Thursday, October 1, 2009

Klosterman Blog #2

"But sometimes what seems obvious is not, particularly when you're trying to categorize what an artist represents culturally. That certainly seems true with Ozzy Ozbourne, who doesn't seem obsessed with power at all. In fact, he seems more obsessed with weakness, particularly his own.
As a public character, Ozbourne is the wildest of wild men. During the height of his career, he was constantly chomping off heads of birds, pissing on historical landmarks, and generally acting like the most berserk, messed up lunatic in the universe. It's not an act, either; what's more unique about Ozbourne is that many of the stories about his behavior are at least partially true. But as he's grown older, another side of Ozzzy has become more and more obvious: He is an incredibly vulnerable person who plainly lacks confidence(33-34)."

I chose this passage because it's just strange to read about the ultimate prince of darkness being characterized as "vulnerable". Another thing I noticed which I have never really been clear on grammatically is the capitalization after the colon in the last sentence. I've never been taught to capitalize after colons. Now I know. This passage is in the middle of a chapter but it also introduces a new subject. So, the first paragraph is close to an introductory paragraph and the second paragraph could therefor be categorized as the first bulk paragraph. This might come in handle when I start my annotative bibliography.

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