REFLECTIVE THOUGHTS AFTER A WEEK BUT NOT ACTUALLY

FIFTH POST BEST POST. Four posts later here is the fifth, and this territory still feels unknown. There are no real standards, except those set by me. This here is the problem. The vague idea of what this blug is meant to be. The debate of whether this blug should be formal or casual. After writing for four days, (three really) the casual approach seems to be the best. WHO DOESN'T LIKE SOME GOOD JOKES AND CONJUNCTIONS? But there still is this desire to write something serious where the message is genuinely important. These posts will require dedication, time, and need to be really well thought out, which means they will be rare! This blug helps a lot, it has only been a few days but it gives this drive to want to get better. I want to learn how to create a better website, write better, and learn a lot more about everything! This blug gives me a sense of motivation to do it. No one may be reading it, but I am and I think I am okay with that for now. Beginning posts are always awful. By actively working here and trying to express myself creatively I finally found something that fills up the empty feeling I have. Hopefully this does not die but continues to evolve into something really cool. Come back here Monday!


OHHHH FAM YOU THOUGHT I WAS DONE NAH COME BACK HERE SUNDAY WE DOIN VIDEOS, TILL THEN ENJOY MY BOY DOIN THE WHIP

I am very very very excited for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice

Today Entertainment Weekly for their giant Comic-Con (a big nerd convention for movies, tv, and comics) issue released seven exclusive pictures of the upcoming Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice film releasing in March 2016 by director Zack Snyder. By the title of this post it is obvious I am very excited for this movie because of these photos. Even though I promised myself I would not get excited about any news about this movie. But hey there are some new pics and I wanna write some thoughts about them so LET ME BE A NERD MOM.

PIC 1:

Here is the Entertainment Weekly cover featuring the famous DC Trinity. It is a dream come true seeing these three gods coming to life on the big screen and this cover just emphasizes this. Although Batman (Ben Affleck) does looks awkward here. Fan reaction to Batman has been mixed with initial reactions of pure rage to a wait and see approach. People are too quick to hate on it though, Batman seems to feel so awkward here is because he is in a bright area! Just look at that white background fam! Batman does not work in the day, just think about the infmous Dark Knight Rises scene where he is fighting Bane in broad daylight and it looks completely silly. Batman is a hero meant for the darkness where he is supposed to stay, there has been multiple pics and moments Batfleck is shown in action and he looks great! This is because he is where he's supposed to be shown, Bruce Wayne for the day, Batman at night. Moving on to Wonder Woman, (Gal Gadot) this seems to be a almost perfect portrayal for the film! The colors seem to be a bit brighter than what was initially shown but again that might be for the case of this cover, too early to call for her. (But hey I wouldn't mind if the colors stayed or even got brighter! Colors are fun!!!) Lastly we got the standard Superman (Henry Cavil) looking very similar to what he looked like in Man of Steel. The ideal situation would be to brighten up the color on his costume even more but for the tone the film is going in, the costume will probably stay the same or get even darker. 

PIC 2:

For the second photo we have a beautiful shot between Batman's suit inspired by The Dark Knight Returns graphic novel. There is not much to say about this shot other than it looks very pretty, which is expected by Snyder. This is one of those photos though that brings back excited feelings of moments where Batman and Superman do face off like in The Dark Knight Returns.

PIC 3:

Here we have Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) and Diana Prince (Gal Gadot). Ben Affleck had this to say about the photo, "I love the fact that there was this Thomas Crowne Affair, Bond-y sexy scene that they wrote about two people who are pretending to be two different people who each know the secrets of the other person,” This calls back to memories of the romantic subplot introduced in the animated Justice League universe. (To the point where there was an exact scene just like this one!)

Seeing Bruce Wayne/Batman and Diana Prince/Wonder woman flirt into a romantic relationship is probably the closest thing to a beautiful relationship I will get to and I think I am ok with that.

PIC 4:

“I like to think that Man of Steel was the perspective of the world from Clark, Kal-El, looking at the world and trying to exist with in it, Batman v Superman is definitely more mankind’s perspective of Superman.” explains Cavill with this picture, and it seems like so especially with the trailer released a couple months ago. Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is a movie where the Man of Steel must face repercussions of the damage that happened at the end of the previous film. The debate of whether Superman is the savior the planet needs, or the monster sent to destroy is what seems to be the key theme for this film. Batman assuming to believe the latter leading to the whole "versus" concept. This photo seems to give that feeling that Superman is the savior of humanity, this idea that he is these people's god on Earth to protect them from evils.

PIC 5:

This is a scene from the trailer, where Batman is on the ground looking up to Superman. Not much to say about this photo except this really pushes the idea of Batman is meant to be in a dark place, He may be wearing a different suit for it but that does not take away how awesome he looks! Batman looks angry and ready to fight, especially with this dark dreary rain.

PIC 6:

MY BOY LEX IN THE HOUSE. At first it's strange to see Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) with golden locks of hair but he has already been shown with the cue ball head already, so what this photo does is hint at seeing the Lex before and after he becomes hell bent on destroying Superman. There are a lot of ways it can go but my prediction is Lex does not trust Superman at all believing that humanity should be saved by humanity and not this alien god like being. "He's not one of us!" Through this desire of trying to shut down and expel Superman he loses hair because he gets really stressed out. lmao. But in seriousness it is interesting to think about how Lex will fit in this film because it has clear hints of inspirations from The Dark Knight Returns, but Lex Luthor was not even in that story!

PIC 7: 

The last scene does not reveal much but the hunk Ben Affleck talking with the stud Zack Snyder. So I guess that gives me the perfect opportunity to discuss what how I feel about this upcoming film!

AM I EXCITED FOR BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE?! YES! I THINK! MAYBE! IDK!

But Miraj you just said in the post title you are excited what do you mean?!?! Well lets break it down. I love the DC universe, I connect with these heroes in a way that genuinely make me happy. These are gods that represent the ideals, and are used to tell amazing stories of pain, loss, success, and hope! My favorite superhero of all time being the Man of Steel himself! My reaction to Man of Steel was mixed. It was a okay film. It really did not feel like a Superman movie but rather some necessary dark gritty reboot of Superman to match the Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. So with the original announcement of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, I was indifferent, and as news starting to poor in about more and more characters are being introduced in this film such as Wonder woman, Aquaman, Lex Luthor, Cyborg, and who knows who else, I accepted this movie will be HOT TRASH. But there is just something that gets my gut seeing photos of these characters coming to life and in action. Zack Snyder is known to be a mixed bag when it comes to movies. He always seems to have the best trailers, and most beautiful shots but when it comes to the overall package it is mixed. Yet here I am again getting hyped for this movie that is still a little less than a year out praying for another trailer at Comic Con next week because of my special relationship with the DC Universe. Superman represents everything good, ideal and hope to me so like everything guess I have to just have hope that everything works out in the end and this film will be amazing.

Apple Music Day 1

APPLE MUZACK

Updates and change can always bring out fear. Especially when that change almost seems to drastically overhaul the whole structure within one swoop instead of smaller transitions. This does not mean it is a bad thing just a little scary. My initial thought on Apple's Apple Music service roll out is a sigh of annoyance. "Another music streaming service?!?" I download my music, and stream off Spotify on my laptop when I don't feel like downloading a popular single or just in a mood to hear a random song. I'm not a heavy music guy but I have my fair share of favorite artists, and albums. So what's the point of shoving this whole new system on me? But there is no way to avoid this update so might as well try to understand it. It has only been a day and there is a three month free trial for the service so the plan is to come back three months later and write final thoughts on the service. But here are some initial thoughts, annoyances and questions.

The Interface is pretty...

This update completely changes the Music app to be gorgeous! Colors are never a bad thing when done right and is easily shown here. Gone is the old standard white background, white pink text for all albums and here is a new tinted background matching extremely well with the album art. Just look at the before and after of Chance the Rapper's 10 Day album! Looks so FRE$H and KLEAN.

Before:

After:

But feels cluttered

The listing of songs is not perfect though, the addition of a giant RECENTLY ADDED section gives this cluttered feeling minimizing the most important aspect of the music app. The list of your music. Whether organized by artist, playlist, or genre the albums in my case are much smaller and lose giant amount of real estate because of three recently added albums on top. I know what I recently added, I do not need it to take up all that space. This seems like such a minor complaint but it is frustrating when the ability to see a bunch of beautiful album art in a list gone to a smaller pixel-esque form because of an addition of a RECENTLY ADDED section

Apple Music shows promise

The real meat and bones of this update is the introduction of Apple Music, Apple's product to face the monster known as Spotify and the puppy known as Tidal. Is Apple Music good? Really too early to call, it was just released but it does show great promise. It is not perfect out the gate, leaving questions like how exactly does my already downloaded music library upload to the new cloud library, and how to add albums off of Apple Music to the cloud library so it can be playable for offline use so my data usage is not through the roof. These are simple questions but answers seem hard to find. To Apple's defense though it has only been a day and I have not really messed around with the service completely yet. However the idea does really grab my attention. I hate having extra apps on my phone, I was ecstatic when iTunes radio was introduced because that meant goodbye to Pandora, and secretly I never want to download Spotify to have another music app on my phone. Now here comes this Apple service that essentially matches Spotify and may beat it in certain aspects like the music library and quality of the music streaming and it has me intrigued. The idea that my music app will not take up gigabytes of storage on my phone but mere megabytes because my music library is in the cloud seems fantastic! The last aspect and probably the coolest  is Apple's ability to curate music. Being able to curate and introduce new music to you based on songs you have "hearted" (if that's a verb?) including your already downloaded library seems perfect and they have my girl Taylor Swift in their library (just shake it off Spotify) Plus it looks super pretty!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who doesn't want to listen to something called OLD SCHOOL BBQ???

2EAGER 2EARLY

To say I am not excited to at least try Apple Music is a lie, even with it's strange interface choices (seriously Apple I can't make My Music section first instead of the For You section?), and confusing uploading process to the Cloud Library I am very excited to see how the next three months hold for Apple MUZACK.

No Idea

    I have no idea what I'm doing. What is the proper formatting? Should I use first person? How do semi-colons work? Should that even be hyphenated? It's past midnight on the East Coast does that still make this a daily thing? Is East Coast a proper noun? What should I even write about? Where were all my ideas that I had yesterday? Shit.
   
    The original goal of this "blug" is to have a place where I can write my thoughts about anything on a daily basis. I would like to think that I have shareable thoughts on a daily basis and by writing them daily I, myself would get better at writing them allowing myself to easily share them with others in hopes of evolving them or changing someone else's perspective. The biggest frustration as a person is the urge to convey an opinion or idea and the other person either does not understand, or understands a completely different idea than the original.

    So here is my second post and I have no idea want to say. Before I had ideas but no platform to express them, and now here I am with a platform to express them but no ideas to express! Of course it is impossible to write a thought provoking, funny, meaningful post every night but to not even have anything to talk about the second night is bit of a punch to the morale. But hey its only the second post, maybe it will get better from here.

BREAKING NEWS: Answers to the questions up top:

my first post

this is my first post, it is a garbage post so it can't get any worse than this. so join this wild ride where the destination is funtopia a land where hate loves to love and love loves to hate. I think.