YouTube Addiction

K, I am currently addicted to certain YouTube videos and I figured I should share my guilty pleasures. Enjoy?

In case you somehow missed it, Sarah Silverman's "I'm Fucking Matt Damon."

Amanda's acting reel from Ugly Betty.

Amanda busting out "Milkshake" in church on Ugly Betty.

Okay, last Ugly Betty clip! Amanda and Mark getting drunk and singing Dreamgirls. Yes, I love me some Amanda on UB!

I just got into 30 Rock and am totally addicted to it at the moment...here is Tina Fey being "crazy" while studying abroad in Germany.

K, this is the gayest song ever, but Thalia's Seduccion is the shit!

And always a classic, Robin Sparkles' awesome '80's music video from How I Met Your Mother!

Photo Update!

So I FINALLY uploaded Mexico pics....check 'em out here!

More Rent news, woot!

So originally Eduardo and I were going to meet up with my family in a resort in Los Cabos in May, but that isn't working out as planned. So I think we are going to meet up in Scottsdale, AZ, instead (yes, random). Anyway, I randomly looked up the theatre schedule there for when we would be there....and fake Rent is going to be there EXACTLY when we are there! Coincidence?! Methinks no!

Also, rumor is that the REAL Rent tour with Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp will be in Portland June, 2009. Let's hope so, woot!

Movies in Mexico rooooooooooooock

So movies in Mexico are amazing for two reasons! One is that their nachos are the shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit! I usually don’t buy food at the movies ‘cause it is a rip-off and blah, but I have to make a fatty exception here, because they have nachos that are the same as trashy American nachos, BUT they have bowls of jalapenos, onions and tomatoes to put on top of them! It is self-serve, so you had better believe I put like ten pounds of condiments on top. It is fucking goooooooooood and I am gonna have to bring like chopped up veggies in a bag when I go back to the States, haha.

The other reason is because they have “VIP” screens, which means that you pay twice as much for a normal ticket (but only ten bucks), and it is all exclusive and stuff! There aren’t nearly as many chairs, which means less annoying people, AND the chairs are huge comfy leather recliners! They come in pairs, separated by tables between, meaning you and your boy/girlfriend can sit together and not be next too close to other people. Also you get a waitress that will take your order and bring you your food! It is the shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit and the US should totally have it, although it would be like 20 bucks.

So yes, movies here rock! What doesn’t rock, however, is the shitty movie Vantage Point, which we saw last night and didn’t enjoy at all. Boooo!

Rent lives on!

So, Rent is closing on Broadway June 1st (unless they extend through the summer). Either way, Eduardo and I probably won't be able to see it again before it closes, which is not acceptable! However, there is this good news, which means we can at least see it somewhere in the States one last time, woot! I need to see it again knowing it is my last time seeing it for real (before a bunch of high school and shit put it on, ewww!).

Take that, Obama bitches!

Hahahaha.

Scary!!!

So I decided to apply to Berlitz, the language school that Eduardo, Jorge and others work at, because Jeff be po and need some money up in hea! Anyway, I sent my resume in, and now I have a “language test” on Wednesday. Um, are they going to test my English?! ‘Cause I do not have much confidence in that at all! It is bad enough that Eduardo offered better English advice on my resume than I could muster. I am currently speaking some hybrid of Jenglish/Spanglish/crappy English that doesn’t make any sense to anyone but me. Not a good sign! This will be really depressing if I fail a damn English test. Pray for me!

Wow

This article is depressing.

I want a Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

I want a Wii, god dammit! K, I admit I am the most ADD person with a video game system and want it for a long time, then forget about it like two months later, but it looks so fun!!!! Plus hello, I can avoid joining a gym since I will obviously get a HUGE workout by moving the controller all over the place! Hehe. But yeah, I want one. They are relatively easy to find here because Nintendo are bastards and marked it up 200 fucking bucks, so that is $450! Fuck that! I would get it if it was 250 because even tho I am broke, that is “cheap,” but 450 is too much. So instead I just harass Eduardo every time we walk by Mix Up, since you can see them from the door. I was sad because the one Wii there was missing for a few days, but now they have two! Me wanty!!!! I need a sugar daddy!

I’m seeing Gael!

K, so I refused to leave China before seeing a panda, and I got what I wanted. Well, actually it was more of a joke, but it was cool to see one! Aww, it was eating a carrot and I wanted to kidnap it.

Anyway, likewise, I refused to leave Mexico before seeing Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama, Motorcycle Diaries, etc.) and I am getting what I want, dammit! The other day they announced that he would be in three performances of a play called Together for the spring theatre festival in the city. Best believe Eduardo and I got tickets right away! WOOT! I am so stalking him afterwards, yo! I don’t care if he is only like two feet tall, he is my Mexican lovah (sorry, Eduardo)! So cute! YAY!

So yeah, my homework now is to download (I mean, “buy”) the movie that the play is based on, since I want to know what the hell is going on in between naked scenes. He’d better be naked up in hea, yo, what else am I paying for?!

Back to blogging

So I FINALLY have internet here in Mexico and Eduardo is going back to work next week, which means I will be bored and be forced to blog to entertain myself (as well as entertain the masses, which are just DEMANDING more Jeff blogs, hehe). So yes, I promise to blog soon, but in the meantime I am messing around with things....changing to purty bright colors, as well as a new politically incorrect blog title, yay!

Dude, wtf?

Um, yeah.

Back in the States.....photos!

Long time no blog! Well, I am back in the States, and have been for about two weeks, clazy. I had a great last couple weeks in Japan and I miss it, mehhhhhh!

Anyway, I finally updated my photos page. I added eight albums (from "Disneyland and Tokyo" on). Check it out here.

Probably won't really be blogging until October, when I head to Mexico. Hmm, Jeff's Mexicanication just doesn't have the same ring to it!

Taking a break from the busiest week EVER...

...to post the CUTEST picture EVER! Seriously, how can a kid be that cute?!!!

Scary last class today!

So this week I have had a lot of last classes, which have ranged to sad with the good classes, to a “see ya later!” with the bad classes. Hehe. Actually I was sad for all of them, but it hasn’t really hit me for the most part, which is for the best at the moment!

Anyway, today I had my last class with 3-4, which is my best class, so I expected to be sad. However, instead it was a bit violent and weird in the end! So after the typhoon game I asked them which game they wanted to play, and they said a version of hot potato we do where we pass balls and if they have tennis balls I ask them a question and if they have these two other types of balls, they ask me a question. Well, it was ghetto and I hadn’t prepared for that request, so we passed textbooks while we played the English dialogue CD in the background, hahahaha. Nice.

Anyway, the kids were mean and kept purposely putting all of the books on Seki-kun’s desk. I am not sure if he is special needs, but he at least has some sort of learning disorder, as he can’t speak, read or write English at all. He is a nice kid, but he understandably is really uncomfortable during English classes because he cant do anything and is afraid of being called on. Anyway, the kids were being bastards and kept giving him the books, trying to get him to have to answer. I tried to stop them, but it didn’t work out so well.

Anyway, him and Yuto, who is like the nicest, genki-est kid in the world, kept exchanging the books, trying not to get stuck with it, and it led to DRAMARAMA! Seki got mad that the book ended up on his desk, so he like threw it at Yuto. Even nice Yuto can apparently get angry, as he got a scary look on his face and started almost punching him! THEN Seki busted out his SCISSORS and started stabbing at Yuto!!!!!! Um, SCARY! Fortunately he was too far away but it was still pretty close, it was fucked up! Then Seki cried for the last ten minutes of the class, the ten minutes of break, and into the next class! AND started crying when I tried to comfort him during lunch! ACK! That is not how I expected that class to end! Also, it was awkward, as I am taking pics with the whole class at the end of every last class, so while Seki was crying and shit, it was like, “Come on, guys, CHEESE!” Hahaha. Sad, only at Yabuchu!

I am a bastard!

K, I am forced to correct 200 2nensei kids’ papers about their summer vacations, and I just have to post some of their interesting English! Hehe.

“Tokyo is also famous for delicious food. For example, I like ramen very much. A lot of tall buildings and young human.”

“This summer, at curry rice and hiyaci cyuna (cold Chinese noodle salad) is very very delicious a dish. But my a family is very poor people. So this year we can’t fravel only two or three times.” SAD!

“Changing the subject, there is the thing that I have already taken nothing pleasure. It is a festival. I think that even a festival is past a lot of stands.” Hmm???

Kylie Minogue, biatch!

Dude, I realize I am a huge stereotype for saying this, but I am currently addicted to Kylie Minogue’s “Showgirl” concert DVD. Oh my god, it is so fucking good! It is like nearly as entertaining as the Rain DVD, and I thought that was impossible to reach, especially for a white person! It is fucking awesome. I had no idea she was that entertaining, and that her songs were that catchy! It’s good shit, yo!!!

Oh my god, I can NOT speak English anymore!

Okay, so I haven’t been able to speak real English in like two years, BUT it is getting even worse, as it is happening in my lessons now! Like, I cant explain games in English anymore! I was trying to explain battleship to 1nensei today. For some reason Japanese kids have no sense of strategy, and when they hit a ship once, it doesn’t occur to them that they should hit the other two spots on the ship somewhere around the first hit. So I was trying to tell them this in English and was like, “So, Ms. Tagawa hit my ship here. That means that (in my head I am currently thinking, “Oh, fuck, I don’t know where I am going with this in English!”)...there...are...places around here...that...are...hit-able?” Ahahahahahaha. I am SURE my 1nensei understood that perfect English! To make matters worse, my JTE started laughing at my horrible English! SAD! I also said it with the most unsure voice and look on my face, so I am sure my kids think I am retarded, even if they have no idea what I am saying. SAD!

Japanese housewives have too much free time!!!

Okay, Japanese housewives actually don’t have much free time because they are like slaves, BUT they are at least clazy. So it started sprinkling today, which no one was really expecting. Anyway, this mom of a student just drove to school, ran to the staffroom and gave a teacher an umbrella to give to her son or daughter so that they wouldn’t get wet on the way home from school. Um, that is hardcore! Dude, they wear helmets, it’s not like they get that wet, and it isn’t pouring or anything! Crazy clazy crazy.

Ahahahahaha

Dude, only in Japan could students feel my “muscles” and say I am strong and macho and not be joking!!!! I need to stay here!!!