Into the Wild

This is one of the first non-fiction books that I have really enjoyed. The plot is interesting, the main character is fun to get to know, and the future is uncertain. Krakauer does an amazing job keeping the reader interested and focused. I appreciate his writing style. The first couple chapters have been very interesting, trying to figure out Chris McCandless way of thinking. Already knowing the plot, I am not excited to read the end of the story however, watching the story unfold is engaging, seeing what Chris is going to do next.
Chris knows that he has a very dicey future. One word to describe this risk taker, would be dicey. He is very uncertain of his future, as if not to care, or care about others around him. His actions are unpredictable, leading him down an unknown path. He must have been really insecure, and dumb to think that there was even a slight possibility that he would make it out alive. A reader can relate this book to The Call of the Wild, another story about survival in the harsh cold. I can relate to this book

because I love being in the wilderness.

CD Review

The well known rapper T.I. just released his sixth album in September. The day it came out I went and purchased it. T.I. is one of the best known rappers in the industry, and after a ton of crappy hip hop coming out, I needed this album to be good to keep my interest in rap. The album featured close to a dozen other very talented artists, which made it very fun to listen to. I really enjoyed listening to Papertrail.

T.I. ( Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) was born in 1980. He has been a successful rap artist, producer, and has starred in the movie ATL. T.I. was born in Atlanta and grew up in Bankhead which is a rough place to grow up. He came from a background of drugs and crime. Recently, he was convicted with possession of weed and firearms. He has served jail time before and will also serve some for his most recent felonies.

It is extremely hard to put T.I next to another artist and call them similar. He truly does have his own style and that is why I speak so highly of him.

T.I. did a collaboration with Rhianna, and it has been one of his most successful songs ever. He hit the nail on the head with this song, he reached out to many different types of people, including my mom. Rhianna is the most popular female artist right now and T.I. knew that he would be successful doing a song with her.

T.I.'s Papertrail was definetly worth the money. Cleaning up his act may help with CD sales but aside from that, Papertrail was one of his best albums yet.

Jack Johnson came out with a CD In Between Dreams in 2005. Just recently he did a remix to all of his songs. In Between Dreams sold over two million copies in the United States alone.

Jack Johnson is a Hawaii Born musician who had no intention on being a musician at all. When doing a project for a class Jack wrote a song. His peers urged him to keep playing, and today he is one of the most popular artists of our time.

I was lucky enough to go and see him play live in Appleton, Wisconsin over the summer. There were people there from hundreds of miles away. Jack Johnson really doesnt have any competition because he has his own style of music. It is either a hit or miss with the listener, they like his style or they dont.

I feel like you most people who buy his album appreciate what he does. No matter what kind of music you listen to it is hard to not like some good old mellow acoustic music.

Mr. President

Dear Mr. President,
I did not vote for you. However I do have a little bit of confidence that you will put our country in the right direction. Please, please do not take troops out of Iraq too fast! Also, dont call the war a mistake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8

Why is my dads hard earned money going to poor people, or people who dont work as hard as him? Now that he is going to be taxed he will have less money, along with other business owners, to invest in their companies. Our economy will stay crappy for a long time with this plan. Market is down 300 points today, nice!

Please stop our need for foreign oil, and find new technologies to help save the planet.

Congrats

In about four years we will be completely out of Iraq. We will have found Osama and stopped most of the terrorism in the middle east. We wont depend on the middle east for oil. People will realize that we need a republican office so our next president will be rep. The biggest issue facing our world will be alternative ways of doing things. We will hopefully no longer be polluting.

Thursday

I just went out to Subway with Patrick for lunch. It was 65 and sunny, maybe one of the nicest days we have had here in a couple weeks. Being outside reminded me of a movie, Ferris Beueller's Day off. Ferris says " How can I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?" This is exactly how I felt when I walked outside this afternoon.

I am going to make some solid progress on the man room this weekend. This week Patrick and I started panneling the inside. We got most of the bead board up and are excited to put the ceiling up tomorrow. We are also going to stain all the walls and build a bar/island this weekend.

Weekend

This weekend I visited three very nice schools.

St. Olaf- Nice Architecture, not very many people, wont have to take another language, nice people, Billy the tour guide, solid environment

Gustavus- Swedish school, My name LUND will get me a long ways at that school, everything is named lund. I meet with Mr. Anderson, the president of admissions, he said im good to go.

St. John's- Not an all guys school,

twice as many kids. Sweet

football games, nice lakes on campus, no small towns

within walking distance,

St. Thomas, Madison, UMD this coming weekend

Love

Love is Love
Love is like
a phone,
It’s always
with you
Love is like
a sand castle,
It takes a while to build
But is easy to destroy
Love is gay, Love is straight

Love
is a passion, Love is trust
Love is like the moon,
Anything is possible
Love is infectious
Love is affection
Love is deep
Love is tender
Love is sex, Love is a rose
Love is Love, Love is
indescribable


Love is like a motorcycle,
Slow to start but will keep going
Even make it through
The bumps along the way
Love is being loved
Love is amour
Love for a thing


Love for a person, Love for a pet
Love is respect
Love is beingLove is pleasure
Love is romantic
Love is an experience, Love is not easily



defined
Love is love

Wheels
Jim Daniels
My brother keptin a frame on the wallpictures of every motorcycle, car, truck:in his rusted out Impala convertiblewearing his cap and gownwavingin his yellow Barracudawith a girl leaning into himwavingon his Honda 350wavingon his Honda 750 with the boysholding a beerwavingin his first rigwearing a baseball hat backwardswavingin his Mercury Montegogetting marriedwavingin his black LTDtrying to sell real estatewavingback to driving trucksa shiny new rigwavingon his Harley Sportsterwith his wife on the backwavinghis son in a car seatwith his own steering wheelmy brother leaning over himin an old Ford pickupand they arewavingholding a wrench a raga hose a shammywaving.
My brother helmetlessrides off on his Harleywavingmy brother's feetrarely touch the ground-waving wavingface pressed to the windno camera to save him.

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/021.html

I picked this poem because i figured it was about cars and motorcycles. What i find interesting is taht after reading it a half a dozen times i still dont understand it. The title "wheels" is pretty vague and also self explanitory. It fits the work real well. The author uses imagry a lot in the poem, describing his brother. The author does create a feeling in the poem, I see it as this guy he is talking about is growing up, yet he is tying it back to cars everytime. It is very hard to tell the tone of this piece, if I were to pick just one tone it would be sad because this guy is being remembered, and at the end the author says nothing to save him, meaning something must have happened.