Lyrics Shuffle

They'll tell you I'm insane.

And I just wanna tell you I am.

So honey now

You're the color of my blood.

Taken away to the dark side.

Maybe just the touch of a hand.

And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways.

Or with a nasty scar.

Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks?

You're gonna sing the words wrong.

Music Lyrics

"I should go now quietly

For my bones have found a place

To lie down and sleep

Where all my layers can become reeds

All my limbs can become trees

All my children can become me

What a mess I leave

To follow."- Smother//Daughter

"Nobody knows everything.

We know this to be true.

Everything is difficult

Except what's in front of you

But it's complicated even under your nose

Bullshit math equations

And your highs and your lows

And your manic depression

It comes and it goes

Your parasympathetic nervous system reacts

And you're in fight-or-flight mode" -People 2: The Reckoning//Andrew Jackson Jihad

"And I can feel your pain

Deep in my bones" -Sleeper 1972//Manchester Orchestra

"Stop the car.

Let me out.

I am tired an broken down

But I've decided that I want to live.

Stop the car.

Let me out.

I might be tired and broken down but

I'm regretting taking all the poison

On purpose.

I want to live.

With purpose." Life Isn't Over If You Want To Live// Cat Food

Teachers + Music

When I asked Mrs. Honeycutt and Mrs.Corbett what kind of music they disliked or refused to listen to, Mrs. Honeycutt said that she hated listening to country and Mrs.Corbett said that she really disliked listening to Techno. I really hate Rap because I feel like they rap about irrelevant things. We have so muh more to worry about that how much we drank in a club.

When I asked them what kind of of music reminded them of their childhood, Mrs Honeycutt said that La Bouche was the theme song of her childhood while Mrs Corbett said that The Steve Miller Band reminded her of her childhood. For me, I remember listening to a lot of Elvis's songs when I was younger because he was my dad's favorite artist.

I found it kind of interesting how the two teachers had the complete opposite taste in music but I think that's pretty cool because I like diversity in music.

Music Questions

I think that I gravitate towards certain kinds of music because music has the ability to either change my mood, or amplify my mood. Sometimes when I’m upset, I find that listening to sad music always makes me feel worse even though I try to justify it by telling myself that relating to the lyrics in the song will help me feel better. I know that changing the kind of music that I listen to when I’m sad always helps me feel better eventually but in the beginning, it always seems annoying to me although I know that after a while, everything will be a lot better. I think I dislike certain types of music because they seem discriminatory or they sing about things that don’t matter. I've always been the kind of person that listens to music that I can relate to and not being able to relate to music has always turned me away from that style or artist. Once I dislike an artist, I end up hating all of their songs even if they completely change everything about their music. I do think that my parents have an influence on the kind of music I listen to because I still go through phases where I listen to Frank Sinatra or Elvis. My parents have always listened to older music (I guess that’s because they are older than me). When it comes to my friends, I have friends that don’t listen to the same music as me at all, and then I have friends who listen to the same exact kind of music I listen to and then I also have friends who are somewhere in the middle.  I like having a mixture of friends and their music taste because I can always discover new music through them even if I end up not liking it. I think that discovering new music and falling in love with an album or an artist is one of the best feelings in the world. Without music, my life would have no purpose (how cliché). I know for a fact that music is the most important thing to me because it has always found the words when I seemed to have forgotten what to say. My life without music is something that I never want to think about because I don’t think I would ever want to be alive to experience that. 

10 Line Poems

Stamina

Maybe we are walking targets.

It seems as though no matter how hard we try, life gets the best of us.

But we keep going

And I don’t know why.

Sometimes it would feel easier to give up

But what is victory without struggle?

How could we know pain without joy?

I guess that’s the thing about life

We keep on falling but we always get back up

Everything is temporary.

We Don’t Even Listen to the Same Music

I’ve always been shorter, smaller, and less important.

Sometimes I think I might be a part of the sky.

Or maybe a piece of driftwood.

Sailing endlessly, pointlessly.

I think that’s all I will ever be.

You’ve always been the moon.

You change the tides when you’re around.

You are the entire ocean at every depth.

Vast and unfathomable.

How lovely.

Artist Profile: Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo (de Rivera) was born on July 6th 1907 in the village of Coyoacan, which is a small village on the outskirts of Mexico City. Her father was a German immigrant named Guillermo Kahlo who migrated to Mexico when he was 19. He spent his life as a well-established photographer and was married twice. His first wife died during the birth of his second child and not long after, he married Frida’s mother. Her name was Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez. She spent her life raising Frida and her other siblings, along with her two step-daughters. Frida attended Mexico’s premiere school which was called Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and was well known for being in cliques. She wanted to study medicine but after a Bus accident that left her bed ridden for months, she turned to art instead. The bus accident also left her unable to carry a pregnancy to full-term, which resulted in three miscarriages.  During Frida’s lifetime, 5 major historical events that occurred were: The Mexican Revolution, World War One, World War Two, The Prohibition Movement, and the Holocaust. Frida also struggled with a troubled marriage to Diego Rivera. The couple is known for having numerous affairs, but when Frida died, Diego said that is was the saddest day of his life because he was apparently in love with her. Psychological/emotional distress was one of the most prevalent struggles in Frida’s life and she often took her feelings and put it into her artwork. She is most well-known for her paintings and self-portraits. She once said that she painted herself because she was the only thing that she knew the most about. Frida is also mostly associated with surrealism and magic realism. One thing that people might not know about her is that she died from an overdose on July 13th 1954 at the age of 47 and it is not unclear as to whether or not her overdose was on purpose because she wrote “I hope the exit is joyful-and I hope to never return,” before she died.

 Despite her many struggles, she became a celebrated artist in Mexico and is still influential to many artists today. Three of her most famous works are: Two Fridas, Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, and Without Hope. However, my two personal favorites are Roots and Girl with Death Mask. Roots is a self-portrait of Frida lying sideways on the ground while vines grow all over and around her. Girl with Death Mask is a painting of a small girl who is holding a small flower. She is isolated and nothing is around her except mountains in the background. He girl is also wearing a mask that is white and has an expression of agony, while another mask sits on the ground but it has more of a demonic appearance that seems to be unsettling. Frida Kahlo has always been one of my favorite artists because her self-portraits often depict her without an emotion on her face, but she addresses her struggles in other parts of the picture.

Dan in Real Life Questions

Question #2

Three things that I think that parents of teenagers should know is that: We need our space, trust us, we know what is right and what is wrong, and let us breathe. I know that our teenage years are the weirdest and craziest times of our lives because we are in between being old enough to know what we want to do and too young to do what we want to do because they might be bad for us even if we think that it feels right.

Question #4

I think that Dan isn’t being a very good role model although he’s trying his best. Sometimes things happen to us that we can’t control and the more we try to act like they aren't happening, the more prevalent they become. In Dan’s case, he tells his kids to do as he says and not as he does but he falls in love with a woman in three days and he tells his daughter that she doesn't actually love the guy that she’s with. I could understand where Dan is coming from though because his daughter is much younger than him and has a lot to learn about life.

Question #11

Yes, I do think that illicit love is more appealing to us because it’s so much harder for the people involved to be together. I think that we crave chaos and it satisfies us to see others suffering (that came out wrong and I didn't mean it like that). I don’t really know how to explain it but I think that we enjoy seeing others struggle and hopefully triumph in the end.

Question #12

People who are well-traveled are more interesting to me because they've seen a lot more and experienced a lot more than we have. I think that in order to be more open as a person, we need to be outside of our comfort zone and traveling helps us break away from being narrow minded.