Flight of the Conchords: Review

My favorite artist is the Flight of the Conchords and one of my favorite songs is “Ladies of the World” from their first album Flight of the Conchords. The review I selected was written by Andrew Beckerman, for Dusted Reviews, focus mainly on the fact that the song “Ladies of the World” and the album Flight of the Conchords is a failed parody. Also, that the album has a slightly racist statement that there are certain genres of music that certain groups can only perform. I disagree with the majority of the evaluation of the reviewer. The main part of the evaluation that I disagree with is the fact that the songs are failed parody. This is because the album and the song is only a slight parody and it is mainly comedy. Another part of the evaluation that I disagree with is that the album is making fun of racism not being racist. I would evaluate the album on different criteria. I would evaluate the album on its impact, effect, and how remember able it is. The impact part of the evaluation would determine if the song, and album, impacted the listener of the song. While the effect part of the evaluation would determine if the song was able to bring its message to the listener. The final part of the evaluation would determine if the song could be easily remembered after hearing it.

It is my favorite album because it contains a lot of fun goofy music that is different from what is normal that it cheers me and makes me happy on bad days, and it makes my good days even better.  

A link to the review:

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4248

The music video of the song:

Definition Proposal: Windows

The word I will be defining is windows. Windows could be an opening in a house, but for this paper I will be defining it as an ancient operating system that is faulty and needs to be replaced. The reason for be defining windows is to start a discussion in order to find a way to replace it. It is important to me because it has been a faulty operating system that has troubled my friends who want to be computer science. I will be writing this paper to try and poke a little fun at how they treat windows as the anti-christ. The audience of my paper will be my nerdy friends who get very mad at windows.

Geeks and Cabbage

Oswalt defines the term nerd as someone who is an outcast of society, is alone with no friends, and therefore has makes up a culture that is different from the nerd next to him or her. He then defines otaku as a person who lives in their own tight knit separate world who has changing interest that are radically different from the rest of society. Then Oswalt defines geek as someone who is an American otaku and who has certain interests that helps them identify with certain people. The reason for him to define these terms were to identify the difference between a nerd and a geek, so he could argue his reason that in order for geek culture to have real substance and to survive, as it once was, is to break away from popular culture and to destroy current geek culture all together. The main reason for Mr. Oswalt having a problem with popular culture adopting parts of geek culture is because popular culture is that it is exploiting the things that feel scared to him and he does not want to accept that other people could like the same things that he does. I do not agree with Mr. Oswalt’s argument about geek culture being taken over by popular culture because geek culture is evolving and growing too fast for popular culture to catch up to it. Also, it will take a long time for popular culture to find and try to exploit geek culture, and geeks will vote with their wallets if they believe that something they feel scared is being taken in the wrong direction by popular culture. In conclusion it may to easier to pose as a geek, but with the infinite space of the internet it will be even harder for geekiness to be normal.

Supermarket Pastoral is when supermarkets use advertisements to promote organic produce and animal products by saying that these products came from fresh and open fields and farms. Pollan is talking about it because he finds it strange that supermarkets need to advertise their products this way instead of letting the best tasting food to be the decider of what people will buy. He is also trying to expose how the culture organic agriculture only exists because the super markets tend to find that is what the customer wants. This says about the culture of organic agriculture is mostly filled with sell outs who are only trying to make the customer feel like they are getting a good product that has been grown or raised in the best possible conditions. Instead of promoting the practice of creating a real way for food to be produced and raised in a way that is a true natural process.