Easy A

I was just watching Easy A. It was what I'd call an above typical teen movie. What was cool about it was the fact that it was based off of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlett Letter", so I thought that was a cool spin. I want to do movies like that. They're educating, entertaining, and...... different; or rare I should say. I just see someone thinking about the book they read in their High School English class and deciding to make money out of history. Smart person whoever it was. And the actors...... superb. The main actress, Emma Stone, is just perfect with her dry humor and free attitude. It's not exactly a family movie, but its definitely nice to watch with your peers or just by yourself like me.

Accomplishing

Visiting my sponsor really put me back on the track that I should be time wise. I got so many useful interview at the Blue Cross. He's going to be giving me this new editing program thats at least ten times more upgrading then the sorry one I'm working with now. Because one of the interviewees was soft spoken, I was able to learn more about sound editing while I was there and I was able to make the person more hearable. I also ventured into the wonderful world of animation; only for a little bit though. Next up is to learn how to take clippings from outside films and inject them into mine. This technique I should be learning today. Yes!

Lost Times

Why is it that we stopped using letters? Oh yeah, because we developed cell phones and email. Yeah, I am pretty greatful for these things but there's some thing about writing letters that feels so good. Not like a professional letter just a personal letter you would write to your friend. I've been writing to a friend of mine who is in the navy and there's something so liberating about it. It seems today kids have no reason to write expressively for their own enjoyment. They save all their writing energy for school essays where they need it. But I am definatly happy about using my ability to write for something that I believe is more meaningful.

It's Not What You Think

I think that it is important that I write a blog like this; just so I can spread my introspective thinking. I'd like to ask does anyone really know what love is? It's funny because when you ask a question like this, many people who have been in two, three year relationships jump up and say "I know love all too well". These are the people I see constantly fighting with their mate, then the next day in love; constantly feeling sick, staying up late to text the person, an bending their own rules to keep it together with their special person. Just because you've felt that aching pain in your gut about someone doesn't mean that's the person you're meant to be with.Those of you in painful, up down relationships, ....STOP! Just end it, 'cause love is not pain. You want to know what love is? Love is a soft place to land. It should never be difficult because it is meant for your own personal comfort. The whole idea that love is hard, and it makes you do this and that is foolish adolescent thinking. If you've ever observed older couples, you notice that most of the time they've got it together. The idea is to do what is pleasing to you and respect your mate. If you're thinking you love that person who has you up late at night wondering what they're doing , I'm here to tell you, you don't. What you do love is the drama, believe it or not.That's what you respond to the greatest and when you're ready for love, which I don't think any of us young adults are, but when you're really ready for love you will shy away from drama and pain.

HMMMMmm

I'm the type of person who knows what she likes when she's first introduced to it. Really..I am. When I shop it's either I like or I don't. When I'm watching a movie I can hate it or love it. And when I listen to music I know instantly if its my kind of song or not, well at least I thought I did. You know how initially people may not like a song, but then all of a sudden it grows on them. Well I am not one of those people, but recently I have grown acostum to some music that didn't hit me as hard the first time I heard it. First song, is"Rolling in the deep" by Adele. Mike got me on to this song, and I tell him all the time now. When he first played it I didn't dislike it, but I wasn't in love. Now that song grabs me when it comes on. Secondly, Larry's "Christian Dior Denim Flow" song by Kanye West. The song wasn't all that when I first listened to it, but now I find myself singing it randomly. I must like it.... what is the world coming too. I am glad I have a couple new songs to like bbut this makes me question my artist intuition. I'm usually a yay or nay. I hope this won't afect my directing.

Exams

Ahh what to write, what to write. Well this week seriously sucked. I got swaped with work. You'd think there wouldn't be so much work because we had quarterlys this week, but you'd be wrong. Every teacher decided that they wanted to give out homework (except Mr. Abrams). It was asssignment after assignment with loads of essays. For some reason they seem to believe their class is always the most important. Well I got news for you guys, every class is equil at Lindenwold High School! Hahaha.. I'm just playing but I do feel that a lot of the work was unnecessay. It's like "study for your quarterly, fill out these two packets, do an outline for my essay, come in and be ready to do the essay tomarrow". Jeeze! They know just how to wear a person out. Nothing to do but roll with the ;puches I geuss.

Maybe Maybe Not

Why is it that you can be stupidously excited about something one day, and the next day your not. I was super excited about college and stuff, but now I'm not so excited. I don't really know the area, you can't have cars on campus as a freshman, and I have no friends going where I'm going. I don't want to transfer. I wanted to go to one college for all four years, you know be commited. But things change, maybe I won't like it. I'll give it a chance either way, but I miss my friends already. Why can't people ever be satisfied :( . I shake my head at the whole concept of this. I'm going to make myself be exvcited about this leave no matter what...... gosh darn it! Hahaha guess it won't be so bad.

The Perfect Gentleman

Bingo! Now I've got it. No I really do got it! I know what I should do for my documentary. As I was simply browsing through my phone I came across a picture I took two weeks ago at the global teen leaders summit. As you seen it's a simple picture of a guy named Simon in a vest and bow tie. He's from England so he has a real class about him and I just had to get a snap shot. But as I was looking at it an idea came to my head. For a week now I was contemplating what in the world I should interview people about. "What's your idea of the perfect gentleman?" A topic worthy of discussion, because love fascinates people, and everyone's opinion is different. First I'll ask the girls and then I will interview the guys on who's the perfect lady. In conclusion I will construct the perfect gentleman and lady from the answers of the people. They will go on a date, which will be filmed and will see if the ideas of what people feel is perfect, really works. Hopefully all goes well.

Debbie Allen

Debble Allen, a rare breed; African American WOMEN director. Does she look familiar? That's because she's Phylicia Rashād's sister, better known as Clair Huxtable from the Cosby Show. Debbie Allen is also an actor, dancer, choreographer, TV producer, and director. She is well known for her work on the 1982 version of 'Fame' and many other films. But it doesn't stop there. Mrs. Allen is the director of many hit television shows such as, Everybody hates Chris, All of Us, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, That's So Raven, A Different World, Family Ties, and sooo many more. So though it may be rare to see women directors, especially African American ones, you can't say it's never happened.

Step by Step

My sponsor told me that on my way to becoming a director, I'll probably have to start off as an editor; which is cool with me. Editing is just as expressive as directing. Though you have to take orders from the boss, you still are able to sculpt and finalize the whole production. It's actually a beautiful start. I believe that whatever work you do should have some type of relation to your dream. As long as its helping get to where you want to be then it's not a waste of time. I can't wait to go to college so I can learn about what editing takes, because when I watch my sponsor do it, I see so many technical devices that I feel overwhelmed. But I think I'm a pretty quick learner so it shouldn't be a problem. If you can see it then it's possible. Seeeeee!

Chita Rivera, Bruce Adler, and George Dvorsky: Friendship

Anything Goes

On Thursday my mom, brother, and I rode to North Jersey to see Ewing High School's production of Anything Goes. My primary reason for going was to see my cousin Darnell do his thing as Elisha Whitney, the drunken boss. He was awesome! At first I wasn't aware that I have ever heard of the show; that is until they preformed the "friendship" song. If you ever seen that episode of I Love Lucy where she and Ethel belt out "it's friendship!..friendship!" in their usual screechy voices, then you'll know what song I'm talking about. I love that it is HIL-LAR-I-OUS! If you haven't , I recommend you check out Anything Goes because it's a classic. Or you can check out the quick link I put up of the song. Enjoy.