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.