Unfortunately, I did not vote this year. I actually did not know what everyone was voting for. I kept hearing and seeing people’s ad champagnes and commercials, but I wasn’t actually sure what was going on. When I told people that I didn’t vote, everyone looked at me like I was weird. I honestly feel like my one vote isn’t going to change anything. Although many people will argue that it will. I feel as if I didn’t vote this year it’s not like I will never vote again.
I believe that my writing has a long way to. I feel as if I know what I want to say but I just can't get it down on paper. I want to have a bigger vocabulary when writing papers because I feel as if it would make my writing stronger and have the reader think that I am a well writing person. I think that I know exactly what I want to say and how it should sound but it doesn't come out on the paper the way I expect it to.
When I first got a computer I was in the 5th grade. I was so excited to finally be able to go online and do anything I wanted. At that age I would just play doll dress up games or just listen to music and surf the net. As I got older, I started getting more into well know websites such as Myspace and Facebook. Myspace is actually the reason why I got into graphic designing. Now a days I spend some nights just randomly designing pictures or doing artwork.
To be honest, I really lost all interest in internet these days. I find nothing exciting about going online. I stopped talking to all my friends, I’m too old to play dress up games online. So what else is there for me to do. Sometimes I will play The Sims. I really enjoy that PC game. Other than that there’s not much else for me to do. I would probably look at some online clothing sites and shop once in a while.
Journal 2.
Do music videos effect the way you feel about particular songs? In my personal opinion. No. Others might disagree. The video doesn’t necessarily have to affect the person’s thoughts or emotions towards it. Sometimes a person can feel the lyrics of a song without even having to watch a video of it. Me personally, I haven’t watched music videos since 2007. Of course there have been many songs that have been out since then which have had music videos, I just don’t need to watch the video to hear the song or understand it. I believe that music videos is just a way for an artist to keep their fame up and continue to have fans want more from them.
Since I am a big thinker and dreamer, I feel the music more when I put in my headphones and completely shut the world out. I like to imagine what the video is myself. I like to create an image in my head as to what the video should be. If I was to ever listen to a song and then see the video for it, my views of the song will change. I will never be able to listen to the song again simply because I think that it should be different. Some videos have nothing to do with the song and lyrics itself. When I see a video from a song I like, and the video is total crap, I get upset.
For example, one of my favorite songs and videos is Three Days Grace, “Never too late.” The artists are saying how even though you feel like ending your life and you think that everything is over. It isn’t. Even though things aren’t going your way and you’ve been through a lot, something good will always come out in the end. Now the reason why I like the song and video is because they can relate to each other. In the video we see a young girl and her family which seems so perfect and normal. But when the girl tries to go to sleep, we see her father always coming into her bedroom trying to abuse and touch her. When the young girl and her family are dancing together, there are band aids on the parents’ eyes and mouth. This indicates that the family is blind to see what is really going out with the little girl. Throughout the video we see the same little girl but as an adult in a hospital bed. She was so traumatized about what happened to her as a child that she had to be sent to a psychiatric ward. In the video we see the young girl with paint handprints all over her and her rooms. That represents that her father dirtied her in every way possible. This video means a lot to me and will always be a favorite of mine.
Then we have videos from artists like Lady Gaga. I absolutely do not know what is wrong with this lady. She is beyond weird. None of her videos makes sense and she doesn’t make sense. I don’t know who decided to let her become famous because everything about her is just odd. Let’s take her video “Alejandro” for example. All we see in the video is Gaga in a military with gay men who praise her in every way possible. Then we see her with a machine gun bra on. What does this have to do with the lyrics to the song? I have absolutely no clue. All we hear is her saying “Don’t call my name Alejandro.” Then she starts talking about some dudes named Roberto and Fernando. I’m sorry but she is not someone whose lyrics I would enjoy listening to.
Journal 1.
