i hate this blog

i have just reread a couple of these posts, no one should ever read any of them. Way to many spelling errors.  And I will spell it here cuz i will kill myself if i don't, so The Beatles.

I have a blog!

I totally forgot. Got nothing interesting to say know but i found this again so yeah

Music Lyrics: Lyrics Analysis

The song I wish to discuss is Imagine by John Lennon.  The some was written for the album of the same name in 1971.  The song discuss a world without religion, countries, heaven, hell, and no possessions.  It is essentially a plea by Lennon for people to let go of that which divide people and to live as brothers and sisters in humanity.  Lennon, a known pacifist, is promoting a peaceful world with no strife.  Sometimes when this song is covered, the person covering it will change the lyric "and no religion too" to "one religion too' or something similar.  Beyond the lyrics, the piano rift that plays through the whole song is beautiful.  This song though is extremely sad for me to watch and/or listen to.  I find it very depressing and saddening that a man for peace and tranquility would be shot.  I suggest to everyone to go to youtube and search Imagine and watch the first video that pops up.  The song and the video are amazing.

Music Review

In late August 2008, I attended the concert festival Outside Lands in San Francisco.  The performances took place over a weekend at Golden Gate Park.  Of all the acts I saw, the best by far and bar none was the set by Wilco.  Wilco was the second to last band to play at Outside Lands.  This was the first time I saw Wilco live.  I had looked forward to their performance more than any other band and they didn't disappoint.  My brothers and I had tried to get closer to the stage, but by the time we got their, two hours before their performance, it was packed for them.  We were lucky ,though; We were able to squeeze all the way up to the fifth row off to the right of the stage.  We had to stand waiting for them with no wiggle room for nearly two hours.  When they finally came on, all the pain in my legs went away.  I might want to add that this pain was the build up of a weekend where I walked eighty blocks on friday, forty blocks on Saturday, and another forty on Sunday, not to add all the walking inside the festival.  Wilco started with some songs that I didn't know very well.  I still enjoyed it a lot, but many of the songs early I just didn't know well, until the song "spiders (kidsmoke)".  This already is my favorite Wilco song and when they played it, it blew me away.  The song, being already ten minutes, was turned into a twenty minute jam for the band.  They played just about every song I could have asked for.  As they were playing, I started to get worried that they would have to stop soon as that had happened to many bands at the festival already, but they just kept trucking along.  After the greatness that is Wilco had ended, I got into a few conversations with the people around me and it seemed that the general consensus was that Wilco should have ended the festival and NOT Jack Johnson.  Johnson is alright, but for the Sunday headliner, singing to 100,000 people, he should not be there.  I guess that is alright though.  I got to the greatest band of right now.  And please go away Jack Johnson.  Go smoke a joint on the beach in Hawaii and never come back.  You can still make music, but do NOT leave and steal headlining acts again.

AT Chapter 8 Exercises

Exercise 8.2

1. Finish my education.  I need to to get somewhere in life.

2. Have possibly a steady job. Will be needed.

3. To be in top physical shape.  Who doesn't.

4. Visit Europe.  I want to go back.  It is a great place.

5. I will suit up some skates and play some ice hockey.  I love the sport, but never played on ice.

Exercise 8.3

1. Education*

2. Physical/ Recreational

3. Financial*

4. New Places*

5. Career/ Job Development

(*= connected to dream)

All these will be needed for me to accomplish what I plan to do.

1. In Ten Years I will travel back to Germany and have a stein.

Yes

Yes

None apply directly.  It is a little bit of Character building and Social.

Exercise 8.4

Believable(check), Realistic(check), Desirable(check), Measurable(check)

Five Songs I Hate

These songs make me hate music and the people who listen to them.

5. "Last Resort" by Papa Roach.  From the time I first heard this song, I knew I would hate it.  Listen to it and you will understand.  It adds nothing to the musical world.

4. "D'yer Mak'er" by Led Zeppelin.  Most people might be shocked that I hate this song.  I love the Zep, but I heard this song so many times on the radio that a major distaste for it has grown.

3. "Rollin'" by Limp Bizkit.  What a horrible song.  I think it is very funny though.  When I listen to this song, I think of a MadTV's skit of this song.  Now that was priceless.

2. "Alcohol" by the Millionaires.  This "band" could be number one on this list, but then again, they are not a real band.  Look them up on youtube.com and you too can experience the horribleness.

1. Jon Bon Jovi.  Everything he ever does will be a personal insult to me in my eyes.  His music is lower than the soil beneath the surface of the earth.  It's kind of funny how my hatred grew for him.  I am a huge hockey fan and my favorite team is the Ducks.  In 2003, the ducks went to the Stanley Cup Finals against the New Jersey Devils.  In seven games, the Devils bested the Ducks in a well fought series.  Now, my hatred was born after the game ended and the Devils were celebrating when a certain song started to play; Living on a Prayer.  From that moment on, whenever I hear Bon Jovi, I think of the Ducks' lose in the finals.  I realize that any song that would have played then I would hate forever, so I am glad it was a talentless hack.  The saddest part of it all though is that when the Ducks did win the Stanley Cup, I cannot remember the song that was played or really anything that happened after the game.  It deeply saddens me that I will always remember their lose more than their triumph.

Fever Chapter 7

I particularly enjoyed the paragraphs that discussed Michael Jackson.  I love how Tim Riley talks about Jackson.  He says that he had so much soul and precocious sexual edge at just the age of ten, but he turned into doomed, beyond repair person.  He describes him as having so much potential to be a star and how he did capitalize on it, but only ruin himself in the end.  I was to young to remember when he got married to Lisa Marie Presley, but from the way it is described in the book, it seemed to be a farce.  Michael Jackson had major success in the 80s with albums like "Thriller", but he progressively became stranger.  He started getting plastic surgery to change how he looked and eventually, he bleached himself.  This is how he became Wacko Jacko.  He did many odd things like build a theme park for himself, bought the Elephant Man's bones, and settled out of court on the case of his pedophilia.  This seems to culminate in 2002 when he dangled his baby son out a window in Germany.  Jackson is the perfect example of what not to do with the later end of your career.  

RE: FINAL PAPER

To narrow it down a bit, I will research the influence of drugs on the Beatles.  I think it is pretty apparent how drugs changed them and their sound.

Talking About Sex

In college, the pressure to have sex is lessened by comparison to high school.  In college, not as many people are in each other's business which creates more privacy and thus reducing the pressure.  High school, though, is a different story.  Regardless of the size of your school, word always gets around to people about things very quickly.  I may not have ran in the major social circles at my school, but I always heard about someone doing something.  To be honest, half the time I had no idea who they were.  The advice I would pass on would be that rushing into something if you're not sure or ready for it is not a good idea; don't follow the crowd; do what you feel like doing in your own time; and you'll live without sex.  In terms of dating, I don't have much advice to give out.  Respect the person you are with and don't be immature.  Do not google someone before going out with them; that is creepy, maybe afterwards.  That is up to the person.

Final Paper

For my final paper topic, I have chosen to write about the influence of drugs on the music of rock n' roll of the late 60s and early 70s.  Many of my favorite musical artists emerged out of this time and used drugs.  It is also at this time that drugs use became synonymous with rock n' roll.  I am curious to know, of the music they wrote, how much of it was influenced by drugs and is that the secret to good music?  I am half serious about that last part, but it is a good point to look into.  Is most of the music I like drug influenced?

AT Exercise 7.6

Scale 1

I prefer quiet and time to consider things

I prefer doing mental work privately before talking

I prefer to understand something before trying it

I prefer to others do a task and to see the results

I want to know what other people expect of me

2 for E 3 for I

Scale 2

I usually pay more attention to experience and what something is

I prefer to use my imagination to come up with different ways and possibilities to do things

I like to solve new problems.  I dislike doing the same thing over again

I enjoy using old skills already learned more than new skills

I am impatient with details and don't mind complicated situation

2 for S 3 for N

Scale 3

I prefer to use logic when making decisions

I expect to be treated with justice and fairness

I am usually aware of others people's feelings

I can get along with little or no harmony among people

I often can predict how others will feel

3 for T 2 for F

Scale 4

I prefer to make a plan and have things settled out and decided ahead of time

I prefer to make things come out the way they ought to be

I prefer to finish one project before the starting of another

I usually have my mind made up and may decide things too quickly

I live by making changes to deal with problems as they come along

4 for J 1 for P

Scale 1-Introversion

Scale 2-Intuition

Scale 3-Thinking

Scale 4-Judging

IITJ

Music List #4

1. "You Shock Me All Night Long" by AC/DC.

2. "Are You Experienced?" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

3. "The Joker" by The Steve Miller Band.

4. "Smoke Two Joints" by Sublime

5. "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd

"Comfortably Numb" is my favorite song on this list for no particular reason other than I love to listen to it.  Whenever I hear it on the radio, I have to stop what I am doing and listen to it as well as mouth the words.

Talking About Drugs

Going to college can open people up to a new world of education, friends, and drugs and/or other paraphernalia.  Regardless of your personal view on drugs, many people in college use drugs; albeit a simple cup of coffee or cocaine.  The personal vices of people influence who they hang out with and how they act.  In most normal social circles, coffee, cigarettes, and marijuana are all relatively acceptable.  In my family, everyone drinks coffee.  My brother started drinking coffee at the age of 4 and still does it to this day at all times of the day.  I will never drink coffee habitually as I believe that one day it will be found that coffee will cause cancer or something else bad.  Cigarettes are also a very common drug used by people.  Both my brothers now smoke cigarettes and I know many people who smoke cigarettes.  I once again do not, though.  They make me sick.  I used to smoke cigars, but not anymore.  I know many people who smoke marijuana.  By my perspective, that is fine, but I understand the opposition against it.  The less sociable acceptably drugs would be cocaine, speed, acid, and shrums to name a few.  In general, these are drugs that are seen as more serious and possibly dangerous.

Peer Mentor Seminar

I went to the seminar on test anxiety.  Honestly, I went just because I had to.  I really do not have test anxiety problems.  I am usually very calm going into a test or very excited at the most.  Though, the seminar offered many facts about test taking and the effect it had on people.  A key point presented was that everyone needs to have stress.  Without it, people would never do anything, but with too much stress, a person can become ill or have panic attacks.  It is important to find the balance of stress in all our lives.  The middle path is the best way to go when it comes to regarding stress.  I learned some of the physical ailments one can get from  stress and I a little shocked.  I know the basics such as sweaty palms, negative thoughts, and stomach aches.  I was surprised to learn that one could actually vomit from stress.  In the seminar, we played a game of tic tac toe and had to answer questions about stress to get to mark the spot we wanted.  Unfortunately, no one won the game, but in the process, we learned a lot of information.  I was pleased with the way the seminar went and how it was presented.  The best part of the whole thing though, had to be when everyone said their names and why they had come.  Just about everybody said it was to satisfy a muse class requirement.

Study Tip #6

When studying for a test, try speaking the notes to yourself out loud.  Repeat them three times.

Four Year Plan

The next four years of my life are still a little up in the air, but I have chosen a path for which I will follow, at least for this essay.  As of now, I am a Business/Marketing major, but I see myself switching to advertising in the coming semester.  I have found that every time I envision myself doing "business", I see myself unhappy, in a cubical.  I cannot be in a profession where this is my environment everyday and I do not really get to use any of my creative ideas.  It is for this reason that I plan to switch my major to Advertising.  In this major, I have to take 40 units from the JMC, Journal and Mass Communication, and 80 units from outside the JMC.  Along with that are some classes that I will have to take for example MCOM 72, MCOM 100, MCOM 101, and MCOM 111.  MCOM 111 is very important as it an internship that will become to me my junior year.  After completing this class, the class ADV 129 Campaigns becomes available for me to take.  Also, within this major, I can take the creative track or the management track.  I would take the creative track as it would suit me better and this means that I would take the classes ENGL 71.  I have several classes I can take in the Advertising department, but sadly I cannot take all of them as their is not enough time.  Actually, as of now, it would be impossible for me to graduate in four years going at the pace I'm going now.  Even if I took more units, it cannot be done unless I start taking classes in the summer, as I plan to do if I can.  I still have to meet with my advisor about the switch in majors, but at this point, in my mind I am no longer a business major

note to self #1

remember to do AT homework

Music Memories #2

I e-mailed my mom the question about her music memories as a child and how they changed as she became older.  She said that the first music she listened to was her parents as come to think of it, so was it for me as well.  She use to listened to classical music until rock n' roll came.  She really liked the fact that it got everyone dancing.  The first rock artist she remembers was Chubby Checkers for the song "the Twist".  As she grew up in the sixties, there was a lot of music that was coming in and the music she enjoyed the most was the Beetles.  She also grew up listening to bands like Simon and Garfunkle, Carol King, Judy Collins mainly because they were groups yo could get up and dance to.  She even saw Miles Davis and was blown away.  this same music is still what she listens to along with some modern groups like Regina Spector, Fiest, and Frou Frou.  Lyrics are very important to her as she likes to sing them often.  Even though her family, my family, are not very big dancers, she still enjoys to sing and listen to music that her family listen to as it is good music.  And to this day, her favorite band is still the Beetles as it is that she knows every word to all the songs.

Study Tip #5

This maybe a very specific case, but I was just on an airplane and realized that it is a perfect place to study.  There is a constant hum of either the engines or the people which creates a white noise which if you are like me is perfect for studying.

Study Tip #4

For difficult classes, make study groups with people in the class, preferable one's that are taking it seriously