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"Once, I Was a Prisoner." — A Mariah Carey Review Series: Daydream

Daydream, 1995 Daydream is the fifth album of Mariah Carey released back in 1995. It's her fourth non-holiday release and her first largely original material since 1993's Music Box. The album is filled with R&B confections not too different from her earlier music, but more varied than ever. It opens with lead single "Fantasy," a dance number that pairs a sample of Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" with new melodies of Carey's own. It's sugary sweet; I like how the lyrics actually go along with the title of the album. It's a fantasy, a daydream of sorts, of someone peculiar and perhaps drool-worthy coming to fulfill the prophecy of a dream lover. Quite a rapturous feeling indeed. "Underneath the Stars," the second track, follows with yet another fantasy. Or maybe it's a memory of a not so distant past this time. If the first song continues the trend of Mimi's 90's upbeat lead singles bar "Vision of Love," this...

Diary of D #4: Habit and Its Meaning

Rumination Many times I've found myself asking about the relevance of my recent activities as someone who's unemployed and also in need of new sensations just to make my life seems filled with, at least, something rather than nothing. I began to observe my own behavior and perhaps, even, habit that I kept on doing on daily basis. Almost appears as a cycle, my constant need to surf the web/internet to take a look at certain things such as popular music and popular culture, movies, comic books specifically the X-Men, and basic graphic design on a site like Photoroom. I've been trying to find new jobs for me and that hasn't been fruitful. I find myself leaning towards the tendency to compensate my lack of activities, courtesy of not having a job, with mundane tasks that are available as long as my internet data plan is enough to do so. As a portion of my life is dedicated to spend time on the worldwide web, the other portion goes into doing even more ordinary things at hom...