writing, music and all things my opinion

I cried watching "empire"... yea... Terrence Howard's character says: "I started selling drugs when I was 9 years old, in philadelphia, I did it to feed myself. But it was the music that played in my head that kept me alive when I thought I was going to get shot. And it was the melodies I dreamt about that kept me warm when I was sleeping in the streets...you see? music saved my life. Times have changed though, the internet has destroyed the musicians ability to make money, because our work, is downloaded for free online. Now it's impossible for the disenfranchised kids growing up in the projects to overcome poverty the way that I did" I wanted to stand up and cheer, but people would look at me weird... set there, turn that over in your mind... sure getting free music might not hurt those super famous, already signed and set "rock/rap/pop stars" you see on tv.., the ones with mansions, the ones you think represent musicians all across the boa

heard the most ridiculous "mansplaining" ever today... a dude has a whole channel dedicated to trying to prove "feminists" wrong... and one woman, who I don't even know if she was a feminist, was saying she was taught how to not get raped, and how boys should also be taught you know, not to do it, and if you know anything about rape culture, doing this like "preventative from the woman's side of things" too much leads to people thinking (and I'm guessing a lot of people reading this might also) that if a woman doesn't kick and scream and fight back at all, that it's okay... 1) no 2) NO! 3) nope we need to start teaching men what rape is, most don't know and I'm not kidding... most think (and maybe you do too), that it's mostly a stranger in an alleyway in the dark, and most of the prevention measures are geared toward that thinking, which doesn't help if you are alone with a good looking male friend that you trust a

I feel so embarrassed about things I used to be ignorant about sometimes, like how I used to think Lars Ulrich was a jerk lol no, but seriously, I used to like listen to the media and it's weird that they never came out and said "he's wrong" but they implied it so heavily that it just like influenced my opinion... but NOW that I am no longer ignorant to like what that's all about, I'm like you know what, he was right all along and it's not about "not sharing art" any artist that's a real artist would love to just have enough money to live on, and survive, and if they had that, and were set, they would love to just give away their art... I promise, even him... but these people (though the ones whose name you know are probably rich) like 95% of artist in the world's population can't make a dime because people think this way... "art is meant to be shared" which is absolutely true but like you want and expect these people to s

I don't consider myself a feminist only because I like having only one label: Christian, that trumps everything else about me, what God says is above all other opinions and causes of man... and I don't agree with everything all feminists say all the time, but I'm not dissing them, because mostly they make good points... however some might see me as a feminist simply because I have these crazy opinions that women are and should be treated equal to men, and that rape is bad... that's not me being PC, that's me being a human being if you see disagree with that I don't think I'm the one with the issue it just blows my mind the amount of people who see you as a "man hating feminist" just because you're against rape... umm I'm against rape that happens to men too... it's not my fault that 99% of rapists are male... I didn't cause that, feminists didn't brainwash those men into doing that... most feminists don't hate men at

These will be long so I'm only going to include a few, the ones that may not speak for themselves.  the christmas songs we listen to have meaning, they play over and over throughout the seasons, year after year. I have learned that the true value of any God inspired song isn't the music or the voices used to sing it but the message, the reason for God giving someone a song is to bring a message to teach us, to touch us, to fill our hearts with joy and hope... they are not purposeless... 1) 12 days if Christmas this was in my church (pleasant view's) monthly newsletter a few years ago...  The meaning of the 12 days of Christmas, From 1558 to 1829 Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church.  Each element in the carol has a code word for a religio

I don't like making many blog posts about "dating" but I was thinking about this post I made on facebook, like it just started getting to me, it was a joke but it was this: person: "why are you single" me: "I'm the real life version of kat stratford" lol well... that IS the reason and it annoys me, it's a joke based in truth but it annoys me that if you are a male, you are expected to be yourself and if you say dumb things to get a girl, people say "poor guy" and "she should give him a chance" but if you are a girl and you don't respond or act in the exact way that males think you should based on fictional characters they've seen in action movies, you're "mean" or "clingy" or "crazy" if you are mean, it has to be comically mean but you also have to be super attractive and not wearing much... if you want to act a certain way, you have to conform it into something that i

Let's start this off by me explaining what triggered my writing this. A lot of the time I tend to talk about tv shows in a different way than most people, this is because I think differently than most people and therefore, watch things differently. Some things are mindless fluff, of course, but mainly I watch things with about a million things going through my mind at once. The psychology behind the character's behavior, memories of past behaviors of said character, relationships between characters, what they are feeling at any given moment, people they remind me of in real life, and is this an example of something that could influence my christian life, or how christianity is viewed in general. And that's just to name a few... Part of this comes from the fact that I am a writer, but that's not to say I do it on purpose to learn about writing. It's just that being a writer and having a "writer's brain" is what causes this. I made no decision to be