Thursday, December 16, 2010

Music Review.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEPB7uzKuh4

Okay, so I chose a song called Watercolour by a band named Pendulum. I had never heard of them, or the song.
I went to youtube and typed in unlistened to music. :P Yes, it's silly, but it worked :) And plus I like watercolors :)
When first listening to the song I was doing other things. I was doing homework or whatever. The point is, I was listening, but not analyzing it. So, the song went on and I thought 'Wow, this is a really sucky depressing song.' Can you tell I didn't like it? Well I didn't. I decided to stick with it though solely for the reason that I am said to change my mind so often about stuff that people could not keep up with me. I wanted to prove them wrong. Even if it only was for this silly blog and for this one time.
The next time I listened to it. I was laying in bed and I analyzed it but did not watch the video.
The lyrics seemed to match the morose and depressing mood to it.
Pendulum is probably very emotional. The song is about fear and getting away from where he is at. It can be tough to deal with life at times, but you have to stick with it and get it under control. While watching the video for this...it gets worse. It just brings it together to some up the depressingness. It is drab and gray. Literally, there is a lot of gray and dark blues. Colors can really make a difference. Suddenly there's a beam of light....and from there, it gets better :) the video makes a difference in how you visualize it. So, enjoy :D

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Jay and Nick

Nick Carroway. Who is that? Well, thats the main character of the book we seem to be following. Nick is a very approachable person. He's the person that if you got lost, you would ask him for directions, not the scary guy next to him. Nick is known for this quality because so far, throughout the book we see many characters, who have little knowledge of who Nick is, approach him. Some of these people being Tom and Daisy. Tom and Daisy hardly know Nick, yet they invite them into their home.
Jay? Who is he? I think he was hardly mentioned in this book. Oh, wait. That's Gatsby! The man of the book. We first meet him at the party. And not just the party, but his party. He is the rich man who throws parties every so often.......But,  many people don't see the reason of his tolerance for uninvited guests, since that's what most of them are. He tolerates them because he hopes one day the girl of his dreams will show up. Wait, isn't she already married? Yes, she is, but she knows her husband is cheating on her. She obviously stays with him because she could never give up the luxurious life that she lives. The question is.....Couldn't Gatsby provide better for her? Wouldn't it be worth it. I think yes. :)
Nick is sort of like the middle man here. He is asked to monitor their relationship. He is asked favors from Gatsby. But is Gatsby's friendship a fraud. Is it a faux friendship only supported by the fact that he needs Nick to help him with Daisy? Yes. It is.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

winter poem

Glittery,
The snow that falls from the sky,
twinkles and shines.
It twirls in the air,
Flittering about,
It lands nice and softly,
where it slowly begins to melt away,
It melts to water,
And where does it go?
It trickles away into the cracks in the ground,
It is absorbed by the dirt and then dried out by the sun,
The process begins again,
The snowflakes have the same semblance,
but if you look closely you will see,
just how different the flakes are,
There intricate designs,
seem something of a detailed emroiderer,
Seeming to perfect every detail,
but yet, never making any two quite the same.
The beauty of snowflakes,
is a mystery to all,
why do we adore something so cold?
It gives us comfort to be able to love this,
if we feared it,
Where would we be right now?