The Infinite Repeater

I am awfully awful for this, and I would be willing to bet that I am not the only one.

You know when you are listening to music and this really great song comes on (or maybe it is the song that you selected to begin the playlist) and everything is going awesome. Maybe you're chair-dancing or at the very least shaking or nodding your head. Tapping your foot is probably the true culprit here. Either way, your body is moving in some way, and if it's not, I think you need to get your head checked.

Anyway, you're listening to this song and then it's over, and the next song comes on. You're enjoying the second song in the playlist, but there is something lacking about it and you can't quite place your finger on what it is... Ten more seconds pass and then it strikes you. You should have put the first song on repeat-one. Or maybe you don't go to thinking that far, but rather you just hit the rewind button for the previous song. And again. And again. And maybe even again, but halfway through the song because the first few bars are what totally pumps you up for listening to the song again.

That is me right now. Hitting the rewind button. Again. And again. And again. Currently listening to Mumford & Sons' "I Will Wait". My ears. They are in love. And it feels like they are making sweet, sweet love to the music because these damn ears are getting quite sweaty with these headphones. I should probably invest in some ear buds...

Listen to the song below. No official music video yet, but who cares? Watching the pavement fly by is totally exciting. What kind of adventure will Mumford & Sons take us on this time?

The Anchor to Reality

Inception. A 2010 action film by Christopher Nolan that left the world wondering if it had all been a dream. Of course, in true Internet fashion, it got dissected into oblivion and so I stopped caring. To this day, I still have no opinion as to the conclusion of the film.

I am currently watching it with my family, and the scene where Arthur explains the idea of the totem to Ariadne got me thinking; what would my totem be? Arthur explains that it should be something small that you can carry on your person, has a fair bit of weight, and should never be touched by anyone else so as the particulars of the weight and feel are familiar only to the specific individual...

There aren't many small objects that immediately come to mind. In the film we see a spinning top, a loaded die, and a bishop chess piece. Of all the small objects in my room, the only items that I can see in my mind and know their specific location are a USB drive, a Pokémon figurine, and a Nicaraguan monetary coin.

None of these are cool enough. I need better objects in my room.

I think of all the things I would like to own, it would be a small figurine of a barn owl with wings outstretched. Perhaps made out of some kind of metal, so that if it were to hit a solid surface, it would emit a sound, perhaps a frequency that rings. Maybe the temperature of the item would stay cool in the dream state. I am not sure how much control you can have other these totems, but that would be my interpretation of what your totem could be.

What about you? What would your totem be?

And was he dreaming?

A lack of vlogging

Let's be honest for a second; I suck at blogging.

Even more so, I suck at vlogging. Blogging takes so much less effort than creating a video log of your daily events, routine, thoughts, etc. With vlogging, you need to create a space for your viewers, you need to put on a face for your viewers (not to be confused with facade, but more so just needing to be entertaining), and then you have to edit whatever you end up with and play with it so that it is at least somewhat interesting.

I seem to lack the interesting. Or at least I think I do. I also seem to lack the face for it, because I can often watch myself, and, not only do I get embarrassed, but I get bored! Are other people getting bored? Am I being my worst critic right now? Bah!

I have been thinking of getting back into vlogging though. I made a video four months ago in which I promised the global audience of YouTube that I would vlog "more often". The previous video (not including the waste of five seconds which was listening to my teddy bear laugh) was apparently done a year ago. A YEAR AGO. That was when Pottermore first went live in beta mode for us hardcore Potterheads (of which I do not believe I am to be considered).

I have two video log ideas in mind though. And it probably would not be a bad idea to jot them down somewhere so that I don't forget. What resources do I have at my disposal to assist in organizing my online life?! Do I create a private blog entry or do I create a document in Drive?

I love Google, and I think that is why I am making a serious attempt at blogging more often on Blogger. Which reminds me, I still need to figure out what I am going to do with my Wordpress site...

Reader, are you a vlogger? Or do you find the act of vlogging as uncomfortable and awkward as I do and refuse to participate? Or do you still feel that way and, for some unknown reason, continue to broadcast yourself?

My Head Is an Animal

So, I am a little embarrassed at the moment. Disappointed in myself, even. For months and months I have been listening to Sirius XM 36, Alt Nation, because the music that they play is the music that I get, and it speaks to me a lot more than any of the other channels. Their song selection is quite literally "music to my ears".

And then one day many months ago, I happen to hear this song titled Little Talks by an Icelandic group named Of Monsters and Men. And it is amazing, and cute, and totally something that I could listen to multiple times in the same six hour period, while shooting my fist into the air and shouting, "HEY!" Since then, another single has been released, and at the present time I forget the name, but I thought they had only released singles. Not an album! Which was apparently released in April! So it was downloaded less than an hour ago and I am currently listening to the album. And it is beautiful. I have a lot of catching up to do.

If you would like to listen to their currently most popular single, I invite you to watch the YouTube clip below. I hope you enjoy! :)

A big change is coming.

And as much as it terrifies me, I cannot help but be completely excited.

I, Jean Ryan Escalante, am going to return to school. At least, that is the plan at the moment. What exactly for is still in the works, but the end result would be obtaining a Bachelors of Education degree.

Some of you that know me might be saying, "But, Jean! You tried that before and it did not work very well in your favour." And you know what, you would be right and wrong about this. True, I did go to university fresh out of high school with the intent of obtaining a BEd, but I also wanted to get a Bachelors of Science, which would have actually been the combined program of obtaining both the BSc and BEd in five year. False, I did not actually try the BEd route. In all my time at the Campus Saint-Jean, I never once took a single Education course. I have this funny inkling that if I had, I would have stuck with it, but gone with a BA and not a BSc with which to mash the BEd.

I still have a year to figure out what exactly it is that I want to do, but I will be applying to school in September to see if there is anything I still require in order to be accepted. So hard figuring out a major and minor, but I am quite set on obtaining a BA. But where do I go? French? Film? English? Fine Arts? Computer Science? So many possibilities.

The very thought makes me all giddy. Happiness is my ultimate goal.