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Second, let's read this together:
Today we are peer reviewing blog posts that are much longer than those we looked at two weeks ago. For that reason, we need to either allow time at the beginning of each person's review for their peers to read, or we need to have each person being reviewed read their review aloud to the reviewer's while the reviewers read along on their screens. We are going to do the latter.
Reading your own writing aloud is a great habit to get into because it forces you to engage with your work in a different way. Reading aloud slows you down and demands that you pay attention to details in your writing that you might otherwise ignore. It is a great editing technique and we are going to test it out today.
When it is your turn to review, read your post slowly--as if you were performing it for an audience. If you want to stop and change something or ask for feedback, suggestions, or input, feel free to do that. If your reviewer's want to stop you to offer feedback, give comments, or ask questions, allow them to do that. In other words, read through your piece stopping whenever either you or your reviewers think it is necessary.
This is a plodding method of feedback, but it should also be productive. I assume that in fifteen minutes you will not get through reading your entire post--especially with all the stopping and discussing you will be doing. However, use the feedback you get in group to inform the revisions you make to the rest of your post.
Finally, if you do get through reading your entire post, use the rest of the time to facilitate feedback. Remember to ask your reviewers questions about how they experienced your post, how they felt reading it, and how they understood your work.
Third, let's write about music:
Fourth, let's talk about my feedback and your grades:
Remember that there are have not been many assignments yet, so every assignment is influencing your grade more than it will once all the assignments are completed.
Also, you can revise your blog posts for full credit. When you ask me to re-look at a post at the end of the semester, then original grade completely disappears and is replaced by the new revision grade.
Fifth, check out Zachary Speaks on Lander University Radio tonight at 5
http://www.primcast.com/radio/610882
This song makes you feel like you are rocking on boat that is getting hit repeatedly by rogue waves with short pauses of calm water. Right as you settle down and are calm in the water a series of waves blindsides your boat and sends you wailing. During these waves there is no where to hide, they are so overpowering it disorients you. The calm parts are so nice though that it makes the rough waves worth it.
ReplyDeleteAn electric rain falling onto a tribal civilization, slowly turning the savage into the angry population. The drumbeat hits the chest in grandiose shows of quiet force, with very little reprise. I feel a bit beat up by the song, but in more of a masochistic way. The bird speaks in tongues while Panda Bear shouts in exaggerated fun.
ReplyDeleteInstrumentation is steady until the screaming approaches and almost overrules the lyrics. Starting out as a fun night and turning into a crazy party in the midst of destruction. Drunk people dancing everywhere and not knowing what to do with themselves. As the night drags on, people come and go and the tone changes. Some songs are more fun to dance to, not this one. This song is a party, but surely wouldn't be played at a party.
ReplyDeleteThe song starts with the sound of something like whip cream coming out of the pressurized air can. Then the drums' kick and bass comes in and they drive the song. The drum is the centerpiece to this song, with the guitars, and sometimes even the vocals, taking a backseat. This song is an emotional teenager. I don't think I know what it wants, but it doesn't want what it has in the moment because god damn, there are at LEAST like 16296 changes in pace and tone in this song. This teenager is happy that they have friends, but then Becky goes off and talks about Sarah's low cut mini-skirt, and that doesn't fly with you. So you get loud, angry, and aggressive. But thank God, Becky apologizes, so this teen can go on about their merry life... until it happens again. What a beautiful, hormonal cycle.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it knows what it wants* oops.
Deleteat first, i picture listening to this song while driving down a long, winding road. then i picture myself head-banding to it. this song is a constant straddling of those two concepts and it creates a phenomenal slur of music. it is a great combination of instruments and incoherent lyrics...other than the violent "pow's" in each of the refrains. overall picture of the song is headbanging with your friends in the middle of a flowery meadow with the wind blowing screeching birds towards you- complete dissonance.
ReplyDeleteThe sounds in this song take me to a big parade. The big school band marching through the center of town, people waving and smiling, cymbals crashing in celebration. Rolling laughter of the crowd is like that of the guitar droning on in the background. You can almost picture the majorettes and towns people dancing through the streets to the roar of the band. Grass brings a sense of joy and excitement that is definitely enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteThis is a song is something that should be played with all your windows down, hair flying in the wind, holding onto your hat to make sure it doesn't fly away on the way to the beach. Surfboard strapped to the top of the car and a bottle of sunblock ready to go. The guitar is playing in harmonizing high notes that allow for a somewhat lyrically rough song to have an up beat sound. the bells keep the beat peppy just as much as the guitar. Even the bird chirping that can be heard throughout the track add to the unusual energy of this song. Having a summer drive song is something that is important to anyone that lives 20 min from the beach like I do. and this, fits the bill rather well.
ReplyDeleteDriving and heavy synths and drums and a dissonant voice that doesn't fit along with the music all come together to create a clashing cacophony that is as beautiful as it is harsh. It's like watching a crowd crushed together on a busy city sidewalk, discordant and disorganized, all the individual parts acting as of their own accord and in complete opposition to each other, yet upon examination with a wider lens all coming together to form a whole that exists in mutual dependence.
ReplyDelete"Grass" is wild. The song that could be described as the feeling you get going to a party with your homies. You arrive everything seems like a good time. You pull some stunts and bust a move. You feel everyone just collectively saying "good looks" and Bam! The music turns up and the whole party goes wild. Beer Showers.
ReplyDeleteAnimal Collective's "Grass" is like the ultimate tantrum, between the loud clash clash clash of the drums in conjunction with the lead singer's voice that rises to a scream at the song's chorus. And just like a tantrum, the song descends into a quieter reflection, as the drums, guitar, and bass fall more back into the background to leave way for the voice and lyrics to be heard. The instruments then rise back up again, with each drum beat sounding like a teenager angrily throwing his belongings around the room in a display of adolescent rebellion. "Grass" takes you up, down, and then back around again, which is exactly what it's meant to do.
ReplyDeleteThe beginning sounds like the opening to a play where the curtain is opening and the initial assemble is dancing out. The cymbals sound as though they are kicking aggressively as though many people have been killed and that is the sound of them falling over dead. But then as the music slows down i see a nice love scene in the park, even though the music and drum still sounded mean in the background. In the later cymbal crashes it reminded me of birds squawking in a park!Mostly because right before hand there is the sound of cheerful birds chirping.
ReplyDeleteGrass by Animal Collective is a song that I am going to download for sure. At the beginning of the song you are thrown in a tornado of fringe sounds bouncing off each other. While over head a large devilish bird yells at you is raspy voice. Towards the middle of the song the tornado sets you down in a field and little parakeets replace the large devilish bird. At the end the birds fight for control and fade off into the distance.
ReplyDeleteThis songs sounds like you're walking home from school through a really busy city, with headphones in. There are roadblocks that you end up getting around with some extended, repeated effort. You pass by food carts and are talking with them and you pass a park with kids playing on the playground and you laugh as a kid yells while going down the slide. You're waiting to cross the street at a cross walk and strike up a conversation with a stranger and talk about the beautiful weather and where y'all are headed. You finally make it home and close the door to the outside world and turn off the music.
ReplyDeleteThe song starts off and it makes me wish it was sunny and 77. My sunroof is definitely open and the volume is turned up to just nearly max. As the track progresses, I get progressively uncomfortable and will probably skip it. It makes me feel like one of those days where you're super excited to just be hanging out and driving around but then you remember that you have responsibilities and shouldn't be wasting gas. You remember that life sucks but that it is also short so who cares, right? Waste the gas, blast the song, and avoid the homework. But then it goes right back to realizing you have to be responsible and it ends on the uncomfortable, responsible, average lifestyle. I like the beginning but it didn't go in the direction I wanted it to.
ReplyDeleteThis song was confusing and scary. I kind of felt the whole time like I was walking through a haunted house. It was loud and I felt like something was behind me ready to jump out and touch me. It made the hair on my arms stand up. I didn't know what to listen to next as if there were multiple scary things coming at me. When the parts that weren't as loud or scary came out it was like me walking through to the next room - a small and sudden breath of fresh air and then something would jump out at me like the music jumps. The scream and cymbal hit at the same time in a constant rhythm were the screams of people around me each realizing the monster behind us at different times.
ReplyDeleteFrom the start, The cymbals come in as if life was breathed into an inanimate object. The kick stays closely steady to iambic pentameter, as if the object now has a pulse. There are many fits of crashes, which sound like a toddler is having a temper tantrum that he has been planning out for a while now; very intentional. The vocals in the song vaguely remind me of the token lunatic in any movie containing an insane asylum. They shift from soft to rash, to full screams, then back to an almost trance-like state. The song as a whole seem like a potion whipped up by a gypsy, one that seems scary to taste, but that you won't regret.
ReplyDeleteI hear this and the watery effects at the beginning reminds me of diving into some pond, not sure of what to expect, but I know that i'm going on a wild adventure. Kind of like in star wars when Anakin and Obi Wan follow Jar Jar Banks. Then you finally get in and I can imagine myself looking around in awe. I start off happy and optimistic. I'm not sure what the goal is but I soon learn that it's a hard and intense journey as the lead singer starts his repetitive scream. But then things smooth out again, so maybe it'll all be okay. The bounce back from the happy sounding parts where the singer is actually singing to the loud, harsh parts where he's just screaming end up just making me confused on this life changing journey. I don't know if I should be scared or not of what's in store for me. In the end I power through and learn the valuable lesson that sometimes in life things get harsh, but it never lasts forever.
ReplyDeleteThe only way I can think to describe this song is as dynamic. The introduction brings a wave of calmness over listeners which is easy to fall in love with. The tone and way in which the lyrics are presented is eerie and the noise complementing them is almost like a space ship landing down on these former waves. As soon as I think I am going to like this song, this abrupt smashing of the symbols occurs and takes over the entire song like a bird squawking at the listeners. While I don't adore this song, I can picture driving with my windows down and blaring this song purely to look like a bad ass.
ReplyDeleteAnimal Collective's "Grass" sounds really similar to Queen's music. I don't know why this song sounds like it belongs at a non conventional christmas parade or something. I know Queen and Christmas music are like polar opposites. But the singer sounds like queen and the actual instrumentation is very christmassy to me. The faint twinkling in the background sounds a lot like several christmas songs and the constant beating of the drum that keeps everyone on rhythm.
ReplyDelete"Grass" by Animal collective gives the visual that it is a bright sunny day. All of a sudden, a hawk starts screeching repetitively. Once it stops, the joyful music comes back and small birds start happily chirping. But then the hawk screeches again, ending the song. This song is an interpretation of nature and the food chain, because it displays the visual of the relationship between predator and prey in the wild through sound. The title, "grass" confirms this because it is the simplest form of nature, as well as the bottom of the food chain.
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