I Come From the Movie Planet, How About You?Written by Jesse S. Somer
When people ask me where I am from I often reply jokingly, “I’m from Movie Planet.’ That’s what I reckon people from other planets would call us here on Earth. How many movies have I watched in my life? How many hours have I sat in front of a small or big screen watching a story unfold, acted out by my fellow species? The answer is almost inconceivable. We worship film as an arena to learn, dream, escape, and even vicariously live our lives from. We pay actors millions of dollars, more than doctors as well as nearly all rest of us, and a lot of us see them as superhuman beings that are a step above rest in our perceived realm of mundane normality that we have constructed our lives in. A lot of time result of this belief structure causes a lot of pain for these ‘famous’ souls who would rather just live a normal life outside their work. The hounding paparazzi definitely don’t make actors feel superhuman!Look, I like watching movies a lot, maybe even more than ‘average person’, I just wonder about relationship we have with this imagined reality we so often connect with. We choose to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on some movies like ‘Independence Day’ that end up being bombs in box office, while there are billions of people in true reality on Earth who have nothing to eat. It seems like madness if you look at it from that angle. Do we watch these visions of ‘ourselves’ doing things so that we don’t have to think about what hard work we have to do in our real lives? Even as I sit here on a Friday afternoon I am wondering if I should grab a DVD tonight to watch as an attempt to relax at home after a pretty hard working week. The funny thing is if I grab ‘wrong’ type of movie, I may end up more stressed out than I am right now! So, am I addicted to these things? Are we all? I’ll let you think about it. To focus on positive side of things, we must realize that we can learn so much from our experiences with movies. We wouldn’t have become obsessed over nothing, now would we? I myself learn a lot and get to experience many emotions during engrossing visual experience. I mean, I do have a big enough range of feelings in my real life, but it’s kind of cool being able to be in ‘The Matrix’ (maybe we already are?), or to be ‘Spiderman’ for a day, or maybe live in a weird world like “Charlie and Chocolate Factory’ for a few hours.
| | Music... The Perfect Remedy To A Long & Tiring DayWritten by Armant Melo
Music is a part of our lives almost every day. Even if you do not consider yourself to be a big music fan, you still unconsciously listen to music everyday. One big place where we hear music is on television.There is background and "mood" music in sitcoms and TV shows that you watch everyday. We have all heard those catchy commercial jingles that stick with us throughout day. These are just some examples of music. Types of Music There are so many types of music out there. You can buy CDs, listen to radio and even listen to music or learn about music on TV. MTV, VH1 and various other television channels are geared towards music. You can turn on your radio and pick up waves of many local and some even distant stations that play different types of music. Music is really everywhere and there is so much to choose from. Some of more common types of music are country, R&B, hip hop, rock, classical and pop or dance. Many other categories have came from these basic genres. There are also many different categories according to decade. For example, you can get hits of 70s, 80s, 90s and today. These will play you all hits and chart toppers from that era.
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