
-Buy more conditioner
-Make a playlist that is half a third as hip as the mixes my dad sent me
-Finish the role of b&w i have in my camera and get it developed
-Put some pictures on Facebook
-Tweet often

Family- Mom and Dad

Fig.1 Dad and me in a hammok. I was just a month or two old. I obviously don't remember it, but later in life we had two hammocks next to each other and I would read in one and he would read in the other- treasured memories.

Fig. 2 Typical....

Fig. 3 I hope to one day have a successful marriage like theirs.

Fig. 4 My Mom is a stickler about getting her picture taken. This is one of the few that I feel like she would really like. I love it. It's possibly the most precious picture I have. I am missing my Mom right now. Don't know why. Probably because she's my best friend.