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