TV Thoughts: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

             So, I started watching this show towards the end of last week and for some reason was instantly drawn in. It made me laugh and had me wondering what was really up with this characters; it kept me interested. Now i have this to say about it. While it is the formula to many great shows, it is the same generic TV show.
             This isnt bad, of course, we obviously love these shows. TV ratings might be the one thing that really gives a good idea what the audience likes and thats why the best TV shows are never really things fought about when it comes to extremes. Meaning, everyone knows Friends was a better show than the Cleveland show. Thats not an argument. What could be an argument is, is Friends or Seinfeld better? But thats talking about close lvls. Everyone knows for sure which showed are atleast deemed good. Most people (personally i think the only time that saying "most people" actually gives a good representation) like, and the things it lists ARE actually good.
         
           (Unlike music where the top 40s music is shit. However, they are alike in that both TV and music have a formula for what catches the masses attention and to financially succeed. However i think the mass populous is just retarded when it comes to music for reasons ill probably explain in a different note using much more refined language than retarded, but thats just a sum of the very complicated thought that gives that word more depth in a way that isnt so hurtful or idiotic sounding.)

           So now, this show follows the TV formula to the period. We have the ladies man, the weird guy whos emotionally unstable, we have the the dumb and passionate guy, the girl who is way to hot to hang with these guys but is totally a bro, and the older guy who tries to be cool with the younger folk but is kinda cynical  Do you see any similarities there to other shows? Friends is there, HIMYM is also etc. Then it opens with the also generic formula. "Oh, hey im doing this thing here.", "oh hey my dog bit my finger" etc etc until "HEY GUYS! did you hear this?!?!" and they all rush over....

           This is ridiculous. They fact that this simple, repetitive pattern (that really doesnt demonstrate any one actual social scene, considering that it seems like each one of the characters was plucked out of his actual scene and placed awkwardly together with these people, bc no social grps ever look like this) keeps our attention over and over again is crazy. Im not sure if its more of an attribute to the simplicity of man, or his ingenious to understand how to trap the human mind.

I got bored at this point but then later that night...

           This just hit me.
"This just hit me" will not be a new thing in my blogs. When something comes back into my head about a previous thought i was having, if its within 2 days, i will throw in a edit simply saying in bold "This jsut hit me". That will alievate the need to specify that i came back later, and its a cool new thing and qwerk of my blog that im having much fun with.
           An extra humor for this show is a 4th wall breaker. In all those other TV shows i mentioned, there is another part to the formula. The main characters have all these long, drawn out conversations, while the side ppl are just there listening and it never seems weird when the mains go off on a conversation that tangents off into eternity, and the then respond normally, and these ppl are able to get away with the kookiness of this. Obviously its not real.
           The funny part about this show is that it doesnt let them get away with that. If they are on some weird train of though, the ppl onlooking will be like "um, hello? what the fuck are yall talking about". They dont play along with the act. It brings the show back down in a slight realism. That weird coincidences in your favor, as dramatically show in HIMYM, for instance, do not happen, and rather they show crazy coincidences that are not in your favor and put you in the worst spot at the end of each episode.
          Seriously, no one ends up in a situation better at the end then what they were at the beginning. And its just a screwed up process of how they ended up in these unsolvable situation. This show has barely any underlining theme or story. There a slight veil of one, but it doesnt affect the story enough to make it really matter. The point is, these 5 ppl, get in the most awful situations on a constant basis and then they are fine, and do it again tomorrow. Not even a shred of something that happened in a previous episode really matters when it comes to what will happen in a future episode.

Music Memoirs: An Intro and Top 40s

This will be something i post about often and might even compile to a real journal. Theres too much to explain to have in just one post, so I must stay focused on one thought per post, because otherwise ill never stop and it will never be done. No other introduction should be necessary, most of music and its greatness should already be understood to you. 

            Top 40s music. Whether it is actually good or not, is not this discussion of its post. Rather, a revelation about it. I had on my DMB Pandora station, which was having a fantastic night, and Hotel California by the Eagles came on. I had been talking to my roommates when it came on, and during a pause in our conversation he said that the Eagles weren't really that special. I understand that to mean, yea, they were great musicians  but nothing really of that much more superb or equal to the other greats of their time. 

           Then I realized this. They are playing very easy 4/4 beats that actually have a hit on each beat with a strong beat emphasis on the first of the measure. They are the easy four chord variation. Its something that easily syncs with the inner human metronome. People are easily able to have good conversation over it, because it doesnt mess with the inner ticker. Which makes it great party music, or music that can be used as a background to fill the void of sound while doing mundane tasks. 

           Top 40s music becomes popular for this reason. These people arent actually listening to music for the music and beauty, but rather something they can fill the "space-out" void with. When played at parties, it makes up for the awkward silences, because it keeps everybody on the same metronome. You can see this at parties when people walk, a lot of the times they walk-bounce to the beat. These people dont really see the music. 

          Which explains the following. Its seems that weird people (the people that stick out, maybe they are part of some crowd partially, but they are still weird) happen to also usually listen to "strange" music. Music that doesnt fit the norm. Maybe they listen to that stuff to, but they also listen to this "different" stuff, that most people wouldnt enjoy. This could be because they arent so strapped down to the normal inner beat. They are 

Ok, so at this point a friend came over and i wasnt able to finish the thought...so i came back later, sober, and wrote this:

more inclined to be not as linked to that standard beat and therefore dont sync in with the whole group as well. 

For now im leaving it like this because the inspiration is gone. If it comes back then this shall be finished. 

Blog Purpose Announcement: To Reddit!

              I've decided, after much deliberation, that I've begun to truly enjoy the community in r/trees and the rest of the Ent community on Reddit. I started this blog originally as a archive for myself and possibly for my kids to laugh at one day in the future.

             Its not something that is supposed to be the worlds greatest blog or anything, its just one Ents random thoughts, typed down while enjoying some trees. So I decided that if thats all it truly is, why shouldnt i also just share my thoughts with the rest of the Reddit Ent community? It doesnt have to be anything special, thats not the point, it can just be some good thoughts, and maybe ill get some good discussions going over one of them with someone who's in the same mental state as me. Who knows, maybe ill make a friEnt or two.
         
             So heres to you Ent community of Reddit. I give open passage to my blog. I welcome comments, id love to keep them civilized and good natured if possible obviously, but i doubt it will always happen. But we can try our best right? Its not something that has a strict update deal, or any set parameters of what its about. Most things start off as something i was going to say, but then realized how much deeper the thought should go so i decide instead of sounding like a rambling idiot, ill just write it down on my blog so i can still get the awesome thought out of my head. Hope you enjoy! :)

TV Thoughts: Elementary (American Sherlock)

I started watching Elementary tonight after debating what to start. I have all ways enjoyed and slightly connected with Sherlock Holmes videography. I say videography and not stories because Ive never read the books. The reasons for my connection are obvious knowing my personality. 

So, I had posted a status saying how I had started it and was enjoying it. A few people commented and i commented back in that conversation, and the matter it covered is unnecessary for my analysis of the show. I continued to watch the show for a few more episodes and then went back to past the following as another comment on the same status, to act as a 'update', if you will, to those who might read my status in the morning. 

im enjoying it much more...heis s a bit more human and hes a bit more disturbed, i guess is the correct word, then other sherlocks that ive seen. Its taken a darker twist on his drug usage and having that and this past mysterious lover be the drive to show his emotional side rather than the girl (forgot her name) he usually has his little rivalry with. im liking it that he also does talk to joan (who ive really warmed up to in certain ways even tho sometimes she can get preachy) in backward hidden messages about the description of his psychy like in the 4th episode at the end when he says about how "being able to see the puzzle in everyone" and how its a lonely methodology to live ones life by. I very much like this for a slightly relate to it, obviously. It has given me a good source to quote and a better look at an aspect of myself.


After coming back to this a month later, i must retract my previous statement that i liked it more. After a bit more indepth thought and discussion, the BBC Sherlock is a much more unique and, to be frank, awesome show. That does not mean anythign else i said i dont not hold by, Elementary is still a great show, just not as awesome as Sherlock.

TV Thoughts: HIMYM: Single Lives

Single lives as portrayed by HIMYM do not exist. They just dont. Forget Barney's life. Ted even...THIS IS WHERE I MOVED FROM A FACEBOOK STATUS TO A BLOG POST...especially the first few seasons of the show, the amount of tail he was getting was uncanny. I cannot believe people like this even exist. For two reasons:

One: its wrong and i think that people are behaving like animals if they act like this. Not because having hook-ups here and there are a bad thing for a single non-religious persons. But I do not think it shows a healthy state of mind to be bouncing between so many women so quickly as if they are nothing. Like i dont think it should be possible to hav more than 6 gf a year. It just shouldnt be. The amount of emotional energy that need be given, not even by my standards, in order for something to be a relationship is substantial enough to cause enough emotional damper after a break up that it should inhibit you for a long enough time that you must wait to start another relationship far enough down the line that with the timing set in the best possible way, the maximum possible gfs you could have in a year shouldnt be more than 5 or 6. And thats still alot in my book. Ted is going thru 9 or 10 a year. I just dont believe people SHOULD go thru more than 2 or 3. You SHOULD care about ppl u get in a relationship with.

And Two: Theres just no way...like come on. How can those girls go for him? If they go for him then what the hell is wrong with me? (not turning this into a rant about myself) Theres just no way. Like if thats the image we are trying to tell America is the "American Dream" then we are setting the stakes way to high. To get that much tail, with that hotness level of girls, would be too awesome to ever actually be attainable.

This very much displayed dual-reasoning thinking.

I could have gone so much deeper into these topics and analyzed them more but I got bored.

Short Thought: Transition Phases

This was something i said to my chavrusa when trying to explain the ending of a transition phase and why it can be so hard:


"a transition phase...when its on last strand...its like the idea of "its darkest before
dawn"...the ending is hardest to get thru"
(with small edits so that it makes sense not in context)


After coming back several hours later, i can see how i was just really gone and this isnt that big of a deal...however, do to blogger honesty i will not take it down. It shall be a remembrance to times where im dumb enough to think that everything i say is a golden egg from a goose's ass.

Movie Mumblings: A Young-Adult Peter Pan

This was something I wrote months ago during the summer, when i was still in my first week of smoking. I passed upon this picture that went around the interwebs:

Peter Pan can easily be set that they are a bit older. here could be a good way of having peter/wendy be around 23/22 and it still fit in with the theme of "i don't want to go up", basically heres a modern version.

      You start the movie off with 22 year old Wendy fresh out of college at her 3 day of work. She was an art major with a cooking minor in college. She wanted to be artist-chef who's beautiful and delicious creations would be featured around the globe. yet, here she sits in some office building in NY, in a cubical, answering customer support call ins for Citibank. She still lives at home in her moms house with her younger siblings, her parents are divorced, we found out later they got divorced on her 16th birthday, and while most children would kinda lose their childhood, she fought to keep her strong, yet now, after fighting to stay youthful, she's seems like the past few months that war is finally over. Her dreams are crushed, she has no way into her starlit dreamy profession, she's stuck at a desk job for a big bank.

      We see her one night going home, all of this realization thats she's die in inside flustering, goes into her room, close to tears and her mom comes trys to figure out wats up, but like a teenager, she yells and storms off to her room. after crying on her bed for a bit, she sits all introspectively and laughs, thinking she's lost the shining bliss of youth and kept the negative immaturity. she falls asleep thinking that there obviously is no hope, she shouldn't get pissed at her mom and its just worth it to giv in into adult hood.

      That night, a 23 year old peter pan comes a-knocking and normal "don't giv up on being youthful and lets be children forever" hilarity insures with no seriousness but rather the same childhood glee as seen in the original cartoon, and her and her brothers go to never land. 

      A similar plot line and wat not ensues but underneath it there is more of an adult subliminal love story going on between peter and wendy, (when i say adult i don't mean NSFW i just mean like u see in all romantic comedies).

      We get to the part where tinker bell grows and explodes her house. peter finds a picture in there of a girl. he storms out looking upset and sits on the edge of the tree, to a sunlit night looking over all of never land. this is the first time we see peter acting more his age and not such like a kid, even tho he's 23. him and wendy get in a serious convo and get to appoint where peter explains himself. 

      It starts like the same story as the original, he was left as a baby, think brought him to neverland…but then it shows him as a 15 year old (at least he looks only that young) boy in neverland, fighting hook, when after shoving hook down and beating him with his usual childhood manner, hook says some sharp tounge serious little speech about how peter will always be a child and never find happiness.. and then in some way it actually hit peter mentally, like hook had never spoken to him in such dark tones in all the time they've been at battle. it got him upset and he started being mentally tortured with it. for a week he wouldnt get get out of bed. he was depressed. finally one night, in some fit of depression, he uses the last bit of a happy thought he could muster, and flys himself into the 2nd star to the left and straight on till night. crashing down on and falling asleep in the streets.

      Now, depleted of pixy dust, he loses his happy. and starts growing up. then one day 7 years down the line, he's working as a bagger at Kmart bc he can't get any other job, he doesn't kno how to act around women so he doesn't hav a girl friend, and he's just a loser. so that night he just lying there in bed, unable to sleep, when he stands up walks to the window and flys back to never land. he made the realization this world sucks, and even if its all hell ever do and never find "real happiness" its better to be act and fight like a kid than live the way of an adult and be miserable.

They kiss.

     Peter's recollection over, the movie continues, and they beat hook. the whole time wendy is trying to figure out wat she's gonna believe in. in the end, thru some device that wakes her up to the realization that there can be real happiness with normal life and even if its not exactly wat u wanted u can always keep the inner child alive and there is always a way to make that dream come try, even if not to the exact way as originally wanted. 

     Peter doesn't like this. Im going with a more dark idea here that isn't normal. i don't want them to end up together. they argue about this and in the end they decide to part, wendy back for normal and peter to stay in neverland. they part with the adult understanding that each has chosen a way to believe in wat is best and accepting that some idea or really anything only has value if one individually gives it value mentally themselves and real happiness is wat u choose it to be. 

Facebook Comment Threads

So i saw this comment thread going on Facebook. i had even participated. Then i saw how it was going and was gonna post this:

i hav to add this...you see the progression of how a status goes from serious comments to some completely different topic comments...started off with 2 actual answers, then 3 troll answers, then 2 metaphysical answers...we can see how the comments hav alrdy started to deteriorate in association with the true purpose of the status and has become more of ppl posting jokes....then we get someone that, having followed the comment thread, got completely confused somehow, (in this case she read the original status wrong, but there are several examples when ppl were trying to follow the comment thread and got confused and stated something like "whoa whoa i thought i was following the story so far, but now im not so sure and im gonna say laugh about the thing i was thinking"), 

This (or possibility a bit before) is where i decided that i could not post this to Facebook and cut and pasted it over to a new blog post:

and stated it as such, changing the topic to now about whatever she said as the ppl who were participating before are confused on to how she had that train of thought to think what ever she thought of, and are now want to understand it and ALSO become interested in whatever the thing itself was that she thought of in that train of thought. 
          This shows the devolving of a status into something much more recognizable as a clusterfuck-chat room. Facebook has basically become ppl just talking or "posting" things and whatever the census is generally talking about, is usually where all "posts" eventually turn too. Its just a bunch of people standing around having normal conversations. People add new topics, they get circled around the room, the general atmospheric topic that come with the times are in general use, and it goes until your zone of people you know in this world, in general, go to sleep. People come in and now as they have their own duties to attend to, and cant even be bothered to check their phone, or atleast cant check it as much. 
          And also the phenomenon of being able to be really close friends with someone uve barely met is possible, bc everyone is of equal distance to each other in the chat room. If your in a social group that another person is a part of, chances are that both of all of yalls friends post on the same things. Which means by the equation that runs what "top stories" feed, the two of you will get similar things, but the majority of your friends are posting on it. Now the two of you are commenting on the same things. Now you are associating as if there was no distance between you. Congrats, you are now friends. 
          This is Facebook. People ask you to get off it, but why? Our social lives, live in this now. Its all about posting to Facebook. It could be that human beings only associate with one another thru the computer in the future. Thats what Wall-E taught us. So now the question just is, which way will the majority of society go? 

          (I bet your thought i was gonna say "which way will YOU go"right? NOPE. BC truthfully its the average, non-thinking person in this world that will command what happens. Not the true intellectuals, as its been known that the majority of people in this world are stupid. And of course, favor is with the majority. So its not where YOU will go, bc it doesnt matter where the individual goes, it matters where the majority collective will go.)

Short Thought: Infuriating Personalities

Most ppl shouild infuriate each seperate individual...bc odds r your personal characteristics will not match up in a way that will be conducive of a non-infuriating friendship, its just not mathematically probable, so i guess its logical that one could be annoyed by many ppl

Blog Purpose Announcement: Figuring Things Out

           Ok, so realization. I sit here and try to say im smart, right? And i have debated with eli all the time he he trumps me all the time right? He has done his research, he knows hes right. Alot of the time, i really think im right, but i hav no way of bringing a source. Most of what i say is learned from random gathered knowledge, some just my own take and understanding of things, some things that ive heard but cant say i "learned". Im a productive high. Instead of just sitting there only watching documentaries when im with eli, or paining myself to try to find a documentary ill enjoy by myself...i can do what alot of stoners cant, just open my text book and actually do my HW and learn something that way...i kno this is a "uh duh" moment, but its helpful to have those stupid realizations that you should have had long ago.

         Im still deciding whether i want this blog to be for my every whining thought when im high, or only certain ones. i really liked my glee post but im not so sure about this one. This one makes me seem whiny, not introspective and thought provoking. Now, the glee one, while had a silly, not intelligent topic, it was both expressed intelligently and provoked deeper ideas. This one just seems like im a girl. It could be bc im sobering...so maybe thats why im all whiny...interesting thought....

     Anyway...we shall see how i decide to limit this...over and out

P.S. With inclusions like the sign-offs ive been doing and along with this very P.S. note, this blog is becoming more of a journal/diary not a journal of ideas...not so sure im happy about that...will contemplate and figure it out....

TV Thoughts: S04 Glee up until E08

So this is how this is gonna go. Im starting this obviously late so im just gonna sum up and then post something about 8.

         So basically this season has been this bad. I like the sexy changes to Rachel and now that the spotlight isnt being shined on kurt from the "LOOK OMG IM GAY" field and rather just a "im human, but awesome" field, im enjoying seeing him in the new environment. So yes i do like the duality of the base locations. To point a finger to episode 8, i liked how they finally had it said out to Rachel that "she wasnt in high school anymore" and that ppl make adult decisions and you cant whine about everything. 
          Its showing the next level of character development that couldnt have happened if they hadnt decided to move her to a new realm. Not obviously you can ask, why not just the character? Well, i think its going to try to a teach as far as it can into the young adult life that is quite extended nowadays. 
        
          It used to be you were a kid, then a quick teenager, and then an adult. done. Ppl had to learn to give up on "dreams" earlier and start being a responsible adult. The whole getting married thing, getting out of school into a job, etc. Now people take gap years after high school. Spend years in undergrad. Go abroad again. Explore a dream like art, that they know wont lead anywhere. Or even try for something like that and spend years in art school. Because now people can do that. We are a wealthy enough place that ppl can just go to art school and do that as a profession  and be successful enough to survive. But anyway im getting off point.
         Point is young adult is the age in mid teens where ppl attempt to give you responsibility like an adult, but yet the feel of being a full blown adult, and actually responsible for yourself, doesnt come for years. 
         Which was my actual point i was TRYING to make before. That people can live off mommy and daddy so much more now and can just go to art school and do nothing to help support themselves for years. 
        (In the middle of my thought before i thought i was trying to say something nice, but then i remembered no, i actually do believe the dark thing, not even being high can make me not forget that the world is full of idiots.)
        SOOO....now that this extended young adult period exists, there has not been a show, like this one, that has spanned this set of years, thru this lens. Yes, weve had shows where they start in high school and the show lasts thru college. So its similar. But never has it been done from this modern perspective. Following kids, that are able to live out these outlandish dreams, of which are actually done and attainable nowadays! Quite often!
        They want to keep a story following certain older kids, in order to show a new part of human life. 

       Wow....ok....so back to the review. Ive liked the story line, and the new characters. They are each still unique and i dont feel like they are redoing exact characters that hav alrdy been done. The show, with its giant star-actor list, has alrdy ventured thru the trials and tribulations of several vary characteristically different characters. To continue to have new and unique faces is not an easy fete. So doing this is a 'brava'. 
      The songs this season have also been keeping me quite happy. The finale songs have been awesome enough to keep me happy in and of themselves.

HOWEVER....
       Episode 8: 
i knew it couldnt go on forever, while the plot actually is keeping me "okishly" interested, while still being overly dramatic in areas that didnt need it and still being more of a facepalming joke of a storyline, the songs in this weeks glee episode did not match up to par with the level of awesome that the other songs from this season have set so far.

(btw yes i had made this facebook status first and this is actually what led to the entire creation of this blog bc i wanted a place to put all my crazy thoughts when high.)

So after re-reading my episode 8 review i need to say 2 things.
         One, i need to stop lying to myself about how i see things and my opinions of them based off what i kno other ppl like. It doesnt matter if i sound stupid, if i like it then i like it. No this is not me coming out you idiot. Im not gay. But if i like glee, which according to others is a crappy show, then i need to not hide that and maybe formulate actually logical statements about how the things others say bad about the show are actually false, or maybe a logical precession of its good parts. OR...i could just accept the fact that i dont care if it has bad parts, i still enjoy it.
        TWO, I agree still that this episode sucked...THATS RIGHT HERE IS AN ACTUAL REVIEW! It has crappy music numbers besides the Warblers, which i still wasnt even that big of a fan of. Doing a choir version of "Gangnam style" was an awful choice and it sounded horrid. The over-dramatized thing with Blane and Kurt annoyed me, but the sexiness of Rachel did not. Im starting to get pissed at the fact that no one sees this evil blonde girl is the menace here. 

         And ok, heres something that i can actually agree with everyone else about the show. The people are so pathetic! I kno TV shows are supposed to take extremes and dramatized things to blow them up, but if there are people at all like that that go "omg i need to fit in my dress, im gonna listen to my friend who says i should make myself barf" then my low lvl of faith in humanity is verified. And yes, i kno bulimia is a disease. But i guess a) i still dont fully get how, and b) i dont think new rachel has it, i think shes just dumb as shit.  

       THAT ALL BEING SAID. The fact that the episode just ended with her passing out, made me hold my breathe till it hurt. Im still itching to know what happens next. 

so, theres my review and thoughts so far, maybe more posts like this one will appear later on, chow.

....and so the lofty journey commences....

So it has begun. 
          This shall stand as an archive for myself forever. Of the times in college where I was in a "transition" period and was self-medicating. Also getting really high. Kids, 20 years from now when you find this with ur future alien technology, dont think less of your dad, i can actually explain this really well. And if ur my kids that means u've probably heard several of my long rants explaining myself. Being my kids actually also means you hav a tendency for this urself. So u might enjoy it. Actually no bc if ur my kids then u also hate listening to ppl...hmm...but i did have the capability of overcoming that sometimes, especially when the info was something i knew i could use for later. So its unsure, maybe. 
         Anyways, I leave this blog here to be a journal of my thoughts. I know im crazy, and that i think of alot of things. Some make sense, others dont. But somehow i came to the thoughts. Whats cooler to realize is not that i might be wrong, but the understanding of the thought process that led me to my answer anyway. Let that mess with your head a bit...
         AHHEM, anyway....im gonna write stuff here when im high and keep it archived to read later, laugh at myself, and maybe if one of them makes sense, to use the knowledge to gain a new understanding of mankind, Life as we know it, and the One.