Sunday, December 6, 2009

Scholarly Journal 2

“Beatles, or Stones?”, is a 2007 article from the Believer magazine by John McMillian. The scholarly journal is about how the two bands The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, on who which group to listen to as a teenager. In 1968, Mick Jagger flew from L.A. to London for a birthday party in which the party had many exotic items like Turkish hookahs and they were under black lights. Mick Jagger gave the people an advanced listing to their new album, Beggars Banquet, to play in the club. Paul McCartney walked in and passed Sanchez a copy to the Beatles single “Hey Jude/Revoultion”, which was never heard outside of Abbey Road Studios. The DJ played “ Revolution”, Mick looked peeved as the The Beatles had upstaged them.

When The Rolling Stones arrived in the U.S, The first Associated Press described them as dirtier, streakier, and more disheveled that the Beatles. They described the Beatles as incredibly lovable, amiable fellows. Both bands where fighting for air time on the radio and record sales throughout the 1960s. They supposed “ideological rift” between the two bands was nearly as stylized as the contrasting costumes they wore on The Ed Sullivan Show. In some fundamental way, they believed themselves to be part of the same community as John and Paul, and Mick and Keith. They believed they were all fighting for the same things.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Club meeting

The club meeting I went to was a Christian church meeting about a missionary trip to Mexico. My friend took me there because he is going and wanted more people to go. The whole night was about traveling to San Diego and driving down into Mexi Cali. The pastor was going over the full 3 day schedule in what the men and the women where going to do there with different jobs. Like an ordinary missionary trip, the pastor was talking about the church was going to be your sleeping ground and bathrooms where outside of the church. From the beginning of the night I was not interested in joining a missionary trip but at the end I had some thought about going to a missionary trip in which it will be my first trip.

Study tips 3

My last study tip is not to procrastinate studying before a test or a final. It shows that you do not care about the course and how lazy you are not studying for a test. The best thing is if you know a test is to study at least 30 min a night and of the week of the test, as much as you need. Study in places where you can focus and there is least noise. The MLK library is a place where I find studying the best place in which the internet is faster and it is complete silence.

Monday, November 30, 2009

music memories 2 interview

“Rock n Roll has changed in the last 30 years”, said my father. My interviewee was my dad who grew up in the rock ‘n’ roll times of the British invasion when many of the new bands came to America. His favorite band of the time is the Beatles because they were the best band of that time and they had good taste in their music. Now, he likes the Eagles from the past 10 years.

When talking about rock ‘n’ roll he said that when he was a teenager he listen to all of the rock and roll music at the time. From Bob Dylan to the Beatles he had many good taste in music. His favorite band like I said was the Beatles. He had collected many of their records including Abbey Roads in which he showed my brother and I last year in which we did not know he had. Another album he had was the “Meet the Beatles” while he was in High school. “ I wanna hold your hand” was the most popular song at the time that everyone heard. He stopped listening to the Beatles after the 80’s and listen to the Eagles. “Hotel California” was his favorite Eagles song. He liked the Eagles after from their guitar solos and wanted a new taste in rock ‘n’ roll. He loved when we bought him the greatest hits album of the Eagles back for his birthday gift.


Muse5

My last in school muse event I went to a perfection seminar last week. The speaker talked about how perfection can lead to some problems. We listed the ways we can be perfect and where we show perfection. There was also ways stress can put pressure on perfection in which we can cope stress.You can put in perfection with 5 min of victory that he taught us.

MUSE 3

My second muse event in school I went to a book signing for a Japanese-American photographer in the library. We watched a power point on the photos he talked about each picture in the Japanese interim camps in California. At the end of the book singing there was a Q & A session.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Lyrics Analysis

My song I analyzed was "Eye of the Tiger" by the Survivors. The song was used and is known for the movie series Rocky. The lyric s of the song represents a person who stands up and works really hard in what he does.The first verse is someone who did something but failed the first time. This is repeated over and over again until he succeeds. He trades in passion for glory also he still fights for passion too.

The chorus is pretty much an underdog story when the person fights. Eye of the tiger refers the fierceness of a person in battle. Eye of the tiger is also talks when he stalks his enemy and watching them at night. Also in the chorus there is a fight in which he wins. The person is the underdog in the lyrics.

The other verses is about how he is going to approach the enemy. Out in the heat, the person faces him and staying hungry about his fight. The last verse is when he is defeated with his guts in the toilet. They fought the distance and the better person won the fight. The song fades with “the eye of the tiger”.