the moon :)

The moon 

Maybe it is weird that a 19- year-old guy writes this, but the moon is that companion that even though it doesn’t seem like it, it helps me a lot and it gives me inspiration and it helps me open my mind and get to know things about myself that I didn’t know before, how to take a look at it in moments of high stress and it helps me find serenity, I forget about my problems and my routine and I can submerge in a sea of calmness, in which only my thought exist and my questions that normally are: what am I doing? Am I happy with this life? What can I do to be better? I can last hours observing that white sphere that sticks with me through every dark night: my good friend.

She helps me forget, but she also brings me memories that maybe bring sadness to me, because they were really happy moments that I would like to have a time machine and go back to that moment in which my life was so different, with its bad moments but also with a lot of happiness. I don’t mean that things have changed giving a bad turn, but it just means that my happiness was different. I love to observe it, as well as she observes me and is witness to everything that happens in the dark. I know that she will be with me through anything till the end of my days and that is why I speak to her, even though she doesn’t listen to what I do, because she is my inspiration and tranquility.

I really enjoy writing because it’s my way to express what I am feeling in determined moment or what I am doing and this way I can “immortalize” it, because your mind forgets it a lot of the time but when you write your thought they stay written forever. I recommend you to write often, whatever, whenever, just let your mind lose, even if your ideas seem silly. I look forward to reading your comments, thank you so much.

The Stanford University Experiment

Stanford University Experiment

This experiment also known as Lucifer effect was a psychological study that went through in Stanford University in 1971 in which the plan was to create a prison like ambiance and the conducts that man develops being under these circumstances like the marine corps of the United States. The people that were part of it were chosen with an ad posted up for a job offering a salary of $15 per day for participating in an experiment. Out of 70 persons that applied to the ad, only 24 were chosen, the ones with the best conditions in physical and psychological health. They were all college students.

The group was divided into guards and prisoners, and a rumor started that the students assigned to guards were chosen because they had more physical strength, although they were really chosen by flipping a coin so that there would be no preference.

The prison was built up in the basement of The College of Psychology in the same university. The guards were given military uniforms and shades so they wouldn’t cross eyes with the prisoners, which were just given robes without any underwear and flip-flops and a stocking over their heads in order to create an aspect of inferiority between them and the guards, and the prisoners were called by numbers instead of their names and they also had a chain on their ankles as a reminder of their imprisonment.

One day before starting the experiment, the guards had a meeting in which they were explained all the rules and procedures they had to follow, which were al focused in humiliating the prisoners as well as intimidating them in a way of letting them know that the guards were the ones that were in control of their lives. The prisoners were only told to wait for a visit in their houses. Without any notice, they were arrested by real cops that cooperated in the experiment and they were transferred to the fake prison and this way the first real part of the experiment was done.

The experiment came out of control really fast because the prisoners were so trapped in their character that they accepted the sadistic mistreatment they were given by the guards who didn’t even follow instructions and little by little the prisoners started suffering big emotional traumas only by the second day of the experiment. As the time went by the participants of the experiment forgot that it was only a research experiment and this caused a big problem; the guards separated the good prisoners and bad prisoners making them do denigrating chores like cleaning the bathrooms with bare hands as well as homosexual acts particularly at night when the guards thought the cameras were off.

Two of the prisoners had to leave the experiment because they started showing too big psychological traumas. After 6 days, the experiment had to be canceled because it was getting out of control. It lasted only two days of the scheduled 2 weeks.

This experiment was kind of an impact on me and this is why I decided to share it with you. Hope you liked it. Thanks.

for fans of Metallica: Cliff Burton, a legend of heavy metal

A LEGEND OF HEAVY METAL: CLIFF BURTON

It has been 25 years since one of the best bass players ever left us in a tragic way, the great bass player from Metallica: Cliff Burton. Considered by a lot of people, me included, Cliff was one of the best musicians in heavy metal and trash metal.

What pushed this man was his love for music and his brother’s Scott memory, which died when he was only 13 years old. Cliff was a pianist but when Scott passed away he decided to turn to a bass player in honor of honor of his brother. He wanted to be the best bass player in the world, and he got it. He nearly missed the cut into the band, but if it was not for the idea of going to San Francisco, he would have never been able to play with Metallica. From 1983 to 1986, Cliff became the life of the band and that is why Metallica owes him so much, in fact a lot of what the singer (James) knows about writing and rhythms knows, he knows because of Cliff. They were like brothers. He was the most affected by Cliff’s death, and he became an alcoholic and ended up needing psychological help.

Cliff died at the age of 24, on September 17^th in 1986. The bus, on which he was going back to his hotel while on a tour in Sweden, flipped over. The band’s guitarist (Kirk) tell about how that night he had made a bet on a card game with Cliff that whoever lost would sleep on the back of the bus, and Cliff won with pocket aces. Approximately at 6 a.m. Kirk was awoken by a tire screeching followed by some shaking; it were the back tires drifting in the highway and moments after, the bus flipped over. Everybody was out of the bus shocked by the accident without even knowing Cliff’s body was lying lifeless under the bus.

As it was expected, Cliff marked a lot of this band’s fans and he was a great role model to a lot of today’s musicians.

I hope this little post about this musician was entertaining to you. This great musician showed everybody that no matter our age, if we set a goal we can be the best in whatever we want, if we truly do it with all our heart and our passion. In my opinion, I love music and I spent a lot of time on it because someday I would like to become a great musician and that’s why I chose to write about this person who dedicated his life to music and that being so young he accomplished being world-wide known. Thank you.   

Avenged Sevenfold

Now I'm going to talk to you about my favorite band of all time: Avenged Sevenfold.

A7X is a metal-core band from Huntington Beach, California, and is formed by M. Shadows (vocals), Synyster Gates (lead guitar), Zacky Vengeance (rhythm guitar, second vocals), Johnny Christ (bass), and they're working these days with Arin Ilejay, because their last drummer (for me, he'll always remain as the only drummer) Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan, passed away on December 28th, 2009. They worked with Mike Portnoy too, the bassist of Dream Theater. They worked together when A7X were recording their last album, because The Rev died while they were recording it, and Portnoy has been saying that he had a great time with them, because he also joined them in one tour for the new album, and he said that he would surely help them if they need.

I’m going to mention their 6 albums and my favorite songs from each album:

- Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (2001:( To End the Rapture, Warmness on the Soul, Shattered By Broken Dreams, Lips of Deceit.

- Waking the Fallen (2003:( Unholy Confessions, Chapter Four, I Won’t See You Tonight (Part I and II), And All Things Will End.

- City Of Evil (2005:( Beast and the Harlot, Bat Country, Burn it Down, Trashed and Scattered, Seize the Day, M.I.A, Sidewinder.

- Avenged Sevenfold (2007:( Lost, Afterlife, Scream, Critical Acclaim, Gunslinger, Dear God, Unbound (The Wild Ride).

- Diamonds in the Rough (2008:( Girl I Know, Until the End, The Fight, Dancing Dead.

- Nightmare (2010:( 4:00 AM, Nightmare, So Far Away, Victim, Fiction, Save Me, Lost It All.

My favorite album is “City Of Evil” because I started to love them with the songs “Beast and the Harlot” and “Bat Country”, thanks to a guy that used to be my friend, he told me “listen to this band, they’re amazing” and I did it and in that moment I fell in love with them, I think they’re amazing, M. Shadows has a great voice, Synyster is unique with the guitar, and their melodies, the solos, and I love when Zacky and Synyster play together, Zacky is left-handed and Synyster isn’t and when a Synyster solo comes up, they put together their guitars and Synyster plays the solo and Zacky complements him with another solo and that’s amazing.

I highly recommend you this band, especially if you are used or like to hear this type of music, which is, personally, my favorite.

My nutrition friends don’t like this type of music and they make jokes about it, they say to me that is the “devil’s music” but I think that is amazing the job that they’re doing, I listen to them since High school, I was about to enter and I discovered them, It’s my favorite band since then, I like them so much because their music makes me feel better when I feel stressed or mad. Hearing the lyrics, the voice of M. Shadows, and then the solos, it’s just like magic to me.

I haven’t seen them in concert, yet. They came to Arizona last year (if I’m not wrong) but unfortunately I couldn’t go, that made me sad but I know that someday I will be able to go to a concert and I will be very very very very very happy!! It’s a dream that I’m decided to make it come true.

Here is my album collection, I have 4 of 6 albums, the last that I bought is City Of Evil, I was one day at WalMart in Nogales and I was looking in the cd’s and I found that album and I got very excited, I found “Sounding The Seventh Trumpet” too, but unfortunately I had money for just one cd, and I decided to buy “City Of Evil” and now I regret a little because STST is older than COE, and I think that I am going to have some trouble to find it again, but I hope that one day I am going to finally complete my collection.

One of the things that I've noticed is M's voice, he has improved his singing skills over the years, and if you listen a song of the first album, and then listen another from the last album, you can clearly see the difference; he has a beautiful and awesome voice now. And I also think that the music has changed a little, in the first albums the music was more hardcore and noisy than in the new albums, still, I love them in both ways.

And seriously guys, if you haven’t heard them yet, and you are interested, do it. I am sure that you won’t regret it. There are so many songs that have very touching lyrics, especially the ones from the last album, because most of the songs are dedicated to Jimmy, one of them is “Fiction”. I have to say that this song made me cry. It is a very calm song and the voice is actually Jimmy singing, I like it very much. Well I hope you like them, thanks for reading!

Favourite Movies

One of my favorite movies: Across the universe

I would like to talk a little about this movie because it passes in one of my favorite times: the 60’s.

The movie is a musical that talks about the love story of Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) and Jude (Jim Sturgess) and the psychodelic 60s in the U.S., Jude travels to this country in order to look for his father but he is beaten for the big changes in that time and here is where he falls In love with jude, a pretty rich girl and the sister of his best friend: Max  who a time ago is called to sign up to army and fight in the Vietnam war, but thereafter he was injured and sent back to home. Tired of the changes and movements of that time, they decides to start an amazing travel with Sadie, Jojo and Prudence on the Dr. Robert’s famous bus called “the beyond”.

Many of the characters are based on real artists of the 60’s , starting with “the quarry men”, it was the band thas was used as the foundation for The beatles, and the Sadie and Jojo characters that were inspired in Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. The bus in wich this crew  of friends were traveling also existed and was called  “the furthur” in such a group of persons  called “the merry pranksters”.were traveling.

I really recommend this movie to all those persons  whose loves  that time and the beatles because all the soundtracks are compositions of them, I hope you to watch this movie and enjoy this post =D thank you.

"Until there's a CURE, there's HOPE!"

“UNTIL THERE’S A CURE, THERE’S HOPE!”

How many of you have read on the internet, mostly on social networks, comments that say things like:

·         “Maybe there should be a cancer Barbie, so little girls with cancer don’t feel bad.”

·         “Disney should make a princess with no hair, so little girls with cancer feel beautiful too.”

Personally as I read through this comments and this posts, mostly on pages like 9GAG, FACEBOOK, I always thought that this comments had a point and I agreed with them. Every little girl is and should feel beautiful even if she is sick, because they are, so I was amazed when, while browsing through 9GAG, I saw the following picture:

My heart was truly touched. Mattel made the Hope Barbie happen, which in my opinion, is a true motivation for little girls to keep their HOPES up, and want to keep fighting against their terrible disease. I can’t imagine how the families of cancer victims felt when they saw this, if I and a lot of other people that don’t have direct contact with ill girls, felt really happy. Personally, I started showing and bragging the picture to my family and friends. 

I think it is really important that big companies like Mattel are taking action and want to help out the ones that need it the most, but I think we shouldn’t forget that aside from little girls, there are lots of other people affected from this disease too.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the hospital to which all the funds are directed to, to find a cure for cancer. We must remember that by helping little girls we are also helping all the cancer victims, because if someday we have the luck of finding the cure, every victim will be benefited by it.

I would like to share you a video and I would really like you to watch it and think about it. Think about this little girl and the enormous gesture she made for her little brother. If a little girl that doesn’t know much about the world has a heart big enough to make this gift to her brother, we also can begin involving ourselves in this matter, not being important whether we have sick families or not, because we don’t know if we will need help ourselves someday. 

Daniela Duran Arvizu

Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind

If you coulderase a section of your life from your memories, would you do it? I wouldnt do it but In this movie “Eternal Sunshine of thespotless” its about erase the part of your memory that you don’t want any morelike the protagonists in the movie, at the first she went to the clinic toerase her memory because she broke up with her boyfriend. He try to find her butshe doesn’t remember him. Well he try to do the same, he went to the sameclinic but at the moment that he started to erase his memories he try to stopedbecause they realize that his memories itsimportant in his life. In the movie it’s all about their memories, you wouldsee the good and bad memories like in all the relationship.

At first timeI heard about the movie and I want it towatched but for some reasons I couldn’t even knowing that Jim Carrey its one ofmy favorite actors, but I said to myself I could wait to watch in another time,so I wait till a friend told me “ you look like Clementine” (because in that time I had blue hair like theprotagonist, she changes her hair a lot in the movie you would see all thecolors) so in the night I searched the movie and I watch it. I almost turned it off about 20 minutes intoit. I felt like it was too slow, boring but later I started to watched againand I liked it a lot.

It was anunconventional romantic movie, what makes this movie one of my favorites is thefact that is real. It’s difficult, they hurt each other, and their relationshipcontains everything that was ever a reason for breaking up. Also shows what itreally means to love the persons you’re with.

Sleep Paralysis

Have anyone of you ever experienced this? I bet that most of you will say yes.

I chose this topic because I've been having some episodes of this disorder and I would like to talk to you about it and share my own experience.

Sleep paralysis, as the name says, it's a state where our body is fully paralyzed in the moment that we are asleep. There are several factors that can take someone to have this disorder. Some scientists have studied this sleep disorder and they say that is more likely that one person experiences this if he/she is sleeping in one specific position: with the back down and the face looking towards the ceiling. Other factors can be stress of any type, the environment surrounding the person or depression.

This disorder can last a few seconds or several minutes (like 2 minutes, more or less), and can be interrupted if anyone else tries to wake the person that is asleep, or he can wake up by himself after a certain period of time.

Sometimes, in this disorder may exist hallucinations or unpleasant dreams, for example, seeing another person in the same room, staring or trying to hurt us.

This problem decreases with the pass of the years,  it's more frequent in young people and it can stop at the age of 30, more or less. Although, there are some old people who can present this disorder too.

Now, I want to share my own experience. I've been a little stressed all this week, and on Wednesday I went to sleep at 12 AM and I had an episode of sleep paralysis. When I tried to wake up (obviously I couldn't), I clearly saw my sister waking up, and I thought "great, she's waking up, I'll tell her to wake me up, too", so I 'stretched' my arm to her and I 'touched' her leg. This was weird because I really felt her leg, but I wasn't even moving at all. Obviously, my sister didn't woke me up and I had to do it by myself. When I made it, I opened my eyes and I saw my sister completely asleep, I was so sleepy that I couldn't stay awake any longer and I closed my eyes again and I fell in the same for like 3 times or so. Then I changed my position and it didn't happen again that night. The same thing happened on Thursday night, but this time with no hallucinations.

There is another thing that I want to mention in this post. Maybe, the people that have experienced this, will know this thing: sometimes, when I am in this kind of situation, I try to pray. But I am not able to finish. I don't know why this happens. Actually, I've never been able to finish praying, it is so weird. When I talk about this with other people, they say me they can't finish, either.

I would like you to say something about this topic, share your experience if you've had this disorder. This is a topic that personally, I think is very interesting and I have noticed that a lot of people have passed through this too. Only one person has told me that this was a good experience, for me it wasn't good at all. What do you think?