Assignment 6- Max

1. Look to your immediate left. The first object you see will be your only weapon in a battle against Mike Tyson. How will you fair?
2. What is your current cellphone background? Why?
3. Do you believe in any conspiracy theories? Which ones? Why?

     My apologies for going with the most boring of my three prompts, but my cellphone background is a photo of my current favorite musician, Nick Cave. I love Nick Cave because he can work in nearly any genre. Piano ballads? Garage pop? Metal? Semi-Gospel? Shrek Soundtracks? Harrowing story songs? Whatever this is? He can truly do it all. He is also a fantastic writer, not only for his lyrics, which can be read as poetry and be just as effective as they are as songs, but for his screenplays and books. Currently, he has written two movies and two novels, all of which have received widespread acclaim, and even wrote a rejected screenplay for Gladiator 2, presumably while under the influence of some sort of drug, titled Christ Killer, in which a dead Maximus is sent back to Earth by the ancient Gods to kill Christ, and ends with Maximus working in the Pentagon. As bizarre as this sounds, it was deemed a masterpiece by Gladiator director Ridley Scott, but impossible to make, due to the conservative nature of Hollywood. The entire script can be found online, and is well worth a read if you have a couple of hours to spare. Nick Cave is also, along with Tom Waits, one of the only artists to remain consistently great for nearly 3 decades. From his early days in the no-wave scene with The Birthday Party to his current more focused work with The Bad Seeds, Cave shows no signs of stopping. Nick Cave is undoubtedly one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and in my mind, can do no wrong, musical or otherwise.