about me

The name's Yang. Jackie Yang. Don't you forget it.
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“Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day.
Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”
-Meg Chittenden

Have to agree with Meggie up there. I am a tad odd. . . .and I do spend a lot of my time staring off into space imagining what it would be like to be stuck in a high-speed car chase while trying to bend backwards out of the window to shoot someone with an AK-47.

Ahem. Pardon. I've been watching too many Bourne movies.

People always ask me what I write about. The only honest answer I can give them is this: Complete, utter nonsense that appears in my head.

I never write for a specific genre. You could call me a dabbler, I suppose. I dabble in action, romance, fantasy, humor, sci-fi - pretty much everything besides nonfiction.

Oh, I also have a queer preference for Mini Coopers. But that is absolutely irrelevant.

I also have an obsession with Moleskines, which I have gotten my friends hooked on, as they will happily tell you. I think the world would be a better place if we all used feather quills and ink pens and wrote pretty, tactful, letters in script like they did in Jane Austen's time. I'd give anything to live as Elizabeth Bennet for a day, and Emma Thompson is my idol.

I drink my coffee black in the mornings. In the afternoons, I can appreciate a nice Mocha Frappucino or a Caramel Macchiato. I think the Chinese tube is ten times better and cleaner than the New York tube, and I like watching CSI on Fridays. Gulu Gulu needs to expand to the States- no one can make slushies as smooth and rich as theirs. Directing is my passion, which I pursue to no avail along with my partner in crime Filmgirl1228, whose bona fide shall remain concealed due to the fact that she is the common target of Mexican gangsters. (No offense to any peaceful amigas!)

Chopin is chocolate for the fingers, and Star Wars is overrated, even though Hayden Christensen is amazing eye-candy. Suzanne Collins is a visionary and I would sell my soul for the film rights to The Hunger Games. Chris Columbus botched up Percy Jackson completely, but I am eternally grateful for him casting Logan Lerman. J.K. Rowling deserves a Nobel Prize for Literature, as her work is pure genius. Amy Tan is the Ang Lee of her field. Meryl Streep is not one person but a hundred bound together in one body.

Helen Mirren stuns me with her amazing grace and charisma. Catherine-Zeta Jones is quite something, and A Little Night Music was a naughty little musical. For Good and Defying Gravity send chills down my back. I'm absolutely sick of Thirteen, for reasons two of my friends are very much aware of. Tom Hanks is a true gift given to Hollywood. Julie Andrews is an angel who really did descend from the skies with an umbrella. Rogers and Hammerstein didn't know that they were going to make the best musical in the world when they filmed The Sound of Music. The Hurt Locker deserved the Best Picture over Avatar any day, though I have to say, J.C. did a rather snazzy job.

Show Choir is love and chaos. Writing songs gives me a headache when I hit a dead end. Piano theory is living hell. I can't separate dominant or diminished sevenths to save my life. I listen to songs not based on the genre or band, but based on how good of a movie soundtrack it'd make. If I could, I'd move either to Switzerland or Central Park, which is Eden in the middle of Chaos.

I have the best friends in the world. They'll compose scores, jump ditches, climb trees, sing songs, and play guitars for me. I must have been a saint in my other life to deserve these guys.

My life's dream is to climb Everest, even though in my physical condition I probably couldn't even summit Half-Blood Hill. Which is pretty funny, because I happen to be a secret underage spy - like Alex Rider. I also have completely persuaded myself that I am British, since I love tea and crumpets and Harry Potter and all.

Oi, have you lot listened to a song called "a drop in the ocean"? It's rather good.

What are my favorites of everything? I shall list them right here. Prepare, the lists are rather long. A few of them aren't nessecarily favorites, but I'll put them anyways.


movies:
Schindler's List
The Godfather
The Sound of Music
Contact
Conspiracy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Pleasantville
The Pianist
Slumdog Millionaire
Chicago
The Changeling
There Will Be Blood
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Ocean's Eleven
The Italian Job
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
An Affair to Remember
Sleepless in Seattle
Dr. Zhivago
Catch Me If You Can
Far & Away
Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
The Queen
Becoming Jane
The Devil Wears Prada
Angels & Demons
Up in the Air
Pirates of the Caribbean
Eagle Eye
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Emma
Marie Antoinette
Seabiscuit

[to watch] movies:
Inglorious Basterds
Brokeback Mountain
Sophie's Choice
Out of Africa
Coco avant Chanel
Kramer vs. Kramer
Bridge to Madison County
The Joy Luck Club
Chocolat
The Da Vinci Code
The Golden Compass
Circle of Friends
The Blind Side
An Education
The Last Station
Reds
The Aviator
Life is Beautiful
Milk
Frost/Nixon
Cast Away
A Beautiful Mind
Cinderella Man
War of the Worlds
Moulin Rouge!
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Bourne Ultimatum
Black Hawk Down
Traffic
Amelie
3:10 to Yuma

directors:
Steven Spielberg: Schindler's List; ET; War of the Worlds; Jurassic Park; Hook
Ang Lee: Sense & Sensibility; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain
George Lucas: Star Wars
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather
Robert Zemeckis: Forrest Gump; Back to the Future; Contact; Polar Express; Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Ron Howard: Angels & Demons; Cinderella Man; A Beautiful Mind; Apollo 13; Far and Away

*The titles are the movies by the director that I have either already watched or are one my To Watch list.

actresses:
Meryl Streep
Emma Thompson
Jodie Foster
Julie Andrews
Barbara Streisand
Julia Roberts
Amy Adams
Carey Mulligan
Cate Blanchett
Reese Witherspoon
Angela Lansbury
Frances O’Connor
Sandra Bullock
Judi Dench
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Audrey Tautou
Nicole Kidman
Naomi Watts
Renee Zellweger
Claire Danes
Natalie Portman
Kirsten Dunst
Anne Hathaway

actors:
Tom Hanks
Johnny Depp
Liam Neeson
Michael J. Fox
Colin Firth
Jude Law
James McAvoy
Matthew McFayden
Brad Pitt
Sean Penn
John Voight
Daniel Day-Lewis
Paul Giamatti
Stanley Tucci
Kenneth Branagh
Al Pacino
Pierce Brosnan
Tom Cruise
Richard Gere
Ewan McGregor
Hayden Christensen
Toby Maguire
Logan Lerman
Zac Efron
Freddie Highmore

musicals:
Les Miserables
The Sound of Music
My Fair Lady
Grease
West Side Story
Chicago
Wicked
Phantom of the Opera
13
Billy Elliot
Cats
Singing in the Rain

television:
Friends
Sonny With A Chance
Law & Order SVU
House M.D.
CSI NY
Gossip Girl
Saturday Night Live
I Love Lucy
Boys Over Flowers

artists:
I. M. Pei
Vincent Van Gogh
Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Johannes Vermeer
Andy Warhol

composers:
Frederic Chopin
Scott Joplin
Ludwig van Beethoven
Camille Saint-Saëns
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
John Williams
Stephen Schwartz
Michael Giacchino
Stephen Sondheim
Yiruma

music:
Train
Daughtry
Maroon 5
Boys Like Girls
One Republic
Lady Antebellum
Rob Thomas
Jonas Brothers
Lifehouse
Green Day
Carrie Underwood
Martina McBride
Colbie Callait
Michael Buble
Jason Miraz
Ron Pope
Coldplay
Lady Gaga
Daniel Powter
Rascal Flatts
Kelly Clarkson

songs:
For Good - Wicked
Hey, Soul Sister - Train
Drops of Jupiter - Train
Thunder - Boys Like Girls
God Blessed This Broken Road - Rascal Flatts
Mercy - One Republic
What Hurts the Most - Rascal Flatts
Little Wonders - Rob Thomas
Someday - Rob Thomas
Never Alone - Lady Antebellum
Breathe (2 a.m) - Anna Nalick
Raindrop Prelude - Chopin
The Swan (Carnival of the Animals) - Saint-Saens
I Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
Not Ready To Make Nice - Dixie Chicks
Bad Day - Daniel Powter
Only Hope - Mandy Moore
A Drop in the Ocean - Ron Pope
Telephone - Lady Gaga
A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton
Black Keys - Jonas Brothers
Fly With Me - Jonas Brothers
Don't Stop Believing - Journey
On My Own - Les Miserables
Viva la Vida - Coldplay
The Sound of Music - The Sound of Music
Temporary Home - Carrie Underwood
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Kiss the Rain - Yiruma
Schindler's List - John Williams
What About Now - Daughtry
Tangled Up in Me - Skye Sweetnam
You and Me - Lifehouse
Whatever it Takes - Lifehouse


So, that is pretty much me. If I wasn't completely selfish, I would advise you to not come near me with a ten-foot pole - you know, with the whole madness thing and all - but I do like to feel loved.

Over and out,
FreshPress

favourite books

Les Miserables
Pride and Prejudice
The Chronicles of Narnia
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Da Vinci Code
His Dark Materials
Harry Potter
Anne of Green Gables
The Oz Series
The Phantom Tollbooth
Dragon Rider
Percy Jackson
The Underland Chronicles
The Hunger Games
The Series of Unfortunate Events
Alex Rider
A Wrinkle in Time
The Princess Diaries
The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles
Maximum Ride
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Sense and Sensibility
Great Expectations
Around the World in 80 Days
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jane Eyre
To Kill A Mockingbird
Anna Karenina
Eloise
The English Roses
Madeline
Peak
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Princess Academy
Mr. Popper's Penguins

my websites

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