what is it about listening to your favorite music that can take you to a completely different place, to the past?

these familiar words and harmonies transport me back to a time where the world was so much smaller and less complicated. where i seemed to have everything figured out.

i feel like i've been given this prescribed path, and if i follow it, there is no escaping the illness. the mundane routine of millions before me. stuck in a time of ceaseless inspiration. no great motivation. a vast void of lost dreams.

when did it become ok to turn off our real emotions and turn on the idiot box? i see an army of my peers hiding behind handheld trophies, electronic menaces.

we must use this powerful technology to move the masses, to educate about our world. instead we poison the minds of the youth. if we are to ever move away from the prescribed path, we must relearn our own emotions and truth.

i dig for my lost self, hidden behind years of change and reconditioning. i rub the sleep from my eyes as i try to scream out the answer to what ive been trying to prove my whole life. my throat is sore and it stings as the words come up rough like venom.

who are you lost child?

the question bounces off my ears like lightening and fades slowly, not wanting me to forget what im searching for. an echo to last a lifetime warning me to never lose sight in the flash.

E-books and The Kindle

For the past couple of weeks I have been researching the new technology fad of "e-books". E-books are electronic personal readers that can hold many copies and versions of printed books. I have paid particular attention to Amazon's Kindle. The Kindle can hold approximatley 3,500+ books in one convienent place (Anonymous, Electronic Business Journal, 2010). A reader can choose from about 670,000 books on Amazon's database, which includes New York Times bestsellers and new releases (Anonymous, Electronic Business Journal, 2010). These books run for about $9.99 or less depending on the book.

There are of course drawbacks to having such a technology. The Kindle does not use any type of backlighting; therefore it cannot be read in the dark (Mossberg, 2010). This does mean however that one can read the bok in sunlight with no difficulty, unlike the iPad (Perenson, 2010).

It could still be a little while before e-books emerge into wide use in the classroom and on college campuses. According to the “2010 Horizon report, it is predicated that a ‘full-scale movement to electronic books is still two to three years away.’ For college textbooks, that tipping point will be a bit further out, perhaps five years” (Clodfelter 2010).

My personal opinion about e-books is this. If you are an avid reader and are traveling a lot, this is a great way to bring your books with you without all the bulk. You can also purchase books and have them downloaded immediately without going to the store. There are drawbacks though that are sort of a deal breaker for me. This takes away from going to an actual bookstore and discovering books you wouldn't have once found. This is hard to do on a website. You can preview a book online like you can in person.

Despite what I may personally feel, the e-book has definitely taken off and will only continue to become more popular as the Christmas shopping season approaches.

Check out some great Kindle ad's I've added on the right sidebar of my page!

Where I am, as of now.

I am not me.

My body is nothing,

but a vessel for my mind and soul.

A protective casing.

My body isn't me.

I am not this person.

I am a soul, a feeling,

an idea.

Sticks and stones may break my bones,

but my words could change the world.

I am an inexperienced psychological matter.

A perpetual phenomenon of thought in space.

WIthout the constant stream of idea, emotions, and feelings

I am nothing,

Bare, incomplete.

All beauty would cease to flow from every stem.

My world a complicated foreign rock,

Floating, unforgiving, and cold.

I am my mind, that is where I am.

as of now...