MOVIES!

Last weekend I went to see the major motion picture Godzilla. I am a huge Godzilla fan. I used to read the comics and play the games. I also of course have seen all the old classic movies. So Ihad high expectations mainly because of how good special effects have gotten in todays day and age. Also I saw familiar talented actors from the tv series "Breaking Bad" and the movie "Kick-Ass" so as you can imagine i was super excited! To top of the icing on the cake I was seeing it in 3D!!! Me and all my friends get to the theater, we have all our seats and all our snacks set up, and we are ready to go. After an hour into the movie the best actor is killed off and the main monster Godzilla has not even showed up yet. After he finally does show up he does not do any cool fighting for another half an hour! I was furious and a little tired, in fact one of my friends even fell asleep in the theater with his glasses on and everything. Once the fighting did start it was awesome Godzilla beat up two monsters very handedly. So I was cheered up a little bit, but then the ending ruined it for me. Godzilla is leaving a completely destroyed city and everyone is calling him a hero, that does not make too much sense to me. Overall I was disappointed and I would recommend waiting for the movie to come out on dvd to watch it.

Most Recent Read

The most recent thing I have read over the past couple weeks is my recently attained yearbook. At first glance I was extremely excited because the cover looks awesome and it is my senior year so it is just expected to spectacular. Reading through I really enjoyed looking at all the different pictures of me, my friends, class mates and all the great faculty that works at St. Marks. Next I enjoyed looking at all the sports, clubs, and academic teams of all sorts. Everything was great coming up to the senior section, which is where I found my first dislike. The thing I do not like is how they separated the senior quotes from the seniors individuals picture. I feel as if now not as many people will read them. Although I still did, and I enjoyed them very much. I say this because I know how lazy high schoolers are and I also heard many other students complaining about it. Another mistake is that they messed up multiple senior superlatives. It is just frustrating when everybody likes the way things were and it just gets changed for no reason. That's just life I guess. Sometimes change is good and sometimes change is bad, but theres always going to be change and I guess I'll just have to accept that. Well thats my blog and I was just speaking my mind. Farewell until next time!

Questions and Answers

In the book Guns with Occasional Music society is obviously different but a main odd feature is the fact that they can not ask any questions because it is considered impolite. This is where the main character Conrad Metcalf comes in because he is a detective which allows him to ask questions. All the digging he does leads him to some pretty messed up stuff that happens in the future. So he uses his own special mix of drugs to forget the pain. Following down the road of life Metcalf comes to an investigation about his former employer Maynard Stanhunt who also used lots and lots of futuristic drugs. All of this is done in hopes to clear a man named Orton Angwine who ran out of karma points which basically means he is a dead man walking. It's only a matter of time until his time runs out. Now thats as far as I have read into the book so I am not sure whats going to become of either Contad Metcalf or Orton Angwinr but I am excited to keep reading this book so see what it holds. The future of this futuristic book should be crazy!!!!!!!!

Opinion on GwM

Gun with Occasional Music is an interesting book to say the least. It portrays a completely different outlook on life and makes me wonder how the future is really going to be. Is it going to be screwed up or will it be a good time for humanity. The way it is shown to be in this book seems pretty screwed up to me. Whoever put certain laws in place has a twisted view on what is right and wrong. I mean I am no dictator on morality but giving people a card on karma which determines how long they live is pretty messed up. Sure people who do wrong deserve punishment, but human beings are not ones to say how long a person lives or when they die. Which brings up the controversial topic of the death penalty. Can a human being play the role of God. The answer I say is no and which is why the death penalty should be outlawed and if a crime is so absurd than the person should be imprisoned for life. The sustainment of human life outweighs the cost of food and shelter the government provides for them. Sorry for my discretion but back to the fake screwed up reality of the book and enough of ours lol. In the novel people have changed the way of life by giving babies an animals the ability to speed up the growing and development process. So the people in this time period have figured out how to cheat the game of life and I do not think I would like my future to be similar to this one. 

Gun With Occasional Music Blog #1

This story by Jonathan Lethem takes place in a different futuristic realm, where animals can talk and babies can skip the growing process right to adulthood, they are known as "baby heads." There are different drugs such as forgetall and acceptall and life is just done all together differently. The main character is Conrad Metcalf who is a tough private inquisitor. His job is basically a detective who helps people in trouble with debt and karma. Everyone in that day and age has karma and if you run out you are in big trouble. You are taken away and just disappear from life. Signifying death I am sure but I have not read enough to fully answer that question. If i had to make a guess on what happens to them my guess would be that they are put to death. Possibly humanely or not, by the way this book is going anything could happen. It is clearly fictional but that is completely fine with me because I really enjoy reading books along these lines. Nerdy science fiction books that strecth the mental limits of what we know as possible and impossible. This books has made me think about the aspects of life we have not even touched into yet. What awaits the world and how are things going to change are two questions I am most likely never going to know the answer to. So whatever happens happens I guess. Should I be concerned for my future children or should I just not care because it won't affect me in anyway. Either way its an interesting topic that no one on this living Earth will ever truley know unless they have figured out a way to time tracel which I highly doubt, but hey this book has taught me so far that through imagination anything could be possible.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

The question I have chose is number 2 which asks "Why did Li Mu Bai have such a strong desire to teach Jen?" There may have been a couple reasons for him to feel so, but one main reason was to get her onto the right track of life and keep her there. She was raised an trained by the evil Jade Fox which made her viewpoint on life a clouded dark one. He wished to take the martial art talents she had and convert their bad nature to good. She was living a life of wrong doing and he wished to change that. She used her skills for the wrong reasons. Speaking of which, another reason Li Mu Bai wished to teach her was because she had been teaching herself techniques and gone so far. If she became a disciple of Li Mu Bai her skills would become much greater. He could have more throughly taught her moves and trained her to her true potential, which she nor the Jade Fox could do. I believe this would have been really good for Jen. It would have made her abetter person  for sure, basically converting her from the dark side to the good side. Although without ever becoming his disciple, Li Mu Bai dying still turns Jen into a better person. Just through an unnecessary tragedy.

Even more of the Hobbit

Blog number two lets keep going with some Hobbit information!!! Bilbo yells, and out of the crack jump dozens of goblins, who tie up and carry off each member of the company except Gandalf, who was warned by Bilbo's yell. The goblins carry the dwarves and the hobbit down into the mountain to a huge chamber where the Great Goblin sits. The goblins follow quickly after them, and one of the goblins catches up to the dwarf Dori, who has been carrying Bilbo on his back. Bilbo falls off, strikes his head on the ground, and loses consciousness.When Bilbo regains consciousness, he can see nothing in the darkness. If Gollum's riddle stumps Bilbo, he will eat Bilbo, but if Bilbo's stumps Gollum, Gollum will show Bilbo the way out of the mountain. Through sheer luck, Bilbo happens to slip on the ring, and Gollum runs right past him. Realizing the ring's power, Bilbo follows Gollum, who heads toward the exit thinking that Bilbo is ahead of him. Bilbo leaps over him, runs past the goblins unnoticed thanks to the ring, and just barely manages to squeeze through the door into freedom and fresh air. So far overall some crazy stuff has happened and I am really digging this book! I suggest it to all those who have yet to read it!

Summary of whats happening so far

In as much as i have read this is what has happened to Bilbo. As he approaches a clearing in the woods, Bilbo sees three huge trolls sitting around a fire, eating mutton. The trolls stop fighting just long enough to hide in the trees and throw a sack over each approaching dwarf. The trolls decide to cook the dwarves immediately, but then a voice, which sounds like one of the trolls, starts an argument, and the three trolls start fighting again. The sun peeks over the horizon and the trolls all freeze because apparently sunlight turns trolls to stone. He had been throwing his voice to mislead the dwarves and to keep the trolls arguing until morning. As the company approaches Rivendell, a number of elves approach them and invite them back to eat and rest. This book so far is really interesting and fun too read. Although I still have not seen the second movie.

Beginning the Hobbit

The book I have been reading is The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. It is a very interesting book to say the least. It starts off with the description of Bilbo Baggin's sweet little life in Hobbiton amongst all the other hobbits of his race. Then one day Gandalf the Gray shows up, a very wise old wizard, and everything changes. The next visitors to show up are thirteen dwarves who are know for their adventures and quests. I found it funny how the dwarves made themselves right at home, ate everything, and messed up the house while Bilbo just kept trying to be hospitable. It seems the the innocent little Bilbo is being forced into what is going to be a fierce rough adventure and I can not wait to read the rest of what is going to happen so I can see the second movie and be an expert. Because I saw the first movie and was quite bored because all I they seemed to do after meeting, like what I have just read, was just walk. They walked and walked and walked some more. In fact me and my friends left the movie early because all they were doing was traveling and we got really really bored. Although from what I have heard there is supposed to be a lot more action coming up in the sequel because it is going to be about the interesting and intense part of the novel. So I am not only looking forward to seeing the movie but reading the rest of this very renowned book.

Where Have you been and Where are you going?

Arnold Friend perhaps represents the sub conscious fantasy or fear of the young confused Connie. She saw a guy just like Arnold who appeared at her house with the same exact gold beat up car she had seen previously at her usual hangout. His voice matched the man on the radio Connie was listening to, and he somehow knew everything about her. Those facts and that she had been sun bathing too long leads me to believe that Arnold may indeed be make believe. Not exactly an imaginary friend but an epitome of what she either wants or is afraid of. Fear and fantasy seem to have mixed in this short story creating the suavely scary character harassing her. So was Connie looking for something new in her life or just crying for some positive attention that she does not seem to get from her family members including an antagonizing mother, indifferent father, and shy sister. I guess the author Joyce Carol Oates left that for me to decide with the open ending either suggesting the new future for Connie is good or bad. She went into the creeps arms. I am assuming looking for love but I have a feeling it may end with harm. If Arnold is even real of coarse, that is just what I think based off of my gut feeling. Who knows what will become of the naive teenaged Connie, maybe things will work out for the better and he will indeed not exist and she will wake up with a better more mature attitude towards life. All in all this story made me think and I enjoyed reading this suspenseful freaky thriller in the great Mrs. Healey's world literature class.  

Just Speaking My Mind

So I forot my password to blog when they were fue for class and could not due them on here on time. But i did tell my teacher and emailed her my blogs, so I hope she does not hold that against me or my grade. Although I did just find out that they had to be atleast 400 words but I just think that there should not be a number on my thoughts beause I got how I felt about what I had read so far in one well thought out paragraph and frankly I do not even know how many words they are... So if she likes them she likes them thats great, and if she takes of points I guess thats the penalty I deserve for not correctly following directions. My apologies Mrs. Healey, hope you enjoyed my words though!!

To be or not to be..

So the question is whether or not I want to keep reading this novel in the long seventy five minute lit period once a cycle or not. Right now I am deciding to keep reading in hopes that some action and gun fighing takes place because that will keep me interested and entertain my actiony personality. If I read on and nothing really happens and it is him just traveling intimidating everyone he meets just by flashing his guns I will be kind if upset and lead on. Other than that the dialogue is good and it was an easy decision to keep going with it and give it a chance to pick up the pace a bit. So I am excited and have high expectations for the rest of the novel. I will keep the fellow bloggers posted on how its going! Toodles friends

A little bit of Info for you

I have read a little further into the novel and it is a little tough to get into. I have been expecting more action, but do not get me wrong it is still really cool and interesting. The gun slinger traveled to a mans little farm and associated with him for a little while he exchanged goods with him and ate sith him. He found out the man in black had passed through learned a few details realized he had to leave and that was all that became of that. Next he traveled into an odd little town. A I got from this part if the book is that he ate some food that he wasnt sure what was in it and had sex multiple times with the waitress. Everyone in the town immediatley respects him because of his weapons but that all makes people hesistant to converse with him. Such as some kids playing a game outside would not answer him, and when one child some hints of incest occuring were said... So some really weird things were going on in this town. He also met a man who was chewing some sort of weed, went crazy, died, and then the man in black came through and brought him back to life. That is where I am currently at in the book.

The Man in Black

In the novel that I talked about in my previous blog The Dark Tower The Gun Slinger by Stephen King I brought up the man in black. This person is the antagonist and main villain of the story or so it seems. Not much of him has been mentioned yet, all I know about him is that he is some kind of evil sorcerer or devil spawn. It seems that the gun slinger has it set out for him and his been following him in hopes to kill him or gain something. I am not too sure yet. The man in black has been traveling and causing some havoc; meanwhile the gun slinger travels a distance behind, him tracking him, and is traveling to where he has been. I have not read of any direct contact between the gun slinger and the man in black yet, but I have a good feeling there will be and that it will be intensely awesome!!!

At First Glance

The book I have been reading in my wonderful world literature class with the amazing teacher Mrs. Healey is The Dark Tower The Gun Slinger by Stephen King. I chose this book of the shelf full of great books mainly because of the author. Stephen King is one of my fathers favorite writers and I have heard him proclaim about his novels many many times, so I grabbed this book. I picked it up and immediately started reading the back of it to get an idea of what it was about. The idea sounded really cool, the only man left with guns and he is a lone wolf type of hero. So i started reading. I will be honest I was not really sure what was going on in the beginning and not much action had gone on, but I kept reading and figured out what was going on. The gun slinger is in pursuit of "the man in black"