2016

WaterUnderTheBridge Secret Santa Award Swap

The Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Award is awarded to........ Ellie!  The word Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious means fantastic, amazing, and extraordinary which are all perfect to describe you! Way to be classy and sassy and practically perfect in every way, stay golden.

Tis the season

Holy crap, when did it become Christmas?! Like it or not it's here and I'm not freaking out that 2016 is almost here (laughs and then starts crying) ANYWAY I've just be doing absolutely nothing and I promise to post something more holly jolly soon but I have no inspiration right now so please enjoy these GIFS.

I'm Back From The Dead

Hey! So I realized I've pretty much sucked at blogging for the past month BUT that's all going to change so starting from now on I'll be posting at least twice weekly. Anywayyyyyyyy here's the down low of my life.

1: All Hallows Eve.

So Halloween was like what, four days ago? I MISS IT BUT SINCE IT'S NOVEMBER 1ST YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!

 I went as Micheal Clifford which all I basically did was spray purple hair dye and called it a night because we have the same fashion sense (black and band t-shirts) and then proceeded to stuff my face with pizza and candy the entire night and watch horror movies with my family which was cool but DO NOT WATCH ANNABELL YOU WILL PEE YOURSELF.

2: All Time Low.

THEY ARE COMING ON THE 11TH NOVEMBER WHICH IS NEXT WEDNESDAY AND I'M SO PUMPED IF I GO!

3: I dyed my hair.

I DYED MY HAIR TODAY AND LOOKS FREAKIN' AMAZING! It's purple and orange and pink and looks like a sun set!

4: 5SOS.

Yes, I like 5 Seconds Of Summer. Get over it. They're coming next year and I'm so excited!

5: Halsey.

I feel my punk rockness dying but THIS WOMAN CAN SING.

6: Nanowrimo.

I really hope I don't go insane.

HELLOOOOO/HALLOWEEN/I'MSOSORRY

Ahem, I'M SO SORRY I HAVEN'T POSTED IN LIKE A MONTH! Okay I've been pretty much M.I.A and I apologize. Life got super busy and school started and a whole bunch a busy has been going on but now it's back to the norm and I can come back to bless you all with band GIFS and my sarcasm, I'm sure you've missed it.

YOU KNOW WHAT TIME OF THE YEAR IT IS!

 Anyway I will be posting the going on's of my life so stick around for that. But I do need your advice. Since it's October, the most A-MAZI-NG month of the year (Seriously October is the only moth I actually love, the rest I just tolerate and don't even get me started on February.) I need your advice on Halloween makeup.

Just to be clear I do not Trick or Treat, I didn't even really like to Trick or Treat when I was little, it gave my anxiety since I'm weird like that, since I was petrifed of kid nappers.

I mean you're basically begging for sugar on a strangers doorstep, how in the world is that not pathetic? My family isn't even doing Trick or Treating this year  (we have several small children), we're just having a party and watching horror movies which I like better because that's what I do everyday anyway. But I do like to walk around my house in full make up on Halloween, like a drag queen. So I need your help and suggestions on what I should go as. So far I have three options.

1: Gerard Way from I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

2: 2005 Pete Wentz.

3: Heath Ledger Joker

Why are all my costume ideas men? Anyway just leave a comment on what I should do. Plus who's excited to stuff their faces with candy?

Things I Learned In The Past Week

1: My idea of a healthy dinner for small children is not "acceptable" in many households. It's ice cream. Not the souls of deceased pets.

2: Listening to Green Day makes me want to start a revolution!

3: I aspire to be as cool and confident as Hayley Williams one day, more dreams that I will never accomplish because I'm lazy.

4: I don't suck at writing uplifting posts as much as I thought since the feedback from Shut Up And Eat That Slice Of Cake was wonderful, thank you all.

5: I found the post that describes my entire life.

6: I can't even understand what I'm talking about sometimes.

7: Once you get over the taste of blood in your mouth, running isn't that bad.

8: My neighbors are Satans offspring.

9: If you start to grow out your faux hawk you will look like Jim Carrey from Dumb and Dumber.

10: I can't afford to like anymore bands, if I like anymore I'll end up broke and living in a ditch.

Shut Up And Eat That Slice Of Cake

Do you know what I'm tired of?

I mean besides Kanye West being SO love with himself.

Body-hate, more importantly self-body-hate. I like to scroll though Pinterest, mostly looking a bands and stupid cartoons but every once in awhile I stumble upon a post with a caption like "OMG I'm so ugly." under a size 0 model who works for American Eagle. It gets very depressing sometimes, but before I go on let me make a couple of points.

1: Everyone is a different size and shape. Some people are a natural size 0 and some are a natural size 20, no biggie. We are all made a certain way. Don't judge someone just because of their waistline and don't hate yourself because you're not a size 0. The average size for a woman in America is 14, and these stupid body challenge fad are so immature and just ridiculous, I mean the bully button challenge? Do they not realize how much science has to be involved in order for your fingers to even reach half-way to your stomach. It's really stupid.

2: Don't judge someone. You're a size 12, she's a size 6. Big whoop.  If you're at a healthy BMI then you're are fine. You're growing up, you're body hasn't even finished maturing so what you look like as a teenager doesn't mean you're staying that way at twenty. Quite bringing someone down because of their body size, some are naturally curvy and others are slim.

3: Don't even think about it. Don't starve yourself to be a certain size. Starving or vomiting isn't going to make everything okay, instead it's going to give you future health issues and make it harder as an adult to lose weight because you're body is going to store every little bit of fat it can in order to keep you alive.

That being said I know how to difficult it is to be happy about how you look all the time, in fact I'm probably the least qualified person to be giving advice on this subject. It's alright to think you look like crap once in awhile, but don't think it everyday because hating yourself is going to hold yourself back from being what you what to be and achieving what you want to do. You're beautiful, you're smart, you're talented. Plus you're so used to seeing your features that you have absolutely no idea how you appear to a stranger. So shut up with your destructive words.

  

I'm A Pro!

Ahem, as you may have noticed I re-designed my blog. 

Again. 

But the only difference this time is that I did it! Thank God for google! I actually enjoyed doing it, which is saying something because I usually can't stay focused on stuff likea this. Which is why I'm opening a design shop! Look on my sidebar for information! I'm so professional!

Things I Learned In The Past Week

1: Passing the drivers permit test is easier then LEARNING how to actually drive

2: My brother thought I was going to become one of those "vampire kids" when I  started wearing black.

3: I'm not taking Chemistry this semester because, acodding to my mom "chemistry blows."

                           

4: I will forever be too poor because of Hot Topic

5: I'm now hooked on Bring Me The Horizon, HOORAY for expanding music taste!

6: I hate guitar scales with a BURNING passion.

7: Don't listen to Fall Out Boy at 1:00AM because you'll start thinking about life and other deep thoughts I should never touch again.

8: Netflix original movies are crap.

9: I shouldn't really still be watching Spongebob at fifteen.

MATURE!

10: According to my other brother my taste in music is slightly alarming.

Things I Learned In The Past Week

1: I have no willpower when it comes to s'mores, chocolate, or really anything with sugar in it.

"Willpower."

2: If you go to a concert, people are going to push past you and almost fall of their face.

I'M SO WITTY!

3: If you look at tattoos on Pinterest, you're going to be convinced you're going to get one some day.

                           

4: I found the GIF to describe everything I want to do in life.

5: I don't do well on limited sleep, all I want to do is......

                                

6: Foo Fighters is possibly the BEST band ever to see live.

7: All Time Low's coming in November and I'm begging to go. I'll earn the money, I'll get a job, start babysitting, or sell a kidney I mean who needs two? 

                                

                                  

                                        

: I need to figure out a backup plan if this band thing doesn't work out, even though it will!

                                    

                     This speaks to me on a spiritual level.

9: J from Water Under The Bridge has the GREATEST taste in music.

10: I shouldn't drink coffee, weird things happen when I do.

                                    

        

        My bloodstream can't handle the caffeine.

How The Foo Fighters Concert Was The Best Concert In The History Of Concerts

Granted, I've only been to three other concerts in my life (not including The Wiggles when I was four) which were the Monumentour tour with Fall Out Boy, New Poltics, and Paramore last year, Fall Out Boy Boy's Of Zummer this year and DUN DUN DUN DUN One Direction.

Yes, I said One Direction. I, Chloee Barker lover of Rock and Roll and hater of all things frilly went to a One Direction concert. I was going though a boy-band phase, at fourteen. I'm not proud.

So I don't have a lot of concert experince BUT I don't need that to tell me that Foo Fighters on Wednesday was the best I will probably ever see.


We got at the venue and bought our merchandise, because what's the point of going if you're not going to buy SOMETHING to remember it all. I got their LP of Sonic Highways, which I will treasure until the day I die. We found our seats, which were even better then I thought they were going to be and Royal Blood opened up for them, which if you don't know them then I suggest you stop whatever you're doing and go listen to them.

They sound like a five-man band but it's just two British dudes on the guitar and the drums and the lead signer/guitarist is just A-MAZ-ING. I don't think they remember what city they were in though because he kept referring to the audience as "Missouri" but they were great! After that we probably waited about 25-30 minutes for Foo Fighters to take the stage.

Anyway about 8:00 is when they dimmed the lights an pulled up the curtain.

And they started playing, I was just in awe. First, because Dave Grohl is my absolute idol so I didn't really process what was going on because I was just like "He really is real!" so I just clapped and head bang along to the rhythm and tried not to freak out.

They started off by playing "Monkey Wrench" and "Everlong" and they played I think at least one or three song from each of their albums and a few snippit covers of Van Halen, Queen, and Rolling Stones. He dedicated "Best of You." to their crew and then hoped off his thorne and started to play acoustic versions of "Skin and Bones" and "My Hero."

It was just song after song and I was in absoulte heaven.

 He joked with the audiences the entire time and made sure to tell them how he broke his leg. He just was a really down to earth guy while he played, and they played for THREE hours straight and there was a lot of energy on stage, it wasn't at all boring or seemed force. It was just the best I have or will probably ever see.

I'm Really Super Tired And Too Lazy To Think Of A Witty Title

Quit judging me. Okay so since I'm running on like two hours of sleep I deiced just to give you a run down about what I'm going to be posting in the span of three days. I start having weird ideas and thoughts at a certain time if I don't get enough sleep such as............

I've never played wicket a day in my life.

1: The complete story of how the Foo Fighters concert was the best concert I have ever seen (Also the reason why I only got two hours of sleep.) Be prepared for pictures. And GIFs.

2: Jumbled thoughts which I stole from Adaline, sorry.

3: If I passed my permits test or not.

4: The complete and utter reason music is life.

5: Some mature and well thought out post about something besides bands.

6: Probably not.

7: Don't get your hopes up for number 5.

8: My most recent fail at trying pinterest-y stuff for my room.

9: GIFS.

10: Finally, what I learned in the past week.

So the moral of the stories is I have no other redeeming qualities except for giving you guys sarcasm and random band facts.

Interview With J

I had the awesome opportunity to interview J from waterunderthebridge, who by the way has the most A-MAZING taste in music. Seriously this girl needs to have her own radio station and only play her choice of songs, because I would listen the crap out of it. We also have so much in common it's scary, so without further delay I present J!

Hey there! I'm the mastermind behind the blog waterunderthebridge. (Okay, maybe mastermind isn't the best word...) I'm just a girl trying to make something of herself by playing guitar and attempting to sing. My blog is just my little space on the Internet where I share my opinions and music with the world.

Name:
Online I go by J, WaterUnderTheBridge, or just Water. Whichever you
prefer.

Age:

I prefer not to say my exact age, but I am in high school.

Why did you name your blog WUTB:

The saying “water under the bridge” means something from the past that isn't significant or important anymore. I chose this because at the time, I was putting a lot of things behind me and trying to start new.

If you could say one thing to influence someone what would it be:

First impressions aren't everything so don't judge people if you don’t really know who they are. 

I really just wanted to use this GIF

Who is your sworn enemy:
Hmm…I try not to make enemies but I guess I could say in general my sworn enemy is anybody that tries to tell me who to be or what to do.

If you could get a tattoo what would it be:

Well, I’m probably never going to get a tattoo because I’m not fond of needles. But if I did get one, I'd probably get the words “I am not afraid to keep on living”, which are lyrics from My Chemical Romances' "Famous Last Words".

Who do you idolize:

My dad. He is a huge inspiration to me as both a person and a musician.

What are you three top favorite things to do besides blogging:

Play guitar, Watch Youtube, and listen to music.

Favorite bands/singers:
Well, that list is quite long. Currently it’s Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, and Fall Out Boy. It's always changing though.

If you could have dinner with three people dead/alive who would they be and what would you say to them:

Why do you do this to me? Honestly, this is the hardest type of question for me to answer. But I think I'll go with Martin Johnson, Gerard Way, and Michael Clifford. I’d thank them for first of all, being themselves. I’d tell them how much they've inspired me and how much I look up to them as both people and musicians.

What do you want to be when you grow up:

I’d love to be a rhythm guitarist in a band.

Do you think it’s better to crash and burn or fade out:

Personally, I think it's better to fade out. If you fade out, you can still end on a high note and leave a legacy for however long it will last.

Things I Have Learned In The Past Week

1: If your dad surprises you with a amplifier, you'll freak out.

2: Running a mile on a empty stomach is like death, a hungry death.

3: Stop stalking band members and go finish your song.

4: I wear black so much that if I wear different color it feels like I'm cheating on it.

5:Dave Grohl's keynote speech from 2013 is golden.

6: Nirvana sounds even better when you turn the volume up all the way.

7: That song your writing may sound like crap now but in awhile it'll still sound like crap, just not as much.

8: It's not possible to function without coffee at 7:00 AM.

9: Stop looking up band quotes, you're just going to pin them all.

10: Watch where you're spraying your hairspray, because you will get it in your eyes.