The Random thaughts of Briana Reed

The other day I was wondering about the what if's in my world. I mean what if life was like a television show and everything could be fixed with a road trip. I mean what if my brothers, my dad, and I went on a road trip to like Arizona or somewhere. Would it change our relationship. Would it make us closer or push us farther away from each other? I mean, would we say all the things that we have wanted to say for ears but never had the guts to? These are the questions I ask myself. But the thing is I'll never know, because something like that will never happen. But it is nice to think about.. ..
Thinking about this made me think about all the what if's in our lives. These are things we have no way of avoiding. I mean when were young we tell ourselves that we wont have any what if's in our life, we will always do what we feel and never have to wonder what if. Basically we wont be like our parents. But some how as we got older we had a lot of choices to make and we couldn't always go with what felt, a lot of the times we had to choose what was sensible or what was appropriate. SO sooner or later we started to think about the things that we didn't do because it wasn't the rite time or it wasn't rite for everyone. Then soon we have become our parents. But the thing is I am not trying to wonder about the what if's in my life. This doesn't mean that I don't think about them, because hey I'm human of course I do. But I try not to ponder about the what if's because if you ponder on the what if's they soon become "if only". Meaning, you start to regret every decision you ever made. But you cant regret anything in your life because even if the choice you made didn't workout like you thought it would, it still taught you something or it made you stronger in some way. I choose not to only see the bad that came out of life decisions I have made, I try to see only the good. Even tho sometimes the good is hard to find. I keep believing that the good is always in there some where and if we cant find it at first we just aren't looking hard enough. I'm an optimist and I know that may annoy some people but hey with all the bad in this world there has to be one person who see's the good.
I guess I'll leave you with this. Never regret any decision you ever make, even if it doesn't work out like you wanted it to. You may have lost something or someone with this choice you made, but hey your still here to make another bad choice that may lead you to something that you never thought you needed or deserved. Beautifully simple Happiness. .

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SO today I thought I would talk about free speech. I mean is it truly free. To me it seems like everyone is so touchy. People are taking offense to other people personal opinions.
For example the other day in my Sociology class a male student said that he didn't like when people who weren't born in Mexico called themselves Mexican American. Then in the back of the class every one started to hear this female student get angry as if he didn't like the fact that she called herself Mexican American. This started an argument between the angry female student and the other female student who was just trying to defend the male student. As curse words started to flow out of there mouth they began to get more and more angry. This is college and they really shouldn't be arguing like this, so me and my other classmates tried to calm the situation. I told the original female student to calm down and that the class was an open forum and the male student was just stating his own personal opinion and that she is entitled to disagree with him but she doesn't have to fight with him just because she doesn't agree. I don't know if she listened to me or if it just went in one ear and out the other. But I said what I said.
This started too make me think. Why do we take other personal opinions and as if they were directly pointed at us. Like now and days it seems like TV and Radio personalities are getting fired left and rite because they said something that wasn't politically correct. We have become a society of touchy people. We never look at things with an open mind. As a society we tend to shun whatever is different. Now and days people tend to see people that are different as crazy or mentally ill. "why else would they do or say such things".
But have we made ourselves this way. I mean back in the day going against the grain was wearing pants if your a girl or sleeping in the same bed before marriage. Now all that stuff is on television and it's the considered normal. But since going against the grain has become normal and commonly seen, has being normal and not going against the regulars of society has become being defiant. Basically I think that what used to be considered irregular is now regular and what used to be regular has now become irregular. Maybe that's why Miley Cyrus getting in trouble for being sexual on TV is kinda like what ever to most people my age. Seeing someone be defiant isn't news pr weird, but seeing some one be compliant is considered weird in most circle's.
Maybe we just need to open our eyes and ears and stop criminalizing people for doing what they want. Maybe we should just let each other be.

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Alright so this week Chris Brown pleaded to the fans to help get his music back to the way it was back before that whole thing with him and Rihanna. Now I never really judged Chris Brown about what happened with him and Rihanna. I mean no one really knows what went on in that car, and no one knows what was said. I don't agree with his actions that night but I don't judge him for them.
OK, so now he thinks that the fans are going to take him back like nothing happened. I really think that he should have just did his community service and layed low for a minute. But someone in his entourage told him that coming out with an album 8 months after his "incident", as i call it, would be a good idea. It was not a good idea to come out with an album and if you were you should not have had high expectations for it's sales. I mean you hit a girl, and since women and teenage girls were most of your fan base, why would you think that they would take you back. I mean until you film yourself getting beat up by a girl ,or something to that degree, i doubt they will take you back anytime soon.
Now i have to say his album Graffiti was decent. I am not a Chris Brown fan so for me to say that it was at least good is a lot for me. But it wasn't a come back album. I mean he is going to need a blow me away type album to get his career, and even then it will be like starting over again. You know building his career up from the bottom. I know he said that he doesn't want to be a mixtape artist. But i think that is what he might have to do to get his career back. He just has to be a little patient. Now if he cant handle the wait, then he should keep coming out with these halfway good albums until he gets a fantastic one.

Now since I am SO tired of this Rihanna, Chris Brown stuff. This will be the first and last time I talk about it. I mean Rihanna is starting to get annoying and he is always pleading for peoples forgiveness and being a winy baby. Then here comes Rihanna with her I was beat up, now buy my album act. I mean it's just starting to get ridiculous. It's all starting to get a little redundant. I will be glad when it is no longer news.

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I Gotta Say all of Christofer Drew's music is really good. I mean the lyrics always seem to be really heartfelt. My favorite song has to be Hummingbird. The song is just so beautiful and I have listened to it like 99 times on my computer, but i digress. His new album What is love? is really good. It is a shirt album but it is a great album. It has two songs that most Nevershoutnever fans have already heard, like What is love and Jane Doe. But it has some new songs that are great, like Love is our weapon and Cant stand it. But the songs at first seem like his usual love songs and those songs that give you his usual great lyric writing. But at the end of the album he gives us a slow ballad at the end called The past. It is a great song that really tells you the story of some of the struggles that Christofer Drew went through when he left home. It is a very touching song with Heartfelt lyrics.
All together Christofer Drew never ceases to amaze me with his music. The album was just another compilation of great songs, that you wont help to but listen to but over and over again. SO I say Kudos. I give it 5 out of 5 stars on the Briana Likey scale.

Now onto a new artist, to my ears. Angel Taylor. I first heard her single on VH1's you aughta know artists thing. Her first single Like You Do was a very sweet song with great lyrics about love and happiness. But I think what draws you in about this artist is her soft voice and shy seeming personality. After I saw a performance of the first song off her album called Chai Tea Latte. I was blown away by her voice and just how great the song was. I mean it wasn't a Adele voice that would you know just knock you out the park, but it was just something different about her sound to me. Her album was very good and had a R&B acoustic feel to it. It had it's slow songs about losing love and then it had it's sweet songs about the feeling you get when you fall in love. To me her album was just very well written and an easy listen. Something to listen to when you have had a hard day and just want to relax. Just put on this album and some of your worries might melt away.
All together a great find of an album. Each song is really good, lyrically and vocally. I give the album 5 out of 5, on the Briana Likey scale.

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You know whats crazy, Life. It's like people know that life can be crazy but not really. I mean it was just like after high school it just got crazier. I mean, it was these situations that come up, and its not that they surprise you, it's just like wow. I am not complaining, because i kind of like the ride. I mean I do and then i don't. I love the experiences that i get through. i mean i do get to be able to say " I got through that" I get to say " That I went through the tunnel and came out clean on the end". But like I am tired of the decisions and stress of it all. It just sucks. That's it, it just sucks. But hey its life, no one called it Happy fun time.
But any who... . Inglorious Bastards was a Fantastic Movie. I mean just great. I thought it was going to be good but it was better.Man this is really just a rant about nothing, so i guess I will type randomness. OK Conan should have been able to keep his show and Jay Leno should have just retired. I mean Jay Leno is not even that funny and Conan is Hilarious. Jay Leno is a loser. Also David Guetta's album one love is great. Every song is a club hit, but hey it keeps me awake. i just want to bump it and go to a club. So yeah. Now i am running out of words to say soooooooo, Oh yeah Andy Samberg is Hilarous and so i that guy Aziz from Parks and Recreation. Also Barack Obama is not a bad president, he just had to follow a dumb one. So getting this country back on track will take some time. Any who Ugly Betty is getting canceled and I am not surprised. I mean the writers must have run out of stuff to talk about because it started to get stupid. Ok I think thats it. . . .So Peace

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