The only one you’re wishing for

Mood: calm  Music: Sent from Up Above - Mariah Carey  Reading: None

Day 01 -> Your favourite song
Day 02 -> Your favourite movie
Day 03 -> Your favourite television program
Day 04 -> Your favourite book

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Turns out that the one English class I couldn’t take last semester did a unit on the writers of the Beat Generation. FML.

Plenty has been said about On the Road, but the reason why I love it so much is because I wanted to be like Sal and Dean, minus the drugs and whores.

I have wanted to travel for as long as I can remember. I knew there was an entire fabulous world outside of my cow town growing up and that’s all I ever wanted. I don’t even really care about visiting some spectacular foreign place, but staying right here in America. There’s so much to be found within our borders that we take for granted. On the flip side, I know it takes place during a different time so if I were to do it, it wouldn’t be exactly the same. But the idea of adventure, living by the seat of your pants, is what fires me up so much. Everything falls apart by the end of the novel, but at least Sal tried to make a go of things. I wish I had half the balls to try something as gutsy. Alas, I am stuck in my ways and poor.

I’m so-so about the movie adaptation. Some books don’t need film adaptations; they’re just fine on the page. On the Road is one of them. I definitely do not agree with Kristen Stewart being in the movie. Why? Because I’m not ever gonna see Mary Lou, I’m gonna see Bella Swan. Her stupid Bella face is going to distract me and ruin Mary Lou when I read the book. You could say “try harder, you can separate the two when you read the book” but no, I’m not one of those readers. If you make a movie out of a book I love, I’m forever going to see their faces when I read and re-read it. Even when I’m reading Harry Potter, I’m imagining Dan, Emma and Rupert’s faces. They should’ve gone with an unknown. I’m psyched Sam Riley is in it though. I thought he nailed Ian Curtis in Control so beautifully.