Snowden did absolutely nothing wrong. He swore to uphold the constitution when he took his oath for office. By exposing an unjust government I do not believe he did anything wrong, I would not call it irresponsible. He did what he thought was right for the good of the country. If the government is doing something that they try and keep secret should they really be doing it? In the TED talk Julian Assange says that wikileaks gives the world a real look at what the government is doing and what is going on.
I think the current state of freedom of speech is doing just fine. For instance I am able to voice my opinion for everyone to see and nothing will happen to me. I do however feel like freedom of speech has changed over the years. In previous years people would have sit ins and sign petitions to voice their opinions on situations the have strong feelings about. Now people say how they feel just to talk I think. It is no longer like the days of MLK when people fought for what they believe in but now people riot and destroy a city when they are upset. I feel completely safe sitting on a laptop and typing away on what I feel.
Friday, November 28, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
LBCC Campus Radio
As much as I would like for it to succeed, I don't think that a Campus radio station would be successful at a community college. The reason being that there is no average student at a community college; walking through the halls of all the different buildings I see all different types of people.
If a college radio were to succeed the two programs that would do the best are an underground rap program and a conspiracy talk radio because all colleges have two types of people for sure; crazy hippies that love to think the government is corrupt and behind all bad things that happen in the country, and students blasting rap music at parties. To fund the station there would need to be fundraisers along with selling commercials to local businesses and bake sales because everyone loves cookies.
If a college radio were to succeed the two programs that would do the best are an underground rap program and a conspiracy talk radio because all colleges have two types of people for sure; crazy hippies that love to think the government is corrupt and behind all bad things that happen in the country, and students blasting rap music at parties. To fund the station there would need to be fundraisers along with selling commercials to local businesses and bake sales because everyone loves cookies.
Music
When I was 14 years old Bone Thugs N Harmony came to Portland for a concert. My older brother bought a ticket and I wanted to go. I asked my mom if I could go and she told me a rap concert was no place for a 14 year old. She was worried that the foul language and the possibility of drug use by the rappers or crowd would have a lasting impression on me. I was not a happy camper; I just wanted to see the band perform live with my brother. After many hours of begging and pleading with my mom she finally allowed me to go. Still to the day it was one of my favorite concerts.
I enjoy all music, but my favorite genres are rap and classic rock and roll. My favorite artists include: The Doors, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Logic, Kid Cudi and Mac Miller.
I enjoy all music, but my favorite genres are rap and classic rock and roll. My favorite artists include: The Doors, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Logic, Kid Cudi and Mac Miller.
Friday, November 14, 2014
Gone Girl
Gone Girl was a movie that was hyped all summer long; every time I saw a new movie I saw a preview for Gone Girl. The trailers always left me scratching my head, I had to know what happened in the movie so of course the first week it came out I went and saw it.
The movie is based off a book also called Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. It is about a woman who thought she was madly in love with her husband only for the marriage to fall apart thus making the two hate each other. The wife goes missing and the husband gets accused of killing her. Through out the movie we learn that the wife, seen by the community as a loving and caring housewife, is actually a manipulating, psychopath that will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
The director of the film is David Fincher. Some of his previous films include The Social Network, Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Seven and my personal favorite Zodiac. The majority of those movies all have handful of similar qualities; suspenseful, crime and they are all thrillers, Gone Girl fits in all three of those categories. The main character of Gone girl was played by Ben Affleck who is also known for playing in thriller movies such as The Town, Argo, Good Will Hunting, Armageddon and The Sum of Fears (Ben Affleck movies kind of suck except for this one). Ben Affleck won Academy awards for Good Will Hunting and Argo (I'm baffled the he has Academy awards but Leonardo Dicaprio does not. I'll get off my soap box now). David Fincher has been nominated for two Academy awards as best director for The Social Network and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button but he never won. When you look at other thrillers such as Silence of the Lambs there is not nearly as many twists as in Gone Girl; half way through Gone Girl I thought I had it all figured out and then BOOM the story got twisted 180 degrees, in Silence of the Lambs you know what is going on the whole movie you're just constantly wondering how it will end. Taking a look at Fincher's previous films Zodiac and Social Network I noticed that the main characters are intelligent and witty but in Gone Girl Affleck's character is a complete meat head idiot, too dumb to keep himself out of trouble. in fact, in Gone Girl the villain is the brains of the movie opposite of Zodiac and Social Network.
This movie was important because it is one of the biggest movies out right now. It gives husbands and wives chills throughout the whole time, this movie was like nothing seen before, if you ask me this is a definite game changer for the thriller genre. People go missing every day and there are handfuls of movies about people going missing but this one has so many twist and turns it is miles above other missing person movies. As for reflecting our culture I'm not quite sure if this crazy psycho movie does. I realize that husbands and wives unfortunately do start to hate each other at some point in their marriages but I really truly wonder if anyone has ever hated their significant other this much and put this crazy of a plan together. On a small scale I guess the movie does reflect our culture in the sense that husbands and wives do occasionally hate each other. I'd say the target audience of the movie would be males and females aged 25-55, people that are either in serious relationships or that are married. As for stereotypes I think it squashes the stereotype that all white house wives just sit around all day, this housewife was insane!
This movie definitely has many strengths and the occasional weakness. One of the the strengths was that the movie was two stories, the husbands version and how the whole world thought he had killed his wife, and the wife's version and how she had come to hate her husband and her psychotic plan she devised. I felt that one of the weaknesses of the movie was that everything worked out so perfectly; the husband of a missing woman would not smile for reporters, he would look miserable and distraught and in my best attempt not to be a spoiler I will just say that certain situations through out the movie that just work out so perfectly it is just a tad bit unbelievable. But all in all I really enjoyed this movie; the story was compelling, the actors did a great job and this is another great film done by David Fincher. It is tough for me to rank this as Fincher's best movie ever because, I have seen Zodiac probably ten times but I would definitely put this in his top four movies. There are some scenes in this movie that really push it to the limit, if you watch the link below you will learn exactly what scenes, and for that reason I have a feeling this movie will be talked about for quite some time. I looked up a review by Justin Chang on variety.com and they were able to put into words what I felt about this movie "But what makes “Gone Girl” so particularly potent — and such an appropriate match for this filmmaker’s icy view of the human condition — is its deliciously cynical attitude toward the relationship at its core; its sly awareness of the thin line between love and hate, happiness and misery; and its skill at laying bare the cruel, manipulative behavioral patterns that spouses can lapse into over time." Also rottentomatoes.com said that 90% of viewers enjoyed it and according to fandango.com 79% of critics liked it.
After seeing this movie I didn't run out and buy every Fincher or Affleck film ever made, but this does give me a reason to watch the Zodiac again. This project had me looking up all of Fincher's work and I was amazed to see that he has directed some of my favorite movies. I have also looked up a handful of interviews of Ben Affleck and he is actually starting to grow on me, slowly but surely. When I saw gone girl I took my girlfriend with me so since then her and I have been sharing our feelings about the movie with one another along with my two roommates that have seen the film and we all agree that this movie is a must see.
From this project I have learned a couple of things, one being that if a man performs oral sex on a woman in a movie it USUALLY gets an NC-17 rating (until this film) and I learned of a couple of movies that have had to make changes in order to not get that rating. I also learned that David Fincher is one of my favorite directors, all the different techniques he uses for his movies and all the little metaphors that go unnoticed while watching movies. And finally I learned the sad truth that Ben Affleck has an Academy award but good ol Leo DiCaprio does not.
Gone Girl Trailer Washington post review How Gone Girl pushed the limits
The movie is based off a book also called Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. It is about a woman who thought she was madly in love with her husband only for the marriage to fall apart thus making the two hate each other. The wife goes missing and the husband gets accused of killing her. Through out the movie we learn that the wife, seen by the community as a loving and caring housewife, is actually a manipulating, psychopath that will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
The director of the film is David Fincher. Some of his previous films include The Social Network, Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Seven and my personal favorite Zodiac. The majority of those movies all have handful of similar qualities; suspenseful, crime and they are all thrillers, Gone Girl fits in all three of those categories. The main character of Gone girl was played by Ben Affleck who is also known for playing in thriller movies such as The Town, Argo, Good Will Hunting, Armageddon and The Sum of Fears (Ben Affleck movies kind of suck except for this one). Ben Affleck won Academy awards for Good Will Hunting and Argo (I'm baffled the he has Academy awards but Leonardo Dicaprio does not. I'll get off my soap box now). David Fincher has been nominated for two Academy awards as best director for The Social Network and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button but he never won. When you look at other thrillers such as Silence of the Lambs there is not nearly as many twists as in Gone Girl; half way through Gone Girl I thought I had it all figured out and then BOOM the story got twisted 180 degrees, in Silence of the Lambs you know what is going on the whole movie you're just constantly wondering how it will end. Taking a look at Fincher's previous films Zodiac and Social Network I noticed that the main characters are intelligent and witty but in Gone Girl Affleck's character is a complete meat head idiot, too dumb to keep himself out of trouble. in fact, in Gone Girl the villain is the brains of the movie opposite of Zodiac and Social Network.
This movie was important because it is one of the biggest movies out right now. It gives husbands and wives chills throughout the whole time, this movie was like nothing seen before, if you ask me this is a definite game changer for the thriller genre. People go missing every day and there are handfuls of movies about people going missing but this one has so many twist and turns it is miles above other missing person movies. As for reflecting our culture I'm not quite sure if this crazy psycho movie does. I realize that husbands and wives unfortunately do start to hate each other at some point in their marriages but I really truly wonder if anyone has ever hated their significant other this much and put this crazy of a plan together. On a small scale I guess the movie does reflect our culture in the sense that husbands and wives do occasionally hate each other. I'd say the target audience of the movie would be males and females aged 25-55, people that are either in serious relationships or that are married. As for stereotypes I think it squashes the stereotype that all white house wives just sit around all day, this housewife was insane!
This movie definitely has many strengths and the occasional weakness. One of the the strengths was that the movie was two stories, the husbands version and how the whole world thought he had killed his wife, and the wife's version and how she had come to hate her husband and her psychotic plan she devised. I felt that one of the weaknesses of the movie was that everything worked out so perfectly; the husband of a missing woman would not smile for reporters, he would look miserable and distraught and in my best attempt not to be a spoiler I will just say that certain situations through out the movie that just work out so perfectly it is just a tad bit unbelievable. But all in all I really enjoyed this movie; the story was compelling, the actors did a great job and this is another great film done by David Fincher. It is tough for me to rank this as Fincher's best movie ever because, I have seen Zodiac probably ten times but I would definitely put this in his top four movies. There are some scenes in this movie that really push it to the limit, if you watch the link below you will learn exactly what scenes, and for that reason I have a feeling this movie will be talked about for quite some time. I looked up a review by Justin Chang on variety.com and they were able to put into words what I felt about this movie "But what makes “Gone Girl” so particularly potent — and such an appropriate match for this filmmaker’s icy view of the human condition — is its deliciously cynical attitude toward the relationship at its core; its sly awareness of the thin line between love and hate, happiness and misery; and its skill at laying bare the cruel, manipulative behavioral patterns that spouses can lapse into over time." Also rottentomatoes.com said that 90% of viewers enjoyed it and according to fandango.com 79% of critics liked it.
After seeing this movie I didn't run out and buy every Fincher or Affleck film ever made, but this does give me a reason to watch the Zodiac again. This project had me looking up all of Fincher's work and I was amazed to see that he has directed some of my favorite movies. I have also looked up a handful of interviews of Ben Affleck and he is actually starting to grow on me, slowly but surely. When I saw gone girl I took my girlfriend with me so since then her and I have been sharing our feelings about the movie with one another along with my two roommates that have seen the film and we all agree that this movie is a must see.
From this project I have learned a couple of things, one being that if a man performs oral sex on a woman in a movie it USUALLY gets an NC-17 rating (until this film) and I learned of a couple of movies that have had to make changes in order to not get that rating. I also learned that David Fincher is one of my favorite directors, all the different techniques he uses for his movies and all the little metaphors that go unnoticed while watching movies. And finally I learned the sad truth that Ben Affleck has an Academy award but good ol Leo DiCaprio does not.
Gone Girl Trailer Washington post review How Gone Girl pushed the limits
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
My Bookshelf
We all have a bookshelf of some kind, whether it be big or small, we all have a few books gathering dust. I started collecting books at the ripe old age of 18, that was when i realized books aren't just about dead presidents and picture books meant for five year olds. I learned that books are written by crooks, hustlers and savages. The first book I bought was I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max. After reading his stories of drunken nights and womanizing I was hooked. I immediately went out and bout his second book Assholes Finish First. Here recently I purchased a book called The Wolf of Wall Street that was turned into a Martin Scorsese movie. I'll admit, these books are not the books my mother would choose for me (my father doesn't mind but more on that later) but they intrigued me and challenged me. How were these jackasses (make no mistake these authors are complete jackasses) able to do accomplish what they did? How could I become a millionaire or even just a writer in general? I always got dirty looks when I would read these in public but no one really understood why I was reading them. My father gave me both Tucker Max books and then I ordered The Wolf of Wall Street off of Amazon.
I also have a book of every piece Edgar Allen Poe ever wrote given to me by mom, she knew I didn't exactly enjoy stories and poems about roses and rainbows but she was just happy I was reading. At first glance someone would probably assume I'm some dark person filled with hatred but in fact just the opposite. I read it to see how Poe was able to fill the pages with so much description and so much passion.
The final book thats on my shelf is To Kill a Mocking Bird. I first read this book in my 8th grade English class with one of my favorite teachers of all time so when she passed away I went back to her classroom and snagged a copy to always remember her by.
I'm not a very big fan of ebooks myself, I like having the physical copy in my hand. As the market of ebooks I will do my best to dig my heals in and stick with the old ways. Plus, an author can't sign your ebook. I will admit that Amazon is a great way to get books though, they are fast with delivery and very cheap as well.
I also have a book of every piece Edgar Allen Poe ever wrote given to me by mom, she knew I didn't exactly enjoy stories and poems about roses and rainbows but she was just happy I was reading. At first glance someone would probably assume I'm some dark person filled with hatred but in fact just the opposite. I read it to see how Poe was able to fill the pages with so much description and so much passion.
The final book thats on my shelf is To Kill a Mocking Bird. I first read this book in my 8th grade English class with one of my favorite teachers of all time so when she passed away I went back to her classroom and snagged a copy to always remember her by.
I'm not a very big fan of ebooks myself, I like having the physical copy in my hand. As the market of ebooks I will do my best to dig my heals in and stick with the old ways. Plus, an author can't sign your ebook. I will admit that Amazon is a great way to get books though, they are fast with delivery and very cheap as well.
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