Tuesday, March 8, 2011
For Those of You Who Attended the Music Conference with the Paper on Autotune, Charlie Sheen's Autotune is "Winning"
This mix that transcribes Charlie Sheen's current philosophies into an autotuned song, is actually put together really well, it's "Winning."
Friday, March 4, 2011
nagging questions
to add a little bit of clarification to the topic of relativism of knowledge, wikipedia defines it as mostly referring to moral principles and ethics and while some instances in science can be used as examples of relativism in knowledge, laws like gravity dont really fall under this category.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
hmmm....
Pentagon Papers.........Wikileaks???
The Pentagon Papers drove Nixon to Watergate...
What will Wikileaks do to Obama?
Everyone seemed to be hiding something in the scandal, and I can see why the newer guys in office were. They were doing what they were told because they didn't know any better. They thought they were doing the right thing by protecting the president. But why did Haldeman testify and say he had one of the tapes in his possession over the weekend? I don't understand if he said this to protect the president by saying that the tapes could have been messed with or to say that they should be released. He was supposed to be close to the president but when he testified it seemed that he was lying becuase he couldn't remember any specific details. Do you think there was a possibility he was trying to reveal the truth without actually saying it, because he kept saying things that made Nixon look guilty?
In Tuesday's lecture it was mentioned that presidents after Nixon have used similar techniques to get what they want more quickly by dodging the formal channels, such as presidential signing statements. Because Nixon was able to come out clean after such legal atrocities, did that subtly signify to future presidents that it is within their right and power to act in such ways? Should Americans be just as suspicious now of our President's actions?
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
while looking up political songs for my paper, i found this website with a few political songs and the one that was interesting to me at least was the song about the iraq war and that made me think about how much the war in iraq and afghanistan relates to vietnam and this excerpt from the song felt the same way, acting as a voice of the 60s and 70s letting the youth of today know that the same thing happened to them back then.
Frost/Nixon... and some music
I don't know the accuracy of this film's portrayal of the Watergate scandal but it might be useful in helping to illuminate the somewhat dry political readings for this week. Here's the trailer and synopsis of the film:
On a side note, I found the music conference to be really interesting. I thought the "Reality Bites" segment shared some interesting arguments in regards to the kind of media our generation consumes. What were your thoughts? I'm especially curious as to what people thought of the third presentation on Ke$ha and her "native style".
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