The song I chose to research was my favorite song, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd. Before looking up the review I honestly had no idea what the song was about. The man who reviewed it started by talking about what he thought of the band in general. He actually did not like Pink Floyd very much and was generally critical of them. He said that once the seventies came they were depressing and had no heart in their songs. I really like Pink Floyd so I obviously didn't agree with this part of the review. He then went on to comment on the song. He said that "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" was the most beautiful thing ever written. It explains how their former band member Syd Barrett went from being a young genius to a crazy embarrassment. Despite this, the band members all felt guilty because it was caused by the band's fame and the grief united them. Because of this unity and grief, every member was on the same page and able to create a beautiful song from the heart. It was so great because it was truly just music with no band politics or desire to sell more albums in mind. I learned a lot from this part of the review and enjoyed reading it. The song is very soothing while still managing to have a lot of emotional flow from the music. If I was reviewing this, I definitely would focus solely on the song as opposed to reviewing both the song and band. I think the song is so unique and has so many positive things to say about it, that there is no need to cram anything else into the review.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqgjCKm9nQ -song
http://www.laurahird.com/bestrecords/wishyouwerehere.html -review
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Definition Proposal
The word that I'm going to be defining is the word jock. This is someone that played a sport in high school. I'm defining this word to show that the word does not mean jackass star athlete and show that there are many nice kids who were jocks. This also includes players from the common "jock" sports of football, lacrosse, and basketball. My goal is to defend people who were stereotyped as jackass jocks because of the sport they played. I also want to prove that a jock just says that you played a sport and doesn't have anything to do with them as a person. My audience is victims of athletics being an ass which would be most people who went to high school.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Definitions
The author described nerd and geek as pretty much the same thing. He said that it was someone who likes science fiction, post punk music, comic books, and videogames. He said that Otaku is a Japanese term for obsessive, minute obsessions, especially anime and videogames. His point in saying this, was to show how him and his friends Otaku made them unique. The "nerdy" activities made their group unique and he really enjoyed being different. People called him and his friends nerds and geeks, but that only bonded them closer together. They enjoyed certain things that no one else at the time did, and it made their group of friends very close and they hung out because of the unique interests they had. Then technology and the media came along and made the nerds interests mainstream and no longer unique. This showed how society follows the crowd and will go from calling someone a nerd to "wearing a Boba Fett sleeveless shirt at the gym". When movies started to become very popular, things such as comic books and unbelievably long books (Lord of the Rings), became mainstream. This disappointed the author very much because it made his Otaku disappear. Geekiness became normal and there is now nothing separating him from any everyday person.
Supermarket pastoral was defined as the act of getting food from animals that are treated humanly. Pollan was a huge organic food enthusiast that buys his food from organic supermarkets. Despite being more expensive, Pullan was willing to pay the extra money to ensure that he was buying food from a moral supermarket that treated animals well. He was very impressed that all the milk he bought was from cows that lived a very comfortable, stress-free life. By buying from this supermarket, he felt like it gave him a connection to earth and the creatures that we depend on for food and milk. He likes how the supermarket he buys from is seen as the "good guys" which is composed of the American family farmers. This is opposed to the businessmen who are villians that treat the animals poorly and use them purely for profit. In Pollan's opinion, organic cultural is the right way to treat animals. They are treated as well as, if not better, as humans and makes sure that they live a comfortable life. His theory is that we rely on animals for food and milk and that we should treat them with respect and let them live a very comfortable life as they help us humans thrive.
Supermarket pastoral was defined as the act of getting food from animals that are treated humanly. Pollan was a huge organic food enthusiast that buys his food from organic supermarkets. Despite being more expensive, Pullan was willing to pay the extra money to ensure that he was buying food from a moral supermarket that treated animals well. He was very impressed that all the milk he bought was from cows that lived a very comfortable, stress-free life. By buying from this supermarket, he felt like it gave him a connection to earth and the creatures that we depend on for food and milk. He likes how the supermarket he buys from is seen as the "good guys" which is composed of the American family farmers. This is opposed to the businessmen who are villians that treat the animals poorly and use them purely for profit. In Pollan's opinion, organic cultural is the right way to treat animals. They are treated as well as, if not better, as humans and makes sure that they live a comfortable life. His theory is that we rely on animals for food and milk and that we should treat them with respect and let them live a very comfortable life as they help us humans thrive.
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