YellowCard Concert

                       

 

 

 

 

                                              Yellowcard Concert

                       

                                    On Tuesday April 8, I went to go see Yellowcard perform at the Majestic Ventura Theater. Yellowcard was the band handing the tour. The other bands on the tour with them were, The Spill Canvass, PlayRadioPlay, and Treaty of Paris. The music of Yellowcard is a mix of technically, pop-punk. The band one time called Ventura Country home. Their fourth album may be even named after a street in Midtown Ventura. Needless to say their fan base in Ventura is pretty strong.

                                    My friends and arrived at the theater hour before the concert stared. Getting there so early allowed my friends to get a spot in font of the line. After a few minutes waiting in line the back of the line had grown into a large crowd. Most of the people in the line were teenagers and people in their early 20s, for the most part a very young crowd. Bering in fort of the line means you get the best seat in the house, the right next to the band. This way you have an excellent view of the brand. Bering in so close one of the brand members might even spontaneously make eye contact with you or throw you a guitar pick.  It is exited to be this close to any bard. I was delighted by are privilege.

                                                The bands that played were Treaty of Paris, PlayRadioPlay, and The Spilled Cannas and YellowCard. The Spilled Cannas are becoming pretty well known. A couple of their songs are even on the radio. The already has some boy crazy opposed fans. Silly girls who kept yelling ‘‘I love you’’ and ‘‘Oh my god’’. Extremely annoy!

                                    Then finally, it was YellowCard turn to play. YellowCard had decided to use acoustic instruments as an alternative to the rock instruments they usually use which made the whole concert pretty unique. The only disappointing thing was that half the band was absent. In replacement they added a cello paler to the brand.

            The lead singer ,Ryan Key,  was such a vivacious host, he seem to want to make such everyone was having a excellent time at the concert .He tried to make their music relatable to the fans by telling a story behind every song. Most of the song was issues that the age group of their fans deals with. The Songs were about crushes, relationships, finding yourself and growing up. Most of the people at the concert knew the songs by heart and sang along with the brand. This give the Yellowcard perform uplifting and positive feeling.

                                    I felt YellowCard did a fantastic job of making the show a memorable experience. The acoustic instruments made the music mellower than on the record. The incorporate cello made the play calmer then if the normal brand members had been there. Whenever I it a opportunity hear live music and to feel the optimistic vibe form the brand and advice I seize it. Live music is always a joy able expensive.            

                                   

 

                       

                         

  

Pollution

 How plastic bag are affecting marine life and landfills?

Engcourge people to buy totes or plastic bags altermatives

NYC passed legisation last month retailers to collect and recycle retailers to promote plastic bags altertives

 

Group paper

Hanna Workman

Vivian Jackson

Mary Anne Lopez

English 2

4-3-08

Chris McCandless Self Help Guide to Alex SuperTramp

Christopher McCandless abandoned his privileged life in exchange to solitude and travels across America to find himself. This story is of a young man who abandoned his privileged life to travel around North America in search of high adventure, the meaning of happiness, truth, and where he belongs in the world. Christopher McCandless, obeyed his parents did really good in school and this time he wanted to do it on his own. No rules to follow no people that he takes command from. He does what pleased him.

He was actually happy merely doing what he felt was right for him. Traveling across America became his passion his home. Either be on the streets, the valley’s the canyon, for him it is home.

Christopher as Alex supertramp to the people he met along the way every time Alex gets close to the people he met he leaves them. He doesn’t like being too close to them however he touched there live. Although Chris Mccanless was well educated and privileged, he was not enjoying the lifestyle. He wanted to have a life on his own terms, material things like money and expensive cars were not important to him. According to Into the Wild by Jon Krauker, “I’ve decided to that I’m going to live the live this life for sometime to come.” Chris wants to live the life as a vagabond because there are no rules to follow and his free to be who he is.

Chris created a brand new identity for his new life. Living as Alex, Chris meet a lot of new people and made lots of friends he would not have if not for his travels. One of his closet new friends was Wayne Westerberg. Chris’s friend had also given him employment at a grain elevator and rented him a cheap room in one of his houses he owned. Chris continued to write to Westerberg though out his whole journey.

One of the people he met along his adventure is Ronald Franz; an eighty year old man whom he hitch hiked and actually became his friend. Ronald Franz took Alex into his home and lived with him for a few days. Franz fell in love with Alex’s intelligence, wit and loved the idea of Alex’s adventurous mind. Franz a single man, lived by himself has a little business which is carving leathers, which he taught Alex to make. Alex made a belt with carvings of the places has been including north-signifying the place he wants to visit and his dream of living in the wilderness. On alexs last day with Franz, Franz offered to adopt him to become his son. Alex refused because he wants to go and continue his journey to Alaska.

While on his adventure Alex met Jan Burress a 41 year old drifter who lived in a motor home with her boyfriend bob and her dog. While he stayed with her for a few weeks getting to know them and helping him in a nice way by letting him live there. Not only that but by being with Jan and bob he was able to have fun and be able to relax. He got to experience something most vagabonds did not freedom of happiness in knowing that he was impacting and making a difference just by listening.

Christopher McCandless evidently had bottled up heart aches, pain and anger towards his parents. From his childhood his parents fought a lot about their business. Pushing him so hard on his school, and lastly, one of his travels in the summer of his high school graduation, he found out that his father was still seeing his ex-wife while still with his mom Billie. He felt like everything in his life was a lie. While a freshman in college, Christopher grew more isolated to himself. Despite the fact that he has so much emotions bottled up to himself he continued excel in school, getting good grades and achiever. Although very obvious that he is also withdrawn from his friends.

This is one of the many reasons Chris went on his adventure to Alaska to get away from that and be who is. I think the main point of into the wild is that there is a part of Chris Candles in all of us. Everyone is searching their own personal adventurous and what makes them happy. This is what Chris was searching for. Most people do not take it as far as Chris did and end up dead in Alaska. Many young people over the years have taken too much risk and ended up with a fatal adventure. Although Chris was very unprepared for this adventure he enjoyed every last minute of it before he died he got to meet a lot of interesting people who really impacted there lives by getting to know him.

Work cited

Jon Krauker Into the Wild

First Anchor Books Edition, February 1997

1996 by Jon Kruaker

Book Club

                                      Christopher McCandless’es Story  

Christopher McCandless’es life is an interesting story told by Jon Krakauer in his book titled Into the Wild. This story is of a young man who abandoned his privileged life to travel around North American in search of high adventure, the meaning of happiness, truth, and where he belongs in the world.  Christopher’s journey leads him to Alaska trying to live off the land. After 112 days of living in the Alaskan wildness he died from starvation because he was unable to live off the land.  Between the times Chris lift his former life and the time he died, I think Chris found true freedom and happiness. I think Chris proved to himself that material things like money and expensive cars were not important to him. He valued adventure and freedom. Chris was brave enough to live the way he believed was right. In a letter to one of Chris’s friend, he writes of why he chooses to live as a vagabond. ”I’ve decided that I’m going to live this life for sometime to come.” Chris remarks ’’The freedom and simple beauty of it is just to good to pass up”. Chris attested to everyone he met on his travels that he was living life to its fullest and they should do the same.

Chris’s dream from the beginning was to go to Alaska. His voyage to Alaska would be his ultimate adventure. Chris’s dream was to find an isolated area in Alaska and to live off the land, away form technically and society. Most everyone Chris told about his plans to live in the Alaskan wildness warn him against it. Chris was told that Alaska was nothing like what his favorite author, Jack London, had wrote about.   People warned him that he would get eaten alive by mosquitoes and that he does not have a enough experience to hunt for his meals. Despite the warning Chris was determined to make his Alaska dream a reality. A driver given him a ride to the Denali National Park recalls how enthuse Chris was about his mission, ”There was just no talking the guy out of it. He was determined and real gung ho. The word that comes to mind is excited.  He couldn’t wait to head out there and get started.” The freedom and isolated of Alaska may be what seductive and obsessed Chris.

The reason Chris may have been so motivated to escape society and its rules is that he never could understand them. Chris often vocalizes how he was against controlled and inequity.  His political positions were the same as Thoreau’s views of that government is best which governs least.  Chris also had trouble understanding why people are evil to each other.  Close friend Westerberg reflects how Chris would get caught up in his thoughts on the problem of the world. “I think maybe of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Chris got stuck on things.” When as a teenagers Chris would spend some of his free time feeding the homeless, or tiring to help for the greater good. It seems that Chris cared too much of what was happening in the world around him.Chris McCandless took his new life so far that he changed his name. Chris introduced himself as ‘Alex’ to the many friends he met on his travels. He also did not speak to his family for the two years. Chris created a brand new identity for his new life. Living as Alex, Chris meet a lot of new people and made lots of friendships he would not have if not for his travels. One of his closet new friends was Wayne Westerberg. Chris’s friend had also given him employment at a gain elevator and rented him a cheap room in one of the houses he owned. Chris continued to write to the Westerberg though out his whole journey. Other stranger who showed Chris kindness was Jan Burres, a forty-one year old drifter who gave Chris, or Alex, a ride, food, and a place to send the night. Chris sent her a postcard every month after that. One of the lives that Chris touched the most was Ronald Franz. Ron was eighty years old who’s family had been killed in an automobile accident. Again, Chris made a new friend by accepting a ride from a stranger. After they became friends Chris would urge Ron to sell all his belongings, move out of his apartment, and live on the road. Ron though Chris was such a special young man that he wanted to adoption him. Whether Chris meant to or not he made differences in many people lives.I think the main point of Into The Wild is that there is a part of Chris McCandless in all of us.  Everyone is searching for their own personal adventures and what makes them happy. This is what Chris was searching for. Most people do not take it as far as Chris did and end up dead in Alaska.  Many young people over the years have taken too much risk and ended up with a fatal adventure.         

                                                                                 

                   

                   

 

In to the wild 2

    Into the wild  is a story of a eccentric young man who left his family, give his life saving to charity and hit hiked cross the west. He eventually ends up in Alaska living his  in the wild.The book is his biography and the tale of his adventures and all the people and places his encounters.What makes this story so unusual is before his adventures Chis was the epitomes young man.He just graduated form Emory University in Atlanta in major in history and anthropology.He was an sight A’s student and a gifted musician and athlete.His parents said he talked of going to law school.He had the idealize future in fort of him.Instead  of law school, Chis went on his own personal quite for truth and zeal for life.Some think Chis McCandless was a fool who killed himself but others acclaim him for fellowing his dreams.As Chis wrote in a letter to a friend”Conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in venality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” In the wild -page 57 ,Chis McCandless.                       

In to the wild- the moive

I think the movie In to the wild did a wonderful at showing the adventures Christopher Johnson had in his short life .I like the way the movie shows Chis as a young man just trying to find himself and figure out what he wants in life.I think this is something all young people or anyone who ever been young can relate to.  I enjoyed seeing the events ,I am currently reading about come to life. The book has a lot more details about Chris’s life in it and more of Chris’s thoughts on life.The book gives you a better understanding of why Chis would give his family,car,career and money to start a new life in the wild.  The book also tells more about Chris’s family and the friends he has back home and the ones he made on the road.Reading the book makes you feel  like you known Chis and are on the adventure with him. The movie has beautiful scening of Alaska and other places Chris traveled.  I recommend everyone who saw the movie and liked it to read the book.Book are always better.

Spring break

Spring break  went by so fast.I can’t believe it is already over.The most exiting thing I did last week was go surfing with my friends.It felt so great to be in the ocean and to be able to forget my worries for a hour or two.I send a lot of time at the beach this spring.The beach is so beautiful and sometimes I think I do not appreciate being so lucky to live on the southern California cost line. I also got to send more time with my friends last week.That made me really happy because my friends are like family to me.I also was able to work a lot this spring break ,which is good because I need to save up for collage. 

Book Club

I book I would like to read is Into the wild

March 6,2007

Sorry i missed class.I   am home sick.I will turn in my paper Monday.BYE

Thoreau; ”Where I Lived and What I Lived For”

I found Thoreau’s ”Where I Lived and What I live for” to be very long and difficult to read through the whole thing.But once made myself read through it, I agreed  with his appreciate for home and how important it is to notice the little things in life. I enjoyed the line ”Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity and I say innocence, with nature herself”. I think it is wonderful to be able to be made happy by simple things like walking in the park or cool swims in the lake.

Thoreau’s tells about being in tune with nature. In the quote ”We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake is our soundest sleep”.Many people get so got in their busy lives never stop it enjoy the beauty of the movement.