Tv Thoughts: HIMYM 2/19

Ok, another note to sa about this season oh HIMYM. As i believe i have said before, this season has made a turn for the better. The past few seasons in this show slumped bc we were so far away from meeting the mother. but now that we r there the episodes are starting to really have skill put into making them.

This episode had something, that i believe is a great comment on a perfect marriage. We know that Marshall erioand Lily stand for the for-everlasting, perfect couple. Meet first in college, and stick it through all the way. But i want to make a serious mention of what showed that in this weeks. At the moment Marshall comments that they have had that expensive ash tray in their house he knows hes about to say something that will start a fight. In this perfect of all perfect marriages they know that they will hav fights, no they will be fine through it, and that its part of life. He doesnt have to be scared, he just says "guys leave, we are about to have a fight". He knows its necessary and that there will be no issues in end, but that he is secure that thye need to fight.

Movie Mumblings: J. J. Abrams is directing the new Star Wars

This is a direct quote from a comment i wrote on a friends wall post that asked "JJ Abrams directing star wars. Your thoughts. Go." 

             "im not 100% sure how i feel about [JJ Abrams] directing [the new star wars]. on one hand i love the stuff hes done, of course including star trek and fringe was also a fantastic show. lost of course had its crazied followers and armageddon was one of the better bruis willis films thats been done outside the original die hard. so abrams is very good. im just not sure how his style will effect the star wars universe. while there is alot of seriousness, which i think it one of abrams strong point is how he gives over a very serious universe, in the star trek universe, theres also a sense of aloofness that comes with the the whole "knights using mind powers with glowing swords" that we all have come to kno and love. 
            an example of a serious scene done poorly was the intro scene in star wars 3 when they kill dooku..,awful...just awful...however, i dont think abrams would hav done it right bc rememeber, we r dealing with jedis talking about the force and its more or less two religions fighting saying things like "you are not strong with the Force"...not something i think abrams could do. but maybe im wrong about this and he will pull it out. 
            im excited to see it no matter what and it will for sure not live up to my expectations and ill be disappointed but thats not gonna stop it from being a good a movie and me enjoying it immensely either....unless of course its an awful, awful movie and it makes me want forget my entire life just so that i dont hav to rememeber it"


Lets see what other eventual posts come up about this movie.

TV Thoughts: Once Upon A Time Part 1

         Ok, so i was putting this off for a while because i was actually really, really enjoying this show and could tell that once i started this, it was going to be very long indeed. So i kept putting it off. However, right after i completely caught up, i was on Facebook was Sruly and began talking about it and some of the aspects i liked. So i inadvertently began my blog in a chat with him. However, i feel like just sitting here and typing will get boring and i wont want to finish it, so heres what im gonna do. This will also become a multi-blog (im starting to do these alot, even tho i seem to never come back to them). I will post new blogs that i do over time when ever the show becomes a topic in my head, and eventually collaborate them all together on one final blog with also an overall summery.

So, heres the first bit that i wrote to sruly in a messege (edited into a paragraph):

•            "[The actor who plays Rumple Stilskind] plays such completely different, yet eerily the same characters. But im saying the quality of his acting is by far superb. Im not talking of the personality that was written up by the writers. im saying the lvl of which the actor was able to giv it over. his skills are amazing and its such an awesome character personality. especially bc u figure out, no one is completely evil. i kinda want to see him let loose on korra, but we kno [if] that will happen, he will lose, and then emma will save him.
             I also like how well they showed how much emma was a stranger in the land of the enchanted forest. Like you could tell that her personality just didnt sick with the land, it was too cynical, like ppls of our world. she just completely didnt belong. Now to show this isnt too hard, but to overdo it is. and they made it perfectly subliminal yet apparent enough that the viewer knows. her tone of voice was the key to this. Emma always had this darker more of an "adult" and "realistic" tone to her voice. while Mary Margret and the others in the enchanted forest all had voices that sounded kinds like they were slightly aloof and, well, like they were from a fairy tale story book! once again, this could hav been overdone, but after watching it, my personal opinion is that they did not."
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Music Memoirs: Intro to the Beatles Binge and Notes on Please Please Me

            So after needing to really start finals' studying because I had not done anything all day and it was now 1:30 am, i decided to download the Across the Universe soundtrack to listen to while i read abnormal psychology. After listening to this whole album through, i decided to go full out and get the whole Beatles Original Discography. 
           After doing this, I thought, "Well, i never have really sat there and just listened through Beatles stuff. I know a lot of songs but i dont really KNOW the Beatles." I grew up with them so they were around in my head, but i didnt grow up with them when they were big, that was my parents time. My bands that Ive followed and lived with are ones like Dave Matthews Band, Avenged Sevenfold, and even some various top 40s people that do to mass broadcasting i end up hearing, getting into, and being knowledgable on their music. Oh and Glee. 
           So then I decided to embark on a journey to listen to all the Beatles albums in chronological order. So i put on a visualizer and put the first album, Please Please Me, on. I listened to it fully through. (At some point i even turned off the visualizer and just listened with my eyes closed, but i did hear the whole album; i did not fall asleep.) After i jotted down these notes:

Please Please Me: 1963
- can easily see movement around 4th...new sound
- very "garage band of friends" sound
           - personal
              - kinda feels like the neighborhood kids in a garage playing around
                - its a fun sound
           - unique (even though this becomes the new standard)
- even without accompaniment like we are used to nowadays which makes a very full sound, there seems to be alot going on (even at this point before they got into all their crazy stuff)
          - several harmonic voices
          - a full band set with very distinctive instruments
          - not over filled, notes hold for longer instead of just being constantly replayed

           So now here is the plan. Im going to continue to do this when I have a chance. Sit down, become aloft, put on a Beatles album, and simply listen to it through. Afterwards, i will write down simple outlined notes, as i did above, and later, once Ive listened through everything, I will look over my notes, ruminate on my memories and write out a nice little paper on my thoughts on the Beatles as a whole. 
           Lets see if i can do this. 

(Because if i can, that will be freaking sweet. Like, after the removable of any trace of loftness, i could publish this paper or use it for something. Whos knows? Either way it will be really cool to have.)

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! :)