There's Nothing Wrong With Me, This Is How I'm Supposed To Be

There is a movie coming out soon that I am super excited for. The Greatest Showman on Earth  is the story of P.T. Barnum and his circus. Growing up, I loved this circus. I went once and loved it. I was hoping be able to go again one day. But due to having to retire their elephants and the drop in ticket sales due to this move, Barnum and Bailey Circus shut it's doors. I will never be able to see "greatest show on earth" ever again. It's a little ironic that this movie is coming out the same year that the circus had so many problems. I know how hard it is for a circus to keep going when certain groups of people just want it to end. There is a circus that comes around where I grew up every couple of years. This past year, as I was going to karate (since it is literally right behind the building where we teach) I saw a group of people out front with signs protesting the circus for its use of elephants. I understand where they are coming from but I can't help but th...

Doctor Who . It is kind of a strange show. But I like it. I've been a fan of this show since 2012. It's been that long. So long in fact that I had to look up when Matt Smith left and subtract a year to even find out when I started watching the show. The show originally started in 1963 and has been going strong since. With a season every year and a Christmas special, there doesn't seem to be much chance of stopping this show anytime soon (knock on wood). William Hartnell. Patrick Troughton. Jon Pertwee. Tom Baker. Peter Davison. Colin Baker. Sylvester McCoy. Paul McGann. Christopher Eccleston. David Tennant. Matt Smith. Peter Capaldi. Jodie Whittaker. 13 doctors. Well 14 if you count John Hurt for the 50th anniversary special. So many great actors and so many great seasons. It's a little hard to see the originals if you don't have any access to BBC but the newest ones (Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, and soon Whittaker) are available on Amazon Prime, BBC A...

When I was in high school, marching band was both the best thing I did and the worst. I have quite a few good memories and just as many bad ones. I was on color guard. I spun the flags. Band camp was torture but performances were amazing. Of the four years I marched, I never had a complaint about the music. My freshman year we did Fantasmic, a collection of Disney songs including "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", "Part of Your World/Beauty and the Beast", and "Night on Bald Mountain" (I will say that because of this and the number of times we had to run the stupid broom part I now thoroughly hate those brooms). My sophomore year, we did James Bond, which included "Dr. No theme", "The Incredibles theme", "Theme from Bourne Supremacy", and "Live and Let Die". My junior year we did Back to the Future, with "Back to the Future theme", "Daft Punk medley", "Beat It", "Johnny Be Good...

  I don't watch many current TV shows. There are many reasons why, but none of them are involved in this post. In 2014, I was a freshman in high school. I was on academic team and I was the Sherlock Holmes "expert" of the team. I knew the books by heart and I had seen quite a few versions of movies and TV shows. Then one of my teammates and friends asked me who was a better Sherlock Holmes: Robert Downey Jr. or Benedict Cumberbatch. I chose Downey simply because I liked those movies and had no idea who Cumberbatch was. My friend even asked me if I knew about the BBC version of Sherlock Holmes and I said no and that was why my choice was what it was. But what he said sparked my interest. He said it was a modern day version of Sherlock Holmes without the problems that the CBS show Elementary  had. It was simply taking the stories I knew by heart and transporting them into present day. No messing with the story. No changing how Holmes and Watson were. Just old stories...

I have been a Marvel fan since 2010 (or around there). I started off, like everyone else at the time, with Iron Man  and worked my way from there. It wasn't that hard compared to now. Until it was almost crunch time and I was trying to find all the solo Avengers movies but that's not the story here. While watching these movies leading up to Marvel's The Avengers, I first encountered  Thor . And I was very confused. I knew nothing of these myths and legends. I knew Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. I watched it a second time and I understood more and it led me to get interested in Norse myth. Now, six years later and a whole cinematic universe later, Thor is facing the twilight of the gods. Well, not exactly, if you compare the movie to the myth. Ragnarok is the "twilight of the gods" or, more simply put, death to all the Norse gods. Loki, Thor's brother and god of mischief (played in the movies by Tom Hiddleston), starts it. Not really surprising when yo...

  I don't remember when I first heard a David Bowie song. I had to be quite young. My parents always listened (and still listen) to the radio station 94.7 WLS FM and that is where I know I first heard Bowie. I don't know if it was "Modern Love" or "Changes" or "Let's Dance" but I know it was one of those. I always learned a song by hearing it over and over again and when I finally learned who David Bowie was, I surprised myself by knowing the words to those songs already. I didn't really know how I knew the words or even knew the songs but I went with it like I always did. I first heard about David Bowie in November 2015. There was an academic team question about him and neither I nor my team mate (there were only two of us that day) knew who he was so we didn't get the points for that question. I went home and asked my mom since he seemed like the kind of musician my mom would have listened to. She told me he was kind of like Alic...