https://padlet.com/michaelsw/ju3ak32v1i95 Its who I am en-us 2017-11-17 18:13:15 UTC 2023-05-23 22:01:49 UTC hello@padlet.com michaelsw https://padlet.com/michaelsw/ju3ak32v1i95/wish/208237137 This book has been really important to me. It is about a man named Hugh Glass and his revenge. Its set in the 1800s and its about one man who is a fur trapper out of St. Louis. Glass is terribly attacked by a bear and is left on the edge of death. The men supposed to wait for him to die and then properly bury him, took his possessions and left him alone with nothing in the woods. Instead of dying he crawled over 100 miles to an outpost and refitted to get his revenge. This really connected me to the wilderness and camping. I found a new fixation with going and camping in the woods with less and less equipment. I always found that people who overcome great obstacles on their own to be really inspiring and this book was the first one that really stood out to me. I found that the wilderness is a great challenge that has to be overcome. Part of me wants to go into the world and lead a normal life and the other half wants to lead a life of isolation in the wilderness. ]]> 2017-11-17 18:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelsw/ju3ak32v1i95/wish/208237137 michaelsw https://padlet.com/michaelsw/ju3ak32v1i95/wish/208250684 This movie is one of Christopher Nolan's greatest films. Nolan also directed Inception, The Prestige, Memento, Dunkirk, and many other great films. Interstellar is about a near future where the world is running out of food and soon will starve or suffocate from the atmosphere losing all its oxygen. The main character named Coop is an ex pilot that should have gone to space but became a farmer instead to feed his family and the world. Now NASA is planning a mission to enter a worm hole that appeared 50 years ago that leads to another solar system and where there may be planets that are livable on. So Coop and a small team must fly through the worm hole and find the right planet. This is just the tip of the ice berg. The story unfolds in a very shocking way and has an amazing twist ending. This movie important to me since the very first time I watched it in the movie theater. I was always fascinated by space and the many secrets that were out there. The fact we are so small in the grand picture of the universe. This movie is not very strait forward and must be watched and few times at least to understand everything about it. This movie showed me how random things can be and how there is no fate in the world just random and coincidental events. This movie also showed me what the future could be and how some act of god or meaningful things saves us. That we can save ourselves. ]]> 2017-11-17 18:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelsw/ju3ak32v1i95/wish/208250684 michaelsw https://padlet.com/michaelsw/ju3ak32v1i95/wish/209220363 The first time I heard this song I was very young and didn't really understand it but I liked the way it sounded and listened to it a lot still to this day. Only recently did I actually understand what the songs message was and it just so happens that I agree with what Talking Heads is talking about. The songs is all about how most people live life unconscious to what happens to them and not being the driving force in their life. The song also talks about how people have moments later in their life when they wake up and have no idea where all the time went and how they made the choices they did. Whether it was where they lived, who they were married to, and any other decisions that they may have made in their life. What I took away from this song is that people shouldn't worry about the unimportant things in life and care more about the things that make them happy. Also to not let anyone or thing steer them away from what you want to do. I still listen to this song and try to listen to what I took away from it.]]> 2017-11-21 18:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelsw/ju3ak32v1i95/wish/209220363 michaelsw https://padlet.com/michaelsw/ju3ak32v1i95/wish/209445645 I don't paticularily like art in the form of paintings and such. But I do like what Andy Warhol once said. Everybody gets 15 mins of fame. This saying made me feel good that regular people have a chance to get their moment in the sun. For the longest time I would see famous people as like completely in another world. But then I realized that they are normal people just with a lot of popularity and money. This one saying means a lot to me, but I couldn't care less about anything else Warhol did or said. ]]> 2017-11-22 13:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelsw/ju3ak32v1i95/wish/209445645 michaelsw https://padlet.com/michaelsw/ju3ak32v1i95/wish/210396301 Movies are most definetley what define me the most. I consider John Wayne to a hero and inspiration to me. More than anyone else. There are other people affiliated in film that mean a lot to me. Christopher Nolan is the director of some of the best movies ever made. There has not been a single movie that he has been a part of that I didn't like. Men like these are what I strive to be like. The other thing like the revenant and once in a lifetime mean a lot to me as well. They all shape who I am and how I act. If I was asked who most defined me I would say that it's tied for my dad and John Wayne. ]]> 2017-11-27 14:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelsw/ju3ak32v1i95/wish/210396301