Back again after only one short day, need to boost up my blogging points before its too late! So I'm pumped for haloween weekend because on Friday the 30th my friends and I are going to see a band that I have been wanting to see ever since I was introduced to them last year. The band is called Black River Sound and they are a family band, I know sounds weak, but they are amazing. I believe that it is three or four sisters and their one or two brothers in the band which is a soulful reggae group with classic, jazz, and hip-hop influences. We will be going to see them at Tammeney(?) Hall in Worchester MA. The following night is haloween and my roomeates and I are having a huge costume party which should be a great time. Still don't know what I'm going to be. The night after haloween is the night I am most looking forward to. My friends and I are going to another concert at The House of Blues in Boston to see Method Man, Redman, and Snoop, three artists that I havn't seen live yet and can't wait to see them all perform.

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So its been numerous weeks now and I still can't get used to this whole blogging thing. I don't know if its just because I know that it is another thing that I have to do or what but the "blogging bug" dosn't seem to have bitten me like some others. When I read other peoples bloggs they seem like they have been doing it for years, but when I sit down and try to blog I come up blank. Maybe its just not my thing to sit down at the computer and share my thoughts on random subjects. I think that it is a great way for some people to clear their head and share their thoughts but I have realized that its just not my thing. Anways, on a better note I saw Zombieland the other day, a comedy/horror flick about two guys who survive a world overcome with zombies by killing them in the most unusual ways possible. I didn't know what to expect when I went in but I thought it was going to be good. Turns out it was even better than I expected. I laughed a lot and I really enjoyed the oddly paired two main characters (Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg) and they way they worked together. On yet another note, I was unknowingly choosen to be the producer of my television production groups next piece. I have to produce a five to six minute news broadcast with my other group members and classmates. Producer is the toughest job to have during a production because there are so many things that you need to coordinate, everone in the control room, everyone on set and you have to direct the whole piece to move along smoothly, a tough thing to do when you need ten plus people to work together as a team perfectly. There is deffinetly a lot more to a production than what you see on your screen, I have learned that first hand.

Kyou mo ganbarou!

Music & Genre

I'm back again after a short intermission. Now I know that we have moved on from the genre topic this week but I was thinking a lot about music today and was considering the different genres of music. When most people think about genres they think about movies, but music has as many and most likely way more genres then movies. Now I try not to be prejudice when it comes to music (my girlfriend is a huge country fan), but there are obviously some genres that i enjoy listening to more than others. Personally I am a big rap and hip-hop fan but I like to delve into many other genres. Alot of people say that rap music sucks and that they all talk about the same thing and the cars and the ice and blah blah blah, but I would bet that 99% of those people havn't even givin rap music the time of day, so to say. If you only hear whats on the radio and all of the sing-along type rap and hip-hop songs then you really havn't even come close to scratching the surfice of the hip-hop world. There are hundreds and hundreds of extremely talented lyricists and MC's in the industry and most of them people have never even heard of. I guess the point I'm trying to make is the same point you can make about a lot of things, don't judge a book by its cover, or in this case music by its genre. Give a new type of music a chance, listen to some stuff that you would normally never listen to and do some research. I gaurentee you will end up finding at least something that you like. Hope whoever is reading this is somewhat inclined to try something new, until next time do me a favor and type black river sound into google and click on their myspace page, you might just like the soulful flow of Black River Sound. Let me know.