Twilight!

Yes I am a Twilight freak. And YES! Twilight comes out in the theatres tomorrow! I am so excited, no one has any idea. I've read most of the books; I'm done with the first three, and am almost done with the fourth: Breaking dawn. I think the books are the most amazing things ever, and they are by far my favorite series I have read. The way Stephanie Meyer writes, it makes me become entranced in the book.

The thing I am concerned with though, will the movie live up to the reputation of the books? I'm not sure. I don't think they will be able to fit every single detail from the book into a 2 hour movie, but then no movie made from a book does. I'm scared crucial details will be left out, and the movie will be random and scattered. I'm sure the movie will still be amazing, but I'm hoping I don't get my hopes up and then watch them come crashing down in my face while watching the movie.

Judge This!

Judgemental people irritate me. I just wrote a post not too long ago about how I was judgemental about people, and a certain situation that turned out to be better than I had expected. Being judgemental just isn't worth it.

I say judging people by how they acted when you first meet them, or even if you just see them in the hallway at school or at work, is wrong. And although I say it's wrong, I'm pretty sure I do it myself every single day. I'm sure 90% of the people here at school are nice, but I look at them as a person depending on what they doing, occasionally how they look, and how they act around their friends. I probably sound like a psycho bitch, but almost every person here does it without even thinking.

Going back to why being judgemental isn't worth it... I don't think its worth your time judging someone and making up some false things about them in your mind because they probably are no where near to how you are picturing them. You don't know what they are going through in their personal life, and what they are truly are.

American Idol, America's Next Top Model, and shows with judges are a completely different story. In this case, it's their job to judge people. They obviously judge people on a certain skill or aspect, not usually on their personality and how they act.

And Th-Th-Th-That Don't Kill Me

Everyone says "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." or whatever the quote is. I think I'm basically the opposite. I'm a pretty tough cookie when it comes to pain, but when people talk about me or say something mean to my face, I get pretty upset. Either I cry, or I get really pissed. I don't really know what is wrong with me. All my friends say, "It doesn't matter what people say about you." but I don't really believe them. I take what people say about me or to me to heart. I think that goes along with my low self esteem or whatever it is. I need to work on that a bit.

I'm not saying people talk crap about me or anything, because I'm a good person for the most part. I'm contradicting myself now when I say talking crap is a bad thing, because I just said in my last post that I like talking about people, if it's true of course. I'm also contradicting myself when I say it shouldn't matter what people say about you. I tell myself that all the time, but it still matters to me no matter what. You should do what you want to do, wear what you want to wear, say what you want to say, (to a certain extent of course).

All of this reminds me of the song "Stronger" by Kanye West. I'm sure that'll always be a good song. It really connects well with what I'm saying in this post. Should I post a video or link? Of course I should!

Did You Hear...

I think rumors and the greatest, and the worst, things in teenagers lives today (including mine). I might as well start out with pointing out the cons of rumors. In high school, rumor starting and smack-talking is a common activity for most students. Whether they know it or not, every kid in their high school career have, or will, talk bad about someone behind their back. It's just bound to happen.

At my school, rumors fly around every day as if this is Hollywood or something. I'm pretty sure I hear something bad about someone at least once a day. Every day. Most of the time the rumors about people who aren't necessarily your friends, just more of aquaintences (sp? damn i don't know how to spell). I think the gossip is even juicier if it isn't about your friend, because you don't really mind spreading the rumor or talking about them as much as if it was your best friend people were talking about.

I'll probably sound like a terrible person for saying this, but I think gossip and rumors are fun. I'm not the type of person who starts rumors, no not at all, but I do like to hear them, and talk to people about it who already know about it. I have a few friends who I can trust won't tell anyone, but then again I have a couple friends who would tell a secret in a heartbeat. I know I can trust my few friends when I hear gossip about people, and what we say never leaves our little group. Not gonna lie, we are probably somehow contributing to the gossip spreading the administration is trying to put a stop to, but everyone does it!

I know, just because everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right. No, I wouldn't jump off a bridge if everyone else did it.

I think the most smack-talking is my group is done when we are at one of our houses, alone. We don't start rumors, we only talk bad about bad people. To elaborate on that, we only say things that are true about people, which are bad mostly. If Stacie* slept with 14 guys, we talk about it because it's a true fact, we aren't just randomly making that up just because we don't like Stacie. So in our minds, we aren't really doing anything harmful, just stating the truth.

*not real name of friend

First Impressions

Sometimes, first impressions of people are the worst. I don't think I can think of a situation in which I didn't like the person at first, and then not liked them once I got to know them. Okay, I take that back. I can think of a couple times. But what I'm trying to get at is, people aren't necessarily bad people even if you get a bad first impression.

One time there was a girl (we'll call her Bethany) one of my best friends (and we'll call her Katherine) was friends with, and Katherine really wanted me to meet her. Bethany went to another school, and I didn't know many girls from there. I had heard they were all mean and psycho, so I wasn't really too anxious to meet her. I kept telling Katherine I didn't want Bethany to hang out with us, being the stubborn person I am. Eventually, Katherine went ahead behind my back and invite Bethany to my house once. So she came over and guess what! Sure enough she's the nicest person ever.

That really made me mad. I didn't understand why I had been so wrong about her, when I was sure she was some mean crazy bitch from down the street. All in all I'm really glad I'm friends with her, and it has made me think twice when judging people before I meet them. My friendship with Bethany brought on new relationships with new people, which is really great. It is always nice to meet new people and become friends with people from other schools.

What I'm trying to get at is the classic quote, "Don't judge a book by its cover." Some people are secretly nice, others, not so much. Some people are mean on the inside, but most aren't. Man I sound like a mom or an elementary school teacher or somthing. Now kids, that's your lesson for the day.

Rotation

So as some of you may know, Cute Is What We Aimed For released a new CD called Rotation on June 24th, 2008.

Compared to their first album, The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch, Rotation brings a completely new sound to CIWWAF fans all across America. As noted on SmartPunk.com, the success of the first album was greated than what the boys expected. TSOBRWANT "spent countless months on the Billboard Top 200 Charts and quietly sold over 210,000 records...". The article goes on to say how the success of the first album forced the group to mature quickly. The new maturity shows greatly throughout every part of this new album.

I personally enjoy this album a lot, but I don't know if I enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the first album when it first came out. The first album brought a new form of music to my life, and I had 'discovered' the band on my own through PureVolume. Many of my friends had never heard of them, and to this day most of them still don't. I think it'd be interesting to blog with others about the music not everyone listens to -- maybe even creating publicity for them.

I definitely notice the change in tone and mood in the music, and the maturity in the lyrics. Rotation brings a more mellow and diverse album of songs, with most of TSOBRWANT's songs being more upbeat.

The main thing I like best about CIWWAF's albums is the creativity in the lyrics. The word usage and clever phrases are what catch my eye the most. I don't think I've listened to many bands with lyrical creativity like these guys. To be honest, I'm glad they didn't have insanely amazing success with their first album, like Fall Out Boy or Britney Spears would. I'm a fan of many bands like CIWWAF: successful, but still not recognized by all of the nation. I'm always afraid success can corrupt bands, forming into the mold of how society wants them to sound. CIWWAF has a very unique sound, and I want it to stay that way for albums to come.

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Viewer Discretion Advised

--Follow-up to "Drivers Ed"--


Does anyone have road rage? I know I do! This is something I really need to get under control. As many people say (or at least I think they do), road rage definitely increases your chance of getting in an accident.



I think its funny how I have roadrage when it comes to any annoying driver on the road. If I don't know who the person is, I will get mad at them if they do anything remotely wrong when driving. Even if it isn't wrong, but it isn't what I want them to do, I get mad.

I'm not even the same person when I drive! I'm really nice in person, or at least I hope I am, but when I drive I'm anxious and antsy and easily irritated. Ugh I need to work on that!!