Wryta Thinkpiece

Swallow a dead frog. Would you rather stick your face in boiling water or get a grease fire lit on your gluteus maximus?

Pretzels

Definitely "1 Greenwich Avenue," if we need a fellow New Yorker to vouch for it. The music and the lyrics are very simple but to the point, which I love, though it did take the second playthrough for me to really love it (though a part of me that grows smaller still cringes when I hear the "ex-girl boo," especially the "boo.") Just a very beautiful song. I would say that this is the best leak of the past few months, but I already said that about Beautiful Player (and was proven wrong by TVBW,) so I'm going to say it: TVBW is the best leak of the past few months (and now I wait for "I'm Fucked...")

Still too young to fail, too scared to sail away; But one of these days, I'll grow old And I'll grow brave—and I'll go— One of these days.

Also, songs from them I wish Lana did a cover of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsY9pJPexXU

Another great sister duo that needs a topic. I find it a little difficult to listen to them sometimes, only because so many songs of theirs I have such an emotional connection to, so it can be tough to sit down with certain songs. But those particular songs are also what I'm going to show you guys. A part of me wants to be more candid and open about one of the songs and my connection to it, but I think the moment to will come at the right time, but here you guys are, happy listening!

Double-team

Sex

Azealia. Nipples or dimples?

Them ashy knees and elbows are a badge of HONOR.

Kill, Kill vs. A Star for Nick

You Can Be The Boss vs. Ooh Baby

Back to tha Basics vs. Dynamite

Helen Keller.

Kissing Power Wedgies or Wet Willies?

But before anyone could drop their garters... The three were immediately interrupted by Ernesto and Felipe, a pot-smoking feline Mariachi band duo prepared to sing for them the song of their people.

Hit & Run (Demo) vs. Hundred Dollar Bill (Demo)

Zoni Del Rici

I acknowledged the fact that Freud's theories were the building blocks to how we have come to understand childhood development, but as with anything in science, the more that we come to know as technology advances, the more we begin to find fallacies and erroneous areas in our old presumptions. While I won't deny sexuality's possible influence, it is certainly a broad statement to say it is the basis of our personality when environment certainly serves a role, among other things. I'm not saying it's wrong, or that you are, and I never said I personally disagreed with Freud's theories, but I agree to a degree with many of his theories. It's not a matter of "acceptance," only perspective and experience. My sexuality had less to do with what I made of my life and personality than environment and circumstance did. Sure, sexuality can garner the attraction of different circumstances that a person will encounter in their life, but I only think sexuality matters to a degree. Even then I don't think that anything with sexuality should be connoted as a psychological disease where it should be treated with reparative therapy that has been proven to be far more dangerous to the psychological well-being of the person. Freud didn't even believe in treating "sexual deviance," especially in the individual.

Last Girl on Earth vs. I Don't Wanna Go

Saliva.

Vinny Time

There was no research corroborating any of Freud's theories of childhood development. There was no evidential support! Freud's theories and his work served as a contribution to our understanding of childhood development, not a concrete foundation on how it truly works. We all know children are not as sexual as Freud had assumed them to be. Notwithstanding his eccentric theories of childhood development, he also emphasized the interplay between nature and nurture and shed light on the significance of a healthy relationship between parent and child being essential to healthy development. Besides that, modern science has placed the existence of the Oedipus complex in the field of inaccuracy along with Freud's psychosexual theories altogether. This is why Freud's still included in many psychology courses, because while his theories with childhood development are otherwise inaccurate, he had a very strong contribution because he was one of the few of his field to go against the grain, and his first-stage development theory was one of the first to garner such a great amount of attention and curiosity that others in the field of psychology used it as a starting place in their practices, because the most it really was, was somewhere to start with in building an understanding of childhood development. My sources being every psych course I have taken and every psychology textbook I purchased along with this: http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=7926 And on that note, I happened to like Freud, I started with him when I wanted to learn about psychology in middle school, he was one of my favorite doctors because of his eccentricity and abstract theories, but I certainly do not hold him to the highest degree in reliability.