FACEBOOK and Johnny Cry

Dear classmates,


Since we've watched The Social Network last week, I wanted to stay in the same subject for my post. As in my first post, I'll introduce you to something, someone. I found a guy on youtube only few hours ago. The guy is weird, no need to tell you that, you'll notice it at first. But if you are paying attention to what he is saying, his point of view is not idiot at all (not saying that the guy doesn't look idiot though). He's actually giving his idea about the end of the world in 2012 related to Facebook. Ok, forgot to tell you: the guy is also on drugs. I invite you to watch some of his videos, and there are a lot. At first, I was feeling sad for ''Johnny'' (his rapper name), then I started to understand the irony and the humour in the videos, even if he is sometimes too high to be funny or to look a bit intelligent. In the majority of his videos, he doesn't make sense at all. But in some of them, you can notice that he actually does not have any mental problems, except he is dependant of alcohol or drugs or whatever he could be on. I was so curious after watching at a couple of videos, I made a little research. It seems like he could be a drug dealer in his city, he also ''rap'', he has a passion for improvising stuff (this explain his incoherence). Well, he has 2 youtube accounts, you might be confused. In one of them, there are more ''sober'' videos. Well, I'll let you explore them. I promise you will laugh, for sure.

PS: I'm sorry this video is only available in French.

WE ARE THE 99%!

First thing I have to say about the Occupy Mouvement: Why did it take people so long to wake up? As long as I know, injustice on earth always have been present. There will always be, no matter how many fights and wars it will cause. How could we explain that the only 1% of  corporate forces (governments) runs our world. How can we explain that 1% is getting over 99%? I don't get the point. Anyways, that may means only few people of the 99% feel concerned about the urge to react and to use their own power. Even me, as young adult, no so informed about the world wide issues, don't feel included in that ''story''. So what? I still be included in the 99%. Older people (as my parents, for example) are not even aware of the movement. So... How can it be possible to make a real change on the world situation? Maybe some people don't even care about being led by corruption and injustice, because it always have been this way. We don't have any idea of a world living in peace and love. We always have been figthing for it, but we don't even know what it would be like.


Like I said before, in order to make a success of the Occupy mouvement, and to inform you about it, here are some facts that need to be known about the governments that run the Earth:


''They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.


They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.


They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.


They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.


They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.


They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.


They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.


They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.


They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.


They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.


They have sold our privacy as a commodity.


They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press. They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.


They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.


They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.


They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.


They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.


They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.


They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.


They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.


They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad. They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.


They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts. *


*These grievances are not all-inclusive.''

-As you can read, some of these facts are totally unknown or unrealized by the population. It is our right to be informed and it is our responsability to react about it. So let's be united, let's fight again and again... without any physical violence, of course. But will that make any changes? Out of so many tries to fight injustice, will that one try will be the effective one? Let's hope the impossible: a 99% against 1% victory.

Life is wonderful!

I didn't know what to talk about. I have so much to share with you, but in order to not be so boring and follow the way my blog began with, I'd like to introduce you to JASON MRAZ.

I've always known that everything happens for something. I believe that life has its good and its bad, but what would be the good if the bad wouldn't even exist? Would we appreciate being in the light if we ever had no idea of the darkness? Well, everything has its oposite and this is ain't meant for no reason. So, even if you end up more often in the darkness, you'll always know there is something that will bring you back to light, and that light, actually, DOES exist. Life is wonderful, this is what tells us this song of Jason Mraz, artist that I particularly like. Enjoy lyrics and video, hope it will make sense to you, as it does to me! :)

LYRICS:
It takes a crane to build a crane
It takes two floors to make a story
It takes an egg to make a hen
It takes a hen to make an egg
There is no end to what I'm saying

It takes a thought to make a word
And it takes some words to make an action
It takes some work to make it work
It takes some good to make it hurt
It takes some bad for satisfaction
Life is wonderful
Life goes full circle
Life is wonderful
Ah la la la la

It takes a night to make it done
And it takes a day to make you yawn brother
And it takes some old to make you young
It takes some cold to know the sun
It takes the one to have the other

And it takes no time to fall in love
But it takes you years to know what love is
It takes some fears to make you trust
It takes those tears to make it rust
It takes the dust to have it polished

Life is wonderful
Life goes full circle
Life is so full of
Life is so rough
Life is wonderful
Life goes full circle
Life is our love
Ah la la la la la

It takes some silence to make sound
It takes a loss before you found it
And it takes a road to go nowhere
It takes a toll to make you care
It takes a hole to make a mountain

My Halloween

Halloween is disappointing me this year. Why is this holiday so commercialized? I mean, costumes are so expensive, people are buying tones of candies and parents are driving their children from street to street so they can trick-and-treating as much as possible. People are decorating their house as it was Christmas holiday! I really don't get the point. What are we celebrating yet? I think we are supposed to celebrate death. But instead, people are spending money to buy costumes, decorations and candies. Costumes are not even scaring anymore. Some are costuming to look like Lady Gaga, Superman or Barbie. Halloween is so popular and means not much to us. It has lost its religion meaning. I went to the bar on Saturday night to celebrate. I was expecting to see few people costumed and others not caring about it. OMG! What a surprise to see the bar over fulled of costumed people. I think I had never seen the bar this full. I had never seen that much witches, vampires, superman, fake girls costumes in my entire life as well. The bar was over the capacity it could handle. It took me 10min to get to the dancefloor and 15min to reach the bathroom. WHAT A NIGHT! My wig got stuck everywhere because it was too big for the minimal space everyone had to respect. It even stayed stuck to a man dress shirt and he had to broke its button so I could walk away. My lord, it was boring. Nobody could dance or drink properly. Too much people in this tiny bar. Well, I am also surprise to tell you that I paid $40 for my costume and that I wore it only 2hours because I returned home, wig less, sorry to not be a child anymore so I could have trick-and-treat wearing a witch hat and running through the streets.

Confessions of a shopaholic

I have to admit it; my shopping addiction is killing me now! It gets bigger and bigger as I am growing up as a woman. I wish I could save money; I should save money, actually, I need to save money so bad! I can't explain this addiction to anybody. What an incredible feeling to spend money for material that you don't necessary need, eh? Okay, well, you might not think the same. That is the problem: I feel like I'm the only person of my entourage that's suffering that bad of this kind of disease. Because, YES, it is a disease to me. It is affecting my psychological condition and my future. Since I own a credit card, you can imagine that I'm spending even more! Well, I still have the capacity to pay my bills, my credit card, my car, etc. But, I don't have any extra money to put in my ''useless saving account''! Argggg, the more I try, the less it's working. I've tried so many times to fix myself, to deal with it, to change the situation. Nothing is giving my the great satisfaction of buying new shoes, new clothes, a new cellphone, or whatever. I feel in conflict with myself, and I always have regrets after a purchase. I feel guilty, proud of me, and then guilty again. Sometimes I can be a week without spending a buck, except for gas. And then, I'm taken by an urge to buy the first thing that's come in my mind. Thank god, I've got only one credit card! Unless my situation would look like the one in Confessions of a shopaholic. If you want to get an idea of what I am -a shopaholic-, just watch this movie! Enjoy!!! :)
Oh, and feel free to share any solutions that might be efficient!

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! I'd like to introduce you to my blog and introduce you to a song a really like. Last Friday, I had the chance to listen to my favorite band LIVE from Quebec City. That was the best show ever! RISE AGAINST is the name of the band. The name they've chosen is representative of their songs, beacause the lyrics are always on givong their opinion about anything they care about. This is one of the reasons I appreciate them so much. So.... Welcome to my blog and just ENJOY! :)