Crank: Book of the Week

Crank, a book written of kids to show them how DANGEROUS crack/cocaine can be, is quite entertaining.  I read this several years ago so I’m kinda shotty with the plot, but its pretty simple.  This girl, can’t remember her name at the moment, get caught up in drug and sex at a young age and ruin her whole life.  Its a good book trust me!

The best thing about it is how its all written in verse.  Each page has a heading and is followed by some words containing a plot and a story, or something.  And then you go to the next page where you see yet another heading, and so on, and so on.  Its a really good writing style, because you don’t know when to stop so you get hooked, one might say.

I would do a review but I don’t feel like it.

Thats what happens when you do this for fun. You don’t have to! I saw Up. It was really good. See it.

Ill be sixteen in a week.

And I feel rather nostalgic of late.  I miss being 8 years old.  Or 10.  But now…I’m nearly an adult.

Album of the Week: The Digimon Movie Soundtrack

You heard me.  I bet you didn’t expect that.

It its what it is.  Its a Digimon soundtrack.  Its got all the songs from the show and the movie.  Stuff like Smash Mouth, Len, Barenaked Ladies, and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.  It has classics such as Hey Digimon, and Digi Rap.  =]

Once upon a time…

There was a dog.  Her name was Cocoa.  She sheds.  She this she’s the bee’s knees.  The cat’s meow.  Cocoa thinks she a ninja.  Every day she tries to get on Nathan’s bed… but fails.  Little Cocoa sneaks up on her belly.  And sneezes.  Then she jumps on the bed and goes crazy on the keyboard.  Then she gets pushed of (not violently).  Thus is the cycle.

Album of the Week: The Hazards of Love

Just a few months ago we, the human race, was treated to one of the greatest concept albums of all time.  The Decemberists’ Hazards of Love.  As a concept album it is so perfect you can see it as a stage production of a film.  Much like Pink Floyd’s The Wall.

Its really a simple fairy tale.  Girl finds wounded faun.  Faun turns out to he a shape-shifter.  They fall in love.  Have sex.  Girl (named Margaret) get pregnant.  Jealous mother of faun, Mother Nature, does not like this.  She finds them together after she has forbidden it.  Give them one more night together.  Brainwashes our hero.  Kidnaps Margaret.  Faun-man Breaks cures.  Comes to save his love.  Die together after battle.

Pretty much it.  Add some filler and cool blue, folk, and heavy metal tunes and you got yourself a great album.

To note some of the most distinctive tracks are The Hazards of Love I, Won’t Want for Love, The Wanting Come in Wave / Repaid, The Rake’s Song, The Queen’s Rebuke / The Crossing, Annan Water, The Hazards of Love IV.

Book of the Week: The Road

This week I give you Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.  Such a beautiful book.  Published in 2006, I think this novel is one of my absolute favorites.

Its the simple tale of the love of a father and a son.  Its a love story.  Set so time in the future, the 2 of them trek across an desolate, gray, and destroyed America, heading for the coast.  Along the way we see how strong the love for the 2 of these are.  And I mean this kid has never has a Coke before and the Father wants his son to have possibly the last in the world, but The Son wants his father to have some too.

Its never said what destroyed the world, its hinted at as if its a nuclear fallout.  But yeah, its so unclear but McCarthy fill this black setting with  such life you can see everything.  Its all most like epic poetry.  Some people see the relationship of the father and son to be reflective of God and mankind and Jesus Christ.  Its defiantly there, but not over stated or anything.  Unlike most Christian writings.

I am indeed looking forward to the film, but the trailer is not impressing me.