Samantha Parrish
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Podcaster & Author
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How Wham’s Everything She Wants Taught Me How To Be A Woman
In the summer of 2011, before I would enter my Junior year of high school, I was sixteen years old shopping with my mother, and I heard this song that I heard before. My mom is a Wham! fan and put her songs on my MP3s for me to listen to. The song hit differently than when I first heard a snippet of it in my cheap headphones on the school bus, and now listening to it in the overhead speakers of Dress Barn. I was old enough to understand it. It struck me like it was a song that I needed to listen to now because it had a catchy beat but it had a message behind it that I couldn’t let go of. The lyrics are very self-explanatory it’s about a man that becomes exasperated and exhausted with the constant demands of what his selfish girlfriend wants. When he is told that she’s pregnant with his child, he knows he’ll just be working even harder to provide for two when he can barely provide for her. Even though he is trying his best, the best isn’t good enough for her because she wants more, hence why the song is called Everything She Wants.
By Samantha Parrish4 years ago in Beat
The Unpurchaseable Songs of The 1980s
The 80s is my favorite decade of music, my mother is the one to thank for that. My life changed at three years old when she sat me down on the family couch to listen to what it was she found all these years for music. She couldn't wait to show me her songs and share them with me. Ever since then I'm still chasing that retro wave of music. As I got older to chase that wave, I found many hidden gems that never got their day. Even in this day where society is now celebrating the past, these parts of the past haven't been celebrated. If you have been looking for more of the past, I have this to present to you.
By Samantha Parrish4 years ago in Beat
How A Bathroom Mishap Gave Me The Best Material For Stand Up
I am known as the punisher, the one-woman show, the Sami show that runs for 24 hours. I was told to do stand-up many times, and I toyed with the idea until I knew I wanted to do it for myself. I thought, "Why not, I'll do it one time".
By Samantha Parrish4 years ago in Confessions
Retail Tales: The Customer who thought he was a comedian
Your first job, can teach you a lot, and not in the sense of how you can no work ethic but how you can work under stress, under duress, and dealing with people that don’t know that you were just doing your job.
By Samantha Parrish4 years ago in Confessions
To The Kids Who Didn't Want To Be Friends With Me
We look back at those playground days of laughter, running in the sports field, and sitting in the field to make necklaces out of the flowers we didn't know were weeds. That was my school, the sports field was used for recess while the playgrounds were being built for the Elementary school. The kids at my school knew how to make the most of it. There was an amalgamation of activities, and that sports field became an imagination of activities. Recess wasn't just playtime, games, and flowers, it was thirty minutes of lessons about who your friends were and weren't. It was a lesson outside of the classroom.
By Samantha Parrish4 years ago in Psyche
The clever clues of the movies I would eventually understand
All of my life I have been surrounded by the media, and I always wanted to know how it was made. My mother would play me the songs that she liked, and she became my gateway to classic movies and the timeless songs that she couldn't wait to play for me in the car. She would tell me the stories about movies I would watch when I was much older about how a man named John McClane said this one phrase that I should never say in front of my grandmother. How Prince was told off by his father and said he never be a musician because he never memorized his music in his mind. I listened to all the stories and eventually would watch the movies at my mother had told me about. But there were some movies that I did see, or figurines or posters and I look at them and not understand what they were at that time, but I never forgot the time I discovered what I didn't understand.
By Samantha Parrish4 years ago in Geeks
The Films I Love Because Of Nina
My grandmother was someone that never particularly cared for taking a trip to the movie theater to go see the newest movie that came to theaters or anything. But on the days that my mother worked her long hours at her job at quest diagnostics, my grandmother would sit down with me and we would split a can of Diet Coke and we would watch a movie together while we waited for my mother to come pick me up. We didn’t do it often because my grandmother did not like how much I was into movies and television shows. On those weekdays, they were very precious to me just to relax and get to show her something that interested me and then to get the reaction from her is something that I’ll always remember.
By Samantha Parrish4 years ago in Families
Why Fire In The Sky should be an addition to the Halloween collection
When it comes to the sci-fi genre, the alien premise can be a dime a dozen. The only ones that aren't a cash-in of other sci-fi horror story premises are the ones based off of a true story. It can't steal from other stories because it is a true story. The movie lists have been changing recently, and there’s one particular movie that I’ve seen pop up on numerous lists that have to do with Alien movies or alien movies based off true accounts. After seeing a familiar title on these movie lists, it’s sparked the interest, and I had to wonder, what is fire in the sky?
By Samantha Parrish4 years ago in Geeks
