The Allure of Surfing
Describe the allure or draw of surf culture, as expressed in Kook. What do people find appealing about it? What does Heller specifically find appealing about it? Do you find surf culture alluring? Why or why not?
Trix and NLMG
Connecting NLMG to Trix You been Trix'd By: Will One of my favorite meals is breakfast, and I particularly enjoy cereal. Cereal brands are often marketed through the means of entertaining animated characters in commercials. These adverts usually contain a protagonist and a distinct villain. The villain usually wishes to indulge in the coveted cereal but is then stopped by the protagonists. For example, within the Trix cereal franchise, the villain is a rabbit. The rabbit always attempts to obtain the cereal but then is inevitably stopped by a group of children who chant, "Trix are for kids". This pattern follows through all of the different iterations of the commercial. The rabbit despite his freewill to create different plans to obtain the cereal, his fate will always be to fail in his plans and be foiled by the children. In this advert, the rabbit is waiting outside, painting an image of the Trix cereal, he then is lured by the scent of the voluptuous ...
Surfing and surf culture are widely regarded as fun, cool, and laid back. Surfing became popular in the 50's and 60's and since then it has influenced our culture in the US: surf music is an entire genre of music that reflects surf culture, there are popular brands of clothing like Billabong that started out supplying surfers with surf wear, and in movies and tv shows surfers and surf culture are always portrayed as relaxed and fun. While many people do not know much about surfing itself, they still like surf culture because our culture has created such hype around it. Heller sees surf culture like most people: he says, "Theres a feeling I will always remember: walking out of the shop with my first surfboard under my arm. This was cool" (Heller 7). Before Heller even was a part of the surf culture or knew anything about it, he thought it was cool. As a middle aged man, Heller finds surf culture to be rejuvenating. He says, "Genius name, Sex Wax. Cool, edgy, adolescent, which strikes to the heart of surf culture" (Heller 8). I find surf culture alluring because it comes off as being relaxed, fun, and stress free. Nothing about it seems too serious and it seems to be mainly focused on enjoying oneself.
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