Islamarada The place to be

All qualms set aside
A seat above the sea
Irascibility denied
The incendiary sun beating down around me
Sumptuous consumerism aside
The altruistic shade of a lonely palm tree
Satiated by ambrosial surroundings
unadulterated bliss
The spray of the sea titillating your desire to escape
Luscious ideas thrown back and forth
Mental capacity widens while contents shrink
The less you KNOW the more you think

Patrick Rickert

altruistic –adjective
unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoistic ).
Animal Behavior. of or pertaining to behavior by an animal that may be to its disadvantage but that benefits others of its kind, often its close relatives.
unadulterated–adjective
not diluted or made impure by adulterating; pure: unadulterated maple syrup.
utter; absolute: unadulterated nonsense.
titillate-verb
to excite or arouse agreeably: to titillate the fancy.
to tickle; excite a tingling or itching sensation in, as by touching or stroking lightly.
irascible–adjective
easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
characterized or produced by anger: an irascible response.
incendiary–adjective
used or adapted for setting property on fire: incendiary bombs.
of or pertaining to the criminal setting on fire of property.
tending to arouse strife, sedition, etc.; inflammatory: incendiary speeches.
tending to inflame the senses: an incendiary extravaganza of music and dance.
–noun
a person who deliberately sets fire to buildings or other property, as an arsonist.
Military. a shell, bomb, or grenade containing napalm, thermite, or some other substance that burns with an intense heat.
a person who stirs up strife, sedition, etc.; an agitator.
sumptuous-adj.
entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
luxuriously fine or large; lavish; splendid: a sumptuous feast.
luscious–adjective
highly pleasing to the taste or smell: luscious peacher
qualm–noun
an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness; misgiving: a sudden qualm about the success of the venture.
a sudden sensation or onset of faintness or illness, esp. of nausea

abrosial- adj

1.exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.
2.worthy of the gods; divine.

satiate-verb
  1.to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
2.to satisfy to the full; sate.
–adjective

Jimmy Buffett

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Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reef Band

You know an artist exhibits true greatness when one can listen to a song, stop, look at their surroundings and realize how the lyrics and attitudes of the music affect the world around them while establishing an intimately personal connection within the listener’s life. Jimmy Buffett’s songs directly evoke these same feelings and reactions that one exhibits when experiencing music characterized by such simplistically profound and humanizing lyrics. His band was named the “Coral Reefers” in which he serves as a conglomeration of different types of artists, including a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and movie producer. Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reef Band are best known for their ideas of “island escapism”, which describes how he loves living a nonchalant and carefree life as depicted through several of his songs, including some of his greatest hits, “Cheeseburger in Paradise”, “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes”, and “Margaritaville”. His songs help listeners understand the value of the present moment as well as implicate how to find pleasure in the simple things in life and enjoy all the things we take for granted. This charismatic songwriter originated from a humble beginning the late 1960s in Nashville Tennessee as a country singer when he recorded his first album, “Down to Earth” and since then has exploded with over 30 albums and millions of records sold. He has acquired 8 Gold Albums, and 9 Platinum and Multi Platinum Albums. This amazingly talented songwriter even won a Country Music Award for his song “It’s Five O’clock Somewhere”, in combination with Alan Jackson. The highly acclaimed singers Jimmy Buffett, Alan Jackson, and George Strait were also nominated for the CMA Event of the Year Award for their song, “Hey Good Lookin”.

Jimmy Buffett is also a very economically intelligent businessman through which has utilized his name and songs to the fullest through his business ventures including the Margaritaville Café, Fort Myers Miracle, and the Madison Black Wolf. Through his albums, records, and business ventures, this tasteful artist earns approximately $ 100 million yearly. Buffett has also capitalized upon the public’s love for his music and themes by creating his own beer under Anheuser Busch with the Margaritaville Brewing Label called the Land Shark Lager based solely upon the success of his song “Margaritaville”. Currently Buffett is planning on continuing to prosper immensely by building a Margaritaville Casino and Resort in both Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Biloxi, Mississippi. Despite this extravagant accumulation of wealth, this brilliant artist is highly involved in many different charity efforts. Buffett and Bob Graham founded the Save the Manatee Club, which is one of the world’s largest and most influential manatee preservation efforts. He also served as the primary funding for the “Singing for Change”, which provides grants to charities for environmental, child, and family effects, through his proceeds from his 1995 concert tour. He also raised large amounts of money at the “Surviving the Storm” Hurricane Relief Concert to provide for the victims of the devastating Hurricanes that hit Florida, Alabama, and the Caribbean. This amazing contributor also held a concert in Hong Kong that rose over $63,000 for the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Charity Fund. Many of Buffett’s actions and ideas are also centralized around charity, donations, and relief which solidifies his image as such a beneficial and humanizing artist.

Jimmy Buffett’s song “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” influences all different types of people in all different ways, such as helping people realize they must take life as they are dealt it and worry less about the materialistic and consumerist society that we live in. In this song he reminds the listeners to be thankful for all of the small things in their life that they may take for granted. His lyrics “Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure” and “If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane” describe how we need to remember the good times in our life in order to have hope and progress in the future. These lyrics also push ideas that we need happiness, relaxing, and laughing to remain sane and live life to the fullest. In this song, Buffett utilizes simplistic diction which helps the listener to relax and feel the impact of the music. This simplistic diction also displays how we can all relate to one another at some basic level despite how different we may appear. Parallelism is prominent within this song, in such instances as “All of the faces and all of the places”, “changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes”, and the last three lines “If I couldnt laugh I just would go insane, If we couldnt laugh we just would go insane”, which depicts Buffett’s feelings that continual hypnopaedic statements and progressive ideas will leave an impression upon them. This song also features an uplifting tone by inserting irony within the song through the lyrics “If we werent all crazy we would go insane”, which depicts how we all have problems, so rather than scrutinizing these unimportant circumstances, we should instead focus upon the beneficial and hopeful things in life. Buffett’s optimistic view of life, coupled with his intense feelings of relaxing and taking life as dealt, are evident within his songs and ventures that display how we can all listen closer and understand life better if we step back and take a break.

In Buffett’s other songs, he also suggests taking a vacation as a means of stepping back away from our over consumptive and highly serious society by sitting back, relaxing and drinking a beer or “wasting away in Margaritaville” to help ease the stresses, tragedies, struggles, and pains that one continually feels. By recognizing one’s gifts and being grateful for all that they have, one understand how to cope with all of the difficulties in his or her life. Buffett and the Coral Reef Band help people understand that taking a break from the hustle and bustle of high society can often times initiate some the truest and most productive times in life which helps people to see the larger picture for themselves in life.

By: jimmy buffett
1977
I took off for a weekend last month
Just to try and recall the whole year
All of the faces and all of the places
Wonderin where they all disappeared
I didn't ponder the question too long
I was hungry and went out for a bite
Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum
And we wound up drinkin all night

Chorus:
Its these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of our running and all of our cunning
If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane

Reading departure signs in some big airport
Reminds me of the places Ive been
Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure
Makes me want to go back again
If it suddenly ended tomorrow
I could somehow adjust to the fall
Good times and riches and son of a bitches
Ive seen more than I can recall

Chorus:
These changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
Through all of the islands and all of the highlands
If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane

I think about paris when Im high on red wine
I wish I could jump on a plane
So many nights I just dream of the ocean
God I wish I was sailin again
Oh, yesterdays over my shoulder
So I can't look back for too long
There's just too much to see waiting in front of me
And I know that I just can't go wrong

Chorus:
With these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of my running and all of my cunning
If I couldnt laugh I just would go insane
If we couldnt laugh we just would go insane
If we werent all crazy we would go insane

Biggest Boss

I'm the Biggest Boss

People will listen to what authority figures have to say, and by establishing oneself as an authority figure, one gains immense amounts of power and control. The repetition of the words in this song continual convince and assure the listener that a certain "he" is the Biggest Boss beyond any doubt.

Biggest Boss

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Dram Mon

As my fore fathers before me
have left no foundation
without a sense of the future

Since when is 3 less than 1
They led to my twitch
but had nothing to do with me

the scholarly attorney
cowardice and weakness
formerly believed
until one day
a man recieved
a single chocolate a hero formed
a coward gone
a father born

the honest judge
found out
his name tarnished
his life ruined
injustice came
to both of us

willie stark
at first honest
turned on himself
became the image
he fought against
and only later
realized
It all could heve been so much different

so hidden the cause
such an intangible view
i continue to separate
by following another's lead

A single event in a life
You realize
IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH DIFFERENT

I found out
we are all connected
held together
by us all
woven from
a single thread
ensnaring all
releasing none
the combined strength
of the spider's web
never to diminish
never to ebb.

Essay Eugene O'neil

Patrick Rickert

Several different thematic ideas are conveyed though Oneill’s play, Long Days Journey into Night; however, the most prominent ideas are feelings of regret, alienation, and emotional death that exist through several different conflicts throughout the work. The three most important conflicts in this play that promote the ideas of a slow and painful emotional death occur between James and Mary Tyrone (Father and Mother), Eugene and himself (Person and self), as well as Mary and her decided future (Person and Fate). Each of these very different conflicts focus upon the idea that regret leads to social, familial, and personal conflicts and eventually the emotional death of the characters involved. Regret serves as the driver that causes the inevitable and fateful loss of ones own being and any sense of self worth and accomplishment. O’Neill emphasizes the power of regret and alienation, showing how these intense human emotions can lead to the downfall of the human spirit and eventually emotional death that causes the characters to long for physical death to comfort them in their continual suffering. These regrets leads to a character looking towards alternative means of explaining the events and struggles a character has endured, such as through blame or conflicts.

The most prolific and evident conflict in the play occurs between James and Mary Tyrone, the supposed supporters and foundation of the family. In the play, Mary blames James for every major hardship she has endured since meeting him, as well as the possible lifestyles she could have had before giving herself up for a sellout actor named James Tyrone. Mary blames James for her addiction to morphine because James sent her to a cheap sanatorium after the depressing and sickening death of her baby Eugene. Mary even blames James for Eugene’s death, which marks the end of hope, which is depicted when she says “I should not have let you persuade me to join you, just because I loved you…I’d proved by the way I left Eugene, I wasn’t worthy to have another baby… I never should have borne Edmund”, on pages 90-91. Mary blames him for Eugene’s death because she feels like she was forced away from caring for the rest of her family when spending all of her time with Tyrone, a popular actor at the time. Mary blames James for her loss of innocence and hope and says that if she had not married him, she would have become a nun or a concert pianist, both of which were highly unlikely. Mary blames Tyrone for her addictions, alienation from society and her own family, and all the factors that lead to her emotional death.

Edmund not only joins in the conflicts of others, but he also hosts conflicts against himself and his own life as a human being. Edmund is both socially and familialy alienated and he is forced to turn to nature for his only means of comfort and hope, as well as depicting how he continually searches for any possible meaning in his seemingly hopeless life, which described when he says, “It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish”, on page 157. Edmund not only questions the meaning of his own life, but also his existence as a human being at all.

Conflicts, which result from regrets of the past result in alienation from not only friends and family, but also separate them from society as a whole. This reversible isolation sometimes leads to a far worse and irreversible sickness: emotional death. In society, this same series of events takes place more often than many people think. People in our society who dwell in the past and refuse further progression in life alienate themselves from the rest of society, coupled with addiction regress into an irrecoverable state of emotional death. Many of these people suffer from seemingly endless emotional and mental distress, which causes some to feel that their only possible refuge from irreconcilable and inevitable conflicts can be found through physical death.

Found Poem Patrick

Gimme Gimme
His names Jimmy
He fringed his skull
Others find him rather dull
His stumpy little legs
The reason for his crutches
In this world
Ignorance is bliss
Cocking his head
He emerged from the barren womb.

Poem

Girl, fly as a bee
Preventing me
From being
From finding
From seeing
From reading
YOU!