Here's a bunch of videos of me playing Sister Hazel songs. A couple of them have my parents playing, too.
But yes, I like other music too. I'm just too lazy to write a list here. But here's a couple of videos of me playing non-hazel songs.
Movies
12 Monkeys, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Dogville, Dude Where's My Car, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Flatliners, Idiocracy, The Island, The Last Samurai, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Lost In Translation, Madagascar, Mallrats, The Matrix, Minority Report, Monsters Inc, Office Space, V for Vendetta, Vanilla Sky
Television
Lost, Heroes, House, Desperate Housewives, ER, The 4400, Kyle XY, Alias, X-Files, Friends, Seinfeld, Mad About You, That 70's Show
Books
Harry Potter, Golden Compass, Interview with a Vampire & all the other Anne Rice's stuff from that same time, anything by Neil Gaiman, Marian Keyes (so girly I'm almost embarrased, but hey, I like it), oh yeah, and Math books.
Heroes
Your results: You are Superman
Superman
75%
Spider-Man
75%
Iron Man
70%
Supergirl
67%
Robin
65%
Hulk
55%
Green Lantern
50%
Wonder Woman
42%
The Flash
35%
Batman
35%
Catwoman
25%
You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.
I'm sure they were here somewhere... But from now on, I'll just accept or deny friend requests randomly.
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I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane!
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Who is Juliana?
I am a Hazelnut. For those of you who are not: this means that I am a fan of Sister Hazel, and that I am a part of the most awesome group of friends I have ever seen. These people inspire me everyday to become a better person, and for that I am very thankful. I love all you guys! Sister Hazel has been my favorite band for as long as I can remember, but they've become a huge part of my life since I first saw them play live in January 2007. Learning that they are not only awesome musicians but also awesome people, and meeting the Hazelnuts, I've started going on adventure after adventure with Hazel themes. Including skydiving! Go listen to their song "Beautiful Thing", I've been calling it the soundtrack of my life. (As for my profile song, I'm gonna be rotating songs, according to whatever is stuck in my head, whatever means something to me at the moment, the most recent concert I went to, or whatever.)
As an example of such adventures, here is a video of us climbing a waterfall in Jamaica.
We Hazelnuts go road tripping. On any given Monday, if you ask me what I've been up to during the weekend, chances are I'll either say I stayed home studying or I'll say I drove six hours to see Sister Hazel somewhere. It is what I do...
Back on Earth, I am a mathematician. In training. I am a PhD student at NYU, starting my fourth year of studies. It's scary to say that. Time flies. If all goes well, I'll be done in another year. I'm very excited about the research I've been doing! I'm sorry if you ask me what it's about and I seem to not want to answer... It's not that. It's just that it's hard to answer. Typing about it is kinda what I've been working on for a year, it's not going to be in one MySpace message that I'm going to be able to say anything meaningful!
I love math. I questioned myself for a while, as I think we all do, but right after my exams, things started to get better. I've always had a crazy feeling that the areas of math that I enjoy are "easy" and the rest is "hard". But now I've been seeing problems that I both enjoy AND find hard. These are the kind of things I will be working on for my thesis, so I guess I'm in the right place.
I love math because when you prove a theorem you have discovered something that is true about the universe and will remain true no matter what happens until the end of time.
I love math because I don't need to have work clothes and fun clothes, I only have one wardrobe. I love teaching because I believe that people can indeed be taught, and I think it is a shame to see people not realize their full potential. However, please don't ask me if I am a teacher or if I am studying to become one. It is true that if math ended with what you've seen until High School, there would be nothing to do with it besides teach it to other people. But that is not the case. There is a lot more to math than that. If you haven't seen math since High School, you have never even heard of the things I see every day. They did not attempt to teach you all the math in the known universe, they attempted to teach you basic survival skills. I hope you've learned them. We do not know all the math in the universe, in fact that's what we're trying to figure out. Math is a very creative activity, I am not adding numbers all day. It is offensive that people should think that.
Another question that you should not ask is if I have a job. Yes, I have a job. I am a Mathematics PhD student. And if you think that is anything less than a full time job, then you don't know what it is like. Moving along with the FAQ here, you also don't need to ask me what I want to be when I grow up (or any variation on it - such as, what are you studying math to become?) Here's the answer: I'm not trying to "become" anything, I AM a mathematician. The word "become" implies that right now I'm not really much of anything... Get it? Okay, okay, here's another kind of answer: No, I am NOT studying math in order to go work in Wall Street and make a lot of money. It's not that I don't like money, I do, in fact if you want to give me some, thank you. It's the "working" part that I'm not too much into. Math is all the work I ever want to do, but it doesn't feel like work to me because I love it. I'm sure you have something in your life that feels that way, too.
By now, you have all the right in the world to think that I am a total geek. You may think that I spend all my time studying, but well, you'd be wrong. I procrastinate. A lot. I should be doing something else now other than playing on MySpace, obviously. I have a lot of trouble keeping my focus on something serious for more than 5 minutes. My mind wanders. There are also too many other things that I spend decent amounts of time on, such as playing videogames. Not too much of a TV watcher anymore, though. I watch the specific things that I like, but no channel surfing. I do have a long list of movies that I want to watch "when I have time", and the list only seems to get bigger, never smaller.
I am seriously in love with YouTube. I don't really know how to expand on that, except to say that if you spend some of your time watching my videos I will like you a bit more. I love everything about it - shooting the videos, editing them, checking constantly to see if I have new comments... I used to watch a lot more videos on YouTube than I do now, but I still watch some. Most of the videos I upload are either concerts I went to or me playing songs on the guitar (you can see those in the "Music" section to the left here), but there's some more random stuff. I haven't gotten into the whole talking to the camera thing yet, though. Maybe I will. What do you think?
I seriously hate smoking. Don't even get me started on that. Bad, bad thing. Don't do it, please.
I am a girl from Brazil, but that is not always a good thing. I don't like it when I tell people I am from Brazil and they automatically assume they know everything about me: I love the beach, I love soccer, I play capoeira, I know how to dance samba, and carnival is my favorite time of year. None of these things are true about me. Of course I have a few cultural differences, but mostly the culture I identify myself with is the American. That is why I am here! You may have been born here, but I chose to come. That should say something about how I feel about this country.
Christmas is my favorite time of the year, by the way. I went home for Christmas last year, after having missed the two previous ones, and I am going again this year. I'm an idiot. I missed my grandpa's last Christmas on Earth. He used to dress up as Santa Claus every single year, even after the youngest people in our parties were over 18. We never let grandpa stop doing the Santa thing. He was such a good Santa. The last few years I was there I dressed as Santa's helper. Me and my grandma always go crazy with the Christmas decorations. Her house looks like constant fireworks around Christmas time, and I love it. I've always insisted helping her set up her huge Christmas tree. Here are some Christmas-related YouTube videos:
So, someone who will remain anonymous recently said "I have a theory that Juliana is not really from Brazil". Of course he was making fun of me because I was completely lost in my own home town, but I have reason to agree. It's the people, I think. Brazilian people are very annoying. Except for my family. The hugely bad thing about being away from Brazil: being away from my family. I love them and miss them so much I can't even say. I have a small family but a very close one. Yeah, we have some bickering, but none of the people hating each other that I've seen in some other families.
The somewhat bad thing about living in New York: Winter. I like snow, but I can only take it for like a month. The winters here are too long. Other than that, I love New York. I've known my whole life that I wanted to come live here. I'm not sure if this winter is not being as bad as the previous one, or if I just have better shoes, or if I was totally right that ice-skating would make me hate winter much less. I have been ice-skating almost every day, and it's great to be outdoors without feeling cold!
One of the reasons is the Broadway shows. Love them. Cats has got to be my all-time favorite, if only because it was the first one I ever saw and then I learned that this was something I could totally love. My other favorite is Rent, and whenever I try to explain to someone what the story is about, it hits me how absurdly sad a story it is... I end up getting people depressed instead of making them want to see the show. But what can I say? It's great music. Period. Out of the new stuff, I really like Wicked. Because the music is good, the story is fun, and it proves that people can still make new shows that are just as good as the old ones. I absolutely refuse to watch that show called Avenue Q. People tell me it's good and I think they might be right, but it's my protest. Because they have a song called "The Internet is For Porn", and that pretty much sums up about 50% of everything I think is wrong with the world. The other 50% includes things like war, cancer, and Borat.
Another huge thing in my life is subtitling. I don't do it professionally, but I wrote a software that I'm very proud to say is now largely used in Brazil for television subtitling. I think subtitling is tons of fun. Especially timing. I sometimes subtitle my YouTube videos and I use my own software, which is very cool. I am very proud to say that I played a part in the transition of brazilian subtitling companies from having someone take a VHS tape to the translator's house, to having the translators download the digital movies. That has got to be the coolest thing I've ever done in my life. Other than skydiving. Anyways, now that I'm done with the Oral exams, I'm trying to find time to work on this more. It kinda needs constant maintenance to keep up with the needs of the users.
I like tattoos and I have some. I should have listened to my tattoo artist when I got the first one and had it done bigger like he suggested, because now people are always asking me "what is this on your shoulder?" But I like it anyway because it is something I learned. Trust people who should know better than you what they are talking about. The reason why I like tattoos is because they are forever. Few things in life are forever, and there are even some things I don't believe were meant to be forever in the first place, but it's nice to decide to get something drawn on your body that will be there forever. Needless to say, I am strongly against tattoo removal. It leaves a scar and defeats the whole purpose. I generally like people who have tattoos, but I do think that some parts of your body are not meant to be tattooed. Like your face or your breasts. It kills me when I see that. I'm also dead set against tattooing your loved one's name - see "some things are not meant to be forever". Here's a video of me getting my most recent tattoo:
I don't have anything particularly for or against piercings, but I don't have any because I am allergic. To something. It swells and hurts when I try. Not even my ears are pierced. So if you want to give me a present, earrings are not a good idea. I also think some parts of your body are not meant to be pierced - like your tongue or your lips. I do like guys with earrings. I also think eyebrow piercings are cool.
The following may or may not have been copied from a relationship website's idea of me based on questionaires. If I copied it, it's because I thought it very accurately described me.
When someone needs your help or wants you to do something you think before you act. See, at heart you believe deeply in personal freedom and individual responsibility. You think it is vital that people learn to take care of themselves so that they don't become dependent upon others. You believe that actions have consequences, and people need to accept the consequences of their actions if they are to learn from their mistakes and grow. You believe you wouldn't be doing anyone a favor if you lift someone out of trouble; they will never learn to lift themselves up if you keep rescuing them. And if you keep giving people a second, third or fourth chance, you have seen that people seldom develop the character they need to live decent and responsible lives.
You believe that compassion has a role to play in your life, in a structure of values that is encourages people to take care of themselves. Uncritical tenderheartedness does as much harm as good. You much prefer if people understand, in factual, empirical terms, how they got into trouble, and how they can lift themselves out of the mess they are in. In an emergency, of course, you're there to offer help and if someone has helped you out in the past there is no question about your loyalty. But whenever it is realistic, you are convinced people should take care of themselves.
Along with this you devote adequate time to taking care of your own needs and wants, in part because it makes you happy with your life and in part because that's what you truly believe every person should do. You cherish personal independence for yourself and others. Fostering such independence is the best way you find there is to love and care for others.
Your emphasis on personal independence and personal responsibility may seem to lack in compassion to some people. Undoubtedly you have encountered people who feel this way toward you. And some may find you to be rather selfish. You do stay focused on your own life, take responsibility for your own problems, and are not always moved by situations in which some people think some action is required. That is part of you and your basic beliefs about life. And some people will inevitably want you to be different, but that is simply not who you are.
You're true to your beliefs and you hold yourself to the same expectations as you do with others. You are critical and tough with yourself, which gives you a consistency when you are critical and tough with others. And even when others don't agree with you, people are likely to admire your frankness. You say what you believe, even if what you believe runs counter to the motives and beliefs of others.
And you keep reminding people of two things that few people can argue with, even if they don't believe in them with your single-mindedness. Personal independence and personal responsibility matter to most people, and even the very compassionate admit that sometimes their hearts get in the way of what their heads know, which is to say that people should take care of themselves whenever they are able to do so. You remind people of this, in the honest way you live your own life and in the ways in which you respond, and don't respond, to other people.
Your sense of who you are and what your place is in the world around you rests on values and principles that are the solid ground you walk upon. You've tested them, they work for you, and much of the time you are content to trust them, that is, until some provocative new idea slips in from a conversation, book or some flight of your active imagination. "Hmmmm. What's this. Never thought of it before." And off you go, exploring.
Because you hold both solid beliefs and are open to new ideas, you are accepting of other people and other ways of thinking and believing. You are flexible enough to listen to something new and different, or something outside of your comfort zone; if it works for you, you'll take it in, and if not, you'll let it go. In this sense, you know who you are: you are neither closed-minded nor wildly open-minded, but walk somewhere near the middle of the intellectual road.
I haven't made anything final yet, but I'm thinking about seeing them play in Dewey on the 18th next month, if you're interested in joining me for a roadtrip. ^_^ It's free, and that's always a good thing. It's about a month away, so there's plenty of time to decide/plan.
And since I have full-time work now, I'm not broke as a joke anymore...Well, at least I'm in better shape than the last time you saw me. ^_~
Hi Juliana! I hope this message finds you well. Happy birthday!!
Sneak Preview for Last Call
Claire and I have returned from our 3 months EU& UK tour. So, I just posted a note about what's going on with The Bowmans on facebook... and then I started writing a mass email... and then I decided against it... so I'm doing this instead. (begging) Will you visit my profile page to help me spread the word, pretty please??? We have a sneak preview of the new album (Produced by Malcolm Burn, Mastered by Greg Calbi) up for 5 days only… and it can be bought within the next 5 days only!
I'm glad you wrote your rules on adding friends. I always write a note and only add people I think are inclined to like me. Spam sucks. Speaking of which, I'm glad you enjoy my sound. I like yours too. I envy your ability to work with numbers, computers and play guitar well. That's extraordinary.
Hey, did yu see TCM's new album cover? Pretty badass, if you ask me. :D
Let me know how things go at the show on Friday...Wish I could be there...Oh, well. I decided that I'm gonna arrange a day off work for the CD release party in Dewey, so I hope we can make the trip as a team. Otherwise, we'll just have to trade TCM show stories. ;)
Hey, if you're still up for The Crash Motive's Dewey Beach show next month, they just announced that it's also the premiere show for the new CD...So now I really want to go! ^_^ I hope you can go, too! We could have another fun road trip, just like old times...
Okay, so it was only one time so far, but it was still fun. ;)
Hopes you're having a great weekend! Although it seems like an awfully long time to spend at an IHOP. Those things sure are filling! :) Try the blueberry syrup. Yum!
