Scott Pilgrim's Nostalgia

The hippie aesthetic era was an important time in rock and roll during the late 60’s and on into the early 80’s. It was a time were rock had a sense of purpose. They sung about the issues that plagued the country. It was also a time where technology would play an important roll in the sound of music, with the advancement in recording and synthesizer technology (Covach, “The Hippie Aesthetic”). The hippie aesthetic was not immune to the advancement of music. This essay will go over three songs that represent the different aspects of this era. It’ll will review a song that is predominately hippie aesthetic, a song that is a little of both, and finally a song that has no trace of hippie aesthetic.

     Most of the book is the narrative from Billy Pilgrim a unique character who has the ability to become “unstuck in time”,

Throughout history man kind has always searched for ways to entertain himself, each time developing new activities and games. Video games have become a very popular way to spend time and have fun from the 1970’s up to now. With new developments appeared different video game genres from adventure to racing, but the violent video games appear to be the most popular ones (Shin, 2003), for example: shooters, fighting and video games where you have to eliminate, destroy, or kill your enemies.

Children play. The manner in which children have played has frequently changed throughout the years. There was a time where sticks or index fingers were used to symbolize guns or bows in order for children to play “cowboys and Indians.” Later, the same mechanisms were used as children would play “cops and robbers.” Children mimic what they see in reality when it is time to play. However, children are not known to mimic what they play when functioning in real life. For example, children who played “cowboys and Indians” were not known to actually go out and try to harm others in the belief that they actually were cowboys or Indians. These examples are relevant in today’s society as critics of violent video games often attribute violence in reality to the violence in video games. However, videos games are a form of play and, as the previous examples have shown, what a child plays is not reflected in what that child actually does in their real life.

Specific Purpose: To inform my COM121 class on how video games are part of peoples lives.

The year is 1944, 1945, 1964, 1967, 1968, and 1976 as Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time. For many of us we see time as a river. It drifts listlessly from the springs to the ocean. We cannot touch the same waters twice. In the Novel Slaughter House five by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim discovers the true abounding nature of time. And that time is not a river, but the entire ocean, every water molecule a moment in time existing all at once in the vast blue of eternity.

It may seem unlikely, but songs written today can share connections with literature from the past. Washington Irving’s, “The Devil and Tom Walker,” is an example of this concept. Irving’s writing was influenced by time spent as a child, reading stories about adventure in his father’s library. The song, “As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid,” was written by Patrick Stump who wanted to portray people's hunger for money. The short story, “The Devil and Tom Walker” and the song “As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid” share themes of religion and greed that are still relevant today.

A person’s life can be summed up within a sentence, their childhood just a word. Time has the interesting ability of warping. At the same time, it has the ability to take away sentiment from any event.

Kurt Vonnegut also introduces the idea of time in his own narration of the story. Along with the previous idea, when the reader is introduced to Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut makes a statement about Billy: “Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.” This statement makes the point that time does not matter and that the only thing that he can do is live in the moment and deal with what is happening right now instead of what has already happened or what will happen later. Although Billy can travel back in time to the places that he used to be and the

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) is the action packed journey of a misguided young man desperately trying to navigate his own existence. In the film Scott must fight the conflictions within himself and the seven evil exes of his love interest. Based off the comic book series by Bryan Lee

No Country for Old Men is a novel that revolves heavily around the theme of nihilism and nostalgia. Main characters, Sheriff Bell and Anton Chigurh represent this immensely throughout the novel.

In Blackboard Jungle the rock music was used to associate the school with the danger, aimed at an audience of people who believed rock music was the sound of crime and degenerate youth. The film I mentioned before, American Graffiti, uses the exact same track as Blackboard Jungle but is instead aimed at the now grown up youth from the 1950s to create a sense of nostalgia. American Graffiti can, of course, do this with confidence because it was made long after the release of the song and the era. Dazed and Confused performs the exact same task with music from the 1970s. Frith writes, “One of the most obvious consequences of music’s organization of our sense of time is that songs and tunes are often the key to our remembrance of things past” (Frith 142). The people watching the film who have lived through this time period are able to associate themselves with these songs, because

Video games are highly designed with artistic expression in the digital world. There is a

After hearing a story line of three little girls saving their town daily from constant attacks it usually draws the audience to imagine a new rendition of a superhero movie. It is easy to see things from a very one-sided point of view especially when having to do with a video game. At first glance or play the stereotypical thoughts are most likely the ones popping into the user's head. Of course there is no wrong in that but when we take a step back to analyze all of the elements going into these complex games it is like a light bulb turns on and thousands of ideas start flowing. Even for children with grand imaginations visualizing a deep realistic story is very unlikely. Here the audience has the opportunity to be exposed to the reality that

Adrian Tomine demonstrates that Mark, the protagonist of this story is stuck in the past. For example, after receiving a call from his ex, Mark took hours to prepare himself for the date. While he was digging for clean clothes. He tries to remember which Shirt was her favorite. Since he was thinking about Carrie’s favorite shirt, Mark is showing that he still cares about her and wants to impress her. This would mean that he wants his past life back in the present. Furthermore, when he was talking on the phone with his ex. She asks him “What do you have plan” for today, on his birthday. Unfortunately, he didn’t plan anything. The only plan he had was waking up at 1:30 pm and to do nothing. He’s present life is completely empty with darkness