Sunday, June 30, 2019

Friday, June 14, 2019

Hiding

I don't understand why I'm afraid of writing an emotional blog post. I know I'm afraid of misrepresenting my feelings. And I know I could disagree with my feelings only a day later when I'm in a different mood. And so I avoid it. I can't seem to write down my feelings, especially sad feelings. Not in blog post at least.
I don't even like writing about not writing about emotional things, so I'm stopping here.

Well, I guess this next thing kind of goes along with the previous thing.

Writing a song is appealing to me because it's a medium of communication that I can say things that I can't say anywhere else. I'm not interested in really making it sound good. I'm interested in writing lyrics. I guess poems might be a way to do something similar. But I don't like that idea for some reason.
I feel like I need to be very transparent in communicating the way that I feel. A song can do that with the musical element "hiding it" while still being very transparent if you just read the lyrics. While as a poem, I feel like I inherently need to mask how I feel by using vague terms or something something.
Music has a natural cover that allows me to express things. Poems don't have that cover, so I feel I have to create it myself, which contradicts the fact that I feel I need to be very transparent in communicating the way that I feel.
I keep repeating the same thing, but I keep coming up with new ways to say it, so I keep saying it: I can't do poems because I feel like I need to hide. Music gives me a way to hide without actually hiding.

Too bad I'm really bad at creating music. I'm not even sure if that's true. I mean, I know that my current ability to do so is poor. I just don't know if I'm just not talented at it either. I'm a quick learner. I'm sure I could be pretty competent at it, if effort was given. But it's currently not on my scope of things to spend time doing.

I feel that there is more to be written.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Yanny vs Laurel; End of NYLT Writings


Next day: So, my Yanny vs. Laurel story because obviously that's still relevant and not at all not cared about anymore. I first was introduced to it by a WheezyWaiter video (Link?). At some point he plays the audio clip back to back. The first time he played the audio clip I distinctly heard "Yanny", and I'm like "Yeah, that's definitely 'Yanny'". But then, a couple seconds later he played the audio clip again and I clearly heard "Laurel". I thought, "Holy crap, there's no way that's the same audio clip." I went back to relisten to both and heard Laurel both times and it was crazy. A little later I listened to the audio clip again. When I focused and thought about hearing Yanny, I heard Yanny. When I focused and thought about hearing Laurel, I heard Laurel.
I'm basically at the point where I exclusively hear Laurel, now, though. It's weird. I'll have to look up the dress thing
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and report on that because I forget which I see.
It's so annoying how much food we have to eat. I was stuffed yesterday after dinner and now I'm super hungry.
Saying something is indescribable has always been funny to me because you're describing it by saying it's indescribable.
Later: I'm semi-running into writer's block right now. I mean, I suppose that makes sesne since I've just been writing a while bunch. I really want to type this all up already. I (mostly) haven't reread any of the stuff I've written, so it'll be interesting to read it all again.

Movie Reviews and What I Like in Movies (the basics, at least) (NYLT)




Next day (now with a blue pen!): I think it would be tons of fun if I started reviewing different movies. We watched Apollo 13 last night, which was pretty good. It's amazing how well they pulled it off and made it exciting even though we already know the ending. But I suppose it's useful/good that it's based off a true story/we knew the ending. If you don't know what happened before you watched the movie, the ending would have (probably) been super predictable. Knowing the ending beforehand is (probably) better than having a super predictable ending.
I suppose it being based off a true story makes the movie as a whole. Part of the excitement comes from the fact that it happened and how amazing it is that they survived. You're not watching to know the story (which reminds me of Infinity War and I want to talk about it sometime in the future). You're watching to see the story. You already know the story, you're just watching it to see it in a more detailed exciting cinematic experience.
I guess I'll just talk about Infinity War right now since it's super integrated into this idea in my head. Why did I watch Infinity War? To know what happens. I did not, necessarily, watch it to go watch a good movie. I almost purely watched it to figure out what happens. How it happened didn't matter nearly as much to me. I could expand this topic in several different ways right now and hopefully I can get to them all eventually [how Apollo 13 is the exact opposite; what I care about in a movie now and in the future; expand about Marvel not being that good which ties into (what I care about in a movie); more about Infinity War vs. other Marvel movies; what specific movies I'll watch in the theater/why I don't like movie theaters (I believe I have talked about this in the past)]
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While Apollo 13 was the exact opposite. I watched it for how the movie makers made it happen, not what happens. This is one reason I think that Infinity War will be ranked solidly on many people Marvel's list, but won't be quite the top. Later, that is. I still think the craziness and impact of it is still too fresh on our minds, which biases the data. The movie experience of Infinity War was just. plain. crazy. But that was the movie experience. In the future, because of the 'what-happensness' instead of the 'how-it-happeness' will cause people, when picking a Marvel movie to watch, to often not pick Infinity War but instead to pick a different Marvel movie as just a solid movie to watch. I'm not sure if what I'm trying to get across makes sense, but it makes sense in my head.
I have more things to talk about regarding movies, but I feel like moving on for now. I'm not sure as to what, but.

Sunday, May 26, 2019

MWAHAHAHAHA (Ben's post)

So my cousin Ben made this forever ago. He never finished, but I thought I would publish what was done. If at any point in the future he wants to finish, I'll allow him to. So here's his uncompleted post:



So Alex told me that I could do Whatever I Want so here we go Ben reporting on a few things today is Your boy Thomas's birthday, Rogger Feders's birthday, there was a smash announcement today and a new twenty one pilot song so Yea?, but instead I am going to write about the twenty one best songs (not including twenty one pilots). One of the first songs I thought of was all star by smash mouth this song is so good not just because it is a meme but it has nostalgia to anyone that watched the Digimon movie, The second song that came to mind was the Mii theme because it is a nice calm music and it has a great beat and reminds me of good times in theater class.the third song is The Kim possible theme song It is one of the best TV Theme song ever it has so much energy and makes you want love your life to the fullest. Number four is the greatest Television theme song which is Duck Tales theme I actually watched a video on why this song is so good it is because of the rhythmic slides and the daring adventures it talks about. The fifth song is A Tribe Called Red Electric pow wow it is dub step Native American music and the best description of it is an energy drink in a song. The sixth song is John Denver Leaving On A Jet Plane It is not the most emotional song but it still brings some feelings and it just sounds so good and is my personal favorite of the John Denver's music.The seventh song is Chicago Hard To Say I'm Sorry I'm trying to figure out why this song is so good but it is kind of like the the Mii theme where it is hard know why it is good but it just is so good. The eighth song is Toto Africa this song is good because it goes dododododo dololdolodolo. Number nine is Hank Greens I Know the reason this song is so good because it only has ten words which makes it so simple and complex at the same time.The tenth song is the disatance by cake