Join me on a train, please?

Hey guys, so how you been? I've been doing great, getting better as my visit to Russ¡a progresses. Oh and forget what I said about the day to day journal of my trip to Russ¡a. I realized I bit off more than I can chew with that one, like always. So instead of that, on August the 4th (the day I return to T-Dot :D) I'll write up a list of things I did and just basically a recount of my trip to Russ¡a. But for now, my first part of this post will just give you a little sneak peak to it all. Oh and I read in my comments section that "Chandni" wants me to review "Write Sins Not Tragedies" by "Panic! At The Disco" which I shall do in this post, but later on. Because currently, I am on a train to Moscow and there's no WiFi (duh, it's a train). Which basically plans out this entire post, I might include something special in the end if I think of anything. But in the mean time. Wanna join me on a train? Please?

Russ¡a, it's the biggest country in the world. If anyone thinks otherwise, I like to correct them with pride! We've got one of the greatest hockey teams (7-3 was the score for World Juniors when Russia defeated Canada :) And even though we didn't win the Olympics we came pretty darn close. Yeah you heard me Canada, it's our sport too! It's a great country, but life is hard here. The winters get close to -40°C and 1.5 meters of snow, whole the summers get up to 40°C sometimes. Stray dogs/cats and teens along with the occasional drunk run the streets amidst all the busyness in Moscow. The wages are small, and so is everything else (price wise, compared to Canada of course). And all of the Soviet Russ¡a jokes you've heard? Well some of them are true, in a sense. If you ever lived or visited Russ¡a, you'd know what I'm talking about. The police are corrupted, water gets shut off every 3 weeks or so. People many money in ANY way possible and put advertisements EVERYWHERE. They even managed to spray paint advertisements on the ground. But with all it's been through, I'm proud of it. It has a longer history than either Canada or America will EVER have. Canada NEVER went through a revolution as big as the U.S.S.R. and hopefully never will. The people live off of the land like it's their own, my dad grows strawberries, raspberries, blue berries, cucumbers, tomatoes, and even cherries. All in his garden beside his house, is that not amazing?! I know many of you might have your own gardens or something like them and may not think anything of it, but to me it's one of the greatest wonders of the world. How people can simply live off of their own food while working in a big city like Moscow and maintaining their house when needed is astonishing to me. But there's 1 thing I don't particularly like about Russia. Everything is SOOOO far away. To get to a movie theatre I have to be driven by car for 30-50 minutes because where I live is VERY far from Moscow. While in Toronto, my closest movie theater is a 10 minute walk along with the store and my school. It's a BIG drawback if you're ALWAYS commuting in Russia. People often try to live in Moscow because it's close to their job but it's VERY hard to find a GOOD apartment in that area, along with all the repairs and decoration you have to do to change it all. But that's Russia for you, oh and there are 3 things you NEED in order to survive Russia in the summer. Or at least, these are the 3 things I find are needed to survive a day in Russia. #1: Bottled Water. It's a BIG thing here, or at least I find myself drinking it more than I ever did in my life when I'm in Russ¡a. Why? Well let's just say the water smells like it's still from the revolution. I REALLY hope that fact isn't correct. But anyways, in some areas you get lucky with clean tap water like some areas of Moscow. Of course there are filtration plants in Russia, but not as many as there are in Canada. #2: Ice Cream. Russ¡a is VERY famous for it's chocolate. In fact it's #3 on the world standing along with Belgium in the #1 spot (I think) and some other country in between them. and don't even try to say Canadian chocolate is #1, our chocolate is NOWHERE near any of those other countries. So why not enjoy a local delicacy along with a cooling sensation which will keep you cool for the next hour or so. #3: Wet/disinfecting Napkins. Russ¡a is a VERY dirty place, take it from a local. In fact, you often come home to stains you never even noticed or know where you got them from. Maybe that's everywhere, but after riding the TTC I don't get dust on my hands unless I enjoy touching the windows that day (What?! Doesn't everyone do that?!). Anyways, those things are a KEY to your survival along with some common sense of course. I wouldn't recommend using this list in the winter time or spring or even fall because I'm not sure of the affects it may have on your well being.

Oh and by the way, I began writing this post about 4 days ago. But in my defence,  wasn't in the mood for the past 3 days and I had little time, and I was sick yesterday. Still blame me? Well that's your burden, and yours alone :D And another thing, I'm sorry to dissapoint whoever looked forward to my review of the "Panic! At The Disco" song but as you (my 1 reader) already know, I have a reason for everything! My reason for not writing up the review? The song is too damn confusing, like most songs in its genre. Ok sure, the music is great, but so is Fallout Boy's song "Thanks for the Memories" which is similar to the song I was supposed to review. The lyrics are different, but the music is almost the same in some parts. Anyways, the music is great? Sure. The lyrics? That's a different story. So for my music review I'm going to scroll through my iPod Artist list and choose one. So what artist shall I be revewing for my post today? The stars say: Kanye West. SO get your shades on, your "I hate Taylor Swift" shirt on, and with our harder, better, faster, and stronger minds we shall analyze the man that is: Kanye West.

Ok, sure Kanye seems like a self centered, selfish, and a very big douche. But like I have said before, EVERY artist has his/her ups and downs. And don't assume ALL his music is bad just because he made most of his album about money, girls, and partying. That's the mistake that I made with the Black Eyed Peas, and I STRONGLY regretted doing so, and you have no right to do so either because unless you listened to ALL his songs like I have you wouldn't even think of saying that in a million years.

My first song shall be "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" from Kanye West's album: Late Registration.

The song came from research that Kanye did on Sierra Leone diamonds, meaning the kind of diamonds that come from children carrying dynamite into a mine and attempting to make it out alive before it explodes and earning a few dollars a day. Or in other words "Blood Diamonds" and this conflict has been going on for MANY years. And when these diamonds are bought, the money goes back to the people that found these diamonds, and often that money is used to fund wars in Africa. Then the song talks about if Kanye will give back his diamond chains to stop funding the conflict, unfortunately he replies "That'll be te same day I give the game back". Which really frustrates me, he could've made this song into something bigger than what it is now. But that's the music industry for ya.

The next song I got on my mind is "Hey Mama" from the same album. It's a wonderful song about his mom, it talks about how she gave so much for him and how he just wanted to make her happy. It also talks about the conflict she went through with little West beside her, which makes for a touching story. Or at least that's how I see it, but I'm just sensetive liek dat :D The first thing that really gets my heart is the chorus:

I wanna scream so loud for you cause I'm so proud of you

Let me tell you what I'm about to do

I know I act a fool, but I promise you I'm goin' back to school

I appreciate what you allowed for me

I just want you to be proud of me

I know I'm proud of my mom, for sticking with me through the tough times when I needed her and for doing all she has done for me. She had to move to a new place just for me and the future of our family, on 2 separate occasions. And if that hadn't happened, I have no idea where I would be at this point in my life, most likely living a live much worse than the one I'm living now. And yes, I have been very stupid with my actions around my mother most of the time, but I'm still learning through my mistakes. SO far, I've made a lot of them, but that's what my mom is here for. To teach me through those mistakes and allow me to learn through them. But the last part, really gets me. Because honestly, I do want to make my mom be proud of me through anything I do. I'm not saying I'm going to pursue being a doctor just to make her proud and still hate working as one. What I'm saying is I'd like to pursue whatever it is I will pursue, but in that career I'd like to achieve some big goals to make my mom proud and myself along with her. So basically, the chorus is then divided into parts throughout the entire song but is replaced by different although similar text. Take these two lines as a comparison:

I wanna tell the whole world about a friend of mine.

This little light of mine and I'm gonna let it shine.

Is almost like the first line of the chorus where Kanye says:

I wanna scream so loud for you cause I'm so proud of you.

One part of the first verse also REALLY pulls on my heart strings where Kanye says (or rather sings):

I said mommy Imma love you til you don't hurt no more

And when I'm older, you ain't gotta work no more.

My mom has gone through a lot, and your mom probably has too. A divorce here, a war there, and maybe even the death of her mom or dad. Either way you look at it, our mothers have gone through a lot, and we need to love them so that they don't hurt from remembering the past anymore. And how many times have you ever wanted your parents to never work when you were a kid? Well I think I remember myself saying that one day when I have a career I'll make it so that my mom never has to work anymore. Wouldn't that be the greatest of things? After all of their work on us to make sure we were raised properly they get the rest of their lives off? And hopefully we raise our children so that they would do the same for us, and this cycle will continue for God knows how long.

I can write about this song for another 2 hours if I wanted to, but nobody would read anything THAT long, not even me! So I'm just going to move to my possibly last song that I will review which is called "Homecoming from Mr. West's album: Gradutation.

The song has a very upbeat tune, and I'm sure it's a piano track. In fact, the singer from Cold Play "Chris Martin" is in the song singing the chorus track and also playing the piano. The song is basically based on Kanye's home city: Chicago. Also known as the "Windy City" which closely resembles the girl's name "Wendy" which he sings about in the beginning of the song. The song makes me think of how I moved downtown this past October. Which is almost like Kanye repping his home city, sort of :/ Everyone has a place where they come from, and this song just talks about the lights ad experience of Chicago. I remember when I first moved to my new appartment on the 23rd floor, the view was just incredible. It was so astonishing I didn't sleep for a whole hour, I was just mesmerized by all of the lights, sounds, and even smells of the city. They say Vegas never sleeps, well Vegas got NOTHING on Toronto!!!! It was just such a touching moment for me, and thanks to this song I will remember it always. I'm sure you've got your own moments when you saw downtown for the first time. Maybe it was when you were a kid, or even a year ago. I don't know for certain, but when you did, didn't it feel magical? I remember it, I felt like I was actually older than I really was, like I had bragging rights that I went downtown, I walked a different way. The same way i walk whenever I hear "Staying Alive" by the Beegees (I know we ALL walk differently when we listen to that song :) I just remember it as oneof those "once in a lifetime" moments.. Mabe you don't or maybe you do, ut that's what makes us all special: we are ALL different. I don't want to go too deep into the lyrics because I've written enough as it is. I've posted the songs for you on the right (you're welcome :D I'll review 3 different songs next time which were requested by Anna, it's good to se someone taking initiative/advantage of their chances.

So that's about it for today. My trip to Russia is coming to a close. The sun is setting right now, the crickets are chirping. What a beatiful sight/smell/whatever you wanna call it/sound. Oh yes, it is a good life after all :D SO until next time: Read it, learn it, live it, love it, and post it!

Cheers, MarkL

I have come to yet ANOTHER realization :D

Hey guys, how y'all doing? It's that time of the week again (insert inappropriate joke here). Yes, that glorius 20 minutes or so when you're glued to the screen reading my blog and just waiting for your eyes to fall out because of my multiple paragraphs and tn font :D Oh and yet again I'm doing an artist spotlight where I take an album or a song from 1 artist that you may or may not know and analyze it to the greatest of my ability. And this time around I'm shining my light of awesome blog writing on the group "One Republic" and their album "Waking Up" which shall be an interesting time for us all. And I'll just write up about something that's been on my mind for a long time but I havent had the decency to write it down anywhere. So here we go..............

One Republic, Two Republic, Three Republic, Four, Five Republic, Six Republic, One Republic more!!! To me, this group is ALL aboutpoitivity, or it's at least what I feel when I listen to their album "Waking Up". In fact, I'd give thi ENTIRE album a ★★★★★ rating because of how great it is. Sure this group may not be as legendary as some others but to me they are in a league of their own. I don't often listen to their kind of music where they use instruments but this album is DEFINITELY worth a listen to anyone that wants to hear some good music. The 3 songs that I'll be analyzing from their album "Waking Up" will be "Good Life", "Everybody Loves Me", and "Secrets". The song "Good Life" talk, or rather sings about a good life. Everyon has an opinion on how good  life can be. For some a good life is with plenty of women and mony and stuff, for others it's living on a farm far away from everything and being one with nature. In this song a good life is considered being happy with what you've got, and sometimes looking at what you've accomplished and saying "Damn, this is gotta be the good life, and this could really be a good life". And sometimes, it's just enough to crack a smile on your face :) Here's a segment of the lyrics that really grabs my attention:

Sometimes theres airplanes I can't jump out

Sometimes there's bullshit that don't work now

We are God of stories, but please tell me

What is there to complain about?

When you're happy like a fool, let it take you over

When everything is out you gotta take it in

When he talks about the airplane, he means that sometimes there are ituations that we can't just leave and we have to deal with them. No matter how awkward they get, because in the end when everything is resolved it's all worth it. Then he talks about how sometimes there's bullshit that don't work out, when I hear that it makes me think of situations that don't exactly work out in your favor or don't even work out at all, in other words called :bullshit according to One Republic. And they're right, sometimes thereare problems that no even we can wok into our favor or even work out because they're so damn complicated. Then when he talks about being a "God of stories" I think he means that in our head or where we live we consider ourselves to be a God amongst peasants. And it's true, if you ask anyone on the street if they are more important than you, they wil undoubtedly say "Yes" because it is human nature to do so. The part where he asks what there is to complain about, he's definitely right. Nobody should be complaining about anything and be thankful for what you have, but it's not exactly easy to do so. I mean, when you see a nice car you want it right? Or when you see anything that you don't have but want you aren't being thankful for what you've got. But that is ALSO a part of our human nature, and I'm not being a Saint or anything telling all ofyou are wrong for thinking so. I've had my fair share of moments where I've wanted something I couldn't have, and so have you. but that's only natural. What you DON'T want to do is CONSTANTLY complain, because if you're reading this I'm sre you've got a home, clean water, food, and some form of family. All the basic necesities anyone needs to live, the rest are just "bonuses" to life. Like Books, iPods, Cell Phones, and anything else in that genre. Now the last part I want to talk about is the "Happy like a fool" part of the song. Obviously when you're happy you can't help but let it take over you and keep the vibe going, which is self explanatory. And when he says "When everything is out, you gotta take it in" I think he means that when you're in such a good mood you gotta look at the detils that make moments like these. Maybe the smell in the air, the fact you're with friends, your clothes, the sunset, how nice the day was, just any tiny little thing that makes your mood better.

Now I'll analyze the second song and depending onhow much I've written I may analyza the third song. My favourite par of this song is the chorus, which I shall discuss later on but I'd like to talk about the music in this song for a little. It gives me a reminder of the Wild Wild West for some reason when I hear this song, it's probably because of their choice of guitar chords and percussion that gives it that Clint Eastwood feeling. Ok now that that's done here's the chorus :D

Oh my, feels just like I don't try 
Look so good I might die 
All I know is everybody loves me 
Head down, swaying to my own sound 
Flashes in my face now 
All I know is everybody loves me

It may sound VERY self righteous at first, but I honestly don't understand almost all of it. I mean, I can relate to some part like when he talks about how he doesn't really try or "Swaying to my own sound". But the rest of the stuff, I just don't understand but I'll do my best to analyze. When he talks about "swaying to" his "own sound" I'm sure he's talking about being original and having your own "sound" or in other words: style. If you got your own style it means that you're original and that yo make a fad, not follow it. Which is often a good thing, I can't think of why I'd be a ad thing at the moment so when yu get the chamce just write it in the comments section because maybe you know :) So that's the only part of the song that I can really explain, if you can analyze the ENTIRE thing I'd love to hear it, in fact if you've got your own analysis of a song then don't be shy and em@il me it to: baciacalupo@hotmail.com and it'll go up on my "General Opinion" or "Review Page" depnding on which one yours is. I think that for now I'm done analysing their music. If you haven't noticed already I've changed the background an added up 3 of my favourie songs from One Republic's album "Waking Up". I'll be doing the same for every artist from now on, because I'm sureyou're tired of looking at the same background every time yo go up on my blog. If you're not, then that's too bad. My blog=my rules with sprinkles of your opinions if you've got any :P Next time I'll most likely either analyze Emin3m, Kanye West, Dub FX, Playing For Change, or someone else. If you have a reccomendation for an artist I'd love to hear their music even if it's bad it doesn't matter as long as you think it's good. Just make sure to put the Artist's name(s) and song(s) or album(s) in the comments section below. Doesn't matter what genre or style they are or what they sing about or what they look like, as long as they make music then they're worth writing about.

So recently, my mom recieved the report card in the mail. but I'm thousans of miles away and I can't really be grounded or anything unil I return. But the thing I've yet again realized isthat my marks went nowhere. And this has been happening ever since grade 6. My mom keeps telling me about my bad marks and how well I should be doing, but don't confuse what she says. Because what she means to tell me is that I could be doing much better than what I am doing now, and she's right in EVERY way. This year I mostly got 70's like always and 2 or 3 80's or 90's. When I should really be getting 90's in everything. But not because I say so, but because I can do that well. In fact, ANYONE can do that well. You just need self discipline, time, and plenty of work. Change does NOT happen over night, that you can count on. I was ofcourse dissapointed as well when my mom told me my marks because I CAN do better. And what she said to me was "If you keep telling yourself that you'll do better and don't do anything about it then you're not going to get anywhere". And once again, she's right. So what do I plan and hope to do the following year to improve? Well here's a short list of things that you yourself may want to read because you never know, you might be in the same boat I am.

#1 Details, details, and details. When starting ANY assignment read the rubrick CAREFULLY and compose a checklist of what's to be done and how it's supposed to be done. If you do this it will be like getting bonus marks becaue if you don't do as well on some parts of the assignment, the details will boost your total mark up by 5 or even 10% sometimes.

#2 Take notes when the teacher tells you to ALWAYS, and when he doesn't tell you but it seems like an important subject or you don't understand someting. Because in the end if you study those notes they will increase your knowledge on the topic at hand but maybe some of the detailed notes like the amount of a population or whethere there are more females than males in a certain country may pop up in question form on a test sooner than you may think.

#3 If you don't understand something, ASK!!!! No matter how dumb the question may be, if it is something you don't understand it will cost you marks in the end if you don't understand it. And I'm sure the teacher is more than happy to help, if not then ask someon you trust beside you or after class or even consult Google.

#5 Do EVERY piece of homework your teacher gives you along with assignments, and ALWAYS hand stuff in on time. Because doing this not only benefits you now, but down the road as you learn these habits they will affect your future life and how hard you work on your career. If you have a habit of not handing things in, this habit will not suddenly fade away when you're older, better now than later.

#6 Work your hardest. I know it's A LOT to ask from anyone to do their best on something. But if you complete an assignment in a haf-assed method then think of it this way. The way you did your assignment represents you. So if you wrote fast and did an awful job, then that is who you are. Someone that works very little and does it very quickly. If that is not who you are then why should you be working in that way?

That's all the little things that I can think of right now, I'm sure you yourself can come up with more. But don't be misguied, I'm not saying that I haven't made these mistakes, because I have multiple times. And so have you, I'm just writing it out for myself to see what I have left to imporve on. You can follow my guidelines or make your own, you choose. But this is what I have to work for in grade 10 and the rest of my life. And once I'm done that I'll work on some of my other mistakes, but not to be perfect, to be better than what I already am. Because I believe, that an artist or anybody for that matter should NEVER be satisfied with their work. They should always be pursuing higher goals no matter how hard they are to achieve. But that's just my opinion on it, I'm sure you've got your own fair share of things to say about what I've written, so just em@il me them if you can to: baciacalupo@hotmail.com or put them in the comments below. So for now, I'm goin to go to another museum in Moscow and I shall take plenty of pictures which I might post sometime on here. Until next time: Read it, learn it, live it, love it, and post it!

Cheers, MarkL

Whatever is on my mind

Hey guys, long time since my last post. But this one is going to make up for it all. The thing is, I've been busy living in Russia for the past 5 days so I couldn't really manage to have a post come out every day let alone every 2 days or so. I'm also working on an extra-long post describing my experience in Russia from day 1 to my last day. I'll most likely upload it as a Word Document on MegaUpload or if you guys want to give me your em@ils I'll just send it to you then. But that's not going to happen for another month, so stay frosty 'til then. But today's post will just be about whatever is on my mind at the moment. Most likely I'll analyze some lyrics, talk about a video, and probably something else at the end if I can fit it in. So......here.....we.....go!

So, you want to hear some good music analyzing? Well you've come to the right place! We got everything here, Dub FX, One Republic, Emin3m. But today's special shall be Bob Marley, so sit tight and relax mon. Bob Marley's song "One Love" is known by almost EVERYONE, along with his other songs like No Woman No Cry, Three Little Birds, and Buffalo Soldier. But the one that stand out at me is ALWAYS One Love. Why? Well because it speaks the truth "Let's get together and feel all right, Give thanks and praise to the Lord and feel all right" This clearly states that when you're out with friends, with no worries, and you're having a good time, you're feeling all right, right? Because sometimes we just need to be with people who understand, and without them we are alone in our journey. Oh and I forgot to mention earlier I'm going to post up my lyrics onto here in this post, I managed to finish them on m plane ride over to Russia. Ok now "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and feel all right translates to "Be thankful for what you have and for what the Lord has given you and you will live a happy life" That right there is some common sense for you all to use whenever it is needed, you’re welcome :D Those are the basic lyrics, so I'll just talk about the smaller parts of the song. Like when he's talking about the hopeless sinners that have hurt all mankind for their own purposes and gains, and if there is a place for them all. Yes, there are sinners in this world, I'm a sinner, you're a sinner, and we are ALL sinners. But the kind he’s talking about are the ones that are ALWAYS sinning. Say for example, people like pessimists, homophobic people, and of course the all-time classic "haters". But the point isn't to focus life on them. but to follow your own path and do what you do best. And that's what music is also about, doing what you want as long as it makes you happy, and if it makes other happy then you're in the right department. Here's another favorite Bob Marley song of mine "Three Little Birds" which was played in "I am legend" which was an EXCELLENT choice, I'll explain the song and you'll see. "Don't worry about a thing, because every little thing is going to be all right, Rising this morning and smiled with the rising sun" is just all about positivity. In the end of EVERY situation/problem EVERYTHING is all right because the conflict is resolved and everyone (or at least you should be) is feeling a sense of accomplishment. Maybe you'll smile with the rising sun? See what i did there? I placed song lyr-oh forget it. Look, the main theme of the song is to just be or at least try to remain positive throughout life no matter what. Although it isn't always easy you have to bear through it because that's what life is about, a series of challenges and conflicts that build our character depending on how we handle those conflicts. And if you didn't understand any of that then I'm sorry. Now that I look back at it, it does seem to be TOO deep for younger teens to realize, but HOPEFULLY you guys are smarter than I think, it's always a good thing to see my generation or even previous ones to rise out of our past problems and stupidity with pride :D Ok I've gotten WAAAY off topic so I'll just lead you back to our little green, red, and yellow brick road. Not only does he make GREAT music (beats) but his lyrics are LEGENDARY and will forever be so! And if one day people forget all about Bob Marley, then god help them. Because without positive music or any positivity in the world then we are domed to an early death as humanity. So to sum up, Bob Marley is one of the greatest artists that has ever walked the face of earth and molded future generations or people into living positively like me and with that I'd like to thank Bob Marley for ALL he's done. Now to keep up the positivity I'll move onto my yearly talk about the Golden Compass Trilogy.

Oh the Golden Compass, how awesome to read a book that is so..........golden, or subtle, or even amber. Ok if you didn't get THAT reference then I feel sorry for you. Because you'd only know that reference if you read the Golden Compass trilogy which is composed of The Golden Compass (of course), The Subtle Knife, and of course The Amber Spyglass. They are ALL great books, and EACH of them contains a new twist to the story. Book 1 introduces us to the world of Lyra Belacqua (Silver Tongue). Book 2 introduces us to the world of Will, and the two worlds meet but not literally and not yet. And I'm not telling you what happens in the 3rd book because that stuff ties EVERYTHING together, and is a BIG shocker and heart breaker at the end. I would know, I almost cried at the end of the book (YEAH I said it, I almost cried after reading a book, it has to be a pretty good to make me draw a tear to my eye :) It's a FANTASTIC read, in fact. Ever since my summer of 2009 I vowed to read the series every year in the summer because when I first read it a series of events occurred that changed my life forever. I shall not disclose said events unless you come up to me publicly and ask. So anyways, the author is acclaimed to be the best of his generation. Mr.Pullman has received some of the highest awards there are in the literature world. I can't name them all because it's 6 minutes in the morning in Russia (in other words it's dark) and I have no light sources.  Anyways, this guy is a MAGNIFICENT writer, and it is VERY sad if you don't go ahead and read it. Oh and PLEASE ignore the Golden Compass movie. Why? Well maybe because, oh I don't know..............IT SUCKED. It's absolutely NOTHING compared to the novels. The movie managed to bring in LESS money than it used to create it all. But maybe that's because in the story the author portrays the Church as an evil power that does VERY twisted things to people. So if you're not SUPER religious like Mr.Flanders over here, then go for it!! But PLEASE don't judge the book by how bad the movie was. Because when I personally watched the movie (because when I saw it first I didn't read the books so I couldn't do a comparison, and when I did watch the movie I did my comparison) and it was TERRIBLE. So many parts were cut out, the characters were messed up, and it was weak over all. So in conclusion, I'd suggest you read this book ASAP and DO NOT under ANY circumstance watch the movie. Once you're done reading if you'd be so kind enough as to give me your review and post it as a comment on this post that'd be wonderful!

So guys, maybe you remember or you don't. But I'll remind you, earlier in this post I said that I'll post my latest lyrics which I managed to finish on the plane over to Russia. But now that I think about it, I don't think they're finished yet so I might change them up from what they are right now. So in the light of my iPod I'll try to re-type them onto here. They're mostly about the diversity in the world and how we all got different talents. So here they are:

Chorus X2:I can't do anything you can do better

I can't do everything better than you

We all have talents that bring us together

But no-one else can do better than you

Equality is something this world is missing

Society's losing its color by dissing

The weird ones that are adding the spice

To life, spreading color and nice

On this mosaic, I like to call Earth

Filled with all kinds of people ever since birth

Artists, musicians and mathematicians

Add change to life just like magicians

We are all different, in our special way

No matter who you be: bi, straight or gay

Chinese, European, African, Indian

Black, white, or yellow we're all the same in the end

Human, Homosapien, no matter the name

We are all people divided by fame

You may do better than me in school

But I dance better and make it look cool

You make more money than I ever will

But I write these rhymes that send me uphill

Far away from society

To a place where I could just be me

In my sanctuary I am the king

Everyone listens and only I sing

We all got a place, a place of our own

There are no limitations, because the place we own

Is our mind, our imagination

We can burn the sands of time and mold our own creation

Bind the heavens and earth right now and forever

Put a mic in each hand and sing it together

Chorus X2

Ok well I hope you guys enjoyed that post. I'll leave a picture of my trip to Russia in the bottom of this post for you guys to see what it's like there. And I guess I'll be doing that for every post from now on. Maybe even when I get back to T-Dot I'll be doing the same. I hope you guys liked my lyrics, I'll try to record them like I promised before in around August. I've just been so busy here helping around the house and going to places I haven't even had the chance to make a dent in my reading, math, and even physics books. Yeah I felt like studying in my free time and making music and writing blogs in the summer. Anything wrong with that? You may think so. But I'm thousands of miles away from my friends, and they'd rather be on the computer anyways. So I'll see you guys later. In my next post I'll probably talk about another song or artist, maybe I'll even change up my lyrics. Well for now I got to go read and help out around the house some more and I'm going to go see a Russian movie soon so I got no time to waste. Until next time: Read it, learn it, live it, love it, and post it!

P.S. I definitely need to change up the lyrics, because now that I look back at them they seem too short to me. So stay tuned for that.

P.S.S. This is a pic of a bridge to a famous Church and I'm standing on it so you can't really see it. But what you can see is the Kreml which is composed of the red towers in the back, this was taken in Moscow, Russia. Photo creds go to me :D

P.S.S.S. I'll change up the videos every post or so depending what artist I'm listening to at the time.


P.S.S.S.S. You're awesome :D