Static on the Signal

51 likes the day I get back to Tumblr. Wow. Ok time to turn off teh interwebz and hit dat homework!

If anyone is looking at there dashboard and is wondering, “OK WTF is all this anime crap he just liked?” I have an explanation, I promise. See, my little brother got me hooked on a series called Neon Genesis Evangelion. Being a Japanese(?) product, the name of course makes not freaking sense. The first two words really could be left out and it would be fine. I think I should rephrase that last sentence. Being a Japanese(?) product, very little of it makes sense. Especially the end. But still, its a good series with giant robots and cool characters (some of which have SERIOUS depression issues). I finally finished the series a few days ago. At least I finished ONE of the series. The whole thing is fractured across so many remakes and reboots and directors cuts and alternate universes and alternate endings and multiple mangas, video games, and movies, its really confusing. Add in the obvious loss of rationality due to mistranslations and its really messed up. For now I’m sticking with the original TV series and the original alternate ending move because they ran out of budget for the series finalle (sp?) and most of it is hand drawn and reused footage. I’m starting to watch the other movies on youtube and stuff. Let me know if your interested.

TL;DR

All that weird stuff i just liked with robots and anime characters is from an anime series my little bro got me hooked on. I need to have a serious talk with him about hooking me on things HE KNOWS I will end up spending WAY too much time on.

I guess I only come to Tumblr when I’m feeling down or mildly depressed or something? I guess I’m back because school is ending and for some reason that’s always way more sad than happy. I’ll make hanging out with my friends more of a priority this Summer. And I’ll try to stick around afterwards this time. Also, I knew I was back on Tumblr when the dashboard took FOR FRAKING EVER to load because it is full of giant Hi-Res images and GIFs. Hello to you too, Tumblr.

P.S It looks like I have a few new followers. HELLO! Please don’t expect much besides song lyrics analysis, the occasional pic, and various introspective thoughts, musings, and rants. We like to keep it low profile here.

Small steps. Just keep going. Even after a failure, just keep going. A failure is still a step, its just one with a tiny rock or thorn in it. Failures put you back on the path.

Just some advice animals I made. That is all.

So today I realized why parents don’t let little kids watch most TV shows. They desensitize you. When I think back on the shows I watch, there are so many deaths among the hundreds of episodes. It’s almost unrealistic how many people die on television, and in the most ridicules ways. But they always make it look clean, even the violent deaths. Shot in the chest? Instantly dead. IRL? No. They suffer for a while. Even when they sustain a head wound, people don’t drop dead with a soft thud. It’s worse than that, and I think we all know.  But we see cruelty, stupidity, wastefulness, and pointless, unrealistic violence so often that it doesn’t matter. You get used to it. When you sit down to watch CSI, you can’t wait to get into the mystery and find out who killed the victim. But in reality, its not about a mystery. Its about a person who is dead, who will never come back. Its about a family who will never be the same because someone, for some reason, felt the need to kill, or torture, or humiliate, or rape, threaten, or terrorize their loved one. But when we watch these scenarios play out every day on the TV, it becomes “normal”. But its not. Its painful. Its a number of things, but “normal” is not one of them. So when a kid, like ourselves a few years ago, comes home and begs to watch the “coolest show that all the kids are watching right now,” the parents aren’t thinking, ‘How can I frustrate my child for kicks?’ They are thinking, ‘I don’t want my child to think that pointless violence, drugs, sex, etc. is normal’. And I get that. I honestly wish that we were not exposed to such awful images. because when someone dies, or is abused, or does drugs, its not a TV show. You don’t delete the recording at the end, you don’t casually discuss the episode with your family, and you don’t blow it off as an everyday occurrence. It has an effect on you. You are forever changed. And hopefully, you can help the person who is hurting. But if the ridicules stuff that gets into movies and TV shows keeps up, and keeps getting worse, then eventually we and future generations will be so desensitized that we won’t even blink when we find out that a friend does crack, or even when someone throws themselves off of a building. We have to move in the opposite direction. Media can be good and still not contain harsh, unrealistic visuals that gradually wear down our emotional capacity. With this in mind, I would have no problem with sever limitations on what can be shown on video content (this would also show Hollywood who’s in charge when it comes to government - I’m looking at you, lobbyists). Do I think certain things should be illegal to show, period? Heck no. This is America. The first amendment may be one of the greatest political achievements in history (took long enough though), and it applies here to. But some content should be made a bit harder to access, and we need a more detailed rating system. Just my two cents. Nothing specific prompted this article if you will, but I felt like it needed to be said.

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I think this goes without saying, but I honestly wish that I had not been exposed to these violent images on TV. It’s by no means traumatic, but you can tell it does something to you as you get older. It distances you from the reality of death and pain. Unfortunately, I still really like those shows. There must be a happy medium.

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“I’m not trying to be a nuisance

I just think we can do better than this

That was simply my two cents,

You can, you can, take it or leave it.”

Cookie for anyone who send me an ask with the artist and song tittle!

She never slows down.
She doesn’t know why but she knows that when she’s all alone, feels like its all coming down
She won’t turn around
The shadows are long and she fears if she cries that first tear, the tears will not stop raining down

[CHORUS]
So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it’s all crashing down
You stand through the pain
You won’t drown
And one day, whats lost can be found
You stand in the rain

She won’t make a sound
Alone in this fight with herself and the fears whispering if she stands she’ll fall down
She wants to be found
The only way out is through everything she’s running from wants to give up and lie down.

[CHORUS]
So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it’s all crashing down
You stand through the pain
You won’t drown
And one day, whats lost can be found
You stand in the rain

So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it’s all crashing down
Stand through the pain
You won’t drown
And one day, whats lost can be found

[CHORUS]
So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it’s all crashing down
You stand through the pain
You won’t drown
And one day, whats lost can be found
You stand in the rain

-Stand In the Rain, Super Chick.

Another great Super Chick song. The meaning is pretty clear: stand tall no matter what fears are running through your head or how many times you’ve been knocked down before. Go ahead and cry, it’s ok. Just don’t give up!