RANDOM

@ I really want to go home. I wonder if i'll be doing band next year. Thanksgiving is coming up soon.
@ Finding more scholarshp oppurtunities would really be easier if i did the research.
@ My sex habits are probably too personal to write about.
@ I really want to learn more psychology
@ Where will i be five years from now?
@ Music is my life.
@ I could introduce my japanese professor to more american culture
@ Ethnic identity
@ the Chaos theory
~And that's why i'm Spazz-n-out~

No Place like Home

David Guterson talks about planned communities and "cities" that all these random big companies have started building in order to enitce more middle class residency near their businesses.
The difference between these communities and the places i grew up is like night and day. In my neighborhoods the houses varied tremendously because it was an older area and everyone who lived there had their house built to exact specifications. (while it was cheaper). In Guterson's visit to Green Valley he notes that all of the houses look very similar because the residents just choose from set design which are just variations of one master plan. He also says that in the communties if you want an original house it's going to be really expensive.
Although in my final neighborhood we had a neighgorhood watch program, we were not obligated to it and we didn't sacrifice any other freedoms for it. In these communities they have a set list of rules including what your yard can look like and they claim it is for the safety and integrity of the area, in reality it's just making life harder on the citizens who live there.
Although none of the places i've lived have had a golf course on the property they have had pools and playgrounds and sidewalks and open feilds set aside for sports like soccer and football. And i'd be willing to bet that my parents didn't have to pay quite as much as the people living in these communities.
~And that's why i'm Spazz-n-out~

Honlulu, Hawaii; Monoa Mountains => My Home

@Bob Marley posters and paraphanelia (enough to qualify as obsession)
@View of the mountains out my window
@I only wore shoes when i was in an establishment (school, mall, work)
@School let out early every wednesday
@Soccer, surfing, hinking, swimming, tons of sports

The thing i think of first everytime i remember the island is my room, specifically the view from my window. I actually didn't see the beach like most people assume because i lived on the inner edge of Honolulu in the Monoa mountains. It was those mountains that filled my window. I could see the sun rise over them in the morning and the birds and trees, it was really peaceful. My home will always be the mountains of Oahu, i'm city boy but i'm still and islander.
~And that's why i'm Spazz-n-out~

Women for president

In order to really find that skit humorous you have to know a fair bit about politics.
First off it's kinda funny that They're just now addressing the sexism issue when Hillary has been dealing with it during her entire campaign.
Secondly Hillary says she supports Senator Obama but she had very different views than he did.
Also Senator Clinton has fought for a long time to become president but Governor Palin has only recently joined the race for the White House.
When Palin asks to stop being called a MILF you have to understand that in our culture it means "Mother I'd Like to F*ck"
Palin doesn't understand what Bush's foreign policy is.
Hillary doesn't want to be called a FLIRGE anymore. "First Lady I'd Rather Get Elected"
~And that's why i'm Spazz-n-out~

This one's for the Guys

Hmmm.... If i were a girl for one day I'd have two objectives.
First i'd talk to a whole bunch of women and find out everything they thought about guys and what they wanted.....because i am an information junky. Plus it'd make my life easier once i went back to being a dude.
Secondly I'd try and convince as many women as i could to not be so unreasonable and odd. I'd tell them it's cool to actually say what you mean and not play games with people's heads. Basically i'd do some behind enemy lines type espionage stuff. :)


~And that's why i'm Spazz-n-out~

Letter to a friend

Dude,
You totally missed out. This weekend was so much fun. It started off with Ashley's birth day party on friday night. You know, that girl I introduced you to. Anyway that went til like 5 in the morning. Which of course means i slept till like 3 on saturday, and we all know how good sleeping in feels, especially when you have an 8 o'clock class every morning. Well when i woke up i went down and did some laundry. Which was most of my saturday. Then sunday was BOOMSDAY that was such a blast...literally. The most massive fireworks show i've ever seen. Afterward i just went out to dinner. Then monday was the game...which i will say no more about.





Dear Grandmother,
This past weekend was perhaps the most fun i've had in months. Even though i couldn't come back and visit i found a way to keep happy, like you always tell me to.
The first thing i did was go to a birthday party for a friend of mine. She was turning nineteen so she was really excited. The next day i did some laundry and studied, it wasn't really too eventful. But sunday was boomsday in Knoxville. Everyone went down to the river by campus and celebrated carnival style until it got dark enough to see the fireworks. Then on monday i watched the football game with my friends. Our school lost but it was to a team in a different division.



~And that's why i'm Spazz-n-out~

Fried, Scrambled, or perhaps smashed; how would you like your brain served?

PSA's change a lot over time, but they always have the same general message. Take these two for example, the older one focuses mainly on a logical appeal towards it's audience, "Your brain will be fried if you do drugs" which makes sense because who really wants a fried useless brain. This logos appeal is directed at and dependant upon the audiences ethos, because the creators of the ad want the world to believe that drugs are bad and expect most of the planet to already share this view and help others "see the light"
The second ad is a little more dramatic which instantly tells you that the new time period is full of a different type of teenager (which i'm assuming is the target audience). So right away you have to understand the cultural grunge movement of the nineties. Which will explain the messy hair on the actress and why the kitchen smashing is used to capture the audiences attention. It uses the ethos appeal to the audieces logos to get them to make the connection that busted kitchen is bad, so my brain and life on drugs must be bad as well.
SIDE NOTES: I noticed that the second ad specifically mentions heroin while the first one uses the general term "drugs". Which leads the audience to understand that heroin is a big problem during that time period, moreso than the other drugs.
Also if tennagers were the intended audience for the intervention why do they have to use food? Have teens always been so moved by their stomachs?

~And that's why i'm Spazz-n-out~