Noticing the Lack of Understanding

Now I've been thinking about this topic for the past few days, coining it, rolling it around and just trying to get a grasp of it. And the topic is how we, and by we, I mean you're everyday normal person, lacks an understanding of certain things and therefore cannot admire it for what it really is. What brought this on was a television programme called Inside Nature's Giants which basically takes some of the world's largest animals and dissects them to figure out how they work and why they evolved to be that way. I watched the giraffe episode and was so surprised at how amazing the giraffe had evolved into what it was and how the internal organs worked together. It made me think how I see a giraffe on TV or at the zoo and just think that's quite a cool animal, but while watching the show, i realised I didn't appreciate it as much as I should have.
So this begs the question, why don't we as humans, who are curious by nature, go out and find these sorts of things out so we may admire the world much more than we do. Why do we leave it to the scientists to tell us these things when we have the internet at our fingertips to find all this information.
What we should do is always figure out what we don't know and learn what you can about it. Go to sites that give you random and unnecessary knowledge because you know when it might come in handy, and if it never does...who cares! At least you know it and you can appreciate the world more.

Live it people.

Actor Resumes, Stephen Lynch and a Side Order of Jam

The fun times I seem to have on random nights in...

So my Producer and I are working on the pre-production of our major project for our final year at Uni which is a film. So we have spent the night looking through actor and actress resumes that have been sent to us from our ad online. We've spent the night reading through them and sorting them and e-mailing back. All the while we've been listening to Stephen Lynch's awesome songs. We spent several hours doing this. We followed this up with a sweet jam with my guitar and his bass. I seem to have some awesome nights when spent in not doing much but keeping busy. Sometimes nights in seem to just be the best. Just chilling out, doing what you feel like, being warm, not having to walk anywhere. I need to do this more often lol. Anyway, that's all I had to say. see ya on the flip side.

Stand, Sit, Kneel

Alright, so I was raised Catholic. My parents are both Catholic and in turn I was brought up to go to church and pray. But here's what confuses me. At church today I started thinking. Why must we stand when we are told to stand, why must we sit when we are permitted to sit and why must we kneel when we are supposed to kneel. It makes no sense. The idea of prayer is that it can be done anywhere, in any way, in any form. So if what we do at church is pray. Then why do we pray the way we are told to in church instead of praying in a way that makes us feel comfortable. It's like we're being told, 'unless you do what we say, then you're prayer won't have as much effect' and I think that's just taking the very idea and purpose of praying away from what it is. Why don't they have lying down as well then huh? That would be better. A nice row of beds in a church. Then we'd cover the whole spectrum (or at least a majority of it) in which people get into position for. I'll tell you, I'd rather pray upside down over a cliff then have to follow these 'rules' but alas, i have no such equipment to allow this. Oh well. C'est la vie.

Just not right...

Alright so tonight was the first night in probably 2 weeks that I've gone home to my flat since I had been staying with my girlfriend. My friend Rich comes over and him, my flatmate Owen and I decide to play some video games. We decide to play Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 which is an awesome game. Now tonight, even though this is like the 4th time I've played this (twice on Special Ops and twice on versus, both versus I got destroyed) I completely rocked the game taking down my friends quite well. Since I was doing so well, I decide to show how happy I was by saying I was playing it and playing it awesomely against Owen who owns the game and has played it significantly more than I or Rich have combined, by mentioning it on my Facebook status. Now that was 3 hours ago, and 3 hours more of gaming later, I come back on here. I look at what's happened on Facebook and apparently my GF has joined a Facebook group called I hate COD which is for GF and wives whose 'other halves' play the game too much. That was 2 hours ago that she joined, 1 hour after I mentioned I was playing it. Now does that seem fair? We haven't been together that long for one (1 month tomorrow) and since we've been together I've played it 4 times and twice with Owen. So i don't understand how she could think I play it too much. I mean c'mon, in the past month we've been together, I've been home like 5 times for a night each. I just don't think that's a fair judgment on her part. I beleive it may be in spite as we had a small argument earlier and though I got over it, she hasn't. Oh well. I just needed to say that because I thought it was quite funny. All I know though is that it's just not right.

What is normal?

Alright so, I was just filling in the section for my profile and under About Me, I started it off with "I'm just a normal everyday guy". Now I've never described myself as normal. In fact, I'm far from normal and would find it offensive being called normal. Normal is boring, normal is strange and to be honest, normal is scary. If everyone was like the Stepford Wives, then this world would be fucked in more sense than one. Everyone has their own weird little tendencies. Everyone has certain aspects of themselves that are NOT normal to others. And maybe that's what normal is. Just being different and strange and weird to others but not to yourself. I mean of course there's a line. I wouldn't call Ed Gein normal. And I wouldn't call him weird or strange in the sense of what I'm saying is normal. No he was just psychotic beyond humanly possible. But those who don't go around digging up women's corpses or killing women and making belts out of their nipples (which is what Ed Gein did), may be considered normal just for their little differences. I mean as I said, 'normal is strange'. Well if normal is strange and strange is normal then that must mean normal is normal...Yay! We've gone in a full circle. But at least now we have a theory for normality. I'm happy. Are you?

The First Blog

My head, on a daily basis, rattles with many musings and general curious elements in life. These thoughts linger in my head throughout the day and if I'm lucky enough (or should I say unlucky enough as I have enough thoughts in my head in one day, let alone adding those from a previous day)into the next day. I decided then to share some of these thoughts and even some of the, how should I say this, crazy situations I seem to get placed in. I am only 21 at the time of writing this but I feel that I have much experience in the world from moving to 3 different continents from the age of 2, to the age of 12. So I have seen different sides of the world and have learnt alot. And being an aspiring film director, my mind tends to wander in areas of fantasy and I end up using too much of the day, daydreaming about things that have no logical sense or are just plain insanity. Do not fear though as I do not usually type out like this and I am actually more informal then you'd imagine. I have just decided to write out like this as I feel the first post should stand out and be seen as an entity from which the other posts bloomed from. So with that in mind. I shall end this rather tedious form of speech and bid you adieu. Until next time. Farewell.