Red Cup, you know I fly solo

So, that’s the lyrics from one of my favorite songs right now, called “Red Cup(I Fly Solo)” by CashCash, and it features Lacey Schwimmer and Spose. It’s really catchy, and I would recommend it to anyone. So, I’m currently in an argument with one of my friends about whether or not techno is a good genre (which, as all of you know, I dislike techno), but I told my friend that if he could find me a good techno song, I might change my mind. Since we’ve been at this for a few days now, I decided that I would leave it up to you guys, and see if any of you have a good idea for a techno song, since I’m trying to broaden my musical reach in a few different ways.

If you want to give me any of these songs that I’m convinced don’t actually exist (and trust me, I’ve looked. That was all that  my ex-boyfriend listens to, so he would give me a lot of links) then you can leave them in a comment for me to get around to-but I make no promises as to when, because we all know that I’m terrible with keeping track of when I post.

What I want to talk to you all about today is something that my honors economics class has spent a while talking about-can you put a monetary value on human life? I think that there’s no definite way to define it, but according to an article from the 16th of February (2011, so it’s recent), the Obama administration has deemed the price of a human life at 7.9 million dollars, a 2.6 million dollar raise from 2005, when it was 5.3 million dollars. This is an important topic to discuss, because it was segued into from a conversation about morals and ethics. Are morals and ethics different from economics? Is every choice that we make purely economic or moral, or do our morals come into play when we make an economic choice?

If we instituted the 343 million dollar plan to make mattresses more fire retardant, which (per year) would save 270 lives, should we? A vast majority of these mattress fires are started by smokers who smoke in bed. This program saves not only the smoker, but also the man in the apartment next door. Do we institute the 40 million dollar plan to put seat belts on every bus across the country, when only one child is killed a year? How can we not put a monetary value on life, when it’s so important for education against it? One of the girls in my class said that instead of putting the money to make mattresses more fire resistant, we should put that money into smoking education instead, so that everyone knows the dangers. Not all mattress fires are caused by smokers-in fact 20% of mattress fires are caused by a spark that gets shot out of the plug in the wall (which, in many houses in the US, emits about 270 volts-a deadly amount if some of that isn’t run through a conductor.)

Do we forsake the mattress program, even though we could cause the death of 54 people? If the monetary value of a human life is 7.9 million, that’s about 6 million dollars a person…

Do we implement the bus program, even though it takes about 6 years for it to live up to it’s full worth?

These questions are not just economics or monetary-it’s morals. Morals, psychologically speaking, are a system of what is right and wrong in a society, that varies drastically from culture to culture. For example, in the United States, we eat cows and other bi-products that come from that cow, yet people who are Hindu (or many people in India-not trying to be racist, just stating a fact) would find it sacrilegious, because they worship the cow. That’s just one example. We CAN put a monetary value on life, but only when it serves our benefits.

When an obese 70 year old man has a heart attack, tax payer’s money pays for any surgery, because he’s on Medicare. Hospitals have no right to turn away anyone, and that’s what we as a nation feel. Besides, he’s been putting money into the health care system-he only retired a few months ago. Imagine a 19 year old gets into a car accident, and is rushed to the emergency room. He’s contributed nothing to health care, and he’s living by himself-both of his parents are dead. Is he only given the minimum amount of care, because that’s what he’s expected to be given; that’s what we as a nation expect him to get? Imagine our 19 year old is paying for college (by himself, and he’s studying to be a business major) and the accident was caused by a drunk driver who was instantly killed. Do we expect him to pay for any medical costs as well as college? His career would allow him to pay for these medical bills, but if he has to juggle that along with college, how can we expect him to do what he has to in order to get by?

These economic and moral dilemmas are what make so many things impossible to accomplish across the board. So many corporations expect us to go along with what they say, and if the monetary value is black and white, it gives them a way to look at the costs and benefits of having faulty machinery and the way that they should be implementing their money. (Props to Toyota for their recall, even though it might have cost them more.)

I hope I’ve given you something to think about, and (hopefully) I’ll post more brain food for you guys later.

MUSIC TIME:

1. Lost (Remix ft. Jay-Z)-Coldplay
2. Electric Hearts-CashCash
3. Down Low (ft. Mos)-Kayne West
4. Guilty Filthy Soul(Ft. Wale)-AWOLNATION
5. Hey Alli-Runner Runner
6. Stand Up-Meelee

I hope you guys take the time to read the whole rant (instead of cutting to the bottom for the music…)

So tell me what you want to hear, we'll take it back through all those years, sick of all the insincere, i'm gonna give all my secrets away.

So, that's the first half of the chorus to a song called "Secrets" by OneRepublic, which I love. I think that the use of the wood instruments, like the violin and cello make the song so much catchier. It was also the "theme" for the movie "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" with Nicholas Cage. I saw that the other day with my wonderful boyfriend, and my friend Winter and her wonderful boyfriend, who is my new official chauffeur for all times after 9 PM, but only because he's such a good sport about it. But when we went to see the movie, we stayed through the ending credits and what song comes on? Alpha Rev's "Phoenix Burn." That's right-I'm amazing. I mentioned that song on here, what? Last year? Exactly. I have undeniable proof from my faithful readers (if there even are any).

So today, I'm going to talk about the oil spill, like EVERYONE ELSE, but I'm going to give you straight up facts.

The reason that they can't fix it yet, is because it's underwater at a level where no scuba diver can get down there, and even if a scuba diver could go that deep, it's dangerous for a plethora of reasons, one of which being the oil itself is flammable, and there are underwater heat pockets at that depth. They also don't have a way of fixing it in general. They can't turn off the oil flow, because it's the off switch that's broken. ANOTHER MYTH- The oil spill has NOT affected the weather of the eastern seaboard AT ALL, so if anyone says that the oil spill is affecting the weather-it's not. Please also note that this is a MAN MADE ISSUE, but it's not from the White House. While they have burned off MUCH of the top level of oil, it's too deep, and there are MILLIONS OF GALLONS of oil at this point, because 26, 543 gallons (plus or minus a few hundred gallons) of oil are being poured into the gulf daily.

Please remember those facts the next time you go to bash the government's way of handling the gulf coast.

Also, the music. If you wanna look at my tumblr too, it's amusicfanatic.tumblr.com.

MUSIC TIME!
New Morning-Alpha Rev
OK, It's Alright With Me-Eric Hutchinson
China Sunrise-Alpha Rev
Secrets-OneRepublic
I Am Not A Robot-Marina and the Diamonds

PARTY HARD GUYS!

Like a judas kiss like pleasure and a little pain

So, that title is from Heart's "Black on Black" but that's not even the song I'm listening to at the current moment. That title would be Patent Pending's "This Can't Happen Again". And there is something that can't happen again. GETTING SUNBURNED IN THE SHAPE OF A TRIANGLE ON MY BACK BECAUSE IT'S PAINFUL! LIKE SUPER PAINFUL! Sorry about the outburst there. But yes. OH THE SONG IS CHANGING TO.... Cartel's "Honestly".
Okay, so today I'm going to rant about... nothing. I'm drawing a blank. But the music is what comes here.
SO THE LIST:

1. That's What She Said-The Friday Night Boys
2. Hannah-Freelance Whales
3. Hollywood-Cute is What We Aim For
4. Sweat the Battle Before the Battle Sweats You- Cute is What We Aim For

So that's about it, other then they're ending Legend of the Seeker, which makes me sad. :(

Sooner than later, I'll need a Saviour

That's a quote from one of my favorite songs at the moment, called "Saviour" by an artist named Lights. She's currently on tour with Owl City. She classifies her music as intergalactic alternative, and she's amazing. I mean, she plays by herself, and she has the perfect blend of techno and alternative music. I mean, I can't say that i normally like the techno genre, but I have to say that I like her. She has some great songs, like "Ice" and "February Air". I think that she's wonderful and super talented.

The only thing I feel like talking about is my ginger. I won't tell you her name, since she'll probably get mad at me, if she ever reads my blog again, but I love her to death. She's not even my best friend anymore; she's my sister. I fight with her, I joke with her, her mom is like my second mom, and the same goes for my mom with her. I love her to death and I absolutely adore her. I mean, I've known her since I was little because she lives right around the corner from me. I mean, she's just like everyone else in the fact that she thinks I put music above her, when in reality, my mind at all times is:Ginger, boys, music, something else that varies, but she always stays the same.

Now, I don't think that I feel like ranting about anything. I know that there's so much I could rant about, but i don't feel like anyone's actually reading this anymore. I mean, if you want to post down on the bottom about anything, comments, questions, for my opinions, whatever; I'll answer you, or I'll refer you to someone who can.

SONGS:
1)OK GO-Here We Go Again
2)LIGHTS-February Air
3)KE$HA-Stephen
4)RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS- Justify

Come sit next to me, you fine fellow

So, I don’t know if I've ever mentioned before that I watch that show Glee? Well, now you all know that I watch it, and I love it. It’s a great show with a catchy story line, great pickup songs, a good cast, and it’s really great to see what a “reality” high school looks like. This week’s episode was so incredible. It showed the downside of the pressures of being perfect. If anyone watched it this week, Mercedes was the main character, and after her and Kurt joined the Cheerios, Sue tells Mercedes that she needs to lose weight in order to stay on the cheerleading team, so Mercedes thinks that the best way to lose all the weight was to starve herself, and the worst part? It’s not uncommon in high school girls, the struggle to be “perfect” is growing ever omnipresent. I mean, they’ve drifted away from anorexia and bulimia to an almost OCD disease where everything that these girls eat is catalogued, from the calories that they eat at every meal, to the time that they ate at. It’s almost disgusting. Marilyn Monroe was a size 14 and she was one of the most iconic women in United States acting, and she was a brilliant woman.

The other thing that I feel I should tell you all about is this guy that I love, whose nickname is Brom, (yes, like the Brom from Eragon) and he’s my personal space heater at track meets. He’s the HUGE Russian that has the best Russian accent, and I love me those Russians, so I told him that he wasn’t allowed to talk in a Russian accent when I was near him. But he’s also one of the nicest kids ever. He’s a freshman, but you defiantly wouldn’t think so if you had met him. Besides, he has a fabulous music taste-he’s just not a music snob like yours truly. XD

Now, I feel as if i need to cover chivalry again. According to the Princeton dictionary, chivalry means “respect towards women”. I mean, is it really that hard to treat a women like she’s equal to a man? Is it that difficult to believe that they’re smart? Is it that hard to believe that women can’t be similar to men? Most of my friends are guys, and I love them all to death, but they talk about women like meat. Would a guy appreciate it if I started at him, like a fresh piece of meat straight off of the grill? I don’t think so. But men still feel the need to do it anyways. I mean, I think that some of the jokes about women being in the kitchen are funny, but if you overdo it, then it’s just cumbersome.

Now, here are the songs that have been running through my mind on this wonderfully sunny and warm day.

1. Walk on Water or Drown-Mayday Parade
2. Justify-Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
3. Lollipop-Mika
4. Dancing With Tears in My Eyes-Ke$ha
5. Give a Damn-A Rocket to the Moon
6. Men in Black(Cover)-Forever the Sickest Kids
7. Hello Brooklyn-All Time Low

Alright, so again, any comments, questions, anything you want my opinion on, songs, whatever else you can think of, I’m happy to address if you post.