Religion

I know religion is a very protective topic to people because there are so many beliefs out there, but did you ever wonder if religion is just a tool to be egotistical, and divided?  There are so many types of religions out there.   If you take religion away, there is almost a sense of being equal.  People have used religion for wars, genocides, sacrifices, abstaining from certain foods, dictating what person you will date or marry, and so much more.

Do we really need to have religion in our world?  It’s just a way to think we’re different than the other people, and we’re building our own ego.    We’re all the same.  No, not traits and ethnically, but we’re just human beings.

 We need something to make us feel inferior.  We need to feel noticed.   I feel religion is only an excuse.  I do have my own religion, I just question why do all of us have to be divided.

 Animals aren’t this way.  Yeah, there are different breeds and species, but the animals don’t care.  When animals breed, they go with their own species, but they might breed with another breed that is the same specie.  Look at Dogs.

Two different dog breeds will mate, and a mixed breed will be born.   When a couple of two different religions marry, there seems to be a problem with at least one of the families.  Overall, if we just take religion away, the world would be a different place. 

Darkness into Light

What is darkness?  Darkness is hard to describe.  Darkness shows a very negative part of your world.  Darkness can chase you until the very end.  Your own darkness cannot mend the heart.  It can only tear you apart.  Sometimes you can grasp on that golden bridge, but you fall as you’re walking.  At night, you start talking in your sleep, and weep.  The darkness in your own heart can’t let you spark.  Instead, it’s a vicious shark that eats you inside and out.  You begin to shout, and pout.   One day you wake up, and the sun shines on you.  You then feel happy like a balloon.  The days are never - ending, and magical. At the end of the day, the cycle continues and continues.   Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring.

Money

This past Saturday, I saw Les Miserables on Broadway with a good friend of mine for her sweet sixteen.  When I saw the play,  I noticed how Les Miserables had details missing from the musical.   I felt that some of the scenes were scattered.  I'm not sure if I'm the only one that feels this way, but I feel the production budget damaged the musical.

 Money is what always messes up a production of any sort. This is just an example.  In a production, there's always a budget.  Because of that budget, there is sometimes half worked attempts.  

I have noticed this in other musicals, plays, movies, and even in music production.  Another thing I feel damages any project is the labor unions.   The unions are often involved because of a certain career.  Because of the organization that's involved, union workers have to pay their dues to that particular organization.  I feel that the unions pressure certain budgets as a result, because of how highly paid some of the workers are.

When you have enough money in a production budget, you're more likely to have an easier time creating a fantastic project.  When you don't, you just try the best that you can.  Les Miserasbles was a really good musical.  It's just a shame that there was not enough budget money to add in certain plot points.

My friend met a press agent once that worked for Broadway. The press agent explained to her how the actor's salaries get in the way of production.  As a result, the people that work in the pre production area often decide what will happen to the play, and how the production will work.


Money is always an issue, as it is something we all dictate our decisions with.  It is basically how we all live.  We run our lives on budgets, but it is always wise to do best with whatever we have.

Indie Project

Over the past month and a half now, I have been working on a personal independent project in STAC.    Because I write music, I did songwriting as an individual project.  My first project was to write a song based on words cut up in a magazine.  The song had a really cool sound, but I felt the song couldn't really support itself.

  My next project was a children’s song, that I personally feel did not go so well.  The project I recently worked on was a Blue's song project.  I really liked my Blue's project because I feel that there is a very unique sound to the song that could possibly be shown in a movie.

Currently, I hope to keep writing more music with my eyes and ears open.   In this project, I learned so much on different ways to write music, and what are my strengths and weaknesses when I write music. Typically, I am an alternative/pop artist.  This STAC independent project opened my mind to different types of music that I could write, and I am so grateful for that.

Facebook and Twitter

Cyber Stalking is something very common in the world.  Social Media sites like Facebook, and Twitter are notorious for this behavior.  I look at social media sites as a contract. Think about this: you are agreeing on an invisible contract to the desperate marketers that will stalk your whole entire life, and potentially ruin your life forever, because they want to make a wad of cash thick enough to choke a horse.  I know my generation doesn’t care about how Facebook, and other social media sites pay money bloodhounds to stalk for a living, but I feel eventually something will happen, and people are going to want their privacy back from these social media sites.

Inside the Mind Of A Celebrity

I’m walking in a black world.  The world around me doesn’t swirl.  The world around me doesn’t smile.   Everything seems like a thousand miles.  When I try to leave the black world, a snake grips me and doesn’t free me.  I plead and plead in my head thinking “Why can’t I be set free?”  I want to see the stars, I want to see the people, and I want to see the sun.  It feels like I’m almost 500 miles instead of 1000 miles.  The black world wasn’t always a world.  The black world was once a cloud that followed me.  As time went by, the black cloud then started to become bigger, and then it engulfed me.  It’s been almost 5 years since I’ve been trapped inside this monster.  When I look at the other people, I say “Why can’t I be like them?”  When I reach out my hand to touch the other world, I get electrocuted by the snake.  The years keep going by, and I still can’t touch the sky.   I want to fly.

The Art Of Finding Yourself When You're Lost

When I read “The Art of Finding Yourself When You’re Lost”, I felt that this chapter focused on how nature influences art.  Even from the earliest time in human civilization, people would always create art with nature.  In some of today’s modern art, we incorporate nature in artwork.  Some examples are writing, songs, paintings, photography, dance, and filmography. 

A really good book trilogy that I once read called “Shiver”, symbolizes many parts of nature in the book, because one of the main characters is a werewolf, and also the fact that 50 percent of the book takes place in the woods.  Shiver is not the only form of nature in art.

Nature is something that will always intrigue us.  We often create art about nature because of how mysterious, and cryptic it is to us.  In the end, what is nature?