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.

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.

Snoop Dogg Documentary

I dont listen to Snoop Dogg/ Snoop Lion ever but after watching the documentary I dont think im missing out. He's one of those musicians thats just kinda there for me, like i know who he is and I know some lines from his most popular songs but i dont have any desire to learn more about him or listen to him more. The documentary didnt make him seem cool to me and it definitely didnt make it seem like his Snoop Lion career is something that deserves my attention. I just thought it showed a side of him that if people didnt know about before, which they probably did, didnt make him more appealing. It just made him look stupid to me and ridiculous for the large amounts of weed that they focused on.

Broadway Idiot

I thought the documentary about the making of the broadway production was interesting, despite not liking Green Day much. For me Green Day is one of those bands that i like the songs that everyone likes by them. The ones that were played on the radio all the time are the only ones i know. I dont know much about the actual broadway version except what was shown in the documentary so i dont know if it was actually good or not but it seemed from how much work they put into it that it would be good. Just guessing but its probably something like Mama Mia since they had to form the show around the songs so it has potential to be really good, but also potential to be bad.

Documentaries

I think all the documentaries we have watched in class are pretty cool. I probably wouldnt watch documentaries on my own time or anything but theyre cool because they show parts of music most people probably wouldnt know. It shows how much that the general public doesnt gather about the musicians lives and why they do what they do. It shows how much thought goes into every type of music even if the music seems kinda stupid and poorly thought out.

Semi-Personal Post

I found out this past weekend I'm apparently related to a pretty famous jazz and blues musician from Austin. W. C. Clark is apparently my great uncle. To understand why I didn't know until recently i guess you have to know that im adopted. Its not a sore subject for me at all so i dont care talking about it but basically my birth mom and birth dad had me and my birth dad wasnt in the picture and my birth mom was in jail. I went to live with my birth moms sister and her husband until i was 6 months old but being ended up being adopted by them and they are now my mom and dad. Occasionally my birth dad sends me money and we never really understood where he got the money from but it now makes since that it possibly could have been from his uncle, W. C. Clark. Ive looked him up a little bit and its really cool to know that im related to him, assuming everything we've been told is true. I'm pretty sure he doesnt know about me and i dont want to try and reach out to him or anything, its just an interesting connection to music for me.

Rules Continued

Also since this rule has been around they apparently also decided you cant use your own laptops anymore. Thats on a whole different level of stupid because we have to be logged onto education wifi to use them anyways. What about when people are using them for research they have to do for class? For example in my english class we are all writing papers and college essays and having to use a computer all class, but now since we have to use only school computers  half of us wont be able to use computers sometimes because there arent enough netbooks for the whole class. Not letting us use our electronics is not in anyway gonna stop the bullying thats happening. All the stuff that had been posted had been stuff that had been going around the school all year. Its not gonna keep people from talking. The part about not being able to use the phones in the bathroom either is not only dumb but impossible to control. People arent going to the bathroom just so they can cyber bully other kids, and even if they were you dont have anyway of knowing what they were doing in the stalls.

No Phone Rule

I think the main problem with this rule (besides the fact that the school is only protecting themselves not the kids) is that its causing students to talk about everything that happened more and making them mad. Now that everyone in the school has to follow the stupid no electronic rule everyone is talking about those girls even more. From what I've heard in the hallways people are almost blaming them for the rules being made, which of course is ridiculous since they didn't want to be talked about. Theyre being talked about even more now because the posts about them led to these rules. If the school was going to make this rule they should have done it along time ago.

Singing Along

This may have been from being in this class and when we listen to music we just sit and listen but ive noticed that its started to bother me sometimes when people sing along to songs. I dont think its the fact that they are singing with the song, i think its that when they do it loud enough theyre completely distracting from the song. Also i think part of it is that the people that usually sing along really loud to songs arent the best singers.

Hair Metal

To be honest hair metal day wasnt as bad as I was expecting. I'm not gunna download it ever of course but it wasnt painful. The worst part for me was just watching the guys perform. It was weird enough were it distracted fromm the song, so I guess the song could have been really terrible and i wouldnt have noticed. Also to my surprise i recognized a few songs.

Along with censured versions

Probably the stupidest song i have ever heard is "My Hitta." Its the clean version of "My Nigga" which is dumb enough as it is, but cleaning it up to my hitta is even worse. In the original version they say nigga like 11 times in the first 30 seconds so thats 11 times they have to say hitta right after each other. Thats not even a word so the little sense that the song made before just lost everything that made sense about it.

Censured versions

I honestly dont get the point of censured versions of songs. I know songs with a lot of cuss words of course cant be listened to by like kids and stuff, but why are you getting a song that has a lot of cuss words in the first place if you dont want to hear those words? It actually takes away a lot from the song when theres random pauses or they put made up words that sound basically the same as the cuss word just with like a different beginning. I know some songs have put chich instead of bitch which doesnt even make sense.

John Legend

This was problem from all my main stream radio listening but i really like john legend now. My favorite song by him is All of Me, and i think its because 1. the lyrics sound good together and 2. the guy can actually sing. I think most of the stuff played now a days is super auto tuned which makes for a pretty poor live perfomance usually but John Legend sounds like he can really sing and would be good live.

Radio

Lately ive realized ive been listening to the radio a lot more recently, which i wouldnt say is like a bad thing but i dont think its a good thing. I play music all night while i sleep and i wake up to the radio on kase 101 listening to the bobby bones show. I think since i started waking up to that i started to like country more and since i dont really buy country i listen to it on the radio. Then when there are commercials on ill flip to other stations and i guess since that became kinda a habit i started listening to the songs on the "main stream" radio more.

***flawless performance

I listened to parts of beyonces new album when it first came out and i did like it but i didnt actually download any of the songs until now. I went to the Mccallum Dance Major's dance show on Saturday with one of my friends who's a Musical Theatre Major. The dances were really cool and of course the dancers were really talented since they had to like apply and stuff to get in. The second to last dance was a hip hop dance to ***Flawless and thats probably when i realized i really liked the song. It was really fun to watch cause the dancers were so good and the music matched perfectly.