Christmas and ninja penguins.

Well as a professional lazy person, I must make an excuse for not posting for about two weeks. This time, my excuse will be that I had a mild form of mad cow, given to me by the penguin ninjas of the south pole. I just happened to be walking down there two Mondays ago, when this giant penguin wearing a Aztec outfit jumped out of nowhere and attempted to eat me. I battled him off with my super ultra pirate sward that I carry with me at all times. He of course was a ninja, and seeing that I was actually secretly a pirate, ran away screaming (as all ninjas should when they see pirates), and as he was running begged me not to invade his country of penguins. I agreed, on one condition (because I was very mad that he had attempted to eat me). My condition was that he would run around in circles chanting "pirates are the very best! pirates are the very best!" and only when I was gone could he stop. So out of my pure enjoyment, I stayed for two weeks, eating chocolate from Switzerland, and getting a massage. After all this, I gave the ninja penguin a peace offering, my pirate sward. (I could afford to do this because I am a pirate, and therefore have the power to make swards out of thin air) He was very happy, and they now have a museum dedicated to me in their country. And so you see, for the past two weeks, I have been quite busy. 

      While I was out, I took a few pictures I would like to share with you, kinda because I think their awesome.

 This first picture doesn't have anything to do with anything, its just a picture I took of some steamed milk bubbles, and I thought it looked cool.

Merry Christmas!

 

YOU my friend, are awesome.

Well not only is this an awesomely taken picture (if I do say so myself), but it greatly introduces my topic today. Today is completely dedicated to the awesome people of the world. I am going to pay tribute to all you overlooked amazing humans that make this planet spin. We ARE better than Chuck Norris, and we ARE the reason the solar system stays in line... or something like that. Today, I solute you, whom ever you are, and may your awesomeness one day do the world good.

    So basically, in this particular picture, we have someone who can actually pull off leather shaps. Really? there is only a number of people who can do that in the world. 

Then you have the people who make stuff like this. Really? I would pay big money to learn how to do that. And i would still fail. All those people out there who are in the art of the glass blowing, hail to thee. You can come home from work with one of these, and say hey, that would make a nice center piece. Or hey, I forgot it's my mom's birthday tomorrow. Woop-die-doo! I have an amazing present that will top anything my mother-in-law gets her. (or anyone in the world for that matter) 

and then you have the people who make things like this. "Oh I think I'll paint a picture on a random side of a building today." .... Ya some of us draw pictures of robots on the sides of our homework and are satisfied. Not saying that we aren't awesome, but these people... are kind of.... at a higher point in life.

Now those are some bigger things, but really, even if you are particularly good at eating string cheese, folding paper into outrageous shapes, or anything really at all. Master your awesomeness. Make it full of dramatic flips, fire, and whatever you feel like really. And then, the world will see who is really awesome. (and that would be you)

tamemoe...... or something....

Well here's the dealyo. I'm too chilled out to rant, to frustrated to to talk of happy things, and too hungry and tired to do anything else. Might I add I am also dehydrated, lazy, and have an overwhelming craving for pork (sorry vegetarians). This is a very rare and specific mood that I am in occasionally. So what am I going to talk about today? I don't even know myself. Lets find out, shaaaaal we?

So as I'm sitting here, thinking aimlessly on what to write... and I notice something sitting on my shelf. I'ts a project I made when I was a youngster.... two years ago. It just so happens to be one of those little cars that you make in a woods class, or shop. It took me forever to make, and I am indeed quite proud of it. It made me go on one of those memory fests you get every once in a while.... lead me to think of all of the projects and essays that I am proud of. I mean really? some of this stuff deserves museum status.... according to me.

So I've come up with an idea. The museum website. haha... kinda like facebook....(what isn't these days) you have an account,  and you share all of those things your proud of in the back of your closet. You can write about it, take pictures of it, video... whatever. You could even sell stuff if you really wanted to. It would be HUGE. like awesomely huge. I'd call it..... www.TheAllMightyMasterEpicOnlineMuseumOfAnythingAndEverything.com..... or www.tammeomoaae.com for short or www.tamemoe.com.... or.....something better.....  but you get the general idea. I like it personally.

the GREATNESS of high school.

In the words of Ferris Bueller, high school is "A little childish and stupid". Now I'm going to add another word to that list. Childish, stupid, and a bit archaic.
Archaic, is actually a word that describes a period of time where ancient art was unrealistic, stiff, and looked like  it had nothing to do with the actual thing. Now, I am relating this to high school; and you can probably guess where I'm going with this.
       Lets think... Unrealistic.  High school is nothing like the real world. If you get bad grades, there's always next term. If you fail at your job, well, you cant really try again can you.
Don't even get me started on grammar. When and where are you going to look at the news paper and think, 'oh, theres the adjective clause,' and,  'I like how they used that helping verb!' ......... no. Your most likely never going to say those things. Ever. EVER. Guess what my friend got told from her math professor uncle? When she was in Geometry, she was just slaving away at her math homework. Proofs to be exact. He walks in and says," hey whatcha workin' on?" and when he sees what she's been doing for the past hour, he says, "Proofs? those are worthless. You will never use those ever again in school, and we math people don't even use them." That my friends came from a math professor. Really? I went through half a term bleeding out my eyes because I was so tired of proofs, to find out that you never use them again? WOW. Nice going math teacher.
      Now, you also get that whole lecture of, you need to learn how to learn! Well you know what? I want to learn how to learn, learning something thats actually useful. From a students perspective, I cant help but wonder how much trash they make us learn that we never actually use. Unrealistic.
     Stiff.... Lets talk about those really super deep writing prompts you get. You know the ones about littering... and after school activities.... and school uniforms.... I think in my entire English experience, the only deep writing prompt I ever had was about the book I read over the summer. Other than that, every writing prompt is either, 'the principal at your school...' or 'some members of the PTA have decided...' It's just dry. and about nothing you care about. I get better writing prompts in History. Actually, the best writing prompts I've ever had have been in History. Write about your feelings on George Washington. After learning about him, I did write an essay on that. A stinking good one. I even got a smiley face from my teacher.
       If your going to try to make high school kids write about something, make it not about school. Lets just venture away from the school building; because life, regardless of what teachers think, doesn't always happen in a classroom. Don't make things stiff and unimportant.
     Can you see yet why I think school is getting a little fake? Your not going to be writing about school uniforms as a journalist. Ya. And no, I'm sorry math teacher. I really am taking this class to get through high school. I really don't want  to be a math professor. Interior design does not involve trig. Art teacher, your still cool with me. History teacher, your still awesome. English, math, and science teachers, we need to talk.

huh... huh.. awkward. Dance!

So it's been a week since i last posted, and I have nothing to feel sorry for. did you miss me? don't answer that.

So what I'm going to bring up today is something we all experience every day. Awkward situations with the public. Now, if your a bright and bubbly person who has excellent social skills, and your not afraid to just go up to people and say hi, I envy you. About a fourth of the pain in my life comes from awkward situations with people, and I'm sure the rest of us could agree... at least... I hope I'm not the only one... but I might be... thats awkward.....

WELL. Take for instance the classic elevator situation. you step on to the elevator with a stranger, and you both immediately go the the far corners of the elevator. What are you thinking to your self? please don't talk to me. please don't talk to me. crap. "Hey. ya. just going to the forth floor. cafeteria. Yup. Gotta get some food, you know how it is. Ah gotta go? Well see ya around. Whew. glad thats over with. Oh! please don't get on the elevator. no! wait... isn't she my brothers ex? double awkward. shoot me.


A cure for this disease of awkwardness we have brought upon society may be unattainable. Whatever happened to the good old days when it wasn't weird to talk to people? where no one had iPods to shove in their ears, or cell phones to pretend to text on? Personally, about 25% of the time my phone is out, I'm not doing anything with it.

 But seriously. We need to come up with a solution. How about in every awkward situation, weather it be on a bus, elevator, hall way, or library, do a little dance. Don't think about it. Have fun. If they join in, all the better. Do your favorite dance. Robot it up! Who knows. Maybe some day in the future, this will cause a global dance party, which will cause important people to get really confused, which will cause everything to reverse, which will cause a turn around on world turmoil, which will cause world peace. Your welcome, planet earth.

wow. fail. and plan to not fail as much.

I cant even remember how many times I thought about posting, and then obviously didn't. Not gonna lie, I don't think this whole everyday thing is working out too well. So here's whats going down.

every weekend, there will be a post. It will be a weekly report of... the week. odd things that happen, things that cross my mind, and more cool stuff, because right now, the whole I say I'm gonna write every day, and then I write two weeks later thing is kinda getting old. So from now on, there will be no excuses. And who knows. Maybe some day, my life will be so beautifully awesome I can write every day. But you know. Whatever. :)

P.S. Don't get too excited just yet, but come next year, I might have a book I've been writing finished. More of that later. just letting you know, because it might pop up in posts.

......:)

So no excuse this time. I could go on and on about endless homework, but really, I dont have an excuse for missing and entire week. I just didn't do it. Plus, I cant even remember what happened this week. So I'm just going to start with da movies on Saturdays.

So last night I had the opportunity to watch a very cheesy movie. Like Swiss Cheesy. That doesn't mean I didn't like it though... staring Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth, it's the Last Song.

Now, I thought it was just going to be another cheese love story, and yes it was for the most part, but man. If you haven't read the book, (which I never did) your totally not expecting it to be sad. And it was really sad. The ending is happy, but the part before that? Super sad. I'm just trying to warn you if you haven't seen it yet.

Over all, it is really a good movie. Kinda cheese ball in some parts, but generally a good movie. It falls into the sad-feel good-funny-cheesy love story category. But just in case, bring a box of tissues. jeez.

Sigh. Internet problems.

So I'm really going to stretch it today. this is going to be a combination of Misc. , Movie, and rant. You see, Misc. Sunday is going to be a rant about the internet that could potentially be turned into a drama some day. (Wow. thats cool.)

So a while ago... twenty something years ago, the internet was made. For all good intentions, this world wide web was created (probably by some super smart Asian). The internet is great. I use it daily; except for when it crashes. Now, I understand that I don't know a whole lot about this subject. But I do understand that its annoying beyond reason, and happens just because you have a huge research paper due the next day. If not that, it's exactly when you were watching your favorite TV show on hulu.com, and it crashes right before the end of the finally. Really? Can the internet people not find anything better to do that ruin my life? I swear. And we've all that that time when your hanging out with your friends you haven't seen in a million years, and the only thing you can think of to do is go on Facebook and look other people you don't remember. But the internet crashed... so you sit there awkwardly, drinking your lemonade, exchanging stories that neither of you remember. And then they remember they have a 'dentist appointment', and you don't realize that they live 1000 away, (therefore not having an appointment anywhere near where you are) until after they leave.

Or maybe we should just not get into those situations.

Either way, the internet crashing part is just a pain. But I guess all good things come to an end.

Really? I haven't posted since Monday?

Well the truth is, nothing... zero anything... was watched by me on Tuesday. Wednesday, I was quite sickly, so I barely ate anything (not to mention forgot completely about posting), and Thursday, I was a little mad at the world, so there were no awesome people. However today? all of the above happened. so here we go!

So just so you know, charlieissocoollike bungee jumped.... and got a world record... I'm so proud of him. And apparently I've never talked about The Fuplers? really? Alright. Assignment. Look up The Fuplers on YouTube. Watch them. Please try not to laugh too hard. It can be fatal. If you already knew about them, Just so you know, Episode # 10 is coming next week... and I am super excited.

Food... Well today, I went to this restaurant called Rubio's. I thought is was just a ripoff  of Cafe Rio, but no. It is a beautiful beautiful place. If you happen to pass one on your life's journey, go inside. Eat some fish tacos... or some shrimp burritos. I don't normally like those kinds of places, but this place is legit. ... and they have cool cups...but you'll just have to find out why!!

Awesome people? Well, the first one is actually awesome, but the next two are "AWESOME". I cant make that any more sarcastic.

Person 1: Today we had a grueling test that took the entire class period. I had been stressing about it for about two weeks. After I finished, I triumphantly put it in the pile of done tests. This kid in my class starts clapping for me. Glad someone recognizes my defeat of that bad boy.
Person 2: So I saw my friend in the hall today. We were about to pound fists, but before we could, this awesome person throws her hands up and walks through us. She could have joined in the pound, I wouldn't have cared. But no. Someone was being a stinker!
Person 3: I was in the locker room at my local gym this morning, and I put some stuff in a locker for the day while i was at school, planning on coming back. I didn't lock it, because it was nothing worth stealing. When I come back, the locker I put the stuff in is locked. Someone moved my stuff from that locker, (there were tons of other open lockers right by it) and placed it in 2 other lockers. I had to find them. Really? Don't do that.

Well this post is getting really long, so I'm going to do today in another one.

Music Monday: Coldplay

I guess I never really was into the whole American music thing. I mean, I love the Killers, Weezer, and thats about it. But you get into the more British rock side of things, and it's just.... better. You get bands Like The Beatles, Muse, and our stars of the day, Coldplay.

I just happened to be listening to some Coldplay on my Pandora, and I thought to myself, "Self, this is a pretty darn awesome band." and myself replied, "Yes. Yes it is." (Because yes I do have entire conversations with myself)

There is really nothing to compare them to, because they really are their own thing. They have their own lyrics, (not the same ones that have been used for the past forever) and they are just original. Their songs are deep. Deeper than under-water watches. It's that good. And you know, if your looking for good chill music that isn't rap  makes you feel good, go Coldplay. Really. Do.

P.S., if you don't already have a Pandora account, get one. It's a good idea. Really.

Misc. Sunday

Today, I don't feel so good, so I am going to keep it short.

Alright. So you know how in English they have you learn stuff like prepositional phrases and clauses? Have you ever wondered why you have to learn those? If you think deeper, you cant think of a reason why. No really. You cant.

All the time in math kids will ask, "Why do we have to know this?" and the usual response is, "Because if you become a blah blah you'll need it." Thats all fine and good. Now think of grammar things like prepositions and stuff. Why do we have to learn those? The only answer I got was it was on the SAT/ACT. What job requires knowledge of those things? Who even came up with them? Truly I cannot find an answer.

Why are these things even on a test? No one reads the paper and says, "Oh that clause is wrong." No. No one does that. Why do we have them anyway? Great mystery that one. It's just one of those stupid things that you look at and go... really? really?

Movie Saturday

GOONIES!!!!
 I'm not even going try to hide the wonderful movie I watched. Goonies is pretty much all you need in life....  when everyone ditched you and you have the house to yourself I mean. Seriously. I was going to die.

So, I've heard a lot of people bash on the Goonies. They go on and on about how they haven't seen it, but they bet its not that great. But if you've seen it, you know why this is false. I mean, it's no Inception, but if your looking for a good funny pirate movie, go Goonies. Pirates of the Caribbean is cool and all, but they can get super serious. Really? It's up there with Sandlot; and there are few movies at that level of greatness. You need to have a balance of humor, suspense, cheesy parts, and love. The great scale of a good movie has many requirements to it.

I don't know what your requirements are for a good movie, but Goonies just does it for me. If you haven't seen it, and are one of those losers who thinks its over rated, watch it. If you still think that, well...............

Ranting Friday. :)

So in todays rant, I have a point to make: Why pirates are better than ninjas.

If you are a ninja, you are sneaky. you act like an over-sized black cat with a sward. You go around beating people up, and doing par core.  You hide your face. You hide everything. Really? be proud of what you can do! Don't try and hide it! Jeez. But as everyone knows, if ninjas were to be blunt, out there, and awesome, they just wouldn't be ninjas. But yes, they would be some kind of pirate.

As a pirate, there is no hiding anything but your loot. They don't try to hide who they are! They know what they are capable of, they don't play by the rules, and they get what they want. they don't care if you know that they're  pirates. They say, "Hey, I'm here, I'm going to steal your stuff, and if you want it back, come fight me for it." they aren't going to try to hide the fact that they are going to take your stuff. Plus, they have WAY cooler outfits.

If you are awesome, and capable of awesome things, why hide it? Why would you want to be a ninja? I'm just saying, they bug me. and their little matching black jump suits, masks and slippers aren't cool. I'm sorry. They just aren't. If you need to pick a side to be on, choose Pirates. Honestly. dumb ninjas.

School Thursday.... um no.

So basically, school Thursday is going to end. I dont want to talk about school! what? So Thursday is going to be people Thursday. Basically, random awesome people I see through out the week. So without further ado... thats a weird word... This weeks awesome people.

FUNNY OLD MAN: Me and my friends were hanging out when this old guy walks up to us and starts telling us jokes. We had no idea who he was, and he told us to tell all of our friends the jokes. Later that day, we just happened to see him again. He had the same jokes. :)

OLD MAN #2: We were just walking into our local gym, when we saw this guy walking backwards on the treadmill. We watched for a little bit, and he was rocking out to his iPod. Made my morning.

MATH CLASS TRAUMA: We were listening to our teacher try to explain something we were supposed to understand. After fifteen minutes of not turning from the white board, and us staring blankly at him, he turns around as asks the class, "So what's the first thing we do for this problem?" and a girl in the back of the class hopelessly answers, "Cry?" We had a good laugh.

Well, those are the awesome people of the week.

Food Wednesday.

The two worst foods for elegant eating EVER : spaghetti, and salad.

I mean really, they are truly wonderful foods, but have you ever been at a really nice restaurant, and you have gotten sauce or dressing ALL OVER your face? Or your on some date trying to impress them, and you look like the scarecrow with noodles hanging out of your mouth? And the best is trying to get it all in your mouth if you know what I mean. You try sucking the noodles up, and when that doesn't work, you try using your fork. When THAT doesn't work, you use your hands, and by this time, you have gotten every dirty look from every snotty person in the building. Honestly? is there a correct way to eat spaghetti? Because I cant do it!

Salads are bad too. Like when you get that one extra big piece that you have avoided for the entire time you've been eating? You try to fold it all on your fork, but its too thin to get, so you have to awkwardly shove it in? Yeah. Problems my friends. Don't even get me started on plastic ware....
 You know what? I'm going to invent special forks especially designed for these items. The salad one will require extra extra sharpness, and the spaghetti will have built in choppers to chop the extra noodle off. Gazillion dollar idea right there. Your welcome.

TV Tuesday. Julian awesome.

Today is TV Tuesday, and as such, I would like to express my love for one of my new favorite Youtube people... (now, i would call It Tube Tuesday, but There will be shows i need to talk about in the spring)

So lets play the guessing game. Who could I be talking about? Their favorite beverages include Hot Kool-Aid, and malk. They love their righteous Gran who wears Mary Kay, and hate 25 things about Facebook. And he has something to say to everyone: that trees hate you.

Who could I be talking about other than the absolutely amazing Julian Smith. Yes, Probably one of the top five of funniest people on YouTube. I'm Not Joking. He made every single video FOR YOU! and if you dont watch them, he HATES YOU! I'm just saying. If you don't watch these videos, he'll pour them on the floor and blame it on you. I know, real mature right?

Here is a link to his YouTube channel: juliansmith87

Music Monday. DISNEY!

Well, now that the dreadful weeks of Beethoven are FINALLY over, time to get down to business... to defeat the Huns... Oh yes. you know what I'm talking about. Music. Disney Music.

Today, I have listened to the Tarzan movie soundtrack three times. Why? I'm not really sure. The point is, is that it was awesome. Why is Disney so awesome? Because I said so.

Every soundtrack from Mulan to Tarzan to The little Mermaid (the list could go on and on and on) is basically amazing. Think of the favorites: Under the Sea, The Circle of Life, A Whole New World, etc. When you really listen to them, the arrangements and the actual music part, is actually really good. I mean, we all think of our five year old self dancing in front of the TV, singing it at the top of our lungs.... oh wait.. I did that last week. anyway,  the point is, Disney is a great great thing and should be taking over the world, rather than McD's. Lets get a Disn-nolds before we get a McDisney. PLEASE. And if you think Disney is over rated.... I weep for you. Truly.

I have a dream... that one day, the world will be one united Disney Land called Disney Planet, and we will all live in the Cinderella castle of our choice. This is my solution for world peace. I'm not saying it will work for sure, but it just might.

-Ps.... that had nothing to do with music by the way... i just needed to get that point across. :)

wow. Thurfrisatsunday!

Well, in truth, there was nothing to write about on Thursday. zero. If you go to school, you know why. So I couldn't think of anything to write about. Friday and Saturday, I was out of town, had an awesome day (so nothing to rant about), and Saturday, I slept......... a ton, and didn't watch any movies... so Now that I've made my excuses, and I've done all that crud, Lets move on to today finally. FINALLY.

Misc Sunday.
So, an interesting topic i think, is something along the lines of the future. What do you want to do with it? Well, right now, your not doing a whole lot but staring at a screen, reading a lame post by someone who does the same. What could you be doing? Sure, you don't have a whole lot of time on your hands. You have school, a job maybe, people to see, things to do. Everyone does. But what ever happened to that picture you drew in high school that your teacher wanted to buy from you? or that Guitar that's collecting dust in the closet? or that cheesy song you wrote for your ex girlfriend from your junior year that you guiltily kept? Not to mention that novel you started to write that you never finished. I'm talking unfinished masterpieces that haven't been discovered. Our guilty pleasures. Our unfinished projects. Where did they go? Well, I'll tell you where they went.

Down with the news and the politics and your boss and everything else you have on your plate. What would happen if you brought them to the surface? I just might be suggesting that the politics are taking over, and it's time for Renascence 2. The final question isn't why, it's why not? What could we come up with this time? It's kinda fun to think about. Just saying.

Slacking? I think yes.

Alright. This is getting a little ridiculous. I cant keep up. Well I'm not going to worry about that right now. The main focus of this post is to try to cram three days of missing in to one. So here we go.
MONDAY: Music Monday to be exact. I think I have come to a conclusion. Yes, my scores after listening to Beethoven were kinda better. But here I give you my theory. The only reason that Beethoven is good for studying is because you don't know the song most of the time. With your favorite band, you know every word, so while you should be doing your homework, your dancing, and singing into your pen. Beethoven is background music, so you don't really pay attention to it.
TUESDAY: TV Tuesday? What? If I might be plain with you, the only show I really watched this week was Antiques Road Show. Why? Not really sure. Why do we watch the shows we do? Honestly. If you think about it, they have a TV show for just about everything, including cake decorating, antique dealing, teeth whiting, and golf. Why? Why do we sit in front of a box for an hour, watching other people do things? Answer: It's the American way. Thats what we specialize in. sitting on the couch... and sitting on the couch... and.....:)
WEDNESDAY: Food Wednesday. Funny thing, I ate barely nothing on Wednesday. But the one thing I did eat was a SmashBurger. Have you been there? Because if you haven't, you are being deprived of some of the most glorious burgers in the universe. Hot, juicy, flavor runs down your fingers and drips on to your tray, leaving a big grease mark. There is just enough crunch to satisfy, and fresh pounded burgers steaming off the grill. I need to stop because I'm making my own mouth water. The point is, go. Go and eat a bite of everything American food stands for.
Well, that was three days. Thursday (today) will be posted later on tonight. enjoy. :)

Misc. Sunday National Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Misc. Sunday. Alright. It's time to bring something to the attention of everyone in the entire world. Today, September the 19, is National Talk Like a Pirate Day. It's a fact. Its my favorite holiday. Basically, you dress up like a pirate and you have a party, watch pirate movies, have plastic (or real) sward fights,eat lots of food and everyone of course talks like a pirate. Where I live, it's a pretty big deal. But most people have never heard of it. Why? I don't really know, and I think its a crime that no one does.

My goal of this post is to try to convince the world of this underrated holiday. It's only National, but why isn't it international? Everyone should have an excuse to dress up like a pirate every now and then. Get your boots, cut up your jeans, find an eye patch, stick a sward in your belt and get out there. It's an excuse to be awesome. It's basically saying to everyone else: Peace out I'm going to be awesome today. You can join me if you want.

 If you own an actual sword, please wear it! If  the only thing you have is one of those Star Wars plastic pop-out light sabers, wear it anyway. Go have a good time. It's Talk Like a Pirate day.

Movie Saturday weird, weird movie

So if they had a list of every weird mind twisting movie ever made, what would be on that list? Well, for sure inception would be at the very top. But this movie I saw yesterday would probably be second. Honestly, who thinks of this stuff? I need to meet them.....

Well this movie I saw last night was called Passengers with Anne Hathaway. Now, this movie isn't scary, but it is. It always seems like something is going to jump out at you, but nothing ever does. It's just weird. It's about this therapist (Anne Hathaway) who is counseling these surviving passengers of this plane crash. They all are invited to these sessions, but one guy doesn't accept, and acts strangely. They other passengers are starting to slowly vanishing, and the therapist is worried. She thinks that this guy is following her from the airline, because she thinks that they are trying to cover up the fact that it was a human error that caused the crash. But once she finds out the truth, everything you thought was happening flips upside down.

I think this movie is probably in the science fiction-weird-sad-creepy-love story category. It's super hard to explain, but it was actually really good. I'd give it about three and a half stars. I'd say go see it if you like science fiction-weird-sad-creepy-love stories.

Ranting Friday.

So tonight I experienced my second ever football game that wasn't on the television. No, I'm not really a football person, but I do love my school.... and when someone violates our awesomeness, bad things must come upon them.

At my school, we are famous for our crazy spectators that cheer and dress up and everything. And to add to that, we've been keeping up this tradition for about 30 or so years. We have cheers that go back to day one. But tonight, we were violated.

This school we were playing was only two years old. Two. What did they do? They stole our cheer. Now, you might not think of this as such a big deal, but it was. It was a huge deal. They took it, and disrespected it. They replaced words to fit their school's. They broke the unwritten law of cheer jacking. Not cool.

I wasn't the only one who was overly bugged. Heads were turning and shaking, and eyes were glaring. Now, you don't just do that to a school like ours. It will cost you. And we charged them. It cost them 2 touch downs with in 5 minutes. Satisfying? Yes. Quite.

School Thursday

So for this post, I was going to post a sonnet I actually wrote containing my frustration towards math during a very dark time in my life, but i just realized that it contains errors. So maybe by next week it will be up. But for now, what am I going to talk about? Cursive. 

Does anyone else feel ripped off? We, the scholars of  this generation have been brutally lied to. Ever since we started we have been forced into this curvy, swirly, twirly way of 'neat' writing. Our hands were cramping up after forty-five straight minutes of writing A, B, C.... while our teacher was lecturing on how we are going to use it every day of our lives in high school and collage. I remember having a nightmare about cursive. And for what? What do I get out of all this pain and suffering? Nothing. Just every teacher telling me it needs to be typed. How many hours could you wrack up just with all the time spent on cursive? I don't know exact numbers, but it's about half a lifetime before you turned seven. No joke. We could have been doing more productive activities like learning Viking dance rituals.... (see the post below)    

Next week, a math sonnet. Until then, the cursive veto! Save the next generation.

Food Wednesday.... String cheese.

So basically I've decided I'm horrible at posting every day. But this must change... eventually.:)

In my personal opinion, the absolute best snack is cheese. Not just any kind of cheese. STRING cheese. It's portable, you CAN eat it with one hand, it's not messy... unless you're awesome like me, and it's cheese. It's the bomb. So let me lay down some techniques, and important rules to this wonderful food.

• Technique #1: The Stroke: Hold your cheese upright and medium-gently stroke the top of the cheese near the edge, and peel the string of cheese down SLOWLY  so you get the full length of cheese. Then dangle it above your mouth, release, and be thou satisfied. 
• Technique #2 The Vampire: This is ideally done when one hand cannot be used. Hold your cheese upright, and place your front teeth (fangs) on the top, near the edge of the cheese, and peel with teeth. Please try not to frighten anyone while doing so, but it usually is inevitable. Please note that this is done by the more awesome of professional string cheese peelers, and takes weeks to master.
• Technique #3 The Wimp: This is done by mainly careless people who don't respect the art of string cheese. So they simply bite the cheese like a candy bar. If you see this done by anyone, please educate them in the beauty of string cheese. You may just save them from dying with out the true meaning of cheese.
• Now, the fourth technique, it is complicated. Imagine if you will, an interpretive victory dance done by the Vikings, with two red painted war streaks on your face, juggling three wrapped string cheeses, and when the dance is done, you are flat on your back with all three cheeses (unwrapped) sticking out of your mouth. It takes years of practice, but once mastered, can burn eyes out in immaculate spectacularity. 

TV Tuesday.. oh boy.

So, if I were to ask what was the best cheesiest show ever, what would be the answer? Two words. American Idol.
Now I realize that it doesn't even start till January, but there is some important news that everyone in the entire world needs to know, regardless of whether they care or not. Simon is leaving.... and being replaced by Jenifer Lopez..... Whats wrong with this picture?
I'll tell you whats wrong.
First of all, where did this idea come from? When the producers sat down in there little conference room around a over-waxed, over-priced, oval shaped table (their coffee in matching white mugs on top of 'Beatles' coasters from Disney World), they needed to answer a question. Who could ever take Simon Cowell's place? The bigger question is, as they were all scraching their chinny chin chins, who raised their hand and said, "Sir, I think Jenifer Lopez would make a good replacement, Sir." And of course he responded, "Thats a super spectacular idea!!! I'm so enthused! call her up right now!!"
      ....???
Now, I know for sure that I'm not the only one confused here. What does Simon think of all this? Just think... he's standing in his 4,000 square ft. bathroom looking in his 3,000$ mirror, checking out his new 2,000$ v-neck shirt and he gets a call... from his 1000$ cell phone. "Excuse me Sir, just letting you know that  Jenifer Lopez is replacing you on American Idol. Have a nice day." 
Well, we'll just have to see what happens. If Simon storms in, wide eyed and dangerous, heading for the judges table, don't say I told you so.
P.S. and just so you know, according to the radio, (the place of all great information) Ellen and Kara are leaving too.... So I guess they have been talking about Bret Michaels? Confused. Just confused.

Music Monday: The Beethoven challenge part 2

Alright. So for the past week, whenever I was studying, doing homework, etc., I was listening to MUSE. Now, the results? Um.... I'm not going to post my exact scores... but man... ouch. I mean, it's not going to hurt me too bad, but man. Beethoven better work this week.. I have a math test. So, let me run over my experiment.

• Prediction: MUSE is just as good, if not better than Beethoven for studying and homework.
• Execution: I listened to MUSE while studying and doing my homework for a week.
• Results: Not good.
• Conclusion: Prediction (so far) = fail.

However!! I did get 100% on my A.P. novel test!... oh wait... I didn't study for that did I.... Well, just as a side note, MUSE is still the greatest band ever... just don't listen to them while studying. Next Monday I will tell you my results after listening to Beethoven while doing my homework.

ah. finally, Misc. Sunday

Wow. I'm pretty proud of my self cranking out four posts today. Sorry again about that.

Well as I write my final post today (I promise), drinking my home made smoothie, triumphing over my math homework, and conquering my A.P. novel, I feel pretty good. Good enough you might say to talk about... giggle..... MOCKINGJAY!!! Goodness! have you read it yet???? Ya. no. I haven't actually. but I'm super excited to. I just started, and I will probably talk about it and update whats happening in the book every Sunday.  If you haven't read the first two (Hunger Games and Catching Fire), they are really good books and I would suggest them. If you plan on reading them, don't read Sunday posts for a while... and if you don't really care, I'm also talking about other things on Sunday as well.
So for the second half of Sunday, I am going to give you a little update on my guitar self teaching. I can now play 16 songs, Including Undisclosed Desires (MUSE) and Glitter in the Air (P!ink). I still have 0 idea on how to read tabs, ..... I'm really good at chords tho! haha I'm such a slacker. And as a plus, I got a bunch of picks with all of the Beatles heads on them. 2 of each of them! haha I like playing with John's head the best. Anyway, enjoy the rest of Sunday night!

Movie Saturday

Movie: Inception.
My rating: 6 stars.
That means: There is nothing like it. If you haven't seen it, Thou shalt go.

Is it possible to explain this movie in one sentience? False. Is it possible to basically not blink for about 2 1/2 hours? True. Is this movie awesomely amazing? FACT.
Now, i'm not even going to pretend that I can somewhat explain this movie, but I'll try.
This new technology makes it possible for people to enter other peoples dreams. Leonardo Dicaprio is really good at it and gets a job offer to plant the idea that this other guy needs to end his dying father's empire so they don't take over the world.....
Ya. once again, i'm not going to pretend I can explain this movie, and I give up. So if you haven't seen it, please do. It falls in the category of suspenseful-epic-science fiction. And it is pretty darn cool.

Ranting Friday... my favorite...

So for Friday's rant, we are going to explore the WONDERFUL wold of anal teachers. Now, In all of my schooling life, I have never, not once, had a teacher like the one I have now. No names will be mentioned, but oooh they are golden. That is to say, they get the gold medal for getting on my nerves. Let me tell you about them.

In their class, everything, i kid you not, EVERYTHING is labeled. They have painted lines on the carpet for where your desk should be aligned. You are assigned a notebook, and if your table of contents isn't complete and or you haven't written every word of a question  from a book assignment, you get, what is it?  Half credit (an F), even if everything else is in there. If your text book and your notebook are not on your desk when the bell rings, you are tardy. And also, if you don't put your Popsicle stick in the 'on time' beaker, you are tardy and or absent, and you get no credit for the day.

Now, I'm sure that they know what they are teaching and all. they do have a doctorate and they are quite proud of that. But really. We are in high school here. Popsicle sticks? really. REALLY? You painted lines on the carpet? Well, I cant make everyone (aka this teacher) see that it's a little extreme. But most people agree with me on this. Glad most of us are still sane.

School Thursday

Good evening. For the topic of school, I would like to point out a difficult aspect of it. That is, staying awake. Now, you may not have a problem with this. You might embrace your lethargic-ness and sleep on. But for those of us who find staying a wake a challenge with the monotone teacher or the overly warm classroom, it truly is the song that never ends.

Now over the years of my sleepiness,  I have found some solutions.

1. Bring food. Unless your teacher specifically said not to (and even if they did, just sneak it), bring food. It works super awesomely. 
2. Lift your legs. An old trick I learned for staying awake in meetings, is try to keep your feet of the ground. If your doing that, sleeping shouldn't be a problemo.
3. If you are an extreme class sleeper and don't feel like fighting it, do something that was done in Pirates Of the Caribbean 2. Paint eyes on your eyelids. Your fooling your teacher into thinking your an excellent student.... lets just hope they don't call on you.

...sorry...

So if you haven't noticed, I haven't posted since Wednesday. My stupid internet crashed, and I just barely got it to work again. Please excuse me. So now, I'm going to make up for all of the days starting with Thursday, all the way up to today. Enjoy. ;)

Food Wednesday

So writing about food seems a little lame compared to what i wrote about in my last post, not going to lie. But, come on. It's food.

So, me personally, I LOVE FOOD. But more importantly, I love breakfast.

The art of breakfast is just that: an art. You see, breakfast done right is supposed to be a celebration in itself. Break- fast. You are breaking a fast. That is to say, you are celebrating eating again after a long and dreary night of no food. Seriously. When you put it that way, all hours between nite-nite and good morning are just plain depressing. I mean, that's why they invented the midnight snack: because some of us JUST CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!

Now lately, McD's is saying that they are changing peoples lives with their breakfast. Now I'm sorry if you like McD's, but I'll tell you what changed my life. Super Size Me (a documentary about this guy who eats nothing but McD's for a month, it gave me night mares) changed my life. Since I watched that movie, I have been to McD's about 3 times since. I watched it three years ago.

Now don't worry, they are still going to take over the world. One day, well all wake up NOT to the smell of our mothers cooking bacon, but the smell of egg McMuffins McCooking on the McStove. And then we will get our McDictionary and look up other McWords to Mc. We will salute to the Ronald McDonald every McMorning.... and so on and so forth.

Excuse: Broadway.

Please excuse me for not posing TV Tuesday on Tuesday. I however have a very exciting story to tell that relates to TV Tuesday, so I will write what I failed to write yesterday. I'm really exited about this post....:)

Yesterday at roughly 7:30 P.M. at night, (19:30) everyone was in their seats, and the suspense couldn't wait any longer. The lights dimmed, the curtains rose, and the famous opening notes of the Lion King began. On stage, the  carefully constructed set of a sun rising in the African heat pulled every eye and imagination in. As the music played, on either isle, just plain old actors were carefully transformed into every African animal you can think of. Every costume was life-sized, beautiful, and inhumanly spectacular. Once all of the animals had danced and sung their way onto the stage,  Mufasa could be seen on the rock, and the future king was held high in the air. Then came a chest rattling crash of drums. The theater was filled with applause.

Now, this is just a small taste of where I was at last night; the Broadway version of The Lion King. You may have heard of it. I  can honestly say I've never experienced something so imaginatively epic as that production. I was told that the costumes were pretty amazing. I didn't think much of it until I was staring open mouthed at the fluidity between the animal and the human merged together into a 20 foot giraffe. Can you say crazy sauce.

I usually make fun of things, but honestly, it was too immaculately majestic to say anything remotely negative. I am running out of adjectives as you may have noticed... so before I write a 20 page analysis of every second of it, let me just say this. If you can afford it, go. Find tickets and go. You'll have the time of your life I promise.

Music Monday: The Beethoven challenge.

So, in an effort to make miserable Mondays more better, I have decided to add one of my favorite subjects to Monday.. that would be Music.
So... there are some people in this world that say listening to Beethoven makes you smarter. You've  herd that before right? Personally, I think its a bunch of crud. I think that Beethoven isn't for everyone, and my theory is that if I listen to MUSE's symphonies, I would get better results than listening to Beethoven.
 So. For the next week, I am going to listen to MUSE while I study and do my homework. After this, on Monday I will post my scores on my quiz's, and such. The next week I will try; TRY to listen to Beethoven while I study and do my homework. In one weeks time I will post my results, and I will either prove this theory right, or I will prove this theory wrong. If I don't come to a conclusion, I will further my research. But for right now, I am going on an old saying, and my gut. If this ends badly..............

Misc. Sunday

 So, on this glorious night, I'm going to talk about.... Why I hate printers.
 Today, I kinda had important things to print of. You know... extremely urgent stuff like... guitar tabs from ultimate-guitar.com. You know, life and death stuff right there. So I click print and all, but then I look in the actual printer after it started printing, and there isn't enough paper. So, I get a stack of paper and put it in there.
Now, I would understand if the printer got confused and took another piece of paper with the one it already took. But no. I put the stack of paper in there and... nothing happens. But a few seconds later, the printer decides it needs more paper, (the first page isn't even done printing yet) and goes for another piece of paper, and grabs the entire stack. I didn't even know it could fit three pieces of paper let alone the thirty that were in there.
So of coarse it gets jammed, so I reach in there and take about ten minutes getting two pieces of paper out, and think "oh great, how long is this going to take?" and then I sort of tug on the rest of the stack that is half way through by now, and it comes out like nothing's wrong. I was so confused. Anyway, so after that, it was all fine and dandy.
Now, I understand my printer is a piece of junk. It takes about a life time to start printing. But honestly. You'd think it would be smarter than that. I don't know. I'll probably wake up tomorrow and find that my printer has grown horns, has fashioned itself a spear out of paper, and is spitting ink flavored fire at my face. who knows; anything is possible I guess if you just believe.

Last minute thought

So as I was thinking of the possibilities for Movie Saturday, I thought to myself, "Self, whats a good movie?" obviously. I thought of my top three right now: Inception, Toy Story 3, and Despicable Me. Those are my current top three, but I'm pretty sure I've written about all of them. (If I haven't, I defiantly will) The Mean Girls thought didn't come to me till later, but for about ten minutes (because I spend that much time thinking about stuff like that because of my lack of life) the only thing I could think of was YouTube videos. So I thought again to myself, "Self, why cant you write about YouTube videos on Movie Saturday?" So I decided in favor of this thought.

Now, this person is basically so amazing, i couldn't just pick one video. He is British, he likes his tea "quite milky", he loves Dr. Who?, and his hair is most defiantly fire truck red. Who could I possibly be talking about? Why, charlieissocoollike of coarse!!

If you are pondering why you haven't had the almost imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, (and why you aren't like, cool) I urge you; no, I beg you to watch him. He is basically the bomb.com. so here I shall give you a link to have some imponderable joyous times:charlieissocoollike

"(cough cough) I'm sick."

So... if you haven't noticed.... its Saturday... What does Saturday mean? it means movies. So you might be wondering what movie I watched. Well. for the past two-ish hours, I devoted my eyes and ears to the always wonderful, Mean Girls.

Now, the basic message of the movie is to not judge, spread rumors, hate, or pull pranks on people. And if you look at that list, it basically has High School written all over it. Now the movie exaggerates it highly. It might feel like everyone is looking at you after you do something bad, but the entire lunchroom doesn't go silent and glare at you as you walk past. If some popular girl cuts two holes in her shirt, all the girls in the school aren't going to follow in her over rated foot steps. But hey. Every good movie is exaggerated to the point of puking right? (in this movie, quite literally)

Well, all in all, this movie was a great reminder of how Lindsay Lohan used to be "normal".  My theory is that deep down inside, she really is trying. (you must understand that I'm trying to apply the lessons learned in the movie by not passing judgement.... not working too well is it?)

Alright. So there you have a movie for movie Saturday. This movie is probably in the teenage-chick-flick-drama category. if thats your category, go for it. :)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Ranting Friday

     Now on this Glorious day, there are a few things to be happy about.
            
    You know, the normal school's out, you go home, jump in your Snuggie, and watch all 8 hours of  DVRed daytime television, cooking shows, and soaps you missed during the week. While your drinking your kool-aid, your best friend Bernardo from Norway (he really thinks he's from Narnia) calls you up to ask if you want to play some Halo and or World of Warcraft over at his place because he still lives with his parents and he's feeling a little lonely. You Make some excuse as why you cant make it, like, "I need to fluff my bedazzled powder blue shower cap." and he says that he understands in a very deep way, that just makes you question his mental status and I could go on and on and on.
  
     But there is one thing about Friday... The dark side of Friday. The side that brings out the antisocial attitude in us. The mentality that this is my break. this is my weekend. I'm not going to spend it with you; you whom I see EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE.

    No, tonight, its just me, myself, my non-existent life, and my string cheese. And there ain't nothin' you can do about it.

This has been an introduction to all other future Friday Posts. Kinda like a disclosure document to a class. But better.

It's Friday... :)

A while back, I said something about Friday being the grand and glorious day ranting. Now, I will do this in a minute... but I might just make a schedule for myself real fast...

• Monday: Music Monday.
• Tuesday: TV Tuesday
• Wednesday: Food Wednesday
• Thursday: School Thursday
• Friday: Ranting Friday
• Saturday: Movie Saturday
• Sunday: Misc. Sunday

Now I'll try to stick to this schedule, but... it might be rough. Any way. So I think it will work out pretty well. I'll try to update more often... and it'll be a party! alright. now for some good ranting... X)

Farmer's Markets

Have you ever been to one of these? Ever seen one going on, but drove past thinking, oh, some day I'll go.
I used to be just like you; until I experienced my very first one.
The food is amazing. The art is inspiring, and most of all, the people are the most interesting. As you can see from the picture, that is indeed a carved watermelon. There was this awesome lady who just does stuff like that. (I mean, I would have no idea what to do with it, but honestly. Its awesome.) You get everything from fortune tellers, to duct tape items makers, to 5 year old violin players. the experience is pretty fun, and very educating. Go visit your local Farmer's Market!

Emperor's New Groove

So this is another adventure I had on vacation. This is the Capilano Suspension Bridge in Vancouver. If your fear is one of high places, this might not quite be your thing. But, if you are one of those awesome, risky, adventures types, this would be your deal. Let me paint a picture for you. There is this suspended bridge in between two mountains. About 100 yards below is a shallow river with sharp rocks. Have you ever seen Emperor's New Groove? Thats basically it. But you know if you just happen to be one of those lame scardy- cats, there's an aquarium somewhere.

Underground Seattle

If you like creepy things, which the best people do, this is an awesome place to go. That picture right there is actually part of the Underground Seattle. The story is super weird and has stuff to do with toilets and the tide, but in the end what i got out of it was that Seattle is built on top of a frozen in time, vintage city. Everything from the tea cups to the wall paper is still there, granted there is a little fire damage... and granted there is a ghost... but who said those were bad things?

The Museum of Glass

The picture you see is one I took on my latest vacation. I was in the grad city of Tacoma WA, and stopped by this place called The Museum of Glass, which is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. You get to actually see and observe the proses of Glass blowing, and its just pure interesting insanity. This right here is one of their pieces of art on the ceiling of an arch just outside of the museum. It's on a bridge that goes over a street, and connects with the State of Washington Museum. I must say though, the work is fascinating, and the art is spectacular. I highly recommend stopping by if you have the chance.

Chips

Alrighty. so I have been gone for a while... I'm sorry.
So for the past two weeks I have been on vacation. it was pretty awesome... accept for the chips.
Now, when you get a bag of chips, you expect it to be pretty full, you know; at least enough chips to fill the bag minus some for packaging. However, over the years for some reason, chip baggers have decided to deny us all of our good ol' American love of potato chips in a waisted effort to get rid of the over weight crap, by skimping on the chip count in the chip bag. Now, they may deny this. they may say that there has always been the same amount of potato lovelies in the bag. I can prove this false.
FACT: on the fantastic occasion that I purchased a bag of chips, there were, i kid you not, 14 chips in the bag.I counted. 14. and half of them weren't even full sized.
Was I mad?
Of course i was. I don't care how fat our country is. The FABULOUS health care plan does not imply that potato chips are out! (although i wouldn't be surprised) No.
I have a dream... that all bags of chips are created with generous amounts of chips, and that all bags are equal! I have a dream! that this land is your land, and this land is my land, but this land is also the potato chips' land. Come on! Land of the free! Home of the POTATOES!!! four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation... FULL OF POTATO CHIPS!!!

..... so i guess my point is that, potato chips are dying, and its our job to make sure that we fight for what we believe in: the great and noble chip.

lesson fun

So there was a reason I put 98% self taught. Today, i had a scheduled lesson with an actual teacher.
Now, i had in my mind three possibilities of who this teacher would be like... one would be a young guy in his twenties... wanna be rock star and didn't quite make it. two was a forty year old dude going through a mid-life crisis with long black greasy hair and a Harley. and three was a seventy year old creeper.

So I was close. it was a hybrid of the last two. he was probably in his fifties, and he was so in to Jimi Hendrix it was hilarious. He kept talking about all of the guitar magazines he subscribes to... so funny. but he was a very nice guy and was quite impressed with my "guitar skills" and that i was progressing more than anyone he has seen in a while... so I'm guessing thats good.

So I now have a stand for my guitar and a very pretty back and white checked strap. :) and just in case anyone besides me is wondering, my guitar, Adison's official birthday is July 9, 2010. I will be celebrating his birthday every year, and possibly half birthdays and so on and so forth. he will be getting presents from me...
Because I'm a dork like that. well thats it for today!

~Payne

'Are these beds made out of bombs?' 'Yes, but they are very old. just try not to toss and turn.'

So there is another good movie I would like to express my love for. It's called Despicable Me. and basically, it's the bomb dot com.
So how long have we been seeing commercials for this? like a year and a half? I think i saw it fifty times. You know, it starts out as a ancient Egypt scene with this guy and his sheep. then out of the blue, a bus drives by blasting 'Sweet Home Alabama', and Tourists are just filing out. Then this kid on this leash and his parents come out. The father acts like a dork, while the little kid is engrossed with his toy plane. He escapes, and eventually falls into the fake air filled pyramid. yada yada yada. We've all seen it before.
So I basically went into the movie just because i thought that it would bug me if i didn't, having seen the commercial so many times. And basically like Toy Story 3, i was very pleasantly surprised. The little yellow... (beans?) things basically brought me to tears. And it did have a fairly cute message about father/daughter relationships. Quite honestly, it was the second best movie I've seen all year. If you haven't yet seen this marvelous film, i highly recommend it. unless you are one of those back hearted people who hates all things good in life. (refer back to Toy Story 3 post)
Well, conclusion.
Despicable me: Must See.

~Payne

New stuff

Alright so last time i said that i got a beautiful new guitar? ya... well i think that i'm doing alright as a complete beginner. I can play the following (well kinda... i still have troubles with some chords): Yellow, Clocks, and Viva La Vida by Coldplay, and Drops of Jupiter by Train. actually i learned all of those today. My very first two songs were 'I've been working on the railroad', and 'silent night'... because those are easy shmeeze songs. but none the less, i can play all of them. my next mission: twist and shout by the Beatles... oh boy.... :)


~Payne

Happy happy day!

Alright. so yesterday was probably like experiencing chocolate for the first time. It was that good, and I am pleased to announce that I am now the proud owner of a very candy apple red guitar.
Since i am going to be 98% self taught, I decided to watch a few YouTube videos on the art of playing my beautiful red hunk of wood. The very first thing i learned was that it is crucial that you give your guitar a name.
Now I am not opposed to this whole part of the guitar experience. I name lots of my objects. However, I thought about this. If aliens were to crash down on earth, apart from them brutally taking over the world, what would they think of us? If you take a step back, we are quite an odd species aren't we? who else spends their time dying their hair different colors, dipping potatoes in a pile of pasty tomatoes and sugar, and naming objects they find significant to them? No, you don't really find this anywhere in nature.
Anyway, I agreed to name my fabulous guitar. It's name is officially Adison. For no particular reason, I love that name.
So there will probably be updates on my progression with Adison over the next little while. Who knows what kind of adventures we will have? Maybe in case the aliens do come and take over the world, I will write a song that makes them cry. but who knows? with the things I do with my time, anything is possible!

~Payne

Friday!

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Friday is the best day of the week! For truly! So what am I going to do to celebrate this magical day? well. I am going to do my favorite thing in the world. Rant.

Todays topic: Miley Cyrus.

It is also a truth universally acknowledged that Miss. Miley has turned into the worlds biggest little slut. Honestly. How did she start? on Disney channel? And where is she now? Pole dancing for five year olds, feeling herself up on her latest and greatest music video, and she tries to cover it up by saying that she has always been this way. wow. So she is saying that every now and then she would find a pole on Hannah Montana? That she was feeling up people as she danced around singing 'Best of Both worlds'? Honestly little girl? How old is she anyway? 17? This is truly an exhibit of how fame can go to your head. And now she is leading thousands of little girls down with her. What a wonderful role model. Just wait. One of these days you will hear a little girl say," Mommy, can I get a pole in my room?" Yeah. Sick, disgusting, wrong, and it might all start from one Teenager who decided it was alright to do that in front of kids who are starting first grade next year.

Way to change the world Miley. Way to go.

Toy Story 3

So last night I had the wonderful opportunity to see Toy Story 3. Now I went into this movie knowing that it did get 100% good reviews, but still with doubts in my mind. Why? because it is rare that animated movies that get up to three in a series are not a disaster. Usually they don't follow the story line, or they just are plain stupid. Sure I got the little magazine outside of the theater doors, but i wasn't expecting much more than a expired disaster; something that was just never supposed to happen.

Boy, was I completely wrong.

If you haven't yet seen it, and have watched the previous three (I don't know one person who hasn't seen the other two movies, but whatever), I highly recommend going to see it. From the very first minute i was laughing like there was no tomorrow. Taking you into the spirit of your childhood, it puts a twist in it that will make anyone laugh. Buzz as a Spaniard brought me to tears. It was a perfect blend of comedy and adventure, with a hint of scary, and a pinch of romance between Barbie and Ken. I honestly don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a movie. But be prepared to experience heart break once again like you did the first time you gave away your favorite toy. But i promise you wont be disappointed, unless you are a black hearted loser who hates everything good in life.

Over all, I'd say that Toy Story is the best movie I have seen this year... by far.

~Payne

change!

So i decided to change my blog because i ran out of things to write about. so now this is going to be a blog about just things i want to write about.

WARNING:there might be a lot of ranting on this. Because i like to rant.

But i also plan on this being somewhat of a review blog (i express my opinion on movies, books, music, etc.), and possibly a Photo blog once i get a better camera.... alright. I'm done. Bye!!!!

p.s., there might be a chance of some short stories that i write to get on here so just watch out.....

~Payne

Radio

Have you ever turned on the radio, and then ten seconds later, either changed the station or turned it off because you hated the song that was on? Why did you hate the song? was it bad lyrics? Was it a singer who just should have never even attempted, but is still famous anyway? Or was it just because the song was just plain boring?
So What would happen if the world had only music you liked? what would the radios be playing, the elevator music sound like, and what would you have on your iPod?
That utopian world doesn't exist. However, the radio we have right now in my opinion, is basically poop on toast. When they say 'todays best music' really they mean 'the music that is going to pay the best today.' which could mean there is a song with lesser creativity and thought than dirt. I personally think that the lyrics, singer, and production should be able to make you feel something. I thought that was the whole point of music to make you feel something. Well just in case you haven't noticed, a song with the lyrics 'oh my gosh' about a million times sung half heartedly is basically the worst waist of song I have ever heard. Another example is a song that has so many cus words, the bleep-out parts become a beat. Wow. Aren't you just the greatest lyricist ever. I don't care if you are the most famous, talented singer out there. if your lyrics cant get past a five word phrase, it's crap. I don't care if its number one on iTunes either; it shouldn't be. Well to end this rant, I am just going to say one last thing: The sight Pandora.com is a wonderful solution to all of this. :)

~Payne

Just a thought.

I have been listening to an interesting song lately. its called Uprising, and its by my favorite band, MUSE.
There are some lyrics in there that go like this:

They'll try to push drugs that keep us all dumbed down,
And hope that we will never see the truth around.
Another promise, another scene,
another packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed
and all the green belts wrapped around our minds,
and endless red tape to keep the truth confined.

And i was just thinking about it. they are really quite interesting. I intemperate it as the government is trying to hide something important, so to hide it they keep us occupied with things we don't need, news that isn't really important, and all the things that come with that.

It makes you think doesn't it.
What do they have to hide?

The future.

As my official first blog post (that isn't an intro) I would like to bring to the table something that everyone thinks about; the future.
Everything from books, to movies and TV shows each have their own opinions on this subject; most of them being that blissful electronic world. They envision flying cars, time machines, alien invasions, instant food, and everything in between. Life looks pretty good right?
Now, I don't want to come across as a pessimistic loser. I'm just saying that if we think that that is where we are headed, we are way in and over our heads. If we think that bombing the entire world out, enlarging prisons, starting wars, hating our fellow human beings is getting us just that much closer to that shiny future, there is something to be said about education in the world.
I do understand that there are some stinker pots out there. That includes the following: Fidel, Osama, Joseph Kony, and all of the AWESOME people that follow in their path. (Child soldiers, Alquida, and the Castro clones) If you were to put a definition on the phrase 'fun sucker' you would include all of the above. They all have one thing in common: they sacrifice the sanity and safety of the humanity of all the people around them. Through brain wash, and a lot of lying, they eventually get what they want, which is power, and money.
In my opinion, all of these obstacles could be over come. But it will never be so, if we keep on doing what we are doing. That is sitting around, wrapped up in a snuggie, digging for the remote, wondering who got the Grammies; while power and money hungry leaders try to fix our problems. It's a really not good system!
And then you have all of the decent people who are intelligent, and who would become excellent leaders. But they see the world that they would have to deal with, and they choose not to because its so messed up!
I bet you that there is more than one Muslim person out there who thinks that the whole Palestinian/Israeli conflict is stupid.
I bet there is more than one person on Alquida that doesn't want to be involved in the 'jihad' to destroy basically every American that has ever lived.
I bet you Every child soldier under the influence of Joseph didn't want to be there in the first place.
I hope there is a few members of the Janjaweed that don't want to burn thousands of homes full of innocent people.
I bet there are a few Castro clones that are just praying that we put and end to Castro himself so they can be free.
Humanity still exists. just not in the eyes of the corrupt.
In conclusion to this, my guess would be that eventually, if we keep on doing what we are doing, we will eventually kill ourselves off. There will be no flying cars. There will be no time machines. there will be only the memory of us in the dust of our consequences. By doing nothing, we are only punishing ourselves, and the people that follow us.
I'm not saying that we should go out and hunt down every corrupt leader. There are easy ways to make people think (like maybe a simple letter or even e-mail), which is the start of all great revolutions. But I think that we have lead ourselves so far into the hole, that we are going to need something bigger than a revolution. We are going to need a total and complete transformation of the way some people think. Because right now, there are people who think that their god said you should be dead right now simply because you are one of those 'western Imperialists'. If that doesn't sound messed up, Darth Vator is actually MY father.
Well I'm not trying to be a pessimist, but when it comes to plain humanity, sometimes you just have to wonder.

First Post.

There are many things in this weird place we call earth that are overlooked, neglected, or in my opinion, just looked at in the wrong way. This blog will hopefully give a new viewpoint to various things I see that may catch your attention. To me, it seems as though people overlook things that make them uncomfortable or guilty. I say this is the wrong approach. If we want to rise together as a whole, we should probably stop looking at what makes us feel good, and start looking at what will make the world stronger, better, and safer. There is nothing I dislike more than people who complain endlessly, but do nothing about it in hopes someone else will do it for them. I don't plan on saving the world or anything, I just plan on helping.
I could go on and on about how much of a hypocritical world we are, but right now, the only goal for this post is just to put the idea out there.

-Payne