Django

Yesterday I watched one of Quentin Tarantino's new films, 'Django Unchained'. Django Unchained is an ambitious, borderline crazy film; and I loved it!  Quentin Tarantino to me is a master storyteller, he takes his ideas and gloriously transfers them to the big screen.  I am a pretty big fan of Tarantino's work, like his previous film 'Inglorious Bastards'.  The main thing that I like about Tarantino's work is how he changes history throughout his films, that to me is a great inspiration.

Gatsby

Now that that we have finished the Gatsby section of this course, I must say that really like the book. This isn't my first time reading it either, my first time reading it was in 11th grade, which I still remember as if it were yesterday.  Throughout the story I found that I only liked two characters, them being Jay Gatsby, and Nick Carraway.  The other characters were quite annoying to me, especially Daisy; I couldn't stand her character.  Anyway I am excited for the new Gatsby movie coming out with Leonardo DiCaprio, it looks really good!

poetry

While reading poetry this past weekend I was introduced to Carl Sandburg.  I'm not a very big fan of poetry, my perspective is the shorter, the better.  Out of the three poems by Sandburg that I read, two of them were very short, with the third fairly short.  I found that Sandburg liked to use personification in his poems, "a lot", I enjoyed reading 'Fog', 'Grass', and 'Chicago'.  I found the poem 'Grass' had a very dark theme, mostly covering death.  In 'Chicago' Sandburg's use of personification shined it's brightest, with Chicago being referred to as being 'wicked', and 'crooked'.  Sandburg used terms that usually apply to human kind towards the city Chicago.

Musical creativity

Last Sunday my family and I traveled up north to Wabash to attend a symphony at the Honeywell center.  We were treated to the works of Copland, Debussy, Enesco, and others.  While listening, I found myself entranced by the peaceful, and at sometimes exciting music.  I found myself playing out a story, and adding pictures to the beautiful sounds.  I've experienced this before by listening to songs that I enjoy on the radio or pandora, but this was something grand.  I left satisfied with my creative juices flowing, and my mind at ease.

First post

Well I have never written a blog before, although I have read tidbits of some before.   I enjoy reading, and occasionally writing, and I am an avid movie fan.  My favorite type of literature and film would have to be science fiction, some of my favorite books are the Harry Potter, and Eragon series.  Movies that I thoroughly enjoy are Avatar, Slumdog Millionaire, and the new Star Trek film.  Watching movies like those fuel my creative imagination, and encourage me to continue writing.