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Rewatch Retro Review: Sixteen Candles (1984)

  It was dark when I decided to scroll my Netflix list out of boredom. After all, here I was paying for the subscription and yet barely using it. I figured, how about I checked to see what was new with Netflix. Scrolling through the endless lists of movies, I found a few childhood favorites,

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Retro Review: Laurel Canyon (2002)

  Upon initially hearing the title of the film, I couldn’t help but feel an odd sense of familiarity. And then I realized, Laurel Canyon was the street name I’d always pass up on the way to Ohlone College. Both film and street name lead to destinations revolving around ideas and change. One would think

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A Favorite Revisited: American Psycho

My index finger repeatedly clicked the right mouse button, intent on satiating my reawakened curiosity. “Christian Bale; Christian Bale with Sibi Blazic; Christian Bale young.” The broad scale of Christian Bale’s emotional spectrum never seemed to end. It had been perhaps a week since my tenth grade obsession had come back in the form of

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Injustice

  I usually stay quiet and don’t like to post statuses such as these but there’s so much injustice in this world that it’s sickening. I’m not just talking about the bombings, I’m talking about daily violence, racism and prejudice against one another, and the reoccurring corruption in many of our systems. It all comes

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Diverging From The Path Of Life

I look around me, and I see everyone walking a similar path of life. Education -> Marriage -> Children -> Death The problem isn’t that it’s a wrong path; it’s a correct one. The problem is that it’s too straight of a journey; there aren’t really any twists and turns. Wait–let me clarify before you

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I Should Be In Tahoe By Now

Having finished an exam I spent ten hours studying for, my heart is at rest–my tensions having eased. I am gazing out a rain-trodden window; the occasional flashes of thunder prompt my head up before resuming back to non-productive activity on my laptop. Yet it is here that a flash of memories overwhelm me as

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A Prickling Irritation Leads to Enhanced Motivation

I finally understood the whole concept of ‘channeling one’s passion and anger into motivation’ today. Hell was I pissed off upon taking my lab midterm today and leaving with the burdenous sensation of acrimony and  discouragement tugging on my heart and shoulders. It especially bothered me how I had wasted time studying in addition to

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Being Different

With the society that I’m enveloped in, there’s only three types of people you can join. The first of which who gossip, friend and unfriend each other every five minutes, worship materialism rather than knowledge, and live petty-minded lives.Over on the other side, there’s only those who overanalyze concepts to the point of where it doesn’t

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