Ok well the definition for iconoclast is: 1) A breaker or destroyer of images esp. ones of religious reverance
2) A person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institution, etc., based on error or superstition.
Now with that being said there is this great show on the Sundance Channel called Iconoclast. Last night I saw the Iconoclast with Alicia Keys and Ruby Dee , which I highly suggest, and I thought about other ‘iconoclasts’ and how you become one. Basically I was really thinking about people who have tried to get other people to ‘Think Outside The Box’ I call these people ‘Think Outside The Boxers’ no pun intended. So these Think Outside The Boxers really do try and change peoples minds.
Since I have been thinking (Uh Oh!) about who was/is an iconoclast. Now I also thought about how Iconoclasts aren’t really like the definition. I think that Iconoclasts have became a phenomenon. For example Disney.
Now my mom says that before Disney there was just public television. I am not talking about way back when it was just Mickey Mouse, but when the network came on. Now Disney makes shows like Hannah Montana and Cory In The House that before would have been out of the norm. But on the other hand you could argue that since now there is Nickelodeon and maybe some other television networks that have the same mold. Now Nickelodeon is much more cartoon oriented to me but at the same time it still makes ‘original movies’ and has the same executive producer for practically every show, Dan Schneider, who has made shows like All That which ran for twelve years, The Amanda Show, Drake And Josh, and Zoey 101, and last but certainly not least, iCarly. Now Nickelodeon did come first by a few years but Disney did a lot of remodeling now it is like the child’s channel. I mean that you’ll definitely think of Hannah Montana and High School Musical but you wouldn’t really think of SpongeBob SquarePants recently they thought of Zoey 101 because the star was pregnant…at 17.
Now with that said how do YOU define an Iconoclast?
My heart goes everywhere
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I think that ignorance is dangerous but I mean the word ‘Sure’ should be a bad word because you have me a girl who really does want to help and I am good at it but there is this thing 90% of the time that is like “I really don’t want to do this.” but I just suck it up smile and say “Sure!” (the exclamation point is important. If you are reluctant then they won’t want your help) I am a very good public speaker and my church is a church that is very interested in the youth ministry. With this being said we are having an International Day soon and I am dancing with the dance ministry but on Friday someone emails me and says “Oh Imani I know it’s short notice but I want you to do a 2 minute presentation on Israel.” Now I am sure that this is very honorable but at the same time I wish I had time because I know little to nothing about Israel but being the good person that I am I jovially said “Sure!” and I have to have it done with pictures and facts about every aspect of their culture by 2more. So with that being said I am learning how to say No and I think that some people should join me!
Doesn anyone know anything about Israel?
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Well I have told you all a lot about my obsessions but I think that I have failed to mention my obsession with the Twilight book series. Now as many of you may know Twilight (Written by Stephanie Meyer) is about to be made into a major movie. Now since they actually want the movie I don’t know actually sell tickets they have been doing major promo so on MTV.com’s movie blog they do Twilight Tuesdays which is where I got my inspiration.
MTV.com’s Movie Blog did a post about an Entertainment Weekly cover photo with the stars of the movie. I didn’t think that it was that bad.
People have said that the photographer or artistic director doesn’t know what the characters are about because in a nutshell Bella(Kristen Stewart )is the outsider and Edward(Robert Pattinson) is the un-attainable mysterious guy who ends up being a vampire. In Forks, Washington where this all takes place there was an old myth about to different Native American tribes about Edward’s family. Bella finds out and is more drawn to Edward. Then bad guys come and try and kill Bella because her blood smells so good 
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Now with that being said this magazine cover doesn’t really show any of that. I think that it shows what the stereo-typical vampire movie is about. The apple is a bit of Twilight history the first book in the series named…. Twilight (::Gasp:: shocking!) has this cover
Now with seeing that you may think whoopdy doo but really it meant a lot to Stephanie Meyer (the author) so I think that was a nice touch. Now I also think it was good because when you think of vampire that’s what you think of. You or at least I think of Dracula with the pasty skin and the ravenous look to feed on human flesh. So I think that I should say Bravo to the photographer for capturing that.
Well with that being that I have a new layout coming as soon as my dad can help me get it up here. It’s gonna be completely different than this one because truthfully I am not a pink kind of gal 
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Entering the Twilight Zone with grace and poise
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I was thinking about how everyone is hurting. Now I know that sounds like I am making general assumption but think about it the economy is in a recession and we ‘little people’ don’t have any say in this at all, and summer, the time that should be a happy time, has turned into a very strained time of year because you can’t go anywhere because of gas and airfare sure isn’t much better. So I was thinking why doesn’t everyone join together like we did on 9/11? I sure have no idea because I know that everyone should help one another when they are going to have to start putting a five dollar bill in the gas tank. Now I know that I am having a hard time with this because I wanted this summer to be awesome! I mean like my family and I could go to see our state more and more because we haven’t been very stable in the summer in a long time. But it reminds of books that I read where a girl wants to steal a boy from another girl but when the other girl dumps the boy then the girl doesn’t want him anymore. I mean I wanted to stay in my state but I didn’t understand that I am basically quarantined and now I want to go everywhere just to see if I can. And my parents have been saying that I am starting to think like an adult which means I let myself down easy before I am turned down. For example I wanted to got to Six Flags with my church’s youth group but I remembered how much amusement parks cost and then I thought about spending money and decided to forget about it. I mean at least that would be better. And earlier this year I danced but then my dance teacher moved to a studio farther out and all the time we would have to fill up the tank to go and my mom would say things like how we are spending oodles and oodles of money on gas because of my dance and then my grandma would come into town and make it worst by saying “When is dance over because this is costing your parents a lot of money to take you to dance three times a week.” and I loved I mean LOVED dancing especially ballet and people told me I was good and I just got back my exam grades and they were awesome for my first time and I had just gotten on pointe. But unfortunately I had to let myself down easy my teacher cried when I left and I couldn’t bring myself to say that I just couldn’t afford it. I know feel bad for asking for anything I mean ANYTHING because I know that first there is and ecologic footprint that might belong to bigfoot for my family and things cost MONEY! So before I do anything I have to ask myself can I earn this money without taking from my siblings because I have 4 siblings that follow behind me who may I don’t know want to see a movie and if I want to go to dance camp that costs four hundred dollars that’s a lot less movie money. Now most people might say that I shouldn’t worry about these things but being a considerate person I do. A lot. I know that I might have this glass half full thing going for me but I just don’t think that will last much longer when I live in the suburbs now and stoplights don’t do much for the gas tank and that is the goal I can’t ask with and easy heart to go out and see a movie unless I have that money already at my hand and I can’t get a minimum wage job until I am 14 and I am 13 so that is out of the question unless I am just that good that people would break laws for me. But what I don’t understand at all is why people seem so shocked that I don’t notice because it’s all around me always I am always passing by gas stations that fluxuate but never decrease. I can’t stand it and it’s not like there’s anything I can do about it. I have to just suck it up and make sure that carpooling is an option and even then that I have money to do what I want to do because nothing is mandatory and what isn’t I should pay for but the problem is no single person can afford to pay me anyway because they are feeling the exact same way and Starbucks is closing like 200 stores and American Airlines are firing 900 flight attendantsa and Anheiser Busch is closing it’s plant in St. Louis so there aren’t really gonna be any jobs and me being a person of limited knowledge I can’t even blame someone so that I can write a scathing letter to them and tell them that it hurts me maybe more that it hurts certain adults. I hate that it’s come to this resorting to blogging to let people know how you feel but there isn’t this openness that there used to be because everyone is trying to hide the fact that having more that 2 kids is getting expensive and they are not noticing that when you tell your teenager to go get a job and they don’t that more that likely means they CAN’T because adults need those jobs and they are trying to keep them because that have to eat too.
Well I just wanted to know how hard it is to live anywhere today I know there are worst places to live that the USA butI can’t really feel sorry for them as much as I used to because it isn’t much better I mean there is a war going on and everything is going up which means self care is going down because people can’t afford to care for themselves but it’s been like this in different era’s my dad said it was like this when he was a kid and that was in the ’70s it’s just not right.
You’re Not Alone
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Ok I have to say that I have seen more of my dad in Will Smith all the time or vice versa but I think that the most apparent thing is their manerisms. This interview shows that. He talks about how he has been basing his past few projects on trauma basically. The way he laughs and his hand motions were dead on. So I have taken it upon myself to cast Will Smith as my dad if I ever have a biopic or anyone of my family members do. I bet Jada Pinkett could even play my mom because she is so cool!
Well know that’s out in the open I was watching the Sound of Music and I think to myself ‘what a wonderful world’ just kidding but I thought about how that movie started Hollywood’s obession with nannies or ‘governesses’ and families with a lot of children. Now this movie reminds me of Cheaper by the Dozen and Yours, Mine, And Ours because of the number of kids but those two movies had to double even triple the number of movies. The Nanny Diaries for some reason has some resemblence of that movie as well because if you saw that movie Scarlett Johanson’s character was trying to find herself like Maria was and she was well spoken like Maria. Now I haven’t seen enough nanny movies to sight the part where the employer falls for the nanny but I am sure if I search some movie buff’s knowledge I know I would find some.
Keep your independence at least for today
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Cloverfield is… , I feel (enter feeling hear) about people talking about other people, And Music (Of, Course)
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OK I had no idea that people actually read my blog. I logged into my blog dashboard and saw about 10 comments to moderate. And I thought at first that it was some weirdo that was saying things like “WOW! You just won $1 Million” but no there were good ones and I think that from now on it would help me tremendously if you could say where you found my blog it would be amazing.
OK I digress I now have 2 words. Pretty. Odd. That is the title of Panic At The Disco’s new album now I am biased so I think that you should check out their single Nine In The Afternoon to see if you may like the album.
Now I got a comment saying that real people don’t talk about things like I do on their blogs. I receive that as a compliment but to shake it up I am part of Buzznet the Music Community and every week this user paniasonicyouth posts the Question Of The Day (QOTD) even though they are only once a week. This week’s question was How has terrorism changed our lives.Not to suggest that terrorism has ever really gone away, but we now live in a world where terrorism is still an unfortunate staple of the nightly news. How have these acts of violence affected your life? Do you change your day-to-day actions because of them?
I answered from a girl who talked about how she has begun to look at people from the Middle East and looking at skyscrapers to see if they are going to collapse. Now I don’t think like that but she also said that she feels ignorant because she doesn’t want to hear about it and that people should talk about it in schools. I agree because for the longest time I thought that I was being a stupid person for not knowing why we were in war. I think that if education is supposed to be about bettering ourselves then we should be bettering ourselves for the fact that me as the ‘Next Generation’ is going to be paying about 50% income taxes that’s ludicrous now I am not the best person to say anything about presidential candidates but I do know that this election is definitely where the other shoe drops. and when that happens me and my fellow ‘Next Generation’-ers are either going to suffer the consequences of the people who voted because I won’t be old enough to vote for 2 more presidential elections TWO (my birthday is after the election) so I have to live with who you chose so if you think about that then terrorism is scary and the generation before me needs to get their act together because when they are gone I will be the one without social security and giving half of my income to ‘Uncle Sam’.
That’s food for thought
Peace, Love, And Grooviness
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Hello everyone
Spring Break is here some are going to Cancun some are going to Palms Springs but me I am going to visit family. I think that it is time to acknowledge that March is a pretty awesome month for music. Let’s see Panic(!) At The Disco is coming out with their second album since A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out in ’05 now they are out with Pretty Odd… and I must say that is awesome even though it is not out until tomorrow (March 25 Tuesday) I hear it on MTV’s the Leak. So I thought that would be something to say.
Peace, Love, And Grooviness
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According to The-N.com I am passionate about…..
which is so true because there was a time like just 40 years ago where people who vote now weren’t allowed to vote. And I think that it’s disgraceful and insane that you can’t take a half hour out of your day to make a difference. There were ton a people that I know who just turned 18 this year and didn’t vote in primaries I know that I am young and don’t know the type of registration you have to go through but c’mon can’t you take care of that BEFORE you turn 18. Just a thought.
Rock The Vote
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