Matt's Assessment

Looking forward to your posts regarding your letters to Congressional officials.  
Post your letters on your blogs, and, per Matt's suggestion, send them.  See below for links to lists of senators and representatives.

Senate 
House of Representatives 

Industry rule #4,080: record company people are shadyyyy...

Some music industry food for thought.  The first piece is from this morning's broadcast, and the second is about 20 years old.  Both are very interesting and represent the decades between their writing. 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/20/145466007/katy-perrys-perfect-game 

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html


Also, check out below for an expression of the same sentiment in song.  Or maybe just the title of this post...
  

A Tribe Called Quest - "Check the Rhime"

Testing Defiance

2006 OKC Classen Commencement Speech Part 2 of 2

Jellyfish, urine, and the truth from Wayne Coyne.

Of interest...

From AS220.org

9pm, $6

The Famous Winters, Woodsy Pride, Zachary Cale, and Sounds Like Funeral Music

The Famous Winters "...gorgeous, introspective tunes/Listening to these guys was like a slow dance in a dark room" -Allston Pudding
Woodsy Pride "a Brooklyn based trio that plays some kind of haunted Western music with the songwriting skill of Neil Young and the maudit intensity of Nick Cave." -The Deli
Zachary Cale "Zachary Cale is one of those unassuming guys who, once heard, earns your undying loyalty. You just want him to be a breakout star. He’s the type of singer-songwriter that will appeal most to fans of Wilco and Iron & Wine." -The Brooklyn Paper
Sounds Like Funeral Music
RSVP on facebook

http://facebook.com/thefamouswinters http://www.woodsypride.bandcamp.com/
http://zacharycale.bandcamp.com/
http://www.SoundsLikeFuneralMusic.com/

Short Story lines - MC mix assessment

For those in need of a refresher, this was the assessment from week one's mix.  

 

Choose one line to begin your story, and another to end it.  

“She was a really cool kisser and she wasn’t all that strict of a Christian”

“She said, ‘You’re pretty good with words, but words won’t save your life.’  And they didn’t, so he died.”

“My father - you bear the weight on your shoulders, why do you do this to yourself?” 

“Just lighten up the load a little bit, don’t be so hard on yourself, and give yourself a little credit.”

“If I ever want to drive myself insane, all I have to do is watch you breathing”

“And the old voice crackled through the static, and I felt young and alive”

“How I don’t know what I should do with my hands when I talk to you.  How you don’t know where you should look, so you look at my hands.”

“No one force on earth could be weaker than the feeble strength of one like me, remembering the way it could have been”

“They say they want you successful, but then they make it stressful.  You start keeping pace, they start changing up the tempo.” 

“They think ‘Illegal’s” a synonym for ‘negro.’”

“If every angel’s terrible, then why do you welcome them?”

“Well, the flowers have no scent and the child’s been miscarried”

“So why you pushin’ it? Why you lyin’ for?”
“What's-her-face told me you shot this kid last week in the park, that's a lie, you was in church with your moms.”

“I feel Jesus in the clumsiness of young and awkward lovers”

“I’ve had kisses that make Judas seem sincere”

Shopweek challenge

1. Create a blog
2. Create a an interesting first post on your new blog.  (About the Author, what you're listening to, etc).
3. Leave a comment on this blog under "How to create a blog" posting that includes the url of your blog
4. Add on to your short story by extending the story from the point of view of one of your characters (see instructions in next posting)
  

Please check out each others' blogs and comment there, too. 
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Contact me if you have difficulty with any of the above.

-MC