Top Five list of Top Five Lists

1. Star Wars Movies

2. Arctic Monkeys songs

3. Guns N' Roses Songs

4. Comedians

5. Final Fantasy games

Journal #4, Popular Mechanics

1. What is his or her name? Spencer
2. What does he or she do for a living? He works as a Chef for a fancy restaurant
3. What is his or her height/weight/hair color and style/body type? 5 foot 7 inches/175 lbs/long and wavy black hair/athletic physique
4. What type of clothes does he or she usually wear?He usually wears band T-shirts and worn jeans
5. Best qualities?He is very good at cooking and can play many instruments
6. Worst qualities?He sometimes get very angry about small matters
7. How does he or she come across? Easygoing? Short-tempered? Etc.At first glance, he comes off as an easy going laid back guy
8. Weaknesses? He can't resist a beer on a Saturday
9. What or who does he or she hate? Spencer absolutely hates ignorant people
10. What or who does he or she love?Spencer loves Rock music so much that he sometimes thinks about quitting his job as a chef and forming a band

Spencer's point of view

This was unbelievable, how could she be so ignorant, telling me that she was glad I am leaving. Now wait a minute what was she doing with my baby's picture? She has no idea what she is about to endure. I started running after her screaming, "Give me that Picture Right Now!!" When I ran out of the bedroom and down stairs there she was, clutching onto that baby like she didn't know why I was leaving. I put the suitcase and said, "You want things to end peacefully right? So hand over my son and maybe I will forgive you." She immediately shouted back," That is exactly why I won't, because I didn't do anything wrong!" I shouted back, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!! YOU FIRST TOLD ME THAT I CARED MORE ABOUT ROCK AND COOKING THAN I DID ABOUT THAT KID AND THEN YOU BURNED ALL OF MY VINTAGE RECORDS!" She then started walking away with my son, so I ran after her and grabbed at the baby. She started screaming, "LET GO NOW YOU ARE GOING TO HURT HIM!!" he started crying now, I didn't to hurt him, but I couldn't let her have him, she didn't care about him all, she only wants to prove he point. So we started fighting over him, until, well, we each had him, and neither of us won.

Journal #3 for High Fidelity Ch 10-13

This was definitely a more of a downer than the previous nine chapters, but that’s what happens when you first cheat on your girlfriend, borrow a pretty substantial amount of money with the intent on never giving it back, and you are the reason why she had an abortion. This was all old news but it just makes such an impact on the story that it has to be said more than once. When you look at Rob now, he is just a pathetic person. His true disposition is a 35-year-old man who refuses to let go of the future and solves all his problems by either immersing himself in his music, old music that only helps further the point, or makes a top 5 list about something. To make things even more spectacular is that he goes and sleeps with Marie. Why would he do that? The entire reason why his life is so terrible presently, not that before it was really great to begin with, is because he slept with Marie. So obviously doing the thing that made your life crap would be the right thing to do. Its like a bee trying to escape from a house through a window, only the bee doesn’t understand that no matter how many times he hits the glass, he won’t get out, and that’s what Rob is, a especially stupid bee trying to magically make it through that glass.

Journal #2 For High Fidelity, Ch 1-6

Now this is what it takes to begin a story. Rob really has problems with women, and when I say problems, I mean he can’t seem to find a girl who won’t lead to an eventual break up. Even though this is a constant factor in his life, he still goes out with other women, even though he knows something will go wrong, and it will. One woman that is particularly prominent when it comes to painful memories is Laura. But Laura was always an odd relationship, how it started and how it ended. Then there were the mass influences on music. I myself am a huge fan of all things rock, and the fact that Rob and Barry worked in a record store only made it better because some of the best rock albums were first put on vinyl. This book was keeping me interested and entertaining me at the same time and I loved it.

Journal #1 for High Fidelity, How to Read

Finally, a person who got it right, and Nick Hornby was right on the spot. His message overall was read what you want to read, and if you don’t like it, don’t read it. I have felt like that for my entire life. I am not the kind of person who loves reading, and that is an absolute truth. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read something because you don’t like it, especially if it’s for a class. The difference is between leisure and forced, you can’t get around forced reading it’s inevitable. One thing that I absolutely had to agree with, and it dealt with church. Nick wrote, “When I was nine years old, I spent a few unhappy months in a church choir (my mum's idea, not mine). And two or three times a week, I had to sit through the sermon, delivered by an insufferable old windbag of a vicar.” I have been going to church for 17 years and I understand the boredom that happens when you are there, and sometimes it is intolerable. Even after that I still had to struggle through it and even read some of the bible, but it wasn’t all bad. But I suppose in this day, a person would rather sit down and watch TV instead of reading a chapter in a book, but that’s just what I believe.

Thoughts on Writing

I have never really been that big of a reader. Even though I may not like them, I have read my fair share of books. When I look at the books that were able to get my attention and keep me interested, it really wasn’t a single genre in particular. The books I read were more of what I truly found to be interesting. I am a person who truly loves the thrill of medieval times, knights in armor going to find the mystic artifact or fight the dragon, the good old times in feudal era Japan where Samurai roamed the land, and even the thrill of a look into the future where we command space ships that wage war on the galaxy. These are what truly get me interested in a book, but those are just some things that can get me reading a book. If a book has an amazing and interesting fictional plotline full of sci-fi gadgets or a world where anything is possible, well I would be hooked instantly. But then there are the books that I can, and refuse to read, these “trash” books have never been my cup of tea, and everyone has those books that they can’t stand. For me, and this may sound strange, but I can’t stand books that bore me. Now that’s a pretty vague answer, I mean boring books; there are thousands of them. But that is exactly the point! Why make a book that is boring? I understand if the book is used to further gain knowledge of history, but then why would anyone write a 354-page book about the average day of an American citizen when you can just find one, and ask them. But that’s how I have always felt, I love a book that really kicks my imagination into overdrive and that’s how I will probably always be, but that still means I will have to read an immense amount of “trash” but that’s life.