PDA

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It’s no surprise that Hayley Williams would eventually make her way into this blog. Last week she was surprised by a kiss a fan gave her on the cheek and proceeded to throw a fit. To be honest I don’t understand why a kiss is such a big deal, especially a harmless one on the cheek. This brings me to the topic of PDA here at the Ojai Valley School.

It has come to my intention that hugging and even putting your arms around some one is unacceptable. Why is that? In other countries a kiss of the cheek is a hello, and I know that in the student handbook it even says that “a quick kiss on the cheek as a greeting or leaving” is acceptable. Why cant two friends simply be just friends? On several occasions I have been called about by different faculty members for just sitting alone with some even when I am in the open. This is a boarding school and technically, this is our home for around 8 months or each year. Shouldn’t we feel comfortable? If we aren’t able to be friends with someone of the opposite sex and spend time with them alone, I don’t see how that makes OVS any more home-like. I know that I just went off an a pretty long tangent, but I felt like that had to be said sooner or later.

With Heat Comes…

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Many of you in the Ojai area have been witnessing the terrible nature of the recent heat. Earlier in the month the temperature seemed to have been cooling down with foggy days and brilliant jacket-wearing weather, but then the heat came sneaking in from behind, tapping Ojai on the shoulder and then slapping it on the face. Today’s temperature got as high as 104° F, and may I pleasantly ruin your week by telling you that the temperature tomorrow might even rise by two degrees. The heat is rather unbearable, especially for those of you out there (quite like me) who enjoy the type of foggy weather where you can hardly see ten feet in front of you.

Winter is coming around the corner but it is not coming quite soon enough!

Well, fellow Ojai-dwellers, prepare yourselves for another hot week. I’ll be here with you every step of the way, sweating and suffering along side you. Hang on my friends, for cold weather will come eventually! Until then we will deal with this heat… reluctantly.

(sadface)

Two Door Cinema Club- Just some British Music.

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Last night, the 25th of September, Two door Cinema Club arrived in Brighton to play their first gig in the city.  Luckily I was fortunate enough to be among the crowd in the small venue that they call Digital.

Two Door Cinema Club is an up coming indie/electro band from Ireland releasing their fist album, Tourist History on march the 1st 2010. Signed to Kisune Music the band are on their first sell out tour spreading their individual sound worldwide.

The band consists of members: Alex Trimble, Sam Halliday and Kevin Baird accompanied by Benjamin Thompson who acted as an additional member for there tour playing drums.

Indie music is extremely popular in England and Two Door Cinema Club are just reaching their boom.  They have an extremely good reputation for providing a great live concert and they did not fail to disappoint.

The band was amazing and the two support acts : We Have Band and Kowalski also impressed with their unique styles and excellent crowd control.

Indie music is a great genre and one I think should be encouraged more in the U.S.

Here’s a taster of their music, I hope you like it.

Casualties of War

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2010 declared “the deadliest year for NATO forces since the war began.” Nine soldiers were announced dead as a military helicopter crashes in southern Afghan region and as witnesses say there was no visible attack on the helicopter itself by opposing soldiers the notorious Taliban were quick to take credit.

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NorthEastWestSouth

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News. What is news? We’re supposed to report on it. We’re supposed to read it and understand what it means. We’re supposed to find it interesting, enthralling. There are many things we’re supposed to do, but we rarely ever do them. We rarely ever do what is expected. What is important. What is truly needed. We confuse need with want, and want with need. We confuse many things, but we never admit to it. We’re always sure, and always insitent on any little thought that pops into our minds. But do we ever really know? How do we know what is truth or fiction? Many of the things we read in history books aren’t true! We’re lied to all of our lives and we accept it because someone of more authority than us told us to believe it. And we do believe it. We take what we are told and follow blindly. How will our world survive in the future, if our fact is fiction and our fiction is actually fact. Will books change? Will old movies or ancient myths or stories? What’s news? Is it actually new information? Or is it something that someone “important” deems necessary for the world to know? What is news?

When will Lindsay Lohan Learn?

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Wow wow wow, everybody stop what they’re doing.   I just found out that Lindsay Lohan just got out of temporary custody. This is huge news.  I’m so happy that websites like “The Superficial” (whose slogan is “Because you’re ugly”) report on important matters just like this one.  Now the issue  is not that celebrity gossip websites like “The Superficial” reporting on “news” like this. The problem I have with it is that some people visit these sights religiously and treat them like they are news.  If anyone can justify that Snooki was just on The David Letterman Show as front-page news, then something is wrong with him.

I personally get my news from “The Los Angeles Times,” because I find it to be a reliable news site. But just today, it pulled a “Perez Hilton.”   Along with news about who is wining the race for Governor and the current state of Mexico’s drug war, was the story about Lindsay Lohan. I was so disappointed to see this. I always try to have my news 100% gossip free, but there it was. The same story that I saw in “The Superficial.”    Not to discredit this website, and countless others like it, but I really have to ask the question: “Who cares?”

Turbulence.

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Its always hard to know what to write in the best of circumstances, but I can now say flying through turbulence is not the best of situations to type. As I sit here on an Air United flight returning to my home country I search for inspiration for my blog.

Two and a half hours, 1 in flight meal, 1 movie and a laptop: the definition of a lazy day, if not for the fact I’m stuck on a plane. The situation almost has potential to be fun however the enjoyment is diminished by the imposed nature of the situation.

Turbulence is not fun.

Currently I’m extremely thankful that the in flight meal was received half an hour ago and that I ate it promptly otherwise I could currently be sitting in a bed of curry, if you could even call it that. How ironic is this, the whole month I spent in Southern California I never saw one curry house yet our in flight meal is a curry.  So the in flight meal supplies us with a brilliant topic for my blog. Curry.

Curry is a popular dish world wide, except from Ojai, and especially in England. In fact in a survey recently taken they found out the favorite dish of the English is Chicken Tikka Masala . Maybe that’s because we are now full of Indian immigrants or because it’s tasty.  I can definitely say the curry in England is delicious and is nothing like that in India. Which is slightly odd.

So if ever visiting England why not go against the stereotypical fish and chips and have a curry.

Wanna-be Gingers

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Recently a very well known celebrity decided to attempt the ginger look, and failed. Rihanna, the well-known pop star from the Barbados, was found to be sporting her new fiery hair at boyfriend Matt Kemp’s birthday party and even at Katy Perry’s bachelorette party. Who would’ve thought that a woman with naturally dark skin would choose fire hydrant red as a hair color? Surprisingly the crowd that voted on celebuzz.com chose “Yay – it’s red-hot and gorgeous!” To be honest, Rihanna is one of the very few people who can pull off her look, so props to you Rihanna! Even though you aren’t a natural, I’ll still give you props for trying.
New hair!

http://www.celebuzz.com/rihanna-red-hot-hollywood-g254501/

What Soccer Needs

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Recently I was asked by a reader to write about why so many kids play soccer in the U.S. and yet by the time they are in their late teens it seems like no one plays. Well today we will dive into that.

This is a subject that I have tried to figure out many times and here is what I have come to conclude. In the U.S., we have more kids playing soccer up to U-15 than any other country in the world, which is quite impressive. In fact, no one come close to us. But after U-15 we lose that top spot, by a lot.

First lets talk about why so many kids play soccer. Soccer is an easy game that does not have that many rules or exceptions unlike football and baseball. It comes naturally to many kids because the motions in the beginning are not miniscule and complex like in other sports. It gives them a oppertunity to run around and whack a ball at their friends.

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Student Council Movie

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On September 18, most of the student leaders and students went to the upper field to film the Student Council movie. The movie is patterned after Avatar The Last Air Bender. We gladly invited our alumnus, Cooper Hefner to help film the battle scene. That scene took three hours to finish it. Cooper is going to put many special effects on the scene to make the sword fighting and bender’s special ability more exciting. We have finished the most difficult part of the movie, so now we just need to film some short conversation clips. We are going to finish this movie as soon as possible, and to show it to everyone soon.