So, yesterday we had Jeff Rosen come to speak in our Music Marketing class. He's Bob Dylan's manager. That was really awesome. The conversation was mostly my teacher asking him questions and them kinda talking, but at the end a couple of the students got to ask questions too. I'm not actually allowed to talk about WHAT was said, but overall it was ( Read more... )

I just finished a class titled Artists & Audiences. It was taught by Robert Christgau, and was a combination music history and music criticism class. The first paper was a short discussion of one of your favorite bands (I did Mindless Self Indulgence), the second was about a pre-rock figure (I wrote about Richard Wagner and The Ring Cycle), and the ( Read more... )

I've been craving swimming laps lately. I'm not sure what exactly brought this on, but I just really miss swim team. It was actually nice in a way getting up every morning and swimming laps for just under an hour. It was a good way to wake up. Not so much the Inglemoor 4am practices, but for the summer swim league, being up at the Aqua Club by 7: ( Read more... )

My parents came to visit for the weekend. That was fun. They got in around 7 on Friday, and we said goodbye at 3 on Monday. They used two excuses to come out 1) I go to school here, and 2) Phil Lesh and Friends had a residency at the Nokia Theater in Times Square. Being Dead Heads, they could hardly pass up the last weekend of said residency ( Read more... )

So, I just had my last (and second...for the same class) midterm. It went a lot better than I thought it was going to, but it still wasn't great. Hopefully I get another high B or low A or something. I'd like to not get lower than my last test, but we'll see. I didn't study ALL that much harder, and started skipping lecture. We'll see on Wednesday ( Read more... )

ZOMG IT'S CMJ WEEK!! The festival doesn't officially start until tomorrow...but I'm gonna have a lot of fun going to concerts this week between the festival and TMBG shows ( Read more... )

Ack, this project is killing me. I'm loaded with stuff to do: homework for classes I'm only taking because they're required and not because I actually want to be a Recording Engineer, stuff I've volunteered to do for our department's record-label-type organization, being my hall's Hall Rep for Hall Council ( Read more... )

Alright kids. Here's the 8-page essay I turned in on Friday. I'm putting links in tmbg and the fangirl comms as well. I could have done a lot better, but this is what I have. It's pretty ADD and doesn't really explore a single idea but rather starts 3 or 4 arguments. Hopefully you like it, I did have a lot of fun writing it.

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Okay, the stars are just aligned perfectly right now or something. Maybe it's the luck of the slightly Irish, or the Welsh or something. :P ( Read more... )