The Pretender

Today is my parents wedding anniversary and I didn't even know, but I'll remember that it's the 7th of july now because it's the 7th of the 7th and that's pretty lucky isn't it. Sometimes I don't like how my parents are, but when I think about it, most of the time they're nice.

It's probably a rather common experience in your teenage years to feel like you have nothing in common with your parents and then later on you look at your parents personalities and your own and then you say "oh. I get it now."

We've all been raised to expect things to be perfect. We only notice or care when bad things happen. I guess that's just how this society works

Like, the news. Well actually I don't watch the news that much, but as far as I remember it's often "x has died in a car crash, y has been sentenced to z lives in jail because of manslaughter, p has decided to keep our troops in country q" etc

I could rant on about that more but I don't feel like it. I remember sheridan in year 7 I think said that the only thing that we actually needed on the news was the weather, because nothing else they talk about affects us.


"Do the simple choice and don't listen to music. Easy, right?"

This I can rant about.

Well, firstly what I was trying to say was that music is so great that even though I already have this music for free, one day I'm going to pay for it because that's how awesome it is.

The problem is, that, you're offering advice based off your point of view only. It's like someone who have been poor their whole life, homeless, etc. saying that life is shit. They haven't experienced the better parts of life, they've only experienced being at the very bottom.

You don't listen to music so there's nothing positive you can advise or say about it.

But then there can be a guy who has been poor, then got a nice job, and lived a nicely for the rest of his life. Ask him about life. He's experienced both the worst and the best of it, but he's probably going to say it's alright, or it's good.

I started listening to music last year, before that I didn't. I've been on both sides. If you were to ask me if music is alright then I would say that it's awesome.

I'm not sure if you can understand what I'm saying above, but as long as you get the point, not the details or the analogy, that would be enough.




Story time

In year 8 I remember when mr. wong quit halfway through the year he said that he wasn't leaving because we were bad, he was leaving because we were so good that it inspired him to do music himself, and he couldn't teach and compose at the same time so he had to quit. and the day before yesterday I was cleaning room and I found an old music test from year 8 and I got 40/40 which was pretty cool, but I still remember I got like 70 for the yearly mark. Anyway, he quit and Ms. Lee I think took over, and one of the first things she got us to do for homework was to write a paragraph about who we were and what music we liked, etc.

I remember that I wrote "I like most types of musics except for heavy metal rock". Note that there's no commas between heavy, metal, and rock.
****. Everything is wrong there. I didn't even listen to music then. How could I say that.

oh, and on 7/12/09, I still didn't listen to much music. I mean,

"Three songs that I listen to often:
1. Still Alive
2. The noise my laptop makes that never stops and is probably ruining my hearing
3. Night Elf Theme 1"

Night Elf Theme 1 would be the ambient music of warcraft/dota.

So what I think happened was, I listened to "Still Alive" which is the ending song of the Portal the game; I played games but didn't listen to music at that time. So I listened to that and I was like "woah, this is pretty cool" and I listened to it some more, and then one day I clicked a few links and got to a song called The Pretender. I fell in love with this song the first listen. and I don't know, maybe around 900 listens later I still like it. This is the only song that's been able to do that for me. Listen to it.

Go on. hehe goon remember that mark if you're reading this







Notice anything about it? Well I guess you don't know what you're meant to be noticing.
-This would be "heavy metal rock"
-This was the first time I listened to "heavy metal rock"
-I don't not like it


So, before actually listening to music my opinion was "heavy metal rock is bad, others (such as pop) is okay"

After listening my opinion is "FF for life, lady gaga/justin bieber suck"


If you open your ears and your mind, anything can sound good. Did you think the pretender was bad, or not like it? listen to it again, with an open mind.
Actually, now that I think about it I've only listened to "baby", not the rest of justin bieber's songs. And I've listened to "bad romance" and "poker face", not the rest of lady gaga's songs.
And if I think about it even more, they weren't that bad, I was just listening with a closed mind.
And I'm not going to listen to them with an open mind.
Want to know why?
because they're the pretender
and they also suck