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Friday, February 11, 2011

Counting Blue Cars

You don't hear many teens talking in the halls about the newest Christian rock band out or how amazing one of their songs are and that they should go listen to it. Whenever people hear "Christian rock" many minds jump to conclusions of like gospel music thrown in to an acoustic melody.  It's really not like that.  In fact, many Christian rock bands that you hear may not even sound like it at first.  Like Dishwalla.
The song Counting Blue Cars by Dishwalla was a song I loved since I was a little girl.  Although, I would have to contribute that mostly due to the fact that my dad performed a cover of the song in his band. 
The song starts off with an electric acoustic melody. Gets you pumped up, then it slows to gentle strumming as the first verse starts off.  It is very soothing and the way it sounds leaves your mind having to think about the lyrics.  And right when you draw your conclusions from the soft tone lyrics, the chorus comes and just throws your conclusions into action.  The guitars pick up the pace as well as the drums and the lyrics.  It pushes you to actually think "and ask her (God) why we're who we are." Then the second verse comes and its brings you back to a tranquil state of mind. 
This track grabs you at first with its guitar opening, then pulls you deeper with it's lyrics.  One of the parts in the lyrics that I think is great is that the writer calls God a "she."  Which does relate to the lyrics "He had, many questions, Like children often do."  It kind of shows that our interpretation to religion is open just like a child's mind is.  Just like a child is questioning things, so is everyone else, nothing is certain and even the fact that God can be male or female is just one of those questions that we seek to ask.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Now wasssssup

Grammar.  Can't stress it enough. Probably the one thing that annoys me completely.  Whether someone is speaking or even through the simplest thing as a text.  It is one of my  pet peeves.  What sparked this you may ask, "I knows..."
I may have my mistakes here and there.  My father grew up in Bridgeport and I grew up listening to his B-port slang talk.  Like when my dad would call to me and my brother, he'd yell out "Yous guys..."  Or his way of saying "There is nothing there" would be, "There ain't nothing." One of my favorite words. So I have some bad habits. 
Now when someone needs to ASK a question, that's what it is. It's ASK not AXE. And the word "for" can not ever take the word "so".  It is not "I need to finish my chores FOR I can go out," it is, "I need to finish my chores SO I can go out."
Now texting.  There are just too many to correct each one.  So let's just make a list first. Y, K, O, YOUR, ITS, L8R, CYA, TOO, TO, 2, R, IDK, IDC, WAT, WASSUP, GNIGHT, GOTCHU, GONNA... I'll just stop here for now.    People also use these words in emails, which they even send to teachers.  Either we're just too lazy to type/talk correct or people in the 21st century are slowly forgetting the English way of communicating.