The Great Gatsby

A Tale of Two Cities

Pornos

The quality of new pornos is absolute crap. The acting is so bad I might as well film one with my dog being the main star in it. Also, the quality of the production is about as good as what I release after an all you can eat Mexican buffet. Although the actors may be good looking and everything, they are so amateur when it comes to the acting portion of the movies.

Then there are the settings. The places that the characters are when they decide to get a little wound up are so inconvenient! Like for instance, maybe a bus stop or a library. Maybe even an elementary school bathroom. Or, if they are up for the risk, in a police station. I just don't understand why guys can’t just keep it in their pants until they get home! But, it doesn't matter because miraculously they never get caught! Therefore, they will just keep doing it wherever they please. 

Don't even get me started on the overdramatic parts. Well, too late. They are so overdramatic, it is almost too much. For example. Say a girlfriend messes up her boyfriend's sandwich.

"Martha! You didn't put the cheese touching the bread! You know I like it like that!" shouted Randy from the living room. "Can we just resolve this issue with ruthless, messy sex?" replied Martha from the kitchen. "Okay, get on the counter and drop those panties," said Randy as he got aroused.

As you can see, this is so overdramatic and completely unsanitary; and that's not even the worst scenario that there is.

These movies are so unrealistic it’s not even funny! No one would get that worked up over the placement of the cheese on one’s sandwich. But hey, that’s show business I guess. That’s still no excuse. And first of all, no one would ever do the dance with no pants at a bus stop. It is unsanitary and there is always that risk of being caught by the upcoming bus. Then there are those ones about doing it with a teacher to get a better grade. No teacher will risk that because they’d get fired if caught. Plus, the girl would never want to risk the humiliation of that kind of news getting around the school.

Now I have proved to everyone that movie companies need to do better at making a quality porn movie.

For this information I interviewed a friend of mine because I have never watched a porno. I do not condone watching one of these unless you are really desperate and home alone.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Christmas Music

TobyMac

When I was growing up, I always listened to Christian music. I loved it. It always had a great meaning to its songs. I never had to worry about getting in trouble by my mother by listening to bad music. It also filled me with great joy knowing that there is someone up there for me to count on. There was always one person that stood out to me when it came to good Christian music. He had the beat, he had the meaning, and he was just an all-around amazing artist. This great man is TobyMac. He has always been awesome. Throughout his career, he has had great music. He started out with a group called DC Talks. Even then he was producing amazing music.

The first album that I had of TobyMac’s is portable sounds. There wasn’t one song on that album that I didn’t like. My favorite on that was Lose My Soul featuring Kirk Franklin and Mandisa. It has such a good message and is just an all-around good song.

He had other amazing songs on that album that each spoke to me in a different way. Suddenly, All In, Feeling so Fly, Boomin’, all of those were amazing songs. Then, just to punch the songs permanently into my life, my mom surprised me with a trip to go up to waterloo and see him! He played all of my favorite songs and more. He had fire and amazing light works worked into his show. He even had people on stage doing flips and stuff. It was fantastic!

Then there are his other albums. Welcome to Divers City, Tonight, Eye On It, they were all so amazing! I loved every single one. Each one had at least one song that spoke to me on a personal level. It was amazballs. They were hype, they were energetic, fast, slow, meaningful, and on top of all of that, they were Christian. Who said Christian Music couldn’t be freaking fantastic? This stuff was.

There is another thing about one of his songs that is awesome. It was the main song of the 2014-2015 Happiness Inc. and was freaking awesome! They did it so good that they won several grand championships at several show choir competitions. Now if that isn’t awesome, I don’t know what is.

I totally recommend TobyMac for anyone who has any trace of a good taste of music.

Eminem

Rap is a very big part of the music industry. There is good and bad rap. When rap is good, it has a good beat, a good meaning, and an awesome chorus. The bad rap is just bad. This kind of rap is usually done by lil Wayne, Jay Z, and any other young rapper.  The good stuff is usually done by one rapper in particular. He grew up in Detroit and when he wanted to go into the rap industry he got shunned by all the major rappers because he was white. But one rapper gave him a chance. This one rapper, Dr. Dre took him under his wing and turned him into one of the biggest names in the rap business. If you haven’t guessed who this is, The Real Slim shady, Eminem.

Eminem is freaking awesome. He is, in my opinion, the best rapper there is. All of his music either is funny, meaningful, or just flat out amazing. It has an amazing beat and he has all-around good songs. He was also the reason that i started listening to rap music. The first song that i heard by him was Not Afraid. My friend Nathan explained what it was about and I was amazed. I didn't realize until then that songs could have a deeper meaning than what is being flat out said. After that, for a long time, was a huge Eminem fan. I started to learn how to rap and soon mastered a few of his songs.
Years later I am still an Eminem fan. His song Rap God was issued to me as a challenge. It held the world record for fastest rap. It was at first a challenge, but eventually I was able to do it flawlessly. I applaud to Eminem to come up with such a song. 

The Lonely Island

You know, there are some bands that are pretty amazing. There is The Offspring, Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown, and Three Days Grace. There are those crappy ones like Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and that one guy with the glass eye. Then there is the Lonely Island. They are in a whole division of their own. If I could describe them in a few words, they would be hilarious, amazing, ballsy, and very inappropriate. They may be inappropriate, but they are still amazing. The fact that they come up with the stuff that they do is unreal. No one would even think of putting the stuff they do into songs. This is mostly because of the fact that most people mature when they get older, but thankfully they did not.

I want to talk about their music. There are so many to choose from, but I know exactly which ones to talk about. I first want to talk about their song, I’m The Boss. This is a song that will go down in history as the world’s most random song ever created. It’s about going through a usual day of being “the boss”. It starts out by naming things that a usual boos would do during his/her day. Then things get real weird real fast. It starts out by saying he’ll shit on Debra’s desk. Then goes into saying things like sucking his dick, sucking another dude’s dick, chopping his balls off, meeting a giant fish and fucking its brains out, and bombing the Russians.  That’s not even their best song.

Everyone has heard their song, I Just Had Sex. It is a quality song. It really connects to people who, you know, just had sex. Featuring Akon made it just that much better. The chorus was amazing then the rapping parts were priceless. I learned that if you cry the whole time, if she kept looking at her watch, or if she was a racist, it doesn’t matter, because you had sex. Also, if she puts a bag on her head, it still counts.

They have a whole selection of songs just like those. They have one about jizzing in your pants, marrying a man on spring break and one about being on a boat. I can tell you that they are all quality songs. One was even performed by Happiness Inc. It’s called Jack Sparrow and is all about how Jack Sparrow is an amazing pirate. I would definitely recommend looking them up. You could learn valuable life lessons from them.

Ap Lang Reading

       

             I love reading. It’s absolutely phenomenal! I could get lost in a book so easily and never want to come out. I’ve even had to have my mom take my book away from me, just so that I would come down and eat my dinner. This happens when I am reading an amazing book, and I am reading my choice. This doesn’t happen when I am being told to read and having to read a book that is as boring as watching the grass grow.

            If you haven’t guessed what I am talking about yet, let me get you in on the rant, It’s AP Lang reading. It is so dumb! Not only are we supposed to blog 1200 words a week in three separate blog posts, but we also have to read 100 pages! It’s complete horse manure! I have a life outside of a language arts class. I’m in sports, I’m in show choir and speech. On top of all of that, I have other classes too! I don’t have time to be doing all of that crap!

            Now remember, I love reading. It’s great, it’s like T.V. in your head. But when you are forced to read, it takes all the joy out of it. It feels more like a chore than something that is for enjoyment. Then on top of that, the book choices are freaking terrible. I am personally a factional reader. Fiction is amazing because you can do anything with it. But, the books that we have to choose from are probably some of the most boring books on the face of the earth. Then there are the non-fiction ones. Those ones could probably win an award for most pointless topics to write about.  Then the fact that we have to read them because we are being told to makes them even worse.

             Then after the hell of reading a boring ass book, we have to freaking analyze it! Why not just put me out of my misery and push me off a cliff. Doing an analysis of a book that I didn’t even want to read in the first place is the worst thing that you could make me do. It’s like Ms. A was trying to find what exactly she can have that will make me go insane.

             You know what they say, if you can’t beat them, join them. Well I say screw that! I haven’t done one of those yet. I am still on page 43 of a book that I got in September. I may be 1057 pages behind what I need to be at. But hey, I’m still doing fine in that class.

                                                             

Rick Riorden

I freaking love Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the Heroes of Olympus series. I started the Percy Jackson series when I was in fourth grade. After the first book, I completely fell in love with it. I got lost in those books, and I didn’t mind. I really didn’t want to be found. Then a couple years ago, Rick Riorden came out with a sequel series to Percy Jackson and they were just as good, maybe even better. In total, it took me a total of 6 years to read all ten books. This is because of how long it took for each one to be released. Although that was very annoying, it was well worth the wait. The problem with it though, is how big of an ass Rick Riorden was during all that time.

            Just so that you don’t get mad at me, there might be a few spoilers in this blog, just a forewarning.

            During the time that he was writing the last five books of the whole Percy Jackson adventure, Rick decided that he wanted to be a complete dick to all of his fans. Now I get it, he wants to create suspense for his readers, but what he did was too far. He caused complete mayhem for the whole Percy Jackson fandom.

            For example, it was right after the third book was released. He waited a little to let the whole United States read what he wrote. He ended the book with Percy and Annabeth falling to Tartarus (deepest part of the underworld). After completely shocking everyone with this huge cliff hanger, he decides to send out a tweet. It said, “I am contemplating on killing off Annabeth.” You can’t just do that! Why would he do that to all of his readers?! After five years, Percy and Annabeth finally started dating, and he told everyone that he was going to kill Annabeth right after their relationship just started.  It’s complete bullshit!!!!!! Thankfully he didn’t do that, but still!

            That’s just one example of the hell that he put us through. It is probably the cruelest one. I just wanted to give everyone a taste of what a monster Rick Riorden is.  

Shinedown

If you read my last blog, I wrote about the Breaking Benjamin and Shinedown concert that I attended. If you paid attention, you would have noticed that I only spoke of Breaking Benjamin, and said nothing about Shinedown. Well, Shinedown was the main event, so I have to say at least something about them. I have one word to describe Shinedown, freaking awesome! They were everything that you could want in a concert. It was loud, full of energy, great songs, and fire. That’s why Shinedown was the best concert that I have ever gone to.

            Now, I’ve gone to music concerts before. They were all great. The atmosphere is always amazing, everyone listening to the same music, and appreciating it just as much as you are. It’s a beautiful thing. Shinedown’s concert, was the exact same thing. It was a combination of loud and wild, and beautiful and soft. The lead singer also had us do something that I thought was totally amazing. He had the people who run all the lights, shut them all off. Then he told the crowd to take out their phone and turn on the flash light. This lit up the entire room just as if the lights were on! It is simple but amazing. It showed that all the people in there were contributing to the concert in their own way.

            Then there was the songs, oh my God the songs. They were all amazing! I only knew their most famous song, Second Chance, when I went into the concert. I came out wanting to get all of their songs on my phone so I could listen to them over and over again. They were so good in so many ways that it’s hard to explain. All I know is that when I heard a song that I liked, I fell in love. Each one has an amazing meaning and sound. The band did a great job of accompanying the singer and his amazing voice.

            Speaking of his voice, it is definitely a gift from God. It is so amazing. He is a baritone, but he’s also a low base, but he’s also a tenor. He can do all three ranges of guy singing, and he has a phenomenal sound. He could also change his voice so that it sounded like a completely different person. I was astonished at the fact of this.

            I would highly recommend this group for anyone. They have songs that appeal to everyone. They have hard core rock, meaning filled, soft and slow, inspirational, the whole shebang. I hope that everyone will look them up.

            I recommend the songs 45, I’ll follow you, second chance.

Breaking Benjamin

            I went to a Breaking Benjamin and Shinedown concert about a week ago, and all I have to say is, wow. It was freaking fantastic! It was so good that I think that it is worthy to post something about it on my blog. Now, for something like that to be worthy enough to be posted on this amazing blog had to have been something special; and let me tell you this, it was. So much so that I am going to have to explain everything. So I hope that you agree, if you went to the concert, that I am correct on everything that I say.

I just want to address the bad parts of their concert. It’s nothing major, it’s just a little annoying. First off, their lead singer told a group of people in the mosh pit to start waltzing in a circle. I have no clue why the hell he did that. It was so random and he said it out of no wear. Then also when he is performing, he stands in one spot for an entire song. I would personally like it if he would have moved around a little bit more. Then the last thing that bugged me was the swearing. I hear swearing all the time, it’s basic vocabulary of a high school student. But when he cussed, it was so awkward. I don’t know why, but it was.

That was just little things, now for the awesome parts. Breaking Benjamin opened with their song failure. Personally that is my favorite song by them, so when they came right out with it, I just about pissed myself from excitement! Then they went on with their songs and the room just kept getting better and better. They sang songs like Angels Fall, I Will Not Bow, Diary of Jane, and Give Me a Sign. Each song was just amazing. They sounded amazing and the crowd went crazy for them. Then in the middle of their concert, they came out with a surprise. The whole U.S. Cellular Center went completely black. Then, they came out with light sabers. Freaking light sabers!!! They did a tribute to the upcoming new Star Wars film. They had Storm Trooper helmets and everything! Then they did the Star Wars theme song on the guitar, and all I can say is that it was fan-damn-tastic.

Other than those first few things that I said I didn’t like, it was an all-around good concert. I like Breaking Benjamin a lot more than I did going into it. I would love to go see them again if I could.

Horror Movies

            You know what I don’t get? It’s been a question that I’ve had since I was a little kid. It’s always bugged the crap out of me. It’s so dumb that I don’t know why they keep doing it. My question is why the hell would someone pay money, to get the living piss scared out of them? It beats me! I think that horror movies are the dumbest thing in the movie business. All they do is scare the crap out of you. I honestly don’t see the reasoning behind what makes them so popular.

            Horror movies consist of five things, music, affects, dialogue, and the jump scare. A combination of all five of these elements creates a pants shitting movie. These all don’t happen at once. It happens over a course of about five minutes. This is to build up suspense and to get you prepared to scream so loud that your neighbors call the cops because they think there’s a murder. I mean technically there has been, but that’s beside the point. The point is that they are strategically placed to get the best scare out of you.

            The first thing that producers do is put the characters in a scary scene and create a specific dialogue to build up to it. For example, Jenny and Jen are walking down a country road between two corn fields in the dead of night. “Did you hear that?” Jen said. “Yeah, I think I did. It came from the corn field right over there,” Jenny exclaimed while pointing to the source of the sound.

            Then they que the scary music. This causes the audience to tense up, because they know exactly what is going to happen. Then comes the part where you get scared shitless. A thing pops out of the corn field and slaughter the two girls right where they stand (this probably wouldn’t have happened if they had Direct TV.) This is the jump scare. Then to drive everything home, they have good affects to make it seem as real as possible. They have all the blood and gore to wrap it all up. It shows, down to the tiniest detail, exactly what it looks and sounds like when you watch your friend get their head chopped off by a rusty machete.

            This is what a horror movie basically is. Again, I have no idea the reasoning people have to want to see these. But hey, people still watch them and movie companies keep getting money off of them, so I don’t think that they are going to go away any time soon.

Phineas and Ferb

            When you are a little kid, you want to do almost anything that you can during summer. For most of us, that usually doesn’t happen. Instead we sat around and watched T.V. or took naps. We never really got anything accomplished. Well, you can’t say that for Phineas and Ferb! They did in one day what grown adults did in years. They built a friggin’ roller coaster for Peet’s sake! How the hell do you even do that? You be in a kids cartoon show, that’s how! That’s beside the point though. Those kids did whatever the hell they wanted with no worries whatsoever. That’s how I wish my childhood was like. But no, I don’t have the permits to build a ship to outer space, what a shame.

            Phineas and Ferb was a work of pure genius. I think that that show was probably the best show on television for a while. There was so much imagination and creativity that went into it, it’s crazy. That show is the kind of show that kids should be watching. One that influences creativity and pushing the limits. Instead, kids are watching shows that make them dumber and makes them brain dead. But hey, that’s none of my business.

            The show also promotes friendship. You don’t see a select group of kids that do everything together and are inclusive to other people anymore. You see a group of kids that make trouble, and exclude and make fun of people. That’s what this world has come to. But in Phineas and Ferb, everyone is included. They are nice to everyone that they encounter. They are even nice to their sister that is always trying to get them into. That takes a special kind of something to do that.

            Then on top of all that, the show is funny! My favorite part is when they are getting something from an adult and the adults aren’t even phased! That would never happen in real life! They are just, “glad to see that young kids are interested in that particular kind of stuff.” Then there is also a bunch of little hidden jokes though out the entire show. I love it!

            I wish that there were more shows like Phineas and Ferb. I think that it’s a quality show, and the kind of show that kids should be watching. I hope there will be a day when the world only consists of kids shows like that.

Spongbob

So, let’s talk about something that should have never been imagined. Something that should have been turned away as the dumbest thing that has ever been thought up. This something is mentally challenged, he’s yellow, he’s square, and he has decided to work as a fry cook for the rest of his life because he sucks at everything else. I’m pretty sure that you all know what I’m talking about. SpongeBob. I don’t know what compelled someone to think about SpongeBob becoming a show, but whoever did had to have been high on some sort of something. All I know is that it was annoying as a kid, and it’s extremely annoying now.

SpongeBob is probably the dumbest show that has ever been created. That’s saying something since there are shows like Dog with a Blog. I actually firmly believe that anyone who watches SpongeBob drops their IQ a couple points, and that’s every episode. What they say on the show are the works of a bunch of idiots sitting in a room trying to see what amazingly dumb thing that can be put on the show. Then they go get high, and come back while baked like an apple pie, and still try to come up with something! I’m not actually sure that that is how a kid’s show should be influenced.

Then there is Patrick. I have no words to describe how much I hate Patrick. Oh wait, yes I do. He is dumb, lazy, and literally has no brain. I don’t even know how someone could come up with such a mind dumbing character. He is probably 80% of why kids are so dumb these days. They sit around and watch a star fish walk around causing problems because he is too dumb to do anything.

Then there are the voices of the characters. SpongeBob’s voice actually gives me a head ach. Then he laughs, holy crap muffins, when he laughs I actually want to shove scissors into my ears. I didn’t think that such an annoying sound could be created by a human mouth, but the creators of this show managed to do just that. Then there’s Squidward. He sounds like a person who has been nasally congested since he was a little kid. Patrick who’s voice actually sounds like a mentally challenged kid. And last but not least, Mr. Crabs, who sounds like a pirate who has something shoved up his sphincter.

This show should be banned from T.V. We as moral human beings need to put an end to this madness.

Memorizing

            Movies and music are kind of my life. I absolutely love both of them. I can’t imagine my life without either of them. I love them so much that I have decided to memorize basically everything that I have heard or watched. This has cause me to get into lots of trouble over the years, but I won’t get into that. But I’ve found that you can memorize almost anything that you listen to. Whether or not you retain it over a long time is completely up to your brain. Or maybe it’s genetic? I don’t really know.

            I’ve found that memorizing music is very simple to do. You just have to open up and let the music flow to your soul. No. just joking. I usually just listen. I focus on what’s being said and then I can usually recite it then. If I can’t figure something out, then I look up the lyrics, and then it all just clicks into place. Or you can just memorize the lyrics themselves. That works too. But I fee; like that is kind of a short cut. Then it’s not as fun.

            Then memorizing movies is totally different. There are only a few movies that maybe you can memorize completely. I’ve done this, but it was a movie from my childhood, so I had a lot of time to memorize it. The first step I memorizing a movie is to pick out various scenes in it. This way you narrow down your amount that you are memorizing. Then that way you will be able to quote movies any time that you feel like it. I personally do it to piss off my parents. But hey, we all have our different reasons for doing the things that we do.

            Now I don’t really know how all this memorizing actually works, or how some people can remember things better that others. Once I do I’ll let you know.

Childhood Movies

            Childhood is the best time ever. You doing have to worry about anything, and you are free to basically do whatever you want. The thing is, most childhoods were different. There are the kids’ whose families were wealthy and they got whatever they wanted when they wanted it. Then there are those children who did whatever their imagination compelled them to do. Either way, there is one factor that linked these two very different childhoods. Movies. Movies have always been with us from birth to now. The type of movies that you are interested in might have changed, but you will always like those special few movies that made your childhood better.

            Growing up, I have made a lot of friends. I’ve always found that I can connect with people over what kind of movies that we liked when we were little. For example, my friends Austin and Christine, they both like the same movies that I liked when I was little. The big one was the lion king. Most people like the lion king, but it was all three of our favorite childhood movie.

            Then there are the types of movies that you shouldn’t have been watching in the first place, but you have that one parent that said that it was fine. My movie that was like that was Spaceballs. The movie had all these sexual jokes and swearing in it, but since I was little, I had no idea what they even meant. How was I supposed to know that when they were fighting with their “Swartz” that it was referring to a literal cock fight. All I cared about and focused on was the fact that Lone Star and Barf had a flying motor home.

            Then, there are the movies that made you want to be things when you grew up. For me, that was The Sandlot. I loved that movie with all my heart. I honestly can’t remember a week for about two years that I didn’t watch The Sandlot at least once. It made me want to be a baseball player. That dream quickly changed because I realized just how boring the game of baseball is. It also made me want to be a better person. Benny was just the nicest guy and was so polite and had the best spirit that I could imagine. Just an all-around good person.

            Movies bring out the best in people I think. But childhood movies bring out the kid in all of us. They bring back so many memories, and just make you feel good inside. You know that that movie will always be there and will always take you back to the past.

Short Endings

            Movies can be a little over exaggerated, and by a little, I mean a lot. It’s ridiculous how over exaggerated they are. It gets to the point that if they weren’t over exaggerated, then the movie would be cut short, by a lot. That’s exactly what I’m going to show you. I think that it is funny how a movie can be cut short just by one little thing. These movies are Disney movies too, which is even funnier because you don’t notice them until you are older.

            Let’s start with Mulan shall we? Mulan is about a girl who snuck away from home in order to fill her father’s place in the Chinese army. Back when this took place, woman could not join the army. In doing so would lead to dishonor of the family, and the death of that individual. Several times in the movie Mulan should have been caught. For example, when they were all taking a bath in the lake, if the men would have looked in the water, they would have noticed that, “Ping” had female titties, and not male ones. Also, anyone can tell when a girl is impersonating a man. In real life, this would have been a dead giveaway. Then in the song, “We are men,” Shang pulled on Mulan’s shirt to get in her face. You would think that when he did that, he would have felt a little something something. But if he didn’t, then all he had to do was look down and see that Ping is not in fact, a dude. With all of these, it would have ended in Mulan’s death, and therefore, the end of the movie.

            Then there’s the Disney princess movies. Many of them could have ended shortly because of supposed early deaths. Let’s start with Snow White. The crazy evil queen essentially wanted her dead. So she turned into a hag lady and gave her a poisoned apple the put her into a coma. Why a coma? Why not just kill her with an apple that has actual deadly poison in it? Beats me. It would have definitely ended the movie right then and there. But then again, that would have probably caused a little problem considering the movie is for 6 year old girls.

            There is also sleeping beauty. I mean, that witch could have cursed her into falling off a cliff or something. Or, if you want to stick with the plot of the story, she could have cursed her to prick her and then just die. Instead she pricked her finger and fell into a sleep that could be broken. What was she thinking? I have no idea.

            That’s all the movies that are really obvious. If I think of any other ones, I’ll write another blog about this.

Movie Busters

Movies are very sly when it comes to jokes. Especially kids movie, which makes them all the more funny. Whether it’s a flat out joke, or just something that the character implies, movie and T.V. producers are very sneaky. It also seems like kids channels are getting away with a lot more things that no kids shows would ever get away with ten years ago. I’m not complaining, but I think it’s funny how much of what kids have watched has changed so much. I think that everyone can agree with me that all kids movies and shows have some very inappropriate things in them.

I want to start with the new nickelodeon show Henry Danger. It’s meant to be for kids that are under ten, but what is said should only be in shows meant for teens and above. You can tell it’s a kids show because the acting is very bad. Like, really bad. So bad that I don’t see how kids can watch it. Some of the things said are very inappropriate. For example, at a party, Captain Man was talking with the parents of the girl who had the party. While her husband was standing right there, the mom suggested that she committed adultery with Captain Man. What the hell is up with that? Kids should not be getting exposed to that at such a young age!

Then there’s Shrek. That whole movie is just a long line of dirty jokes. I mean the evil guy’s name is Lord Farquad. What does that sound like? I’m sure you can figure it out. Also, when Shrek and Donkey are walking up to Lord Farquad’s castle, they notice that it is very big and tall. Then Shrek says, “He must be compensating for something.” Whether he’s referring to Farquad’s height or his disco stick, I’ll let you decide.

Then more can be said about a lot more movies and shows. The list just goes on and on! Some of them are little and some of them are small. The thing is, once you see it or hear about it, it will never go away. You will always think about it when you see that particular movie. Heck, there are several accounts devoted to ruining childhood movies for everyone. When you see their posts, you instantly know what they are talking about and that movie is now ruined forever. 

Connections

            Everyone has connections to everything. We have connections to friends and family. Heck, we even form connections to animals such as cats and dogs. But you may not think too much about the connections to music, movies, and books that you have. I mean that’s what this whole blog page is about. That means that there has to be a connection somewhere, and there is. There are connections everywhere. The thing is, they aren’t always very easy to see. That’s why you listen more carefully, watch more intently, or pay more attention to detail. When you do this, I bet that you can connect to almost anything that you listen to, watch or read. In order to do this, all you have to do is put in a little more effort.

            Music is around us every day. Whether it is bad or good music, all types of people can make a connection. Let’s start with all the bad music out there. I’m sure that a stripper can connect to anything that’s on the radio these days. It’s all about sex, money, drugs, and making it rain on strippers. Well, I’m sure that they do a lot of the sex, they probably do some sort of drug, and they get money by getting rained on on the daily. Then there are other connections that people make. For example, someone that lost a relative, they would connect to songs that are meant to mourn the loss of a loved one. Or, if someone is feeling free on any particular day, they could connect to and Fourth of July song. Connections are everywhere in the world of music, you just have to find them.

            Connections can also be found in a movie. We have all connected with that one movie where someone lost their grandfather or grandmother. Everyone has experienced it. Then there are those movies where they are about relationships. How when someone breaks up with someone and they are feeling a certain way and you’re just like, “HOLY CRAP MUFFINS, THAT IS SO TRUE.” Everyone knows what I’m talking about. 

            The same is said with books. The thing with books is, you know exactly what the character is thinking or feeling at all times. Therefore you can connect with a book on a deeper level that movies or music. With books, you can see that you and a character think a lot alike. Maybe the two of you worry too much, or have way too much energy and come across people as annoying. With books, connections can be anywhere and are much easier to spot. That’s what makes them so powerful to all types of readers.

            So, no matter what your preference to anything is, you can always find a connection. The only thing you need to do, is look.

The feels: Music

            The feels are a powerful thing. They have the ability to make someone open up, makes someone completely break down, or turn someone into a ragging, bad ass mother trucker. So don’t mess with the feels. The source of the feels can come in many different forms. For example, books, movies, and music. Music has a lot of variety and can change the feels however it wishes. It’s up to the listener what type of feels that they want to experience. Maybe their feels are already feeling something and need to be emphasized or soothed by music. Either way, the feels will be satisfied.

            Let’s start with music’s power of being able to pump us up. Pump up music is supposed to get up hyped. It has lots of bass, screaming, and a powerful message about being better than everyone else. Well I can tell you first hand that it works. In the football locker room before a game, we listen to pump up music and it gets us in the mind set for the game. It sets the feels on crazy and you just want to go out jumping and screaming like a complete maniac.

            Then there are those feels of being alone. Where you are all down and you feel like there is no one for you. You know, the worst type of feels. We’ve all been there. Well there are many, many songs for that. There is that slow country music that I hear is good but I don’t wat to listen to because country sucks a monkey butt. Then there is the music that I prefer. It is Christian music that is soft and slow and is jam packed full of meaning. The kind of music saying that there is always someone there for you and that no matter what you do or where you are, someone loves you. That always manages to falcon punch me right in the feels. I get this tinging feeling and it spreads all over my body and it is just a weird feeling. But I know that it is my inner feels being touched.

            Feels are full of mixed emotions. One of the things that can sooth those emotions is music, and it does it in a way that no one can explain. You just know that you have the song that you need because you can feel it in your soul. The feels are a powerful thing. It’s up to you to decide what you want to do with them.

Books Vs. Movies

            Books or movies? That’s an important question. It’s one of the most important ones when it comes to book freaks. You simply can’t be a book freak and say that you like the movie more. Now, I’m sure that if you don’t read books all that often, then you would be a movie lover. But if you read a book before the movie and then watch the movie, I know for sure that you will say that the book is 100% better. I will prove to you why that is.

With books, you can go anywhere. You can be anything. With books, you use a lot of your imagination. It’s basically T.V. in your head, but you control everything. You imagine what the characters look like, how their surroundings look, and how everything happens. There is much more detail in the book, and with the book, the author can put anything into it. He/ she can make the book as long he/ she wants it to be, without there being any problem. Books are also a place to escape. You are in your own little world when you read, and no one can mess with it. That’s why books are better.

With movies, there is a lot that can go wrong. Movie are limited by time and money. This can cause several problems. For example, effects. If a book is full of amazing stunts, and out of this world crap, movie producers may not be able to do those. For instance, safety is a concern, and with the affects, it may be limited to the technology that we have, making it a lot less awesome than it could be. Also, detail and depth can be affected. With movies, you can only have a two hour time, so a lot has to be cut from the book in order for it to work. This makes it so that it is not as accurate to the book. You lose important scenes, characters, and sometimes part of the plot.

Also, the way you are involved is different. With movies, you are just sitting there like a potato, staring at a screen. That uses absolutely no imagination. With books, you have to do it all. It involves you in order to have things happen. It makes you more intelligent, and expands your mind.

That’s the difference between movies and books. And as you can see, books are better.

Fiction Vs. Nonfiction

In the world of literature, there are two types of books, you have nonfiction, and fiction. Both have their ups and downs, but both can be very good. Even nonfiction can be, believe it or not. I still haven’t found one that is good, but I’m sure there’s one out there. There is mystery, love stories, action and adventure, and horror stories in both categories of books. Which one you like more, is for you to decide.

I personally love fiction. I think that it is much better than nonfiction for many reasons. One reason is that you can go anywhere with fiction. The limit to fiction is the limit of the author’s imagination, and that is limitless! I mean, your main character can have the ability to fly! I bet you won’t find that in any nonfiction novel. Plus, all superheroes came from fiction novels and series. Without fiction, we wouldn’t have Iron Man, the Hulk, and Captain America. I think that would completely suck if those weren’t ever created.  So you can probably see why I like fiction so much

Nonfiction, it just sucks. I have read only a few nonfiction books that I have actually liked. Other than those, I hated them. They are so drawn out and boring. I don’t even know how someone can put so much detail into something as simple as a couch. There is simply too much, making it not good. For example, not to seem like a bad person or anything, I read a book about the holocaust. I know that it is a terrible thing and it shouldn’t ever happen again, but I didn’t like it! It was way too detailed and made it super hard to read. I just don’t like it! Now, I’m sure that there is a nonfiction book out there that I would find enjoyable. But I don’t know when the time of me having that book will come. It probably will never come, because if I see that it is nonfiction, then I most likely will not even glance at it.

That’s my stance on fiction and nonfiction. If anyone has any books that they think I would enjoy, fiction or nonfiction, please let me know. I would love to read them. I need more books to read and I want to broaden my selection.

Rant: Fifty Shades of Gray

What has this world come to? I’ll tell you what it’s come to. A pornographic novel that have become more popular than the bible. I’m sure you’ve all guessed what this book is already, Fifty Shades of Gray. This book is a perfect representation of what this world has come to. It’s just not right! How could a book as nasty as this one become so popular? Is surly beats me.

            The first thing to address about this topic is the author. What is wrong with her? What would compel someone enough to write a 500+ page book that is entirely about sex and how a guy can seduce woman? Is she mentally unstable to the point that every sexual desire that she has ever had needed to be put down on paper and released to the world? Or is she just one of those horny girls that just simple porn doesn’t satisfy her where she needs to write out exactly how she likes it? I have no idea, all I know it takes a special type of messed up to write, not one, but three books about this crap.

            This book has become more popular than Harry Potter. Harry Potter! How is this possible? I’ll tell you how. It’s because people in this world think that sex is something that everyone should have. It’s not like the bible says that sex is only for marriage, but hey, that’s none of my business. Did you know that some hotels have replaced the bible in the night stand with Fifty Shades of Gray? I do, and I think that that is so messed up! This is basically saying that people would rather read a porn novel rather than the bible. If that doesn’t spell messed up, then I don’t know what does.

            Something needs to be done about this. A book like this should never have been released, let alone be popular enough to be the 2^nd most sold book in history. This world needs to be cleansed after the creation of that book. We don’t need a book like that around at all. I mean porn is a real problem and is frowned upon, but that’s not the case with this terrible book because it’s more, “ethical”. If you ask me, the author should be thrown in jail for corrupting the minds of the world, and whoever made her the way she is should be shot. But hey, that’s just what I think.

Bad Music

            It has been brought to my attention that while I seem to rant about how awful music is these days, I only have been giving examples of what I think good music is. That I have yet to give an example of what I think is “bad music.” As I went through my little rant, I have noticed that this is very true. I feel like it is my responsibility to let everyone what music is what I think is “trash.” After I am done I feel like most people will agree with me one what is trash and what is not.

            Let’s start out my little rant with Watch Me by Silento. First of all, this song has lyrics that could have been made up by a little 6 year old kid. Who the hell would come up with a song like this! It sucks on a supersonic level. It sucks like a black hole sucking up a thousand suns. It is literally the repetition of ten sentences put to a crappy beat for a three and a half minutes, which by my opinion, is three and a half minutes too long.  

            Now let’s move on to a song that should never have been thought up. It is so bad! Its dirty and disgusting, I have no idea who the hell would want to claim a song like this as their own. It’s My Neck, My Back, by Khia. Like what the Hell? This song should have never been released to the public. Does Khia realize that there are little kids hearing this? It is so bad that I think God threw up in his mouth when she first sang it. “My neck, my back, lick my blank and my blank.” (The blanks are there in place of some other words because those words should not be used in a blog that is meant for a high school course.) Those are some of the words to this song. What was she thinking while she was writing this? It was probably, “Wow, I’m super horny right now. I should probably write a song to show the whole world about how I like it and how much of a little hoe I am.” Let’s be honest here, you all know I’m not wrong.

            Those are just two examples of songs that are complete garbage. There are many more where that came from too. And even get me started on Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift. Those two will probably be another blog post. Now everyone has some insight on what I think of todays songs.

Movie Review: Spaceballs

            Now this, this is what you call a quality movie. A movie, where all things are possible. A movie, that is like Star Wars, but in reality, it’s not. It’s more like an adult remix of it. It is a work of pure genius. Whoever came up with this movie needs to be given an award for being a freaking boss. This movie should be given award after award after award for being a work of pure comedy gold. This movie made me laugh as a kid and makes me still laugh to this day. This movie is Spaceballs.

            The movie is about these people called Spaceballs. They have ruined their own planet, so they need to steal the fresh air out of another planet called Druidia. But not if Lone Star and his faithful mog (half man, half dog) Barf, can help it. They are on a measly cruise around the Galaxy, when they get a call from the king of Druidia. He tells them that his daughter has run away and will pay them one million Space Bucks if they find and return her. They of course take this job because they owe Pizza the Hut one million Space Bucks. When they find Princess Vespa caught in a tractor beam of a Spaceballs ship, they were instantly sucked into the adventure of their lives.   

            I personally feel like this movie is pure genius. They took each character from Star Wars and twisted their personality and came up with the characters for Spaceballs. For example, Darth Vader is a menacing super villain, but the creators of Spaceballs took that character and turned him into a nerdy, funny small person with a big helmet, Dark Helmet. Also, in Star Wars, it’s called “the force”, in Spaceballs they call it the shworts. They also take sayings like, “May the force be with you” and turn it into “may the shworts be with you.”

            This kind of funny mockery takes place throughout the whole movie. Little hints of dirty comedy make it hilarious. I would call this guy humor. This movie is great for all guys, this is because we are all alike. We like dirty jokes, stupid comments, and funny people. I would not recommend this to any girl unless she can take stupid comedy. Otherwise this is an all-around good movie. It should be watched by everyone. Anyone who says that it is a bad movie, they’re wrong.

Disney Music

Do you enjoy music? I know I do. We all have different music that we listen to. I personally like rap, rock, and Christian music. It hasn’t always been like that though. I used to like county, but that was a long, long, long time ago. As in I was around 6 years old. Out of all this time, there has been one type of music that has stuck with me. It still makes me laugh, gets me excited and wound, and also can make me very emotional. It’s Disney music! Disney is amazing at making movie, don’t get me wrong. The one thing that they also do that can even compare to their movies, is their music.

            Throughout my childhood, I was a music maniac. I loved it from the first note that I heard and still do now. When I was I kid, I was, you could almost say, addicted to movies. I watched one almost every day. The thing that struck me was how awesome every song was! I loved how every song fit the mood of that part of the movie! What I noticed was that Disney’s songs were the best, hands down. The instrumentals were amazing, the words that were sang spoke to my very soul, and the beat was incredible. They still are! Even ten years later, they are pumping out movies with incredible music! Plus, even with so much time that has past, my childhood movie’s music is still thebomb.com.

            For example, The Lion King. Does any more have to be said? I think not! But I guess I will because I’m awesome like that. It is an amazing movie in general. The plot, the characters, and especially the music. Every song was pure genius. It was amazingly made and composed, and it still gets me going to this very day.

            It’s not even just in the movie, it’s in real life too! I went to Disney world last spring and holy crap that was amazing! When we went to animal kingdom and while there, some friends and I saw the Lion King. I can tell you, it was freaking amazing. The songs were beautifully sung, and the dancing was incredible. I think that that show was the best thing at Disney, just because of the singing! Those people need to be professional singers, they were that good. I think I was even slightly in tears because of the Circle of Life.

            I think we can all say Disney is amazing. What makes it amazing is their movies and music. I just hope that they don’t take a turn for the worst like the rest of today’s music. That would completely and utterly destroy me.

Disney Movies

My childhood was filled with wonder, imagination, adventure, and amazement. This wasn’t because of things I did. It wasn’t because of trips that I went on. It most definitely wasn’t because of school. “What was it then?” some people might ask. Well I’ll tell you what it was, it was Disney movies! They were so amazing then, and 10 years later, they are still amazing. I even had a Disney movie marathon recently with one of my good friends that reminded me of how awesome all those movies are. Disney movies are full of creativity and are the base of every childhood that was awesome. If anyone hasn’t seen them, it is highly recommended. At least by me it is.

Now when I say Disney Movies, some people may be confused about what I mean. I’m not talking about Teen Beach Movie. Not that crap. That type of Disney movie sucks like a vacuum. I’m talking the cartoon ones. The ones that people of all ages can enjoy.

If you are a parent and you see a Disney movie like Teen Beach Movie, you will only notice how the acting is terrible and that no one should always be as happy as everyone in it. If you see a movie like Tangled, you will laugh, you will cry, and then eventually, you will want to see it again. That’s not the only movie like that though. If you ever watch the lion king, I don’t care who you are, who you’re with, how old you are, or how tough you think you are, you will be emotionally broken down. You will laugh, you will be broken down, and you will be on the edge of your seat because the suspense is just killing you.

These movies are amazing in every way. There are people all around the world that will agree with me too. The creativity that goes into just one of their movies is astonishing. So much though is put into each character, making it able for people to connect and feel for those characters. The setting and plot of each movie is so thought out that you’ll want to keep watching them over and over again.

I can tell you this, I can’t wait for Disney to come out with more movies. I want to keep seeing the creativity and wonder in each one. I can’t wait until I’m a father and I’ll be able to show my kids all the amazing movies that I had the pleasure of growing up with.

What Makes a Song Enoyable

So many songs are coming out today, and if I’m being completely honest, I think most of it is complete garbage. Like what the heck happened? I’ll tell you what happened, this generation happened. We are made up of stupid, uncreative jack wagons that can’t make a good song to save their lives. I don’t want to be older and turn on the radio for my kids and hear a song come on about making it rain on a group of strippers! I want to show them that my age of music was the best that there ever was; but I won’t be able to do that. Not unless we get our act together. My taste in music is very picky; but you’ll see, it is pretty awesome.

When I look for music it has to meet three qualities, Meaning, beat, and words. If a song doesn’t have a good meaning and it has good words and beat, then it will be fine. If a song is lacking the other two qualities, then most likely it the equivalent to dog crap after it accidentally ate an entire Mexican buffet. You can’t say that a song is good if you are listening to it and hear that it is just gibberish (Iggy Azalea). You also can’t say it is good if the beat sounds like my dog farting. But when I listen to music, I like knowing that there is a good meaning behind it. It just makes me like that song even more. Meaning gives songs reason. I want to be able to connect to a song on a personal level. Songs make me feel good, and when they can do that, you know you’ll be hearing that song if you are around me.

            Trust me when I say this, I have been looking for good music to come out. So far, all is for naught. Out of the hundreds of songs that have come out this year that my generation listens to, I’ve found like two. That’s why I have turned to my parent’s era of music and my parents’ generation of music. The 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s have some amazing songs. Hotel California, stairway to heaven, more than a feeling, are all very good examples of this. I have also seen that today’s rock is pretty good too. I don’t count it as my generation’s music though. I say this because most people my age don’t listening to the Offspring or Breaking Benjamin.

            I will continue my search for good music. I am just hoping that one day I can tell my kids that music that came out when I was their age was amazing.

What I Think Makes a Movie Good

Movies come in all different shapes and sizes. Some are long, some are short. Some are freakishly amazing, and some make you want to hit something because of how ungodly horrible it was. Either way, there are many different movies. I personally like many different types of movies, but there are those special few kinds that you couldn’t pay me enough to watch. In order for me to watch any movie, it has to meet a few specifications of mine. If it doesn’t, then most likely you will not be seeing me watching that movie.

The first thing that I look at is the genre of the movie. IF I see that it is a sappy love story about two people whose eyes meet and instantly fall in love; that instantly gets tossed out of the options. If it says horror, then that is definitely something that I would get rid of right away. I personally don’t enjoy getting the crap scared out of me. Literally. I generally look for either action or comedy. I’m that type of person that loves to have a good laugh. So if a movie can make me cry because I am laughing too hard; that’s something I’ll watch. If it is full of explosions, superheroes, hot babes, and sweet cars, that is something that I will watch over and over again. So for me, genre is a big thing.

The second thing I look for is what it’s about and who’s in it. If I see that Justin Bieber is playing the role of a troubled teen that needs to find his parents after they get kidnapped, that is a no. The story sounds good. It meets the suspense level that I like, but since Justin Bieber is in it, I will not watch it. If I look at a movie and see that Scarlet Johansson is playing the role of a sexy spy that has to get deep into undercover in order to kill the leader of an elite group of assassins, then hell to the yes I’m going to watch it!

So many movies are out today, and there are so many to choose from. If I’m looking for something to watch, I will only choose to watch about half of them. Some may say I’m a picky person, but I think that I just have a good choice in awesome movies!

Good Music, Where did you go?

Oh good music, how I miss you so. Where did it go you ask? It died. Plain and simple. Everything that has made music good in the past has gone completely extinct. The beat, the words, the passion, the meaning, it’s all gone. Music makes me feel, it makes me happy, it makes me sad, now it just makes me mad. It seems like all the popular artist of all the teens in America have called up the English dictionary and asked to change the meaning of good music to complete garbage. Either way, I want it back, more than anything.

Music is supposed to be filled with emotion and meaning. It’s supposed to make you happy at a time of sadness and depression. It’s supposed to be so beautiful that it makes you break down in tears. And it’s supposed to make you tingle all over because the words and meaning of the song connect with you on a very deep, personal level. These days, what I’ve been hearing on the radio, really disappoints me. It makes it seem that the whole world is about sex, drugs, and money! They couldn’t be any more wrong. It’s also just a jumble of synthesizer music, bass, and curse words. Why do artists have to do that? Is it too hard for them to actually sit down and think of goof lyrics and maybe a good beat to a song? It sure beats me, because I don’t hear that much out of this generation’s music.

Back in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s music meant something. Song writers actually took the time to sit down and put meaning into what they were composing. Take The Eagles for example. When they were first getting started, their music was very upbeat and meant really nothing. Then the 60’s came and meaning just started flowing out of their songs. Hotel California was an amazing song. The guitar, the words, the beat, just flowed together to make a song that will be remembered forever. It’s so good that several meanings can be extracted from it to make it just that much of a better song.

Now if you look at today’s music, all that’s being played is being made just to get the singer money. There is no meaning to it. It’s about strippers, drugs, and how someone’s boyfriend made them mad. Where is the joy in listening to that? I just hope that at some point our generation can turn it around and actually make something good.

Movie theater etiquitte, continued

            On my last post I decided to tell everyone on the internet about how people should actually act while attending a movie at your local movie theater. I touched on where people choose to sit and the issue of wailing kids. Although good information, I thought that too much was left out. That there is many more issues that can be touched upon. For instance the use of cell phones, or those couples that don’t seem to know the terms personal space or PDA. Either way, more should be said on this very important topic.

            The use of cell phones in the movies. Should more have to be said about this topic? You wouldn’t think so, but apparently more has to be said. I mean, most movie theaters have a message on the screen before the film about the use of cell phones. Why can’t people follow simple instructions? It beats me! What is so important on your phone that you can’t just look at it after the movie is done? Here’s a good example of how annoying it is. Say that Jill is at the movies. A very intense, dramatic, sad scene is one. Everyone is on the edge of their seats just waiting to see how things pan out. Then all of a sudden, sitting on her lap, Jill’s phone lights up and everyone around her all of a sudden hears, “YO HOME SKILLET! YOU HAVE A MESSAGE UP IN HERE RIGHT ABOUT NOW!” At that moment, the mood is completely broken and everyone is staring at her is disgust. All thinking how ignorant she is and how someone needs to curb stomp her. So you get the point, turn off your stupid phone while at the movies.

            Now it’s the issue of couples. Yes we get it, you are dating, and you guys are in love. So much so that you can’t be apart and just have to be close to each other all the time. All I ask is that you don’t show that to the whole world. When I am watching a really good movie, I don’t want to hear the constant noise of you two making out behind me. Also, I don’t want to look over and see your girl basically on top of you. There are usually 300 seats in the movies, please sit in one that is your own.

            Now everyone knows how to properly act at a movie theater. Now that this information is available to the world, I expect a dramatic increase of proper etiquette at the movies.

How to Behave at the Movies

Some people at the movies are just the rudest human beings ever in the existence of this stupid race. Yelling, laughing, talking, bumping, using cell phones, where you sit; it's all a part of it. Whether it's the type of person that laughs at inappropriate times, or it's that one person that makes too much commentary, or if a person has kids that just have never hear the words shut up, it's all annoying. Some people need to learn just how to act appropriately at a movie. Then there are others that just need to be banned altogether. Let me inform you group of idiots how to act at the movie.

First, everyone has a choice that can ultimately cause a problem right as you walk in, where you sit. Some people are so inconsiderate when it comes to this. Let’s use Bobby (made up person) as an example. Bobby gets to the movie extremely early in order to get a good seat. He and all of his 5’4” glory walks into the movie and sees that he is the first one there. He takes a seat in the top middle because that’s his favorite spot. Then a 6’3”, 280 pound guy walks in. He goes to the seat directly in front of Bobby and sits his fat booty down. How rude is this!? Out of the whole theater to sit in, he sits right in front of Bobby obscuring his view! For people like that hippo who’s so inconsiderate, take a look around you when you sit down. If you see that you are sitting in front of someone smaller than you and you have 300 other seats to sit in, be courteous and choose a different one.

Second, people who have kids that aren’t yet old enough to understand that yelling at a movie isn’t good, just don’t. You people are the reasons that people like me have anger problems. When the movie is getting good and your child decides to want to announce to the world and God that he just crapped in his pants, it makes me want to hit you with a truck. Please, just leave them home with a baby sitter and come watch the movie without the poop filled kid. That way others don’t get bothered and you get a short break away from the kids that you don’t know how to raise correctly.