16 Favorite Songs

16 songs from this year that were my favorite, and made up the soundtrack of this year of my life.

1. Shots- LMFAO... makes me think of my birthday party, Jessica's birthday party, Kid Nation :)

2. Closest I Get- Katie Herzig... makes me think of how sad I was when my favorite Grey's Anatomy character, Lexie, died. (hahaha I'm just being honest) And how I listened to this song everyday on the way to school for SO LONG. It also reminds me of when I first got my license and spring! Gosh, the ending of this song is just pure emotion and I LOVE IT.

3. Rasputin- Boney M... makes me think of AP World (praise God I'm done with that!) and summer days of playing Just Dance 2

4. Whole Wide World- Mindy Gledhill... makes me also think of spring and driving to school when I first got my license! And running with Mackenzie on our crazy path, and driving to summer tennis.  This was my motivator song!

5. Happy Pills- Norah Jones... makes me think of my first concert and my summer text tone! I forgot how much I love this song!

6. Bella's Final: Price Tag/Don't You/Give Me Everything- Pitch Perfect... oh gosh, Pitch Perfect was basically the most life defining movie of my 16th birthday (not to sound dramatic;)) seriously though, this movie was so good and I cannot express how much I LOVE this song!! Best song of the movie!

7. Titanium- David Guetta ft. Sia... makes me think of Pitch Perfect and the beginning of Ricochet! Gosh I love our band:) also makes me think of driving back to Sierra's house after dinner at Crave for her birthday and all of us SCREAMING this song. Good times, good times

8. These Days- Chantal Kreviazuk... this one's for you Mackenzie! Makes me think of listening to this on repeat in math, being absolutely sentimental about how fast high school is going!

9. Unwritten- Natasha Bedingfield... also makes me think of Mack and math. And our love for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. And how we are such saps.

10. I Knew You Were Trouble- Taylor Swift... makes me think of driving to the Vista football game, blaring this and loving being 16. And Riley. This song will always make me think of Riley.

11. Red- Taylor Swift... makes me think of having a competition with O to see who knew the most T-Swift song lyrics and this was my winning song!

12. Anchor- Mindy Gledhill... makes me think of how I fell in love with blogging. I remember watching a video of the Nielson's with this song in the background. nienie was totally who made me want to be a blogger, and this song is just what brings me back to center. My equilibrium song.

13. ABC Cafe/Red and Black- Les Mis... makes me think of how stoked I was for Les Mis to come out and AP Euro. Hahaha oh Suria ;)

14. Rock Me- One Direction... makes me think of how much I tried to like 1D for the sake of my friends. And I mean, I REALLY tried. They just aren't me, what can I say? But this song is the one that I can tolerate the most;) or this one!!!

15. One Day More- Les Mis... makes me think of getting through winter finals! and how darn excited I was to finish school, and to see this brilliant movie!

16. and for my all time favorite... Crazy Love- Mindy Gledhill... makes me think of THIS BEING MY FAVORITE SONG EVER. I don't know why but it's my favorite, I just love Mindy. (obviously)

xo
Hannah

Les Misérables

No words. No words at all can do justice for how phenomenal this movie is. 

I fell in love with this musical back in 7th grade choir, when we sang a medley for one of our concerts (and you know what? I didn't even get to sing at the concert because I was sick in the hospital with a dang virus!) I remember everyday looking forward to choir, as we went through the entire musical, a song a day, watching/listening to it from the 25th anniversary concert. We went and saw the live musical by a local production company, and man alive, was that fantastic. Then, for my 16th birthday present, my grandparents took me to see it as it came to Denver at the Buell Theater. I never wanted it to end. Nothing can really compare to that spectacular day.

Telling me about my exciting gift, I was only a little excited;)

 
The entire story is just so compelling.  Hugh Jackman was an OUTSTANDING Jean Valjean, and Russell Crowe? That man can sing! I was so impressed with each and every person in that movie. I love them all. Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter were perfect for their parts and were hilarious! "Master of the House" was fabulous! I definitely wish I could sing as high as Amanda Seyfried. The music is so deep and riveting, this film captured every ounce of feeling. I love so so much that they were singing live, the emotion truly came through and made the acting 498731889327938756 times better. Oh and Anne Hathaway (one of my fave actresses!) getting her hair cut for real during the scene? Talk about guts and dedication! Gosh, it was all just perfect. I know that movie will be going home with awards.

My favorite part was either "I Dreamed a Dream" (Anne Hathaway better get an award for that) or the very end "Do You Hear the People Sing". So much emotion. That beautiful barricade. Good lord, the power of the many voices, the triumph. 

Because the entire story takes place post-French Revolution/Napoleon, watching the movie this time around really brought things to full circle because we just learned about the French Rev in AP Euro (it was actually extra credit to see the movie, yeah baby!) Jean Valjean is locked up for stealing a loaf of bread, to feed his sister's son. For all of you who don't know a lot about the French Revolution, basically, a main reason there was war was because of bread, I kid you not. It's because the prices were so high because of drought and taxes and blah blah blah, I'm sure none of you are too interested in hearing the 15 minute summary I told my mother. I would make Mrs. J proud though;)


So, please be a smart person. Go see Les Mis. You will love it. I know I do. I've already seem it twice. :)

Oh and this hottie is in it. Oh Marius... <3

xo
Hannah

Finals... Day Three

Day three is usually the breaking point. 

I had AP Euro today. That was a tough one, but all in all, I didn't do horrible and I kept my A (hallelujah!). I was so so so stressed out, but it was only initial fear and I just needed to get it over with. 

Afterwards, we went to Riley's to watch the best movie ever. We sang and danced along, and were pretty fantastic if you ask me!

 I'd say this was our best song!

It's also my favorite... :)

However, our brains are fried. So we resort to this:

 Only one day more! 

Les Mis -- One Day More 

I just had to.

xo
Hannah

Finals... Day Two

All I had was my choir final today. And there's not even a real final, so I just studied for tomorrow's final... AP Euro (in which I am studying my butt off for... I've racked up around 8 hours now.)

Kylee showed me some great videos that really helped figure out the French Revolution. As I was watching them on YouTube, this popped up on my side "Recommended for You" videos was this video. And oh my gosh, I am still in awe of it's utter magnificent-ness. Just watch all 13 minutes of it- it is completely captivating and perfect, I don't even know, it's just the best.

One Man Les Miserables Nick Pitera Medley

Freaking unbelievable huh? I'm still speechless.

xo

Hannah