Blog Summary

Most of the recent blogs seem very pointed. They are mostly about the Folkways podcasts or answering Nic's latest post. The little rabbit gave some interesting background into Harry Smith's life. In fact, most post about the folkways either give information about Harry Smith or simply reactions about the Harry Smith podcasts and they are mostly summaries of what happened in the podcasts. Mary Beth and Yeah pointed out that there was a segment in episode five about paper airplanes. I might have to listen again, just for that. Yeah also pointed out how music is influential, even if one does not like it. That's an important point to make since many people will stop listening to music if they don't like it, but music is far more important than simple like or dislike. Music is culture and ideas, rolled into a melody. Megan pointed out that Harry Smith changed the course of music(essentially). He discovered tons of people and put theri music out so that others were influenced. How many people can say that? Steph's blog included Cajun recipes, they sound good. We should try them.
I am cool dooner posted a variety of blogs, one that proposed the idea of teaching tuba as part of his performance, but he does not have a tuba. I would like to see how that idea pans out and he also posts of the key E Dorian. I have no idea what he means by that, but E Dorian sounds cool to me, way better than E Minor or something like that.
I posted some quite short poems. I like to write poetry and mostly they are decent. People should tell me what they think.
Greenstar posted a post(imagine that, someone posts a post) asking for roommate help. I already put my two cents in, but she sounds like she could really use some more help. We should post.
That's a lot of the new stuff. If you wrote something really cool that wasn't included, add a comment and I'll put it in. Or people could just read the comments. Whatever's cool with you.
There was a very brief post this morning by Destroy about Halloween. Personally I prefer All Hallow's Eve, but that is just me. Halloween is one of the greatest holidays of the year.

Heart looking
Optimistically for something more
Praying that the best will come
Even in the face of despair

Peace
Tranquil, Content
Planted in Hearts
Pure souls’ sadnesses eased
Hope

Death comes Suddenly
Overwhelming all
Darkness envelopes
My Soul
But Sun Always Comes Back
Good Once Again
Prevails

Do you ever notice how when all you have to do is homework, you will do almost anything to put off that homework? It's insane. If you can't find anything to do, one will almost drift towards playing mindless games on the internet. This fast-speed internet is both a blessing and more deeply, a curse.

I was listening to the podcast things and one of them had this really awesome song by Bob Dylan(i think that it was the first episode that we listened to, or the third episode total). It was an anti-war song. Anyway, Bob was under a contract to another record company so he recorded the song under the pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt. I just thought that was cool.

Cool Site

So for my project in class, I decided that Muddy Waters was a cool guy and I wanted to learn more about his influence. So I did just that. In doing so, I found this really cool website where you can find out about artists and their songs that have been covered.
http://www.secondhandsongs.com/home/

More Music

I was listening to this song on Pandora called Digging my Potatoes by Snooky Pryor. The title first caught my eye, but then the music with its really driven blues pulled me in. It’s like a rock song, with a country guitar, and blues lyrics. I love it! Then, not too long afterward, I was listening and I heard “You Shook Me All Night Long”. Everyone probably can recoginize the AC/DC version, but this one was by a country band. Needless to say, it sucked.

Pandora's Box

I've been using Pandora, but I have found that once I've started looking for stuff I actually like(as opposed to the class list) that I never listen to our class's material. It's strange, but it is just the way it happened.
I don't like how you can hear a song that you like, but then it may never come up again. Or just the opposite, a song you hate is played over and over, like a broken record.