The Sober Mountain

I write stuff, kind of. Mostly dumb thoughts, sometimes critiques, rarely some creative writing.

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Sober Thought 4

As a self-identified human sloth, I find alarm clocks to be deeply offensive and consider them a form of sleep shaming”

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Sober thought 3

Blasphemy is like a cultural appropriation ban, saying people can't just use the word God however they want to because it’s disrespectful

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La La Land Review

La La Land was definitely a good watch. It was very well filmed and acted, the story is cliche but it isn’t unbelievable. One of the weird things about La La Land is that despite being a musical, it felt like the music was one of the weakest parts of the whole film. This is mostly because Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are the leads and they are better actors than they are singer/musicians. Still, I can see that they decided to get people that excelled in acting because the emotional moments of the movie are the strongest points, but at the same time it made some of the musical numbers much less impressive. On a more personal note, I thought it was unnecessary to make so many parts of the film look like the 70′s, because it made me question sometimes what decade we are supposed to assume this is happening (this could have been intentional though). La La Land is, oddly enough, a sorts of musical for people that don’t like musicals that much. I get very tired of the singing in musicals when it happens with every new scene, but La La Land did this only at times which were appropriate. It also has a message that a lot of more upbeat musicals would disagree with; You don’t get everything that you want in life, and things don’t always work out like you would want them to. It did have a couple of scenes which I found kind of silly, but I don’t want to spoil the movie. Overall, I would say La La Land is a 7/10.

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Sober thought 2

Is it only white people that cannot say the N-word? What standards must one fulfill to have the rights of usage?

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Sober thought

When someone wants to kill themselves by jumping in front of a train, do they look at the train schedules to catch a full-speed train, or do they hang out at the terminals waiting for a promising one to come?