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Dubai

Dubai is becoming more and more of a metropolis. The unique tower being built here is being built by South Korea's Samsung company. The project itselt would cost about $1.14 billion dollars. The so called tower would be the world's larget tower and at the base they would build the world's largest shopping center. Here in this amazing city, would attract many tourists and would show the world to envision this futuristic scene. On the contrary I would like to add a personal opinion due to our world's suffering economy. How can a city alone take billions of dollars and make way for an attraction site where as the rest of the world is suffering. I truly do not understand this reasoning. I mean it's great that all of this is being built, however if no one can afford going to these attractions then what is the point of making such a grand city. So overall this is not the right scene.

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Here's another poem

I glided my tongue across pearl sharp teeth. Remembering my own body. Funny how when you get older you become less familiar with yourself. Staring out of jump seat trying to see the world for the first time again. Closing my eyes after turn when street looks lonely. slower now. Its slowed down so much. And in silence my mind is less friendly. My quite expressionless fears of time moving faster than the speed of my own experience. I am the ink blot good time traveler. Leaving behind a someone that I used to know ephemeral was I good company or not. So we must keep moving. Bounce faster than the speed of truth and self reflection. Faster than wrong decisions. Faster than. Relocate some future strange newness and take no time to figure out where it comes up short. There are no trains anymore. We tore up the rails and used the metal to stake ourselves down. To stay dormant and silent in somewhere. We cannot flee without consequence. Our migration the death of the world smoke and haze that tears an environment we owe nothing to. Move move move. Again. Move. Turn out your pockets and unpack your bags on the highway of never ending route. Turn out your desires and turn on the lights. Burn. Burn. The sulfer explosion for as long as it can take it. And remember our bodies of summer scraping warmth.

Pandora

I've been listening to Pandora for most of the day. I have it set up to "Au Revoir Simon" radio. They are one of my favortite groups. Three ladies with Casio's and beautiful songs. I got to see them in the city earlier this year, spectacular. I think the best thing about Pandora is that it play songs you probably are going to love but never heard before. I think listening to a song without know the lyrics or the refrain coming up, whatever, is so much better. It's kind of how life should be, just beautiful suprises. A few of my favorties: Ingrid Michaelson Radio, Bluegrass Radio, Wu-Tang Clan Radio. I've never really been one to learn or study an artist, I like to experience their art without much delving into who these people are. I feel like art is more for us to reflect on ourselves then try to figure out what someone is trying to tell us. The ambiguty of the artists on Pandora is really great for that

Is it Monday yet?

I met this girl at my job last sunday. I was bartending and she was one of the photographers for the wedding. It's weird when you catch someones eye and both of you just sort of think the same thing, and you both know it. Numbers were exchanged and we've got plans to meet up in the city on monday. Im pretty excited about it. So excited in fact that it's hard to do anything (lets say knock out a bunch of blogs). I got cheap tickets to go see avenue q which i hear is pretty awesome, but other than that i think were just going to figure the day out as it goes along. this is my first day off in so long and i just want it to be over

TOOOO CUTE ! Hahaha never know children are listen. But this is my last blog had a good time in this class , I learned a lot and I appreciate it !

9- 5

Well the the heat wave is OVERRRR! thank you the rain started falling yesterday. But any who Yesterday was an interesting day I worked my first 9 to 5 office job. Pretty much I was filing papers , using excel, copying and working on a project for weight lose for patients. FYI I work in a Doctors office. And its cool a nice comfy job , that is relaxed.
But I do not know if a 9- 5 for me , I feel like Im missing excitement! So maybe the office job is not necessary for me but hey I still got 3 more years of this college thing at least for me to decided. Hopefully I will be able to figure out what direction I want to go, and will be able to become an owner of a company in the field I am interested.

On the 7th day

Well it's Friday night ( Sat morning technically) and tommorow is my first day off in a loooong time. I'm going to try to knowck as many of these out as I can. I'm not sure if i"ll make it to 50 but I hope that this is more of a qualatative assignment rather than quantatative. I've tried pretty hard to really write about things that are important to me, but everyone else has as well for the most part. I intend to sleep for as long as my body will allow tongiht, which I'm assuming with be near comatose. I think they said it might rain tommorow which is a shame because I still haven't been to the beach once this year. I lived in the midwest, landlocked, for a couple of years and not being able to see the ocean was always my biggest complaint. I'd better get out there soon!

50th

And this post makes 50. I have to say that this class has been rather interesting and very much unlike other classes I've taken at Stony Brook.

I learned much in the short time we had. I'm going to attempt to keep up with some photoshop work because I think it could be beneficial to me in the future.

Sketch-up and I had some difficulties, and I can't really see myself using it in the future, but I imagine someone benefited from it.

Flash was interesting and I wish I had been able to spend more time on it because we really only got to skim the surface of it and I think there is so much more I could accomplish with it. Maybe I'll end up taking a course on it.

Well I hope everyone enjoys their summer. Mine officially starts now!

Music

Last week, I went to see the James Taylor/Carole King concert. It got me thinking about the state of the recording industry today. Would a woman like Carole King be able to find success today? I'm just not sure. She didn't have a gimmick back in the day. She was a songwriter who tried her best to become a performer also.

If she came out today, I don't think we would have gotten an album like Tapestry. Or we would have, but a hot chick would be singing all of the songs. It's unfortunate, but that appears to be the state that we're in.

This is part of the reason why Lady GaGa is trying to be so outrageous. Without all of her craziness, would people have taken notice of her? If she got rid of all the gimmicks today, she'd be fine and still be successful, but starting out, no one would have ever given her the time of day.

My parents were awesome.

My friend made this website a little while ago: http://myparentswereawesome.tumblr.com/


He gets a lot of people to send in photos of the parents before they were parents. He is currently taking some of the photos and publishing a book because of the amount of interest the website has been given.

I've gone through much of the website and find the photos to be so interesting. It's similar to that of the class assignment we had. I had to explore my parents and grandparents in a light where they were no longer parents, but actual people.

I think it would be beneficial for everyone to view their parents in this light. After all, people don't lose who they are when they have kids.

Reality tv

Why are reality show stars famous? These are talentless people who should not be allowed to be on tv in the first place. Why is the world so fascinated by reality tv? Personally, I think it's boring. And most of it isn't even real anyway. Half the shows are scripted to some extent or at the very least, the "stars" are put into situations conjured up by the producers.

The fact that we know who Heidi and Spencer are is terrible and it would be acceptable to me if they faded into oblivion after losing all of their "hard earned money."

Anyone who has 10 elective surgeries in a day is deplorable in my book. This girl wasn't physically unattractive before, but her horrid personality made her ugly. No amount of plastic surgery could ever remedy that.

Beaches

A friend of mine is down in Mississippi working on cleaning up the oil spill and it got me thinking: while we can enjoy our beaches for now, how much longer are they going to be clean?

And by going in the water, even though it appears clean, are we risking our health? Animals are already starting to be affected by this spill, so what makes us think that we won't be?

When will this spill be cleaned up? Will it ever be cleaned up? The first thing that needs to be done is it needs to be stopped, but people seem to be dragging their feet or at a loss for how to stop the oil from flowing.

When will BP decide that people are more important than money?

uh basketball.

Once again, as they did with the World Cup, people who never cared about basketball before suddenly care about Lebron James and what decision he made last night.

I think it bothers me most because I know a lot of these people very well and know that they're being fake in order to try to impress others. I don't talk about sports because I don't watch sports. I like to go to sporting events every once in a while, but I don't pretend to know what's going on all of the time and mostly I just go because it's a fun experience.

So who cares about Lebron James? Basketball fans do. Non-basketball fans shouldn't pretend to be fans one day out the year. Are you really being true to yourself when you feel the need to lie about something as trivial as caring about certain sports that we all know you don't care about?

Nominations

I like award shows. They're very interesting. I think it's intriguing to see the way people vote each year. Usually it's all the same people being nominated over and over, but for the Emmys this year, there have been some big changes. Yes, the old standards are nominated (and some of them will win), but the amount of newbies is fantastic.

I'm especially happy for the cast of Modern Family. While it's not breaking any boundaries, it is opening up the general viewing public to a new meaning of family. It's not just all about the Brady Bunch anymore. There are families that come in different packaging, yet are just as close as any others.

From a time when a husband and wife didn't even sleep in the same bed on tv, the industry is finally showing some progress, although it's been at a glacial pace. I hope it keeps moving in the right direction.

Charity benefits

In May, a friend and I went to a benefit for a cancer foundation. We were excited to go because it seemed like it was going to be a fun experience. And it was fun (so was the free wine), but it was also odd and we felt very out of place.

First off, the amount of socialites and wannabe celebrities that were there was absolutely outrageous. We could tell that these were people who didn't actually care about the foundation, but just went to every benefit under the sun in order to attempt to get their names out there. It would have bothered me more if they hadn't spent an exorbinant amount of money to come and to auction.

I met an actual celebrity there. He was the host. I use to the term celebrity very loosely because it was Al Roker. The most famous weather man in the world, apparently. Well, he was boring as anything. My friend and I got our picture taken with him because there wasn't much else to do, but he didn't really find his personality until he got on the stage. And he also left early. I would have been disappointed if I had ever cared about him in the first place.