The '10' List 2

Ten Verbal Photographs
1. Punk Rocker’s do not care, I you’re already hurt. They will crush you at a concert.
2. I had a dream that I met Ernest Hemingway and he told me the perfect quote, but I do not remember the quote. I did get to meet Ernest Hemmingway though.
3. My mother told me when I was four years old, I cried because I could not write correctly, but I taught myself. This I did not know.
4. I had a dream again about Ninja’s, but they were all girls. Every girl I have ever had relations with was out to get me. This could be an interesting jumping off point for my writing.
5. There are a lot of religious movies coming out.
6. When somebody talks in the movie, should I turn around and ask them to be quiet during The Book Of Eli or should I tell them that I will harpoon them with a arm broken off from my chair.
7. Avatar is an incarnation of Hindu deity in human or animal form, especially one of the incarnations of Vishnu such as Rama and Krishna. Do you think that Hindu’s are sick of Americans trying to alter their ideas into appalling forms of art?
8. While on the Hindu subject, imagine coming to a house to play music with some people and one person has a sitar. A sitar, for those of you that don’t know, is a music instrument similar to the guitar. This person bought the guitar, but did not know how to play it, ruined the music. Do not try to be The Beatles!
9. Is Eastern Michigan University famous in other states? I think not, so maybe I could write something important about the school to help.
10. I have noticed that when I write the most is right when I wake up, but it is never about the dreams I just had. I always, usually remember my dreams. Is that my, red light time, to write.

10 quotes
1. “The earth has music for those who listen.” -William Shakespeare
2. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music” –Aldous Leonard Huxley
3. “They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night” -Edgar Allan Poe
4. “Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. "A fundamental part of Lincoln's moral compass was his opposition to slavery. But it took him a long time to embrace black people. We were raised with a fairy tale representation that because he hated slavery, he loved the slaves. He didn't. He was a recovering racist. He used to use the N word. He told darky jokes. He resisted abolition as long as he could. But in the end, he was on an upward arc, one that was quite noble." Henry Louis Gates Jr.
6. “I will fly at last. I will unfold my wings. I will unpack my head. I will step back outside. One day I may even make love again. But one thing at a time. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.” –Luke Davies from God of Speed
7. “There comes a time in everyone’s life, where you can’t seem to find your place, you can’t seem to get anything right” -Ray Lamontagne
8. “Things best forgotten were remembered” -The Flight of the Pigeons
9. “But fools are hard to find, they don’t like to admit it” -The Flight of the Pigeons.
10. “I put my father in the show, with his cold eyes. His segment was called My father Concerned About His Liver.” -The Flight of the Pigeons

Again, I have incorporated some of the similar quote subjects that I have used before. These are the things that seem to draw my attention the most. The subjects that I discussed came everywhere from Dreams to Movies, Hindu Deity’s to Music, and racism to F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it is important to incorporate everything in my writing, everything in the sense that I display every emotion in me. When looking for these quotes and verbal photographs, I tend to pick things out that grab my attention at the most pristine times. It’s like the clouds clear and I have to write it down, whether it is on paper sitting close to me or a napkin at a bar. That moment of clarity is what squeezes out at me.
The topics that I form together may seem strange, but I feel that is what makes for the most interesting read. Bathelme stated in his text, “The supply of strange ideas is not endless.” This to me incorporated a sense of personal growth. I believed that beauty in a text is left to the eye of the beholder. This text brought out a sense of brainstorming that I have never really cared to look at before. I learned that an idea could seem amazing at one point in time, but when it comes to the final result, it could be horrid. This has taught me to never take my thoughts for granted and work around every angle to form my most perfect ideas.