I've finally seen it

"It's just, a bit of sex occasionally never hurt anybody" says Russell Brand before millions, in a flippant apology to Jordin Sparks and the Jonas Brothers over the purity ring thing. It's true, I'm a bit latet. I mean, I've heard about it yeah, but I guess it was down played, it didn't seem noteworthy for a blog. And then last night, when I watched the VMA Celeb Remix, I was unpleasantly surprised by the comments that the foul mouthed brit made. I'm not sure if he knows it, and maybe it's different in Brittain, but "a bit of sex" has hurt many!

I mean, take one of the most popular Presidents of our time, Mr. Bill Clinton himself. I'm not sure if you remember the Lewinsky scandal, but if you don't, take a sec to refresh your memory. It does involve, "a bit of sex!" Let's see, I'm not sure if he's ever heard about far fetched thigns such as hmm, I dunno STD's, and HIV, which both, coincidentally can be gotten from "a bit of sex!" He probably doesn't know this but 19% of American adults have herpes. That's about 1 out of every 5. But I don't know, maybe you know herpes, and impeachment don't hurt people.

STARTING NOW...

... I prolly won't be editing my blogs much any more for the simple fact that, I am supposed to be starting OD and focusing on geAK. When I do have time I'll edit as much as I can and I may put some of the OD stuff on here... I don't know right now..

The difference

So, this isn't like most of my posts, where it's a reveiw of a video or a book or something, it's kind of like that rant on Marc Hill though. This post was inspired by a scene at my orthodontist:

"Mom! I LIKE upside down pictures" The boy is holding the bright red digital camera upside down. The Asian woman laughs, and says something in her native language to her small son holding the camera upside down,
"I LIKE it this way!" he continues in english. She finally relents,
"Okay," she says in english and the boy goes along taking pictures. He takes two of his m om, one of me, one of a fake plant, and one of the man staric curiously at him at the desk. All of the others in the waiting room only watch on, there faces reading disgust.

The scene went on, the mother even taking a few pictures upside down of her son, and then her son jumping up into one of the big straight backed chairs and her taking a picture. Then a few things began to tug at me. Why was everyone looking at them that way? When my mom came out of the back, and gave the child her look, her eyebrow up, and then she cast em a bemused look. I interpreted this look to not one of laughing with the child, but at him. I thought of what she would've done if that child would've been me:

First of all, we probably wouldn't have been in the predicament. I'm not sure I would've been allowed to be as loud, as the child was being, or to roam around, taking pictures of random things. I also definately didn't think that my mom would continue to allow me to take the pictures upside down. She would've corrected me, and continued to correct me until I took them right side up, which I would've.

I thought about the creativeness that this could possibly unfold into. The child had taken authentic photos upsided down, by flipping the camera over, and then he'd simulated ones by having his mom taking pictures of him, upside down in the chair. Something my mother would've never done if we'd have gotten that far. He was very adamant that the simulated ones weren't the same. Thinking this out a few years, and this child could turn into some kind of artist. IF his mom allows him to explore things like this on a constant basis, and this just wasn't a once in a lifetime thing then this child could continue to do funky things with these pictures, with sculptures, thinking about life from a different prospective and he could come out an artist. I actually shook my head as I thought this out.

How many artist have we lost because of this simple difference?

About to Come Home

Ok, so I'm about to come home, I'm done with camps so my posts won't be frequent.  As you guys know I don't have a computer at home, so I'll post whenever I can, but it will be limited... although I am happy I'm coming home, finally, I'm kind of dissapointed about this thing.. Oh, and I'm on facebook ya lozas so add me!

Queen of the Video

So, I was talking with a friend on the net right. And this particular friend is a music mogul, among other things, and she keeps me up to date on most things music, and kind of fuels the fire that is my dance. So, she tells me of this new video by Rihanna that's supposed to coming out soon called Disturbia and I immediately think of the movie, which I've never seen because it's scary, and I just don't do scary.
Anywayz, so after about 10 minutes of searching I've heard the song once, and seen a couple of different routines for it, and that's when the music guru finds it, the video is out, in it's entirety. So, I rush over, overjoyed because of the awesome routine by X-Faction(I'm going to have to reveiw them one day) intent on seeing dancing choreography in one of Rihanna's videos, an area in which she has been lacking.
I was confronted with a blond wig and white eyes, and immediately fell in love! As the video progressed I saw multiple shots where choreography could slip in, and they kept me on edge. So, then there was the cameo of those stunner heels, that will most likely be flying off the shelves as soon as the vid airs on tv, but never was there any solid choreo. Only teasers.
The cinematography was great though. I really did like the video as a whole. It actually reminded me of Aaliyah in Queen of the D***ed. When Rihanna turned around in the headdress, it only confirmed the comparison. I'm not sure if Anthony Mandler did this on purpose, or maybe I just look to far into things... but that's why you read right? But, yeah, now comes the msot anticipated... and sometimes dreaded time. I've actually been heavily considering the rating for this video. I thought of a 5 because everything worked together to procure this one mood. I even got a chill down my spine, which can mean 1 of three things, I loved it to death, I was actually afraid, and I hated it. Oh, yeah and it also could mean that when the thermostat here at Washington and Lee says 78 and I can see my breath, it's broken.
But yeah, then I knocked it down to a 3 because of no choreography. Then I thought about it, that's so biased. She should get underscored because of that but not 2 whole points. So, after careful reveiw, and I beleve this has been 21 minutes of deliberation, I've come to the conclusion that Disturbia by Rihanna gets a 4.5. Oh, and by the way she's not scored the same as Lil' Mama because Lil' Mama came out the gate dancing, Rihanna didn't.

Humor Me

I've found our current President humerous every since I saw a comedian do a set on him likening him to Yosemitie Sam. Now, I don't rememebr who the comedian was or what exactly was said, but I do remember laughing, and now everytime I see him I think of him with his fingers in the universal pistol sign going, "Pow! Take that Iran!"
Well as I've matuted in politics, and studied, and taken classes, this view of our President in a humorous light actually became stronger. Not, weaker as it should have, but stronger… and what he’s just recently done with our oil legislation has added to this.
If I’m not mistaken, and you smart “adults” out there correct me when I’m wrong, President Bush introduced legislation or mandates, or policy( I don’t remember which it’s called but I’m thinking policy) to move our country away from our dependence on oil. He wants to “ween” us off of this limited and negative externality laden fossil fuel. What I don’t understand, which is also what I’m thinking some economists don’t understand, is why in the world would you increase the supply of something you’re trying to stop using? Maybe I’m not understanding Mr. Casey right, but if you increase the supply of oil, that will cause the price to go down, which will in turn allow more people to obtain it(i.e. quantity demanded goes up) which will cause more dependence on it…hmmph…didn’t we want to get away from that?
But maybe, that train of thought is over my head… you know, to advanced for my meager 17 year old mind. So.. humor me.
All of you readers out there in blogger land…humor me for a second while I try out an idea, which undoubtedly has been mentioned before somewhere.
Why don’t we allow gas to go up? Woah! Bad idea right? But you’re just listening so I can get it out of my system… I’m only 17 remember, I don’t know how the world works. So, let’s say the price goes up. What if, dare I say it, the government puts a higher tax on gas instead of that tax holiday(which I HATE! BTW). Wait, I heard that gasp. Remember what we said, 17 year old at work here… not some accredited economist who studies this.
But, price goes up to..some say $8 right? What happens? Along with the $5 lattes you stop drinking, you stop driving your car. You demand better! So you know what happens while you’re walking, getting your workout and looking like a super model and not the guy from Super Size me? Some person comes along(like me hopefully!) or T.Boone Pickens, or some smart 87 year old, who says, “Hey, I can help you use your car again! You don’t even need that $8 gas. What about this biodiesel from algae, or these cars that run from electricity, or hydrogen, or something like that”. And what do you do with your Olympic-like body(you’re still humoring me right?) you run over to this dealer, and while all the salespeople are salivating, pick up this new technology and go back to looking like a happy overweight American, but with cleaner air. Oh, and side bar, clean air is better for the kids’ intelligence, but that’s another thought.
Now, I know that’s all hard to fathom but lets think, economically about why you want $8 gas. If gas is pushed to $8, the quantity demanded drops significantly! Who can afford it? If that goes down then demand for close toed shoes will go up since we’ll be walking. Think of how nice your clothes will fit. So people are going to demand alternatively fueled modes of transportation. When entrepreneurs see there is a demand for a product, they will supply it. Hmmm… how are we going to get them to take the dive into the sea of capitalism? One thought is we could fund their research with money garnered from taxing gas …but I’m going off on a tangent.
So we have the new vehicle and you say, walk all day, or drive! Even though you do love your killer bod, you’re a couch potato at heart so you get that vehicle. Where did the gas guzzling polluters go? To those rich un-cool people, who don’t need smart children!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/14/obama.naacp/?iref=mpstoryview

"Teaching our daughters to never allow images on television to tell them what they are worth; teaching our sons to treat women with respect, and to realize responsibility does not end at conception; that what makes them a man is not the ability to have a child but to raise one," he said. "That's a message we need to send."