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Why are web classes so annoying? Well, not all web classes, clearly the class I am doing this for isn't bad at all. It seems like when a teacher is teaching a web class they just go crazy. Maybe they think that people put less time into their work when it is a web class or maybe they genuinely like to watch their students suffer. In a class I am taking over this past semester we would have assignments that would be do on Sunday nights by midnight. This is the norm we expected and the one we were used to, it made it so the weekend was a good time to do the work given that we would not have any other classes and it could be focused on this one class. However, not that all of our classes are giving extra work because of the end of the semester and finals are approaching, the teacher throws the best 12-6 curve ball I have ever witnessed. With only a week in advance she tells us we have two less days to do the paper. It is now due on Friday at midnight. Why? I do not understand this concept, now I have to try and re-arrange my entire schedule including work, school, and other plans I make during the week and change them around because this one teacher decides to be spontaneous and completely annoying. I just don't understand, so instead of going to work on a beautiful Friday afternoon I am stuck in the Library doing a paper that would have been a nice relaxing Sunday assignment. I can't stand this shit, seriously I don't think a teacher has ever made me so mad at such a subtle change of events!

Tonight is the night I have been waiting for since early January when the band Brand New had posted their concert date and I bought the tickets! It is because of all this built up anticipation that makes this night scary, because if they disappoint then it will be huge, since it has been built up in my mind for months. However, it may be due to the "norm" that people are used to with concerts that television stations such as MTV and VH1 give us that make us want so much out of these performances that just normal human beings are doing. I have seen the band before and in no way have the let me down, so with past experiences in the bag, I can assume that they will be similar to what it was like the last few times. I am not very worried, since as long as I can hear the music and be within shouting distance of one of the best song writers I have ever encountered, then it will be a good day. The epic concert that MTV has built up in my mind does not need to fulfilled because in reality, I don't think it will ever be, since media can make things happen that could never happen in "real life".

Class and Technology

While technology has been used to increase learning ability in the U.S. and across the globe, there are also ways in which people use it to distract them from learning, like I am right now. Class can easily be skipped while the student is attending it. It is because of technology, and in some ways media, that students can be in a class and have absolutely no idea what is being said. Addictions to ESPN is one thing that may contribute to such a thing is a problem, because it is one website that I am on while "skipping" class. Also checking in on CNN and of course celebrity gossip websites, just because I like to know what my movie starts and musicians are doing with their lives. It is due to this somewhat addiction to specific medias that make me bring a laptop to class, which for some reason is accepted in most college classes. It is an amazing phenomenon because if I was a teacher, I would not allow this to happen. Knowing that temptation, at one time or another, will win and students wont always be paying attention. Also, it is nearly impossible for any college student to stay off of the social networking system known as Facebook. Overall technology is something that can increase learning experiences, however in many ways it can be detrimental to the focus of students in the class room, and while studying in general, being distracted by these easily accessible websites of media, can be less affective than older styles of the act of studying.

The movie Friday Night Lights is one that interest me for many reasons. First and foremost, is that it is about football, which obviously makes me intrigued from the beginning. However going further into its plot, it is mainly about high school football. The way that the programs are run and how the students are impacted on the pressure, also on how the town reacts to everything that is done within the team and their record as well as the way they play. Why this relates to the media, is because of this movie, it makes me feel like this is the way it actually in down in Texas or the southern states in general, or at least in the late '80s. When a team loses the players feel it from the town, not like where I am from in which I couldn't have told you the record of our team in any of the four years we were there. It seems as though the media has portrayed Texas football as a live or die life in these areas. The movie constantly reminds the children (who the oldest is probably 18) that this game, and this team is the last thing they will ever accomplish. Most of them do not go on to play in college, or even go to college. In ways it makes me depressed; however for a different reason than you would think. Most people do not know when their moment to live life to its absolute fullest is. If it has happened in my life already I could not tell you. So why it depresses me is for this reason; they know that this is the biggest moment in their lives, while it may be early, and it may be melodramatic, it is still something that they will highlight their lives with. I feel as though most people don't ever get the chance to know when this is in their lives, so unlike the players we can not cherish the moment for what it is. Even though the movie ends and the team loses it still will be one of the greatest moments the team will ever experience.

I have heard recently that they are coming out with an Independence Day 2 and 3.. so this might be the most excited I have been for a sequel since The Mighty Ducks! Let's hope that these live up to my hype or at least are as half as good as the first movie. It seems like when talking about a sequel to a movie that came out so long ago it becomes really difficult to assume it will be just as good. However the new Toy Story comes out soon, and while it is the third of the series, it seems like I probably won't like this movie as much as the old one, but seriously how could I. I am not 20 years old and while I still enjoy animated films (cause they are funny and still somehow have great story lines) but it just won't be the same. While I can only hope that it is, and I will probably go see it on its opening weekend still, so I bet the makers won't care as long as they can make some more money and with all these people recapturing their childhood the movie is one of the surest things in the movie theater since.. Star Wars.

I love android phones! They have to be the best thing since, well sliced bread really. Today I was going out looking for a new pair of basketball shoes, and just couldn't find them anywhere that I went, well in my size at least. However, due to my phone and its easy access to the internet at anywhere I have service (which is pretty much everywhere) I found a store (20 minutes down the highway of course) that I never would have known about other wise. The advances in how people find material and information is absolutely ridiculous in todays world! I can't get enough of it. Another example of my phone being awesome; the other day me and my friends were discussing a video that one of them had saw on YouTube yet no one else had. Due to the amazing advances in a mobile phone that can fit into any pocket of mine, I brought up my YouTube application that is made just for my phone, and found the exact video we were talking about. For anyone who constantly searches the internet, or needs shopping help during their spree because they don't like to look ahead of time, like myself, buy an android phone, and pay the extra for the data plan. It is in every way worth it!

Being in danger of having another bad grade on another one of the blogging grades, here I go. Last night I went and saw the film Green Zone, featuring Matt Damon. This movie was an excellent example of how the media completely influences peoples views on specific things that are going on. In the example of the movie, the media is being "paid off" (in a way) about the weapons of mass destruction projects in the middle east. People were believing things that had been posted in newspapers as well as things that were being said on television. People wanted to believe these things because their own media was telling them about it. It led to the big twist of the story, which I don't want to completely give away, but in real life we never found any, and in the movie it is the same. However people assumed that they were just being hidden much better.

However, the main part of the movie that relates to this class and to this blog is the effect the media had on what the people of the U.S. were feeling about the war. People thought what was going on was justified due to how the media portrayed what was happening, however in the reality it was all part of spin.

With the expansion of the internet my life is becoming increasingly easier. Earlier today I paid a parking ticket... online! it was wonderful. While the ticket itself sucked, the fact that a money order did not have to be made, and mailing didn't happen it turned out great for me. Debit card info in, receipt out. One of the main things that our generation takes for granted is the way the media has evolved makes everyone do everything easier and more efficiently. Ever since newspaper articles have been made to be sent to my phone and my computer they have never turned back, everything is accessible to the touch via internet. Thank you U.S. government for creating a project that completely revolutionized the way we see, and find the media! God Bless America!

Pce & <3

Youtube and my lack of entertainment from it

While everyone loves that Youtube has been one of the biggest phenomenons in communications, i never really get joy from just searching for random videos, don't get me wrong i have seen my fair share of videos that i think are quite funny and have watched more than a couple times, and the fact that it gets bands out in the open and that it helps people connect and show themselves dancing for absolutely NO reason.. i just don't see it. my roommates are ones to legitimately surf this website for hours.. honestly.. hours!! i can never site on one site for so long until i find something mildly funny and play it 7 million times. i guess i am coming off kind of bitter, i mean it doesn't keep me up at night or anything. i just find it semi-childish. so ultimately this blog is about how i hate my roommates. well that works.

This blog was started due to a class that I am taking and is supposed to be incorporated with media. However this post may not have much, if any at all to do with media. I dont expect points or any of that stuff but it is just stuff that I want to talk about in my life. That is what blogging is about right, talking about whatever comes to mind? well it is almost 5 am on a monday night and i have class at 11 am. While i dont know many of you in this class i dont really think it bothers me that what i am about to write is personal, i think it helps that i dont see any of you on a daily basis. so as we all know this past weekend was valentines day. which if my old relationship it would have also been an anniversary of mine. it is at this junction in my life where this shouldnt hurt, i mean it wasnt a long relationship at all, and honestly i dont feel attached to this specific girl too much, we didnt have a lot in common, we forced the relationship when neither of us were ready but maybe it is just because of the holiday that i am so distrot over the whole situation. so tonight as i laid in my bed i picked out some of the most depressing and yet some of the most romantic songs on my ipod and tried to sleep with a heavy heart. and for me it seems so difficult. to tell the truth the only reason i am blogging is because i hope this will be equivalent to me airing it out to a real person, but i will not know this until im finished with my ranting. and in the spirit of the holiday that had just passed it so happens that i met another person on this day, seems perfect for a romantic like me. i have always loved jestures that are completely loving and adorable so i am one of the few people who admittingly loves valentines day. of course with meeting someone new there are always complication, such as one of your newest friends also likes her. this causes a problem for me specifically because well, as a guy usually we think for ourselves, but with me in my condition and him in an unknown state i am just assuming he is just as messed up as i am. so what do i do? it is tough for me to think about something like this. my mind changes every few minutes about what i want to do. so for the last 20 minutes while i listened to this sad music, and have been chasing two unattainable females in my mind i have decided i have no worries. none, not one. i am over my ex and i am over a girl i was never under. this is what most people strive for right? to be "content" . but what the fuck is content going to do for me! i hate this feeling. it isnt like my heart is "empty" because that makes it seem as if i had lost something, but there is a hole there? no that is even too far. maybe i just thrive off drama? over the last two months my life has been filled with mini dramas, and as much as everyone complains, i live for this stuff.. it is just like in a movie, and im waiting for my happy ending. speaking of a "happy ending" i watched a movie today entitled the last word and the plot is that a poet will meet with people who plan on killing themselves, and he will take notes of their lives and he will compose a beautiful poem that every one of their loved ones will hear at their funeral. he takes no credit for this and he doesnt mind, he feels as if he is doing them a favor. then he falls in love. and this is where the plot comes into play. she takes this guy who is content with his life and she drives him crazy, his career gets ruined and she eventually ruins him (i dont want to tell you the exact ending) but the end to a degree has him without her, sorry spoiler!, but i thought to myself... is this good for him. i feel like most people who are in relationships hit this part where it is just boring and way too relaxed, and i dont think i am ready for it. considering im not ready to do that with myself, and i guess from reading this people may think that i have an attachment disorder that i always need to be with someone, but really i hate relationships, they never work out and they always turn out like shit. it seems like everyone i know around me has either a boring fucking relationship in which they sit around and are just so out of their minds with nothing to do or everyone is just ending their relationships.. one of my best friends just went through a break up. they dated for 5 years.. 5 fucking years!! really? and they ended it for what seems to me (and him) no reason. i mean what is the point though? if they broke up for the fact that they were merely bored with each other then what is the point of dating in the first place. he is now relatively screwed.. he is 21 (as of like a week ago) so he has been dating her since her was 15 (they were almost at 6 years) !!! 15 yrs old they started this relationship. think about that! let it sink in, he hasnt been single since he was 15. if you have been single for most, or any of the time in between your 15th birthday and now (assuming youre 19 to 21 yrs old) just think of everything you have learned. the advice you pick up from people when something goes wrong, the things you realize about yourself when you have a failed relationship. he has none of it! neither does she! it is awful for both of them. he told me that he "doesnt even know how to be single" wtf is that!? i mean i understand why he wouldnt.. if i was him i wouldnt know either. he has never hit on a girl before. he hasnt taken a girl out on a first date in 6 god damn years! holy shit. i cant even count how many first dates ive had since then, how many kisses ive shared with people and all of those things.. he is stuck with one girls memories for the longest time. and i honestly feel bad for him. i mean like i said i had a relationship for a very minimal amount of time and i was kinda broken over it, but he just lost the only girl he knows how to kiss, how to love, how to even talk to as a significant other, i wonder if he is sleeping right now. i wonder if his heart is as "empty" as mine and as fucked up as i am. not just because of one girl, or two girls, or every girl. but for being so fucking boring now. i have no drama, he has no drama. where is my drama!?!?! i need it, i want something to be mad at, i want someone to drive me nuts, because in this day and age that is what everything is about. it is so funny because when i first got to college people always talked about how in college people are so much more "free" and how drama just doesnt exist. i thought it was great at first, then i realized they LIED!!! there is so much every where. you can talk to everyone and they can tell you about some kind of drama they are either a part of or witness first hand that has happened in the last.. hmm weekend? party? night? text message!? who knows but whenever people said that it is drama-less fucking lied. it is full of it, but for me right now, im in a rut. i dont have it, and that worries me, cause this is when i usually do something incredibly stupid. i guess that is why my blog is names i drink for a reason grated it is the title of a book i own, but it also applies to my life in many aspects. maybe soon i will find the drama i need, maybe i just need someone (whether it be a friend or someone more) who can keep me on my toes, and keep me guessing and trying hard to live life. maybe i will meet the one i can be romantic to and eventually be content with!? huh ? who knows. but for now i think im going to continue to drink. it has gotten me this far in life.

The biggest day in media (in my eyes) is coming up in less than 2 days. That is of course Super Bowl Sunday. The day that every person, whether they are a football fan or not will most likely see most of the commercials, and hear about the things that are controversial, and all of that good stuff. For the last 20 years of my life, it seems as if everyone I know is more excited for the commercials that are incorporated with the Super Bowl then the game itself (excluding 4 of them involving the N.E. Pats). I am one of those people actually, I could care less whether the Saints of Colts win, I just want to see the informational and most likely humorous 30 second long shorts that will make me laugh and possibly even change my mind of a product, make me want to buy something I never thought of, or even possibly change my views on a way of life (referring to the Pro-Life commercial that Tim Tebow is going to be a part of, even though I dislike Tebow completely). However, it should be another very intriguing year filled with fun and funny things that will cause people to impulse buy, as well as discuss. All of which is part of the big world of the media and shows how much power it has over us as a society.

It is a Sunday night and I have literally done nothing today. I woke up around 11 a.m. and from then on my day has been a waste. However what I did not notice is that I have been looking at media constantly. Right now I am watching the Vikings play the Saints in an NFL game. I am also texting a friend, while looking up hockey scores on ESPN.com. Media follows us everywhere we go, even if we don't do one thing all day. Listening to the broadcasters in this game makes me sad? or excited? I can't tell. I think it is because it is what I want to do with my life but I feel like I would be much different then them. I hate that they have to talk that if everyone who is watching has never seen a game! I find it really dumb and quite annoying. However this is how our media (when it comes to most things I find) works. They have to explain everything as if we are brain-dead and can't figure some of the smallest details out on our own. I wonder if some people watch these games and listen to them then all of a sudden go: "ooooohhhhh I get it now" at least it would justify the way they talk, otherwise I'm going to feel stupid saying it all the time, if I do indeed do that for my career. ::sigh:: I dont even know what else to talk about.. I'm having writers block I suppose. So I guess I'm going to go enjoy the rest of this game, since it is in overtime and I want to see Favre fail.

Pce & <3

Welcoming Myself

This is my first ever blog, I never really even read blogs but class is making me, and I am kind of excited to do so anyway.. soo Woo. Can't wait to start complaining about my life for the world to see.