My favorite band is Modest Mouse, an indie rock group formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington. The band is made of Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, and Eric Judy, though they have undergone several member changes. I think the reason I love Modest Mouse so much is because of Isaac Brock’s voice. His voice is slightly higher than mine and has a breathy, light quality that can quickly change to a heavy and deeper voice drenched in anguish and madness. Both sides of his voice have a slight southern drawl that accentuates his music.
My favorite album would have to be “Good News for People Who Love Bad News” by Modest Mouse. The album addresses the things in life that make people upset, like substance abuse, depression, and just overall bad news. The entire album centers around the song “Float On” which says “Alright, don’t worry even if things end up a little too heavy, we’ll all float on.” The song says that no matter how bad things get, they will always get better, because people move on. I love the song, because it is both catchy and meaningful, and I listen to it whenever events in my life get me down.
My favorite book is “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury. The novel is about a man whose job is to burn books because of the problems that they cause. Books can cause arguments between people, can make people question what they believe, and can cause problems in society, so they must be destroyed. Guy Montag is a firefighter, an occupation that has shifted to destroying books, not saving houses, whose life is flipped upside down after he starts thinking for himself. He steals books and begins reading them. After all his books are burned by his boss, Montag kills him in self defense and escapes that city. After escaping, Montag finds other book lovers who had escaped, and watches the city get destroyed by a bombing run from some outside country whose threat of war was shrugged off by the people of the city while learning that the importance of books is the knowledge inside of them, not the books themselves. The book is very important to me, because it provides an example of a world where people do not read, which is a world I am frightened will happen soon as more and more people decide that books are “boring” and “don’t hold their attention”. It also shows the risks of supporting a cause that others oppose, but that you are not always alone in those causes. The novel shows how the want of bigger, better, now can destroy people and the world.
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My favorite band is Modest Mouse, an indie rock group formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington. The band is made of Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, and Eric Judy, though they have undergone several member changes. I think the reason I love Modest Mouse so much is because of Isaac Brock’s voice. His voice is slightly higher than mine and has a breathy, light quality that can quickly change to a heavy and deeper voice drenched in anguish and madness. Both sides of his voice have a slight southern drawl that accentuates his music.
My favorite album would have to be “Good News for People Who Love Bad News” by Modest Mouse. The album addresses the things in life that make people upset, like substance abuse, depression, and just overall bad news. The entire album centers around the song “Float On” which says “Alright, don’t worry even if things end up a little too heavy, we’ll all float on.” The song says that no matter how bad things get, they will always get better, because people move on. I love the song, because it is both catchy and meaningful, and I listen to it whenever events in my life get me down.
My favorite book is “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury. The novel is about a man whose job is to burn books because of the problems that they cause. Books can cause arguments between people, can make people question what they believe, and can cause problems in society, so they must be destroyed. Guy Montag is a firefighter, an occupation that has shifted to destroying books, not saving houses, whose life is flipped upside down after he starts thinking for himself. He steals books and begins reading them. After all his books are burned by his boss, Montag kills him in self defense and escapes that city. After escaping, Montag finds other book lovers who had escaped, and watches the city get destroyed by a bombing run from some outside country whose threat of war was shrugged off by the people of the city while learning that the importance of books is the knowledge inside of them, not the books themselves. The book is very important to me, because it provides an example of a world where people do not read, which is a world I am frightened will happen soon as more and more people decide that books are “boring” and “don’t hold their attention”. It also shows the risks of supporting a cause that others oppose, but that you are not always alone in those causes. The novel shows how the want of bigger, better, now can destroy people and the world.
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