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Tell Me Something I Don't Know
Everybody who tells me, who I speak to says it's so hard to make it, but yet so hard to break it or even get a break from it, there's no way to fake the whole scenario. Everybody keeps telling me that it's wrong to how I feel about it; that I shouldn't believe in it, the dreams that I'm dreaming shouldn't be persuaded. I hear it every day. I hear it all the time. To the point that I'm never going to amount anything but they're never going to change my mind; as I'm going to prove them wrong every time.
By Lizzy Arrow7 years ago in Poets
5 Songs for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Music is emotion, just as emotion is music. Music is a tool which can be used to make you feel better or worse. I guess this mostly depends on your preferences. I use music to make myself feel stronger, but also to release some of the pent up emotions I'm afraid to unleash. If I can feel through the music, maybe eventually it won't hurt anymore. On the other hand remembering makes me angry and anger gives me strength. I'm a survivor. I survived.
By The 'A' Girl7 years ago in Beat
Martin Scorsese's 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
Directed by Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street hit theatres Christmas Day 2013. Based on the best-selling memoir of the same name, The Wolf of Wall Street is the second movie that year to portray Leonardo DiCaprio as the poster-child for the American Dream gone wild. The overall excess of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby distracted us from the message at hand, regardless of Leo’s quality portrayal of Jay Gatsby.
By Marina Caitlin Watts7 years ago in Geeks
'White Man's Burden': Reality Just Changed Sides
One of the things that film can do is give the viewer a new perspective. It can be an empathetic medium, allowing us to see the world through a different pair of eyes. Or even turn the world on its head in the modern equivalent of fables. 1995's White Man's Burden from director Desmond Nakano is just such a modern fable. It's a film that takes the racial and economic status quo of America and turns it on its head with fascinating results.
By Matthew Kresal7 years ago in Geeks