Blog 4 pop culture thingy

I brought in the book “Sex, drugs, and Cocoa Puffs” by Chuck Klosterman. This book is actually called a low culture manifesto by the author and critiqued as pop culture analysis. Therefore, I thought to bring in this for my piece of pop culture for the obvious reasons. This book is a very good read even though it is rather episodic in form with each chapter having nothing to do with another.
Chuck himself is a writer for a variety of music magazines, most commonly SPIN magazine. I do not consider myself in his vein of character, as I do not follow music closely enough to be an expert. This book however is more about other forms of pop culture and therefore quite enjoyable for most people I believe. Some topics include serial killers, The Sims, breakfast cereal, and of course porn. All of these topics, despite how they sound are actually done with tact and insight inconsistent with what you would expect in the most delightful manner.
My favorite section of the book is one where he puts forth a very bold proclamation about the very nature of the effect of pop culture. He claims that many people decide to imitate the personalities of characters on shows, in particular the reality show The Real World. I never would have accepted his hypothesis of pop culture archetypes if I did not read this book and listen to his impressive line of thought. He suggests that the first season was the only real one and ever since all reality, programming has people who fill the “roles” made in that first season. I hate reality TV, but can see how the copycat nature of TV would allow for this, and I can even see some fools acting the part in their lives. I suggest you read it for your own impressions.

English experience.

I know that I am not a quality writer by any serious measurement. Whenever I come across an “English type” my papers are torn apart in such a manner that would make John Wayne Gacy get squeamish. However when I am put up against any other academic discipline, I fare quite all right. I have generally accomplished satisfactory marks on all of my papers throughout my younger years. I really only took one non-required English class in high school and it was creative writing. Nothing I did was impressive or fun enough to outweigh the work so I did not seek out any English class since and that was about 7 years ago.
In that time, however I did take the advance placement United States History and managed to construct an essay to earn me a top score and college credit in the matter of a long test period. Ever since then I have not feared working on a paper. I just lamented the work. In a contemporary sense, I just managed to ace a class with the most college-level papers I ever had to do and was quite surprised on how well the paper had been received by the professor. Perhaps it has more to do with my historical sense then my English skills but I will take the A all the same.
I keep dreaming that maybe I will write something wonderful and can invoke the responses I gather from various media. I never complete anything, as it seems too difficult to work with English. So instead, I just write little blurbs via instant messenger or on a myspace page trying to illustrate my wit and deeper values. After I finish my required English classes, I will avoid writing except for the more colloquial sense.

What I expect

As I pour over the SF writer and The Word is a text in the context of what to expect to get from this class I can only shake my head. The books seem to be a long list of a variety of rules. I read many things in English exclusively and there seems to no real unifying theme to the written language anymore. It seems to me that there is a wild difference between what kind of writing you need or can use. Everyone has some sort of rules and they all differ just enough for someone to have issue with it. I hope to learn all the rules and never make a mistake with a rather complex language. I then can use it to change the world. Then I will stop using sarcasm. Honestly I think, as a student who has been in school for 20 years, my English with the aid of Word is sufficient for any endeavor I need, provided the minor imperfections are overlooked. I will gather the credit needed and continue to attempt to use my writing to the best of my abilities for what I need of it, from situation to situation. Of course, if I can gather any insight to improve my writing I will try to remember it longer then some other lessons I have learned in my time. I will continue to put my faith in common sense and my academic abilities and gather what I can as I pass this required course. Once again, it is more important to get that credit and the paper then it is to actually learn anything. I however already did learn another way to set up a blog, which should allow me to bore more people with my tales of taking up space.

About me thing

Three words that describe me would be loyalty, ethics, and consistency. I hate anyone who believes in these words, "Each man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost." Guess what, that is you America.

I would like to meet anyone worth knowing and anyone who lives every week like its Shark Week, whatever that means. I would like to know more about other people outside the folks I come across.

I like stuff and things, mostly doing stuff and owning things respectively. I watch a lot of TV, mostly comedy and sports. I am a big fan of the Detroit Red Wings and they are definitely my favorite form of entertainment. I like good music. Yeah. My favorite bands are Sufjan Stevens, 311, Beatles, Beck. At least I have the most CD’s of those artists. My Ipod has like 4000 songs on it and a lot of variety.

Movies are my favorite thing. The Best movie of all time is The Shawshank Redemption, in at least a technical sense and any argument against its superior quality is mute and not opinion but fact, however this is not my favorite movie, which is a matter of opinion. My Favorite movies of all time are; The Back to the Future Trilogy, High Fidelity, Rushmore, The Original Poseidon Adventure, Ghostbusters, The Pink Submarine (I promise you not gay slang but an older movie), TMNT, The Shawshank Redemption, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, The Sting, Demolition Man, Fight Club. The Best movies I have seen in the last couple of years, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, I heart Huckabees, Batman Begins, and Lost in Translation.

I read books, but not all that often and they are mostly very well known books. I would say my favorite is Animal Farm, or Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs.

I could have said things that are more abstract about who I am. Yet it is a material superficial world and well those things give you a feeling about who I am.

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