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.
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
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.
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, Cloverfieldwas 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.
Speed: What the hell did I just watch? HA HA Trixie: The trailer for the Speed racer! Speed: Interesting. HA HA
What you just watched was the trailer for the upcoming anime-to-live action movie, Speed Racer. So if you never been up late at night and came by it on Cartoon Network or older than 25, I'll let Warner Bros. tell you what it is.
Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer (played by Emile Hirsch) is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized-the legendary Rex Racer (Scott Porter..who?) - whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer (John Goodman), the designer of Speed's thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company's maniacal owner but uncovers a terrible secret-some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won't drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way for Speed to save his family's business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie (Christina Ricci), Speed teams with his one-time rival-the mysterious Racer X (Lost's Matthew Fox) - to win the race that had taken his brother's life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible. - Warner Bros.
I could've wrote a generic version of the movie, but Speed Racer to me never really had a plot minus the racing against your brother's legacy. You take that out and it's just racing around for nothing but pride. LIKE NASCAR! Well, maybe not, because these cars are equipped to take out the competition or help you out. Probably would make it better to see Earnhart back flip over Gordon.
TRAILER THOUGHTS
I think it is a pretty decent trailer for the movie. I love all of the cast that was picked for it minus Speed and Spritle. No offense to the lil' kid but I don't see Spritle when I look at him. Same goes to Emile. He really doesn't scream Racer. I understand though, because who else could ya pick? Zac Efron?? It would've made more money. The teenyboppers love him. Emile is a good actor depending on the script. You give him a great script (Into The Wild) and he'll give ya gold. You give him a bad or mediocre one (Alpha Dog), he will suck like no other. Matthew Fox looks bad ass as Racer X. He seems to be kicking a lot of ass in the movie. That equals a good sign.
A lot of people are complaining over the stylistic CGI in the movie. They are saying that it is too fake and looks cheap. From what I heard, this is not a cheap move at all ($100,000,000 (estimated)). When it comes to the Wachowski brothers and you're a studio, you are guaranteed to break bank. Through the CGI, they are trying to blend live action and CGI together to create an aesthetically looking movie that looks just like the TV show. As anybody that is a fan of anime knows (me; not really), the show and other shows at the time were high on technicolor. It was loud and colorful as any poser who is trying to bring the 80's back. I said as far as bring anime to life, that have succeeded. That's exactly what it would look like. Unless you made an Akira or Ninja Scroll movie, there is really know what to get away from that.
Overall
I said it looks like pretty good. Depending on how bad the script is can make or break this movie. The only reason why is because of the lead, Hirsch, and he has to be able to pull it off. Everything else looks good. So, I give this trailer a 7 out of 10.
Directed by the Wachowski brothers
Starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, and Matthew Fox
How many times do you wake up in the morning and say "I love my arm"? Probably never. Why? Because its always there and you figure that it is always going to be there. Until you meet the day, when you don't have an arm. Then you look back at all the things you could do when ya had it and you finally notice how much you loved that arm. And you might be able to get an artificial arm but it's not the same. You won't feel complete til you have that arm back! -Kris Dorsey
and my heart is still in the same place. The thing is, I'm okay with it. Actually, I'm pretty happy about it. There is no doubt, no what ifs, THIS IS WHAT IT IS. A lot of people wonder why I even go through it. How am I this nice guy and why do I put up with it? In all realness, I'm not really putting up with anything. I pretty much knew what I was gonna go through and there was two routes that my heart would have led me.
1) I see that it's not worth it and I go on with my life. In the end, I will still have a good friend in my corner.
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2) Go for what my heart desires. Let time take its course and love the person who has my heart. In the end, I will still have a good friend in my corner.
I'm going with number 2. Why? Deep down in my heart, I know she still loves me. Deep deep deep down, she wants to give "US" a chance. The thing is, I know that she has her doubts but along with that she has her outside influences working on her. But let me speak on how I know the feelings are still there:
There is a lot of things I can pick at, but I break down a few.
A) Communication: Her and I went from me reaching out to straight silent. Then, she opened up about how she felt about what happened and the week following we were talking heavily. During this heavily talking period, we talked hours on end. You would've thought we were together with the heavy talking that we were doing. Plus out of all our phone convos, I called twice. She reached out when she didn't have to and that means the world to me. Monday was a deep convo (you know whenever you have late night calls, it is always gonna be deep and emotional) and we talked about it. Her motto from that convo was "I don't know and I don't care." Which is really an emotional cop out:
"I don't know" is really saying that you do know. You're in emotional conflict. Love vs. rationality. Rationality tries to make sense of everything and put it in an certain context. Love escapes those boundaries and once you get it, it's a weird feeling. The reason why is because you don't understand how you could feel this way due to "this." I had to go through the same thing. I love you in the relationship but you never know how strong your love is til it is tested. If I didn't I would be okay and not have my heart as my daily reminder of where I want to be. Some times you have to let go and follow your heart. It's when you do that when things fall in place.
"I don't care" is basically saying that the feelings you have for me are true but you are willing to ignore them. Why? What will doing that accomplish? Ignorance can sometimes be bliss but not when your heart is in it. Being ignorant to yourself and feelings is the most dishonest thing you can ever do. That's like knowing you have cancer but ignoring it hoping it will go away. You be better getting help and getting better. In this, you be better doing what your heart says and being happy.
B) Subtleness. It's the lil things. The calls, what are convos are about (usually us), and just the comfort we have. Also the Freudian slips of "sweetie" and "babe" is never bad. :-)
C) The Real YOU. she has two sides. i dont know how you're a Taurus. i would understand this more if she was a damn Gemini. The first side is the "in the crowd-loud-pride-ego-you can't tell me anything-cold' side. That's the facade she puts up when she's in the public. That is the one with defense mechanism and will give ya bs excuses to hurt ya so you'll leave her alone. And the thing is, you feel that if she hurt me, i would leave her alone and it would allow her to move on. Which is far from true. Why? The other side is the 'shy-open-soft spoken-deep-unsure' person. That's the side i knew when we were alone. I know that side and that's the side I love. I'm willing to go through this because I know that side of you. I know what lies in your heart for the both us and that's how I know we can make this work.
In the end, when we look back the one thing we didn't do was: TRY! When we did, we were both somewhere else. Let's go for it. Let's do something we haven't and TRY! Not you TRY, not me TRY! Us, TRY!
Curse words. They seem to be the most effective way to show how you feel, in my personal opinion. I am an avid curser since I've been raised around it, from family members to music and television. When I usually cuss, I never really have any malice behind it. The use of it is to explain something and give it more depth, but some people get offended by it. I love to cuss, not just cause (I don't do it just to do it), but to get a point across. That is what speech is about. Even though I love it: The thing is, there is a good and bad casual sequence associated with it.
First of all, I will like to say it is not against the Bible to say, what we deem as curse words a sin. It is not a Biblical sin, but more of a social taboo. I have yet to read a chapter, which says that "fuck, bitch, ass milk" or any other connotation considered dirty as a sin.There are curse words in the Bible, but the follow the actual "definition"of curse (we'll get in to that later). If the word "the" was considered to be in the category as such words, we would deem it as bad either, even though it is really harmless.
Or is it?
Although it might be meant in a harmless way when saying it, scientifically the brain has a different view on it. Taboo words activate brains area with a negative emotion. Just by hearing a negative word, the right hemisphere of the brain is activated.
The basal ganglia is where motor control, cognition, but most importantly where emotion is made. Every time a cuss word is said or written, a negative emotion is automatically processed involuntarily. A clear case of this is the STROOP TEST.
Demonstration Say the color of these words as fast as you can:
GreenRedBlue
YellowBlueYellow
FuckCuntShit
AssBitchDick
According to the Stroop effect, the first set of colors would have had a faster reaction time.
In the demonstration, you should have been able to do the first part without a hitch. Just saying them and knocking them out like nothing. Once you get to the second part, you'll notice you register them a little slower than before. Why is that? It is the involuntary negativity you get from seeing words like that, that bothers you. All words have affect people, but cuss words do it the most. There is a reason behind why people do it and it is not always negative.
Forms of Cussing 1. Supernatural - damn, hell, Jesus Christ 2. Bodily Effigies and Organs - ass, dick, asshole 3. Disease, death - "I curse a pox on you" 4. Sexuality revulsion - fucking, dick 5.Disfavored people and groups - nigger, kike, spic
How We Swear 1. Dysphemistic Swearing 2. Abusive Swearing - to intimidate or humiliate someone
There is a lot of ingenuity of abusive swearing. A person tries their hardest to come up with some of the most disturbing things to hurt the other person. Most of the time, it is accusing the other person of undignified sexual activities. An MRI study is shows that a lot of brown power goes in to swearing.
Why do people try to evoke negative emotion in listeners?
Dysphemistic Swearing - shit---> feces, fuck-->copulate - all synonyms but the cuss word is used to show how awful it is.
Euphemism - this is when you feel that you have to talk about it even when you don't.
Dis-euphemism - This is the many variations to say one word and you use the least awful to get your point across. A prime example is that there are 34 euphemisms for the word feces. All range from generic, formed with children, medical, animals, agriculture. These are needed because you never want a doctor to ask you for a "doo doo" sample or that your playground your kids are playing on is full of shit. The need for dis-euphemisms: "Will you pick your dog shit up?"It lets the receiver know how mad you are.
Incest - Motherfucker
Sodomy - bugger, fellatio, masturbation
Bestiality - This is a quote that originated from 1585: "Kiss the cunt of a cow!" Now that is what I called alliteration and GRADE Acussing right there.
Idiomatic - Shit out of Luck, Piss poor
Inviscid Swearing - "Look at him! He thinks he's Michael Fucking Jordan or something!"
I use this form of cussing the most. Saying things like it's fucking brilliant or that's fucking great falls in that category. Although, I don't see the harm in it, somebody else might.
Fuck Patois - Example: "I come home to my fucking house after three fucking years in the fucking war and what do I fucking well find, my wife engage in illicit sexual activities.
Cathartic Swearing - This is the most conventional swearing. Most people do this after hurting themselves.
Rage Circuit Theory: If you ever stepped on a tail of a cat, the first thing they do is hiss or growl at you. This is basically telling you to step the fuck back from the cat. If someone hits you or a person cuts you off when not turning on the turn signal, your rage circuit could be ignited and start this.
Response Cry Theory - Communication that informs bystanders on what you are going through.
And the main reason people cuss: To impose their thoughts on others. Doing this allows the person to gain the other person's attention, intimidate, humiliate them, amongst other things. CONCLUSION
At the end of the day, there is no way that cussing will not be able negatively affect someone. Even if you mean no harm by it, the brain is already against you. You have to take in consideration on how the person feels. they also should know how you act and what you find as normal dialect between you. The biggest thing that divides people is miscommunication. By talking, problems such as cuss words will not be that: A PROBLEM.
Hello, everybody! Welcome to my blog and thank you for coming. I hope that the following that you read, no matter how grammatically incorrect some of it might be, you will find entertaining and also thought provoking. This is just a look in the life of a young man who is trying to find his place in this world. So once again, thank you.
Well, who am I? Well, I go by a couple of names. My real name(which won't be said here), Casey Dee, amongst others. The name you could call me by is PHZ-Sicks (pronounced physics), which is my rap name (www.myspace.com/phzsicks1). I am an aspiring artist but I'm more than that. I'm a college student (Drexel U.), a son of a single mother, a country boy with a city slicker mentality, employee (intern @ C-SPAN and teacher @ a daycare) pop culture buff, and future entrepreneur and philanthropist.
So why start a blog? Why not just do it on your music page?
I have a lot to say. Now just on music and entertainment, but life in general. I have thoughts on love, relationships, religion, death, and the other 2,000 things that run through my head. I just didn't think that my music page could hold that part of me. I have other plans blog-wise for that page. This page will take a glimpse at my life and my thoughts at the moment. There will be two ways that I write all my post: I will either record myself speaking them and then type them later or just type them as I go.
Well, be on the look out for my first official post. I am still trying to figure what the first subject will be. It will either be about cussing or love. We'll see. Thanks again for your time to read this.
Flying through the universe amongst the stars
