Author: AlexTheGoat

Music Right Now

If anybody knows anything about me, it’s that I love music. And I realized that I hadn’t written about anything in a while so I’m just going to write about what music I’ve been listening to.

Last year, I tried to expand my taste a lot. I started deep diving into a lot of artists discography’s like Westside Gunn, JPEGMAFIA, Mach-Hommy, Dean Blunt, and MIKE, but as of late I’ve been listening to a lot of underground rap. So I don’t know this is a ramble piece.

Protect

IF YOU NOT BALLHOG, THEN DIE!!

Top 5

Go Pro
bbysit
Lace Em Up
#FreeTank
Hotspot

Protect is next up. He blew up at the beginning of 2024 when BruceDropEmOff promoted one of his songs and was in a music video, and since he has reached close to 300k monthly listeners on Spotify. So, I started writing this a few days ago, and now he’s at 316k so he gained probably close to 30k monthly listeners in a few days. I started listening to him in December, and I discovered him because of a TikTok I saw… Then I was with my friend Fred and I was like, “You know Protect?” and he was like, “Listen to this bro,” and he played bbysit and I never looked back. I think that what sets him apart from other artists is his flow and he’s always talking about ballhog and whatnot. He does everything Osamason does, better. I don’t know I hope he doesn’t get caught in a bad deal or whatever.

MIKE

MIKE is probably the greatest artist of all time. I’m a sucker for artists that produce their own music, and MIKE produces music under the name dj blackpower.

Top 5

Backseat – Tisakorean **dr.grabba mix**
No Curse Lifted (rivers of love)
Pieces of a Dream
Ipari Park
Burning Desire

I had a really difficult time with the top 5. It’s crazy to me how few people listen to dj blackpower. MIKE has 772k monthly listeners while dj blackpower only has 29k. That’s a 26-1 ratio. Only one out of every 26 MIKE fans, know about dj blackpower; it’s heartbreaking because dj blackpower has some of MIKE’s best work. MIKE isn’t for everyone. He does the talking, drowsy kind of rap that Boldy James does, over sample heavy production… A lot of times he doesn’t even rhyme, he’s just talking. His favorite rapper is Earl Sweatshirt, who helped a lot when he was first starting out. He works a lot with El Cousteau, Niontay, and Wiki.

fakemink

Top 5

Hi, I’m Blessed
Secret
Sniffany
Fake It
Mink

Oh fakemink, where do I begin? This dude is basically the modern day Beatles. He is the leader of a new generation of artists from the UK. When I first started seeing stuff about fakemink, I didn’t check him out because he was British and I felt that he didn’t even deserve a chance. I kind of feel like he’s fading away a little bit, though. None of his music in 2025 is that good but maybe he’s planning something.. I don’t know.

the end

so thats all I have, I haven’t written in a really long time and i want to so hopefully this will lead to me wanting to write more and maybe i can figure out how to make the website look nice and not just make it blue… new post coming soon maybe

DNA BY DANNY BROWN

“It’s in my DNA, cause my pops like to get fucked up the same way”

DNA is a song where Danny Brown blames his drug addiction on his parents, saying that they liked “to get fucked up the same way”.

My mom had me when she was 22. Her mom had died a few months prior to finding out she was pregnant with me, and when she went to the doctor she told them that she quit drinking, smoking cigarettes, and smoking pot, her mom just died, and the love of her life is in Iraq. Then the doctor said that I was going to die in her belly because of my mom’s stress levels. And they said the best thing to do was smoke a joint once a week. I remember when she told me that I was like “Bruh it’s your fault I’m addicted to the cart bruh” which is obviously not true. I could never blame her for that. And I remember thinking like damn… If moms do drugs while pregnant, that baby already has an addiction to that thing. Newborns have been shown to exhibit withdrawal symptoms of alcohol, cocaine or what have you.

One of my favorite lyrics of the song is

“I don’t smoke an eighth a day, I might end up a mental patient.”

I had my stretch of needing to smoke everyday. When that addiction starts itching you, it’s unlike anything. I used to be so upset that I didn’t have friends, but I would have to remove myself from situations where I was around people because I wanted to go smoke. It was more important to get high than to make friends. I remember there was a day where I just wanted to get high so bad and my cart had run out or something and I went to my house and was looking everywhere for one. In cushions, my mom’s desk, and I could not find one. And you really do feel like a mental patient. You feel anxious and stressed about nothing and that is what the addiction is.

I think my favorite part of this song is the production. DNA is supposed to act as the first song of “Side B” of his record and if you listen to XXX front to back, DNA sounds much different from the songs that preceded it. Danny himself said he thought the album cover was like a vinyl and he wanted to keep that vibe. The whole second half of the album is different, really. When you listen to the song, the instruments just hit heavy.

This song is very important in Danny Brown’s discography

Danny Brown is known for glamorizing drug addiction. I mean the song before DNA is called Adderall Admiral. The first verse glamorizes it. He mentions his “Versace pillowcases”, “Terry cloth bathrobe”, “white wine in flute glass”. He lives a lavish life, even saying, “Every night, like a bachelor party in Sin City.” The second verse is one of my favorite ever. He says, “Perceived as a villain, no sentiment in my sentence / For instance, in instants, they’ll be calling forensics.” He’s saying that everybody just sees him as some drug addict rapping about his drug use and they aren’t respecting him or acknowledging the talent that he has. He’s a “villain” in the rap game. Danny Brown is one of the few artists today that actually seem to be pushing themselves. But anyways, Danny is agreeing with them, admitting that he could die from it. The next four bars is, “If incidents occur, remember these ain’t just words / Go from talking shit to organs preserved / You soft-serve rappers just hide behind your reverb / And even without effects, you’ll end up dessert”. The first two lines are still about himself. He wants to be remembered for the meaning behind the words and not just the words alone. These next two lines are pretty amazing. He’s saying that other rappers in the game are scared to talk about their own struggles and are just “hiding” behind voice effects. He then goes onto to tell them that even if they didn’t have effects, they’re “dessert”. They are sweet and soft just like dessert or just like soft-serve ice cream. And this line is right after he says no one respects him for his talent. I see it Danny.

The End

The end.

Drugs are bad and you will get addicted

I’m not even talking about drugs I’m really only talking about weed. That’s all I’ve ever done. But it changes you and that’s what I’m going to talk about I suppose.

Why Do I Even Smoke at All if it’s so Bad and Addicting

So I have a story but I have to start a while ago. For the longest time I had the same friends and we would do the same things all the time but I loved them and I loved what we did. We would pretty much just play Xbox together but we’ve been doing it for damn near a decade. And then I started making some new friends that were a grade above me. We would go to Bdubs almost every week and just hangout. And they were a lot different than my other friends and really similar too, but I enjoyed hanging out with them; it was like a change of pace for the first time in my life. And so I kind of stopped hanging out with my first friends and that’s my fault, but… they smoked weed a lot. And I didn’t really. I did every now and then but I was really careful about it and I didn’t like the smell, and there was no way I was going to smoke and drive. So after my older friends graduated, I started hanging out with my first friends, and I also started smoking a lot more. They did it, and I guess I just hated being such an outsider from them… I don’t really know. But I got my own weed pen. And I was extremely careful with it. I would keep it hidden in my closet behind my Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, and I would only hit it late at night when my parents were sleeping, and rarely on school nights. But as time goes on, and you start hitting it a little more, you become complacent. I HATE COMPLACENCY IT IS THE WORST THING TO BE!!! I started breaking the laws I set for myself. I lost my discipline. I would hit it before tennis practice, before working the concession stand… Too much. More than I needed to. But I enjoyed it. “Why not get high real quick?” Then I started hitting it too much. I developed a cough that would hit me almost every day in first period. I woke up and I felt like shit. And I would tell myself, “Alright, no pen today because my tummy hurts,” well… I mean…. that obviously did not work.

Being Addicted to the Cart is Not Ideal

The thing with the cart is that when you first get it, it’s the best it’ll ever be. The more you do it the worse it gets, but the more you do it, the more you want it. It’s a really fucked up scenario to be honest. It tricks you. No wonder they call it the Devil’s Lettuce. But over the summer before college, I didn’t have one. I refused to buy one because they’re so terrible… but my mother had one. Now my mother is not a cart fein; she is in fact, a super lightweight. And me, being evil, would steal it at night. And I would hit and then go put it back. And previously I knew I had a problem with addiction but I really knew it, when one day the cart wasn’t there. And it was all I wanted like what the freak Mom. Anywho, so I realized I needed to quit. Then I got to school and immediately bought a cart. I would hit it before my 9AM and it would wear off by the time I got to class. And then my cart store got raided. To be honest, I’d probably still be doing it if Slackers never closed. So, shoutout the police for making Slackers close.

New, Less Evil Beginnings

So the cart store closed, and I hated it anyways, so I decided I was going to start smoking real weed by myself at school. I found a plug, and bought a pipe and I would smoke weed too often. Every day for like a month straight. And it made me lazy and antisocial. I would eat in my room, or eat outside with my headphones on… I always had my headphones on. It just wasn’t great. Smoking by myself all the time for why?? My excuse was that I wanted to get better at smoking weed, because really I had no idea what I was doing, and I really did want the experience. So I came home for Thanksgiving break, and I was smoking every day. Then, my uprise came. All the time I was smoking in my bathroom was because I didn’t have a roommate, but after break, I did. Where was I going to smoke? So I started smoking in my car, and I would get so stressed out being in my car, like I was definitely going to get caught. Then Christmas break came, and I got another cart which caused me to stop smoking weed so much; I mean I can hit the cart in my bed, I can’t smoke a blunt in my bed. Well, when school started up again, I threw away the cart, and had no weed… so it was pretty easy to get back on track.

me right now

I don’t smoke every day. I don’t even really have the desire to smoke anymore. Obviously, I do sometimes. Now it’s Sunday. And I smoked on Thursday night at like 1 AM even though I had a 9AM (evil of me) and I smoked Friday but I had been drinking and boy oh boy do I love to smoke when I’ve been drinking. The point is that I don’t smoke every day. I could’ve smoked today and I didn’t. And I like to imagine that I’ve beat the addiction. Probably not… it will probably get me again some time. But I’m very comfortable with my bad habits now.

What is the moral of the story

I don’t want this to scare anybody from smoking weed. I just wanted to share my experience and give a caution so maybe somebody doesn’t make the same mistakes I made. There’s a lot of really good parts about drugs too. Just know the situation you’re in. I would tell myself, I’m not addicted, but anyone who says weed isn’t addicting is a weirdo clown that truly needs help. Don’t start smoking for no reason like me… If you are stressed out, cool smoke. If you’ve been drinking and you just want to get lit, cool smoke. Don’t smoke because you are bored in your dorm room. Go make a friend or make a TikTok edit or something. No matter what you do stay safe. If you feel like you have a problem, you probably do, and you should reach out to someone. I mean you could even reach out to me as a former, recovering, and probably future weed addict LMAOOOOO. For real though, throw the cart away, and if you think you might smoke too much, just try and go two days without it, only to prove to yourself that you can. Good luck guys, and happy smoking.

Vapes Ruined Cigarette Culture

Many a time, I have been in the bathroom in high school, and people are vaping in there. Do whatever you want I don’t really care; but there’s something special about these bathroom vape breaks. And that is the community that comes along with vaping…

What?

You walk into the bathroom, vapeless, and you’re stressed out, having a bad day or whatever. And some person that you’ve never talked to is vaping. “Yo I can hit that?” “Of course, bro.” I’ve always been jealous of this kind of community that vapers have amongst themselves. It’s really something. I feel like before vapes, there was a similar community among cigarette smokers. In a way, the convenience of vapes have ruined this culture.

Words From my Mother Who I Love Very Much

I texted my mom and I asked her about this sense of community amongst cigarette smokers when she was in college or just in general. “Smoking was like an invitation to approach and strike up a conversation. You’re both sitting there, you know you’ve got 10 minutes or so, just make small talk. I used to deliberately not carry a lighter so I could ask guys to use theirs. When you have to leave the room, you are putting yourself in the outside. By smoking, you physically remove yourself from the party, the concert, whatever. So when you see another smoker, you know they get it, too. Even if all you talk about is how much you hate smoking, how expensive, it is still a small moment of instant connection.”

They Get it Too

Back in the day before vapes in like 2014, there really was a sense of connection, of bonding among smokers that has been lost today. This is how I see it. Like my mom said, you physically remove yourself from wherever you are… you go away from the rest of the people because you want to smoke a cigarette, and you would find other people who feel the same way that you do. Now, you go to any bar and everyone has their vape with them; there isn’t any need to step out. Vaping ruined cigarette culture, and I don’t really know what I’m talking about but it all makes sense to me. Not that cigarette culture is anything to be proud of, but at least there was a culture. I started this piece being jealous of vape culture but now I look at vape culture as something that killed a real way to make connections or bond with another person. There’s probably real people out there that ended up getting married because they shared a cigarette when they were strangers, or best friends that just happened to meet because they were smoking 10 feet away from each other. Vaping made nicotine addiction easy. And it’s a bigger overarching problem of easiness in this generation that I have a problem with already. We don’t have to try anymore… and it’s led to a generation of complacency, my least favorite thing to be. Complacency is what kills motivation…

Why does this matter at all?

It doesn’t really. I just hate being in the digital age. A vape is just a digital cigarette. I wish I was ten years older. Everything is too easy now. LOL I’m complaining about my life being easy. What a positive guy I am!! Nobody has to try anymore. Everyone uses AI to get through school. I don’t even have to go to class. I miss something that I never even experienced. And that’s not fair to all the people who did experience it because they would probably kill to have it so easy. I’m going to Bible study tomorrow. I’m going to tell everyone to check out my website. If you are from Bible study, thank you for reading. It means everything and nothing less.

Jayden Daniels… Please Save Us

This Sunday, Jayden Daniels has the opportunity to cement himself in the history books by being the first ever rookie QB to start in the Super Bowl. I believe…

I’ve been watching the Commanders all season. I had Jayden Daniels and Terry McLaurin on my fantasy team. What I saw was week in and week out, Jayden Daniels did everything he could to win football games. You know, I love football so damn much… and wins aren’t a quarterback stat, but it’s not easy to win football games if you have a bad quarterback. If we look at the playoffs, the remaining QBs are Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, and Jalen Hurts. It’s clear that the teams with the best QBs do the best in the league (retribution for Joey B). THEY LOST 13 GAMES LAST YEAR and now they’re in the NFC Championship. They knocked off the best looking team I’ve had the privilege of watching in my life. Adam Peters is in his first year as the Commanders’ GM, Dan Quinn is in his first year as the Commanders’ head coach, and Jayden Daniels is in his first year of running the offense. And this team is in the NFC Championship.

The Problem

Saquon Barkley is the best running back in the NFL, and I don’t think it’s unfair to say that he is the best player in the entire league. He has the capability to take any run the distance. Likewise, the Commanders have one of the worst rushing defense in the entire league. Saquon has run for 296 yards on 55 carries and 4 touchdowns in the two games he played against them this year. Can the Commanders stop him? Probably not… but my faith in the Commanders doesn’t have anything to do with defense.

Jayden Daniels, Future GOAT

Jayden Daniels is having one of the most spectacular seasons I’ve ever witnessed. He is the consensus best QB in the NFC. He has one of the most beautiful deep balls I’ve ever seen. He is second in the league in completed passes over 50 yards, second to Goff. And I did I forget to mention that he rushed for 900 yards. That’s good enough for the 9th best QB rushing season of all time. I’ll put it like this. In 2023, Lamar won MVP, throwing for 3,678 yards with a 67.2 completion percentage to go along with 24 TDs and 7 INTs and rushing for 820 yards and 5 TDs. Jayden Daniels this season threw for 3,568 on 69% (nice), 25 TDs and 9 INTs, while rushing for 891 yards and 6 TDs. Jayden Daniels is also a rookie. What this tells me is that if Most Valuable Player means what it says, the winner is Jayden Daniels.

Greatest Single Season Turnaround of All Time???

If stats aren’t what you care about, let’s look at something else. When looking at single season turnarounds, the Commanders are a bit special. They went from 4-13 to 12-5 (14-5), and are in the NFC Championship. There are only a few teams in history who have gotten close to this kind of turnaround. The 1998 St. Louis Rams went 4-12. The next year birthed the Greatest Show on Turf; Kurt Warner who didn’t play in 1998 would win MVP, Isaac Bruce came back from injury as he missed 11 games in 1998, the Rams traded for Marshall Faulk who won OPOY and broke the record for receiving yards by a running back, and they drafted Torry Holt. What did the Commanders do to improve? They drafted Mike Sainristill and Johnny Newton, and upgraded their linebackers with Bobby Wagner and Frankie Luvu. They also traded for Marshon Lattimore during the season (I love you Marshon Lattimore). That is really it. These guys have made the team better than they were last year, sure, but are they making the NFC Championship with Jared Goff, Baker Mayfield… I don’t think so. The catalyst for the turnaround was solely the play of Jayden Daniels.

Okay so like what does any of this even mean?

All of this means that Jayden Daniels is in rare company. I would say he’s in a league of his own when it comes to his situation and his play. No one has ever done what he was done… The Commanders O/U win total before the season was 6.5. The point is that NOBODY believed except for maybe some wishful Commander fans. I didn’t believe. I thought the Commanders would win more games than they did last year, but NFC Championship? Get outta here. They have shocked the world by making the playoffs, going on the road and beating the Bucs, going on the road and beating the best team I’ve seen in my life, and they’re going to shock the world when they beat the Eagles.

What does it mean to be motivated?

A lot of people said I would never do it / That’s what scares me, cause you fear what you can’t see / That’s motivation for life – Lil B the Based God

Really, motivation is just wanting something bad enough to do something about it. A lot of times this can be fueled by some stronger emotion like love or hate. It’s a lot of things.

Stories of Motivation

About ten years ago I went bowling with my family. And I told my stepdad that I think my uncle was going to beat him. My stepdad then bowled the best game of his life all the way until today. I don’t really remember this but he does, and he tells me the story anytime I doubt him. I sometimes wonder what made him turn it up. I don’t believe in coincidences. He didn’t just happen to bowl the best game of his life. And the fact that he still brings it up to this day means there’s something deeper. I don’t really know. He was motivated by me, fueled by jealousy or maybe he just wanted me to be on his side. I think that’s something he struggles with as my stepfather, and it’s not fair to him really.

The other day I was playing pickleball with my friends and I was playing against one of my friends. He was beating me 10-1. I knew I was going to win. I even told him that I was going to win. And I meant it. I wanted nothing more than to win this pickleball game. He always beats me. I never beat him in pickleball. But I just believed in myself. And I ended up coming back and winning. He wasn’t talking shit to me really, and nobody was against me. It was just me. I was motivated by my own failures to beat him. This made me question if there is a real phenomena that is “locking in”. Did I lock in? Did my stepdad?

I believe in locking in. I think it’s real. In the Olympic gold medal game for basketball, Steph Curry made 4/4 three pointers at the end of the fourth quarter. And it’s not like it was garbage time; it was a close game before Curry went on his tear. I definitely feel like that was more than basketball. I don’t know. I think Steph just wanted to prove that he is the best shooter of all time and always will be. Obviously two time MVP (first unanimous), four time champion, consensus greatest shooter of all time Steph Curry has nothing to prove, but who knows maybe he felt like he did.

The End

It’s crazy how motivation works. It’s the one thing that actually get people to go and do something. I don’t know I feel like I have a weird relationship with it. It’s like I’m so motivated all the time to do a ton of cool stuff but I’m so lazy that I don’t feel like it. New year new me, am I right?🤣

The Big 25

Why is it almost 2025?

Well there is a ton I have to say about 2024 so..

The Big 24

A lot happened in 2024. I started college. That is kind of it.

Music in the Big 24

There was so much good music that dropped this year. Unfortunately, I just didn’t listen to a lot of it so…

My top album of 2024 was Time After Time by Jay Worthy and MadeinTYO.

There’s so much to love about this album. I love that it’s only 24 minutes long. I hate long music; it’s like I don’t want to sit and listen to 22 songs over an hour. 10 songs, 24 minutes is perfect. Actually one of my favorite songs is the longest on the album; Outro is a 3 minute instrumental with no rapping or singing or anything. I just think this album was made with love. It has some of the best production I’ve ever heard and TYO and Jay Worthy have a kind of chemistry that works really well. Hope these guys work together again!!

Westside Gunn dropped two projects back to back, 11 and Still Praying. 11 is only 4 songs long, but all of the songs were magnificent, while Still Praying had a few songs I didn’t care for too much. Still when Westside Gunn hits, he hits hard, and he definitely delivers on these two projects.

Another incredible album is The Genuine Articulate by The Alchemist.

I didn’t even know The Alchemist rapped before this. Like Time After Time, The Genuine Articulate is only 23 minutes long and has only 8 songs. And the production is amazing, I mean The Alchemist is probably the best producer in the space right now, but something about hearing him rap and produce just adds a whole new level of talent to it. Same thing goes for Time After Time.

Honorable mention to the Denzel Curry album I didn’t listen to.

2025 is mine

So I have started to understand that I really have to start doing something with my life. I’m trying to manifest success by saying 2025 is mine. It’s like if I keep saying it, then I will start doing things to make it true as a joke first, but then it will become habit. I’m tricking myself into not being lazy by making it a joke. How wonderful.

I guess there isn’t a lot I have to say about 2024. thanks for reading

Odell Me!

Odell Beckham is a name that new NFL fans might not know. I really think he could have be THE best receiver of this generation, better than Mike Evans, or Deandre Hopkins, and even better than Julio Jones. Odell was the guy.

The Catch

On November 23, 2014 the whole idea behind what it means to catch a football changed. The game was Cowboys vs. Giants, in a game that was mighty important for the Cowboys considering they were tied with the Eagles for the top of the NFC East. The game was also on Prime Time so if you were watching football, you were watching this game. Odell was a rookie, and his breakout was coming. After missing the first four weeks of the season, OBJ would get off to a slow start. Up until the game against the Cowboys, he had 31 receptions for 463 yards and 3 touchdowns through six games which averages out to about 5 for 77 and a touchdown every other game. Then the catch happened.

If you have never seen this play, please please go watch it, I even did all the hard work and linked it. The Catch

The Cowboys would go on to win this game, although they would eventually fall to the Packers in the playoff after Dez Caught It. Cowboys fans in 2014 had it rough. In the final six weeks of the season, including this game, OBJ caught 60 passes for 842 yards and 9 touchdowns averaging 10 for 140 and a touchdown and a half per game. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a breakout like this. I don’t know if it’s fair to say that this catch caused all this but I don’t believe in coincidences. OBJ would go on to win Offensive Rookie of the Year and be named to the Pro Bowl, although his per game stats were levels higher than those around him. The next two years he was just as good, receiving AP second team honors both years, being ousted by the likes of prime Antonio Brown, Julio Jones, and our friend Dez Bryant. In 2017, OBJ would miss most of the season with a ankle fracture, and he would never be the same.

A lot of people only know Odell for this catch. Football guys might remember his catch against the Redskins or the Josh Norman battle. But Odell did more for football than just his performances.

The Culture Shift

I was nine years old when Odell caught that ball. I remember saying “Odell me” as a way to get the ball thrown up high above my head so I could attempt to “Odell” the ball. Odell became more than just a football player; he was the one hand catch guy. As little kids, we started trying to catch it with one hand. It’s like Odell validated that as an option. One handed catches really became a thing. Today, it’s almost expected for the best receivers to make one handed catches. In my own little reality, I would like to imagine that OBJ was the catalyst for the wide receiver revolution. Obviously there were great wide receivers in the past: Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Torry Holt, etc. But to me, OBJ was the first to catch the ball in a cool way. Spectacular catches have blown up in the league since OBJ and it’s even supported by the league. In 2015, NFL posted Top 10 Catches of 2015 on their YouTube channel, with Odell as the thumbnail. Such video didn’t exist in 2014. In 2016, they expanded to top 50 catches of the year, Odell returning as the thumbnail. Finally, in 2017, with Odell on the thumbnail once again, NFL uploaded the top 100. The league hasn’t looked back since.

The End of the Odell Era

OBJ was recently waived by the Dolphins. Last year, he played a minor role with the Ravens, and missed all of 2022 after tearing his ACL in the Super Bowl with the Rams (where he SCORED A TOUCHDOWN RAHHHHH). I really hate to see it. His prime was so short… The thought of what could have been always sucks to think about, but by looking at what was, it’s safe to say that Odell Beckham Jr. will always be a legend.

Why does sex sell and how do we fix it?

This is a screenshot from my YouTube feed.

I was intrigued by the fact that the thumbnail of this YouTube short had the word sex in it. I mean, it’s only a HIMYM clip and it has over 4 million views. But it got me thinking about why the word sex is in the thumbnail.

Sex and Drugs

These two things own the world. Sex and drugs are the two things that people willingly do knowing the potential longterm effects of their actions. I know plenty of people who had children in high school because, clearly, the allure of having sex is more powerful than the thought of being a parent. Now is this all the way true, of course not. No one thinks it’s going to happen to them. In the same way, drugs are an ever growing epidemic. I asked my sister who’s in third grade if she has ever heard of Terrance the RAT (Reject All Tobacco) and she said no. I know people whose lives have been ruined because of drugs. Some people just can’t say no.

It doesn’t help that these two subjects are often glorified in pop culture; music, movies. If you want to be cool, you have to have as much sex as possible and do as many drugs as possible.

So what are we supposed to do about it?

Well, I don’t think there is much TO do. I mean, in a capitalistic economy, whatever makes the most money will reign supreme. It’s just kind of gross. Especially because a lot of people that clicked on that video are probably kids. Who else is watching a YouTube short about HIMYM? The solution has to do with the kids. I don’t know, the internet is a crazy place. It also has a lot to do with the post-COVID content boom. When COVID hit, everyone was on social media, which means it was easier to be a content creator, therefore leading to content over-saturation. THEY ARE ALL ATTENTION MERCHANTING. That is a term I learned in my Jour 101 class. Where did the ethics go?

That wasn’t a solution.

I don’t have a solution. But I think something needs to happen. It’s like a dopamine boost when you think of sex; is this just a human problem? Humans will always want what they want. And I believe that is okay. You can’t control your wants.

“No matter what it was or is or will become, you always want the things that you want.” – Mach-Hommy

What Makes A Movie Good?

“It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that I’m sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it coming. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I’ll be waiting.”

There is a lot that goes into making a movie. Actors, directors, writers, lighting, audio, composers; there are just a few jobs on a movie set. Let’s be real, a great movie can have bad acting in the same sense that a bad movie can have incredible writing. So what makes a good movie, good?

The Actors

For me, a movie really stands out when I haven’t seen anything like it. I also have not seen very many movies so nearly every new movie I watch becomes an instant classic. As of right now my favorite movie is probably Nightcrawler with Jake Gyllenhaal, and the biggest reason I love it so much is because of Gyllenhaal’s performance. His character, Lou Bloom, is one of my favorite characters in all of fiction, and I believe Gyllenhaal played him perfectly. When I see Jake Gyllenhaal in this movie, I don’t see Donnie Darko or that guy he played in that Spiderman movie for some reason or Jack Twist; I see Lou Bloom, a true sociopath. It’s a scary

The Director

Two of my favorite directors are Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. Anderson’s movies are highlighted by their whimsical flair. Fantastic Mr. Fox is all about being whimsical, but at the same time, it tells an extremely moving story about a husband and his inability to disregard his natural instinct. Tarantino’s movies are also quite whimsical. His movies bring a certain level of absurdism to real life events, like the murder of Sharon Tate or WWII. What these two directors have in common is how different they are. If you’re watching a Wes Anderson film, there is no doubt you’re watching a Wes Anderson film. Same with Tarantino, although you can usually figure out it’s a Tarantino movie because he will show up in the movie at some point (probably saying the N word, too!)

The Story

One of my favorite movies ever is called Cha Cha Real Smooth. It follows a young man (23?) who doesn’t have any direction in life before he meets an older woman with an autistic daughter. It’s a romantic drama, but it is simultaneously a narrative on the young man, Andrew. Andrew is played by Cooper Raiff who, according to Wikipedia, is the sole director and writer of this movie. On top of that, it’s only his second movie, and he delivered a great performance (nothing like Dakota Johnson’s performance tho). I love this movie because it tells a real story (not a true story) about naivety and love, and most of all, compassion. There’s not many movies that make you feel as much as this one.

The End

Well these are my three key ingredients to making a good movie. A good movie doesn’t have to have all three, or even one of these to be honest. Does Good Burger have any of these?? I mean, Kel is the whole movie if we’re being honest. At the end of the day, it’s night…