This was so hard for me to do well because I couldn’t really find one that works for me but I tried. =D

Missed the Boat by Modest Mouse

The main lyrics of the song that caught my attention were, “As if we got a position oh, and I laugh all the way to hell saying yes, this is a fine promotion.”

The quote is basically telling the listener that they should let things go and not hold a grudge.  It is also saying to look at the best of things and not just the bad.  I guess I relate to this because of the way I let things go.  I when ever bad things happen I always look at the positives unless it’s horribly bad.  Every day at least 5 people ask me, “How was your day?” and I always say, “Good” or “Great!” when it’s exactly the same as my day before.

Another part of the song that I relate to is, “Of course everyone gets crazy over such and such and such.”

This quote isn’t as insightful as the last one, even though the last one wasn’t even that great.  But, the quote is basically saying people get mad over nothing and by nothing I mean they get mad over a little joke or something small.  This quote doesn’t really relate to me but it mostly is the opposite of how I act.  I love making jokes just as much as I love being joked at.  Or it depends on the person I joke with.

Imitation of Life by R.E.M.

There isn’t tons of different meaning of this song but it talks about one huge meaning that I think is great.  A bunch of lyrics that I feel have the same meaning or interpretation are, “Like a Friday fashion show teenager freezing in the corner, trying to look like you don’t try.” “This lightning storm, this tidal wave, this avalanche I am not afraid, common common no one can see me cry.” And my most favorite one of the song, “Like a koi in a frozen pond, like a goldfish in a bowl, I don’t want to hear you cry.”

This song is basically talking about people who do things to get a certain “look” in society that they are trying to gain but at the same time it is hurting them, but they don’t show it by keeping their emotions in.  This doesn’t really relate too much to me, but I have a lot of times when I keep my emotions in.  I guess it comes to me naturally because when I was a child I never really talked much so I whenever shit went down I just kept it to myself.  I noticed recently when my uncle died and I was at his funeral almost everybody around me was crying and I almost cried but I bit my tong and held it in.

A Bad Dream by Keane

I kinda ran out of songs to choose from but I thought a few things in this song relate to me.  A few parts of the song that relate to me is when they say, “I wake up, it's a bad dream, no one on my side, I was fighting but I just feel too tired to be fighting, guess I'm not the fighting kind.”  I think this is basically saying be who you are as a person and not something else.  And it is saying if you are acting like something you’re not, you will soon find out that it’s the wrong thing for you.  I guess I’m relating this literally to myself I am not violent at all.  There are times that I want to hit somebody or something but as usual I hold it in and I don’t do anything.  In other words I think this song relates to me because at one point I changed who I hung out with.  Or not really it was like I gradually switched because of my classes.  Speaking kinda broad I used to hang out with the Asian kids but then I started hanging out with another group that I can’t really name.  It seems bad but it was probably one of the best things I’ve ever done because not only am I good friends with all the Asian kids I am also good friends with the group I hang out with before and now.  This also ment I met 3x as more people.  People from my classes, people my Asian friends introduce me to, and the people my normal group introduce me to.  Right now I’m friends with so many people that I’m surprised I remember their names.

When words leave off, music begins.

            Male, 24, looking for a woman who is pack full of surprises.  I only want to know so much about her because like I said before, I want to see some of her surprises.  Of course I am very open to other people so I’m ok with the ages 30-69.  I stop at 69 because any age after that just sounds old.  Plus the older they are the more surprises they can bring.  Before anything she has to be able to sing.  We also need to have fun with non senseless conversations for hours.  We can have a few kids but 10 is my limit.  We NEED this is a must, we need to have at least 5 children who are male because with my great lyrics and your singing, we will start the first family-child boy band.  If a year passes and our children have not sold 1 million albums, I will file a divorce.  If not all requirements are filled, you will not have a chance.

Dear 8^th and 9^th grade Ari,

            There’s only one HUGE thing I want to talk to you about that was the single biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life!  I want to talk about it but it’s something I don’t want people to know about and it’s inappropriate.  The worst part is it never hit me until 10^th grade and I started to notice me changing.  Well whatever I’m not gonna talk about it sooo… NEXT PARAGRAPH! Haha

Dear younger sometime in middle school Ari,

            You should keep doing well in school!  Never become lazy because once you stop working that hard preferably in 8^th grade than you just get worst and worst.  Never stop trying and start listening to your parents!  If you get lazy and stop trying in school you start to regret it.  It is also harder to stop trying then when you try to start doing better it’s so hard.  I stopped trying in 8^th grade and 9^th grade and when I tried in 10^th grade I gave up after the first 3 weeks and my grades just went down the toilet until the first semester finished.  Like 4 or 5 D’s it was whatever but what really killed it was the F and it wasn’t in any class I was bad at.  I got an F in the class I was best at and that really opened my eyes.  No I’m doing average and still a few D’s but I need to do better but I mean history and chemistry aren’t classes you can just learn half a year of in one night.  I just don’t have the time to learn it all because I have other things to do.  These classes just build and build on its teachings every day.  To do one thing you need to know what you learned at the beginning of the school so it’s just so hard to get a better grade.

            Another advice it take care of your eyes!  Once you reach 9^th grade summer you get contacts and I swear it’s like the best thing alive but make sure you take it out ever night and switch it every 2 weeks because your eyes are one of the most important things and they are very sensitive.  I wore my contacts for weeks strait and never changed them.  I would usually take them off once every week which was so bad for my eyes.  Now I have an infection in my eyes and I need to wear glasses because my contacts would do something to the medicine I forgot but basically its bad shit haha.  I guess really fucked up but it’s not that bad even though I shoulda fixed it when I noticed it.  It used to be on my eye lid and I was like oh its tiny and it looks like a pimple but it doesn’t matter its not gonna do anything to me.  All my friends kept saying, “Go show a doctor it’s your EYE!  Never fuck with something on your eye!”  I kept telling them it’s not on my eye it’s on my eye lid and plus if it disappears in a week than that will save me a lot of time.  Well I waited 2 weeks and it disappeared and I was like, “HA what did I tell you!  I knew it would go away!” haha a week later I pull down my eye lid and its inside my eye lid and the size of a 6mm bbgun bullet.  That is when I was like fuck now I gotta go to the doctor’s haha.  Well I still havnt gone to the doctor’s but I got medicine and advice and its working and going away so I’m happy!

            Well take care of yourself or that’s kinda weird saying to myself in the past and not future but whatever still take care of yourself and stay out of trouble!

                        Love 2008 Ari.

            I’m so tired rite now; I just woke up and still lying in bed.  Why did I wake up?  I hate doing that.  I always wake up early and instead of trying to go back to sleep I just lay there and stay up.  I want to get up so I can eat shower then leave but it’s too cold right now to get out of bed.  But I guess it’s not so bad because I’m listening to new music I’ve never listened to.

            God I have so many songs I’ve never heard before.  On my itunes I have 3058 songs.  The strange part I can pin point almost every way I got each album.  Well I guess it’s not that hard because there’s only a few ways I got them.

            The Band of Horses is so chill to listen to...

            I have so many cuts and scrapes on my legs its annoying.  Almost every part of my legs I touch hurts.  The worst part about getting scrapes and cuts is the first time you shower after getting them.  It’s one of the most absolute worst things to me.  The shower is the time I wake up to every morning and sometimes do before I go to bed.  It’s relaxing, calming, and the sound of the splashing water is never annoying.  When you have a cut or scrape it’s so fucking irritating because you want to just chill but hot water is constantly splashing on it and it burns and stings.

            My room is such a big ass mess.  I’ve had two Christmas trees up in my room with lights and everything for two years now.  My school book are all over my floor and unneeded school paper is all over the floor as well.  My couch has all my folded clean clothes because I don’t want put it in my drawer and my closet is a complete mess because I don’t know where to put all my junk.  I keep saying I’ma spend one random day that I do nothing and just clean clean clean but I never do that.

            I need new shoes.  I only have three pairs of shoes left.  One is torn from the tip all the way to the side of my foot and the bottom is tearing.  The other one is tearing on the bottom.  And my last shoe almost has a hole from the tip to the side.  I need new shoes but I have no money.  Hmm… I gotta think of a way to make some money.

            I love food.  I know everybody says that but I spend a lot of time eating.  I also love cooking.  When I make food that taste good it just makes it even more delectable for me to eat.  I actually make like the easiest things alive but there’s a few things that I can make that’s hella good.  Me, Jeffrey, Shawn, and a few other people made the greatest cheese cake I’ve ever tasted in my life. (I say few other people because they didn’t really do anything).

            I’m so hungry rite now!

            I have so much homework I wonder when I’m going to do it.  I know for sure on Sunday I’m going to do it but I don’t know when.  I think I’m going to get started tonight though and do some this morning before I leave.  I think that should be my best bet.  I NEED to step my game up in school but it’s so hard now.  I started last quarter but it helped a lot I feel better about some of my grades but still there’s two classes I can’t do, which is chemistry and history.  Chemistry is hard because it’s like one topic that just grows and grows.  When you just start at the end of the year it’s like what the fuck are they talking about.  And history I don’t want to be mean or anything but I ABSOLUTELY HATE!!! HISTORY!!! I have nothing against the teacher but ever since 6^th grade I HATED it sooo much I never understand it; I never liked it.

            I wonder why everybody’s shoulder taste like nothing to them but only if u don’t put like lotion of any shit on it.  I think one day my face was itchy and I guess I started rubbing my face with my shoulder and I decided to lick it.  Well I found out it tasted like nothing and I got a few other people to do it two and they agreed with me.  That’s so strange because other parts of your body is like salty and all that shit but some parts taste like nothing.  I have no intentions in eating a person by the way.

            I love Arizona ice teas.  They are so good.  I can drink like 90 a day but I wouldn’t.  Whenever you’re low on money and you’re really thirsty this is the drink you should get.  It’s in this tall can and there’s usually six or something flavors to choose from.  It’s also only 99 cents so most people can afford it.  I’m drinking one rite now as I speak.  Green tea, tea with lemon, and mucho mango are the best flavors by the way.

            Finally this is my last paragraph.  I actually liked this.  This blog was fun and didn’t really require much work which I liked.  I never ever get fun homework so I’m glad I got to do this.  This is why I did it first.  The fact that I’m getting my shit done and having fun is probably the best part of my day so far.  Too bad my upcoming homework is going to be sooo boring.

            One of America’s favorite or famous TV shows, South Park, is currently attracting millions of fans every day.  Most cartoon shows usually stop after five or six seasons but South Park managed to bring out 12 seasons and growing.  They use their sense of childish humor to satirize huge or tiny topics.  A recent episode of South Park talked about how people don’t treat AIDS as important as Cancer is these days.  In a few scenes Cartman, one of the protagonists, finds out he has AIDS so he wants to show everybody in his tiny town how terrible it is to have AIDS but the only person who shows up is his mom and one friend.  They said nobody showed up because AIDS isn’t that big anymore.  Also Cartman got Elton John to perform at his banquet but he didn’t show because he played for a banquet for cancer patients instead.  Another scene in the show is when Cartman gives AIDS to Kyle by squirting blood into Kyles mouth while he slept because Kyle laughed when he heard Cartman got AIDS.  Kyle found out Cartman gave him AIDS so he broke everything in his room until he threatened to break Cartman’s Xbox 360, if he didn’t find a cure.  Kyle teamed with Cartman to go find the cure for AIDS but they didn’t have any money for plane tickets.  When they talked to the administration for tickets, they said they had free tickets for Cancer patients only.

            South Park is using satire to show that AIDS is still a big topic by saying it isn’t a big topic.  When the Cartman throws a banquet and barley anybody goes because they said nobody really cares about AIDS anymore.  The visual message is saying AIDS isn’t as big but the message they are trying to show is that AIDS is a big topic.  That, thrown in with some childish humor as in how the children care so much about a game system than anything else in the world.  This is shown trough Cartman when he doesn’t react that much when Kyle was breaking his stuff until he treated his Xbox 360.  They also make the children smarter than the adults, which bring along humor as well.

            On one random Monday towards the end of the school year a couple of friends and I decide to take a day off.  Out of the 200+ days of school, what’s the harm of missing one day?    The reason for a Monday is because you get so much out of it than any ordinary day.  Not only is it a three day weekend, but also you get to look forward to a four day school week rite before another weekend break.  Having a break towards the end of the school year also puts me in a mood for the summer.  Ok back to my day.  I would wake up early in the morning, already planed out the day.  My friend with a car would pick up a few friends and I for school but go to breakfast instead.  Nothing better than pancakes, strawberries, bacon, and coffee at eight in the morning.  I had never been to the mall on a weekday so we decided to drive to Nordstrom in San Francisco.  Walking around in the mall was the best.  Barely anybody was around so we got to do almost anything we wanted.  First we went to the Tempurpedic Mattress store and chilled on the expensive ass massage chairs for hours until we got bored, which was so hard to do.  Later we decide to go to In-N-Out than on to Great America!  Speeding on the highway while eating was a blast but not until Great America did all the fun happen.  When we entered the park I wondered why the park was even open on weekdays because nobody was there.  The lines were empty, so that meant hours and hours of empty rides.  At around two we decide to drive back to school.  We get to school at three, 15 min before it is let out.  When school lets out, we meet up with the rest of our group of friends to finish our day.

            Out of all five of the painting the one that I really noticed was the bedroom painting.  The painting captures life in many different ways.  It has a bunch of aspects in life weather it is big or small.  The most appealing thing in the painting to me was the comb in the bed.  I think it is a small aspect of life but almost everybody goes trough it.  I think the comb on the bed shows that every morning when you wake up your hair is messy no matter what.  I think it is saying that there are things in life that you can’t change so just live with it.  The second most appealing thing in the painting was the soap, brush, mirror, and comb again.  I think it shows how much our society is wrapped around our appearances.  I think our appearances are important because there are some that are needed every day, as in soap to clean ourselves, and a mirror to see what we look like.  Even though some of these are needed like soap to not smell bad I think our society uses too much.  One example that most people do every day (I’m not saying all of it is bad) is shampoo, conditioner, brush teeth, shave cream, after shave, cologne/perfume, deodorant, eye liner, cover up, acne medication, and the list goes on and on.  I think all of those have a significance because it makes some people look good and keeps them from smelling but I think when people use too much makeup its like hiding themselves from the world.  They show the world their fake faces that they accomplish by using their make up.  Even though I brought this up I think all of these are good when you don’t do all of them every day.  Especially when each product you use has a different type of smell.  Seriously,  who would want their hair to smell like trees and flowers, their body to smell like “cool breeze”, their armpits to smell like “cool wave”, their wrists and necks to smell like “crave”, and a bunch of other smells.  It’s too much!  The final thing is the wine glass next to the match.  I think they both are violent but in different ways.  Matches could be helpful but at the same time could be violent because you could burn things on accident.  Drinking wine is bad but if you but at the same time most people get violent when they get drunk.  I hella half assed this bulletin because the only chance I had to do this was rite now and my parents are yelling at me to go to sleep.  They let me use their computer to write this but they only gave me like 20 min.

            I could not choose one ideal life.  I would keep the same aspects the same as in my personality wise but my job and everything else would be slightly different.  But for all of them I would still want to live in the Bay Area no matter what.

            My first ideal life I would dentist.  I would live in a cheep studio until right after college and save up money.  When I have enough money saved up and get a job as a dentist I would live in a house with my wife and two kids.  I would only have two kids if I had enough money to give them everything they wanted though.  The last thing I would ever want is a child I could not support.  I would want two dogs, one toy, and one big.  I don’t know if I would want two or one dog yet though.  No matter what I would want to know how to cook.  Even if it were a side thing for me I would want to learn.  Traveling would also be an option for me, Japan preferably.  I think Japan is a beautiful place and I wouldn’t mind visiting for a week or two.  My final and last thing I want would have enough money to support my parents as well so they don’t have to live in a “old people” home where they are surrounded by sick people.  If I had a big enough house and could afford it I wouldn’t mind letting my parents live with me until they pass away.  I don’t think I could think of exactly everything I would want to do when I’m older but I have an idea that I would want to follow but I don’t know if I would.

            My second ideal life, a.k.a. my dream life would be simple and perfect.  I would win the lottery at 18 witch is not possible but what ever.  Depending on how much I won I would give a couple million to everybody in my family so they could live a better life especially for the ones that actually need it.  I would put the rest in the bank and take out one million and buy a small house and live off of that.  I would then be a chef and basically have exactly the same thing as my first life.  I would have two kids, two dogs, blah blah blah.

Clothes portray my only visual assets set aside my personality.  I don’t really shop at stores very often but I kinda shop on the internet a lot.  I often look through hundreds and hundreds of items until I finally find something I want.  My clothes show how I am a person.  It fits me perfectly inside and out.

                As far back as I could remember my parents always picked out my clothes until about 3^rd or 4^th grade.  Back then I didn’t care what I looked like.  My mom would pick out what a wear and it was always mother proof all the way.  If there was a slight chance of rain my mom would give me an umbrella.  “haha I know…  I was so lame.”  If there was wind out he would pick out the clothes that were wind proof.  The weather in the bay area had no effect on me what so ever for the first couple years of my life.

                When 3^rd or 4^th grade came alone I guess my mom just got tired of taking care of me so much because she had 2 other kids to take care of.  I also just started being more dependent on myself.  I would get clothes from my parents, hand-me-downs, presents, just whatever, but I never went shopping for my own clothes.  I never wore jeans and I never wore shorts.  Every morning was either some kind of sweat pants or some kind of pants.  For my upper body I would only wear a t shirt.  Every day except rite before I walked out the door to school my mom would always say, “Where is your sweater?  You’re going to get sick!”  After that I would go back into my room and pick out a sweater or jacket.  For shoes, always Rebok’s.  They were affordable, for some reason the only shoes my mom ever got me, and were very comfortable.

                In 6^th grade is when I started doing all my dressing on my own.  6^th grade was the first year I wore jeans in my life.  It was the first year I chose shoes that I actually picked out shoes that I was psyked to wear.  I remember I got a pair of DVS skate shoes.  Back then my older brother was into skateboarding and I wanted to be just like him so I got a pair of skate shoes.  My friends and I thought the shoes were so cool but my mom didn’t.  She thought the shoes were ugly but that didn’t stop me.  I started wearing only black and white shirts because for some reason it was the only thing I had.  I had other shirts I just didn’t want to wear them.  Since then and still now I only wore black hoodies.

                During 8^th grade and 8^th grade summer is when I finally found my style.  I love wearing jeans that are either a little tight like “punk scene kids” or pants that are loose like “gangster scene kids.”  I have a nice leather belt that I love wearing but at the same time I have a studded belt that I wear constantly as well.  I still only wear black and white t shirts and black and white hoodies (some with pictures).  On really cold days I wear gloves and beanie.  For shoes I wear skate shoes or vans.  I still never wear shorts.

                Trough out my whole life there was one occasion that I always chose my clothes ever since I was little.  That occasion was when I was forced to dress nicely.  I loved to choose trough the different dress shirts and ties I have.  I always wear dickies, vans or dress shoes, and my choice of dress shirt or tie.  My number one favorite is wearing my all black dress shirt with my white tie.  For any nice occasion I always loved to dress myself even when I was in 1^st grade.

1.  Do you believe in karma? 

Inside I do believe in karma like whenever something really bad happens I think about why it happened.  Even though I think that way when I say it to myself I don’t believe in it because I think everything happens for a reason.

2.  What one current event in any aspect of world news do you think is being most neglected or underrepresented?

It might not be to many people but I think a bit current event is that the polar bears are dying out.  Because of global warming the polar ice caps are melting and the polar bears are drowning because they can’t swim long lengths because most of the ice is melting.  The polar bears are slowly dying out because they can’t get their food.  They eat seals and fish but since there is too much water they drown before they can even catch food.  A really sad thing is sometimes to survive the polar bears actually have to result to eating their own kind to survive.

3.  If you could have any one superpower, what would it be and why?

 Well if I could have a superhero’s super power I would want to be superman because he is like a fatty package.  Witch other super hero has almost every power?  If I had to choose one power it would have to be invisibility or flying.  If I had invisibility I could be safe and at the same time I could sneak out of places that I didn’t want to be at.  If I could fly I could go wherever I wanted at any time.

4.  If you could invite any 5 famous people or characters to your birthday party, who would you pick?

If I could invite 5 famous people or characters to my birthday party I would invite Homer Simpson because he’s funny, Michael Jackson because he’s good at singing, Xzibit because he would pimp my ride, Kanye West because he’s a good rapper, and Jessica Alba because who wouldn’t want to meet anyways?

5.  If you could live in any film or book, what would you select? Would you want to be one of the characters, or would you want to be you (introduced as a new character)? 

If I could be in any film or book I would want to be in the Pokemon T.V. show.  All they do is hang out with their friends 24/7, collecting Pokemon, and basically have freedom all the time.  I would want to be myself if I was in the T.V. show because all even though it would be cool to be in the T.V. show everybody in it say the corniest things.

6.  Who of your friends would make the best president? I can't wait to know why.

 If I had to choose anyone of my friends to be president I would choose Alex Leon.  He has the weirdest ideas that never make sense but to him they do.  I never get anything he is saying but when he finally does what he’s talking about his ideas always turn out better than I expected.

7.  I used to always trip out that my strawberry Chapstick tasted so strongly like strawberries (and why was I eating so much Chapstick?). Then I realized that it wasn't the taste that was strong; it was the smell. They say that smell is the strongest scent. What is your favorite smell? USE CONNOTATIONS, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, OR ANALOGY in your (butter) saucey answer.

 Well I don’t know what is my favorite smell but when I was reading trough this one smell that I recently smelled was in my head.  Khan’s cucumber melon lotion.  When he put some on my hand without telling me I didn’t get rid of it.  Rite away it smelled so good so I just put it on and I even got more later on.  It smelled and it had this sweet fruity smell that made my quickly addicted.  Almost every 5 min I had to smell my hands at least once.  The crazy part is after washing my hands with soap 2 or 3 times at night about 12 hours later I swear I could still smell it on my hands.

8.  If you could invent a new class for AHS to teach, what would it be? 

If I could invent a new class for AHS it would be cooking.  I don’t care if people say cooking is girly I think its one of the best things I am glad I kinda know what to do.  I get so tired of eating cup noodles, frozen burritos, and frozen pizzas over and over every night.  Rite now the main thing I know how to cook is breakfast but I would want to learn how to cook other meals.  My mom taught me how to make tons of foods for breakfast because it’s the easiest kind of meal to prepare but I would want to learn how to cook other meals as a class because I would actually want to learn it.  If my mom tried to teach me I wouldn’t want to memorize tons of recipes or try to take notes on it.  The other class I would want to teach in AHS would be Japanese.  Personally I think Japanese is one of the coolest language and their culture is absolutely stunning.  I would want to learn how to speak it and someday visit Japan itself.

9.  Identify any symbol from any film ever (pick your favorite if you can think of many from which to choose). Identify what it means and why you picked it.

SKIPPED.

10. Will humankind still exist in 300 years?

Truly I don’t think we will.  We would probably kill ourselves somehow weather its global warming, a random comment, or some kind of war.

11. What is the most embarrassing song to ever grace your IPOD? Why was it there, may I ask?

Haha this is actually kinda funny to me.  The most embarrassing ALBUMS to ever grace my IPOD would have to be Jestin Timberlake.  The reason why it is there because I don’t know how I had one of his albums but my friend put a burnt CD of his newest album in my backpack but when I went home I found it in my backpack.  I just decided to put it in my computer.  Because I have about 10gigs of music but my IPOD has only 8gigs so the computer makes it own play list when I put it in.  I was too lazy to try to choose over 8gigs of my music so I just put it in and left it alone.

12. Corey Chin's brilliant question (and it's got me curious): How much would you charge to clean Mr. Ross' microwave?

The other day Joey and I looked inside and it was disgusting.  It was all crusty, brown, and burnt.  I think if you supply me with the cleaning products I wouldn’t even do it at all.  I think 15-20 dollars would be ok I guess, but unless you had like a deep ass sentimental connection to the microwave you would just buy a new one because I’m not like completely sure but I think they cost like 20-50 dollars for a new one.

13. Did you support your answers?

FASHO.

Track 1: Andre-N-Andre by Andre Nickatina Ft. Mac Dre

            I think this song relates mainly to the protagonist of the story, Sam Spade.  In the song when they say, “I’m gettin paid bein on ni**as head like toupees” it relates to Sam Spade when he tricked Gutman into paying him $1000.  Gutman asked Sam to get him the falcon and lied to Sam by saying it was a gift from the island Malta to the King of Spain but it was lost on the ship during transit.  Gutman thought his plan would work perfectly and he would pay $10,000 to get the figurine that was worth millions.  Sam got a fake figurine and sold it to Gutman but soon Gutman got his money back because he found out it was fake but Sam kept $1000.  Same was being fake towards Gutman just like toupees, he Sam got his money from lieing to Gutman by acting like his friend, and he got paid for it.  In the middle of the song Andre Nickatina says, “To hell with the law the freeway’s mine.”  Just like how Sam disobeys the law and keeps secrets from the police.  The final line is, “I beat that bitch up when I found out she lying.”  This final line relates to Sam because he is very violent.  When he found out Wilmer was trying to kill him he punched him in the face and knocked him out.  Sam loves to use his fists to solve his problems.

Track 2: Hypnotized by Plies Ft. Akon

            The song Hypnotized begins by saying, “You got me so hypnotized the way your body rollin round and round.”  This reminds me of Brigid O’Shaughnessy because she uses her feminine assets to allure the protagonist, Sam Spade, to do her dirty work.  Later in the song it he says, “Now shake that ass, and make a ni**a like me spend that cash.”  This line is just like how Brigid O’Shaughnessy has an affair with Sam spade so he is compelled to help her get the falcon.  The last quote of the song that relates to Brigid O’Shaughnessy is, “To get her sprung is my goal.”  Brigid O’Shaughnessy’s goal is to get Sam Spade sprung for her so he can help her get the falcon and rite when he finishes she could easily get rid of him because he would listen to her.  She tried to secretly make it so he would go to jail for all the murders and she could keep the falcon to herself.

Track 3: The Funeral by Band of Horses

            This song relates to every character in the book because of its strikingly deep lyrics.  When they say, “I’m coming up to only to show you wrong” it relates to the team work that they characters had in order to get the Falcon.  They help each other but only to betray them at the end.  Later on in the song they say, “You know me as hard be goin’ mad.”  This quote relates to the book because of the way everybody acts to get the Falcon.  They all become mad and ruthless for money.  The last quote of the song is, “And every occasion I’ll be ready for the funeral.”  Trough out the whole book four people die because of what happens and it is obvious because everybody knows about the deaths so they try to get a fall back guy to take the blame.  They will be ready for the funeral like they got ready to take the blame.

Track 4: Apologize (Remix) by One Republic Ft. Lil Wayne

            “Mommy’s job got outsourced so now mommy’s a dranker.”  This quote is saying that when times are bad for people they turn to drugs and alcohol to ease their pain.  When Sam is in a stressful position or has a lot on his mind he always goes to the bar and gets drunk but he can control his drinking.  Sam drinks enough to be drunk but still know what’s going on.  “Caught in the middle of two wrongs, tryin’ to do right.”  Sam is helping out the society but at the same time he is doing it in a bad way.  Sam keeps info away from the police and treats them horribly even though they both want to help out the community.  “It’s too late to apologize.”  Sam is tricked by Brigid because she sleeps with him and tries to get him to do her dirty work but when Sam gets the Falcon, it seems like he didn’t want to save Brigid and it was too late for her to apologize.

Track 5: Can’t Be Touched by Roy Jones Jr.

            “I spit at the police and duck my P.O.’s I an’t goin to court you can call a judge and tell him to kiss my ass.”  Even though Sam is a detective he does not do well with the police.  He tries to avoid the police and court as much as possible that’s one of the reasons why he tries to get a fall back man to go to court instead of him.  “You will not win, I will not lose.”  Basically this is showing how persistent Sam is.  He would do anything to get to what he wants including violence.  The last quote is, “Linking me to the crime.”  This is completely Sam Spade.  He is a detective looking for clues to solve mysteries or crimes.

            What could be better than food?  I’d say nothing.  The best thing about food is the diversity.  How could anybody in life be different from one another when there is no diversity?  Each culture has their own style of food; just like how each person has their own favorite food.  Not only can you eat food plain or by itself; you can eat it mixed with other foods to change the taste of the food or inflame the flavor of the food.

            You want to hear a terrifying story for a person who loves food?  Here it is.  Every day for school I would sit in class for hours on end without any food; I would be savoring the meal to come.  It wasn’t until after school when I finally get released from my chains and set free to go feast on whatever I wanted to.  I don’t have a favorite kind of food but one I’m craving rite now would be strawberry jelly filled doughnuts with glaze and a cup of coffee.  First you dip the dough nut into the coffee and watch the steam of the coffee raise from the doughnut.  Your first bite is always the best and cleanest bite.  Jelly oozes out into your mouth while you taste all of that, your mouth warms up from the steaming coffee.  The delicious smell of the coffee pours down on your nose until you are compelled to drink the whole thing.  When I accidently finished the coffee before the doughnut, I realized that when you get what you want you sometimes miss what you left behind.

            The worst part about eating is being too full.  It is like a mix of lazyness and a sense of insecurity because you really don’t want to vomit.  When people eat dinner they like to take a short walk after to help digest their food but when they eat too much the only way to help is to sit there and wait for some of the food to be digested.

            The hardest part about eating would be preparing the food itself.  There are different kinds of cooks.  The cook who follows the rules and makes these delicious creations or the real chefs who invent their own type of food that’s never been done before.  Rest assured that if you are ever in a bad mood, stomach ache, or just hungry you can always eat no matter what.

1. If you could be a fly on anybody's wall, on whose wall would you perch? Why? What would you do with the information?

If I could be a fly on anybody’s wall I would want to be a fly on anybody’s wall I don’t know whose wall I would be on.  I am not a very nosey person so if anything I would be on my own wall.  I wouldn’t be on it to listen to anything I would probably be on it just to be safe.  I never kill bugs unless they annoy me.

2. What is your favorite piece of art? Describe what it looks like. Why do you like it so much? How does it make you feel? Does it tell a story? Have symbolism?

Out of every kind of art I have two favorite arts, graffiti art, and Japanese art. If anything graffiti art is such an incredible thing.  It so crazy how somebody takes a few cans of paint and turn it into these huge colorful works of arts.  It’s also crazy to see it on the streets because you would think it takes hours to make these beautiful paintings but these people do it in the dark, quick, and secretive.  When I see crazy graffiti art on the streets I get so surprised.  It’s so hard to believe how people do it.  You wouldn’t really know what the graffiti stands for unless you are the one doing it.  I don’t know if graffiti symbols anything it might symbol rebellious acts but other than that I don’t know.

My other favorite art is Japanese art.  Japanese art is so different and unique from every other art.  Most of the art I’ve seen isn’t painting of important people but they are pictures of imaginative creatures, nature, and animals.  If anything, I envy anybody who can draw most of the pictures that these people create.  I think every Japanese painting tells a story weather it’s a simple painting of the ocean or a detailed painting of a tiger.  I think anything can be symbolized depending on the person looking at it.

3. If you could choose your parents, how would they be? Describe how they look, act, and parent. What do they do (for work, hobbies, etc)?

If I could choose my parents, I would change only the little things about them.  I would only change the way they act towards my school.  I want them to support me and tell me to do my school work but I don’t want them to punish me for doing bad.  I actually believe I deserve the punishment I’m getting for my bad grades but I think my parents shouldn’t worry as much.  If I could choose what they looked like I wouldn’t want to change it at all.  If anything I would want my parents to do what they do today because I think that’s what they are best at and that’s what they enjoy doing every day.

4. If you could live in any decade, which one would it be and why? ELABORATE. What opportunities would you take advantage of in said decade?

If I could live in any decade I would probably want to live in the 1985’s.  I think the only reason why is if I was born in that time period I would be around the age of 20-30.  I would be done with school and still pretty young.

5. If you could/had to be any Disney character, who would it be and why?

If I had to be any Disney character, I would probably want to be Crush the sea turtle from Finding Nemo.  In the movie, Crush talks about how all he does is lay his eggs, swim, and have fun all day.  Not only that but it looked fun.  He swam and had a good time and I think it would be fun living his life.

6. There is a difference between the moral man and the criminal in that the moral man has a legitimate reason to steal. Support or refute this idea (that a person's objectively bad deeds can be justified by the subjectivity of their life).

            I think being a criminal that is a moral man would be wiser than a moral man.  Being a smart criminal you would need to have some sort of intricate way of thinking that makes you think differently than other people.  Especially if you are stealing for a good cause.  I think stealing in general is bad but if there is a logical reason for it I guess it would be ok.  If they were stealing something that was going to be used to hurt another person than I think it would be ok to do, but if they stole it because they want to use or sell it than I think that would be bad.

Mojo Treestomp: Mojo is a 16 year old boy who gets caught up in the gang life and he is fighting with his emotions vs. his friends and family about what to do.  Mojo is a very kind person despite the way he treats other people.  Mostly because of peer pressure from his friends portrays his actions that make him look more like a traitorous being.  Mojo is not very smart but to repay for it he was gifted with his skills in arts.

Toby Treestomp:  Toby is Mojo’s adopted father.  Toby and Mojo live together in a tiny apartment and Toby works days and sometimes nights just to take care of Mojo and get him things that he never had.  Mojo’s barily ever gets to see his father but they have dinner together every Sunday.

Ms. Marcup:  Since Mojo has no mother and barely gets to see his father, he looks up to his art teacher, Ms. Marcup, as his mother and role model.  Ms. Marcup is a very good artist who also is very wise.  She helps Mojo trough his hardships and gives him advice that parents would usually give to their child.  Ms. Marcup’s first name is never revealed in the movie.

Jaw Knee:  Jaw is Mojo’s best friend.  He has his back through thick and thin.  Jaw has a completely different lifestyle than Mojo.  Jaw has two parents and he lives in a somewhat wealthy family.  Jaw’s father makes enough money to support his whole family so his mother stays at home most of the day.

Blaze Buff:  He is known as the leader of the group of friends.  He is very violent.

Kim Lee: Owner of Kim Lee’s Liquor who is robbed and murdered by Mojo’s friends.

            The movie takes place in Oakland during the 1990’s.  It starts out at night when Mojo and Jaw are hanging out with their other friends.  Jaw needs to go home to have dinner with his parents and then he can come out again, but during his time at home Mojo is peer pressured by the other friends to go rob a liquor store.  In his mind robbing or hurting another person is the last thing Mojo wants to do but in order to fit in with his friends he joins them.  When they reach the store they have a plan that isn’t told to Mojo.  They check to see if anybody is in the store and if there is each friend will take the store captive.  In the store, there are three people.  Kim Lee, the owner, and two civilians.  Blaze walks up to Kim and pulls a gun out.  The friends pull knives out and make the civilians lie down on the floor with their hands behind their back.  Mojo panics and runs.  Soon after he hears a gunshot and it turns out that Blaze shot Kim because Kim refused to give him the money.  Mojo is taken captive by the police a block away from the crime scene.  Minutes after one of Mojo’s friends were caught, the rest were in hiding.  Mojo was put in jail and charged of the crimes that his friends committed even thought he didn’t do anything.  Five years pass and Mojo is finally let out of jail but the only person left is Jaw.  Blaze and the rest of his friends barely even remember him.  Blaze wants Mojo to join them to commit more crimes but Mojo loses his mind.  Mojo’s father and his art teacher Ms. Marcup keep telling Mojo constantly to stay away from Blaze but Mojo keeps secretly coming back but he does not know why.  Ms. Marcup tells Mojo to express his feelings in his beautiful art instead of committing crimes.  After a long time of making decisions Mojo starts to listen and try out Ms. Marcup’s suggestion and he starts drawing pictures and symbols of his life.  In each drawing, tells a story of suffering in jail, pain, friends, and what he has gone trough in his life.  Jaw as a brilliant idea and takes some of his pictures and stitches it onto a t-shirt and wears it.  After wearing it to school most of his classmates envied him because of his shirt.  They asked him where he got them and Jaw replies to them by saying “I got it from The Artful Story.”  Jaw started a revolution for Mojo and they decided to put Mojo’s drawing onto clothing and sell it to everybody to show the world what he have been trough and the rights and wrongs of life.  Mojo dies soon after by a car who is speeding to get away from the cops.  Jaw is devastated so he decided to create his final design for The Artful Story.  Jaw starts a company to sell the clothing for the rest of his life to keep Mojo’s dream alive years after his death.

            I think a good idea would be glasses that receive signals from TV satellites so you could watch TV on your glasses.  The glasses could have a little antenna to show everybody that you are watching TV so they don’t bother you.  The glasses could have a little thing on the side that you would put a specialized chip in, kinda like how a TV box would be put in a TV.  The glasses would have to have one lens that goes across to both of your eyes because it would be easier to create than 2 lens because they would have to think of a way to make it so when the picture is playing from both lenses you would see only one picture.  If there is one lens that goes across both your eyes, they could put something like a little scrolling thing on top of your glasses so you could adjust the picture to fit your eyes. On one side of the glasses would be another little scrolling thing so you could change the channels and rite next to that would be another little scrolling thing so you could change the volume.  On the part that hooks on your ear, there will be a little ear bud that can stretch a little so you can connect it in your ear for sound.  Last of all, the glasses would have an internal battery with a researchable battery and you would know how much battery there is because there will be a tiny light so if it will be green until you need to charge it then it will turn red when it’s almost out.

            I think if used inside these glasses would be a perfect invention but shouldn’t be used to walk around outside, drive with, or any other things that require moving.  It would be highly dangerous to walk around with because when it’s on you can’t see anything.  Other than that it would be a great traveling device.  You could use it at home, in your back yard, on your porch, when you’re a passenger in a car, and many other places.  Whenever you are bored waiting for a doctor’s appointment or waiting for you child to get out from karate lessons you could wear them.  If anything these glasses would be a bad thing for people who miss treat it.  These would be used for sitting down or just a better way to help time go by.

1. What is your favorite book?

            My favorite book so far has to be Lord of the Flies.  When we started the book I didn’t have much interest in the book but even when we got far into the book I didn’t like it when I read it.  It wasn’t until we went over the book in class and Mr. Ross talked about all the symbolism and secrets Golding put into his book.  I realized what a genius he was.

2. If you could/had to live in any country besides the United States, where would it be?

If I had to live in any country besides the United States, I would want to live in Japan.  I’ve never been there but my eldest brother went there with his wife this summer and when I saw the pictures, I was surprised.  Japan looks like such a crazy a lively place.  I wouldn’t mind living there.

3. Who is your favorite superhero?

            My favorite superhero would have to be batman.  Batman made himself just as good as any superhero, except he doesn’t have any powers.  He finds a way to manage and keeps everything under control.  The bat is portrayed as an evil or bad animal but batman uses this sign as a sign for justice.

4. If you could change any one law, what would it be?

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5. Is life a matter of reality or is it all just based on perception?

            I think life could mean anything to a person.  I think it’s how people live their lives weather its living life for tomorrow or living life for the future.

6. Is it better to be too hot or too cold?

            Usually when I’m hot, there is rarely a thing to do to help me from being hot but when I’m cold I usually get rid of it quickly.

7. Which is better: to get in a car accident that isn't your fault and lose a leg or to get into a car accident that is your fault and kill an old lady?

            I think the first reason is better because no matter what taking a person’s life weather it’s an old person or a young person, I would never want to do it.  And I don’t wanna sound selfish but I think it’s ok to say this because if I killed an old lady in a car crash I would probably go to jail for a long ass time but if I got into a car accident and the only real damage was I lost a leg, I think it would be better than to kill somebody. (*knock on wood)

8. Do you believe that pain and suffering is a necessary part of life?

            I think pain and suffering is a necessary part of life because it’s just like yin and yang.  There is no good without bad just like there should be no happy without sad.  And I think pain keeps a person feeling alive.  When you get hurt it’s like a strong distinct feeling that you encounter and you just know that you are alive.  That’s why some people might want to cut themselves.

9. Is animal testing acceptable?

            Animal testing is acceptable if there is a good purpose.  If there is a disease killing millions of people and they had nothing to test their medication on, I think testing a couple mice to save millions of people is worth it.  If they tested on a mouse to see something pointless or just to see if something works, I think that would be unacceptable.

10. Do you believe that ghosts exist?

            I think ghosts do exist.  Mostly I think there are different kinds of ghosts though.  I think there are the ghosts that everybody sees that move things around and everybody gets aroused by it.  But I also thing that there are the ghosts that only the person sees it because they share a strong connection to the person that passed away.

11. Do you believe that you can never have too much of a good thing?

            I believe you can never have too much of a good thing but also if you have too much of a good thing it is even better to share.

12. Do you believe that school is the best way to make a person smarter?

            I think the way a person learns is depending on the person.  Some people work better in a group and some people work better one on one with a tutor.  I think school is one way to make a person smarter, but I think most of the shit we learn in school is not going to help us at all in life.

13. Do you believe that Free Market Capitalism is fair? If not, what would you suggest?

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14. Do you believe that war can be justified?

            I don’t think war can be anything close to justice.  To me, I would rather talk something else than to result to violence.  Humans are supposedly the smarter species out of all the animals but sometimes I beg to differ.

15. If you could switch your gender, but it had to be permanent, would you?

            If I could switch genders, I don’t think I would.  When I think about it, I wouldn’t want to have periods every month and deal with childbirth and all that other stuff.

16. Do you think you are anyone's favorite person in the world?

            I don’t think I’m some bodies favorite but I think I might be a person that is favored out of a group of people, not the whole world.

            I don’t really have any hobbies or sports I have been doing since I was a child except one.  When I was a little kid, I picked up skateboarding because I wanted to be like my older brother.  After I learned how to jump I quit because my older brother quit too.  The end of 8^th grade is when I started skateboarding again because of my friends Joey, Shawn, Bijan, and Xander.  They talked me into bringing my skateboard to school and ever since then it became a small part of my life.  During the summer we would wake up and skate all day and sleep.  When school started, i would usually bring our skateboards to school three times a week and most of the times not even use it.  I guess I’m not as committed to it as much as other people.  But that does not mean I don’t enjoy it.

            To many people, skateboarding is not considered a sport but to me I consider it one of the greatest sports there is.  The craziest thing about skateboarding is you could say “what if?”  You could say “what if I could do this?  I could probably do this.”  You can take something that is complete thought and turn it into reality.  That is just what skateboarding is.

            To me the best part about skateboarding is landing a new trick.  When you land it, it’s like you get a feeling of gratitude or this feeling like you spent hours, days, weeks, or even months trying and the moment you land it you wouldn’t have it any other way.  The countless time you spent trying it doesn’t even matter.  The best part is after landing it for the first few times it starts becoming easier and easier until you decide to learn a new trick.  It is also very surprising.  You could wake up one morning not knowing what will happen but at the end of the day you don’t know the outcome of anything.  You could go to sleep knowing that you landed a new trick or going to sleep in pain or with a new cast.

            Some people won’t skateboard because they are scared of falling but to me I think it’s worth it.  Out of all the time I spent skateboarding, I have never fell so hard that I could not do anything for more than three days.  The worst I have ever gotten hurt was jumping off of a stair case with five steps.  When I landed I was not ready to fall it was all so sudden.  I landed on a rock which sent me flying and I hit my elbows, hips, knees, and head on the floor.  I got up and went at it again and landed it soon after.

            The best part about skateboarding is the feel of moving as fast as bikes but at the same time able to jump or to do a trick whenever you want.  The great feeling you get when landing a trick for the first time.  Soaring trough the sky when jumping off of stuff.  But the best part of it all is when you go to sleep knowing that all the hard work you put into it helped you accomplish something you’ve been dying to do for such a long time.

            Everybody can skateboard.  If you can stand on it, it is considered skateboarding.  You don’t even have to know how to do tricks to have a fun time.  Riding around as fast as you can gives you a greatest feeling alive.  I don’t know what else I would do without skateboarding.

            I think skateboarding is the only thing that gets me off the couch.

If I was an animal, the quiz told me that I would be an otter.  I think my personality matches almost everything from the quiz and when I think of it I wouldn’t mind being an otter either.  If I chose to be any animal I would be between a dog, sloth, and turtle.  All of them sleep a lot, are very kind, and fun to play with and watch.

            Dogs sleep and protect their owner’s house when their gone, but when the owners are around, they are completely different.  When their owners are around they always want to play but at the same time they wouldn’t mind just lying down and being petted.  Even when they are playing or doing something else they always keep their duty of protecting their owner’s house.  I think it would be fun being a dog.  I wouldn’t mind being a turtle either, because most of the day they swim, eat, and chill in the sun.  Sloths on the other hand like to sleep and eat.

The most important part of all of these three animals is that they are all peaceful.  Unlike most humans, these animals live their whole lives being peaceful but also having a great time.  I think if they were bored of how they lived they would change it, so they choose to be peaceful.  I enjoy sitting down and resting but at the same time I enjoy running around.  I am a very peaceful person but when I need to, I would act more violent.

My final pick would be a turtle.  It would be fun chilling and swimming, but when it gets down to it, it would be fun getting food.  Turtles usually eat live fish so they chase it around until they catch it and they will tear it apart and eat it.  It would be so fun to chase something around until you get to eat it.

            Ever since I was young, my biggest fear was being afraid of heights.  Like most kids.  I also was also afraid of spiders.  I never really had any huge fears but many little ones that I wouldn’t really call fears.  I was full of little fears but at the same time they were even easier to overcome.  I flinched easily when it came to touching live bugs, fish, and mostly little live things that were easily killed.  I flinched easily when I touched live fish until I went fishing with my cousin, and he only let me continue fishing if I unhooked my catch myself.

            My biggest child fear was the fear of heights.  I enjoyed staying on top of high building and on roof tops, but when I looked out I felt ok until I looked down.  When I looked down I felt an icy feeling crawl down my spine until it reached my featherweight feet that occurred at the same time.  The funny part is I’m scared of heights but I love roller coasters and I don’t like these but I don’t mind being on an air plane.  I think I’m usually only scared when I’m really really high up in the sky with a small amount of security so I could fall off easily.

            While I was writing this entry, I pondered about why and how people are scared.  Could it be extreme excitement?  I can’t think of any reason for why people can be scared but how they become scared of things are from child hood memories.  When I was a child, I had a reoccurring dream that started with me walking on a bridge alone.  When I looked from one side to the other, the bridge looked like it would never stop.  There was no end to the bridge and the only way out of the dream was jumping off.  When I jumped off, I woke up with the same feeling when I’m about to fall off a cliff. Now a day, I have not had that dream for a long time and I’m not that scared of heights anymore.  I don’t know how I over came it but my favorite parts of a roller coaster is being on top of everything and going down on the first drop.