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I’ve been a fan of Larry Clark ever since I saw the awesome movie Bully, so I decided to go on a quest to watch some of his other movies. However, I was pretty disappointed. Kids, I thought, was overrated, and his other movies are just pointlessly shocking. This movie, however, is pretty good compared to his other lesser known films even though it lacks a lot of action and dialog, but then again, that’s real life for ya. It’s about a group of poor Latino skaters in their young teens living in South Central LA. Some of this movie is a bit exaggerated and stereotypical, but it’s MEANT to be. Notice how almost EVERY character is cliche in the movie. It’s supposed to make a statement about how Latino kids are the new scapegoat for America. Oh, and the part where the kid gets shot while jumping the wall is supposed to be a metaphorical stab at policing the border.

[EDIT 8-30-2010: Fixed online version]
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Recently, there’s been some drama going on back at my parents house. Sure, I live miles away but I’m still affected by everything that goes on there because my sis still lives at the house (she’s 16). As far as our relationship goes, we’re pretty close. We haven’t fought in YEARS and you could say we’re best friends because we tell each other everything.

Well…almost everything.

A few days ago I had to come home from Atlanta (I only live about an hour away) because she was caught shoplifting clothes for her friends. It was a pretty big deal because the cops were involved and she and her 2 friends were in cuffs when my mom picked her up. My usually over-dramatic mother was even more dramatic on the phone: “You better have a talk with your sister, she’s out of control since you left!!! Stealing clothes!? Hanging around those loser emos!!!? WE BROUGHT YOU KIDS UP BETTER THAN THAT!!!” And then she cried like she always does at the end of our conversations.

When I got home me and my sis decided to go to the roof to talk (that’s where we used to have private conversations away from our nosy parents). Here’s most of our conversation that I can remember:

Me: “So…well…I can’t say I never stole anything when I was 16, but 7 shirts???! That’s really stupid and risky.”
My sis: “I know. It’s just, you know, mom and dad never have any money. And every girl at school has better clothes than me. Where was I supposed to get the money? It’s not like I have a job or anything.”
Me: “*patting her head* I would have bought you some clothes you idiot. You know that!”
My sis: (half smiling) “I know….”
Me: (by now I could tell she was holding something back) “Then why?”
My sis: “Because….see…there’s this girl…” Read more…

Yay… of all the topics I could write about, I’m writing about the one of which I know absolutely nothing. I’m so amazingly honored that I have nothing here to contribute that you guys probably haven’t already thought or even vocalized.

So, with that said, this video shows Dan Savage talking about when he believes the best time is to have sex, the various questions we should ask ourselves beforehand, and even the options we have, but don’t consider at the time.
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Love hurts, it really does. To all of you who haven’t experienced it yet, cherish your calm before the storm. Hold all those moments before your emotions get wrapped up with someone else’s close. I like being in love, I like having someone to hold and someone to turn to. All of that is great, it’s the breakups that will leave you in pieces.
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Call it inexperience. Call it stubbornness. Call it human nature.

I call it stupidity.

When did we, as a culture, or even us as teenagers decide that the proper way to solve a problem is to complain melodramatically and then when things don’t work out complain some more? What happened to taking action to help ourselves? Or even listening to the advice of someone older than us?
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Sitting here in my mess of a dorm room, it strikes me that I’ve been lied to. By people I’ve trusted, listened to my entire life. And it wasn’t a little lie, not like the other ones I’ve heard.

They lied to me about college.
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You’re walking down the hallway, and out of no where you hear someone giggle. Not a sincere giggle, but the kind of giggle that as you look over, sickens you. You see someone who is smart, and respected, act like a total airhead in front of some cute guy. Why would they change and act stupid just because they’re  in front of a cute guy? Is it because they think it’s cute? Is because they don’t want to intimidate them? Not knowing things, is not cute. Playing dumb, is annoying and ridiculous and unnecessary.
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Those big, tough, jocks who run around with the ball and only pass it to those other big, tough, jocks? You know. The buff ones with the muscle shirts and the jungle under their arms..? They’re jerks. They get way too into the games, and they yell at who ever messes up. Really? It’s Physical Education. Not, How to survive being attacked by the Hulk 101.

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You know those children that you see when you go to the library, who are five years younger than you but are carrying twelve times as many books as you have read in your life time? Those parents who you can just tell scream at their children for not being perfect? That makes me angry. Parents need to realize that just because they didn’t achieve everything in their life that they wanted to achieve, it doesn’t mean that they need to force their dreams upon their children. It just doesn’t make sense to me. Sure, different family values, different work ethics, different cultures, blah blah blah, but all of that is so stupid. Would you rather have a normal child, who is still successful in life doing what they want to do? Or a child with no child hood who carries on the screaming match legacies that you have ingrained into their heads, and doing something that was your dream, instead of their own?

Of course, I’m not a parent. So I haven’t actually been there. But, parents who make the decisions for their children all the time are making a giant mistake. Don’t mold your kids into what your vision of an ideal person. Allow them to mold themselves, and be there to catch them when they fall.
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This is it. This is the video that made me 99% atheist (I say 99% because the other 1% was my philosophy class). I, like so many other people that clicked on the video did it for two reasons: 1) the girl is hot, and 2) I thought to myself “Gullible isn’t in the dictionary? WTF??!! I gotta click this shit!”

Before you read my rant below I’d like to point out that I was not atheist when I started this blog (2 years ago). In fact, my whole entire high school life I was a “good Muslim boy” (as my parents used to say) that prayed 3 times a day. LOL.

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