Into The Mild

Overall I really don't like this book, I mean first of all the writing style is just plain and bland and as for Chris and the plot well just based on his gear and his attitude and cockiness is kind of seemed inevitable that his fate befell him.

Arrogant, just based on the fact he absolutely refuses help and not really well prepared for his choice. It's like he assumes that some of the authors that he idolizes and sort of did the same thing he is trying to do the whole "I' gonna abandon all my possessions my family and friends and money and live off of the land" deal but one thing he may have disregarded is the fact is that they only did the "living off the land" thing for only a few weeks and possibly a few months at most.

The concept of not adapting to social conformity like the whole not liking to wear socks when he worked at the McDonald's at Bullhead City.

Well one idea that comes to mind would be relating to an episode of south park episode entitled Chinpokomon where the boys become absorbed into a japanese cartoon and in the end they have to decide between individuality and conforming to go along with the fade.

A connection between me and the book would be that I do enjoy the outdoors and camping but not to the degree that I would abandon my entire life just to live out in the woods and eat twigs and berries and stuff.

I suppose a connection that the book can make to the real world would be that we all have a certain desire that we all wish we could leave our current lives behind us but we either feel obligated to our situations or we don't feel that we could pull it off

TIME FOR PUNISHMENT

Meet Frank Castle, played by Tom Jane, a retired FBI agent, during his last sting operation to arrest arm smugglers resulted in the death of the son of crooked business man Howard Saint played by John Travolta. Saint, upon learning that Castle was involved in the sting automatically blames him for the death of his son plots a rather extreme revenge, The total annihilation of Castle's family who happens to be having a reunion in the Bahamas. Despite a valiant resistance on his part Castle's entire family is wiped out by Saints men, and at the final shot of the scene he appears to be killed as well by Saints other son. However we see that he does indeed survive and is brought back to the beach house where the slaughter took place, there he collects his father's guns and a present left to him by his son, a black tee shirt with a menacing skull it is then and there that he swears not revenge but punishment onto Howard Saint and his family for what has happened to him, but he does not have an easy task as Saint soon learns that Castle is alive he sends a small army of select assassins after him including a muscle bound giant referred only as The Russian and a smaller but no less skilled man who wields both a Tommy gun and a guitar who aside from The Russian probably has the longest screen time of any assassin, mostly because of this scene here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68QmIDeWSX4. The Russian on the other hand probably has one of the best fight scenes in the history of Marvel movie fight scenes which you can watch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVlpET6nzVs. Overall the film is very good one which I would recommend you watch if you like alot of action or just Marvel movies in general. Credit definetly has to go to Lions Gate films who overall chose a very excellent cast to portray the tragic characters of the punisher which is probably one of the best comic books that Stan Lee and Marvel comics has ever created. So if you like action, bloody fights that have opera music playing in the background(see clip for the Russian Fight). One of the film's and comic's defining aspects is that instead of a super hero or vigilante using their like superman or spiderman who use their abilities for justic and protecting innocent people the Punisher has a bleak look on the world and believes that the only way to really to stop criminals is to wipe them out of existence. As the Punisher states at the end of the film to his female catalyst "Ihave work to do, check your paper and you'll understand"- "What section should I check?" to which he replies "Obituaries" which is probably one of the best ending lines in cinema history. So I again state that you should really watch this movie because it rocks the house.






THE DOWN SIDE

If you are like me then you were excited when you heard that there was going to be a sequel to one of the best movies ever The Punisher. Despite the remarkable acting job done by Tom Jane in the first movie for some reason the studio decided to recast the role of the Punisher to Ray Stevenson which in my opinion doesn't really make any sense because to me it seems that Mr. Jane was perfect for the role of Frank Castle. The films one possible redeeming quality would be the introduction of the only villian able to match the punisher, JigSaw, another petty criminal who blames Frank Castle for his misfortunes and sets his sights on revenge. So you can take or leave the remake I for one might go and see just to see how bad or how good a job Mr. Stevenson in portaying the role of Frank Castle. In the end I feel that the film entitled Punisher 2: War Zone will probably end uo being a huge flop for the studio that decided to make this movie LionsGate Films will probably regret taking the project one but for the heck of it here is the trailor for the movie if you decide to check it out I might but who knows for sure .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkxLWWiz5O8

20 minutes with the president

if i could spend 20 minutes with barack obama i would ask him how he would feel if Mccain or palin or who ever started bad mouthing him and his administration and if he would get rid of them by banishment in manner such as this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5uzJVkeaUI. A second thing i would ask him would be how fast would he try get our boys out of iraq because even though some feel that we should stay and some think we should leave what matters is providing our soldiers with safety and gettintg them home alive and not in a casket. and a third and final thing i would ask him is how soon will he get people working on alternative fuels and energy supplies becasue despite what the republicans think oil and fossil fuels are NOT unlimited.

In the future i am hoping for a much better situtation in the U.S. than the current one. of corse with a war going on , an energy crisis and a economic crisis going i don't think there will be anything hard to compete with. hopefully the war in iraq will be over and the economic and energy situtations will be alot better. and whether it be 4 yrs or 27 yrs i am hoping the world will be a much better place then it currenly is and that my kids don't have to deal with the problems that my paren't generation have created over the past 8 yrs. SO these are just some of my thoughts about the future and that obama can fix the mess that bush and the other republicans have gotten the U.S. into

Sleepy Hollow

In honor of All Hallow's eve being right around the corner I thought I'd make a po,e about my favorite halloween movie when i was but a lad. ENJOY!!!!


A chilled night on all hallow's eve
the mourners grieve and a plan most foul they concieve
a plan for revenge they begin to write down
against the man who brought demons to their town

By brining a demon of their own to life
they arm him with a sword not a knife
the headless fiend mounts his ride
a creature of nightmares moves at frightening stride

As it moves with terrible pace
onlookers stare in horror at the rider with no head nor face
at last he reaches his destination and draws his sword
marches forward and knocks on rotted boards

The door opens to reaveal a man who is plump
a flash of steel and a solid thump
the rider leaves carrying his bloody prize
at seeing the job done don't reprise him

A legend was born on this very night
filling those who heard it with fright
small children law awake in their beds
fearing the ruthless horseman without a head


if you are interested in watching the animated movie here is a link to youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HywQaLI-YU4

Love poem

Love is like a video game, at first it seems a little challenging but fun. But soon you're spending more and more time on it and soon you're neglecting your friends and family. And at that one point when you are so close to beating it you can tatse victory... you get killed and have to start all over again a the begining. You keep trying and trying and you keep losing and losing that before you know it you've become a social reclouse living in your mother's basement and then you eventaully give up on the game and then you find out about a new game or sequel that you go out and buy it and the process starts all over again and again and again and then one day you realize that you've been wasting alot of precious time trying to do things the hard way and that you can get cheat codes online so you ngo and copy the codes and try them out and they end up messing up that game and depression hits you like a truck that eventually you give up on the game for a few weeks or days then you decide to met new people so you try online gaming where every isn't Particularly good and then you get really absorbed into it and then you realize that you have no life and then the whole process begins once again.

And the Wind cried Wendigo

The Wendigo is a mythological creature belonging to the Algonquin people. The Wendigo is a malevolent and cannibalistic spirit able to assume a human form or posses humans. The wendigo is a bipedal cryptid that is located in north america. There is a psychological disease called Wendigo psychosis in which one develops a craving for human flesh and fears they will turn into a cannibal.

Poe is the man

Take this kiss upon thy brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow—You are not wrong, to deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.I stand amid the roarOf a surf-tormented shore,And I hold within my handGrains of the golden sand—How few! yet how they creepThrough my fingers to the deep,While I weep—while I weep!O God! can I not graspThem with a tighter clasp?O God! can I not saveOne from the pitiless wave?Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe
http://www.poetry.com/lovepoems/lovepoem.asp?id=43

I think poe is trying to say that love is like a dream that seems all to good but can turn into a tragedy and can mess with our heads. The poem itself is a metaphor in that laove can seem like a dream.


Love is like gravity because at one point you seem weightless and carefree until you get slamed back into reality