Thursday, December 13, 2012

Star Trek a Love Hate relationship.


Being an awkward teenager, Star Trek almost griped a paralyzing fear other my nerdness, even anything could make my personality less impaling to girls than in already was, Star Trek would make my awkwardness even worse. I had been a Star Wars fan since I was kid. Star Trek the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine were on the air when I was a kid, and they never seemed to appeal to me, mainly because I was always more interested in Star Wars. Star Trek was always geared to different crowd outside the main stream. Star Trek is series designed to help you think and expand your knowledge and understanding as oppose to show casing fast paced action, and sex. The first pilot episode of Star Trek "The Cage" as rejected by NBC because it was too mind bending  and lacked action. While most Sci-Fi is designed to help its viewers  think and expand upon their way of thinking, main stream audience don’t pacticlure get into to Scifi because of that very reason, they won’t more action, and more sex. George Lucas took his inspiration for STAR WARS from things such as Flash Gordon, and other fantasy tales he grew up reading as a child.  Lucas felt lots of Sci-Fi that pre dated Star Wars, lacked the sense of heroism, and adventure. There has been a rivalry between both franchises. To me as good who grew up idolizing heroes, and being taken away their heroics, and how they always pull through against the bad guys, Star Trek, for what it appeared to be always seemed kind of strange, boring, and uninteresting. The only difference between Star Trek and Star Wars, is the word Star. Stark Trek was pitched to NBC by Gene Rodenberry as a band wagon to the stars, and sort of space western. Star Trek, is about exploring space for the needs to better ones culture, in the future of United Federation of Planets, money is no longer the means of living, and search of exploration is. Star Wars however, is about more than just blowing star ships. Mastering the force requires lots of thinking and focus, and dose teaches valuable lessons, to believe in your own self and let go of fear.
My whole life the words beam me up Scotty were quoted directly to my face, and I was excused of being a tricky due to my nerdy appearance, however I knew nothing about Star Trek literally nothing, about the show, or the characters, I knew zip. And that because I had stayed away from the franchise. As a teenager I got into Isaac Asimov, and Piers Anthony, and Terry Brooks. When the Lord of The Rings movies wrapped up in  2003 I hope it would at least build up enough potential to view to get girls to like me but was I just too hopeless.
Most of my inspirtion for Scifi came from a little knowm british series called Red Dwarf. If you were too compare Star Trek and Red Dwarf, i would simply put it this way. Star Trek  is the white colour of space, Red dwarf is the blue colour. With all the witt and charm of Mounty Pyphon, unlikee the situations and diolege in Star Trek, Red Dwarf never took it self too serously. While shows like Red Dwarf made mockrey of Star Trek you still see its influence.
You can see the influence from Star Trek in a lot off Scfi, just like with Star Wars. Love it or hate, its infulence is seen a lot in our culture.
It was always for me persanly, the way Trekies or Treckers, are viewed by society. They ware the franshise too heavly on their sleevs, and if they won to isolate them selvs in thee fantasey world, cuase like accident rome, Star Wars and Stark Trek fans feel both worlds, need to be learned and explored. Convetions can often be imdeamting, yet if ones isn’t love by female society do their haveny interest in a franchise, they need to not worry about well female society, and just find a female that suits them, and is willing in accept their intrest. When I say wearing the franchise heavely on youre sleev to the point were it isolates  ones self, im not just talking fan convetions, and the way societys views Trekies patilccure when I comes to often being a virgin and not appealing to females.  Star Treks fans have taken their love of the show, as shown in the documentary Trekies. They see the fanchise as a way of life, dressing up as charicters, even wearing extensive make up, there some who have had Star Trek themed weddings.
As the 2009 reboot was fastly approaching I myself still knew  very little about the franchise . My areas of interest in 2005s Stars Wars III Revenge of The Sith, which I enjoyee very much despite the mixted reviews, I had also been a Superman fan my whole life and was exploring that world in  paticlure, in other worlds Super Heroes have always been my main thing.
The first even episode I was watched of Star Trek was trouble with triffles in a high school math class, as rather, more relaxing lesson given by the teacher.  And the second episode I watched didn’t come until four years later, after lot having a very good experience in a night club, I began to drown my sorrow on the internet, and I figured since the neww reboor was looking really good, I was time to watch another episode of Star Trek, the episode in which crew are infected by simlure inxtocation which one would get my achol, felt somewhat simulure to a Red Dwarf episode called Polly moprh. I later watched Charlie X and Space Seed. When I saw Star Trek 2009 I was blown away, I coudnt bleeive JJ Abrams made Star Trek cool. It totally change my views on Scifi, that it can be sexy, cool, and have lots of action,
It was always for me persanly, the way Trekies or Treckers, are viewed by society. They ware the franshise too heavly on their sleevs, and if they won to isolate them selvs in thee fantasey world, cuase like accident rome, Star Wars and Stark Trek fans feel both worlds, need to be learned and explored. Convetions can often be imdeamting, yet if ones isn’t love by female society do their haveny interest in a franchise, they need to not worry about well female society, and just find a female that suits them, and is willing in accept their intrest. When I say wearing the franchise heavely on youre sleev to the point were it isolates  ones self, im not just talking fan convetions, and the way societys views Trekies patilccure when I comes to often being a virgin and not appealing to females.  Star Treks fans have taken their love of the show, as shown in the documentary Trekies. They see the fanchise as a way of life, dressing up as charicters, even wearing extensive make up, there some who have had Star Trek themed weddings.
As the 2009 reboot was fastly approaching I myself still knew  very little about the franchise . My areas of interest in 2005s Stars Wars III Revenge of The Sith, which I enjoyee very much despite the mixted reviews, I had also been a Superman fan my whole life and was exploring that world in  paticlure, in other worlds Super Heroes have always been my main thing.
The first even episode I was watched of Star Trek was trouble with triffles in a high school math class, as rather, more relaxing lesson given by the teacher.  And the second episode I watched didn’t come until four years later, after lot having a very good experience in a night club, I began to drown my sorrow on the internet, and I figured since the neww reboor was looking really good, I was time to watch another episode of Star Trek, the episode in which crew are infected by simlure inxtocation which one would get my achol, felt somewhat simulure to a Red Dwarf episode called Polly moprh. I later watched Charlie X and Space Seed. When I saw Star Trek 2009 I was blown away, I coudnt bleeive JJ Abrams made Star Trek cool. It totally change my views on Scifi, that it can be sexy, cool, and have lots of action. When i bought the reboot on DVD i watched in five times. 
After years of hiding from Star Trek, and avoiding it at all cost, i figured that there was a lot to learn from the show. Every adventure has a lesson, one tthat expand on the way we think to give a us a bigger prespective of the universe, to understand th diversty, and who we are, and to think and live better. I don't consider myself a Trekie,, and instead of ending this with a quote from Spock ill just say ill bodly end this post like no man has before. Well atleast ill end it with a good luck.

Monday, December 3, 2012

What if Super Heroes were real.



lWhat if, we lived a world were masked men in tights capes or spandex really did run though our streets. This concept has been explored in such media as Watchmen, Kickass, and even The Dark Night. Vigilantes who take the law into their own hands, to help bring criminals to justice. Alan Moore’s Watchmen chronicled the lives of costumed avengers, in an alternate universe. Once criminals started wearing masked and costumes, a group called The Minute Men decided to do the same. However some of these men became victims, of their own life style habits, one killed due to her own seductive life style, one getting his cape stuck, and another who just went insane. Apart from serve even life threatening injuring that would  require intense medical attention, hospitalization, and months of recovery, are these such what took place with the original Minuet Men the realalistc aspects of what a hero live super hero might face. In the film Kickass, one young teenager questioned what if someone tried to be a super hero, and sets out to do it, despite his first outing wasn’t a charmer. And in his wake he inspires others, but his actions lead to such violence and consequence. In The Dark Trilogy, no super heroes exist, but the Bruce Wayne we all know and love steps out of comfort zone, to seek training to fight the war on crime, and project his fear into a symbol known as The Batman, and use his theater tics and stunts, to pull off the job. The Dark night trilogy unlike ike The Burton and Schumacher era that was just Hollywood hoopla and over rated character pieces, The Villains in The Dark Knights trilogy Joker and Bane were more like that kind of super villains you would imagine in the real world, who would really put society under a micro scope, using fear to manipulate us.   Superman is meant to never grow old and live forever, but were kids what we don’t realize is that even most heroes aren’t immortal like Superman. Even though realistic aspects such as aging don’t come about often in comics, a young Stan Lee dared to do comics his way, as his wife suggested. Lee proved throughout his work in Marvel that comics weren’t just for kids. They told him they counts make Spiderman, cause A he couldn’t be a teenager, B he couldn’t have problems. Spiderman was the prime example of a super powered being in the real world, who was a nerd that was UN popular in school, lived with his aunt, and lost his uncle at the hands of brutal murder. Uncle Ben always dad Peter "with great power comes great responsibility. Spiderman/Peter Parker was always pitted to make certain choice given to the good and bad. And losing his girlfriend Gwen Stacy was only one of those many choices.
If one too to really go through with being a Super Hero, what one think.
It would depend on the hero’s actions, the way they are carried out and most of all the way heroes present his or her self.  Charles Xavier made his heroes wear uniforms because it was something people would understand.
Yet has a Seattle man named Phoenix Jones helped answer the question of how one would view a real life super hero. Some have applauded Phoenix Jones others have been spectacle. Some say what Jones dose his dangerous, and should be left to the police, who he his followers mostly wind up calling when the situation gets out of hand. When using pepper spray on a hostile citizen, Jones was arrested, ordered to reveal his identity.
Taking the law into ones owns hands is very dangerous, and most of all deadly. I myself would recommend any one to take on the role of a real life super hero. Its fun to fantasize, just like a lot of other things, but harder to take on.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Boy Meets World spin off


When I was a young child I was memorized by the teenage adventures of Corry Mathews and Shawn Hunter, on a little tevelvison program which was a part of ABCs TGIF. I miss the day when all that matters was a fresh box of pizza from the local pizzeria, and to turn on the television for ABCs Friday night lineup. It was all that mattered apart from the new power ranger toys, and the Saturday morning cartoons that would follow that next day. When you were a kid did you picture high school to be a fun experience, for some of you things turned out different? But Boy Meets World a show which went along with the concept of a boy getting to know to real world through life lessons from his teacher/next door neighbor George Pheney played William Daniels, who started in the graduate with Dustin Huffman. Shawn Hunter the cool friend with the leather jacket, and good looks who came from the wrong side of the tracks, in a trailer park with a alcoholic dad; as oppose to Corry and his more middle class life. Shawn seem to struggle thought with his family issues, and oppose to Corry, who if had family issues they were always worked out. However, Shawn with his good looks had a way with the ladies, and had the balls to make a pic nic in snow for one of his sweet hearts. Eric Corry’s older brother was the perfect example of how being the younger or middle sibling can feel underwhelming. Eric was the cool well-dressed older brother with a car, and would always be dating. But Eric who wasn't very academic was always not doing so well in school. Eric was the prime example of the consequences of what Pheney said would happen if you didn't give everything your best. Eric wound up staying home after high school, and his character became more focused on comic relief.  Corry and Shawn always seemed to come out learning a lot after each episode; however the show was the back drop for something more than just life lessons. The show told the story not just of a friend ship, and the bitter sweet relationship between student and teacher but something else. The greatest love story since Romeo and Juliet, unfolded as the romance between Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence blossomed into a passion of undying love that would last a life time. They knew each other since they were kids, they she kissed him against his locker in Junior High, and he traveled all the day to Disney Land, to hold her in his arms and win her back. Were Corry and Topanga a perfect example of the American relationship, with all the up, and downs, flows, ad consequences. Yet as my generation comes of age, what has shown like Boy Meets World taught us. Can one teacher make a difference in your life, if you have  one best friend are you pretty set, you don't need to date four million girls, you need to be with one girl that makes you feel like a million. Did Pheney teach you the true value of learning? If you study and give things your best it will pay off. And most all that the things you learn in school reach further than just the class room. Yet as my generation grows old, a new generation has taken over. We all they know that Corry and Topanga got married, and the show ended with the couple moving to New York. Some yet to wonder what happened, and some think for it to be obvious. Girl Meets World is set to premier on the Disney channel with Corry and Topanga as parents. But my overall point is will this new show for the generation has the same impact as the old did. Will Corry and Topanga daughter Riley is as fun to watch. For the new generation maybe, if the shows is aiming and young girls. There will always be an old generation, and can’t accept the new ideas and formula. But one thing will always be certain when the new Girl Meets airs, that the teaching of George Pheny, (whom I’m not sure is going to be in it) will always live on, and that there will be a Corry Mathews and Shawn Hunter in all of us.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Who I am, What I am

 Who I am I, what do i do, what  is my purpose in life, as I approach the not so old age of 27 i ask myself this question. I have beeen judged a lot, some people try to wrap thier heads around the question who i am. Yet day after i question what  my IQ is and try to forget about things such as high school and thing i regret. What can i say about my adult years, and yet again what can that people that have known and come to love me tell you. Day after i try to pick the pieces that were once shatterd. I am not youre average sports loving beer drinking kinda guy. Yet in time i know i will be defined for my charicter and not my actions. Many parts of life are hard to tell, mostly not even told at all. I sufferd to humilating job as a Target Cart Attendent from age 21 to 23, just many times before it was a painful reminder of my intelgence of the  burdens it carrys, but were i am I now as oppose to the negatives. Not as time was lost yet a lot of time was spared but only for what i keep asking. After failing in the retail world i sufferd months of emplyment, i don't what that time peroid toward the end of my twenty third year has taught me, yet others who i cant mention and actions i do nott wish to speak of will tell you otherwise. You might even ask me what i was talking about.
So who im I?
I am writer, music artist, with my own can i add author to that, only myself can ask that. I also have my own You Tube Channel, for music movie reviews, and overall comedy. Ive been writing science fiction and fantasey since i as 15 even through the abition was over shadowed by failing academics, and myself beggning under stand the nature of my itelgence. Can i let this blog be the judge of my writing. You may be asking youreslf what is the point of this blog, what i am trying to say. Commitments  to wriiting have grown differcultt since i became an adult, due to commitment in the job world and juggling friends in realtionships. So ived started this blog to help with me reach werei wana be in writting. I still like to write on paper as well. Toward to end of my high school i had written a lot over the span of five years. But when i wrote the words Newtron down on paper, i had a full blown novel before i even knew it. Ive jugling atleast four different story ideas. When i was young boy i came up with the idea for a kid  super hero named  Jump Buster, and the idea evolved in time. Ive recently been told to forget about, you created it when were young, you should thrown it out. Let it go. These words have brough me to tears. Only i can be the judge of  this, then again so can the young man i met at comicon in 2010 when in line to meet Stan Lee. After many years i asked my brother to do a drawing of Jumpbuster. The drawing came out just how i imagained, however it the young man that decided too go with projct of turning it into a full blown comic. As i started a new job and this project began to take wind i felt my dreams were finally coming true, however once again the commitments to my job drained my engergy. Once the young man read the scripts The Jump Buster project hit a bump in the road. My script had to many plot holes, i did not make my charicters interesting enough, and after the summer of 2011 The JB project was scraped and i was hear broken. Im going to do a seprate blog about the JB project, far there is much to discuss.
After be friendly a local guitar player named Alex Rasmunsen after attending his show for his band HMP i began to question why i never learned to play a muscial intrument. I had obivously chosen writting as my writting as my path, but always wanted to express myself in a musical way. It wasnt until late 2010 my friend Jon Norman who i had met in my year working at Vanity Fair outlet, which was my first scsessful job started showing interest in Hip Hop, which would be were i would take  my unlikely turn. One day when giving me a ride to work i began pick up on Jon rapping and i soon began to follow. When arriving home the follwing night i then wrote down my first song titled (Just Another Sad Song.) The song was filmed all the way to church, as a visual free style, and many soon followed. However, once poste to Face Book the song got negtive reviews. Over the course of  2011 i countuied free styling with Jon and creating videos. After pushing for over a year to record we finally recorded a song called Judge But after pushing and pushing no other songs were recorded.
To cut my loss for JB i began to work on the novel which i had been writting since high school, i also began to write a shorty versian. I submited two short storys to science fictio magazine as i had longed to do this since high school, and they were turned down.
In the summer of 2012 the day the day the Man of Steel teaser trailer was shown at comicon, Just Another Sad Song was finally recorded, and when I launched my You Tube channel the song got postive reviews.
After finally getting the song off the ground after a year, i wish my writting off the ground, and i hope this blog will help further those chances and me in my writting. Ive also been trying to get into photogphy please check my photopgphy folder on my Face Book. I am currently seeking a career in the culinary field but still wish to get my writting off the ground.  I just bought some studio eqitment and hope to record some more songs.
I am a little fish in a big pound, however i am artist above all. Who am I. I am an artist trying to my work and my name out. I tell storys in anyway i can. I hope got the point of this blog, there will be more to come. ScottBlainePurchase@facebook.com