Day 145: March 13

I tried that make-up drawing I talked about a few blog posts back (I found some eyeshadow). Let's just say I wasn't talented (but it was fun!!)

Today is 13.03.13. Happy thirteenth of the third, two thousand and thirteen.

I watched the Same Love video for the first time today and, omg. I love it even more now.

The video is the best thing ever (L) and wow, that song ! It's so bloody amazing and I just want to sing it out loud to anyone who's homophobic (except for whoops. I'd probably deafen them). But wow. It's so adorable.

My favourite lines are:
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion ...
But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago

The fact that people think that you can 'cure' someone of being gay by teaching them about how God hates them is something I actually cannot fathom. Are they actually serious?! I'm not religious and I don't believe in God, but I cannot believe people actually think that. No. As for paraphrasing a book that was written 'thirty five hundred years ago' is ridiculous. The bible, the Torah (I know there's others, but I don't know them). Aren't we the generation of new? Aren't we the generation of adaption? Can't we stop listening to something that was written before any of us existed and begin to evolve and accept?

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily
We become so numb to what we're saying
A culture founded from oppression
Yet we don't have acceptance for 'em
Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
Gay is synonymous with the lesser
It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion
Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that led people to walk outs and sit ins
It's human rights for everybody, there is no difference!
Live on and be yourself
When I was at church they taught me something else
If you preach hate at the service those words aren't anointed
That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned
When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen
I might not be the same, but that's not important
No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it.

The other day I was discussing with my sister how numb we've become to certain things. Violence and scenes of a sexual nature seem to be the norm nowadays in movies we see. Using the word gay as an adjective is disgusting. I used it at one stage, but I don't anymore. Wiped it from my vocabulary. The weather isn't gay, it's just hot. Calling someone gay because they've done something wrong is an insult to gay people. Gay is not a bad thing, but us people use it as a word with a negative connotation. As Macklemore says, 'gay is synonymous with the lesser'. We certainly make it feel like that. This is the best bit: Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that led people to walk outs and sit ins
It's human rights for everybody, there is no difference!
Damn right! We're all human, doesn't matter our skin colour or our race or or sexual orientation. We are all human and we damn well deserve rights. That's it, though. Just because some people aren't gay doesn't mean they can't support it. NO FREEDOM TILL WE'RE EQUAL, DAMN RIGHT I SUPPORT IT.

A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are
And a certificate on paper isn't gonna solve it all
But it's a damn good place to start
No law is gonna change us
We have to change us
Whatever God you believe in
We come from the same one
Strip away the fear
Underneath it's all the same love

Someone would rather hide their real selves away for a portion of their life so they wouldn't be teased or mocked about it. Isn't that disgraceful? Doesn't that just make us bullies? We make people scared to be themselves and to be true to who they are. It's true; a certificate on paper won't change things right away. But it's a bloody good place to start. At least them we would have a starting line. At the moment, we're still dawdling around in the changing rooms. Whether you're an atheist, a Christian, Jewish, Muslim or any other religion, we all believe in something. For atheists, their something is nothing, for Jews, it's Hashem, for Christians, it's Jesus. Wouldn't our God want to best for us. Wouldn't he want us to be accepting, fierce people?

"Underneath we're all the same love".


(Okay, so this blog post was a jumble of feelings and opinions mushed together. It wasn't a very graceful mush, but I expressed myself as best I could, but I would love to hear your opinions on gay marriage, this song or society as a whole.)

One hundred and forty five songs from the song pop games I have screenshotted from the 24thnovember2012-3rdmarch2013:
1. Black and Yellow
2. Live Your Life
3. The Next Episode
4. All of the Lights
5. Not Afraid
7. Here Without Out
8. Thank You
9. Kiss from a Rose
10. Heartbreaker
11. Take It off
12. Like a G6
13. Like it's her birthday
14. Just say so
15. Your song
16. Your body is a wonderland
17. Lovesong
18. Jump then fall
19. Johnny B. Goode
20. Home
21. Say
22. D.A.N.C.E.
23. Who's that chick?
24. Boys like you
25. Eenie Meenie
26. One way road
27. Replay
28. Dancing in the dark
29. Need you tonight
30. Love is in the air
31. Somebody that I used to know
32. Crazy
33. The Rose
34. Roxanne
35. Heartbreak Hotel
36. I don't want to miss a thing
37. I wanna dance with somebody
38. 99 Luftballons (Red Balloons)
39. La Isla Bonita
40. Lets Dance
41. Mr. Jones
42. Smells like teen spirit
43. Enjoy the silence
44. I got you
45. It's my life
46. Goodbye to you
47. Pretty in pink
48. Rock this Party
49. My name is
50. The best
51. Ring my bell
52. Get off
53. Fields of gold
54. Mysterious Ways
55. Sunburn
56. Redneck Woman
57. Go your own way
58. Hit me with your best shot
59. I'm coming out
60. What the hell
61. Angel
62. Oh Sheila
63. Sowing the seeds of love
64. Stand back
65. Sweet Dreams
66. Hold me now
67. Runaway baby
68. Bangarang
69. Pontoon
70. Hysteria
71. Hero
72. Venus
73. Don't stop till you get enough
74. My Generation
75. I feel love
76. Daddy Cool
77. Woman
78. Take me home
79. You should be dancing
80. Black velvet
81. Crazy for you
82. bad boy
83. Jessie's Girl
84. Halo
85. Be with you
86. Woman in love
87. Start me up
88. Greatest love of all
89. Rock it
90. Lying
91. One way or another
92. Stray cat strut
93. Smalltown Boy
94. Eighties
95. I love rock 'n' roll
96. Fire
97. Run the world (girls)
98. Without you
99. Cherish
100. Firework
101. Unfaithful
102. And I am telling you I'm not going
103. Run Joey Run
104. Songbird
105. Losing my religion
106. Blue Christmas
107. Zanzibar
108. Vienna
109. Easy Money
110. Chances Are
111. By your side
112. A moment like this
113. Fast Car
114. Every breath you take              
115. The Reflex
116. You're the one that I want
117. Now and forever
118. My Dick
119. We R who we R
120. Black and Yellow
121. Bingo
122. I will survive
123. My happy ending
124. I know it's over
125. Hot N Cold
126. Move on up
127. Born to be alive
128. This time baby
129. Satisfaction
130. Hard
131. Music
132. Barbie Girl
133. Jeremy
134. I Alone
135. Bitter Sweet Symphony
136. Just a Lil Bit
137. Just a Dream
138. Over
139. love the way you lie
140. Miss Atomic Bomb
141. Drive By
142. Drink in my hand
143. Word Hard, Play Hard
144. Steer
145. Are you gonna be my girl?

I think I'm either called Kavendish or Lauren R on songpop, I'm not sure.