31/05/2011
New Week Challenges
Week 29/05 to 05/06
- Look people in the eyes while talking/listening to them. (Fun, I hope)
- Plan 'Meresin - Rise to Made Man' (try to make it a 1 book thing, with option to make it to 3).
WC Update
(WC hahaha!)
Anyway... Gotta be quick today.
Cold Shower Before Sleep: done, it feels really good once you get used to it, but it doesn't work for my insomnia, maybe it'll help when I have a more regular sleep schedule, although I really don't think it will.
(Did I mention this was something I read that would help with my sleep issues? Oops, forgot)
Hug and Tell Friends: I'd say I did this about halfway, that is failing the challenge, yes, but I had an epiphany while doing this...
"Would I really miss these people if they went away?" The answer was negative for about 75% of my list. Some of the people I was thinking about doing this, don't know shit about me anymore. Some never did. And I'm not saying its their fault, I just don't have that kind of a connection with them. It's a superficial friendship. (I know 'superficial' has a bad vibe, but its just a word, and I think its meaning applies to this situation)
It's weird though. Some of these guys and gals were/are long-time friends and I've spent unbelievably important or hilarious moments in my life with, and yet, I wouldn't miss them if I never spoke to them again...
27/05/2011
Quick post about travelling
Example:
(Not sure about the hot air balloon though, I've seen pictures with cars there)
26/05/2011
25/05/2011
I can feel it...
Soundtrack for today:
(Love this 4:42 to 4:54)
I can feel it, comin' in the air...!
I can feel it, comin' in the air...!
Who knew?
This, Red Bull and similar friends, have 80mg of caffeine. Which contrary to popular belief, is about the same as a cup of coffee. Not more. Not less.
The things we find out when we need caffeine...
24/05/2011
Fun fact
The Israel/Palestine Wall is twice as high and at least 4 times as long as the Berlin Wall was.
So, what is Hip Hop?
Hip Hop is poetry. Poetry with a beat. Listen up:
I done been through all emotions, from in shock, to keepin a poker face
to straight breakin down and showin all emotions
I'm anxious to believe in real G's don't cry
If that's the truth, then I'm realizin I ain't no gangsta
It's just not me, but you know I'ma always ride wit you
I miss you, sometimes I wish I just died wit you
to straight breakin down and showin all emotions
I'm anxious to believe in real G's don't cry
If that's the truth, then I'm realizin I ain't no gangsta
It's just not me, but you know I'ma always ride wit you
I miss you, sometimes I wish I just died wit you
Hip Hop uses urban and violent language, yes, we get it, most people can't relate to it, and associate it with crime. What you have to understand is that Hip Hop does comes from an uneducated, and violent culture: ghettos. And yet, through that direct, violent language, rappers express real emotions, real messages, I mean really meaningful shit. More than any other genre of music, I can assure you.
It's real poetry. It's just not from your typical born in a gold crib educated elite asshole. (I'm looking at you Miguel Sousa Tavares)
The fixation with money and bitches? Look, from what I understand, you can only make money and leave the trap of the ghettos 3 ways: sports, music, drugs. Education is not an option. So when someone leaves the ghetto and finally has money to spend, they tend to exaggerate. And it's not only musicians.
Another great example of such a great message (using a known sample phrase from MLK):
At the end of the day, you either like it or you don't (if everyone liked the color blue, what would happen to yellow?), but don't go hating something out of pure ignorance.
Hippity Hop
I had a friend who is a complete hater of Hip Hop mention how he loves this music to me, and now he hears it all the time. He thinks this is making fun of all the rappers and the Hip Hop world...
What he doesn't know, is that T-Pain (the black guy in the clip) is one of the more mainstream rappers of today. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
When I say mainstream, I mean that even I - a hip hop lover - don't like his music. Check this:
(This has 30M hits on Youtube...)
So, yes, the "I'm on a boat" is a pretty good parody of rappers, but the mainstream-I-have-tons-of-bitches-and-all-I-care-about-is-bling-bling ones, which are a stupid minority that every genre of music has.
23/05/2011
Weekly Challenges
So, little final update on the last ones:
5 book plan: I did put in ink the General Idea of where each book starts, goes through and ends, but each individual chapter general idea only until the end of the 2nd book. And even that will undoubtedly change a lot as I write, so, I think more than this is not productive.
Truth week: besides the little hiccup mentioned before... I nailed it. It did kinda become boring by the end... :s
So... New ones for week 22nd to 29th of May?
- Cold Shower every day before going to bed. It's on!
- Hug and tell my friends I love them. I know I know, it's cliché. I don't care. I think it's going to be really funny.
I have a list to make.
Oh yes, I know I had mentioned it would be Cold Showers and Highly Ambitious Exercise Program, but really, I have to balance these challenges, one more painful, other more funny.
20/05/2011
I haven't talked about Obama/Osama yet... (II)
I'm not as happy as Americans seemed to be, but I understand this:
Watch until the end.
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Watch until the end.
My opinion on the NFL Lockout...
Isn't exactly mine, but I do agree with it:
"Question: In 10 years, do you think you're going to find New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wandering the streets because of the 200-plus concussions he didn't know he had from his time in the NFL? You figure Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford will end up with ringing in the ears and depression the way former Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson did? Within the past year alone, two former players killed themselves.
You recall any NFL owners killing themselves lately?
The players aren't asking for more money. They deserve what they get, and they get it for an average of only three years. The Bidwills have owned the Cardinals for 79 years. The Rooneys have owned the Steelers for 78 years. Nine NFL owners inherited their teams. There's no easier path to permanent hot-and-cold running jets than your dad handing you an NFL team.
On the other hand, nobody hands NFL players anything but a chinstrap. With what we know about the dangers to brains now, would you exchange jobs with an NFL player?
This isn't baseball. These guys go to a job every day in which safety is Job 1,379.
The people asking for more money are the owners. They want $1 billion more out of the deal they have now.
They say they're losing money. But if you were losing money and were asking for $1 billion back, wouldn't you slap some proof down on the table? The owners are more secretive with their books than KFC is with its recipe.
Take our word for it and just fork over the billion. Oh, and play two more games for free. Thanks."
- Rick Reilly
Also, a comment I saw on this article:
"To anybody who dismisses this as “a dispute between millionaires and billionaires”, politely go fuck yourselves. First of all, who would ever side with the billionaires if that is the case? Second, most football players are not millionaires. This CBA dispute isn’t about the Peyton Mannings and Tom Bradys and Albert Haynesworths. This is about those practice squad nomads making the league minimum trying to carve out a living for their family while constantly moving across the country. This is about the runningback that suffers a career-ending injury after 2 years and loses his contract. This is about the players that have suffered multiple concussions and have one of the lowest life expectancies of any career in the world, whose organization is so concerned about their health that it fines them for dangerous hits but also wants to add two more weeks of dangerous hits.
So if you want to insist that this is an argument between millionaires and billionaires, at least side with the “millionaires”."
19/05/2011
Week Challenges update.
Note to self: doing the challenges for more than 7 days loses impact.
A Tale of Kings and Merchants 5-book plan: it's killing me to decide if I'm going to confront my characters with some really heavy shit. I just want them them to be happy and at the end win all the time, but if I did that, that would be crap. That feels empty. Uff... After this first 5-book plan I'll probably turn my focus to some other project, and not get so much involved on my characters. Maybe a more satirical kind of thing.
Always tell the Truth: this became too easy. If I don't want to lie, I'll just say, "I really don't want to talk about it", or say the truth in a comedic way, as if I'm kidding. It's really fun, but it really becomes too easy... Thing is, I already do this regularly, the challenge was to do it all the time, and today I finally failed. I had a chance to really put a final dagger in the back of tobacco and convince my dad to switch to electronic cigarettes and I took it. I don't care. I'll gladly lose the Challenge for that.
I also already have really cool challenges for next week:
* Pick 2 really really demanding physical exercise programs (upper body/lower body) and do them for 8 days (one day upper body, one day lower body, repeat).
* Full cold shower every day before bed.
(I had some other ideas, where the fuck did I write them? :s)
Edit: I'll stick with these 2 for next week. More on this on Sunday/Monday.
16/05/2011
Seriously now...
I'm an atheist, sure, but I think the Bible has some good stuff in there.
It's a good book.
If you forget some fictional characters and some BS stories, you have great knowledge there. Funny fact: I had a very Christian upbringing, and I only started reading passages from there AFTER my conversion to Atheism and at some Atheists recommendation, as it was the book they got reassurance to the fact there was nothing after death! Weird, innit?
Also, truly Christian people are the nicest people to have around (not those fake ones who know nothing of their founder - those make me nauseous). Then again, like most Atheists, these true Christians don't make a lot of noise, don't gloat because they're this or that, and don't impose their view on anybody, so they go by unnoticed. If asked, they'll give their opinion on the matter, if not, they'll go on with their life.
This sums up what I'm saying:
What's my opinion, you ask? (You didn't, but for this post's sake I'll say it anyway...)
I don't think there is a God because I don't feel there is one. There. Simple. If God existed, there would be very clear proof of him. We wouldn't have to spend all of our short precious lives wondering if he exists and which is the right religion to get to Him. And never finding the truth...! Nobody knows, ever! It's impossible to know for sure. (because he's a product of our imagination...!)
Anyway... Why I love so much to bash religion? Because religion makes people believe in talking snakes, in immaculate conceptions, in a boat with all the animals in the world inside, in an evil red man with a pitchfork... It's delusional, and it's funny.
There's also that very important function of humor: take the seriousness from things. You have to take seriousness from religion, because if you don't, radicals and fundamentalists take over. If you don't remind these people that "it's okay to believe in magic, but it's kind of silly, so, take it easy", pretty soon you have inquisitions or people flying planes into buildings.
That's kind of a long post. I'll try to make sure these are rare.
Damn Blogger!
You're messing with my week quota of posts!
Now I have 4 of last week and 10 of the new week... I'll be like this guy:
11/05/2011
And... My weekly challenges from 11/5 to 22/5
- Finish the A Tale of Kings and Merchants 5 book story planning.
- Speak the truth the whole time.
The first one is a drag, but has to be done, the second is actually repeated, it was loads of fun the first time, so, I expect the same thing again.
I'll let you know how it went.
Talking about Love and Happiness...
Let's start with happiness: 'You set yourself up for happiness or sadness. Either way, it's your own doing'.
Boom. Done.
Love? It's a bit more tricky.
Or is it?
Look, here's how I see it: if it's right, you won't have any doubts, sure, you can have fears, but that's a completely different matter (and a stupid one).
Hmm. Maybe I oversimplified... It's okay, we'll have time to talk about these things further.
Talking about Green... Here's a tune...
Oh! You thought I'd put 'Green Day' hu? Not on my watch!
Well... Not on today's watch... ;)
And a little something funny going on the NHL
Green Men.
This is so fucking funny.
See more here: http://www.gifsoup.com/tag-search-gifs/hockey-green-men
(It's worth the procrastination mates.)
NFL Legend
Do you have 5mins? Let me introduce you to Dick Butkus (not kidding, it's his real name), a fucking legend.
About that last post...
Apparently someone made that whole "Will Smith dad" backstory up, let this be a lesson for y'all: the Internet is full of bullshit too.
Anyway, even if the scene is scripted, it's still fucking awesome.
09/05/2011
'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' scene
'A little backstory to this clip before you watch it:
Will Smith’s father abandoned him and his mother when he was a child, and when Will was finally getting into show business and making a name for himself, he tried to snake his way back into his life like nothing happened. Will co-wrote this episode, and James Avery (Uncle Phil) said “this scene was the hardest thing I've ever had to shoot in my life. Every emotion, every word.. that was Will”
Will was actually supposed to play it off and then walk away, and there was originally an alternate scene that was supposed to happen, but he actually completely cut out what was supposed to be said, and did all of his own dialogue. The hug at the end of this scene is completely genuine, and this was a stepping stone in Will’s career where he started to take on the “do what feels, sounds, and looks right” approach to his acting.'
Check it, I promise it's worth the 3mins. (Couldn't find a video with incorporate activated, sorry)
Edit: Damn... Chills! Every time I see this...! That's some powerful acting right there.
Post number 0? 1? Who cares?
Look, let's try to make this shit very simple.
Expect regularly:
- Fowl language.
- Music.
- Cinema/Tv Shows.
- Books.
- Sports (mainly American Football).
- Atheism.
- Politics.
- Other quality stuff I find around the Internets.
I'll also try to share interesting shit I do and post quick opinions on anything that's circling around my head...
Cheers
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