i was worried that maybe i was getting dumber recently but today changed all of that. today in english we discussed what my class thought were important social issues.
these are the issues folks
immigration - how do we meet our quota? how do we protect our borders better? why is there even a process to get in? (yes, those are all questions that go together and don't conflict with each other)
kony 2012 - is it our business to help? where is he now? (first of all, if you've talked about kony non sarcastically in the last month, go die in a fire. secondly, is it our business to help small african children? did you really just ask that? all i can imagine is some white man feeding an african baby with a bottle and some white woman saying "oh terry, please stop doing that, if you keep interacting with it the mother will never take it back". )
legal drugs vs illegal drugs (nobody actually cared about this but the guy who brought the topic up went on a rant about weed, which i agreed with, but he was still a dumbass. also a conservative guy made sure to let everyone know he thought dumbass #1 was wrong.)
school overcrowding (unfortunately the least important issue got the most legitimate discussion)
legal drinking age - why 21? what would happen if it was 18? (i was legitimately surprised that nobody had any inkling as to why the drinking age was 21. also ill tell you what would happen if the drinking age was 18. people would start drinking at age 18 just like the rest of the fucking world you ignorant american sheltered farm animal.)
i dont even remember the last topic we talked about as a class, i was too busy crying on the inside.
also you know you have a great english teacher when she has to ask the class what the difference between 'affect' and 'effect'.
- marcus
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
Day 67 - Sure
I've been feeling oddly motivated recently. I'm going to try my best to convert this positive energy into something worthwhile for my life. I'm feeling myself oddly familiar with my high school freshman and sophomore mentality and I think I'm going to try and take some pages from that and some pages from now and combine them.
I started to think about my birthday and christmas and I think if there was anything expensive I wanted it would be like a camera or a video camera. Or maybe a new computer. I feel like these thoughts are really selfish to have but at the same time they are things that I want to explore different things so I don't think its as bad.
I'm going to try and start being more honest with myself. I think I'm going to try and start doing what I think.
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." - Bill Cosby
This is something I wrote, I'm not sure if its good
the things around me are rotting away
the ground beneath me changes
im finding things hard to hold on to
and thats why when i find you
ill hold tight like my life means it
- marcus
I started to think about my birthday and christmas and I think if there was anything expensive I wanted it would be like a camera or a video camera. Or maybe a new computer. I feel like these thoughts are really selfish to have but at the same time they are things that I want to explore different things so I don't think its as bad.
I'm going to try and start being more honest with myself. I think I'm going to try and start doing what I think.
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." - Bill Cosby
This is something I wrote, I'm not sure if its good
the things around me are rotting away
the ground beneath me changes
im finding things hard to hold on to
and thats why when i find you
ill hold tight like my life means it
- marcus
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Look up, Kid - Day 66
Hi everyone. After a sleepy filled Sunday I decided that since there's not much else I can do I should probably give you guys some content to look at. I've actually been getting a lot of kind words about my blog and its really motivating me to come up with stuff to write about. I tried to come up with a list of my Top 10 movies, but I could only think of seven that I really consider to be my favorite movies, so I'll just put them and write about them. I also used to post a lot of music, and I stopped doing that, so here's a few songs of varying category. EDIT: YouTube embedding sucks because YouTube sucks so I'm just going to have to post links :\
Rap
The happiest EDM song you'll ever hear
Modest Mouse (I can't stop listening to this song)
Pretty Lights (Saw him last week, enjoyed this song thoroughly)
That's probably good enough for now. On to movies!
TOP 7 (In no order)
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
I just saw this movie on Wednesday, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The movie is a comedy with a bit of dark humor that deals with cosmic destiny and the "everything happens for a reason" mentality. The movie also has some surprisingly emotional moments with lots of "life sucks" moments that you are sure to relate to because you too live an underwhelming life!
The Living Wake
An older favorite I first watched a couple summers ago on Hulu. As some of you may know, my favorite actor is Jesse Eisenberg, and this movie is one of the reasons why. The movie is about a man who finds he is to die on a specific day and so he holds his own wake while he is alive. The movie is light-hearted, humorous, musical, and at times dark. There are very many quotable lines and easy to love characters, and I would highly recommend this movie.
Poetry
Poetry is a korean movie that is so fucking good. The movie's central character is an old woman battling Alzheimer's who begins to take a poetry class. The movie has many themes and subjects, and they are honestly hard to put into words. The movie is definitely takes its time, and at 2 hrs and 20 mins that may be a deterrent to some, but please trust me when I say that at the end you will not regret it at all. The movie is haunting, deep, and of course poetic. I give this movie all of my praise. If you like well thought movies, or if you just like korean people, this is definitely worth looking at.
Adventureland
A movie that a lot of you probably already know, this is one of my all time favorites. I'm a pretty big sucker for a good teenager movie, and this is my personal favorite. Taking place in the 80's, Adventureland details the teenage romance of two amusement park workers. I really love everything about this movie. There isn't too much to say, it is what it is. Hopefully if you haven't seen this movie you'll like it as much as I do.
God Bless America
This movie was just released on Netflix, and if you haven't seen it, I would suggest you do so. This movie follows a middle aged man who decides that before ending his typical american middle class failure life, he wants to go on a killing spree murdering people that he believes to be detrimental to society as a whole. This includes mostly TV personalities, but also includes all those annoying people we run into day to day. This movie is a dark comedy, which is just my kind of movie. I loved this movie so much when I watched it. So much.
Humboldt County
A film about a med student who is failed by the head of the department, his father. He is then whisked away to a remote plot of land, on which the owners grow pot. The movie is about his journey to discover what his priorities in life really are. While weed is a primary subject of the movie, it is in no way a stoner movie. Watch this movie if you enjoy counter culture and the idea that there are many ways a person can live and be fulfilled.
Leaves of Grass
Edward Norton plays two twin brothers, one a classics professor at a prestigious university, the other a small time pot grower in a small hick town in Oklahoma. Leaves of Grass is a very philosophical movie and one of my favorite movie scenes is from this movie. I really need to rewatch this movie, because I can't think of anything else to write about it, but its really good!
Zombieland
Zombies. I love zombies. And Jesse Eisenberg. I could watch this movie forever. Sometimes I'm not sure why I enjoy it so much, but I really do. Most people have heard of/seen this movie, and its just a zombie movie anyway, so I'm not going to say anything about it.
Anyway, that's it. Seven of my favorite movies. If you want to check them out, please look them up on rotten tomatoes or imdb or something, my blurbs do not do them justice!
Anyway, I guess I'll talk a bit now. I've been in Springfield for the weekend and I actually feel like I wasted a lot of the weekend, but I also had a lot of fun with some people I haven't seen in a while, so it was nice. I also really wish money wasn't a thing, because I hate having to always worry about it.
That's all for today.
Marcus
Rap
The happiest EDM song you'll ever hear
Modest Mouse (I can't stop listening to this song)
Pretty Lights (Saw him last week, enjoyed this song thoroughly)
That's probably good enough for now. On to movies!
TOP 7 (In no order)
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
I just saw this movie on Wednesday, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The movie is a comedy with a bit of dark humor that deals with cosmic destiny and the "everything happens for a reason" mentality. The movie also has some surprisingly emotional moments with lots of "life sucks" moments that you are sure to relate to because you too live an underwhelming life!
The Living Wake
An older favorite I first watched a couple summers ago on Hulu. As some of you may know, my favorite actor is Jesse Eisenberg, and this movie is one of the reasons why. The movie is about a man who finds he is to die on a specific day and so he holds his own wake while he is alive. The movie is light-hearted, humorous, musical, and at times dark. There are very many quotable lines and easy to love characters, and I would highly recommend this movie.
Poetry
Poetry is a korean movie that is so fucking good. The movie's central character is an old woman battling Alzheimer's who begins to take a poetry class. The movie has many themes and subjects, and they are honestly hard to put into words. The movie is definitely takes its time, and at 2 hrs and 20 mins that may be a deterrent to some, but please trust me when I say that at the end you will not regret it at all. The movie is haunting, deep, and of course poetic. I give this movie all of my praise. If you like well thought movies, or if you just like korean people, this is definitely worth looking at.
Adventureland
A movie that a lot of you probably already know, this is one of my all time favorites. I'm a pretty big sucker for a good teenager movie, and this is my personal favorite. Taking place in the 80's, Adventureland details the teenage romance of two amusement park workers. I really love everything about this movie. There isn't too much to say, it is what it is. Hopefully if you haven't seen this movie you'll like it as much as I do.
God Bless America
This movie was just released on Netflix, and if you haven't seen it, I would suggest you do so. This movie follows a middle aged man who decides that before ending his typical american middle class failure life, he wants to go on a killing spree murdering people that he believes to be detrimental to society as a whole. This includes mostly TV personalities, but also includes all those annoying people we run into day to day. This movie is a dark comedy, which is just my kind of movie. I loved this movie so much when I watched it. So much.
Humboldt County
A film about a med student who is failed by the head of the department, his father. He is then whisked away to a remote plot of land, on which the owners grow pot. The movie is about his journey to discover what his priorities in life really are. While weed is a primary subject of the movie, it is in no way a stoner movie. Watch this movie if you enjoy counter culture and the idea that there are many ways a person can live and be fulfilled.
Leaves of Grass
Edward Norton plays two twin brothers, one a classics professor at a prestigious university, the other a small time pot grower in a small hick town in Oklahoma. Leaves of Grass is a very philosophical movie and one of my favorite movie scenes is from this movie. I really need to rewatch this movie, because I can't think of anything else to write about it, but its really good!
Zombieland
Zombies. I love zombies. And Jesse Eisenberg. I could watch this movie forever. Sometimes I'm not sure why I enjoy it so much, but I really do. Most people have heard of/seen this movie, and its just a zombie movie anyway, so I'm not going to say anything about it.
Anyway, that's it. Seven of my favorite movies. If you want to check them out, please look them up on rotten tomatoes or imdb or something, my blurbs do not do them justice!
Anyway, I guess I'll talk a bit now. I've been in Springfield for the weekend and I actually feel like I wasted a lot of the weekend, but I also had a lot of fun with some people I haven't seen in a while, so it was nice. I also really wish money wasn't a thing, because I hate having to always worry about it.
That's all for today.
Marcus
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