The Trend Rant

I thought this would be a fun exercise to do. Trends that piss me off. Russo would approve.

I hate hate hate, High School Art. It's so boring and stupid, and yes I realize I was there too, but I've always made abstract art not this trendy shit. Here are some examples of what "Artsy" kids in High School enjoy.

- Intense Eyes. Look at the Eye it is the window to your soul. Might be interesting but not when the 17 year old goth is doing it.

- The Withering Rose. No Comment

- The bloody heart. nothing but teen angst.

- The tree silhouette. Just because your favorite band has this as an album cover doesn't make you cool.

- Making cute things evil. Girls do this a lot. Evil puppy, Evil Ballerina, Evil Eye, Evil Child, Evil Baby, Evil Girl........

- ANYTHING out of ALICE IN WONDERLAND

- body parts coming out of body parts.

I think that's it.

As far as music goes.

- Myspace bands - Now what is a myspace band? A band who gets really popular and a record deal because they have many friends on myspace. Musically what do they sound like. I generally bring it down to 2 different things. There is A) The pretty boy group who act hardcore even though they are not cause girls think they are cute. Ex// 3OH!3 and B) The band that goes rawwrr ROAR I HATE MY MOM RAWWWWRRR then they sing the melody with a voice higher than a church choir soprano, then back to RAWWWRR. Examples of this dumb shit are// Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Devil wears Prada. Look these ppl up, you'll see the source of my bitterness.

Social Trends:

I hated Emo, Scene was worse and why is everyone a goddamn hipster?? Why do chicks wear ridiculously large sunglasses?? and put big bows in their hair? It's cute???no it looks dumb!! Scene chicks always looked like the kinda hooker that the Joker would pimp. And Hipsters, and "artsy" ones at that.....grrrrrrr always "in" with whats new, and always bringing back old fashion failures and turn them popular, for example, why are legwarmers in again? and Every hot hipster girl for some reason thinks thinks they are a Great Photographer just because they take classy back and whites, or they think they are great actresses just because they were in drama club in high school........ Hipsters just piss me off.

People who say "Fail", "Epic", "FailBoat", "lawl", "Roflcopter", "Win" "For The WIN" "Did he die?" or any combination of these, if you go on youtube often you know what these things mean.

Twilight was the worst book ever written. Poor Story, Weak Characters, the author has the vocabulary of my 13 year old sister. The movie was worse. The ONLY REASON it's so popular is that Edward Cullen is every Emo girls wet dream, that and a 24 hour Hot Topic.

I guess that everyone forgot about MJ's molestation charges?

and Finally Film

STOP REMAKING CLASSICS AND/OR PERFECTLY FINE MOVIES. PHELAM 123 WAS GREAT IN THE 70'S AND THERE IS NO NEED TO REMAKE NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, OR HALLOWEEN, OR FRIDAY THE 13TH....


that's it.. Now this raises the question "What pisses you guys off?" Is it people like me? who tend to be arrogant and unwillingly to conform to lady GaGa's Disco Stick? Cause I don't shave my body hair, shop at some trendy hollister type store and pump to cheap club hits? Or Do you agree with me? or you undecided, because you don't have enough brains to make your own damn decision?

By The Way, Britney Spears and Twilight are on my list on reasons why kids today are so fucking stupid....

New photography

!!! I am fucking Psyched, I got a Nikon D5000. I would have gone for the D90 but I got a sweet deal on it. 12.3 megapixels, and nikon makes some kick ass lenses, so im not complaining. the stock lens is alright, 18 - 55 mm w/e im hoping to get a zoom telephoto soon. here's what i've been doing with it.



By The Way : I had to lower the quality to get them on here :(

Birthday Blog

Yeah I haven't updated in a while, sue me. It is now 12:36 am on 6/14/09 and it is my birthday. I am now 19 years old and I'm feeling, well I suppose I feel the way I should be. Happiness, confusion, a bit frightened and even excited. It also may be a combination of things, being up this late at night being one among them that is making me have these strange feelings. Let's see what I have accomplished in my 18th year..

- Graduated Highschool
- Got into College
- Completed a series of paintings
- Got mostly straight A's with the exception of 2 classes.
- Managed not to ruin Ian
- Managed to stay with Asheley
- Made new friends
- Renewed old friendships
- Joined a Gym

Things I did not accomplish..
- Study Abroad
- Get a Car
- Get a Steady Job

Well atleast it looks optimistic on paper, or pixels rather...

So I'm happy because I'm still alive and I am going through a bit of a transitional period where I'm aware of my health and realized my mortality. I think back to all the times I should've died, and when I didn't, shrugged it off and pounded down some more alcohol. I think to myself, What the fuck was wrong with you? I look back and physically see my art improving, going towards my ultimate goal, a goal I have no idea what or where it is. I'm excited about going into my second year of college, getting closer to that overall goal. However, I am confused as well. I feel, unaccomplished, inadeqet, and I know that's contrdictory to what I had just said before... I feel like I should give back somehow, avoiding the military if possible. I also don't like the overall global status right now either, disease, nukes, bad economies, I definitley was born in the wrong era, but oh well I'm here now and I suppose I'll make the best of it. On top of everything I just said, I'm also sad, I'm 19 years old now, and I have a very sick close friend, dead friends, problems an older person should have. Maybe that's part of the reason I feel older than 19, I have very old problems. I'm getting tired now, I'll probably continue this blog later today.