Music Monday

Dear reader

To be honest with you I find it kind of hard to write about music, I can of course talk about it but when it comes to playing I can't really show you since I'm just writing... I've thought of starting off on YouTube but as I am both scared and in a way terrified I don't believe that I could do it. Even though I am an organized person and should always know what to do I don't have any topics that I can choose from, so call me unprepared.

 If I put out a trailer of music/me would you see it? What would you think? What do you even think of this idea? It's only a try of something that I always wanted to try out and it may look very unprofessional but I guess that I could make one. Are you with me? It's a project and a progress that I'm willing to do when I have time for it, but because it's only 3 weeks and 4 days left till I graduate you will have to wait that long till it comes out. I can't give you a date but you'll know for sure because I'll still run this blog, as long as I want to... 

This is more like an announcement than writing about music but every Monday is still a music Monday. 

Bye for now, hello for later

Johanna Jay

Movie Weekend

These movies has the same theme - bullying

Because of it's 10 year anniversary I figured why not see it again?
The movie is based on the book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosaling Wiseman.

This movie is about Cady Heron who moves with her family from, a 12 year research trip in South Africa to USA's Illinois. Being in South Africa she was home schooled but when coming back to USA she started a public school. At the public school she meets Janis and Damian who becomes her friends who warns her about The Plastics. The Plastics are three girls named Karen, Gretchen and the Queen Bee Regina. The Plastics takes interest in Cady who becomes a part of their group in which Janis and Damian and Cady herself makes a plan of how to ruin Regina's life. 
A dramatic and comedic movie of all time about mean girls. The soundtrack of this movie contains of pop/rock songs and can be found on Spotify. The movie music is composed by Rolfe Kent. 

This is that type of movie that I can cry to...

Taylor Hillredge is a teenager raised by her mother and lives with her and her brother Eric. On her birthday she gets her own computer and with her friends Samantha and Cheyenne she creates a social media profile. Things starts to happen on her social media profile at first her brother and his friends made a post on it and everyone saw it. Then the bullying started, it continued and the Queen Bee in school Lindsay sees these posts and continues bullying her in school. Things gets worse and Taylor -

What do you think Taylor does? Does she succeed? Go watch it to get the answer!

A dramatic movie, with the composer James Gelfand, and with a few strong ballad songs by Pink, Sia and the actress Emily Osment. 

Bye for now, hello for later!

Johanna Jay

Monday Announcement

Dear reader

I just took a little blog-break and with that I have this announcement to make.

I still go to high school and this is my last year of it & there are so many things that I need to do and I don't want to be caught up in a mess. Therefore, even though every Monday is a music Monday and every weekend is a movie weekend, you can enjoy reading this blog every other week.
By that time I can make things to happen in my life and as I said in the previous post. It's about looking up, not down. The part where I'm going to break through... I'll eventually get there. You'll se as I'll see how good that gets!

Today I discovered that 102 people has read my blog and I want to thank you for reading it, I really appreciate it. It honestly made my morning so much better.

Bye for now, hello for later!

Johanna Jay

My life

Life is hard. Mine's hard as a rock and I'm not planning to break through - I'm ready to break through. Disconnect the internet and connect in real life, that's my biggest challenge.
                       

            This is why I started my 30 days long ago...

I may not be that social active as I wish but I was born shy and always will be but it's about time to break some more of that away. I've been scared of many things when it comes to being social and posting this is a big deal for me.

I kind of want to say good bye to social medias, sorry instagram and twitter and blogging. I'll still have them but I will stop my daily photos and blogging because it doesn't feel real and focus on real life because that's the big deal here.

I share what I want to share with you, my friends, and that's a challenge. The other challenge is if I want to be known for being a social media addict, no thanks, but I'll join whenever I feel that I'm ready.

Look up and look out because here I am. Videos are more real than texts... we'll see how far I can go!

Bye for now, hello for later!

Johanna Jay

Music Monday

This little writing segment will take it's focus on my mood...

So, lately I'm on medicine for pollen, hayfever, and also for something else called none of your business, no offence. The medicines clearly makes me feel different with the feeling of guilt, sorrow, depression but sometimes happiness and joy.

Music comes to me always with some kind of message and if you feel the same like you are full of guilt and you're scared to say something, listen to the artist within you and then you can listen to something motivating for you to actually open up and speak. This works for me and I'm happy because of that but remember we all are different, you don't need to do it in this way. We all are different human beings who lives in various ways when it comes to "how to live a life".

Artists that motivates me in this mood are from the pop (The Script, Katy Perry, Jesse McCartney), country (Rascal Flatts, Billy Gilman, Chris Cagle)... those are just examples, I do have a Spotify list but it's marked as private because we all (again) have different opinions of the aspects on music.

I highly recommend you to make your own playlist of what gets you motivated in a positive way so that you remind yourself that you live a pretty awesome life and of course sing along to them, which I think is the best part.

Bye for now, hello for later!

Johanna Jay

Movie Weekend

Well, I can explain why the "-end" is off because during this week I've watched my two movies. Even though there's no holiday here in Sweden I did it because I have been sick with hayfever. If you haven't watched these movies - get ready for a few spoilers.

Life has a way of offering a second chance but in this, kind of, sci-fi movie shows a perspective of a man who cheated on his film career. The main character, Zachary "Zach" Wells jumps in as a judge on a film school competition, thanks to his friend "the hotshot director" Topher who couldn't make it to this event. Once at the school Zach has a one-night stand, then he meets that guy at the school who is in the competition. The guy calls himself Danny Reyes, but that was also Zachs name that he used as he went to this school himself back in the day. And Dannys film is called Judas Kiss, so was Zachs when he entered the same competition.

What do you think, is Danny a younger Zach? 

Go watch it if you want the answer!

The soundtrack to this movie is really good, the composer is Brad Anthony Laina so applauds for him. 

I watched the premiere of this movie in my hometown just yesterday and it was not bad at all. For your information I did not read the book. 

Divergent is more like Die-vergent. The ones that are divergents in this movie dies if they do get revealed in the world that they live in.
This movie was tense and made me pull all kinds of faces because many things happened but it was not as tense as the movie Gravity (Sandra Bullock, George Clooney). The tense of this movie got me because the moment I saw the fights in the "district" she came to I was like "NO! D-di-do-gosh! I don't want to see this.". I *hahaha* actually wanted to get out because I didn't like what was happening in the movie but I stayed.

I cannot compare this movie with the Hunger Games because that is as my friend said "It's like comparing Harry Potter to any other wizard movie". It's incomparable. 

The soundtrack to this movie was made by Junkie XL along with the one and only Hans Zimmer who executive produced the album. Applauds for them.