It will most likely always be relevant because the world sucks

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing although a grossly dramatized demonstration of the consequences of racial tension it is still highly relevant to today's society. To the normal viewer, Do the Right Thing seems to be just a huge mess. Honestly if I did not have someone leading me along the way I don't think I would be able to write anything here. The film takes place in 1980s New York City, a time and place where equality was being fought for constantly. In a very broad nutshell, much like Patell says, is a very dramatized version of everyday life in this mostly minority populated neighborhood. However, although many Americans would like to not admit that racism is still highly prevalent in our culture today. Police brutality has been in the news recently, this type of violence is also depicted in the movie. The display of Radio Raheem’s public murder is actually one of the most real depictions of this racial tension. Recently with this cases of police brutality many of the deaths completely unnecessary, similar to Raheem’s. In the movie it almost seemed as if the police were surprised that Raheem had died from the strangulation as if they thought that their actions were not overkill. I think the over dramatization of this kind of conflict is almost perfect for our time now. Because many people do not want to admit that there is a race problem in this nation having this extreme demonstration could possibly be a wake up call to the populous. The movie is still relevant today because as long as there is even a bit of racial inequality anything that addresses it is still important.

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My Experiences as a Real Life Rockstar

*** okay so this is a really spread out post. I started this in December and am just finishing it, so if there are any of joke/references sorry! ***



Haven't we all dreamed of it? Being a rock star? Touring the world with your awesome band preforming in front of hundreds of thousands people? Rocking out whenever you want? Partying in your sweet tour bus? Eating mini quiches in your privet jet that has a hibachi grill in it?!? No? Just me? Okay moving on. But we all know how hard it is to really take off as a musician, well no longer! With Rock Band 2 you can live all of your rockin' dreams!

I got this game when I was about 9 and I thought I was the shit. I mean who wouldn't? You're a 9 year old kid who is playing a freaking RATED T FOR TEEN GAME! I was pretty much a baller. So when I decided to boot it up again after a few years of neglect I chose to live a life of rock. So now I shall share with you my life as a rock star. 

So to start out I have to create a band, duh. First I gotta decide the name of my band. After hitting the randomize button about 4027324 times I settled on "Killa Towel." Pretty cool right? This is what I imagine out logo would look like.

You all better really appreciate all of the photoshopping I am about to do for this stupid post.

I know, I know pretty sick. Anyways, after the band is named, I get to make my character. I decided it would be boring to make me so I made my Alter ego, Chastity. I also got that name from the random name generator in the game. I chose this one because it a.) sounded like a weird ironic stripper name, and b.) it you say it right it sounds like CHAS-titty. Hehe, yeah I'm an 11 year old boy, so what? Any ways everything about her is pretty boring except her hair. The style is called Anime Buns and I made it freaking purple, she is a straight G. I would put a picture of her here but getting a good quality photo off of my Wii would be soon much work. So this is pretty much what she looks like.

The description for the hairstyle was "Kawaii or not?" Hence the "kawaii" look. Although I find it more terrifying than kawaii.

And so Chastity and "Killa Towel" set out on their musical adventure in their hometown of Madrid, don't ask me why I picked that city i just did okay? After a few months I suppose, which was like 2 songs in game, we get the option of compete in the "Battle of the Vans" to get out very own van so we can peruse east Europe and share our magical rock sounds. I don' know if it's possible to lose unless you flunk out of the song but regardless we got the van. It's from the 80s and has a huge ass hole in the floor, but now we can get out of Madrid and share our talents!

Not long after we leave Madrid for Dublin and London, we hire a manager! Apparently he isn't very trustworthy and will probably take way more than 20% of the cut but at least it's something. I guess preforming like 2 or 3 sets of songs is equal to a long time in the game because not too long after, we are now competing to win a tour bus to travel around all of Europe in! We also easily win that too, it's like they want you to get it or something! 

By now I had decided that I was tired of Chas-titty and her rocker attitude, so I decided to make a new character. One that I could dump all of my sorrows on.

I went back and created the perfect rocker, Prudence. Hardcore right? Also thanks to the random name generator the game has graced us with. I forgot to mention earlier you get to decide the persona of your rock star. You get the HUGE assortment of Rock (wow creative), Metal, Punk, and Prudence's personality, Goth. I find this a strange selection. It's ROCK Band, so rich makes sense, and I guess punk does too because punk rock is a genre, but why aren't the metal people in a "metal" band, and the goth peeps in a "goth" band? I don't really know what kind of bands goth kids are in so. Anyways Prudence is now part of the band. 

It also seems that all band members are dispensable except for me, and switch out after every set/ song that I play. In order to make this easier I have decided who my favorites in the band are so I can show you a picture of them.

And here it is. Kill Towel in all of it's glory. I let me introduce you to our members.

On guitar we have the one and only Gene Simmons. Now this one needs some explaining because no Gene does not actually show up in my band. But there is a guy that wears all black and white and shows up a lot in my band so he's Gene Simmons now.

Spiky Haired Punk Girl (SGPG) is on vocals for us. All of the other personas were represented in this band except punk so that is why she is here. She also just looks really good on Gwen Stefani's body.

I decided that we should keep Chas-titty in the band since she is the OG so she's on drums, in all of her creepy kawaii glory.

And last but not least we have Prudence/me. I think that if we had a child, the bassist is what it would look like. It would have my face, but with her goth style, hence the black eyeshadow/eyeliner and lipstick. 

And that ladies and gentlemen is Killa Towel! Now back to my rock star life.

After playing a few songs with Prude, I get a message from my manager saying that if I play a Paramore song then Hot Topic will sponsor my band's merch. Sick. Easy enough, I play the song and now I have a sponsor. Killa Towel is really on a [rock and] roll.

Next I need to acquire a magical vehicle that will take me around the world so I can share my music with WHOLE WORLD. In order to do this we must compete in the all star band event of "No Pain no Plane." Shockingly I won in a landslide, but I still don't think that I could have lost, it's almost as if they WANT me to succeed. Anyways now it is time to take to the skies and become an international star! And by international I mean Europe and the US because apparently Asia, South America, Africa, Australia, and Antartica do not want my hear my music. 

Now that I am in America it is time to introduce these fatties to real music! (And by real music I mean covers because we are some how a semi successful cover band? Like really? And all of our songs sound EXACTLY like the originals!) And as usual the grind starts. Play a few sets and get a notification about a new show that I can play to win some stuff, mostly people. So after literally ONE set list (3 songs) I get a notification that I am now World Famous... for my difficulty? So I am now too good at medium so I can't gain anymore fans. WTF?!?!?! Plus by world famous they mean I have 550,000 fans. In my opinion that's not too great. So I decide to try out hard mode (on the three easiest songs in the game) and to say the least it did not go well. Hard mode incorporates the evil fifth orange button that I cannot for the life of me figure out how to actually use well.

This dude looks like he is struggling too.

Some how I miraculously finished the songs and did actually gain fans. But I then decided to "fuck the fans, this shit is too hard" and went back to medium mode. And you wanna know what? I STILL GAINED FANS!!!! After switching back I was still gaining fans! So I either played the game or it lied to me. 

After that whole fiasco, I was given the option to film a high budget music video (laser light show included). So of course I said yes. The prompt told me that I would be able to pick which song I played but I never did and was forced to play a song called Spoonman. But boy were their lasers in the video! It was an epileptic's dream!

This hurts my eyes looking at it now and I wasn't even there. RIP audience's eyes.

Apparently that medical hazard video was enough to get me into the "Rodie Rockathon." Now I will finally have some low lives to carry my stuff for me! I won, naturally, and now I have some sketchy middle aged men under my thumb. Great. But rodies were not enough for me! Next the game prompted me to get a sound guy. But first I decided to go to LA (because I didn't know I had to be in NYC to get the sound guy) and played a set there. And let me tell you they were angsty AF! I was playing all of these like scene songs that were all basically talking about death and how much the world sucks. It was weiiiiiiirrrrdddd. 

So once I went to NYC I was invited to play at the NAAM Convention. I don't remember what NAAM stands for because I did't write it down, but trust me it was stupid. After destroying all of the other bands, my prize was a lovely sounds guy, who I kid you not was talked about by the game as "keeping the music war, dirty, and crunchy." I don't know who writes this shit but they need an award.

After I capture my sound ner- I mean guy. The game tells me that I should think about getting A Worldwide Promoter, um okay I didn't know that there was a difference between a reg promoter and a worldwide on but cewwwwwwl. So I go the Global promotion showcase to get that promoter that I "need," and to my shock, easy mode is no longer an option. I mean I wasn't playing on it but it would suck if you were and you had to more up. And ways did the show case (5 songs it was painful). And I got my worldwide promoter. 

Now by this point, oh who am I kidding I got tired of this game a lounge time ago, but now it is just starting to piss me off. My wrist hurts like hell from holding that plastic guitar and even though there are TONS of songs, I seem to be playing the same 10 all the time! So I thought that the game would FINALLY be over, but no. Satan came out to play. And you can bet I wasn't going to let Satan beat me!

So remember how I said that South America, Asia, and Australia didn't want to hear my music? Well it turns out that this girl that I picked up at the Global Promotion showcase decided to get me gigs there and you can bet I had a legitimate heart attack seeing how many new venues I could play at. I'm going to admit I cried a little bit I thought that this was going to be a whole nother couple of months of my life trying to finish this game, but I decided to try and persist. 

The game prompted me to go to the Rolling Stone's showcase thingy in Shanghai so naturally I did. Again no easy mode no surprise, but oh my God the set list was eight songs. I cried again. After eight songs of true hell and a wrist that was probably about to fall off, I got it. I got the prompt that said congratulations. I knew then that it was over. I was finally free. Apparently getting into the Rolling Stone's hall of fame or whatever is enough to reach true stardom. Even though I still had less than 1 million fans... Whatever I don't even care anymore, I am just glad I am done.

So all in all, from my experience as a rock star my final review would be 

DON'T GET FAMOUS IT IS NO LONGER FUN ONCE YOU LEAVE YOUR HOMETOWN. STAY IN YOUR BASEMENT AND HAVE YOUR MOM AS YOUR AUDIENCE.

here is a little special treat for you all that I am still pissed about! :)

WHY SATAN, WHY?!?!?!

Hey everyone. This will be my last post on this blog so I just wanted to thank everyone who has ever read any of my posts!

APs are Bull

So as many people have done by now, I just took my AP exam on the 12th. And I think I leaned a lot from taking the exam and the class. Now this post is going to be a very personal opinion of APs, so if you don't agree then good for you, this is just me.

So first off, the class. I took AP world, and I am sorry, I love DMAC as a person, but for me, I learned  almost nothing. I am not saying that I did't learn anything but I don't think that I learned enough for an AP class. I am pretty sure that the kids that take regular history have learned more than me. I don't think its that my teacher is a bad teacher, I just think that for the majority of my classmates and me, his teaching style just doesn't work for us. Having my teacher stand up there and lecture me without giving me either a note sheets, or writing what we need to know on the board just don't help me learn.  I know that if any teacher hears me say that, "Well that is what your teachers in college will do, so get used to it." Okay fine, I understand that, but you saying that is not going to help get better at learning via lecture. Anyways, moving on.

So now the real bulk of this post, the exam and APs themselves. So first off, the AP is freaking long. I have extra time to it was super freaking long. The first section is multiple choice, for APWH it is 70 questions, and you get 55 minutes to answer them all. That is less than a minute per question. That is ridiculous that people can actually think that kids can do good work with such a time crunch. And if you're like me, I took all of my time on the multiple choice, all hour and a half of it. And even if you do get through all of the questions you still need to check them which arguably takes longer than actually answering the questions the first time. Plus there are defiantly some questions that I am almost positive didn't have an answer.

Like that one with the medieval village and Roman village lay out. WTF was that? Population? No. Christianity. No. Fortification. I don't think so. Architecture? Probs not. SO THEN WHAT IS IT?!?!?! Tbh I should have just answered E for that one.

The essay section was not that bad to be completely honest. The time was reasonable, and at least in this one, the topics weren't that hard. I think the worst part is having to write nonstop for like 120 minutes. Your hand falls off (but joke's on you suckers I got to type it. #extratime)

Now on to the the basis of APs itself. This where my real argument will start. APs don't even matter. So originally I am pretty sure that APs were created for a way for exceptional students to get a head start on college. By doing well in the corse and showing that on the exam, you would get rewarded a college credit so you wouldn't have to take some of those core classes your freshmen year. That's great. It's a good system. I like it. But that is not how it is anymore. Now you get a five on your statistics exam, well you are still gonna take it in college. I mean you aren't even required to list your scores on your applications! I mean come on, you're not fooling anyone! If you don't list your scores and colleges see that you took the class, then they will know that you did not do that well! Also, Canada takes them! CANADA THE HOME OF DMAC.

I think that the college board is conspiring with DMAC to send everyone to Canada for college. I AM ON TO YOU!

Home: Julia vs Georgia, THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN

"JULIA THINKS SHE'S BETTER THAN MEEEEEEE!!!!" Georgia screams as she enters the arena for what will be the final battle.

The lights dims and smoke begins to filter through the crowd. Music starts, and soon strobes begin flashing vigorously, causing a few young children in the crowd to have seizures. Then the words filled with only truth rang out through the packed building.

"I AM BETTER THAN GEORGIAAAAAAA!!!!" The she devil named Julia called out. Their eyes met, and lightning flash between their gazes.

This is what what happened when I looked up "heated gaze" so let's just pretend 

that I am the guy spitting fire out of his sick ass third eye."

When the ref tells them to shake hands. Georgia being the good sport that she totally is, reaches her hand out towards the damon in front of her. But Julia being the egg that she is, refused to touch what she thought to be the "hands of an idiot." The ref readied the bell, the two reached for their chairs. At the sound of the bell the two whipped out chairs to seemingly smash each other to a pulp with. But then the opened them and slammed them on the ground, through themselves into them, and locked eyes once again. The final showdown had begun.

Home can mean many different things to many different people. Julia's just happens to be wrong. She goes on and one about this "home is a place," crap. I call bullshit. "Oh my home is at this camp that I have gone to for years, blah blah BLAH!" No Julia, no. That is what you may think but it is all a lie! Home is nearly a concept made up by the feeble human mind, and you too, who I once thought to be a formable opponent, have fallen into the trap.

Home is safety, HOME IS POWEEEEEEEEEER! She even has the audacity to end if off being all innocent and trying to be open, with this "home can be different to everyone" crap. NO JULIA THAT IS NOT HOW LIFE WORKS. IF YOU DON'T FEEL THE SAME AS YOUR SUPREME LEADER (me), THEN YOU ARE WRONG AND WILL BE SENT TO MY DUNGEON OF SUBMISSION!

As Georgia laid these points out, the crowd went quite. Julia, the master, was being broken down brick by brick. The evil Georgia was about to claim her victory! But just as Georgia was about to land the final blow, Julia made one last plea. "Georgia," she gasped, "why must we fight? Why can't we have our own views and live in harmony?" Georgia stopped, manly sweat immolating from her eyes, the crowed was in awe, had Julia actually gotten through to her? Georgia's heart grew 10x that day...

And then promptly blew up form being too big and then their was nothing. She leaned down near Julia and said,

"We can't, dear Julia, because..." Her mouth turned up into an evil smirk, "You. Are. Wrong."

Screams erupted from the crowd Julia fell to the ground deleted, Georgia was now king of this castle.

Okay but real talk? Julia isn't wrong. Conceptions of different ideas should be different to everyone. They are very personal. After all, if they were all the same then I would never have been able to write these awesome blog posts.

The Real Inspector Pikachu

The timing for what I am about to talk about is impeccable, having just finished reading The Real Inspector Hound. If you haven't read it yet, or seen it but I recommend reading it only for the fact that the stage directions are freaking hilarious. It's one of those plays where if you aren't paying enough attention for like 3 minutes then you are screwed. I like those plays, because then I get to watch people be confused and I enjoy that. Anyways if you know me well, you know that I love video games, and I also enjoy insulating animals and making them fight other animals and then beating the other person and taking their money. That is why Pokemon is a great game for me. I've played all the games at least once and never get tired of them. So while I was trolling the youtubez I saw something that ought my attention.

My arch nemesis Pikachu about to fall to his imminent doom?!?! AWESOME. Now my hatred of Pikachu stems from the TV show and I won't get into it here, that's a story for a different post. So I decided to look in further to this. And I found some of the most amazing news ever. There hasn't been a spinoff game that does't fit into one of the mainstream spinoff series in a while. Maybe since the dreaded Hey You, Pikachu! 

DETECTIVE PIKACHU!!!!

I screamed when I saw this. Look at his cute little Sherlock Holmes Cap!

I bet it will be just like The Real Inspector Hound, two buddies thrust into a world with evil, women and murder!

Nuuuuu Apom!!!! He's dead!!!

When I first saw this I was like, "Whoa, they are really taking a dark and eggy turn over at Nintendo." But then I realized that the "blood," was just a smashed tomato.

To say the least I am super excited about this game. There has been no word about bringing it to any other countries outside Japan, but I am sure it will. If you watched the ad you may have been able to see that Pikachu was voiced. They are changing it up, pokemon besides Meowth can talk now. People in America are already set on who they want to voice Pikachu when it does come to english speaking countries. 

Yes people want Danny DeVito to voice Pikachu, and honestly I couldn't agree more. It would make Pikachu so sassy and cool it would be great. People have even started a petition for people to sign to have Danny voice Pikachu, yes I have signed it. I will link the petition here. 

In order to memorialize my just having finished a wonderful play and finding out this joyous news, if I can rename the main character I shall most likely name him Birdboot, because Birdboot is a baller.

Overcoming My Fear of Origami + Tutorial!

So this post is going to need a background. So I know you all are thinking, Georgia, you're afraid of the ancient Japanese art of paper folding? Not so much am I afraid of origami itself, more that it surfaces memories that I would rather forget. So on the last day of school before winter break this year, we did origami in my math class. I had a ton of fun doing it so I decided that I was going to get some origami paper of my own and make more over break! The next day, the first day of break, I drove myself to AC Moore to buy some. I had had my provisional license for about one month by then so I was aloud to drive alone. I spent about 20 minutes in the store strategically picking out my paper and then drove home. When I was about 4 blocks from my house I got in wreck. Some of you that know me may know the details, I honestly don't want to talk about it here so I'll just leave it at it really wasn't my fault. So naturally every time I look at that paper on my desk I just have flashbacks of the wreck.

So todayt while I am trapped in my house due to Snowzilla I have decided to once and for all to destroy my fear of origami. I just went online and looked up instructions for easy folds to start since I had only done it once before. You would think that the first thing I would do is make a bird like a crane. Well I found one for a pelican and tried to do it but miserably failed so there will be no birds I apologize for that. But here is what I made! Enjoy.

So this is a picture of all of my stuff together I am sure you can't tell what any of it is so I'll post individual pictures next.

The first thing I decided to make was a little hat. This one is a Samurai Hat. It was super easy to make and maybe I'll try and make a big one out of news paper like I know that children in Japan do!

This next one is called a Happy Jacket. I believe that it is like a light coat that Japanese people wear to festivals in the summer. I decided to use the smaller more detailed paper that I had that had pretty Japanese patterns on it. I think it turned out pretty cute!

This one is a lantern. I didn't use a patterned piece of paper because I didn't want to waste a piece so now that I successfully made one, I'll make another one with the other paper. This was one of the more difficult ones to make because there was one step at the end that I didn't understand at first but once I figured it out it was pretty easy.

Here is a fan which is just as easy as it was when you made them in grade school. you just keep folding over small sections and you're done! I used a patented paper because I thought it would make it look more like a real fan.

I think that this one it the hardest one to see what it is. It is supposed to be a tea cup. But it's not like a tea cup that we are used to, there is no handle. It is an eastern asian tea cup. I think it's pretty with the patterned paper and it was pretty easy as well.

This last one is my new pride and joy, it was defiantly the most challenging of all the ones I made, but  it was really worth it! This is a Triangle Bowl. The folding itself wasn't hard it was just trying fit them all together. I ended up taping so of the pieces in place so it would't shift around.

So that is all the ones I made, but now I will show you all a tutorial for a drinking cup!

Step 1: start with a square piece of paper

Step 2: fold one corner to the other (idk why I put my phone in some of these shots)

Step 3: fold the left corner to the middle of the side opposite to it

Step 4: now take the paper and squash it in your hand

Step 5: now put it back down on you flat surface and pray to the anti-Christ for a bountiful harvest

Step 6: now squeeze it again and exude part of your life force into the paper

Step 7: you're finished! you should now have your vary own drinking cup out of paper that is terrible at holding liquids!

I hope you have enjoyed this post!