Sentences of the week:
1. Yessir.
2. You catch the snowflake but when you look in your hand you don't have it no more.
3. But ther aint but one reason... It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be.
Pages: 159 this week
Friday, September 30, 2011
BOoks BoOks booKS
This week I finished my book High Fidelity? It was very interesting as he ends up proposing to his girlfriend, Laura, after an intense funeral and a weird get together. They start up his old club, called The Groucho, which is basically just an old people's throwback retro-club. He is interviewed for the start up of his club by a cute, sophisticated reporter whom he is immediately infatuated with. He plans to meet up with her for a drink although he has just reunited with Laura. When he realizes what has occured he has an epiphany. The next page he is sitting at a bar, with butterflies flittering through his stomach, he proposes to Laura. He sees that by getting married he is opening his wife, When your thirty something and not married thats all you can think about, being single or in a relationship, but when you get married it opens you up to pursue whatever you want. He realizes that he is completely dependant on Laura, his friends, social life, habits, money, all includes her but she is not dependant on him. She has taken time to pursue other aspects of her life so that she has something to fall back on while he can't progress until he gets married. This was an interesting turn of events in the book because, personally, I didn't know what Rob was going to do and I'm pretty sure he didn't have an idea of what he was going to do. High Fidelity was a good book and I would recomend it but its definately not for everyone. Rob is a hard character to like if you dont understand his relationship to music and if you dont like music, you wont get it.
I also am reading The Crossing which is getting good already. Billy is just a kid who traps a wolf. Right now he is walking around with the wolf muzzled and he is trying to take it back to Mexico. The most interesting part so far, which included heavy foreshadowing, was his meeting with an old man. McCarthy uses spanish during their small talk but when he wants to emphasize the important parts he lets them talk in English so that the reader understands the importance of their words. McCarthy uses this to make it clear to the reader the unimportance of the surroundings but the importance of the words. Basically the man says that once you have caught the wolf everything will change. I'm excited to read Billy through his quest.
I also am reading The Crossing which is getting good already. Billy is just a kid who traps a wolf. Right now he is walking around with the wolf muzzled and he is trying to take it back to Mexico. The most interesting part so far, which included heavy foreshadowing, was his meeting with an old man. McCarthy uses spanish during their small talk but when he wants to emphasize the important parts he lets them talk in English so that the reader understands the importance of their words. McCarthy uses this to make it clear to the reader the unimportance of the surroundings but the importance of the words. Basically the man says that once you have caught the wolf everything will change. I'm excited to read Billy through his quest.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Sentences of the Month
1. I have to say that it was the best milkshake I ever had in my life. It was so delicious, it almost scared me.
This is one of my favorite sentences ever. It makes me want to go to Steak and Shake and buy every type of milkshake they have; or possible, go to the store and buy supplies to make a million, malty, mingling, mixalicious, milkshakes. Thats what I want, a scary delicious milkshake.
2.Step on a crack, and you'll soon be eaten by the bears that congregate at street corners.
I like this because you never know what awaits simple decisions or seemingly, unimportant actions. Sometimes the smallest decisions make the biggest difference, like being eaten by bears. Awwwwwwwsome.
3. "There is a shabby nobilitiy in failing all by yourself."
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This is one of my favorite sentences ever. It makes me want to go to Steak and Shake and buy every type of milkshake they have; or possible, go to the store and buy supplies to make a million, malty, mingling, mixalicious, milkshakes. Thats what I want, a scary delicious milkshake.
2.Step on a crack, and you'll soon be eaten by the bears that congregate at street corners.
I like this because you never know what awaits simple decisions or seemingly, unimportant actions. Sometimes the smallest decisions make the biggest difference, like being eaten by bears. Awwwwwwwsome.
3. "There is a shabby nobilitiy in failing all by yourself."
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
High Fidelity
This book that i'm reading, High Fidelity, is really interesting? The guy, Rob, is basically a bum. he owns his own record shop in London, but its not doing to hot. He has had to borrow money to keep from going under, his girlfriend (who was living with him) left him for the guy who lived in the apartment above him, and he has this weird desire; he feels that to bring closure to his past, he has to meet up with all of his his top five worst break-ups and ask them why they rejected him.His struggles are really interesting and funny.
Throughout his journey, mid-life crisis, rediscovery, whatever tickles your fancy, he compares his problems to the one bearing in his life, music. His life becomes this endless playlist of different genres and melodies. At soon as his most recent girlfriend, Laura, leaves him, he re-organizes his whole record collection. His music is his life, therefore, by reorganizing it, he is reorganizing himself. He does it chronologically to how he bought the records, instilling in himself a purpose to get to the bottom of his problems by looking at where they started, chronologically. While Rob is trying to sort through his mess of a life, he meets this American singer, Marie. He has always wanted to get with a recording artist, which Marie is, and with an American, which she also is. He finds himself disoriented and, often times, off-guard by her frankness and classic American attitude.
The way Rob narrates his story, relating everything through albums and different songs, made me wonder what if we all do this, which to a point we do. Its like when school is hard or there is a girl you like that you don't know how to ask out, you put your problems into terms you understand. Everyone has something their good at and I feel like that's where your problems go. For me I can put stuff in wrestling terms and its funny to think about your problems in such terms, but it works because its all relative. Relating your problems like this puts the seemingly unsolvable in the simplest terms to yourself.
Throughout his journey, mid-life crisis, rediscovery, whatever tickles your fancy, he compares his problems to the one bearing in his life, music. His life becomes this endless playlist of different genres and melodies. At soon as his most recent girlfriend, Laura, leaves him, he re-organizes his whole record collection. His music is his life, therefore, by reorganizing it, he is reorganizing himself. He does it chronologically to how he bought the records, instilling in himself a purpose to get to the bottom of his problems by looking at where they started, chronologically. While Rob is trying to sort through his mess of a life, he meets this American singer, Marie. He has always wanted to get with a recording artist, which Marie is, and with an American, which she also is. He finds himself disoriented and, often times, off-guard by her frankness and classic American attitude.
The way Rob narrates his story, relating everything through albums and different songs, made me wonder what if we all do this, which to a point we do. Its like when school is hard or there is a girl you like that you don't know how to ask out, you put your problems into terms you understand. Everyone has something their good at and I feel like that's where your problems go. For me I can put stuff in wrestling terms and its funny to think about your problems in such terms, but it works because its all relative. Relating your problems like this puts the seemingly unsolvable in the simplest terms to yourself.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
New Books?
Lately now, I've been reading alot of easy, breezy books? I've decided, after reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower, that I want to read more substantial literature that has deeper meanings, metaphors, and qualities.
Thus my selection of new novels is High Fidelity which is a book by Nick Hornby that is similar in style and characteristics as wallflower. It is a story of a man, Rob, who owns a music shop in England that isn't doing so hot. He tells some of his story in flashbacks and lists and discusses everything that comes up in his life. I'm near the beginning and he has talked about his past girlfriends who hurt him the most when they broke up because recently, his girlfriend Laura, has moved out to be with someone else. I wanted to read it because its similar to wallflower and both remind me of a book I really liked, Catcher in the Rye.
My other selection was going to be Suttree a Cormac McCarthy story until I got my hands on The Crossing, the second part of The Border Trilogy, also written by McCarthy. The Crossing is really interesting. I'm not very far into it but Billy, the main character, has already met an Indian, who I think will come up sometime in the future to either help or hinder him, and set off on an adventure. He is with his dad tracking a she-wolf, who they hope to capture. She has started to prey upon cattle of the ranchers near by and so Billy and his dad take it upon themselves to track her down. I look forward to reading it because I really enjoyed All the Pretty Horses and I like to read McCarthy. His writing style forces me to focus on what I'm reading and to "participate" in the novel, instead of mindlessly going through it. It should be a good one?
Thus my selection of new novels is High Fidelity which is a book by Nick Hornby that is similar in style and characteristics as wallflower. It is a story of a man, Rob, who owns a music shop in England that isn't doing so hot. He tells some of his story in flashbacks and lists and discusses everything that comes up in his life. I'm near the beginning and he has talked about his past girlfriends who hurt him the most when they broke up because recently, his girlfriend Laura, has moved out to be with someone else. I wanted to read it because its similar to wallflower and both remind me of a book I really liked, Catcher in the Rye.
My other selection was going to be Suttree a Cormac McCarthy story until I got my hands on The Crossing, the second part of The Border Trilogy, also written by McCarthy. The Crossing is really interesting. I'm not very far into it but Billy, the main character, has already met an Indian, who I think will come up sometime in the future to either help or hinder him, and set off on an adventure. He is with his dad tracking a she-wolf, who they hope to capture. She has started to prey upon cattle of the ranchers near by and so Billy and his dad take it upon themselves to track her down. I look forward to reading it because I really enjoyed All the Pretty Horses and I like to read McCarthy. His writing style forces me to focus on what I'm reading and to "participate" in the novel, instead of mindlessly going through it. It should be a good one?
Claims of the day
XC Hoosier 3366: In the music video “The Adventure,” by the band Angels and Airwaves, resonant and alive music, roaming and adventurous surroundings, and powerful, real energy convey that a man’s life should be lived with passion and adventure, as long as his true love is by his side.
Swimstrong:
In Versace's purple ruffled gown, his fading colors, smooth lines, and rough and fragile textures along with a flowing and clean shape create a complimentary and whimsical sense of beauty in fashion-art.
Less Than Three: The interior decorator's use of strange, modern furniture, simple color, a careful use of space, and distinct, quirky architecture express an energetic confidence and absurd frivolousness of the inhabitant.
hipsteroku: In this creepily strange video, the innocent looking girl becomes prey to the dark, unusual looking guy, who then follows her into the dark with disturbing intentions, until the shocking climax in which the now evil seeming girl attacks the man with a strange force and ends with an ironic, twisted ending you wouldnt expect in a thousand years.
Swimstrong:
In Versace's purple ruffled gown, his fading colors, smooth lines, and rough and fragile textures along with a flowing and clean shape create a complimentary and whimsical sense of beauty in fashion-art.
Less Than Three: The interior decorator's use of strange, modern furniture, simple color, a careful use of space, and distinct, quirky architecture express an energetic confidence and absurd frivolousness of the inhabitant.
hipsteroku: In this creepily strange video, the innocent looking girl becomes prey to the dark, unusual looking guy, who then follows her into the dark with disturbing intentions, until the shocking climax in which the now evil seeming girl attacks the man with a strange force and ends with an ironic, twisted ending you wouldnt expect in a thousand years.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Case
The majestic, distinctive color with the deep, wild detail add to the heavy contrast and proud focus of this lion, a dignified and appreciative beast who hunted his prey out of resigned necessity, and for a disgruntled, hungry family.
4 Subjects:
1. Color- Defined, Majestic, Distinctive, Alive
2. Focus- Captivating, Proud, Stands-Out, Inevitable
3. Contrast- Heavy, Current, Polar, Numb
4. Detail- Gleaming, Vivacious, Deep, Wild
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