I'm re-doing my "topic" blog today because apparently I have to actually research things and stuff which I didn't do for my topic. So I'm trying again with a different topic. I tried to write about the town my book, Along for the Ride is based in, Colby, North Carolina, but it turns out it's not a real place. As you can imagine, it's really annoying realizing that. So I guess it's plan B now(the really really long plan). I'm going to be comparing two major parts of my book. Punk Rock music vs. classical music. this book is called If I Stay. So basically this girl gets into a car crash with her family( her parents die) but her ghost or something is still there while she's at the hospital( i havent gotten very far so theres no ral specifics I'm going to give). Her whole family and boyfreind are really into punk rock but she loves classical music( she plays the cello). So I will compare Yo-Yo Ma ( Adam and Mia's first date) to some of the "coolest, toughest, hottest, rocker girls" her mom talks about when she is trying to find a halloween costume.
Yo-Yo Ma is, of course, famous for being a cellistand composer. He was born 1955 and has won many grammies for his works. I found it suprising he was actually born in Paris despite the name. His mom was a singer and dad a violinist and musical proffesor. This is kind of like the main character in my book, Mia. She is a cellist who also came from a musical family. Her dad had his own band and his mom was, even then, a huge groupie type rocker chick. He started at 4 rather than Mia though who started in third grade. They had both tried other instruments before knowing they loved the cello. Mia has auditioned for Julliard, the school Ma went to. Ma now has two children and lives in Massachucets. Here's his picture ( sorry, i couldn't find out a way to put a video...).
Mia's mom looks up to people like Debbie Harry, Kathleen Hanna, Patti Smith, Joan Jett, Courtney Love(" in her demented destructionist way"), Lucinda Williams(" even though she's counrty she's tough as nails"), Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth(" pushing fifty and still has it"), "that Cat Power woman", and Joan Armatrading. It would take FOREVER to talk about all of these so I'm going to focus on Debbie Harry. Debbie is older, born in 1945 and was lead singer of the band "Blondie". She's also very famous, her band was HUGE. She, as well, did solo singing along with songwriting and acting. Her and Yo-Yo both write their peices. She was adopted which is pretty cool but neither of her parents were as musical(at least their jobs). The name before adoption was Angela Trimble. Before singing she worked at BBC's radio office,as a dancer, and was a playboy bunny. She made Blondie with her boyfreind, th4e guitarist just like Adam in my book) and named it after what guys would call her when passing in driving. She was called the 12th greatest woman of rock and roll by VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll and the 18th sexiest artist of all time by VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists. Heres a picture of her:
I think both of these people are pretty cool and definetly creative. Both of them I can connect to Mia and her mom, Adam, and her dad.
sites i used:( i didnt use any opinions from them)
http://www.yo-yoma.com/yo-yo-ma-biography( his official website)
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