It's Been Said There Is Much Ado About Nothing

Recently, Lately, and Frequently I have been:

• thinking of songs that would play as a soundtrack for a movie about my life. 
• saying different reasons I am worth something.
• getting close to my real friends.
• eating food.
• encountering and experiencing special coincidences that create interesting stories.
• hearing that when you say things people do rational things about what you say.
• finding fun in receiving mail, even if its just from colleges. 
• creating words to write down and edit and rewrite down again more time.
• watching movies that make me want to change my life. 
• realizing just how hard it is to let go of stupidity and dumbness. 
• hoping for different things to change.
• stressing about life. 
• learning to cry. 
• and discovering deeper feelings of love, hate, remorse, regret, joy, happiness, and deeper feeling of feelings in general.

"I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if is was the second or the third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you." -- Cassandra Clare

"You are the best! You just made my whole day!"

"The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened." -- Oprah Winfrey

"Every Thing Dances."

'Cuz My Family Won The Lottery and We Are Rolling in Money

That we don't eat until your father's at the table
We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
Never once has any man I've met been able to love
So if I were you, I'd have a little trust
Am I an honest man and true
Have i been good to you at all
Oh I'm so tired of playing these games
We'd just be running down
The same old lines, the same old stories of
Breathless trains and, worn down glories
Houses burning, worlds that turn on their own

{I Will No Longer Start With "Sometimes"}

I wonder if my mind really controls my actions, my words, my feelings, my heart, my sounds, me movements, my decisions, and everything else. I feel like sometimes my body get on automatic pilot and just does what is does, my body thinks without my mind... if that makes any sense. You see my mind can over think everything, make a plan and try to carry it out and sometimes have great success because it takes over my body but sometimes my body thinks for itself. It takes over and controls it's movements by forgetting the over thinking and not considering the consequences. I am victim to my own body. Maybe what they say is true, you really can leave the decisions up to your heart instead of your mind. 

Then there are those times where you have a total out of body experience and pretty much just throw reason out the window and just go for it. Today for instance, I was dancing, which is when a lot of these out of body experiences occur, and I forgot there were other people in the room, I forgot that I was in an audition, I forgot that I was trying to impress people. It was almost like I had forgotten I was alive. Then all of this movement, this emotion, this feeling just kind of came out of me. Automatic Pilot. As much as I wish I could explain, I can't. To sum it up as best I can, its the feeling I get and then know that I am alive so I can create, so I can dance, so I can write, so I can love, so I can draw, so I can live, so i can be inspired, so I can share and so I can do everything I can do. That feeling is what keeps me going everyday, it's the reason I am alive. It's the only feeling I am really sure of and it is the best feeling in the world.

"WHAT IN THE WORLD GIVES ME THE RIGHT TO QUESTION MYSELF!" 

 Today was very happy and slightly sad. 

Thanks for listening.    

Trashing Plagiarism

I was immediately swept away. Saying swept away is quite a cliche as is pointing out your cliches but, by any means, swept I was. Swept not this round by love or by interest itself but by mystery. This type of mystery that led me to deep interest and filled me with unspeakable love. You know that something is powerful when it has the ability to change you. When that something takes your body and soul and removes it from existence. I have spoken of passion before and I have specified my particular passion for dance, but things have changed. I no longer have just a passion for dance. I have an obsession,  an addiction, an infatuation, a fixation for dance. I am enslaved by dance and it's power. I have been completely taken over by it. I spent the best weekend of my life, hands down ever, at a dance convention.

I spent the weekend in a frenzy of hard work and extreme passion. In a place where my whole body quaked with pain until the music restarted and I began to move in time with it's notes. I could not be more happy or proud of myself after this weekend and I wish it had never ended.

There are no other words to try and explain the amazingness of what happened to me this weekend. All I can really say to sum things up is I am changed, moved, inspired, and now motivated for life.

All had been said. The End.

"Do Your Own Thing" - My Tribute to 70's Culture

Learning about the 70's in U.S. History has definitely sparked a nerve in my brain. A while ago I posted a picture of a 20's girl and said that I would have been the best 20's girl but I changed my mind. I want to be a Hippie from the 70's (minus the bad parts)...

So here is a tribute to 70's culture. It has a bunch of stuff I have learned in class and also some of my own research. The pictures are my favorite part ;)

[MUSIC OF THE SEVENTIES]

I realized as my history teacher started playin

g seventies music in class that not only did I recognize almost all of the songs but I also had most of the lyrics in a little drawer in my head. I have to thank my parents for making sure I know all of the seventies music ;)

These are all of my favorite seventies songs! (Not in any particular order)

1. "BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER"

-Simon & Garfunkel

'I'm on your side, when times get rough, and friends just can't be found, like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down'

2. "YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT"

- Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta

' It's ELECTRIFYING'

3. "I WILL SURVIVE"

- Gloria Gaynor

'Then I grew strong, and I learned how to get along!'

4. "UNDERCOVER ANGEL"

- Alan O'Day

'Undercover Angel, the answer to my prayer, you made me know, that there's love for me out there (somewhere) yeah, somewhere.'

5. "Y.M.C.A"

-Village People

' Young man, are you listening to me?'

6. "PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC"

- Wild Cherry

'Play that funky music white boy, play that funky music right!'

7. "SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDERS"

- John Denver

'Sunshine on my shoulders, makes me happy, sunshine in my eyes can make me cry'

8. "(THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU"

- The Carpenters

'Just like me, they long to be, close to you... la la la la la la la close to you...'

9. "BABY COME BACK"

-Player

'Baby come back! You can blame it all on me! I was wrong, and I just can't live without you...'

10. "LET IT BE"

-The Beatles

'When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me. Speaking words of wisdom, Let It Be.'

11. "BENNIE AND THE JETS"

-Elton John

'Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet? But they're so spaced out, B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets'

12. "BRANDY (YOU'RE A FINE GIRL)

- Looking Glass

'Brandy, you're a fine girl, what a good wife you'd be, yeah your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea."

13. "RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD"

- B.J. Thomas

'Raindrops keep falling on my head, and just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed, nothin' seems to fit, those raindrops keep falling on my head, they keep falling'

14. "WAR"

-Edwin Starr

'War, huh yeah, what is it good for, absolutely nothing, uh-huh!!'

15. "ABC"

-Jackson 5

'ABC, as easy as 1,2,3"

[HIPPIE POEM]

Hip clothing - Tie-Dye, bell-bottoms, peace signs, and love beads

Illegal substances - ya know, drugs

Pray to Buddha - became buddhist and most of them actually practiced the religion.

Poor - lost money because they didn't believe in materialism.

In the middle - most hippies were middle class college students

Exiled Materialism, War, and Technology! - they were against these things

Simple life - they wanted a simple life but not working and then smoking all day usually made their lives more complicated.

(There would be a sweet picture of a hippie here but I didn't dare google hippies...)

[LAST, ART AND ANDY WARHOL]

This is a famous piece done by Andy Warhol.

"POP" or popular art in the seventies consisted of simple, colorful, and comercial images. This picture is of celebrity Marilyn Monroe.

I just really liked this picture and quote by Andy so I decided to put it on :)

Well, that is the end of my seventies tribute.

THE END.