Looking Forward

There are many things I ponder about my future. Things such as my career, family, friends, and where I will be living. The place I've always wanted to live was South Carolina. To me South Carolina is warm enough for me to enjoy myself and I also get to experience autumn and winter to an extent, but not too much. I grow tired of the cold, harsh Michigan weather. I long for warmer weather, nothing like Florida, that would be too hot, but South Carolina's temperature is perfect for me. I also love the ocean, so I would love to either live close to or live on waters edge. A house on the beach in South Carolina sounds like the perfect place for me to rest my hat.

Losing Sleep

I've realazied that my sleep schedual has been all kinds crazy lately. There are nights I don't go to bed until 4 am and others I'm in bed by 11 pm. The amount of sleep I recieve a night also varies. Some nights I get a good eight hours of sleep and other nights I get half that that amount. Depending on what I'm doing is usualy the cause of me losing sleep. Mass amounts of homework is usualy the reason for most of my late nights... most of them.

A Deviant form of Art

There are many forms of art. Drawing, painting, sculpting, music, dancing, photography, I could go on for a while.

There is a type of art that is praised by the youth and "rebels" and frowned upon by older generations and is seen as an act of deviance and vandilism throughout the U.S.



This form of art is called graffiti and (in my opinion) one of the best forms of modern art. Some of the artwork is so amazing, the style and creativity of the artist are unique and bring to veiw a new style for a new generation. To me the greatest part of this form of art is how
anomyous it is. Some artist will use a theme or leave their innitials for people to recognize their work. Most though leave nothing, probably because it is against the law and is considered destructtion of property.

It's true that most of this art is done without permission, so sanctions should be held
against it. But it should still be considered a form of art as well as vandalism.

One thing a Child may be Better at than an Adult

I sometimes reminisce about my childhood and laugh about how easily I was entertained by the simplest things. Jumping up and down could entertain me for hours. We had our imagination to help us out. When we played we imagined something was happening, was present or we were somewhere else. We knew that something wasn't there, or that we weren't surrounded by wolves, and that in fact we were still in the back yard. So what happened to our imagination? Ours was so vast back then that we knew what was real and what was not, but doesn't it feel like we kind of lost our imagination somewhere along the road of growing up?

I mean sure we have writers, artist and all sorts of occupations that involve the use of out imagination, but i think that when we are children we have a more abstract/articulate imagination, while when we mature our imagination starts taking knowledge into effect, the more knowledge we acquire the small our imagination gets. What we learn eventually effects our imagination and we start incorporating our knowledge with our imagination. As a child we know little, and therefor our imagination is broader.

I say that movie makers start asking children for movie ideas because an amazing amount of them are lame!

Developing Morals and Values during Youth

I know religion is a touchy subject, but please bare with me because I promise that nothing I say will be offensive towards any religion.

Until I was around 13 my parents always forced me to attend church every Sunday morning. When I turned 13 they gave me the choice to keep going to church or to (meaning I don't believe what has been preached) not attend church anymore. Even though I chose to no longer attend church and became Agnostic, I believe that attending church during my youth I developed more morals, a sense of right and wrong and make better decisions.

Now I'm not saying one religion is right or wrong, or has better values then another; I'm just think that the morals and values
most religions have are the ones that society should run off and as a kid we are more influenced by ideas. So I belive that religions teach some form of values and morals, and that all children should be brought up with some form of faith in their life.

The Things You See from the Corner of Your Eye

Sometimes I just enjoy sitting around and people watch. But more so I love to evaluate my own friends and how they act. From social recreation we all partake in, to their movement and visual communication. You can pick up on little things and learn how they will react to certain actions. Sometimes I catch my friends doing the most (to what I find as) annoying things ever. Like continuesly flicking the ashes from their cigarette or the way they mooch on their friends and family. However, I find myself doing this things at times and wonder how I do not notice myself doing so. So when I catch my friends doing it I just don't say anything because then I'd pretty much be a hypocrite ya know? Oh well we're all human lol

Traveling

I've traveled to many places, all over the U.S., into Central America, the Bahamas and West Indies. But i would love to travel outside of this hemisphere,to Europe, Asia, Africa, all over the world and throughout all the continents.
My top three places that i would love to visit would be Italy, Japan and Egypt. This way i could see some of the many vast culture throughout the world. I would be able to see the great Coliseum in Rome, the Nile River and the mountains and busy cities of Japan. Hopefully one day I'll have enough money to travel to all these places.

Is Blogging Really Necessary?

Over the course of this blog I realized something. Unless your a Scholar, Politician, Celebrity or it is a business blog, no one really care to read it. Honestly, who cares about the opinions and veiws of a college kid and about their life? Besides keeping in touch with family, I see it as a way for wanna be journalist to write about something in hopes that someone reads it. over all, I could care less about reading someones blog or making one for my own.

Rethinking My Future

I've recently discovered that I may not be able to attend the school i wanted to in the future. You see i had my future kind of mapped out. I was going t attends Saginaw for about two years and then transfer to a university down in Florida called Full Sail University. Upon doing more research for what was suppose to be my future, i realized that i may not be able to afford it and that they may not accept me. Do to there pre-reqs and the amount tuition is, my future is not forming into something else that i do not even know what yet. So now i must rethink my entire future and plan a new course for myself. I wish myself luck.

Iron and Wine

I discovered this band in the last year in 2009 and immediately fell in love with their music. Nothing makes me happier then hearing a great acoustic guitar with an amazing soft voice behind it. Lyrically they have excelled more than most artist out there. However they continue to fly under the radar and make music for those who venture more into the world of sound.

Obamas Nuclear Disarmament Plan

I recently was in a discussion with a few friends of mine about the role of nuclear arms now in modern time and how Barack Obama is working towards a major nuclear disarmament all around the world. To me nuclear weapons keep the peace if they are in the right hands. Everyone is afraid to bomb someone else with nuclear arms because who ever bombs someone could be bombed back. We also have enough nukes to blow up our entire Earth multiple times as do other countries around the world.



So after I presented my argument to my friends I asked them if they think this move towards total nuclear disarmament is good for the world. Two of my friends agreed that this was a great idea and it would help keep these weapons out of the hands of terrorist and the whole world would be moving towards global peace.

My theory is that the opposite would happen (besides the keeping it out of the hands of terrorist statement). Nuclear weapons use the fear of their use as balance for a sort of world peace. These weapons were never meant to be used but to intimidate. If we do not have these weapons to keep each other in check, then Empires and a new age of Imperialism could be a possibility. Wars would be more common, and instead of a massive movement towards peace we just end up taking two more steps away from it.

The way i see it, this could very well be a harmful thing for everyone and every nation on planet Earth and may take a turn for the worst.

Man the News is Depressing

Has anybody else noticed how depressing the news is now? I remember since i was young how grim the news always is. There is nothing on their that isn't about violence or any taboo. It would be nice to see a broadcast one day thats a little more on the brighter side, no wonder their are people who don't leave their homes anymore, their scared shitless! Maybe I'm the only one thinking this and maybe I'm not. Either way it's just plain depressing.

Internet- Making Stars One Day at a Time

We all know that one of the greatest (if not the greatest) inventions of the 20th century was the internet. Now in the 21st century everything is connected to the internet in one way or another. We use it for our businesses, our schools and in our homes. Our phone has the internet now, where with the touch of a button almost anywhere, were are connected to the world wide web.

Entertainment is probably what the internet is mostly used for. We entered a new era, back before internet it took a while for someone to be known as a celebrity, they had to star in movie and win awards and such. Now someone can upload a video on youtube and become a different kind of celebrity, the internet celebrity.

People become famous over night with a click of a button, comedians and bands are able to get their material out to people all across the world. This is a truly an amazing thing that is happening. Why? Well isn't it better to be "world famous" than "famous just in America"? I kind of laugh also because the more we advance in technology the more it is used for entertainment and not for the betterment of life. but hey, I'm human and i like to laugh.

Warped Tour

I've been to warped tour twice now, and each time the experience was amazing. I haven't ever witnessed anything else like it. Sure its hot, sweaty, and there is a possibility that you are separated from your friends or get trampled by a crowd, but hey thats the experience.

You also get the possibility of meeting your favorite arti

st and making news friends, from the thrill of crowd surfing to the rush of moshing. Over all, warped tour is a hell of an experience and I definitely

recommend to anyone to go to warped tour.

Some people don't go because it's not their type of music, but i've had friends that don't listen to any rock go and have an amazing time.

New Smoking Law(s)

Recently there has been a law passed in the state of Michigan that smoking will be prohibited in all public buildings. I think that this is reasonable to some extent. Smoking is horrible for your body, and to those who you smoke around. So I understand the reason this law was passed. But I also at the same time disagree with the law. A great example of a public building is a bar. People go to bars to drink, and a lot of people when they drink, smoke. I think that it should be up to the owners wether or not smoking should be allowed in their establishment. People choose wether or not they go to that bar, store, etc. so the owners should be able to choose their establishments smoking policy

Once again I understand that it is bad for you, but it's also someone's choice to smoke. I understand that secondhand smoke is bad also. So that I can understand about the laws. But I think that if they are going to tax cigarettes so much then they should just take them off the market instead of wasting tax payer dollars to settle the dispute. Oh and if they get rid of cigarettes then they should probably get rid of crewing tobacco and alcohol at the same time, they can harm others as well as one self.

December Cruise to West Indies

I recently came back from a seven day cruise to the West Indies. For those how don't know where that is, the islands are located right on the equator, on the Atlantic Ocean by the Caribbean Islands and north of Brazil in South America. Not only was being on a cruise ship amazing, but seeing the culture of these islands and the geography of them was a shock to me also. tiny islands with beautiful mountains on them, exotic animals that we go to see at a zoo are just running around in the wild.
I talked to some of the residents who live on the islands. They told me about some of their culture and how their everyday life is. The people i talked to seemed overall happy with their lifestyle. But i was troubled a little bit.
They told me that their islands only income is tourism, which I linked to the mass poverty on these islands. Sure from a distance they all look beautiful and lavish, but when you actually walk through the resident areas of the island your mind changes about the living condition there.
There were family's of five to six people living in sheet metal shacks, trash almost everywhere, animals roamed through multiple properties, crime, violence and corruption. But still people visit these islands, and as long as tourism is their only form of income then the poverty level will stay steady or go up. Everyone has to make ends meet I guess, either that or help someone get there while they go on vacation.

Allow Me to Introduce Myself

Hello everyone my name is Greg Herriges. I am 18 years young freshmen from a small area in the thumb that no one knows even exist called Peck. It's a really small boring town, so moving up to Saginaw seemed like a great idea and so far it has been. My major is currently undecided but I'm leaning towards either music business management or music recording. I hope to one day attend school at Full Sail University down in Florida and get at degree in either of the two majors i mentioned. If you care to know anything else about me just ask and I'll do my best to answer any questions.