HSM
I'm so glad my last lesson on a Friday is IT. The class is always warm, stuffy and filled with girls ready to be impressed by my vast intellect. Usually I'll be playing online games, taking a nap or being "forced" to take the CosmoGirl quiz.
And on the subject of Cosmogirl, those tests are so demeaning! Why on Earth do girls do them? I couldn't care less if my inner girl is a total slut or my dream hunk will have blue eyes... (perhaps I do care a little...)
I digress. Last weeks IT lesson was different; a transaction was taking place.
"Have you brought it?"
Robin sits beside me in the corner of the room, he fidgets and his eyes dart from side to side. I'm playing an incredibly stupid flash game.
"The what?"
"Don't play games with me Jingo. Have you got the HSM?"
A smile flickers across my face. He's ashamed. I on the other hand have nothing to be ashamed of. Sure it was illegal, and quite frankly disturbing, but this was how I did business.
And on the subject of business, Torquer dominates the school stationery market. He sells shoddy crap at inflated prices and is known as: "The man who can locate certain things". It's a shame he doesn't deal with the illegal stuff or he'd make a killing.
"Why are you afraid of saying High Sch-"
"Shut up! I don't want anyone to know I like this shit!"
"Fine, fine... Have you brought the Cash?"
"Yeah it's right here" he says, patting his blazer pocket.
We exchange memory sticks. I take the Johnny Cash off him, he takes the High School Musical album (what a loser). Transaction complete. He skulks off to listen to his bootlegged music.
And so we come to the point of this post: High School Musical. Sure the plot is cliched and it's aimed at 9-12 year olds but damn those tunes are catchy! If I wasn't so ashamed I'd buy the encore edition right now and learn all those dance moves.
I tried to get Torquer to listen to the stuff but he threw away the headphone is disgust.
I was going to make this a massive post about my own musical tastes (varied) and my tendancy to sing in public (which freaks people out) but I can't, I have potato chip molarities to write about. Instead I suggest you buy the High School Musical Album, it's very good.
41 comments:
Ingenious.
In the olden cave man days we just exchanged home recorded cassette tapes. illegal of course but not enforced.
I want to hear more about your musical tastes. I'm about fifteen years out of date when it comes to music.
I want to warn you about hammer. Be careful OK?
Yep I've been known to tell a bawdy tale or two.
Scandalous! Seditious! Smarmy!
I am at work now and I burst out laughing in the middle of the school staff room when I found out that The Cash is really Johnny Cash. My colleagues are staring suspiciously at me now. *hide myself*
Speaking of Johnny Cash, I love his songs too. Especially 'Hurt'.
hammer, ingenious? I've never been called that before!
You seriously want to hear about my music tastes? If you want it then I might write it!
how can you say such things about hammer, Mutley? He seems to have a heart of gold!
maio, I would of worked on the build up a little more but I didn't have the time. Too busy doing biology coursework.
Yeah I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash. Although I have to say most of his songs sound the same...
JINGO!!!
the HSM Syndrome has hit the UK as well? OMGOSH!!!! its huge here... especially amongst us drama types with nothing better to do than watch the movie over and over again and do the sing-alongs, as well as the dance-alongs...
we know all the moves, you are not alone..
"We're soaring! Flying! There's not a star in heaven that we can't reach... WE'RE BREAKING FREE!"
haha. oh Jingo.
baie: there are some crazy individuals that like it over here, but it's mostly regarded with cynicism.
I can't stand the film, but gotta love those tunes!
You're a drama type? Ooh how interesting!
Favourite song has got to be Bop To The Top... cheesiest song ever.
Did people like your age ever see Grease?
Torquer,do me a favour and give Jingo a verry hard crack around the head,the lad's going soft....lol
Torquer,do me a favour and give Jingo a verry hard crack around the head,the lad's going soft....lol
I bought a couple of Johnny Cash best of compilations recently. Good stuff.
My tastes are all over the place, I like the Misfits, Tom Jones, Big band era, 60's psychadelic and Early Metal. I've got a disk changer in my truck and my passengers go nuts when the music suddenly changes from Benny Goodman to GWAR to Beatles.
HSM? You must be joking right?!?!?!
Mutley, No one my age is big on Grease. Or High School Musical even...
Gaz, If Torquer was any more a nancy boy then he'd be mistaken for a girl! Therefore I doubt it.
I wouldn't buy Johnny Cash, Hammer! Although I wouldn't mind downloading it ;)
Yeah my tastes are everywhere as well. Perhaps a post on this will be necessary.
Crashy, I kid you not! Although to be honest I'm not that big a fan. The film is awful really and makes me cringe watching it but it's your quintessential teen movie!
As I said, I just like the tunes... Is that a crime? ;)
Probably you're gonna ban me from this place after this, but I thank the Lord Disney channel dissapeared before that awful movie became popular. Neither it nor the songs had time to make it in this market, and I was so glad.
Catchy music always follows the same phrase patterns. Check on Mozart, Beethoven, all the classics, and you'll know what I mean.
Oh wow.
This place reminds me of some odd chatroom!
YEAH...
Hmm...
I've never listened to highschool musical...
haha.
I might post about my musical tastes - they are dodgy!
the usual stuff, to be honest I don't like it either! For me HSM is just a recurring joke... A bit like Hardcore gaming and exams.
Sam, you're right, this place is filled with a bunch of weirdos! ;)
You haven't seen HSM? You've been missing out... Get baie to show you it, I bet she's got it on DVD. ;)
If you do a post Mutley then I will!
wow, you have quite a life! greets, Mark
My blog.. I guess
Well, unfortunately I can no longer get DVD's from Bailey...
There's this slight problem of distance.
Special Edition dvd Jing... haha. And Sammy, come home!!! Remember when we watched that one DVD that night? The one called, "A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD?"... haha!!!!
and Jingo, i think that HSM sounds like a drug... like, LSD... or maybe perhaps, STD?...
haha..
have a good day.
mark, its actually rather mundane!
Sam, why? where are you and where is she?
Yeah, that's what I was trying to create when writing it baie. HSM is my drug! ;)
I'm here Jing, and shes there...
their damn family had to move away and leave me stranded in this foresaken town all on my lonesome! At least we spent all Christmas break together... it was amazing, wasn't it Sam?
no place names huh? why did she move?
because life is unfair?
haha...
Daddy got laid off from the mill here, along with a thousand other people, (not quite that many) but alot, and then had to find a new job... that job happened to be somewhere SO FREAKING FAR AWAY!!!! !UGH!!!!
dearest Sam, i miss you.
(her daddy, not mine....)
haha.
but we're pretty much related anyways, i'm STILL going to marry her brother... i don't care what anyone says.
hahaha
Baie: Does her brother know? In UK, that kinda talk would freak people out...
What is it with people across the pond and relationships with friend's brothers/sisters eh? Never seems to happen over here.
hahaha. i used to not mind the movie when i first watched it, and thought it was horribly cliched (every damn high school seems to have the WILDCATS.), but then my 11 year old brother kept watching it day in day out during the holidays that yes, he knew all the moves and all the words as well.
and then my other brother went to download all the music, and when i first heard that it was a phenomenon akin to Grease for the rest of us, I was really surprised. I never realised that there was such a void for musicals for this generation.
but yeah, i know how catchy those tunes are because they were stuck in my head for days. luckily i'm past that now.... phew.
well, he should know... we were somewhat of an "Item" before... hahahahahahaha. and now we're just friends, but yah... the whole friend's brothers/sisters thing is just how we roll... couldn't get closer to anyone else on our own, so we need the inside scoop on the people we've seen walking around in their underwear at sleepovers.... i don't know man.
and i was kidding.
i'm not marrying her brother.
Gneake: So I wasn't the only one who noticed wildcats! (they really are everywhere).
I'm glad I'm over this short-lived phase...
Baie: I knew you were kidding, we Brits do have a sense of humour!
Sleepovers? That kinda thing never happens over here, we're all so frigid. Makes me so envious of your ridiculous hormone driven lifestyle...
You have inspired me to get HSM out on DVD this very DAY! My 17yr old daughter has seen it and thought it was also 'awful' but that the songs were catchy. Bit like Grease she said, but NOWHERE NEAR as good!
I am just glad that the 'wholesome' theme is still working and actually pulling youngsters in - in whatever way and for whatever reason, it's a good thing in this day and age.
Sorry, I'm a bit behind in reading your posts - today is 'catch-up' day!! =)
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