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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGTWmrnPdgk

The vulture scene from the Jungle book begins with a slow zoom in, showing the whole swamp, which is monochrome and seemingly dead. This is coupled with a very dull and drab  sounding bass being the only noise, until the fourth vulture arrives and the dialogue begins. "What we gonna do?" is the biggest question of the day for these four various looking vultures, and is repeated to add  a comedic effect. Even a dark joke about dead things, which should be important to vultures fails to break the monotonous  repetition because one of them even lacks the ability to show any joy at the joke, simply stating "Very funny"  returning  the others to their repeated attempts to find something to do. These vultures forge a sense of bored guys hanging around, not even wanting to do anything, merely asking simply because they should.





http://nonamewithinthestone.blogspot.com/2012/02/spring-mary-oliver.html

This poem is all about happiness. It is all happy words thrown together and then published. The word "la" is used 165 times. "La la la la la la" is focused on because it helps to give the poem a strong sense of joy. The mass use of repetition is used to instill an extreme sense of ditzy happiness. "Yeah, yeah, yeah" ends the poem with a strong feeling of finality, almost as if the author had said all this in one breath and wanted to show they were finished.

Exercise #3

War
Started with an intro, lots of detail in the body paragraphs, tried to give feel of the books emotions, very nice conclusion.

Zombies vs. Unicorns
Very similar in the overall design.

Reading space stuff

Started the first book of the series. Yet to get my library card.

Anthology: Theme Statement

Repetition is what I will use for my anthology project.

Exercise 2

2 "Cruddy time on a cruddy street" paints a gloomy even crusty town.

1 She informs the reader that she lives “in the cruddiest part of a cruddled-out town in a cruddy state.”

5 The " cruddy time on a crudddy street on the side of a cruddy hill in the cruddiest part of a crudded-out town in a cruddy state, country, world, solar system, universe." 

Ya gotta have Goals

I plan to read all 12 of the Honor Harrington books by David Weber.
Also, to not use spark notes in any book for the rest of the year.
Renew Library card.

I know I'm behind

So even though I have yet to complete this weeks submission, I have found two of my colleagues who have stayed on top of the work.

Realism is Real's post on clouds is very good in my opinion, "Let’s say Johnny is grounded. No video games, no TV, no nothing. Johnny walks outside on a cloudy day, and he realizes that he’s looking at the very face of a white knight on a white horse, lancing a white alligator." Anecdotes like this make it a feel well written.




Books and Stuff's post referring to asylum pictures caught my attention and was rather worth the time to read and view the linked pictures. the quote "we see grand, impressive exteriors and crumbling interior" sums up what I saw in the pictures rather well.