I am taking English 100, freshman composition. The courses topic is Eco-Criticism. We do a lot of reading on ecology and the enviroment. You guys get the idea. Our first assignment was to write an essay about a place we felt was natural. The essay needed an argument, and that confused me because what kind of argument can you make about a natural place? Our TA suggested that maybe we could write about that space being misused, or something.

I watched "Pump Up The Volume" tonight on my new computer, which I am writing this post on. It is working under Windows 98seUCKs. What can I do, WinXP Pro is coming Monday or friday. But until then...

When people look out their windows they see the world around them: Trees, Roads, Lamps, Forrests, Lakes, nature. A fitting reoccuring image because I never really had windows to look at the world with; currently my window faces someone elses across this walled in breeze way and growing up in my basement provided me with just light and no view. However there is a window that I see the world via. Just like others, it is made of glass and images reside within its frames. However my window is static, visuals changing with new URLs. Growing up with the internet in infant forms, BBS, IRC, Telenet, technology at my finger tips allowed me to watch a new nacent nature form and evolve. The world was in my window. Just like the real world, my world was taken over by the dream of making money from nothing. As Foster puts it in his book "The Vulnerable Planet", "nature's bounty is a free gift to the property owner." So came buissness to make money from nothing. The IT revolution. Everyone saw the internet just like a forest, buy the property (a domain) and then reep the benefits (...).

The last line of Pump Up The Volume, well the last line Harry says, is, "the air waves are yours, use your voice." Unlike nature, the internet does not get physically ruined from all the crap people have done, whether porn, or popups, spam, the internet is not going to run out. But all that content does make it hard to navigate. I think the internet is our voice. We can write things, create things, that millions of people can view for free. That is where the power of the internet lies. I've said this before, the greatest thing about the internet is its power to distribute media to a world audience. Our pirate radio so to speak. I suppose like Harry, what I really want to do with my site is talk to people. I want to communicate via writing. I want to put myself online so people can see, read, and understand. I know what I want to say and it isn't that today I made Tombstone pizza and watched Pump Up the Volume. It is that there is meaning in Pump Up the Volume and Tombstone pizza. From now on, I will explain that meaning to the best of my ability.

Why Pump Up the Volume is better than Fight Club.

Here you have two movies about revolution in a lost generation. One of them uses communication and education, the other uses violence and destruction. Pump Up the Volume, while vague (except for a few key scenes you never really understand what is so wrong with the world, ex when the student drops the sign saying I have a right to an education and gets punched or at the PTA meeting), is conveying the sense of anarchy felt by teenagers. Fight Club is doing that to, I just feel that Pump Up the Volume does a better job at it.

Yep so today I had my pizza and watched my movie, and you want to know what it means? That everyone has the ability to do the things that makes them happy. If I can do this, you can also.