Research Paper On Timberlake

Unfortunately, human beings outside the high school microcosm I am much harder on. Maybe Justin Bieber (sp?) will evolve into Timberlake 2.0. Somehow I am skeptical, and many of you would consider even that faint praise. Anyhow, I work on it. I am also allergic to certainty. The older I get, the less sure I am of anything I've ever truly believed, with the exception of a few outliers, like Howlin' Wolf, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Wild Bunch, or peanut butter. If that worries you consider these lines of the poetic saint Emily Dickinson: "In insecurity to lie/Is joy's ensuring quality." She is not far wrong. Finally, music, books, and film (occasionally some of the other arts...and even sciences) are like oxygen to me. If I didn't have to earn
Frissell has always provided me a realistic but daunting model to which to aspire). You've encountered some of my tastes in the previous paragraph, there's a scad of examples on the back wall of my room, but many of those may be foreign to you. I spend very little time swimmin' in that ol' main stream. BUT...here are a few things I really like that you might know about: Breaking Bad (the plea "NO SPOILERS" is almost like a password among my friends); Eric Church's "Springsteen" (I was 13-16 when Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town came out, so I can testify that he's justified in that wonderful title); among the 60-and-counting books I've read this year are The Hunger Games (pretty cool adolescent lit, actually), Jane Eyre (just because I am an English teacher doesn't mean I came in having read everything!), and Sputnik, Masked Men, and Midgets: The Early Days of Memphis Wrestling (ask me sometime about when I met Triple H); and, well, I am very picky about movies, but maybe you've seen Bernie, Beasts of the Southern Wild, or Undefeated. Rather than seek out things that confirm my pre-existing suspicions, I love my perceptions to be challenged--it's part of the constant process of self-construction.
Two of my favorite quotes: from the great Baltimore journalist and curmudgeon H. L. Mencken, "An idealist is one who, deducing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, believes it will also make better soup," and from Harley, the itinerant musician played by songwriter extraordinaire Steve Earle on HBO's Treme, "I'm too blessed to be stressed." Clarification on the latter: it's not a statement of self-regard, just a recognition that I have no reason to complain on this earth...at