During these past few months, I have been apart of a book club activity with a small group of people. We discussed in Today's Meet and on a forum about the book Jump Cut by Ted Staunton. It features a young boy named Spencer, who, along with his brothers, receives a quest from his deceased grandfather's will. The will asks Spencer to film himself receiving a kiss from a movie star who once acted in films which have long since been labelled 'old,' but it turns out things are not all that they seem. The overall theme focuses heavily on that life can exciting, and dangerous, just like a film. In our discussions, we spoke a lot about what was fitting and necessary or unnecessary to the story and theme. My favorite discussion was of the characters. We spoke about how Spencer and AmberLea seem very plain and unusual in a book full of crazy characters. Other characters, like Gloria Lorraine, seem straight out of an old movie that features original guns and gangsters. They are characters that are exaggerated and would say things like 'sweet cheeks' as they put on their fedora and vanish into the night, or characters that smoke long cigarettes just for the pose and vision, which Gloria Lorraine actually does in the book. All the characters in the book to do with adventure and danger are kooky characters, while the protagonist, and those who are generally staying out of danger, for instance Spencer's brothers, are generally normal.

I heard something recently, a quote if you will. "Writing makes you a God." (Yeah it's from a supernatural episode I did not watch)

What's extraordinary about this quote is that, to someone who doesn't think 2 cents about it, it sounds ridiculous. But, in theism anyway, it's sort of absolutely true, although it depends on what exactly you write. The point is in writing fiction that is not historical fiction etc. that you are, in fact, making your very own universe.

PLS..................................PEOPLE READ THIS BLOg...............................

at the same time as being mortified (Honestly this isnt my best work u feel me) i wanna know whos reading from other schools c

Im sure you all think the music i listen to (see etc. tab) is odd. And to that i say, i cant help what i like. So what if you listen to pop and i folk rock. Neither are Bad Things.

I feel the need to inform you about lo-fi though. Lo-fi (low fidelity) is a genre of music. A very small one. It basically means that the music you listen to is lower quality, or, i quote, "is lower quality of sound recordings than the usual standard for music."

"Why is that a thing?" I hear you cry. "Why would someone listen and make music that's low quality on purpose?"

                                                                                  I have no idea.

I do know, however, the genre is brilliant. The first lo-fi band i listened to before i even knew lo-fi was a thing was The Unicorns. It was used in a ftp game i was playing. (Pen Palz. Play it.) And through that i delved into the world of lo-fi. It is a colourful world filled with broken cassette tapes and CDs, and it sounds like the crackle of a record disc and falling trees.
    Although my whole heart is to the Unicorns, I have a fondness for Guided By Voices because they have a (very small) folk sound (sometimes) as well as lo-fi ascetics. Its absolutely perfect. (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

Okay, this idea of giving everything in exchange for nothing much is what is almost a dream of mine, and it sounds selfish, but helping people is one of my favourite selfish indulgence. 

I hear stories everywhere about people asking for help. People just like me, and i want to give them everything. I want to gesture them to come here and i have a bed and i have some food forget all your woes because if i can help i will. There are people all around the world making, say, a post on tumblr saying "I am a trans person and my parents kicked me out just because of that. Please help me." and there is that gnawing need to help them because i know exactly how they feel. (im not getting kicked out because im trans, but there were some scares about other things) I don't want them to feel like stray cats, but i want to get a big house so i can make a lot of guest space so these people that are asking for help can come and go as they please.

I would love to give what I can.

i am passionate about far too many things.

Speaking of, i just started watched an american spinoff of the 'modern-day' sherlock holmes known as elementary. it gets a lot of dung from the benedict-sherlock fans for being american (they are anglophiles.) and because their precious john watson is female...and they try to cover up their sexism with little success.

My main point was, it is beautiful, Elementary. I would like to meet their cinematographers and learn a thing or two from them. I really, really, really love film. I do not like the film industry, but even that does not quell my love. Next year in school I am going to take a film course and i have never been more excited for the future. If I remember right, you have to film two films and I feel like I'm going to try harder on that than anything before. That sounds bad but it is true.

Please watch Elementary. Despite being, you know, the usual modern-day Sherlock spinoff formula, it is a genuinely good show. The castors don't have white-cis goggles on and, for me, that improves my show experience. It makes it seem more realistic, because you know not everyone is white.........

these are the things i think about when watching a show. i pay far too much attention

goodbye

hey its been a while??

Okay, I've been to a lot of places. All over europe, only recently to poland and england. But, with a thirst for education, i am greedy. I would like to go to a lot more places.

First of all, i would like to spend more time in Poland. I only got to spend 3 days there. I remember it being one of my favourite places I've been. We stayed in a small stylish hotel where we trekked up and down the stairs everyday, there was a small window overlooking the street, pointed down slightly with absolutely no purpose we could think of. In a little rooved area on the sidewalk, right by the market and windowshopping, there were beautiful flowy flora-patterned clothes (which, unfortunatly i didnt look closer at in my time there) and a resturant called, in english, The Horoscopes. Plus the food was magnificent, speaking of!!

Perhaps i would go to australia. I know of the general fear of austrailia because of 'the spiders' or whatever. People hear rumours and take it to heart but i dont think it's true, honestly. You can encounter a deadly spider just as much in california than australia. Anyways, I would love to go to koala cove cafe!! It's just a little general store, but you can feed kookaburras little slices of meat right infront of it, or earn a Parrot Hat (standard headwear in australia) and have ducks running over your feet. Oh no. its all about the birds again.

Okay best weekend ever--i made the best worst mistake of my life. that is to say, it was a bad mistake but it was the best. 

I made the following post on tumblr saturday at about 6:00

and as you can see it has a lot of reblogs. i did not expect this. i have to write like 130 poems that are like 3 lines long each. the original post ended on march 4th and i changed it to midnight--but of course the edited post doesnt change on the already reblogged posts (thank the gods that the original deadline is here). this is the worst.

also not to mention this little bugger (my girlfriend, danny) to the left kept reblogging the post so it kept accumulating notes and i had to write more poems im never talking to her again.

this was never supposed to happen

i need this weekend. i definitely need to be alone for a while. I dont meant to, but, as an introvert, a lack of time to myself gets me sort of angry at everyone. Or antsy. It'll be great not to do anything with anyone this weekend. 

I find value in words.

I don't care what type of person you are. I don't care how literate you are. Your words matter, I swear.

So it is on that note, please write. Write sappy poetry to your scother. Write out that brain crack you've been thinking up, that crazy story, write a song, write a passionate essay. And publish it. Publish it on a forum, or a blog. Even put it in a place where people have to find it. Your World, for instance. Go on there and type yourworldoftext/beauty and write something there. Someone'll see. And its anonymous!! No worries.

so yeah!! Write