Hey all. back for my weekly update post. Just wanna start things off by rehashing yesterday's post. Things are gonna be fairly intense for me with workload and such in the comign weeks, essentially between this weekend and the weekend of february 18th, which is mid-sem here at school. The weekends will be filled with papers and other work and that may have bearing on my workload during the week, so dont be alarmed if i either dont post as much in my updates, or dont do one.
Ok, now that that is out of the way, onto the rest of this post. on top of things with that, there;s time when i like philosophy class and times whenn i worry about how i'm gonna do in it. I'm sure i'll do weekk, and i'll definitly have more of a sense of that after the first paper, but still. I did like listening to the discussion this AM though. IT was very interesting hearing how perplexed some people were and how some others were bouncing ideas around with the philosopher we were going over. though i can pretty much assume at least 3 people in that class arent doing the reading and are gonna not do well on their papers. I love all my other classes though, even the most lopsided one of all structurally,Intro to lit. The reason why its like that is we literally have 3 papers to do between now and spring break and after that we dont have any. While this is nice, we're reading Twelfth Night by shakespeare and Milton's PAradise lost before the break. While i'm kind of excited for Twelfth night, cause i've heard its awesome, i'm not looking forward to paradise lost mianly because i think we're only reading sections from it and i've never seemed to be able to like it for what it is when i've read it.
anyway, enoguh abotu classes. Life outside class and stuff is pretty nice, i'm not gonna lie. things are busy but manageable. I'm doing Dance Alloy again this semester (for my aunt who follows this, Dance Alloy is a student led, organzized, etc. dance performance thing where you sing up for a certain dance or 2 with a choreographer and learn the choreography over the semester and then perform at the end of the semester), so that should be fun, even if it takes up 2 hours out of my sundays. One thing i've noticed about myself is that i whine alot when it comes to how busy i'll be tiwht work, dance alloy and stuff. It's kinda of annoying, and i need to cut back on it.
lets see, other than stuff than that, umm. i should give some credit to tunelab.com, a music forum site i've been following for sometime. They've had some good album streams up recently, one of which really grabbed me. Day of Fire is the name of that band, their album "Losing all" came out on tuesday and to be hoenst, its probably the most refreshing slightly emotional rock record i've heard in awhile. The lead singer has gone through a lot in life and its really tackled well on this album in a smart way. This is their third album, and yea good band. I'll put the link to the album stream at the bottom of this post. The other 2 album streams Tunelab has had up recently are good, but nothing really grabbed me about them, particulalry cause one of them starts off good but then just turns into "generic modern-hardrock-about-fun-and-women". I think the reason why i liked the Day of fire record as much as i do is because the lead vocalist has a very gritty voice, and it really works with the instruments. Also, in tunelab's commentary on the record and the band, there had a much more "matter of fact", narrative tone while still mentioning how good the band was. I like that more, cause i've found that Tunelab will almost overpraise any band they put an album stream up for. and maybe its just the guy who writes the commentary on each one (if its a different guy), but for someone like me who is becoming a bit stingy with his rock music taste, the excessive adulation sets up high hopes for someone goin into the stream and half the time the band isn't all that great. frankly, on one of the other streams that went up this week, i got tired of how much effusive energy there was from the band via the quotes in the commentary, and how much of that same effusive energy was coming from the writer. The band is from Vegas, and they're like the anti-vegas, but half of their album is that generic "i'm gonna write a song about how fun yet emotional rock music life is, especially when you have women involved" It's all stuff that is just tired concepts. I want an anti-vegas band that has some intelligence to their lyrics like the more established rock groups, I.e. Disturbed.
There's about an inch of snow outside my window, which makes me happy. another thing i wanna touch on, and i kind of commented on this in my extra post on sunday, is what happened at the "pop it up" dance on Saturday. It was fun and all but the student activities board has been way too lax this year with controlling how much power guest DJs have. While the one on saturday night was a pro one, he sure wasnt acting like one. There were several points where the music was so loud you could barely hear the words, all you could really feel was the beat, which isn't bad, but at the same time, your eardrums are being blasted with music so loud that people in New Zealand (metaphorically speaking) can hear it. That's a bit much and the student activities board needs to clamp down on this if they want people to actually come to the events like that they do, cause if they dont soon, people won't show up. The room these dances are in on campus is about the size of a smallish conference room. That's not big enough to warrant the music being turned up over 9,000 (sorry had to put the Geek reference in there). The past couple fo dances this has been the case, and it was never an issue last year or the year before, when SAB actually "policed" the dances and told the DJ how loud he could get. The past 2 times one of my friends has had to either physically tell the DJ to turn it down or write him a note. but then, when she leaves the room, he'll turn it right back up to the level it was at before she complained. My issue is that she shouldnt have to have complained at all, SAB (which apparently has a new crew of student running it every semester (and apparently the crew for this academic year has the strongest eardrums ever)) should be there close to the DJ to tell him if its too loud. or someone from SAB should at least be there in SAB garb so the students can issue any complaints.
Anyway, that last bit turned into a rant and a half so i'm gonna end this week's update there, cause that pretty much covers everything i wanna comment on.
Link to the Day of Fire album stream: http://tunelab.com/2010/01/25/album-stream-day-of-fire/
see you guys next week.
