the Whacking Day, an episode of the Simpsons, is a satire to harmful traditions, so is The Lottery,a short story from Shirley Jackson. Both are Satires, but the Episode of the Simpsons is and Horatian satire because its funny, difference from The Lottery, that is not funny, in fact its almost scary, but they both get to the same point: Some traditions can be more than harmful, can be destructive for the community, and it can get to kill animals or humans, but all the participants do it with the excuse that is "Part of the Tradition".
For example, In Whacking Day, they kill snakes, but in The Lottery they throw rocks to people just because they got the marked ball. this is obviously a satire to society criticizing that they can excuse themselves to do somehting clearly bad just because their ancestors did it. i think a good example in society would be the Corridas de Toros, or the tauromaquial tradition,
The hardest thing this was getting fit. It was a long process jogging and working and everything and it was a real challenge for me and i worked really hard but I'm getting into my objective. I started really solw and with the time i started to saw process. I haven't summed up weight since almos 1 year and i have growth alot.
It was a new year resolution, one year ago, i started being fit. Altrough i have physical problems in respiration an posture, i gave my best for that to not stop me. I think the only resolution i have for this year is to keep it this way, keep jogging.
I don't believe anything of the new year rituals and i don't see nothing special in it, but is a kind of checkpoint in my life and everything.
THE BLUES IS ART. Is goddamn art expressed it it roughest, rawest way. Blues means sadness. Blues means the Melancoly of a lost one, of a lost identity and a lost oportunity. The blues, means the seek of Identity itslef. the Blues are the joyful fingers of Ray Charles, but also the Sad thrumpet of Louis Armstrong, The deep voice of Ella Fitzgeral, The Soul of Charlie Parker. The Blues is the result of the oppresion. The liberty, itself.
My name is Juan José, I'm 15 and i have had a lot of troubles with music. For me, it's really hard to find what i consider good music. Its been a fight against my feelings to accept "Popular Music". I have always loved music and i love to do music, i play piano and guitar, and I have had a happy life in Granadino, but behind that i had to suffer a little bit because various problems with my old school, and music have helped me a lot with passing throught it. In this little work i will explore about how music helped me.
The search for a definitive genre was a really curious experience. I tried with Electronic, Pop, Metal, Salsa, but my definitive genre was the Rock, Grunge and Thrash Metal.Its been hard to find the definitive genre, but in my life i have found a lot of good music in my life.
I explored the piano melodies of Beethoven and Brahms, Liszt and Schubert. I worked on them, i liked them and the pathetiwue was in an especial place in my hearth. The Sonata Pathetique Second movement was really an amazing touching experience with Beethoven, and i was just amazed by the delicated notes of the genious. Its in D mayor and its just beautiful when you heard it, and as a kid, it was amazing,
When teenage hitted me, i was confused. I was growing extremely quickly and it was horrible. The hormones attacked me and i was just so confused. That was when Nirvana helped me. "Lithium" is a masterpiece. I had just so much emphatic with that song and connected me so hard that it just saved me. I have to say that it was a lifesaver. Its about how hard is to grow up and painfully fall in love, also in self confidence and how people gets grab on god, as I boosted my confidence. It was also the first song i heard of Nirvana, My today's favorite band.
Nirvana is my lifesaver for many reasons, the main is because i had a lot of depression when i growed up and it was like a light that strengthed me and told me that you could do it. It was also a boos to my confidence, as Radiohead was.
Then it comes Radiohead. It was also very hard for me to socialize due to my low self-esteem, and this song "Creep", That talked about social awkwardness, Pathetiquism and empty heads was just great for a person of my age with my problems with friends. When i first got in the school i was very alone and life was spjust a hell and everybody was pressing me and i just couldn't handle that situation and this song was perfect because i hated my banal life based on responding work to do and just trying to look cool to other people and looking the TV and then going to sleep without any sense of living more than satisfying my physical and psychological needs without any sense of community or actual goal in life, doing a loop all day, and this son may not tried about it, but i feeled about it.
Its been a hard to find the Perfect Music, but thanks to the experience, i have found sweet tones in my life. And when I find something i like, i have the urge to play it. Its just an obsesion with instruments and the search of the strange liberation of dopamine that happens few times in life that haves led me search every kind of music, letting me know a lot of music and knowing how a lot of music feels like.
Nowdays, Venezuela is in crisis. With Maduro, the economic situation in that country is critical. when people went out to protest, there was not just violence, it was hiden from the international eye. When people tried to raise against the opression and the poorness, there was not just injured and dead people, rage, hate, but also there was no liberty of press. Aparently, and as the Venezuela goverment says, the situation is perfect. there is no war or death. but something changed everything and made the Internaional atention focus on Venezuela: Genesis Carmona, miss Venezuela, died in Valencia, Venezuela, in a pacific protest.
The worst is, that all protest are pacifical, withow violence, and then is the Police who starts the violence and makes the protest turn violent.
I think, when someone that haves the Tourette's syndrome , dies or in some way it changes of life, they always reincarnate in birds: they always try to insult but they can't because they don't speak our languaje. They just tweet things, but we don't know how much hate is reflected in that tweet. Maybe they are planning something bigger against mankind. I think the only difference between Tourette's people and birds are that we understand Tourette, but we underestimate birds, as just friendly passengers of the nature. They may be impregnated with bloody hate coming from their dark hearts People with Tourette's don't have the fault but they are the most sincere people. Somehow birds and Tourette's have escalated the reproductive pyramid to get in a rage harmony with death and life. Some birds, like pigeons, just whisper their hate to people... gluging. Glu glu glu is what you hear, but they are insulting you surely. Other birds, like canaries, sing their hate to us in a melodious way, so people let them freely insult them inside their houses. Then the chickens just scream at loud voice the hate, inside our cities. But then we eat them.
"Jesus don't want me for Sunbeam" is a song from The Vaselines. It's a parody about the kid song "I'm a sunbeam" . It's one of my favorite songs, because I love the acoustic guitar, the soft lyrics but the hard drums. It was wrote in 1992 and is a really cool grunge song. Was the first song I played on guitar and one of my favorite songs of all the time. It brings me good memories from elder times when I was a child. It have always influenced my life. For example, i used to hear it when I was mad with my parents or with my friends, or when I was happy in my car. The song, as I noticed just this year, is a parody if a Christian pray, and it talks about how Jesus don't love teenagers. When I was kid, I didn't understand end English so it just sounded cool and I singed it. But now I'm an teenager and I understand English I can say the song lyrics interpretation and meaning is amazing, because is philosophically correct yo my beliefs.
Probably the best grunge song ever written. Lithium, by Nirvana, it's not a lineal song, nor a love or hate nor a specific emotion song. It's just an amazing mix of overdriven guitar and smashing drums but a hard rock vocal. Is not just a song, is a mix of compressed feelings, and, as much of the nirvana songs, it's an environmental song, a mix of feelings that makes a mood, in this particular song, gloom and bipolar tendencies. I highly recommend this song because it's complex musical engines, it's way of roughly express hard feelings for a teenager with a lot of medicated mental problems, with misunderstood of the society and social oppression. I love this song because I play it on guitar and it makes me feel a lot better when my day is off and I'm stressed. I identify a lot with this song in particular, because I know the feelings that are mentioned I highly recommend this song, to all who likes to alternate with everyday pop songs.
If I would have to chose a bug to live in, I would totally chose a religious mantis, not only because his mystic prettiness, but his strange way of life and his relation with the death and the life. It would be amazing cause I'll live more than a year, and would be a powerful king of bugs. I would hunt rats and little frogs, and hide in the trees. Travel days and days to search new food fountains, and plane ( close to fly). It would be a freaking amazing way of life. The only bad thing of being a mantis is that, when you get laid you'll probably die of decapitation. But, for being a mantis, it would be a price pretty accessible. Also i love these animals, even I founded one in nature.
I have 4 pillars in my life: First one, my family. i couldnt live withow them. They do their best to cheer me up when im mad, and i do the same to them. Im specially gratheful with my parents, because they gave me everything and my sister because she is funny. Second, My friends. They also cheer me up, they notice when im not around, and my school friends may trespass the line sometimes but i know its because i like to say a lot of poop. I also have friends in my other school, and i know them since we where babies. Third, My farm. i deposited there all my love and every liter of air is full of my dead skin cells because im there alot. so is like breathing myself (¿?) i love my farm because is full of pretty things like my skin cells, a lot of threes and animals, like monkeys. there also live my dogs. And last, but not least, Music. i love music because sometimes i feel like is the only thing in the world that exist for me. is my commpanier in my lonleyness, is like a hug of a teddy bear drinking coffe. i love it because it makes me feel better, and what i hear i play. i aslo made a lot of friends because of music.