Song Review

          The artist that is my favorite is Drake, and his album that is my favorite is Thank Me Later. He is a new artist from Canada who is only 23 years old. The review is supposed to be about his new album, “Thank Me Later,” but it is actually more about Drake himself as an artist. Although the critique does talk about some of the songs in the album, it isn’t the main purpose of the review. I agree with the evaluation because it portrays Drake in a positive sense, and really gives good examples of his music, and how he works different artists into his own. He also understands the meaning of Drake’s overall message of how we are alone, and that really speaks to a lot of people. He also says how Drake is a new pop star and is trying to change the pop music industry. I would change some things how Drake is evaluated, and focus more on the lyrics in his songs and not really the other artists that he has in the songs. The critic was a little indecisive with whether or not he was critiquing Drake’s music, lyrics, or the people he has in his music. Overall it was a good Critique of Drake and portrayed him in a positive way. Some other reasons that Drake and this album is my favorite are the beats and the lyrics of his music. All of his songs are relatively slow compared to other rap music, and they actually have meaning to them.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/06/album_review_drake_thank_me_la.html

Defenition Proposal

·         I am going to be defining the phrase “browning out”

·         It basically means you get drunk and you only remember bits and pieces of the night, instead of blacking out and not remembering anything.

·         I am defining this word because it is starting to become a more commonly used phrase around college kids, that originated from the T.V. show “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

·         The purpose of this paper is to let people know what it means and to spread the phrases meaning to other people who maybe haven’t seen the show.

·         The audience will mainly be college kids

Let me know if you think just changing the word I use all together would be better.

Blog Entry #2

Oswalt defines the word otaku simply as someone who has an obsession with something very small and minute.  He never really says what geek and nerds were to him since he didn’t consider himself a geek, but he said other people classified geeks as people who were in to comic books and anime. He is defining these terms because he wants the audience, who might not of grown up in the 70’s or 80’s, to know what he is talking about. The point of this is really about how geeks and nerds used to be classified and seen as outcasts, but now because of the changing pop culture with movies, it seems as though what the nerds were into is now popular. The larger point about society is really that over time, because of technology advances, there isn’t really a category called nerds since everyone has their own small obsession, which is what otaku means. I agree with Oswalt’s point that everyone is becoming more accepting of these obsessions, but it would be nice as he said he wants his daughter to do, to discover something no one else has that really isn’t main stream yet. I think certain levels of geekiness have become normal. The people who like anime or comic books have definitely been accepted into society, but the ones who read all day and have bug collections or something are still looked at differently.

Supermarket Pastoral is basically a literary form where people feel as though they are eating safer food and helping the earth and encourage you to buy their product. Supermarkets basically make up little stories on their food labeled organic, which makes the consumer believe that the animals and food was grown as in stories we read when we were younger. He is talking about this word because as he started buying more and more organic foods he was wondering if the images he imagined of the animals was really what it was like on the farm. He believes that in order for the farmers to make more money that just have journalists write nice little descriptions of how the animal was raised without actually giving too much information. This then lets the buyer imagine their own image of the life of the animal. This essay basically is saying that the organic agriculture culture is more or less fake, and is only trying to get bigger revenue for taking better care of their products.