Thursday, May 29, 2014

Post AP tests school

All of my classes seem to just kinda ended since AP tests happened. Even my regular classes, except for Algebra 2 cause math never stops, have been watching a lot of movies or having "work time." Even though finals havent even happened yet teachers seem like they're already on summer. Not that I'm complaining about doing nothing but why do have to come to school to do nothing? Even a majority of my finals are "reflection letters" so basically an easy one hundred.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

All the festivals

After having been to ACL, and SXSW, and seeing the line up for Fun Fun Fun Fest, I realized that while i love them, they arent as important to me as they are to other people. I like seeing the bands and the experience of course but
 1. they take like all my money even if my parents do pay for it, between food and stuff im broke afterwards.
2. Theres a lot of stress leading up to the festivals figuring out rides, times, and the schedule of everything thats going on. Especially with girls when everyone is way too dramatic making solid plans is difficult.

Even though i say all these things I'm probably still gonna go to as many festivals and concerts at SXSW as i can in my life.

Fun Fun Fun Fest

I've never been to Fun Fun Fun Fest but its another thing that i dont feel like im missing out by not going. I'm definitely one of those people that loves festivals but hates them at the same time because i can not just stand in a crowd for hours waiting for the band to come on. I feel like im going to pass out the whole time that we're waiting. When the band actually comes on I'm fine then because i have something to focus on besides the fact that i'm really close to people and it would be almost impossible to get out.

More about ACL

I liked the line up for last year more because i think that the headliners and the smaller bands were both really amazing and pretty well known. Where as this year i think the line up is more small time bands that no one has heard of and then really popular headliners. I'd love to go but im not sure if the few people i want to see are worth the money and if the money is worth standing waiting all day for those few people. Also a lot of the people coming are people that are in Austin like all the time for a lot cheaper that ACL.

ACL 2014

I'm apparently like the only one in the world that isnt psyched about the line up for this year. Dont get me wrong i think the people coming are pretty cool and am probably going to go, I'm just not as pumped about it as i was last year. Part of it has to do with the fact that two of the main people that i would want to see, Foster the People and Childish Gambino, i just saw FOR FREE at SXSW. I really like Gambino but I dont care enough to see him again when the concert at SXSW was awesome and hes not coming out with a new album between now and then I'm pretty sure so it would be basically the same concert i think. I just dont think that the concerts i just saw could be topped because it was exactly like an ACL concert.

Lauryn Hill

Shes one of those rappers that make people think that current day rap is going way down hill. Lauryn's really good at putting words together in a clever way to say what shes trying to say. We of course have listened to her awesome line in Ready or Not multiple times and every time its still just as awesome. She isnt like current female rappers that rap very similarly to male rappers but in a high pitched voice, she makes each verse completely her own. While being really talented at rapping, her singing voice is just as good. She hits some crazy notes and makes the song very unique.

The Fugees

I liked the album we listened to by the Fugees and it was one that i could have listened to the whole thing and not have complained. I liked how they had a lot of variation in their voices between the guys and Lauryn. We have talked about how talented they are before and listening to the bits and pieces of the album just showed that. They are really clever about how they rhyme and the meaning of the words they say. I was surprised how many of the songs i knew without knowing they were by the Fugees.