Well, its what i was going to do.

So this weekend I planed to attend the Jazz dance, and I really wish I could of, I heard it was good. Unfortunatly I became rather sick this weekend and was unable to attend the dance because I was already asleep and felt like shit. I was also going to write a blog about the Jazz dance, so here I am, writing about a lack of Jazz dances in my life...

The radio show was like sex with a dwarf in a bowl of cottage cheese

Well the radio show has come and gone, here are my reflections.

We had a pretty low turnout at our portion, the other group by contrast seemed to have more then half there class there (We had 4 or 5 people). I really wish Joe would have shown up to play his cazzo to a rap song, but it was fun never the less. Really the radio show felt like anyother that I have done over the past few months. The only real new thing is that I actually used the MP3 cord and we played a bunch of one liners, which were alot of fun to listen to. That first one we played, the "Kumm is like sex with a dwarf in a bowl of cottage cheese" one caught me completely of guard. When we weren't messing around with one liners we seemed to have a hard time deciding what to play, and no one really wanted to talk about any of the artists. We ended up doing some talking but probally could have done more.

Ive been DJing here at morris for a while now, but ive actually DJed before a couple of years ago on a jazz radiostation in minneapolis. KUMM is quite different in that i pretty much can play whatever I want, with a few exceptions, and it is a very different experiance. I would like to suggest that you all think about getting a radio show at KUMM. I may hate getting up in the morning to go to my show, but I always have a good time at my show and come away feeling glad that I did it.

A Couple of thoughts.

Why have so few people been keeping up on there blogs? I mean its not that hard. You just do stuff and write about it... Well its really to bad. There are some people that havent blogged in ages.

Other then that little bit I would just like to tell everyone, meaning the few of you who might actually be reading blogs other people post, that if you are ever awake at 8am on a tusday and have nothing to do you should listen to my radio show. Next semester ill have a different time but whatever. KUMM plays some good stuff sometimes and people should try to listen. Its fun and stuff.

Well thats all I got. Im gonna do something else now.

You're as pretty as a twig in the moonlight, Twig in the moonlight

Yesterday after swing dancing (which all of you should attend next semester, especially those of you in the other section who swing danced for jamboree) MaryBeth and I went to the open Mic night. We mabe it in about half of the way through, and sat down to watch. This was not the first open mic night ive been to here, but I didnt think to blog about the other one. It was fun seeing lots of talent from around morris. There were singers, guitarists, writers, and poemers... I know thats not a word but it will do. Particularly memorable were a story about the end of the world which was quite funny and a song from which the title of this post derives. All in all it was a great night and I encourage more people to go. Dont say you are bored here at morris. There is stuff to do. You are just not looking hard enough.

-You're as pretty as a twig in the moonlight,
twig in the moonlight,
You're as pretty as a bat.

Jamboree

I must say I enjoyed the Jamboree much more then I expected. Going in i was not anticipating having that great of a time. But when I got there I was almost imediatly greated by a friend of mine (he is in the imperialism group) yelling about how potatos are wrong before being attacked by a bunch of people in paper hats brandishing duck tape weapons. Things did not stop there. I was arrested withing 5 minutes for wearing head phones (imperialism at work again) and i mangaged to break 2 other of there laws before escaping from prision. This was all very entertaining to me. Soon i began to defend our native booth, which happens to break just about every law imperialism put in place (Native dance, Native music, Native food, ect.), by removing potatos from our stand. The time I actually spent at our booth was rather tame. A few people came by and i gave them food and told them about our video and about the other groups swing dancing, but i did not end up doing to much. I had lots of fun though, siting there watching people in to cardboard ships throwing potatos at eachother in an epic battle. It was kinda funny coming back later to see how the imperalism group had their empire decline (Much like real empires). At first they were all in similar garb, jailing those who broke laws. But by the end their stuff was falling apart, they had a big mess on there hands, they were jailing there own people who were rebeling and the were stealing stuff from other groups. Everything about their little enpire was falling apart. I think i just might have been a better potrail of empires then they were going for. Well Jamboree was very entertaining to me. I had my doubts going in but i was proven wrong.

Looking toward Jamboree

As Jamboree aproches at the end of this week I just thought that I should reflect a little on what we have done. Ive made a fool of myself on camera, we have dance, played music, some of us have cooked, made listening things, and drew posters. It seems that jamboree and presentations have brought us a long way from what we were doing at the begining of the year. I can't remember the last time we discussed the book. I dont, however, see this as a bad thing. I like what we have been doing as of late, its been fun and related to the class. As most of our jamboree preperations are complete Im sure most people arent thinking to much about this class. Me, however, still have to think of the radio show. I think everything will go well. We are well prepared in my opinion.

Gospel listening.

So I went to listen to the second gospel listening today (11/19/06) one week after i listened to the other one. This time, however, the system seemed to be on the fritz. It took several minutes to load each song, sometimes would play multiple songs over eachother resluting in a chaotic mess on noise (Which the only way to remedy was to stop the song, which in turn made us have to reload the song for several minutes). All in all I would say I was there for around an hour, and only got half way through the list, spending most of my time being frusterated rather then listening intently.

From what I did hear though i got a picture that i hope is accurate. Many of the songs seemed to include one lead singer with a chorus line behind his singing lines in between his. Many times is felt kind of like call and response songs. The singers often felt like they were preaching rather then singing. Songs often had much clapping used as percussion, and the singers added rythems to the song.

All in all I was a little to frusterated with the system to do an decent job listening and writing about these songs. I hope by the time we get another listening assingment that the system is fixed.