All I Do

6 Months

On My Mind (I Wonder...)

I can't stop...
I can't stop...
I can't stop...
I can't stop thinking about you

I wonder where you are
I wonder who you're with
I wonder if your day is good
If you're smiling and laughing during good conversation

I wonder when the next time I will see you
When I can bask in your conversation
Enjoying every moment, holding on to your words
With your eyes sparkling with your hands in mine

I wonder when the next time you will call
The next time we can have the Sun watching us
Walking next to each other,
Enjoying each other's company

I also wonder...
I do wonder...
If you will give away OUR love
But faith and my heart tells me otherwise

When I lay down, this is on my mind
When I wake up, this is on my mind
When I get down, this is on my mind
Everytime I smile, you are on my mind

29 Days: Day 29

29 Days: Day 25

First Time

From the first time I saw you, I was taking away by your beauty.
From the first time I talked to you, I was refreshed by your honesty.
From the first time I was in the same vicinity as you,
I knew I wanted to be in your life.
I knew I wanted you to be mine.
And every time I see you, I relive each day as if it was the first time.

29 days: Day 24

29 Days: Day 23

29 Days: Day 11 to 20

29 Days: Day 6

29 Days: Day 4

Day 4: Starts off with a message, finally got my box, and ends with words

29 Days: Day 2

The Comet

Flying through the universe amongst the stars
Flying around wondrous, not knowing who you are
Not knowing the path that you are being lead to
Head first in to a mysterious journey without a clue
Passing the other planets during life's rendezvous
Deciding to look forward and to never look back
But all comets follow a ellipse so in due time you'll be back
On the same path but with a different view
A new fire to your desire, a revamped new YOU
In the sky you stay fly, but on Earth you're grounded
Anxious, confused about your surrounding
Your dreams might be flying through the vast mass of Space
But your ambition and God doesnt have you too far from that place
So when you looking in to the sky, asking when, where, and why
Know somebody, somwhere, ask the same thing and is waiting for that reply
Even as a comet, you're not alone in the universe
Your friends, family, and people in your life become the instrumental to your verse
So go to to the beat of the drum, knowing that as a Comet you're not alone
You are a future Star on the destiny to become that Sun.

29 Days: Day 2: Thoughts & Confessions

Por Mi Muse

Hark! the angel, she speaks of my follies
My chances along with my inconsistencies
Led me to a desert of desperation and hope
I reach my hand out and waited for someone to grab unto it
Dirt in my face, vision blur, I can't see where I'm going
HE pulled me up and told me "All will be okay
Trust in HIM and HE would lead the way.
HE will give me the words to say"
I got up, brush the dirt off my face
Repented and started my journey
Washed away my sorrows in the oceans of your eyes
I'm still on my journey and I have no idea when it will ever end
But I smile cause in my heart, you are my lover and my friend

29 Days: Day1

...Like Something Out of a Movie

Her heart is calling for you. The stress is getting to her. You have to let her know that you are there for. That you support her no matter what. The pressure is getting to her. Help her release.

12AM. I have my iPOD, gloves, jacket, and hat in my hands. I gather my keys and I leave the house. 2hrs 30 plus minutes, 120-something miles are ahead of me. She is worth it and I want her to know that she is appreciated.

The music is blasting. I'm rolling down the road. Passing traffic, cars passing me, shifting my eyes through the darkness from left to right to avoid tunnel vision. My eyes are working back and forth from my cell to the time to the road. I hope she doesn't call me before I get there. I hope she accepts my visit. It's been over hundred days since I seen her. We've been through a lot and I not sure at all of where we stand. Tonight will tell me everything.

I finally made it to my destination. I hope she calls. She has a lot on her plate and even me doing this is a dare, but it's worth the risk. I will wait an hour and if I get no call, I will leave and go about my way. She will not know close I was to seeing the person I love. Damn, I'm going the wrong way. I need to find a place to do a U-turn. A glance of my cell phone and I have a new text. It's a smile. I reply back the only way I know how: "hey beauty." Ten seconds later, the ringtone of John Legend's "Another Again" plays and her picture is displayed on my phone. It's her. She tells me that she is getting something to eat. We talk about what she has been up to and she told me how bad her back hurt. This is a great time to interject:

"I could give you a massage if you like."
"That would be great but that be like 2 hours away."
"How bout I give you one in ten minutes?"
"Huh? What?!? You're here?"
"haha, yes."

She seems glad that I'm here but doesn't believe me. "Stop lying" she says to me. I started to tell her what road I was on. "Stop lying." I name the most random landmarks I could see before I reach her campus. She starts to believe. She tells me her time is short but jumps in her car to find me. I'm lost on campus. I tell her what road I'm on and she tells me she is going down the street. I hit a U-turn to head back to that street. I'm driving and I see her car ahead of me. She tells me to slow down as she does also.

She gets out of her car. My heart pounds. She still as beautiful as the last time I saw her. I get out the car. She apologizes for her appearance. Only if she knew how long I've been waiting for this moment. Only if she knew that she is beautiful anytime I see her. Beauty is her essences. She throws her arms around my neck. I can tell the stress is getting to her. As places her forehead upon the bridge of my nose, she thanks me for coming. I let her know that I will always be there. Cars pass as we embrace each other kissing and our cars in the middle of the street. She looks up and my lips softly press upon hers. The emotions release. LOVE.

Her emotions pours out like morning rain and a flood of words come from her. I tell her that I'm here for. That I'll be waiting at the finish line for her and that I love her. She kisses me one more time, finds her strength, puts her hood up, and rolls out.

I drive behind her for a little before I make my exit. It was everything I dreamed of. This was worth it.

I'm almost home and she texts me to let her know when I make it. She calls when I make it to the last light before home. 30 minutes of conversation as I lay down talking to her. I let her everything and end with saying

"I love you."
"Me 2."

I Want You?

I want you. Want is a desire or need to have something you don't have. In other words, a form of "possession." I feel that when it comes to love, there should at no way be any type of possession between the two beings. One person doesn't not own full/half/partial ownership over anybody else. If you make a person forget who they are in the process of loving you, you are doing a horrible job as a lover/friend/whatever. LOVE IS PROGRESS. You should want to progress with a person to another level and leave all that drags you down in the past. The past does make you stronger but dwelling on it and always using it as a reference, that might hold you back from how you truly feel, will stunt your future. If you truly love someone, you should let them be them. Love them from the first time you see them til the moment you are looking at them now. If love makes you want to change or make a fool out of yourself, make sure it makes you better in process. If changing is going to take away from the positives, then it's not worth it. Change the negatives, keep the positives, and bliss should beseech you. Help that person GROW and let them help you GROW too. A Need? A Want? It's better to have a person that compliments you. If they compliment you in the things you lack, they can help you grow.They say life is like chess and everything depends on your moves. The thing is, you'll always be successful if you save your complimentary pieces.


Tidbit: Let a person know how you feel, even if they don't want to here. You never know when the last time you'll see or speak to them. You don't want to wait til it's too late and feel like you had so much to say to them. Let them know. In the end, there will be no regrets, because they truly know how you felt. Let a person know how you feel.

My analysis on Cloverfield

Now, this will not be your regular review. I thought the movie was great on all cylinders. Now that, that is out of the way, I'm going to talk about "Why some feel the movie was awful", the supposed "plot holes" in the movie, and the talks of a "sequel." None of what I am saying here is fact, these are just my thoughts. So, ride along with me.

Enjoy!

Viral Marketing: Gift and a Cruse
The Gift: The viral marketing for Cloverfield is by far the best job done when it comes to conveying a story. Even though, "Snakes on the Plane" was ambitious, it was only a one-line joke that turned in to a viral marketing. There was more ridicule and laughing at it than in depth view of the movie. With Cloverfield, came a whole complete story that ranged from tons of the site. You had 01-18-08.com that would randomly give us pictures from the movie and also some that we still don't know anything about. The myspace websites of the characters gave us their personality on things they liked and how they would interact with each other in the movie. The Slusho, Tagruato, and TidoWave sites gave us the backdrop on what really woke the monster up in the movie. Then came the videos of jamieandteddy.com and also the "Chuai" videos. It introduced us to a minor character in the movie that we grew to love and hate (mostly HATE) and the Chuai videos somewhat gave us insight that the monster attacked before New York, that the Army could've known about it (the report of the Coast Guard being there), and Tagruato was there for the ride. Now, we have the Cloverfield: Kishin manga coming out that is supposedly a prequel to all of the events. It's great to know that the Cloverfield mythology is going to live on way after the movie. J.J. Abrams has gave us our "Lost" in movie form, where we as fans have to decipher all the little things that he has giving us. That, when the time comes, and we get our complete story, this puzzle ride was worth it.

Chuai Station Video (English)

The Curse: The curse of viral marketing is that the "target audience" of the people coming in to the movie will not have seen any of it. When it comes down to it, movie websites are only visited by those who are anticipating it. The viral market created a world where people that followed it would not be disappointed at all. That's why the critics that followed this such as Entertaiment Weekly and Spill.com gave the movie praises. They experienced while the traditional movie critic didn't and didn't get what was happening. Standing in line last night at the movie theater, I saw nothing but preteens, middle school to high schoolers, families, and etc. During this time, I told my cousin (who knew a little of the viral marketing) that they probably wouldn't get it. Once the movie started, I was right. A "boo" started in the beginning during the long transition between the Paramount logo and U.S. Department logo. I just shook my head. At the end, moans and groans when throughout the crowd, because "the ending wasn't what they wanted it to be." The ones that didn't were raving about it walking out of the theater. Why such a big opposite effect? The ones raving about it were tying in the viral marketing with it. The others weren't. A lot of my friends never heard of Cloverfield. Some didn't even see commercials for it and even that surprised me. You take a PG-13 movie and a person who only saw one commercial, and they are going to expect a full out action movie, in which it wasn't. Another thing that got people about the ending, that weren't in to the viral marketing, was that there was no "nice lil' bow" at the end of the movie. As my cousin says, "Disney has ruined movies." This all reserves to "happy ending, good triumphant over evil" endings. With monster movies, that is the usual ending. With any villainous character, that's the ending. Prime example, "No Country For Old Men", everybody waited for the character Chigurh (played by Javier Bardem) to get his cumupence at the end of the movie, most likely by Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones). Didn't happen and people hated the movie because of that. Cloverfield was another example of that. The average person that went didn't leave happy or optimistic. There is a reason why most movies with a depression ending comes near the end of the year. The main is Oscar season, the other is mood of the movie: DEPRESSING! All in all, the viral marketing helped those prepare for the movie while the movie alone left too much open for the common audience member.

Plot holes?
A lot of people felt this movie had tons of plot holes in the movie. I'm going to try to give my opinions on some of the most notable "plot holes" that have bothered people.

When is this movie taken place? One thing that gets people is the time that movie takes place, which April 27th and May 3rd. Is it 2007? 2008? Why was marketed as in real time (myspace, site blogs, etc) and in the movie its not? With the last question, I think that was somewhat out of their hands. They couldn't change the dates as far on the myspace so I believe they went along with it. I believe that the movie takes place in 2008. Reasons why: The dates will make sense as in they slept together on the 26th which is directly one week before the 3rd (both on Saturdays). It will also help with new manga comic, Cloverfield: Kishin. If it is a prequel and the next installment isn't til February, by doing once a month, it will lead to the actual date of the attack. It makes the most logical sense.


How the hell the monster get behind them? Is there more than one monster? Yes there is more than one monster and you saw them. The BIG ONE and the sea louse. That's it. We all know that it is a baby, but let me answer how it got behind them. If you remember, it did jump up and attack the helicopter. It wasn't a small jump either because the helicopter was way above the buildings. You have to remember in the scene when Beth and Rob are crossing buildings. The monster was around the height of the skyscrapers but was by no mean taller than them. They dragged Rob and were about to go. I figure the best explanation was it was there the whole time, just quiet. Rob and Beth back was turned when HUD went back for the camera. From the looks of it, he was still disoriented and his eyes were only on the camera. Hud was focused on getting the camera, ran over, and didn't notice until they brought attention to it. It follows the monster movie protocol of being aware of the monster when its too late. So, Why did the monster look so small? When HUD progressed up to the monster, he zoomed in so he could see the face. This would have made it look smaller and that would have gave it the look as if it didn't have to go far to attack him.
A sequel?
Yes, director Matt Reeves have talked about a sequel from a different perspective. I believe the best way this could work is from multiple perspectives. Just think, Cloverfield was only about one tape that was found. There has to be dozens of tapes found by now in New York. As people know, I do want to produce movies one day and this will be a list of things they could show through tapes.

The Perspectives:

The Chuai Station: As we see in the video, there is the cell phone video and also the camera of those on the boat. Possibly there is more footage than was giving to the media. Also, the Coast Guard could have film on what happen. That could start the film off.

The Oil Tanker: There could have been a surveillance camera that might have survived the explosion. Using this, we could see how the monster attacked the tanker and the possibilities of what was on it.

Death camera: There could be many of these where somebody was videotaping or surveillance of attack happen with the big monster or the little ones on random humans.

Sea Louse autopsy: As we saw in the film, they do have one. Just like the famous Alien Autopsy, we could see them dissecting the monster and finding out its origins. This could help us no more about the bigger one.

Military: There could be many of these or could be the main perspective. It could also explain this picture which could have been before the attack which will make sense on why the military was there so fast when all hell broke loose.
Family: This also could be a main plot of a video of a family who watches the attack on TV and notice that they are in danger and need to get out.

The End?

IT'S STILL ALIVE!