Airborn post 2

Ok, so the book is really good. I haven't had many chances to read because of ski practice and what not. But what I have read has been pretty good. Anyway, the book skips forward to a year later and Mat Cruse is on another voyage to Sydney. They lift off and soon a couple passengers in a strange flying machine are requesting a landing. They were very important so they do a BA landing and get the passengers aboard. It turns out that it’s a girl named Kate and her chaperone. She is about Mat's age and she is cool but her chaperone is just annoying. He soon finds out that she is the granddaughter of the man who they rescued a year earlier and she has come on the ship to see the "winged creatures" that her grandfather supposedly saw. She gives Mat her grandfather's journal to read and it says that he saw animals that are always flying and never touch the ground. They have fur instead of feathers, they look like cats with wings, and they even give birth in the air. Later he talks to her about it but he is skeptical because near the end stuff became inconsistent and the grandfather started making drawings of the birds with different faces and stuff and it looked more like he was going crazy than anything. She thinks he's totally wrong but they don't get too mad over it. That’s all I've read so far. I'm excited to find out more on these creatures and if they are actually real.

Airborn post 1

For my outside reading book for quarter two I chose the book Airborn by Kenneth Oppel. When I first saw my sister buy and read this book by the next day I thought "Wow, what a loser," as usual. However it was getting further into quarter two and I still didn't even have ideas for a book and my sister recommended Airborn to me so, I reluctantly agreed. Unlike some of my sisters other books, this one started out strong and had an actually intellectual writing style. The story had all the elements I liked to have pulled me in. I eventually came to like it and am enjoying the story. The main storyline so far is that this guy, Mat Cruse, is fifteen and is working as a cabin boy on a luxury airship called the Aurora. One night he is on watch duty in the crow's nest late at night and spots a hot air balloon in distress in the middle of the ocean. He is later picked as the person who performs a daring rescue which entails him swinging over to the gondola, hooking the balloon up to the ships ropes and cutting the flight lines of the balloon that was damaged and was collapsing on an automatic timed burner. The man he saves is unconscious and is not doing well. When mat goes to check up on the man in the infirmary, the man wakes and says "Did you see them?" says some weird stuff and then the doctor comes in because the man starts freaking out. He soon dies and I haven’t read past that.

The Road soundtrack

I think that "Hourglass" by lamb of god would make a great addition to The Road soundtrack because well, this bassically describes the story. It is either the strangest coincidence or they based their story off each other or something but, the lyrics are perfect for any scene where the man is coughing or they are looking out at the burnt landscape. The entire song is about the appocalypse comming and how its too late to turn back. First, the song says "Each dawn another curse, every breath a twisting blade" that would correspond directly to the man and his coughing fits that lead to bleading. The song would be well placed when the author writes "Slogging to the edge of the road with his back to the child where he stood bent with his hand on his knees, coughing...". The ending of the song where the artist sings "The ashes of the wake, it's only getting worse" would be good with like a pan view of them looking at the destroyed and ash country. I could go on about how well the lyrics fit in but these are two prettey good examples of why "Hourglass" by Lamb of God.
Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZcNtsAIEi8

Tristan M.
Hour 1

The Road-begining

So far, I am surprised to say this, but I have enjoyed this book to a degree. The writing style reminds me of that of Chuck Palahniuk. He is the author of such books as Choke, Fight Club, Lullaby, and Survivor, the later three of which I own and have read more than once. There are many short sentences in Chuck's writing just like in The Road but, his writing is even more obscure than that of Cormac McCarthy. An example would be Chuck's one word sentences in Fight Club, or the main character, counting in his head, each number a sentence, in Chuck's exceptional novel Lullaby. I also enjoy how Cormac does not give names to his main characters just like Chuck does in Fight Club. Although I have talked about it a lot, this is not the only reason I like this book. I also like the fluidity and fanciness of his sentences. Too many books these days come out and are all basic sentences all the way through with no descriptive words and the same old adjectives and "he said she saids” all throughout. This book and, as I've been told by my dorky girlfriend, all the books by this author, are very well written and are actually enjoyable to hear out loud. The one problem I've found is that it is kind of difficult to retain the information when read late at night due to its occasional new vocabulary words and non-monotonous descriptive words. Other than that this novel is great so far. ☻ (Sheshot)

Death of world's oldest person

This week I read an article on yahoo about the world’s oldest person, Edna Parker, dyeing last week. The article was inspiring really. I've always had this strange fear of becoming old and not being able to take care of myself. However, Edna lived by herself as a widow from the year 1939 until she was 100 years old and only then did she move in with her son. On top of that, she outlived both her sons and had 13 great-great-grandchildren! The article also stated that oddly that the Shelbyville nursing home she spent her final years in was also home to the world tallest living woman at 7'7". She lived to be 115 and I hope someday, when I'm old, people will look up to me like I'm sure they looked up to her as an example of how keeping an active lifestyle can preserve your body, mind, and soul for a very long time. Edna Parker is an example of human excellence and I'm glad I read this well written article about her and her life.

The Odyssey round two

The Odyssey kinda sucks the big one. Not because I don't like it, but... more because I hate it. Nawwww jkjkjk lulululululul. The Odyssey is ok by my book, get it? book,... the odysey is a book? ;) As for my real thoughts I liked all the parts that had action because people died. Also, I liked how Oddyseus killed all the suitors at the end, even the one who was like innocent and begged for mercy. I personaly liked the way the movie ended more than the movie. However I liked the book version of cercie's island more than that of the movie. Well, that's my general opinion on the Odyssey as a whole. Thanks for reading, rock on.

Oddysey

In my opinion, the Odyssey just is not a very good novel. Even though it is supposed to be history I just don’t find it believable or entertaining. Well I shouldn't say that because the idea of the story is really good however, I find the length of it and the fact that we have to skip chapters just to get through it makes it less appealing to me. The parts I have enjoyed about the Odyssey were the scene with Polyphemus because it’s funny how Odysseus tricks him into thinking his name is nobody so When Odysseus blinds Polyphemus he cries out "I've been blinded by nobody!!!" That was tight. The summaries I do enjoy It's just the real book that seems too long and drawn out. First of all they repeat the same stuff over and over again and don’t even use different adjectives. I realize that it was a long time ago and the story was so long that people zoned out a lot but I think they could have cut it down for the actually printed version at least a little. That is my basic opinion on the Odyssey.

Max Payne

This week I saw a movie called Max Payne. It's a movie about a man named Max Payne who used to be a real cop but after the murder of his wife and daughter was very distresed and now worked with the "cold case files". Even after two years he is still searching and soon meets with a girl named natashia. she has a tatoo of wings and it seems vaguely farmiliar to him. As the story progresses there is more and more evidence that the companie his wife worked for may have been responsible for her murder. And after a great realization about the company he goes on a rampage almost dieing several times.
Thanks for reading.

Angels and demons.

This week I read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. It is a story about a man named Robert Langdon, professor of symbology at Harvard, who gets a call from the head of CERN, the top scientist organization in the world. He calls Langdon late at night to come look at a brand on their top physicist’s dead body rumored to have been created by an ancient brotherhood called the Illuminati. They soon discover this someone has stolen a less than one gram sample of antimatter that has the destructive power of the nuclear bomb from Hiroshima. They then have to save the day before its holding canister runs out of battery and destroys the thieves’ target.
thanks for reading.

Quarantined

This week I'll be writting about a movie I saw with a couple freinds called Quarantined. It was a horror movie about a news reporter, her camera man, some firemen and some residents that get closed in by the american government when there is an outbreak of a rabies like virus in the apartment building the firemen were called to. The virus seems to have started with an 80 some year old woman who all of a sudden, while trying to be helped, attacks one of the policemen in an inhuman display of speed and bites the officer who soon shows the same tendancies as the woman. Later, after a few more casualties, people in hazmat suites come through the recently place plastic seal around the whole building to inspect some of the infected people that were managed to be straped down in a storage room. More unnecesary, typical zombie movie stuff happenes. and the movie ends with the reporter, the last person not infected/alive, being pulled into the darkness by a human that looks like it had been living in a pile of dirt for 30 years. It wasn't the best movie ever, especialy as far as horor/zombie movies are concerned but, non the less, it was mildly entertaining.

Disturbed: Indestructable

I'm tired of movies so now I'm moving on to awsome albums that I've listened to. This week it's Disturbed's newest album titled Indestructable. Let me just say congratulations to Disturbed on this one. The album is what most people would clasify as nu metal. Either way, I think its great, the guitar riffs and vocal quality is amazing. Anyway we'll start with the first track entitled Indestructable. It starts out with some syrens that are soon joined by helicoper sounds and muffled gunfire to give you the impression of a battlefield. Soon, however, the real song starts and man, is it intense. It's a song about soilders and how this certain soldier is indestructable and carries out his orders without regret. The guitar in this song is very carfully put together and you can tell because there are so many pauses that are so well placed it's not easy (not to mention a slower but yet awsome solo). I'd rate it an 8/10. I don't have time to realy give deatails on all the songs so I'll just talk about one more. This track is my current favorite and the last song on the album. It's named facad and it's a little darker than the rest (with the exception of Inside the Fire). I wont discus the lyrics but the drums have some nice sounds too them with well placed cymbols etc. and the guitar has some high skill level stuff. Definatley an amazing album overall but that's all the time I have. Thanks for reading.

This week I will be talking about what could possibly be the greatest movie ever made ever in history. The title of this movie is Lucky Number Slevin. I have had the privlage of watching this movie a total of 7 times (compared to I am legend which is 4 and Riddick which is 3). This is the sort of movie with a very confusing and seemingly irrelivent beginning. It begins with Bruce Willis (Later revealed as the character Good Cat) in an almost empty airport sitting next to a man whos name is ungiven. Bruce Willis is in a wheelchair and it is appearant that the two men do not know each other. Bruce Willis begins the story by telling the man about something called a Kansas city shuffle. I won't give too many details because its like the greatest monologue/set of scenes ever (besides the ending). Anyway, it involves a man named Sam who heard through stream of ears and mouths about a fixed horse race. He puts way to much money down on it, the horse trips, yada yada yada, crime lords kill his whole family. Upon hearing this, the unnamed man says "Fuck, Shit Jesus" and Bruce Willis responds "Fuck Shit Jesus is right." The man then says "so that is a Kansas city shuffle?" and Bruce Willis says "No, that's just the insiding story, This is a kansas city shuffle" he then points out the window and says an amazing line which I wont ruin for anybody and tricks the guy, sneakes behind him, and breaks his neck. I won't reveal anymore of the plot except the main character gets totaly stuck between debts to two rival crime lords that hate each other with one demanding payment and the other that he kill the first's son as payment. Beyond that, somehow Bruce Willis' character is connected to it all. I seriously recomend this to anybody, at anytime, anywhere. Thanks, for reading.

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The Chronicles of Riddik

This week I'm summarizing The Chronicles of Riddick. To put it plainley this movie is BA. It has Vin Diesel in it which (with the exception of a few family movies) means your in for a good show. This movie is the sequel to another movie called Pitch Black which is another amazing film. However, it has little importance to the chronicles so I will skip summarizing that. Anyway, the movie starts with Riddick running through a snowy planet with a beard, (he ususaly has a shaved head) and is being chased by bounty hunters. After leading them into a dark narrow cavern, sneaking and elimenating them all, he steals their ship and heads to a planet called helion prim to find his old friend Imam who had placed a bounty of 1.5 million on Riddick's head. However the planet had become the next target of the a race of people called Necromongers. Imam says that he placed the bounty on Riddick to get him to come back because a girl named Kira who had looked up to him and relied on him had gone looking for him a few years earlier. Ok, now last week I went through the entierety of I am Legend. However, from now on I plan to only go through the beginning so as not to spoil the story for anybody. That's all for this week thanks for reading.

I am so Legend

Ok, so I was planning on doing my first quarter blog on the office but, they have started to backtrack and I've already seen most of the episodes they are playing. In light of these events I will this week instead be writing about one of the greatest movies ever made, I am Legend. This movie stars Will Smith so you know its good to begin with. The story is about Will playing a character named robert nevil living by himself in New York City. He is living there because he is a scientist trying to find a cure for an epidemic. The epidemic started when a women scientist created essetialy, a cure for cancer. However, tehy were using a modified version of the measels to cure it and the virus backfired and people turned into zombie esque freaks. He, Robert Nevel, is one of the few people who are imune to the virus and his blood is the source for the cure. He spends over 100 days there with no human contact until finaly, when his dog is biten and transmited the virus, and Robet has to hold him and inject the non-finished version of the antidote which ends up not working and Robert must strangle his own dog before it turns on him. Later on a woman and a boy hear his radio transmission that he broadcasts every day and come to try and contact him. They find him near death because he had gone mad over the death of his dog, and gone on a mad rampage in his car killing many of the infected. The infected, however, were too numerus and were overtaking Nevel and just when his doom seemed iminent, The woman and her son came with a huge florecent light which killed most of the infected people on Robert's car and scared off the rest. They fled but, they werent safe for long because the infected had followed them home before daybreak had come. Robert had earlier goten a specimen of the infected to try one of his antidotes that had worked on his rat test subjects and it had seamed it haden't worked. But, the next night when the infected came to destroy Robert, they went to his basement lab as their last place to hide. Once down there they realized that the antidote had worked. Robert then also realized that the only reason the infected people were after them is because the female subject he had obtained was the leaders wife. He then decides the only way to save the world is to have the woman and child hide in this little bomb proof hole with a sample of the girls blood which contained the antidote. He then took a hand grenade and launched himself into the huge crowd of infect people saving his two companions and the world at the sacrafice of his own life.

A Journey I Intend to Take

I want to go to New york city. It is so awsome rockin'. I want to go there to see the statue of liberty in all it's green glory. I don't have any family there so I would probably go with some friends. We would go do lots of awsome rockin stuff. Thanks for readin yo!

Blog Expectations

My name is Tristan. This is my super cool blog, which I will pesonalize and make my own (but not post pics of myself on or use my last name on). I will always use appropriate language on my school blog abd fikkiw tge conventions of the English language.

The excpectation for this assignment is that I post on my blog once a week for the remainder of the school year. I am expected to comment on text that I am viewing in the world around me. These might include, but are not limited to: books, magazines, movies, intenet articles, television shows, trips to museums, etc.

Each post should be at least 200 words. Each weekly post is due by 8am on that wednsday. Therfore, Q1 due dates are: 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/22, and 10/29. That makes for a total of 7 posts this first quarter. I understand that blogs are worth 100 points per quarter and are graded holistically (I will recieve the rubric from Mrs. B soon). I also understand that blogging is a significant component of my quarter grade. By the way, what I have just typed is only 196 words! now it is 200!