In our class with Mrs. Brinkman we watched both the old and the new Footloose movies and now she wants each of us to compare and contrast the movies. Both of the movies had the classic yellow bug, the Footloose song (of course), some pretty awesome dance moves. I was disappointed in the new movie that he didn't do a backflip off the truck during the fight scene like Kevin Bacon did in the first Footloose. Towards the end of the movie Ariel's parents went and danced outside the party in the first one, but they didn't do it in the remake. Also instead of a chicken fight with tractors like the first one, the new movie had several buses going in a figure eight until only one was left. There were other small differences, but the over-all idea of the movies was the same. Dancing and playing music too loud was illegal and eventually Ariel stops her rebellious ways and gets together with Ren McCormack. And they have an AMAZING SCHOOL DANCE at the end!
O.K. we watched the MTV video about how music videos kind of started and that led to MTV or the other way around, whatever. I was really freaked out by how weird the movie was and how the videos really changed your perspective of the song itself. One of the people that were interviewed in the video said the same thing. He said how music videos killed the listeners imagination about the song and didn't allow them to make their own picture of what the song means to them. Madonna was the really scandalous video-ster. Her music videos were as "naughty" as Brittney Spears in the early 2000 and now Miley Cirus's videos today. This video made me realize how many of the original artists did not want to have music videos, but when MTV started creating videos for them and brought them more money and fame other artists started doing it as a way to become known and famous. In my final opinion MTV WAS MESSED UP!
For the entire month of March our Haydn to Hip Hop class, along with the entire Mountain Lake Public School, celebrated MIOSM (Music In Our School Month). Since our class is a music class, and is led by the amazing choir teacher, Mrs. Brinkman, we had the great privilege of creating the schedule for each week in March. The first week was Country and we had a line dancing competition that the Senior class won-of course. Brianna S. and I were the two senior candidates and I must say it was a lot of fun dancing with that crazy girl. The judges were Mr. Funk, Ms. Brown, and Mr. Appel (the A.G. department). We tried to have trivia throughout the week, and we did have a few questions that counted as C.O.T.Y. points, but with the craziness of March and classes being gone at different times, we only had a few days of trivia. This happened throughout the month of March and it kind of messed up our plan. The other thing we wanted to do was play music in between classes, but the office ladies would not allow it because they needed that time to have announcements and other stuff (WHATEVER). O.K. so the second week of March was A Capella week, which was "created" by Lydia, Jenny, and I. We had A Capella lingo and a C.O.T.Y. activity of Guess that group, where a student representative from each grade would write down one of five A Capella groups and if they were right they got C.O.T.Y. points. The third week was rap and the C.O.T.Y. activity was pretty awesome. Mrs. Svehla, Mrs. Brinkman, Ms. Cattryse, Mrs. Banks, and Mr. Funk all rapped to a rap that they wrote or we wrote for them. Mr. Funk won that competition and he was the senior representative (of course). Although, all the other rappers did very well. The final week in March was Hip Hop week and we went to the High School for Recording Arts. And we ended the week with the Student Talent Show featuring the CLASH OF THE CLASSES! Which was AMAZING!!!!! Right after the Talent Show there was a dance for the 9-12th graders and that was great, but I was so tired the next day. The next night (which was Saturday) we sponsored a dance for the 6-8th graders and it was so funny to see how awkward the kids were at first. Well, that's really all I have to say about that.
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Ben Black
I was born on May 4th 1997, I am attending Mountain Lake High School. I am on the Football, Basketball, and Baseball teams and I attend choir and band. Archives
April 2015
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