“Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, ‘cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. - Alexander Supertramp May 1992” Into The Wild (2007)
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“I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death storm alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.”
100 Favorite Movies (In no particular order)
23. Into the Wild
“The core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences.”
Director: Sean Penn
Overview: After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
I’m going to paraphrase Thoreau here… rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth.
Into The Wild
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Hard Sun by Eddie Vedder
When I walk beside her
I am the better man
when i look to leave her
I always stagger back againOnce I built an ivory tower
so I could worship from above
when I climb down to be set free
she took me in againThere’s a big
a big hard sun
beating on the big people
in the big hard worldWhen she comes to greet me
she is mercy at my feet
I see her inner charm
she just throws it back at meOnce I dug an early grave
to find a better land
she just smiled and laughed at me
and took her rules back againOnce I stood to lose her
and I saw what i had done
bowed down and threw away the hours
of her garden and her sunSo I tried to want her
I turned to see her weep
40 days and 40 nights
and its still coming down on me
i love hiking to thissong
