Incongruent: ALL THE LINKS

From: dftba.com

I know I've done two posts regarding the Green brothers already, but this time I want to focus on Hank.
If you haven't read my vlogbrothers post, you should go read it. It's very informative.
So recently (last Wednesday) Hank Green & The Perfect Strangers came out with their new album, Incongruent.
I bought the special pre-ordered copy that's SIGNED.
Cus I'm that cool.
Unfortunately it hasn't arrived yet because I ordered it with the TFiOS preparedness kit which is still in preorder.
BUT since the people at dftba records are so nice and realize that a lot of computers now don't have disk drives (looking at you eighth graders with your dumb macbook airs), they sent a digital download of the whole album!
Which means I can review it for you guys!
Unfortunately, the songs are still too new and I can't find them on Grooveshark so I can't put all them on here for you.
However, Hank performed a few of them on the vlogbrothers channel, so I can at least link you to those videos.
Also, there are two versions of the album (a clean and an explicit) and I bought the explicit but I don't think they're very different anyway.
If you're interested in the clean version, I'm sure there'll be some review somewhere else that's available by now.

1. I F***ing Love Science
This one is pretty self explanatory. Hank runs around singing about how science is great and everyone should be happy that it's a thing.
Here's a link to the music video (it's the clean version but you can get to the explicit version from it if you'd like that better).

2.T-Shirt and Jeans
A song about how t-shirt and jeans are a great outfit that you can use to express yourself (or not).
Here's the acoustic version.

3.Hug Scream
I don't really know what to tell you with this one. Just.....hug someone and scream while you're doing it. There's also something about armadillos worshiping lions.
Now hold this awesome person oh so near
and scream your loudest scream
but not directly in their ear

4.Mother Pheasant Plucker
I'm pretty sure that they just wanted to make a massive tongue twister and make a bunch of people accidentally sing fucker. Go on, try it. I DARE YOU.
But my life as a mother pheasant plucker is pleasant
Just listening to music as I pluck mother pheasants
I'm a pleasant pheasant plucker and no ones
heard a pleasant pheasant plucker ever say the f-word

5.Marilyn Hanson
I think this one of those songs that's about a girlfriend he (the singer) had a long time ago and is being all nostalgic about it, but I can't really tell cus I can't find the lyrics anywhere so I have to go by ear which I suck at. The song has a rocking saxophone solo and it's the only song that actually says incongruence.
By the way, incongruence means incompatible.
It didn't matter
To anyone but ourselves

6.The Universe is Weird
Again, self explanatory. Hank is flipping out about how the universe is really weird and amazing and that it's pretty great for us that it's a thing cus if it wasn't, we wouldn't be here.
Here's a link to the acoustic version of this song.

7.Gangnam Style (Full English Translation)
Again, pretty self explanatory.
Here's a link to PART of the song. It's with a bunch of other songs that are translated to English, but just watch the video because it's funny.

8. I'd Rather
You know when you're like 'I'd rather gouge both of my eyes out with a rusty spork than _____'? This song is pretty much that.
No, I don't think we'll get together again
And no, I don't think we can still be friends
Because there's so many things I'd rather do
Than spend another day with you.

9. Oh JK Rowling
A song about how JK Rowling should really write something new because she's amazing. Ironically, this came out a few days before JK revealed that she wrote The Cuckoos Calling. Actually, Hank is pretty psychic when it comes to Harry Potter. I should also mention that he does an anual Harry Potter song, so this psychic-ness comes to light pretty frequently.
Here's a link to the song (album version!)

10. Undigested Lump
Mr. P, if you skip everything in this post, at least don't skip this cus you'll like it.
This is a song about how awesome Shakespearean insults are.
We can't use them for the smackdown or anything, but it's a good song.
Here's a link to the acoustic ((you can skip the first minute of the video if you aren't interested in the statistics of the vlogbrothers channel)). I like the album version better but I can't get that to you without things being sort of illegal and I'M SORRY.

11. My Favorite Pony
A song that's making fun of bronies (but in a 'ya this is lame but it's still fun' way).
Here's a link to the acoustic version.

12. Video Game Books
I really don't know what they were trying to do with this song. Maybe they just wanted to make a slow song and had to put something that you could maybe pretend was lovey if you didn't listen to the words?
And I'm starting to see
Not just what you want from me
But you want to get
From what you've got

13. Accio Deathly Hallows
This is a song from back in 2007 that Hank wrote about how Deathly Hallows was coming out in a few days. Listen to the song, and you'll know what I mean about Hank's psychic Potter powers.
Here's  a link to the acoustic version. I actually like this version better, but only because in the album version they move into this weird reggae thing that sort of ruined it.

14. Perfect Strangers
This is ones of those songs that they put in cheesy kids movies where the kids are spending the summer together and bonding and it's all sweet and stuff.
Now picture that scene with 5 (maybe) men who are 30-ish years old, and I'm pretty sure that is the inspiration for this song.
Sometimes the world looks perfect
Nothing to rearrange
Sometimes you just get a feeling
Like you need some kind of change


That is a lot of links, which all took a long time to find.
Phew.
Overall, the album isn't my favorite (I only bought it because I like Hank and want to support him ((plus it's SIGNED))), but it's quirky and fun so I like it well enough.
Honestly, I'd wait till some people put it on grooveshark for the album versions, but go and listen to all the links up there!


UPDATE:

THAT IS A GENUINE SIGNATURE/HANKLERFISH YOU GUYS. THIS IS AMAZING.

Unfortunately my parents were there when I opened up the package and started flipping out, and they saw the parental advisory sticker and freaked out a bit. They were a little better when I explained that Hank swore in the name of science.

BUT ANYWAY THIS IS REALLY GREAT AND GEEZE.

The Fault in Our Stars....I Had To Do It Sometime.

If you have any sort of contact with the reading universe, or just tumblr, then you know that the trailer of a movie that is based off of a certain John Green book just came out.

I hope you all are happy that I put that up, because I had to rewatch it when I looked for it and now I'm nearly crying because it's so good and I HOPE THAT YOU APPRECIATE ALL THAT I DO FOR YOU.

Anyway, I thought that since there is a new popularity with the book because of the trailer, I would tell you what I think about it.

(also because I promised back in my Vlogbrothers post that I would do a TFiOS post).
Also, I'm doing 99.999% of this from memory, so please cut me some slack if I get details wrong.

The Story:

This is gonna be spoilerific, so watch out.
Also, if you haven't read it yet, skip to the characters section, which is relatively spoiler free.

The book starts out with Hazel Lancaster begrudgingly leaving her America's Next Top Model marathon to go to a support group meeting for kids with cancer. Hazel unfortunately has cancer in her lungs, and has been terminal for the past three years. A drug called Philanxifor is the main thing keeping her alive.

Anyway, at the meeting, she meets a boy named Augustus Waters, who is there to support their friend Isaac who has cancer in his eyes. Gus can also be part of the group because he lost his leg to cancer a few years before the story starts, but he's mostly there for Isaac. After the meeting, Gus tells Hazel that she looks like mid-2000s Natalie Portman, and invites her to come over and watch V for Vendetta.

This sparks a friendship/romance that heavily incorporates a book called An Imperial Affliction. It's Hazel's favorite book, because it's about a girl with cancer and it's very truthful about the whole ordeal, even ending mid-sentence to show the suddenness of death. She gets Gus to read the book, which is an important thing.

A few weeks later, he takes her out to the park with a bunch of cheesy orange stuff and says that it's all for a gift for Hazel. Turns out that while Gus had cancer, he got a 'wish' from The Genies that he never spent. Btw, The Genies are pretty much Make-a-Wish. Anyway, he's apparently still eligible to spend it, and he decided to spend it on a trip for him and Hazel to go Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houten, the author of An Imperial Affliction.
Then Hazel has a big problem with her lungs, as they are filling with brown 'cancer water'. She's admitted to the hospital, but gets to go home within a week. This brings up the issue of Hazel being healthy enough to go to Amsterdam. She's cleared, so they get to go on the trip!
So Hazel, her mom, and Augustus go to Amsterdam, and it's really great because Hazel and Augustus get to go to a fancy restaurant and eat artichoke and taste the stars (drink champagne), and it's really REALLY adorable.
The next day, the go to meet Peter Van Houten who ends up being the biggest douchebag to ever douchebag. He goes on and on about how cancer kids are parasites of society and drinks scotch at 10 in the morning and blasts Swedish rap and it's terrible. Afterwards, as an apology, Houten's assistant takes them to the Anne Frank house, where it's very hard for Hazel to get around because there are lots of stairs, and after all that talk about stair climbing her and Augustus kiss at the top which is great and beautiful.
After the trip, we find out the Gus's cancer has come back, and it's ALL OVER HIS BODY. He slowly becomes weaker and weaker and dies a few months later.
After the funeral, Hazel sees Van Houten again who came for the funeral, who is a douchebag yet again, and gives her a letter from Gus about how he loves her, and wants her to be happy. It's very beautiful and we all cry and thank god the book ends there because I couldn't take anymore of that.

Major Characters: 
((this is as of the beginning so everyone who hasn't read the book can read this part))
Hazel Grace Lancaster: A sixteen year old girl with stage 3 thyroid cancer and mets in her lungs. She obsessively reads An Imperial Affliction, enjoys René Magritte's irony, and has a page-boy haircut. She also has very much accepted the fact that she's terminal, and is desperate to hurt as few people as possible with her death, so she tries not to make too many friends.

Augustus Waters: A seventeen year old boy who lost his leg to osteosarcoma, and has a prosthetic leg (which I think would be fun as heck (at times) cus you could freak out everyone by taking it off and screaming 'OH MY FRICKING GOD GUYS! MY LEG JUST CAME OFF! HOLY SHIT!!" ((am I a terrible person for thinking that?)). Before that, he was a star basketball player, and was actually pretty popular. He likes The Hectic Glow and The Price of Dawn (the book and videogame).

Isaac ((who I don't think has a last name for some reason o_o)): He's a friend of Hazel and Gus who had cancer in his eye, and had to get it removed. Unfortunately, the cancer is back in his other eye, SO GUESS WHO'S GONNA BE BLIND! In the book ((because I didn't mention Isaac enough in the plot section)), he had this girlfriend named Monica. She was a total bitch because she dumped him when she heard that he was gonna be blind, and there was a great scene where Isaac goes on a heartbroken rampage and breaks a bunch of stuff in Gus's room and it's beautiful. He gets revenge later in the book by egging her Thunderbird. He's sort of the rock through the whole book, cus he knows what Hazel and Gus are going through (cancer wise). He's also the way that they meet, so that's good.

Peter Van Houten: The dickwad author of An Imperial Affliction. He's an American that moved to Amsterdam so he didn't have to deal with Americans. Or at least that's what he says at first. Actually, he had a daughter who died of cancer and he needed to get away from that. On the bright side, it inspired An Imperial Affliction..........ya.

Hazel's Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Lancaster are pretty freaking great, because they handle having a kid with cancer amazingly. They try to get Hazel to live her life while she can, and supports everything she does, and everything she chooses not to do.

(Some) Favorite Quotes:
((you can't talk about a book by John Green without having a section like this)).

From: http://www.pallimed.org/2013/05/the-fault-in-ours-
stars-tfios.html

"Okay, so I went into clinic this morning, and I was telling my surgeon that i'd rather be deaf than blind. And he said, 'it doesn't work that way,' and I was, like, 'Yeah, I realize that it doesn't work that way; I'm just saying I'd rather be deaf than blind if I had the choice, which I realize I don't have,' and he said, 'Well, the good news is that you won't be deaf,' and I was like, 'Thank you for explaining to me that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.'" (Green, 15).

"It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing." (Green, 20).

"Hazel Grace, you are the only teenager in America who prefers reading poetry to writing it. This tells me so much." (Green, 33).

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeald, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. Then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal." (Green, 33).

"Kissing someone so that you can get a free trip is perilously close to full-on hooking, and I have to confess that while I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional." (Green, 93).

"Oh, I wouldn't mind Hazel grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you." (Green, 176).

"You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you." (Green, 240).

"When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without [Augustus Waters]." (Green, 258).

"The marks humans leave are too often scars." (Green, 311).

"People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm." (Green, 312)

I literally found all those quotes just by flipping through the book. You can't go one page without finding something ridiculously funny, or heart-wrenchingly deep.

Reaction:
I'm gonna make this short because I'm getting really emotional now since I had to go through the book to get those quotes.
I know a lot of you are thinking she's getting a little too emotional over this. I know that I do overreact over this book, but it's extremely important to me.
In a strange way, The Fault in Our Stars is MY An Imperial Affliction. It fills me with the evangelical zeal of wanting the world to read it, but also to keep it as my own.
I've read this book over and over again. The first time, I read until three in the morning, and cried the whole time. The second time was on my first night in Guatemala over the summer, and I was feeling extremely homesick and flipping out because I was in a strange country. The third was at the end of that summer, a day or two before my first day of high school.
I haven't known about his book for long, but it's affected me in ways that I never thought I could be affected. It's shown love, and loss, sacrifice, compassion, forgiveness, the unfairness of life, and so much more.

Frick that got dramatic at the end.
Since this was mostly from memory, feel free to correct me on stuff in the comments, and I can add more stuff if you feel like I forgot something.
Also, if you're interested in hearing the first chapter of the book, read by the AUTHOR to you, click here to enjoy.
I think I need to stop now. Okay?
Okay.

Vlogbrothers: Best Wishes!

I'm a bit of a YouTube nut......
There! I admitted it! I watch Youtube WAY too much!
However, for me it isn't a really bad thing, since most of what I watch is educational.
You know......vsauce, TEDtalks, viheart, etc.
But my favorite YouTubers by far are the Vlogbrothers.

From:dftbaexpressions.tumblr.com

This is John Green (please excuse the sharpie face).
He is the author of The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska, and An Abundance of Katherines. He's also collaborated with other authors to make books such as Will Grayson, Will Grayson,  Geektastic, Let It Snow, and more.
This guy is in my top 10 bestest people ever list.

From:effyeahnerdfighters.com

This is Hank Green.
He's a musician.
Also a huge science nerd.
He has released songs such as A Song About An Anglerfish, Strange Charm, and Accio Deathly Hallows.
He was also a producer of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, which he won an Emmy for.
He's pretty cool (at least as cool as the geekiest geek to ever geek can get :).

These two are pretty cool by themselves, but when you COMBINE THEM......it's sort of like the emotional explosion that happened when the guy who made pizza first tasted his amazing creation.
Hank and John started a Youtube channel called Brotherhood 2.0 on January 1, 2007 ((well, technically December 31, 2006 since Hank did a weird starter video :/ )).
This channel was created with the idea that for an entire year, these two would use NO textual communication. No texting, emailing, letter writing (but face it, who writes letters anymore?), or anything of the sort. They could communicate through telephone calls, face to face, and of course, vlogs.
For one glorious year, they made a video every week day, going back and forth between themselves. But then that year ended, and their by then very large fandom ((a.k.a- Nerdfighters)) were thrown into a panic.
 "OHMYGOD THEY'RE GOING TO STOP MAKING VIDEOS!"
"WHAT WILL I DO WITH MY TIME NOW!?!?"
"THERE WILL BE TOO MANY PEEPS WITHOUT JOHNS TO EAT THEM!!"
However, their panic was unnecessary. John and Hank decided to continue the channel, renaming it Vlogbrothers. The channel is still going strong, with John making videos on Tuesdays, and Hank on Fridays.

Pretty cool, right?
What? You haven't seen the educational part of this yet?
Well okay then. Though Vlogbrothers is educational in itself, here are other channels that they've created ((or helped create)) that are VERY smartsy.

1. SciShow: This is a channel run by Hank, that's pretty much him explaining science things. He explains everything from Tardigrades to why we need sleep. Very educational, and very interesting.

2. Crash Course: This is a channel with both John and Hank. Each video is Hank or John giving a 12-ish minute lesson about whatever they're talking about that day. Hank does science lessons, John does Social Studies and Literature.

3.Mental Floss: Yes, like Mental Floss the magazine. John is the one that mostly does this channel, and it's basically him just telling us a list of obscure things. It's a trivia junkie's dream come true.

I guess while I'm listing all of the things that they do, I should include the charity part.

1. Project for Awesome: ((the link is for last year, since I couldn't find one I could get to for 2013. Sorry)).Once a year, the Vlogbrothers call on Nerdfighters to promote their favorite charities in a YouTube video. Then, they get these videos to be the most liked and most viewed to get them on the front page of YouTube, and encourage the online community to give back.

2. This Star Won't Go Out: Back in 2010, John met with a nerdfighter named Esther Earl. She was a sixteen year old who unfortunately had cancer. She was an awesome person, but she unfortunately died a few years ago. Since then, the charity This Star Won't Go Out has been made to support Esther's family and to support other families with kids who have cancer.

So ya, these guys really get around.
I don't think it takes too much explaining as to why I look up to them so much.
They're both super duper intelligent, and incredibly generous with everything they have. They give their time, money, and effort into helping other people, wither it's supporting charities, writing funny songs to get people through the day, or writing heart wrenching books that crush your soul.

From: www.pinterest.com

I'm looking at you John.

Be prepared for a post about this book later.

In conclusion, these guys are great. They're awesome and have really become a big part of my life in the almost year that I've known that they exist. 

So yep.

That's really all there is to say on the matter.

Adios.