Today, I wasted my time by watching best year ever. One of the most memorable quotes? The Miss South Carolina.
While it may have been hilarious, and we even watched it in English class, this fine answer reflects somethings wrong with the whole Miss USA pageant.
The people in the pageant aren't too concerned with the world anyway. Okay, I'm being cynical, again, but a majority appear to be self centered. It's not their fault; the entire competition concentrates on beauty. No one really watches it for the contestants answers to questions.
Although, the questions themselves are stupid. Of course the stereotypical question, what do you wish would happen to the world?
WORLD PEACE! or NO MORE POVERTY!
Please. The question should really be "what unrealistic hope to you have for the world." But no, they try and make it positive because Miss USA goes to schools and lets girls try on their crown. This focuses on the wrong thing entirely. The young women make themselves all pretty and show kids how pretty they are. They don't do much else when they are at a school. They aren't focusing on educational reforms or anything else that really matters. Just how shiny the crown is.
I'm not saying that Miss USA is not a good accomplishment. I just think it's completely overrated. Not just politicians should emphasize and change the problems in the world.
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Funny Stuff.
So this is Christmas. Sometimes I wish I was Buddhist. Life would be so much simpler.
In the spirit of this holiday, I decided to give a little something to my dad. I'm in the process of testing all the lights for Christmas. Honestly, I don't know if he plans on using them all, but it's 11:00 PM, and frankly, I'm tired. I'm not sure he really appreciates it either. Sure he will eventually, but right now, I'm seeing spots because of the lights and I want to be appreciated.
Is that so bad? To want to be acknowledged? It's not like I ask for much. A simple thank you. I put up the Christmas tree by myself and I get criticized for tying the rug too tight. Was it too tight? Yes, but that's not the point. I'm going out of my way to be nice and un-snarky, which if you know me, it's very hard.
I can only hope that my hard work in any aspect of my life will be recognized.
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So my band, New Squids on the Dock, recently performed at Bobapalooza. And it rocked. Well, not quite. See our band played the worst set it has ever played. Our singer kept singing in a different key, parts of songs were missing, and overall, it would have been considered a disaster.
However, they liked us. And we won a large sum of money to be split up between ten people, so it wasn't so large anymore. We'll get the DVD sometime soon, and I'm pretty sure I'll wince dramatically during every song because they were not very musical. I guess everyone just needs a ska band once and a while.
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On a completely different note, I wish I was a yellow robot that danced to Spoon. Life would be so much simpler if all I had to do was dance and be awesome.
Alas, I have nothing to say. Well, I do. But there is this amazing video...
Marshall does like to sing.
Suburban Legends is less and less ska by the minute. They have sold out. And it makes me cry. But it makes me cry even more that they have come up with an extremely catchy songs. Curses! They won't let me hate them like I want to.
However, one band I can hate freely is Matchbox Twenty. WTF is their new song?
It could be much worse, but bassist with a pick? C'mon MB20, I know you're better than that. Rob Thomas used to be such a great singer. It's all been downhill since Mad Season.
Anyway, some good ska music has surfaced with Streetlight Manifesto's new CD, Somewhere in the Between. Here's the video for We Will Fall Together. Yay Pirates!
Some good ska music I have recently heard is from Save Ferris. They covered "Come on Eileen" way back in the 90s (what a good time). Anyway, Kristen, Luke, Danny, Mike, Tim, Dan, and Eric are doing this song for V-show this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday @ 7:30. I haven't seen it, but it is obviously going to be amazing.
Six faces
Never the same
Hardly constant
Rarely matching
Six colors
In a disarray
Waiting to be joined with its kind
But it’s too hard
Six by three by three
Shrouded by confusion
The instigator of failure
Is it ever in good fun?
These six faces
Are a Picasso painting
Staring with glaring eyes
Taunting me to make them a DaVinci
Oh, the six faces
The six colors
Are begging me
To just rearrange the stickers.
At least it's a start.
As the title suggests, this blog is about the things you see out of the corner of your eye. Like you notice it's there, but don't bother to pay attention to it.
We are consumed in our lives and don't recognize the minute details.
But they aren't minute are they? Everything and everyone is intertwined with one another, but we don't stop to pause and think about the effects our actions make. The focus of today is on oneself, kind of like humanism to an extreme. And yes, humanism brought about many good reforms, but today's humanism is not to better a desolate society; it's to better just ourselves.
It's like there's this box, our comfort zone, and we can only recognize the things that we are familiar with, the things we're not scared of. Most people aren't scared of themselves, which is why we focus on ourselves and the one thing we can control. But we have to make a point to notice things we can't control. We shouldn't try to control these things either. Just let them be. But notice how it effects your life and the people around you.
Even aspects about yourself you sometimes can't control. This blog is an outlet for my random musings, but most importantly, it is a blog to analyze problems and possibly provide a solution. It all depends on whether or not the advice is taken.
Just remember, I'm quietly observing my surrounds from the corner.