Love you like a love song

Casually listening to that song brought about some random thoughts from me. Anyone who knows me knows that I am chock full of these thoughts, sometimes referred to as brain vomit. Most of the time when I pose the random musing of my mind, I am met with strange looks or odd replies. However, I know have a boyfriend, and thus someone to bounce these musings off of, and on occasion I am met with a much deeper reply to my fanciful musings.
Today (November 30th 2011)
I heard the song "I love you like a love song" by Selena Gomez on the radio, and I somehow stowed it away in the back burner of my mind. Upon reaching a brief moment of boredom and an open facebook chat with Madison, I posed the question, "Is loving someone like a love song a good or bad thing, I'm not sure, because some people hate love songs or grow tired of ones that play on the top 40 stations every few minutes."
I was in for a suprise when this was the answer to my nonserious musing....


pop songs are probably the closest thing to songifying love

nothing gets you in a better mood, change your whole day around when you hear it, faster or higher than a pop song does. Having someone in your live that does that to you is what most people call love.

the same old song and dance applies to someone you love, and a pop song, you will hear it over and over again and it will get old, just like love does.

I think pop songs trigger the same emotional responses that meeting someone you really like does, probably because they are written about the subject.

most people come to a fork in the "relationship" road. They ask themselves which path will they be happier, continuing with this person and forgoing the chance of meeting someone else, or sticking it out through the crap because you think that person is worth it.

Not what I was expecting but nonetheless though provoking. I felt that this answer needed to be shared with the world,

as I can't be so selfish with the answers to my musings, especially with the internet being subjected to my musings so often.

 

I know a lot of people who refuse to just try out anime. The reasons vary from "It's stupid" to "I don't like cartoons." Maybe they had a bad experience from DBZ or Sailor Moon whenever it came on Toonami?
Well I've given it some thought, and I came up with 3 different animes that can be used to hook them in.
First we have Naruto, admittedly a well known anime. It is a good starter anime for those who like violence and need to see that anime is not a "cartoon." Naruto is easy to find and is not too hard to follow, therefore you can jump right into the middle of it or skip around and show them the interesting bits. Naruto has the added bonus of not scaring the faint of heart out of watching anime. This is typically geared toward young-teenage boys, but is complex enough that an older person can enjoy it. This is nowhere near my favorite but I have to finish it now.

Next we have Ouran High School Host Club, not nearly as well known as Naruto. If you have a friend who loves comedy (preferably a girl, although some boys like it) this might be the one to start off with. I personally converted my friend to anime through this one. Ouran is a short but lovable series.

Another good starter is Fruits Basket, and this one is a bit of a romance so geared towards young women. It can change from Comedy to dark quickly and is a mystery as much as anything else as you and the main character (Tohru) are trying to figure out what's going on with the Sohma family.

Last but not least we have Fullmetal Alchemist (the first series). I say the first series because of how much lighter it is than Brotherhood. FMA should be chosen for the friend's that like Philosophical type stuff. It has a great mix of comedy, action, and philosophy that is much beloved by fans. Because of FMA's deep nature, I recommend showing friends episode 13 (Fullmetal vs Flame) to give them a good representation of the characters as well as a good laugh. Both series of FMA fall into just about every genre and are both incredibly deep. Brotherhood however, does not have a strictly comedy episode.

But I also started my Mom on Brotherhood as it came on Adult swim. My MOM, she agrees that not all Anime is like Pokemon and for little kids.

When an Anime starts with a kid losing his arm and leg, you know you're in for a ride.
Just be careful you don't create a monster that tries to start introducing YOU to stuff YOU have never heard of :D.

First Blog

Hello Blogspot!

     I don't even know why I created a blog, I guess I just love communicating so much that I figured the world should know. I'm still figureing the blogworld out and the format of the site and how not to create 5 million blank posts. I do however have a funny story about my little url name thingy.
     Turns out just about every combination of my name is taken, I tried cheyennebenson, cnbenson, cheybenson, and the list goes on and on. I thought about using my various username of Reivaylor, but I didn't find it as fitting for a blog as it was for my youtube acount. So I picked encheyclopedia, a joke between the friends who think I know everything and myself. The nickname comes from my absorbtion of random knowledge that I spurt out and is not in anyway a declaration of my genius. After all, the encylopedia only knows so much, and doesn't quite look so cool if it doesn't have the information you're looking for.
    This is my short but sweet blog about my experiences trying to get this sucker up and running, I will have more profound and interesting posts later in life.

Cheyenne