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My brother graduated Friday, June 11th. I just could not believe it. I heard it was coming up but it didn't sink in. My LITTLE brother. He's very immature for his age, perhaps that's part of his personality and he always will be. It just seems so strange, I remember me when I graduated... hmm I turned 18 two weeks after I graduated, my brother has more than 2 months to go before he turns 18. That could make a difference. Still, to think my little brother is out of high school?! I mean he JUST began high school when I left! It's not so hard to believe it's been 4 years, yet somehow it's hard to believe he has graduated. My school doesn't give a summer vacation, we get 2 weeks off at the end of every 11 weeks. We only get one week between september and october so that we get 3 weeks off in December. There was suppossed to be a party for my brother after his graduation; however, he went to the Gradnight thing which I had no interest in going to. When I was in my junior year I worked as the janitors assistant. Instead of a final he took us inside the cafeteria which they had re-organized to be a big party play place for Gradnight. I got to enjoy all the benefits of the Gradnight without having to go AND having to deal with the people. I was not popular in high school, I was infamous.
It's funny the mentality of people hasn't changed. I mean both in the students who I graduated with that I saw there AND the students I'm with at my current school. They don't like me and they're very jealous that I'm more advanced than they are. I can't help that, I've never once bragged or rubbed it in their faces. My photoshop teacher was talking about how you never tell any client your portfolio is a student portfolio, because they'll cut what you could have earned into a third or more. Why? Because the graphic design industry is tough, if someone has been in it and survived it for 10 years, that person deserves more money and recognition. That lead to presenting what you've done to a client. He said "You have to become familiar and comfortable with who you are to present properly. Then the only problem then is just is your design coming across. that's why a number of the projects we've had you do so far have been make something that reflects or represents you. Some people have shown more than others. After coming back to America from living in England for years, I was really uncomfortable because I never had to deal with spanish people before and I sounded terrible when I said anything. That's why I give props to gay people, to be able to stand out making a choice that's different and only now not wildly unaccepted, that's not easy."
Now what he said actually made me nervous. I don't need him bringing this shit up, he was not talking about me though. He was talking about my friend Gonzalo, the white washed mexican flamer. He's EXTREMELY feminine, he's spanish but you'd never guess it from looking at him (thus the white washed). He wears all the standard, trendy gay clothing (yes he's a HUGE fashion and trendy queen) He's impatient, rude, so very, very, very girly, and if you ever met him you'd have to be both blind AND retarded (in the literal sense) to not know he's gay. He flaunts it big time, in your face gay. Which is FINE. I don't care. What GETS ME, is how that's more acceptable than what I am. This lady in our class is the wife of a baptist. She's very active in the church and SUPPOSSEDLY very spiritual. She's also a hypocrite. After Mark's speech, she goes to put a hand on Gonzalo's shoulder and says congratulations. ON WHAT? What has he done? Nobody bothers Gonzalo. It's perfectly OK for him to be gay because he's feminine. The lady I just talked about, Tarsha, she has a major problem with me. She doesn't like that I'm gay. How dare I be gay AND masculine at the same time! What's worse, I believe in God! How DARE I do this! I'm not suppossed to be MASCULINE, I'm not suppossed to have a FAITH that helps me get through life and help others. This is what to me is so FUNNY about the Gay community! This is why I tend to take the side of STRAIT people AGAINST the gay community! The "Community" is just another form of a mob. They're all self important people who think they know it all and that everyone who doesn't agree with them or follow their set pattern should be exterminated. I'm generalizing but this is what I've been confronted with and what I still get to this day. Why? I never had a problem with the gay community until they had a problem with me. What's their problem with me? Same as Tarsha's. I don't fit their role. I break the "rules" If you're gay, and a man, you're suppossed to act like a woman. If you're a woman and you're gay, you're suppossed to act like a man. I DON'T, therefore I'm not welcome. The "Community" always portrays itself as the home for the outcasts. A safe haven for anyone who's DIFFERENT. I'm DIFFERENT but I'm not welcome! They are hypocrites. Just like Tarsha.
I don't expect Tarsha to be perfect; although, she deliberately goes out of her way to be mean to me. Then wants help in photoshop. When you're going out of your way to intentionally be nasty to someone, that's no longer just being uncomfortable with someone and avoiding them. The whole class loves Gonzalo because he fits the accepted norm of "Gay" he acts like a woman, therefore, it's O.K. That really gets under my skin. I'm just happy to have guy friends like Chris, and Adrian, and Jason, and female friends like Kat chan, and sasarai girl :-) There are normal people who aren't afraid of me, or jealous. You know what it really feels like? I don't flaunt being gay because I'm not into running around screaming it. I'm not a fan of bright pretty colors all the time, thus I don't like the rainbow nor do I see how it represents me. I don't like the pink triangle. I HATE pink and a triangle...so what? I don't like the abercrombie clothing because it looks like cheap shit I could find at the Salvation Army store by my grandma or any thrift store for that matter! I don't act feminine because it's NOT my nature. I don't rub into people's faces that I'm gay and parade around like I'm better than strait people. I don't do any of those things, yet I'm the one people fear and can't stand to leave alone and in peace! I try and do the considerate thing and keep the fact that I'm gay to myself and not step on others' toes. Yet I get all the heat for it. It's like that South Park episode. Stan, Kyle, Butters, and I forget who else all get "future" versions of themselves to come back and tell them their lives were ruined because they touched weed. Stan and Butters gang up to try and teach their parents a lesson and go to Cartman who's got like some "Revenge inc." thing going. How does Cartman instead to teach Stan and Butters' parents a lesson? By smearing baby shit all over their walls. Stan's like WHAT? How is that going to fix things or teach them anything? That has nothing to do with what we're dealing with here, that's just immature, juvenile behavior! Stan tries to teach his parents a lesson and ends up getting into all kinds of hell for it. Butters' parents see shit smeared on their walls and say oh son we're so sorry we were all wrong deceiving you. It's like WHAT?! THIS IS ALL BACKASSWARDS! As JJ would say, *sigh* I guess this is what I have to put up with being different. By the way if your name wasn't up there when I mentioned friends, that was just the few people that came right off the top of my head.
That just frustrates me. Well to bring things up a bit, my birthday happens in less than 2 weeks. I doubt I'll do much of anything. I'm so tired right now because we got to my brothers graduation early so there was nothing for me to do so I went running around my old school. I was all dressed up too, tie, dress shirt with the pocket watch James (JJ) gave to me, slacks, boots, the works. Boots don't make good running shoes. So yeah when I got home around midnight after I got off the phone with James I just crashed. I've been downloading Naruto thanks to Jason (bizounce) I do like it, it reminds me a LOT of Flames of Recca, in fact you can see some parts are carbon copies of each other. I mean Naruto is like Flames of Recca in elementary school. I mean these kids are all 10/11/12 years old and the characters in Recca are 16 up. I really like Flames of Recca so it stands to reason I'd like Naruto. It's not my favorite anime ever, I would never purchase it, but for free? Hell, why not? So because I was bored between classes I did a Naruto to Flames of Recca kinda thing. If you wanna read the details, go ahead, if not just take my word that if you like Naruto (which is the trendy anime right now) you'll like Flames of Recca, and vice versa.
Naruto and Recca are nearly identical. Both are hot-heads, both have (a) powerful demon(s) inside their bodies. Naruto has the fox, Recca has the 8 Fire Dragons. Both have to go into a life or death struggle to get the power of their inner demon(s), they're both ninja's and use ninja techniques like the body replacement. While Naruto does the shadow clones and fights by throwing his dagger kunai or using it like a knife, Recca uses ninja traps on the floor or the environment, throws ninja stars, uses smoke bombs and firecrackers (his last name is "Hanabi" fireworks) and one of his fire dragons creates a blade of fire from his fore-arm and another surrounds his arm like a whip (combine the two you get a fire chain sickle) So there are differences, Recca is far more powerful and dresses more like a ninja would, in black clothing. Both of them have a slick, cool, "bad boy" that the chicks think is dreamy that constantly picks on them. For Naruto, it's Sasuke, for Recca, it's Mikagami. So Mikagami and Sasuke are similar. Mikagami is suppossed to be a knight though, whereas Sasuke is a ninja. They both have that cavalier, cold, "screw you, I'm better than you, I don't care what happens to you." attitude. Both are seeking revenge, Sasuke for the death of his parents against his big brother, Mikagami for the death of his older sister. Sasuke's powers are quite different than Mikagami's. Sasuke has that oni me no kyo eyes that have the added ability of copying moves, and uses a lot of fire and lightning attacks. Mikagami (if you couldn't tell by his name "Water Mirror") is a water Knight. His sword Ensui "ties of water" is basically a handle of a sword that creates a blade out of any form of water. That could be sulfuric acid, blood, or any other combination of H20 and anything else. Being a sword of water, it controls the other forms of water, ice and mist. They both have female companies that have the hots for them. Sasuke has Sakura, Mikagami has Fuuko. Though Sakura is much more into Sasuke than Fuuko to Mikagami. Fuuko is the wild spirited, highly competetive and edgy girl. Has short hair, isn't all that girly and has an amulet called the Fuujin (Wind God, her name means Wind Child) Sakura starts out much like a spoiled princess but then cuts her hair and starts acting viscious like Fuuko. They both have rivalries going on with Naruto and Recca, they like to hit the boys and pick on them. Both of them thought they were ugly. The last REAL stand out characters on both are Gaara and Kurei. Gaara covers himself with sand, Kurei covers his face with a Phantom of the Opera mask lol. Both have mother issues, both have an incredible power sealed in them. Both were treated roughly in childhood. Kurei tried to kill his newborn half brother, Gaara killed his dad I think. Kurei is a flame master, his flame is his girlfriend and a part of him so it's a living flame. Gaara's sand is his mom and protects him. They both kill for sport/pleasure. The other big thing is the tournaments. Naruto has a ninja tournament, Recca has the Ura Butou Satsujin. If you couldn't tell by the Satsujin part, the tournament in Recca is all about killing, whereas its not in Naruto. In Recca you fight in teams but either one on one, or two on two. The enemy gives up his or her magical tool to the victor. In Naruto you simply progress to the next part of the exam. The style though is very similar. Naruto is about twice as long as Recca, but it has many more silly tongue in cheek episodes. Whereas Recca has moments of silliness, but never a whole complete episode of non sense. The manga (Recca) is even darker than the anime, people's heads get decapitated, etc. So if this hasn't convinced you that both 1. Naruto and Recca are very similar and 2. If you like one, you're bound to like the other, then go watch it and prove me wrong. Anyway this is a big enough entry for weeks but I don't get to update regularly like most people and I have too much going on to make an entry that says "I changed my socks because they were smelly." and get 100 comments. You think I'm kidding? I've seen it.
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