Just a boring little game -- songs that have a thematic connection. But on this one, i need a little help. I am not familiar with the 49 and 59 songs. Someone tell me ones I know and like.
The group is called "the one after 909"
Hey 19 (steely Dan)
29 Palms (Robert Palmer)
'39 (Queen)
49 Mercury Blues (Brian Setzer Orchestra)
'59 (Brian Setzer Orchestra)
Summer of 69 (Bryan Adams)
1979 (Smashing Pumpkins)
Pop Song 89 (REM)
TIE -- 99 Luftballon (Nena) AND 1999 (Prince)
I wish that I could quantify those things that really get to me -- to take the visceral and somehow extract the objective criteria and list them. I want to know not just "what" touches me, but why. That way, I can predict, plan, and even create content which will affect me in that certain way. And maybe, if we could share with each other what truly inspires or gets to us, we could empathize better.
To wit - I was listening to the radio this morning. I do that. It's a thing I do. Don't judge me. A song came on and there was something about this song that really elicited a deep emotional response. I didn't cry or laugh, but I felt something indescribable deep down inside. I know this feeling and I know what songs set it off but I can't explain why or figure out what they all have in common. It isn't the lyrics and I don't think it is the band. Maybe something about the chords, the progressions, the key. I'm not sure. But if you ever see me glaze over when Tom Petty's "She's Just a Woman in Love" or Madonna's "Oh Daddy," "Nafalta Chazak" by Eifo Hayeled or "Comin' Round" by Hoppers13, TMBG's "Ana Ng" or Santana's "Europa" among others comes on, you'll know why.
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Adding to the list years later:
Steady as She Goes by the Raconteurs
Caring is Creepy by the Shins
Talia inspired this picture. Some of it was easy to do but some wasn't since I insisted on only using the Paint program and nothing with more power.
I have a new site up and sort of running.
www.myscreeds.com
not exactly a blog site -- I'll be saving it for my larger and angrier pieces. The blog will be for shorter pieces.
So anyway, I was thinking about my previous post, trying to add to the list even though I know that making jokes about irregularity of bowel habits is in extremely poor taste.
I came up with another.
Constiplaystation -- what to do while you wait
But then I got to thinking about this mode of humor -- not the toilet based part of it, but the creation of lists building off of a word. I realize that this is inspired directly by the work of Tim Kazurinsky as Dr. Jack Badofsky.
Tim Kazurinsky ladies and gentleman...let's hear it for him. Welcome to the show Tim.
http://blogs.pioneerlocal.com/reeltime/TimKazurinsky%20new%20headshot.jpg
http://img.snlarc.jt.org/caps/episode_sketches/1982-10-02-10.jpg
As you can tell by the picture of the character, Tim through Dr. Jack has inspired me in my manner, dress and humor. So more power to you Mr. kazurinsky, and if you stumble upon this some day, just know I'm Having a Good Time, Wishing you Were Here.
I'm usually not one to make fun using the scatological references but this just seems like too much fun to pass up.
And play along if you'd like.
Constapatient -- the person suffering or someone who doesn't mind waiting to go
Constapainful -- when not going hurts
Constapacing -- wandering around waiting
Constaflation -- the price we pay for going gets higher and higher
Constavation -- saving it up for the future
Constapashun -- no one wants to be around someone who can't go
Constapalin -- waiting for a female VP
Constapaper -- sitting, waiting, reading
For a while, I have been speaking to people about how the internet has transformed language and communication. I realized today that one of the aspects (for the good and bad) of the internet is affecting other areas of life as well, including (surprise, surprise) education.
The internet has shifted the paradigm of printing away from publishing houses and into the hands of the everyman. You (the phantom you) are reading this right now. Fifty years ago, I would have to have kept my ramblings to myself or placed them in a notebook and they might only have been discovered when the police were looking through my belongings for some clue to explain the unpleasantness in the pudding factory. But now, the internet allows me to put my thoughts out there without the intermediaries, filters or literary agents to decide if what I say is worth putting out there (or even "correct" for that matter). This has, therefore, made the creation of content a privilege in the reach of anyone and everyone.
So what does this have to do with education?
Well, it seems that the role of education might no longer be to teach the random skills and content of the classes. It might be, because we are integrating content creation and the interactivity of "web 2.0" that the greatest skill we can teach students is to be effective teachers. It might be that their role is now to produce and present, not absorb, so the ultimate test...the final content will be the ability of students to convey information to others -- a step past simply learning the material, retaining, analyzing etc the material. The highest order of thinking is not just integrating or evaluating, and not even "communicating" but actual teaching. The egalitarianism of publication which drives us to evaluate and consider the source, also requires that we become a reputable source for each other. The future is about writing a wiki entry, not just reading one.
