Blog Summary

So it is nice to see everyone blogging. It seems a lot of people have been blogging about Jamboree. It seems like everyone sort of enjoyed the jamboree but it seemed like the messages where lost. I also came to this conclusion after our class discussion. It also seemed like people were blogging about how cool the radio show was. Its nice to see that everyone is giving some extra push and blogging about things. So I see also some people blogged about our discussion we had in the noon group. So keep it up people.

Jamboree

As I walked through Oyate today and looked at all of the FYS groups. I learned that the nigger the display doesn't mean the meaning is meet. There was about 7 groups that just had a table with a bulletin board on them. I have to say I learned just as much from them as I did from any other group.

One group that comes to mind is the Colonization group. It seemed that people were more amused with the fact they had guns made out of Toilet paper rolls and were giving out potatoes with flags in them. It seemed to me that people didn't really get the meaning. One group that I thought did just enough was the Genocide group. I thought that with the survey that they had and the bulletin board and pictures, was just enough to get there point a crossed that something needs to be done. I thought our groups did a nice job of no going over the top. I thought that with the video and music it really displayed that we want people to have a a good time in class but also learn some thing, were as opposed to other groups where they just want to have fun.

Swing dancing was a lot of fun today I thought. It would of been nicer to have more people so we could of taught people. I think that we had o many people just standing there and not dancing that when people came in and looked around that they didn't know what was going on so they left. I also thought it would of been nicer if we all would of went up and got people to come down. One thing that hurt us is that a lot of people either had class or they weren't there, so it made it hard for people to come.

Gospel Music 2

Okay for list I had a lot of trouble. For some reason it had to load every song so I would sit there for like 30 or 40 seconds while it loaded the song and then It would play the and another song. I was able to listen to about the third of the list without any trouble, so I blog about that and try again later this week and have it done by Thursday.

So far I like this list a little bit better than the other gospel list that we listened to. I thought that this list seemed like it fit more into the style of the other lists we listened to. I thought that this music seemed a little bit more raw and it seemed like it wasn't just recorded in a studio. I also liked the the gospel sermons that were placed into the list. I really enjoy how passionate the reverends got into it. It really showed how they enjoyed preaching to the people. I also like the way that the crowd would get into it. Now days most church hes the crowd will just sit and sometimes fall asleep. I think that this list will tie more together when I list to the rest of it, but the music all seemed to relate really well. One song on the list that I really enjoyed was In a Heavenly way. I also heard a more updated song on Pandora of that. I really enjoyed that version to.

Religious Music Part 1

I just got done listening to the Gospel Music for part one. I really enjoyed this listening list. I think I enjoyed this list more then that other listen we had to listen to (i think because I could understand it). A couple of the songs that I found very cool and interesting where Church by Lyle Lovett. I liked the words and stuff to this song because it reminded me of a episode of Bernie Mac. The song is talking about how the priest just keeps going on and on and they need to get out and eat. It reminds of Bernie mac because in on the episodes he tells the kids that they are going to church that weekend. He forgets that the Chicago Bears and the Oakland Raiders where playing each other and the church service just keeps going on and on.

Another couple things I like were when the reverends went on rants about the devil and how people need to be born again. I found this interesting because when I was little I used to have a priest that would do the same thing. He would stand up and tell all of us how we need to do as the bible says or it isn't a true church of god.

I really liked this listening list. I liked it a lot because currently I have gotten into the Christin music craze. No that Christian music today is anywhere near what it was back in the day, but eh concept is the same. It is teaching the words of god through song, which I love. Can't wait for the second list.

Sounds of My City

When listening to the Podcasts. They began to talk about the Sounds of My City by Tony Schwartz. So I decided I would check to see if the Library had. They didn't , but I check into interlibrary loan and 12 libraries had it. So I filled out a form and requested that it be sent to me. On Friday I received a letter in the mail saying I had received it.

So this weekend when I was home all alone I decided to put out my new old record player and listen to it. I put it on and I have to say I wasn't really impressed with it. I thought it was going to be more about people singing songs and where they came from. It was more of the sounds of new year. Like the squeaky wheels on someones clothes line, and birds chirping. I really didn't like it for this reason.. I was kind of disappointed. The music part of the record was really good, I just wished that they had more of it.

So if you would like to listen to it before November 22ND and have a record player or can get one just let me know and I can give it to you.

Swing Dance Space

I think that Louie's Lower Level would work fine for teaching people to swing Dance. I think that we can move all the stuff over and I think it would work just fine.

Swing Dance

I loved the swing dance session that we had on Thursday. I think it was awesome and we should totally do that for jam. I'm sorry I didn't make the swing dance club last Thursday, but I had a date with the tigers losing the ws game. So I will come next week.