Catching Up

All right, I’ve gotten a little behind on my assignments.
Now I'm going to play a little catch up.

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Do I think that the American system of values is encouraging me to destroy historical sites?
I'm not going to lie, that's a pretty ridiculous question.
If anything the American system of values is encouraging us to maintain and prosper from such sites.
It's human nature (for the most part) to be selfish and destroy for your own need. But if look around there are so many things telling us to protect and preserve these things.
Half of them are PSAs from the government.
So really it's America that is trying to get the individual Americans to stop destroying.

I really hope that that makes since.

Way to Rainy Mountain
This was a pretty interesting story.
I can't say that it was amazing, but it was entertaining for the most part.
If all else, it helped me with how I should write my paper.
I really liked the descriptions of the landscape in the first paragraph.
It's one of the most vivid things I've read in a long time. It was almost like I knew exactly what he was talking about, even though I've never been farther west than Chicago.
But I could totally relate to him in the aspect that he was going back to a place he hasn't been to since he was a small child and he relived so many memories, and seeing how things have changed, and are yet the same.
It reminded me of a really great quote from the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button:

"It's a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same. Smells the same. Feels the same. You'll realize what's changed... is you. "

I have found this to have been quite true, whenever I have come back to place that I haven't been in a long time.I am really bad at ending these things, so I’m just going to leave it here.

Already?

I have seemed to have stumbled into a writer's block.
This is only my 3rd post and i have already run out things to say.

What a boring person i must be.

Is there really that little to my life? to my personality? that i can only think of 1 legitimate thing to write about?
I never realized just how little i have to say.

Or maybe it's just that i am forcing myself to think of something to write about that i can't?

I always thought that i had at least something to say about most subjects.
I usually do.
I must be one of those guys that is better to talk to in person.

I have had people to tell me that i should be in stand-up comedy.
I feel that is the exact opposite thing that i would good at.
I'm only truly amusing in conversation.
I wouldn't be able to hold an audience's attention just standing there having a conversation.
I can't tell jokes.
Well ,that's not exactly true.
I can't write jokes.
When it comes to writing, i am probably the most unoriginal.
Anytime i have ever been on stage, i have been performing something that wasn't my own.
I have won several school and church talent shows doing this.
But don't worry, (not that you were) i am going to be improving my writing skills, and originality, by taking several script writing and play writing courses at Wilmington.

Maybe, with a little luck, this blog will be interesting soon.

What Happened?

***WARNING!!: THE FOLLOWING BLOG MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO PEOPLE WITH BAD TASTE***
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Once people get to know me, they realize a few things.
1) I'm ridiculously Republican,
2) I am somewhat a music snob.

Since nobody wants to hear my thoughts on the first subject for the next 4 years, i will talk about #2.

Music these days pretty much sucks.
Garage Band is one of the problems why. It seems these days all that is needed to write music is a few words that kind-of rhyme and a computer. Take Lil' Wayne's "hit" Lolipop. This song is literally 5 notes being repeated over and over again.
But I have come to the conclusion that music today isn't what it should be for one major reason:
Nobody wants to create music simply to create music. With every lyric that's written or tune thought up there seems to be the hidden agenda to achieve fame and fortune.
Way back in the day, when music was amazing, musicians weren't in it for the fame. Most musicians that are truly great wrote music because that is what they loved to do. They could care less if people liked it, they wrote music because music spoke to them.
Looking back through history, i think that it was MTV that killed music.
Today's music as well as the musicians who create it are almost completely shaped by the media. It's even now possible that through the mass presence of channels like MTV and large selling magazines that musicians could be fictional and still sell millions of album. (i.e. Hannah Montana, the Gorillaz)

But as true with most everything, there are exceptions.
In this case I'm just going to list 4 bands/artists of today that i think are worth listening to.
1. Fleet Foxes
2. Wolfmother
3. Coldplay (usually)
4. The Strokes


Well, at least that's my take.

On Your Mark...Get Set...

Alright, here we go.
I've never really done this before, and i hope i turns out alright.
Nobody wants to read a boring blog.
I hope i learn to like doing this, i feel like it can be almost therapeutic.
I also hope that i don't like it too much, the last thing i want to be is the fat, creepy, sweaty guy that sits in a dark room typing all day.

Basically this will be a place to see me view ("take") on things going on in my life, the news, TV, movies, ect.

and i am willing to take any requests if there is anything that you would like me to review/critique/explain.
(assuming that you want to know my opinion)