Books and Movies and Unthinkable things.

*warning: major nerd post.

So, I may or may not have gone on a book frenzy these past couple of months.

(P.S. I almost said "a book hiatus" instead of "frenzy" just then, because for the past 18 years of my life I've been LIED TO. (just kidding. maybe?) I  thought that word meant something a long the lines of frenzy, stage, or an outburst.  Turns out it means the opposite. What a letdown!!!)

I read Divergent, Insurgent, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Spectacular Now all in the matter of a month after not reading leisurely for lets say.... well.. a while.

Let me just say that these three books are all equally so incredibly magical. Totally in their own different ways of course. But something about reading all of them just brought me back to LIFE, ya know?! Here's the thing about me. I could read books for days. Days. But, I'm extremely picky about the ones I read. That's why I go on a lot of HIATUS's. (notice my word choice there). Divergent literally transfers you to another world where you wish you were a brave "Dauntless" helping save society from the lies it has been built on alongside an extremely attractive male by the name of Four, (Insurgent is the 2nd book so I can't say anything or it will totally spoil it!) The Fault In Our Stars shows you the reality inside the life of a cancer patient whose insanely quirky wits match fellow cancer patient Augustus Waters' charming, insightful, caring self. Then the Spectacular Now takes you into a little bit more relatable scene, diving back into high school days while Sutter Keely lives in his own carefree world of "embracing the weird" which he sees nothing wrong with until he meets Amy Finnicky.

Now, I know what you're thinking: This chick is sappiest of all sappy people. All of these dang books include romances and cheese like that. Well, I mean, YES. They all do. But how could you resist?! Anyways, my next point here is I have found that all of these books are coming to life this year or the next. Yes, they are being made into movies. Bittersweet.

Here's what will blow your mind.
Shailene Woodley.
Yeah, lead actress in the TV series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager", actress in "The Descendents" and in several episodes of "The O.C". Whatever you've seen. You gotta know who she is. Anyways. Get this:

She is the LEAD ACTRESS in every single movie from every book I just told you about.
Excuse me, what?!

Oh, but there's more. Ansel Elgort. He plays the brother of main character, Tris (Shailene Woodley) in Divergent, but he is also Augustus Waters, second main character of The Fault In Our Stars who becomes the boyfriend of main character, Hazel (Shailene Woodley). Brother AND Boyfriend chemistry, ehhh...?! No, just no.

THERE'S EVEN MORE! Miles Teller. He plays the co-leading actor in The Spectacular Now. His character, Sutter, falls in love with Amy (Shailene Woodley). But he is also an actor in the now-becoming movie, Divergent who plays Tris' (Shailene Woodley) arch enemy. Another completely different role relating to the same person.

I am literally mind-blown. How could they let this happen?! (Excuse how nerdy this sounds...) But I was totally emotionally invested in each of those books, imagining for myself what the different characters were like and Hollywood screwed over my imagination(!!!) and put Shailene Woodley in place of every single one of those main characters. And so on. This extremely weird, twisted actor/actress triangle is just absolutely unacceptable.

Dang you, Hollywood.
You're messing with my brain & ruining my imagination.
Not to say i'm not excited for the movies to bring to life each of the books, cuz I totally am.

But bottom line, let's just say the books will always be better than the movie! Always.

Have a splendid week, WWW. (world wide web, since i'm assuming no one reads my blog which is wonderful anyways because I reveal a lot of embarrassing opinions on here.)

Stay classy, San Diego.

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Read these books! Do it do it do it!

-Divergent by Veronica Roth
-Insurgent by Veronica Roth
-The Fault In Our Stars by John Green (this one is my favorite!)
-The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

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Music says it better.

So, lately i've been realizing how big of a part music plays in my life. 

And by lately i mean... the past couple of years. 

Music is beautiful. 

There are two things about it that absolutely intrigue me that i've come to understand.

Music changes the way you feel, and the way you feel can change the music. 

It's amazing the effect it has on your emotions, which, ultimately affects your actions.

I found this quote (on none other than Pinterest) and couldn't agree more with it. It says:

This is so awesome to me. 

Often times i find myself listening to a song that i've listened to a lot previously, but depending on my mood, 

i'll understand the music and lyrics completely different from the first, second, or third time, etc. 

Second.

Music triggers memories and feelings of the past.

It's great for those who are nostalgics.

This, for me, is huge.

Not that i'm a crazy nostalgic, I just find myself extremely connected to music and the memories i've created and affiliated with a certain song.

Sometimes this is for the good, sometimes the bad.

"Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional... it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it."

Side note, I hate goodbyes. 

I would avoid them at all costs, but I make myself endure them for the closure (I guess you could call it).

I hate ending things.

So lately, with my Freshman year (more like semester but to make things easier we'll say year) i've experienced this like crazy. 

The songs i listened to throughout the semester are almost like a timeline. 

I remember what i listened to and when, and everything that went on during that time.

I'm not really sure if it's just me that pays this much attention to the music, but I don't care. 

I think it's pretty cool.

My roommate, Natalie made an end of the year Freshman video to the song Surrender by Angels and Airwaves. 

Now every time I listen to it, I literally get flooded with a bunch of different awesome memories from Freshman year. 

Which, is awesome and sad at the same time.

I can name a time and a place, a specific memory, with every song in my music library.

It's just crazy the wave of emotions come back to you that you once had at a certain point.

Absolutely crazy.

And just plain amazing.

I dont realize till later, when i'm really paying attention to the lyrics and meaning of the song 

(AKA: usually when i'm extremely mad or unusually sad or just extremely chill),

 that the music I listen to is subconsciously defining how I truly feel at the moment.

 At first i feel like i like something because of the way it sounds. Well, true.

 The sound interprets my emotions. Simple and beautifully complicated as that.

 Then, I dont register it until later, but the lyrics are exactly, exactly what i was feeling at that moment!

Even when i didn't know it.

Pretty. Dang. Cool. 

I'm inspired by music.

I spend my free time looking for new types of music, researching it, mixing it, basically anything and everything.

I just really like music, okay?

I believe that it's a huge part of our life.

It's almost a way of telling our own personal story.

Because, apparently, you are what you listen to.

All in all, 

music says it better. 

People are pretty cool.

Dear lovely people of the blogging world, 

this is my first blog post.

Scary. Please bear with me.
Short and sweet.

Today I realized that for some odd reason,

I enjoy people watching.

Creepy? Invasive?
Nahhhh. Just strangely interesting.

Just take a minute, pause what you're doing, and look around you.

It's kinda cool!

If you take the time to really, REALLY look, you can see a bunch of small, awesome cool things about people, just by watching their actions. 

I need to be better about this. 

Finding the good in people, instead of being so quick to judge.

I feel like everyone deserves to be looked at with an open, kind, loving mind.
Regardless of their past, what they look like, how they seem...

After all, "What we see mainly depends on what we look for."

So, I guess there's not really a moral of this random thought of the day.

But, if anything, look for the good in people.
Wouldn't you want someone to do the same for you?

That's it folks.

Keep it classy, San Diego.

:)