Every Place Is a House

So what I did for the weekend was go back to my hometown Spring Lake. I really needed a weekend to just get away from everything and relax. I hung out with my boys just like old times and I couldn't have asked for anything better. I actually found the time to go to two movies this weekend! I saw Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas and Immortals. Both were good movies but they are both the types of movies that's not worth seeing again. At my friends' house, the productivity level is zero to none. Absolutely nothing goes down there but we still seem to find entertainment somewhere throughout our environment. I really wish weekends were longer so I had the chance to hang with my friends for a longer period of time.

Suck Your Blood For Fun

One of the genre's we were asked to analyze was the vampire genre. We watched about twenty minutes of Twilight and about thirty minutes of The Vampire Diaries. We were asked to have similarities and differences between the two clips that we saw. Some things I came up with was that the vampire was always the center of attention in both clips and most girls always seemed to find the vampire to be very attractive. As for the setting, it was a dark, spooky, shady, yet pale environment in both vampire viewings. The audience would start around the age of twelve and probably start losing people's interest around the age of 23. Some more things I found out is that the girl usually falls for the vampire and the vampire ends up being bad news. Two more things I've noticed about them both was that the vampires have unnatural superpowers like running super fast. Lastly I noticed the awkward tension between the girl and the vampire during their first encounter.

Fairytales Tell Tales

For one of our assignments we were required to make up a fairytale with the elements of common fairytale stories. Mine wasn't the most creative story but it did have all the essentials is was required to have. It was about these two kids, Conrad and Jade, an impenetrable duo that travel around New York City discovering new places and getting lost in the midst of their travels. Conrad hears about his new party store opening up and they're the only place with these famous blue chips. So they embark to get these famous blue chips and on their way there, they see a bag of the blue chips on the ground. As soon as Jade picks up the chips she begins to eat them and two men come out from the shadows and try to kidnap them. Conrad kicks one  of the shady guys' butt and jade unleashes this ice breathing superpower on the other shady man, leaving him a frozen block of ice. Both Jade and Conrad are astonished about what just happened. Jade explains that it must be the famous blue chips that made her breath ice. They run away from the crime scene and continue to go to that party store. It turns out that the famouse blue chips were never in existence and that Jade and Conrad were the only ones to ever try them.

My Fears Have Become Phobias

On Thursday night a huge group of friends and I decided to go to a haunted house called Phobia House. I always have a tradition with my friends to go to a haunted house every year sometime in October. Usually we go to The Haunt up in Grand Rapids and that's a good scare. Every year they keep upgrading and every year it gets even better. This was the first time I've heard of Phobia House and just by the name of it, it sounds a little scary to say the least. Too bad it wasn't as frightening as I thought it would be. It had its moments where I did get startled but overall it wasn't that great. The things I did like about the haunted house was that it was sort of a maze, so there were multiple pathways you could choose from to get to the end of the house. At the end of our journey, only a couple people went back to the house to party. Me and my friend Joe, accompanied by our dates, were few of the couple of people that went back and had a good time after the haunted house. I'd say in the end, it was a successful and fun-filled night!

Speak Your Mind

The topic I'm writing about for my analysis paper is a song called Freedom of Speech by an underground rapper named Immortal Technique. In my paper I explain all the things that lead against freedom of speech and I support facts to prove them. Immortal Technique does an excellent job in this song because he's not afraid to tell the world the real truth about our government and how they restrict us from fully expressing ourselves. I have examples of record companies that overrule your career as an artist and change the way you sound or the style of how you sing or rap. I've also got some facts on movie censorship and all the things film industries have restricted in the past and the progression of how they conquered those movie censors and how movies became movies today. Everybody should definitely go check out Immortal Technique because the majority of his songs are touching and interesting because of the stories he tells through his songs. But be warned that he uses explicit words and metaphors that people may find inappropriate. Listen at your own risk!

Whoa Man Take a Chill Pill

I don't know where all this homework came from. Last week I was all caught up in everything, I though I was doing fine in my school work. Somehow so much homework built up on me that now it's ridiculous. I have three papers due this week along with other smaller assignments like this blog. But I know that at the end of the week, when all this stress is lifted from me, I'm going to have one bangin' weekend. Having no stress and no homework to worry about calls for a very deserving time to let loose and party! But first I have to get through this dreading week in order for me to clear my head from school work. I just wish there was a switch that stopped time so we could just chill and take a deep breath and grasp reality. At this point I need a break in life, I need time to stop so I can catch up with everything else. Looks like adderall is going to be my good friend for the next couple of days. Wish me luck!

And They Say Drugs Were Killing The Youth

We discussed the topics on what the reason was why people take drugs and how so many famous musicians, like Sonny in the story Sonny's Blues and tons of other life-changing bands and artists that have used drugs in their life. We thought of some reasons why people might want to take drugs: to feel something, to have sort of an out-of-body experience, to cope your feelings. There are also many geniuses out there there that have admitted to having some sort of drug usage in their life. For example, Steve Jobs, the creator of Mac, admitted that LSD was a major part of his life. There has also been many historical and recent bands and hip-hop artists such as The Beatles, Slighly Stoopid, Kid Cudi, Jay-Z, Silversun Pickups, and many many other musicians that either have songs that are drug-related or have told us in their music that they have experienced drug use. I believe the drugs that these people use, they use to enhance their view on things and allows them to think to an even higher extent of what normal thinking is, and they think of a genius idea that might possibly make them rich or famous for figuring out the missing piece in something or maybe inventing something. And some admit that the help of drugs assisted them in their progress to their genius idea.

'Tis The Season To Be Jolly

It's the month of October and you know what that means: Halloween! I'm so stoked for Halloween this year because I've heard some crazy stuff goes down this time of year. I haven't made a final decision on who/what I want to be but I have a couple thoughts lingering in my head. It's tempting to share my thoughts but I'm the type of person that enjoys pulling the 'surprise factor' on you to get the chance to see their initial reaction. The only negative I see in this year's Halloween is that it falls on a Monday and it's not the type of holiday that allows school to be cancelled. I also been hearing word around campus that there's no trick-or-treating in Western. So where am I supposed to get my peanut butter cups? Guess I'll just have to buy a big at Meijer when the after Halloween sale is going on. ;]

Robots Taking Over The World!

"Technology made it easy for us to stay in touch while keeping a distance. Until we stayed distant and never touched, now all we do is text too much." This is a quote by an underground poet/rapper named Sage Francis. It comes from his song "The Best Of Times" and the reason I'm writing about this is because it defines the truth about our society and how technology has taken such a huge toll on us. From so many Twitter and Facebook users now, equipped with the latest smartphone, and from Skyping with friends, most people only keep in touch with text instead of face to face meetings. Yeah I'm that type of person who takes 30 minutes to a couple hours to reply back to your text, not because I have a hateful emotion towards you, its because I'm not the one who constantly checks their phone every 17 seconds. But I would rather receive a phone call from someone and to have the opportunity to hear the other person's voice. Although I do realize when text messaging comes in handy, from talking stealthily in class and having time to think about your response instead of on the spot responses, so there positives to having technology around. I apologize if this offends anyone, I'm just getting my words out there for the world to read them!

My Thoughts Run Blank

Have you ever read something but didn't absorb any of the information you just read, so you just read the words without comprehending them? It's happened to all of us, so there's no pleading innocent in this case. There may be different instances where this happens but I think it happens to me mostly when I'm reading something, but my mind is thinking about something different. Then in the midst of reading I realize that I'm not understanding what I am reading, so the knowledge that is provided isn't being explained to its fullest potential. Its mostly because of how the reader reads it and how he/she comprehends what they just read.

Wildstyle Method

Freestyling. It's what I like to do in my free time. Any words that come to mind are spoken. I try to enlarge my vocabulary so I can have more things to rhyme with and simply to sound smarter to be honest. If you don't know what freestyling is, it's when you create a sentence using words generated from your head and having them rhyme at the end of each sentence. I talk about anything that happens to cross my mind. During sessions when one of my friends just says a random word, I'll try to converge a story and rap about it, and rap about all the things surrounding it. Although my friends say I'm pretty good at freestyling, I personally don't think I'm that good. But occasionally I do come make up some sick verse on the spot. Having correct rhyming, combined with perfect timing is a major essential to have if you'd like to pursue becoming a rapper or poet. When I ask people to freestyle, they admit saying they don't know how and avoid the request. But what they don't know is that if you just start off saying words, not even having to rhyme, you'll eventually get better and feel more comfortable speaking your mind. A lot of what I say sometimes doesn't make sense so it wouldn't affect me if people giggled at what I said. Lol @ the word giggled. And doodle. :P

Where I'm From

I'm from hangin' with friends,
where laughs don't stop and nights never end.
With the bass bumping and seeing the sun come up.
I'm from no stress with the best kept secret,
where no one can see it, but people can feel it.
I'm from going to the movies every weekend,
just to see something new.
Doesn't matter what movie it is,
I just know it'll be getting my view.
I'm from daily chillin' in The Lab,
where the feel it brings is the opposite of sad.
Seeing the nice view, of the neighbors backyard,
with a garden and all, we love watching the rain fall.
I'm from going downtown Grand Haven,
and running red lights in the dead of the night.
Traveling to Taco Bell cause I'm on a fourthmeal diet
and always getting an ice cold Baja on the side.
I'm from having a weird background,
but not willing to care what people think.
I'm from having a city boy life style,
to having to live in the sticks.
But this is my life, and no one can change it.

Starting Off On The Right Track

My name is Patrick Haggarty and I am a freshhhman at Western Michigan University. I live in the Bigelow hall and I consider myself to be a very chill person. I rarely get angry or sad because of the things I have around me. Music, my friends, and other outside sources allow me to stay happy most of the time so I couldn't ask for a better life. I'm really into music too. I have around 5500+ songs in my iTunes library and more are being added into my collection. I'm addicted to shoes and plan on owning more than 15 pairs of shoes so I could have a fresh pair of shoes matching with every outfit.