Ipods

That nap was not a small nap :|
I-pods, i have good memories with them, i got mine when I was a 10th grader playing Football at my high school. At the time, everyone in the team started getting one to listen to them as a pre-game ritual, to get pumped up. I went with the crowd and got my I-pod the weekend of the "Classic" (the big rivalry game between Garfield and Roosevelt High School). I listened to mine hoping a victory in our semi-last game as we were still undefeated.
Other Ipods came out, newer versions with video, and whatnot but I decided to keep mine. I didn’t have a job so my parents bought me something that was supposed to only last me a year or two? Nah. I decided to upgrade mine, so I looked online for a “Jet Set Radio” style approach to the headsets. On ebay I found a a headset for the Nano second Generation and thought it was a great investment. It surely was. I had good times with that headset, and still do. Life was made easier, wireless, battery less and most importantly, stylish. I would bump my music loud with them before a cross country meet. I would run and sprint downhill listening to some rise against. A photographer took a neat picture of me warming up for the city finals meet; in it, a great advertisement for the headset product. Too bad it’s not well known, and people might be “ehh?” at first. I haven’t listened to my ipod much at all.. maybe when I workout I do. Since I don’t listen to it much, I can sorta say I don’t have to worry about those I-pod issues much (the ear damadge ones). Anyways.. THUG LIFE I’m sleepy.

Exposure to Degrading Versus Nondegrading Music Lyrics and Sexual Behavior Among Youth

First of all I would like to say, FML, I should of done this on Thursday. Anyways, we did had in interesting conversation in class in regards to music with explicit lyrics. We used some inductive reasoning, that helped us see a the point of view of parents better; censoring music is done for a reason other than just to regulate and flex power. Using the chat room in class, also helps people express themselves without feeling too much pressure. That’s mainly from the ability to slowly have an output of words at a pace determined by the person typing.
From the reading, I saw a good point that was brought up. That, perhaps people who are sexually active and whatnot are the ones who mainly listen to degrading music, thus deviating the correlation of those who listen to the music and are not active. Hopefully that made sense.
I would be saying that this generation is pushing it to the extremes and making it harder for the next generation to “rebel” against the standards of this one (unless it goes back to classical/ or country music), but even in the 50’s with artists like Little Richard, there were some pretty explicit lyrics going on. Although he didn’t get the songs published like that, there was still that mentality so not much has changed.
My personal opinion can be shaped by the last comment I hear, I don’t have a 100% firm side, but I will say that it depends on who hears the music. There was this little point made that people who breed within the group of younger, poorer people, are more bound to listen to this music and perhaps repeat the same thing, of breeding while poor, which probably is determined by genetics, and enlarging that pool of people. This sounds like eugenics but it makes sense in my personal opinion.

David Ritz - Last Days of Brother Ray

The more you know, the more you don’t know. That’s what I’ve been getting out of my class lately. This is true especially in the genre of blues. I thought Ray Charles was a weak pitied figure who wrote some music and was admired just because he was blind. I didn’t know he was a dominant figure who owned his own music and gave a rat’s ass about what people thought about him when he was rewriting “Church Music”. He’s a character for the books for sure, and he proved it –and I read. Teachers always knew trivial facts about some characters randomly, and they all had to go through college, well if I ever become a teacher, I already know where to start. He speaks like my dad would sometimes; I start to get the impression that if I go back in time, it wouldn’t be too foreign to today.