End of the World Blogpost(just cuz)

*Spoilers: for the movie Titanic and Romeo+Juliet*
I lost my worksheet so I don't have a quote(but if I find the worksheet, I will write another post((Part two)) including my ideas with the new found quote in mind).

Remember in Romeo and Juliet, when Tybalt dies? Juliet's father says "We are born to die." This concept just makes me think and think about how human we are. How we can be so ignorant sometimes and almost always greedy. How we can be struck dead any moment.

I saw most of Titanic for the first time yesterday, and it reminded me of this quote; it reminded me of deconstruction and the ruin of greatness. And I know that the story is being told by Rose herself, but sometimes the whole Jack/Rose love seems just as unreal as the love between Romeo/Juliet. Especially the scene where they pretend that they are flying/being free while the sun is setting and Celine Dion sings the worlds cheesiest song. True love isn't shown in moments like that, if it is shown at all it is shown when Rose rescues Jack from death the first time. She is going down a corridor filled with water (above her head) holding an axe in one hand and swinging on ceiling pipes with another (monkey bar style), or when Jack realizes that he cannot stay afloat on the headboard with Rose after the ship had sunk, and he must float beside her. It is shown when Mr. Guginheim stayed behind on the ship to allow woman and children to survive, when he could have easily used his influence to get on a safe boat and survive. It is shown when an old couple lay together, side by side, as water floods into their rooms. It is shown when a mother and her two children are trapped inside, so they lay down and she tells a beautiful tale. It is shown when one life boat returns to save the souls that have already passed on, and it is shown when the men on the life boat realise they were too late. This love that they show, is setting an example of the greatness of humans. The Selflessness that they express, is so beautiful.

This movie reminded me that everything that comes together will fall apart. And as centuries pass, I won't be anything more than a word in a history book, if at all. And all of my possesions won't be anything more than junk. Junk that turns into Garbage. It reminds me that my small troubles and my small worries mean nothing in the context of the world or even the universe. And my bed around me will become old and decaying like the titanic around the 2,223 people on that boat. And we won't be anything besides a once living civilization, like dodo birds or dinosaurs.

Once I realized this, I had come back to the world we live in. A world with wars and a world with greed. People do not understand that it won't matter in the end, when we are fossils in the ground, who had the most riches or who was in the most control of others. People don't realize that paper decays, meaning money will decay. Power will decay, and everything falls apart.

Once I realized this, I compared our world to that of Romeo and Juliet. And we have the same problems, problems of greed and problems of power. I realize that this could be the message Shakespeare was sending out. And he could not have been smarter for writing this message in the form of a love story. For people would be able to find even more sadness in it. Noone would rather watch a sad story of how the world is going to end one day and that "frays" between you and your enemy will not matter in the context of the whole, than a love story with the same message.

A Shakespeare Related Post....

It's a bad sign (I think) when your favorite part of a book is the end. It has only happened to me twice; while reading Youth in Revolt and It's Kind of a Funny Story. The last page or so of It's Kind of a Funny Story (by Ned Vizzini) was one of the most beautiful things I have read (and it really inspired me to run free and really live life), but the beginning is just so sad and depressing and it was rubbing off on me. It makes me think a lot about the title of Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well. I honestly have never READ it, but I find the title a piece of art in itself that we can deconstruct and think about if it is relative. Does a bad beginning paired with a great ending, make the bad beginning so much better?

I would say it is a true statement for books and movies because they are not as serious or real as current world events. Reading a book or watching a movie cannot affect the masses negatively in the same way that a war or a natural disaster can. When people are severely hurt from an experience, a happy ending isn't going to erase the unhappy event in its entirety. It can only give hope for repairing the world. In real life happy endings don't always follow disastrous events.

Interpretations...

Okay, so lately i have been blabbering on and on about THE BLACK KEYS. I have been exploring their varied sound over their past albums and one song they did really struck me. In the album ATTACK & RELEASE they wrote a song(REMEMBER WHEN) and played it two different ways.
Here is side A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbVcIjOqY5w
Here is side B: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuwctcgDTxI&feature=related
Playing one song twice with two different rhythms is something I've never seen done before! This makes me think about how much the songs meaning can change by just a change in rhythm. I guess its like in poems, the speaker/line breaks have so much to do when reading a poem.

My favorite version is Side B, because it (to me) seems like the lines "Sweet things, yeah sweet things" is accentuated more giving the song more meaning to me as the listener.

I love the idea of writing one thing multiple ways... It reminds me of our poetry writing process(one idea: four ways).

Tell me which side you like better, and why.
thanks!

MENTOR TEXTS

First of, everyone blog is so amazing, but having to chose:

http://epiceyebrows.blogspot.com/2010/12/jumpor-burn.html
Molly Smith, or as I like to call her, the master of all blogs short and meaningful. Jump or Burn is definitely one of my favorite blog posts(EVER)! Molly has mastered the art of posting meaningful entries that leave you thinking. Almost always, my blog posts drone on and on and I ramble and my feelings are scattered all over the place! Molly is definitely a writer I admire for her bluntness, for she says what needs to be said.

http://eveningswithdrfutterman.blogspot.com/2010/11/allure-of-pictures-and-printed-word.html
Annie Futterman, or the master of her own voice. Allure of Pictures and Printed Words is a post that shook me deeply. Annie is totally a unique writer, who always adds her own voice to everything she writes. She writes with such strong metaphors and such strong feelings, it inspires me! Her writing style, whatever it is exactly, makes me feel like I am talking to her about the book-not just reading a blog-. Overtime, I have slowly been developing my own voice and wish to have such a strong voice as Annie's in the future.

http://nat-ha-lay.blogspot.com/2010/11/magical-mistakes.html#comments
Nathalie Pages, or THE-BEST-at-getting-her-point-across Supergirl. Her posts always get her point across, and even if she doesn't read(Magical Mistakes) she always has deep points and ground breaking ideas that shatter boundaries. Nathalie is totally in control of her thoughts(or at least that's what her writing leads me to believe), where as sometimes I just don't know what to think-or how to conclude a thought. Nathalie is such a strong/mature writer that I always look up to. I hope in the future to be able to master my thoughts and to be able to fully conclude an idea.

There are a million great blogs out there, special kudos to Ben Futterman's blog , Pia's blog , and Sammy's blog for always(ALWAYS) giving me fruit for thought and inspiration.
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