Money or Happiness?

Today during my 3 hour break between classes I sat in one of the school cafe areas reading for my history class. During the couple hours I sat there many different people sat down at the tables around me. After a while of tuning everyone out a conversation caught my ear.

A girl was sitting with a friend she hadn't seen in a while (I'm assuming this because they seemed to be catching up on the past couple months). Her friend asked her if she was still going to school for drawing, she said she wasn't and instead was doing phlebotomy because it "made bank" compared to doing art for a living. She then continued to explain how in doing art for a living you can either be starving or extremely rich with not much in between. Her friend agreed, and told her how much she had loved art though.

Upon hearing this I immediately thought of the song "Ambitions" by Donkeyboy. In the beginning of the music video, a man is introduced and he has this flesh eating virus. The virus showed up the day he quit his dream of drawing and got an office job. I wanted to tell the girl to look up that video, but I was too shy, plus I didn't want her and her friend to know I had been eeves dropping.

It makes me sad when people don't pursue their goals/ dreams/ ambitions. I'm not exactly doing that either, but I'm trying (kind of).

Which would you pursue? money or happiness?

Critique on the Critic's thoughts on Easy A

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/easy-a/#Review_0

I have never seen Easy A. I am not commenting on the movie, just the review I read.

Glenn Kenny writes Emma Stone's husky voice and "cat-who-swallowed-the-canary-look" don't compute as an average high school student. Well Mr. Kenny obviously you have never been to a high school in the year 2010. I graduated last June, but I know plenty of girls my age (18) and younger who have a husky voice kind of like Emma Stone. And I've seen girls that resemble Stone as well.

Kenny also comments on Stone's dialogue in the movie: It doesn't help that her dialogue makes her sound like a film-studies major just out of her 20s. "There's a higher power that will judge you for your indecency," Bynes' character advises Olive at one point. "Tom Cruise?"

Then Kenny says how nice it is that Hollywood thinks Tom Cruise registers that high on a high school girl's philosophy. I don't think Kenny realizes the writers were making a joke. And honestly I have heard people joke about Tom Cruise. I mean, he DID jump up and down on Oprah's yellow couch and he's a Scientologist which plenty of high schoolers/ college goers joke about now and again.

I don't argue with how many stars Kenny gave Easy A, or that he rated it a 72/100. That's not the point of this little rant. The point is Glenn Kenny's reasoning for not exactly liking the movie. Some of the points he made were not valid. Some were, don't get me wrong here.

Anyways, I plan to see the movie somewhat soon. Then I might blog about my review of the movie Easy A. I am sure I will not be agreeing with what Glenn Kenny said.

Hopes and Dreams

I want to travel the world.

First, I would like to travel to all 50 states.

Then, conquer the world.

American Government assignment

Please Read

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/?page=1

In the article above, the write Joe Keohane writes, sometimes people with the strongest political views are actually the ones who know the least amount of the truth. He used welfare as an example. Out of the people sampled only 3% were correct in their assumptions, but it was the other 97% people that were so dead set on them being right who were completely wrong.

Keohane also writes how even if proven wrong people will stick to their beliefs (about politics).

I'm not saying this is always the case, but I do see this happening around me. I will be the first to admit that sometimes I do have a very strong opinion based off "facts. When proven wrong I still may not change my opinion on the subject, but it honestly depends. For example, if I had been able to vote in the 2008 election for United States President I would have voted for Barack Obama rather than John Mccain. With that in mind I want to say I do not agree with Obama's Health Care Reform. People have tried to convince me it is good, but I am sticking true to my beliefs.

But like I said before I see people be dead wrong, proven wrong, and still believe what they believe to be true. It's not necessarily a bad trait to have, but people need to be better informed.

Sick Puppies "All The Same"

This song reminds me of me and my sister Rachele. You see, she moved out recently and I guess I was sad, jealous, whatever but I was a total bitch to her. And it seems whenever she comes back I have the same bitchy attitude. So the fights continue even though we don't live together, yet she is my best friend. I don't care if for the rest of our lives every time we spent together it was fighting, because I will still love her no matter what. But every time she comes to visit I know she is leaving again and it breaks my heart. every. single. time.

"It needs more of an arch"

Every time my eyebrows are done I feel more like a lady. I don't know what it is, but a tamed brow is the most beautiful thing to me.

Huntsville Rapist Bed Intruder Song