Green Day

From the parts that I remembered I thought that the Green Day documentary we watched in class was pretty cool. Before watching this I didn't know to much about Green Day's music, but I had heard it before and I though it was okay. After this film, I started to appreciate their music more and I think they are a great band. I think they have some pretty interesting lyrics in their music. One of my favorite songs by them is Brain Stew.

The Who

I know earlier this year I blogged about The Who, however I recently started to listen to them again and felt like I should blog about them. I really like their music, and when I think of roll and rock the Beatles and the Who immediately come to mind. Both, the Beatles and The Who, are my favorite rock and roll bands. Some of my favorite songs by the Who are Pinball Wizard, Baba O'Riley and Who Are You. I hope we can listen to more of the Who before the test ends.

Testing this week

I feel like this week went by pretty fast with all the EOC's, and IB and AP testing. Luckily I only had to take the US history EOC. I also chose not to take the AP english test because I knew I would do very good on it, and it was nice not having to study for it. I do not like taking standardized tests, I feel like most classes that require standardized test focus on the test too much and go through topics to fast and not thorough enough. It is going to be nice going to AP classes after the tests, because it will be alot more relaxed.

Yik Yak and Gaggle

I think that the stuff that has been said and posted on Yik Yak and Gaggle is pretty bad and its a cowardly way to bully someone, but some of the posts were pretty funny. Yik Yak can be a good app when used properly, however most of the students at Anderson used it the wrong way. I think that Anderson is kind of overreacting to these apps with the new no phone policy, and if students really want to use these apps they will outside of school. The best way for students to avoid "cyberbullying" is for them to just log off and stay off the website.

Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Documentary?

On Thursday in class we watched a documentary on the Muscle Shoals studio, I think, and I thought it was a really good film. It's ridiculous how many hit songs and stars came out of that studio, and the manager of the studio was always able to come back after losing bands and musicians. I though it was awesome how he used both black and white musicians and singers and how they cooperated and worked together and all of this was in Alabama. I liked multiple songs throughout the documentary, but I can't remember what they were called.

ACL Lineup 2

Well, I don't remember too much about the second day we discussed ACL because it was kind of a while ago, but I do remember that I liked Gramatik and I thought Lettuce was a funny name. Gramatik sounded really cool and the beat was awesome. I also thought that the Head and the Heart was pretty good for a folk music and they similar to the avery bothers.