Enlighten Up!

After an absolutely exhausting day this will be short and sweet before my pandora logs off. Enlighten Up! is about a fairly young journalist named Nick who is travelling around the world discovering what Yoga really is and how it impacts him. He travels with  documentary-maker Kate. They start in New York and work their way to California, Hawaii, and eventually India. Nick's parents are divorced and practically opposites. His dad is a lawyer and his mom is a total hippie, and he's not religious or spiritual whatsoever and rather materialistic. Most of the United States Yoga centers were full of...odd people. They were not impacting Nick at all, but i must say I was very impressed and slightly jealous of how ridiculously flexible they all were.

That's ludicrous. I mean seriously, who has enough time in there day to think, "Hey I think I'll learn how to grab my foot in the most complicated way I can possibly think of," Yes I'm sure that has a lot of practical life applications... I get the physical aspect of it, but Kate was pushing hard on Nick to accept the spiritual aspect of it, when he's just not a spiritual guy. Kate is supposed to be a 3rd person aspect too, so her telling Nick what he's supposed to be feeling not only messes with the results of the experiment but ultimately I think it's unprofessional. After five months from family and friends and only yoga, Nick has to beg Kate just to give him one night off from her omnipotent camera   just to go on a simple date. Kate is a bit obsessed with the project. And at the end of it Nick even says that he doesn't feel much different except for only one yoga experiment when he was meditating for so long that he fell asleep and woke up missing his mom. So, he felt that he wanted to be closer with his family and he wanted to be happier because of a long speech and Yogi in India gave him. he ended up moving to Colorado and made a documentary on rock climbing... I have no idea what that has to do with the plot and Kate ended it talking about herself.

Hmm, well not my favorite. But I learned some moves myself! I can actually do a pretty decent headstand now but I have to say of all the yoga places they showed my favorite was one in India where all they did was laugh. Literally they just stood there and laughed for and hour with very basic yoga moves and they called it spiritual because retouching childish behavior gave them a young spirit. I thought that was pretty to think about.

No blog next week, because of the holidays so probably start blogging again January 10thish. So goodbye for now and Happy Holidays!

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This Thursday

Enlighten up!

 A story about taking a cynical man and making him into a "yogi" or a yoga lover. It's an analogy for how different the materialistic world is from the spiritual world and finding the bridge between the two to enjoy both. Okay, there's my deep moment. Now, here's the vapid, yoga looks hard.








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Life in a Day

This was by far my favorite documentary yet. If I could recommend anything it would definitely be this. It's all about people from across the globe's day. July 24 2010. It was eventful for some, but no world history was made. Just an ordinary day except people from 192 countries recorded their day spanning from 10+ people living in a house that we would consider a tool shed to a man driving his Lamborghini to work. It was honestly really eye opening to how most of the world lives there life. And as ridiculously cheesy and stupid I sound, it was really beautiful and such a good demonstration of how with the right attitude you can spend everyday joyfully. Being a touch cynical however, there were three scenes that I hated.
1. They showed a cow getting shot in the head. As from Food Inc. I love my cows, I especially love the way they taste. I just really really hate the process of them getting to my plate.
2. Almost showing them slit a goat's throat. I'm pretty sure I scared my dog with how fast I threw my hands up to my eyes so to be honest I don't really know if they actually slit it's throat or not.
3. This really annoying stereotypical American girl that just ranted about how her day was ordinary and how she was sad about it. Hmm well give me a second as I describe according to me as to the degree that this girl really ticks me off. First of all, heart shaped hooped earrings to me have already screamed moody facebook status poster. Secondly, she's complaining about how her life is "sooooo normal" well missy there are hundreds of millions of people living on earth today that would kill to have a car, clean clothes, food everyday, and the multitude of other common luxuries that I can be almost positive that she takes for granted. Yet, she has the audacity to say that her life is just not good enough as it is.
And lastly, what probably got me the most is that she vented to the poor people of youtube that she was "waiting for something to happen" in her everyday life. Waiting for someone to take the reins and make her life interesting for her. Well hate to break it to you, but if you want something new to happen to you you have to make the change yourself. I believe that God does intervene at pinnacle, life changing moments to 'take the reins' and shake things up. But for your ordinary day God gave us free will to change things up for ourselves.  I will give you three things off the top of my head in twenty seconds to change up little Miss. Complain's life
1.Join or participate in a charity
2.Try talking to a person you don't usually talk to
3. Go somewhere at least an hour away and just go to a restaurant or club or something that's brand new
YOU CANNOT JUST WAIT FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN, YOU HAVE TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.

Okay, I'm off of my preaching pedestal now. Besides that horribly last five minutes of the film, the rest is genius and eye opening. If you have a Netflix or I have convinced you to get one by now please watch it, it's a fantastic thing to have in floating around in your brain.

As for me, I saw the musical Les Miserables last night and I have been wearing the t-shirt and listening to the album all day! It was absolutely wonderful, beautiful, and awesome. I have said this before and I will say it again, Netflix. Netflix has the 1998 Liam Neeson version on DVD order and you should get it. Just saying. And I am counting the days down to see the Hugh Jackman version!! AHH! It comes out on Christmas!
Until next week!

The Suicide Tourist

I hate political movies. I seriously do. Sorry to start off so depressing. It's hard to deal with it really is. I was literally shaking the entire time I watched it, it was so disturbing and the most horrible thing was that it's real and it's happening.
Craig Ewert has ALS which is the weakening of muscles until paralysis and eventually death. It is incurable and the guy in this movie had it. He was diagnosed four months prior to the film and after numerous dicussions with his wife they decided to go to Dignatis an assisted suicide center in Zurich, Switzerland. He claims that he would have been an empty shell (referring to paralysis) for months to only then reach an undeniable death, so he took matters into his own hands while he was still himself. His wife supported whatever he decided but was of course heart broken when it actually came to his death by drinking sodium ******* which was closely monitored by two workers of Dignatis. The process had to be video monitored to prove that it really was a suicide.

WELL TO BEGIN WITH, who in the heck would take that job?????? You're basically a legally approved serial killer. The guy in this situation was literally smoking pot just to get over what I suppose he had to do everyday. Can you imagine? Waking up and saying, "Time to go to work! Bye honey I'm off to kill people and make their families depressed! What are we having for din-din?" ----"Oh casserole dear! Little Timmy and Little Suzy want to hear all about your busy day when you come home! Sweetie you forgot your suitcase of butchers knives and nooses!" How does someone even apply for that job anyway? "Well here's my resume. As you can see I went to medical school and also I was an intern at an animal shelter; oh yeah, I've killed plenty of cute, fluffy puppies and kittens before. Also, my mentor is Jack the Ripper," I cannot possibly imagine what type of person you would have to be. It boggles my mind.

Anyway, he was incredibly level minded about the whole thing. He really did love life. He appreciated his time on Earth and wished it didn't have to end. He wasn't depressed or emotional; if anything he was incredibly left-brained about the whole thing. He just saw it logically as he was going to die either way he might as well be peaceful, ready and on his terms. The really sad thing for me personally was that he had no faith of any sort. I am a Methodist but  I wouldn't have minded if he was Hindu as long as he believed in something before he died. He had no idea where he was going or even if he was going anywhere. He was trading a life of what he knew would happen for the unknown of whatever the next is. That was the only thing he seemed to be sad of, that he believed that it was truly over and that there was nothing afterwards.

I was literally shaking and had a sick feeling in my stomach throughout the entire procedure  Even thinking about it now I feel queasy. I have never seen a real dead person, in person, before due to welcome censorship from parents in my early years during the very late years of some scarcely known elderly relatives. And I've certainly never seen a real person die before even on video. It was a lot more quiet than the movies ever portrayed. Not that I based any predictions on 'Scrubs'. (Which is an amazing tv show and I highly recommend, and it's on Netflix of course).

I can't honestly express even to myself how I feel about this. I'm against suicide 99.99999999% of the time it's a permanent decision based on non-permanent emotions. But this guy wasn't doing it solely on emotions he was in physical pain and I'm not saying that it's right in any sense because you never know what would have happened if he had just waited and seen. What if they cure ALS next year? Then it would have been all for nothing. so actually yes I will conclude saying I am 100% against suicide. It's never the only option.

Well now I head to a much needed soccer practice and I have Gangam Style on repeat to lift my spirits. One last thing that made me think was that Craig chose Beethoven's ninth symphony to die to. That made me consider what would the last song I would want to hear be? Imagine, the last sounds of this world you will ever hear again. What would you choose? For me I think it would be Furious by Jeremy Riddle.

Kimjongilia: The Flower on Kim Jong II

The presidential  elections were two days ago. Two torturous days of political fighting later and we've come to Thursday. Political fighting; that's right and I'm only in high school. Which, of course, only makes it worse because you've got a school of 1500+ people who can't even vote to begin with (thank goodness) who just will not cease to shut up. I went on Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday just to see the raging caps lock  and viscous hastaging of emotionally unstable teenagers. And I for that I logged on to the perfect site. For at least an hour I watched a sophomore boy and a junior boy go at each others throats on Twitter, mostly it was about how the other's opinion did not matter due to some social reason. And to prove my point that some highschoolers should definitely not be in charge of logical department here I show you exhibit A:

 The Katie by the way in this case was not me by the way. But this was a tweet in the middle of a political argument. Yeah... well this guy didn't win. Proof that some people just do not have class. Kansas being mainly a republican state you can imagine the amount of angry tweeter and facebookers there were on Tuesday. I personally am impartial. Whenever my dad starts one of his republican rants on meand asks me for my opinion I always reply with the same thing, "Well, I'm moving to Europe so there,"

Anyway I decided to actually do a documentary on politics this time. Kimjongilia: The flower of Kim Jong II. It's about prisoners who escaped North Korea and the daily life of people in North Korea. It begins with what I assume is a North Korean men's choir. Before this the only Korean singing I have heard was Gangam Style a very brief fad indeed but for this idiot not very brief I suppose:

He shouldn't be in charge of a logical department either.

The movie begins with Korean people talking about the crazy amount of hunger they had everyday and how some had to sink to the level of eating mice just to stay alive. Of people beaten for hours, sold as slaves, and arrested for believing in God. Thousands die of food shortages everyday due to the severe isolation of North Korea.
The first story is of a woman who escaped prison through bribing the guard with everything she owned. She was placed in prison because he best friend was Kim's lover and and she knew about it. Her entire family including her parents and four children all under the age of 10 were put in prison for 8.5 years. Her three sons died, she had to put her daughter up for adoption, she doesn't know what happened to her husband and her parents died.
Kim Jong-il is forced to be like a god for the Korean people.
The next story was of a man who was arrested at 9 because it's tradition to purge three generations after a crime is committed. So his grandfather, his father, his uncle, his sister and himself were thrown into prison.
In the prisons after role call they had to recite the rules of a sector:
1. If you had an attitude or didn't work hard you were shot to death.
2. If you steal food you will be shot.
3. If you don't obey you will be shot.
4. If you try to escape or don't report an escape you will be shot.
A common theme huh? North Koreans are starving and being tortured and we're complaining how we're ONLY 7th in the global standing. Just be fortunate we live here at all.

Food Inc.

Today was my first day of political documentaries, a big moment I know... I logged on to me lover (Netflix) and selected Political Documentaries and chose.... "Food Inc." Yes mainly I chose this because it had a very cute cow on the front.

Well, if you'll ever so carefully take a gander, yes a gander, at the phrase on the cover,
"You'll never look at dinner the same way again"

Hmm, weeeeell that lasted for a strong hour or so. While the movie pointed a strong finger at "The Man" it didn't have too much of an effect on me. The documentary was about how food has become an assembly line and that the "BIG" companies don't give a fun-sized candy about us lowly peasants. How, animals being processed into food are maltreated, malnourished, disease ridden. The story line followed a woman who had lost her son to E.coli in a cheeseburger gone wrong trying to put forth better policies in the FDA. Also, a disgruntled organic pig farmer who was angered against the big pig farmers who was constantly giving his opinions about how animals should be treated in the slaughtering and housing process. I, the cynical one, actually found what he had to say was very reasonable. He spoke of how the animals are not eating their natural diets and were insanely overcrowded. They then went on to show video clips scarier than Disney Channel's attempts of decent television. They showed the machines that the animals went through just to be slaughtered in cruel ways of their forced pathetic lives. I practically sound like a vegan! While it does make me very sad that they treat God's innocent creatures like this my love of meat overcomes all; however, the three slices of bacon I ate an hour ago did go down with some guilt.

Yep, that sure is a pumpkin; that's all the theatricality your going to get from me. I am excited for tomorrow though! I'm not trick or treating per say but I am going to take my dogs on a special walk...


HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

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Just when you thought you were almost done with politics...

Time for political documentaries.... yay. First one tonight though! I hope you all tune in! Honestly, I have no political opinion whatsoever, except that both parties should stop making political commercials.  Frankly, I think they just annoy every one and you're definitely not convincing me to vote for you by seperating me from my Pretty Little Liars just that much longer than I need to. And sometimes a girl just needs her Pretty Little Liars. I don't even know when the election is! So now that we've clarified that I really am  not opinionated in that category, check in tonight!

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