Final Post!

Because this is my last and final post for this class, I decided to write about my favorite band, Cobra Starship. For some reason today I had "Placer Culpable" in my head, even though I haven't heard the song in a very long time. Placer Culpable is the spanish version of one of their hit songs Guilty Pleasure. The lead singer, Gabe Saporta, is from Ecuador so I guess he can pull off singing that entire thing in a different language. The Ballad Of Big Poppa And Diamond Girl from their oldest album While The City Sleeps We Rule The Streets is partially in spanish as well. Cobra Starship also did a parody type thing of I Kissed A Girl called I Kissed A Boy. They also did the same thing from Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani called Hollaback Boy, which is the most hilarious songs I have ever heard. I love Cobra Starship, they are my all all all time favorite even though I don't know many peolpe who appreciate them as much as I do.


Thats it for my blogging! :D

ISolated INcident

Okay, Dane Cook isn't really much of music...but he's on that leaked music site Aubrey gave me and on iTunes so thats good enough for me! There are so many people I know who HATE Dane Cook, seriously, DESPISE him. I think Cook is so hilarious. I have Vicious Circle saved on my tivo from years ago and I have watched him so many times but he doesn't fail to make me laugh. ISolated INcident is also really funny. I listened to it in my car at least twice so far, and replayed some of my favorite tracks. My favorites were "Self Assasination", "W.W.Y.D.I??", and "Vernacular". Here is the link to download it onto iTunes for freeeee! Dane Cook's sound effects I think make him so LOLable. He is by far my favorite comedian and he is in some really good movies like Dan in Real Life and Good Luck Chuck. Dan in Real Life plays him in a more serious role, but in Good Luck Chuck and My Best Friend's Girl, he is still oh so funny.

Set Your Goals!

August 8, The Culture Room, Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong, Fireworks, The Swellers, and Gravemaker. Starting this summer, SYG and FYS are co-headlining a tour that will last until the end of August. Set Your Goals' new album This Will Be The Death Of Us will be coming out on July 21! I'm excited for that. Four Year Strong is also releasing their album Explains It All on the same date! It'll be a big day for the both of them. I've only heard one Fireworks song from my friend in the car once, but I liked their sound. The other two, unfortunately, I have never heard of. But this will still be a great tour with Set Your Goals and Four Year Strong together! August 8th! Tickets on ticketmaster go on sale tomorrow, I know tonight I will be asking my parents if I'm allowed to go, it's on a Saturday night, thats a plus! Below is a Set Your Goals song and a cover done by Four Year Strong (:

Blink 182 Tour Dates Announced!

I'M SO PUMPED UP! Blink 182 finally announced their tour dates. They are coming to the Cruzan Amphitheater on September 26, 2009. A possible setlist has been announced including songs Rock Show, Feelin This, and Always. Their openers are planned to be Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco, The All-American Rejects, Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth, and Chester French. All these bands will open for different cities, it's not all at once. I want Fall Out Boy to play with them just because I haven't seen them either, that way it would be a double whammy. But even if Asher Roth ends up in West Palm, i don't care. I am just so excited for Blink to be back on tour for me to see them! Tickets go on sale May 30! And lawn tickets will only be twenty dollars, but I'm definitely getting as close as I possibly can. This is going to be greatttt. :D


Oh, and All Time Low was added to this summer's Warped Tour! <3333! YAYAYAYAYAYY.

Very Short Summer Tour

The Academy Is... is having a VERY short headlining tour with Boys Like Girls, Gym Class Heroes, and The Veronicas. When I say short...I mean so so so short it is upsetting. Only eight different venues will be blessed with TAI's presence. It sucks they aren't going on warped tour this year, but they better be going on a bigger headlining tour then this once fall comes around! Either way, warped tour is on July 25 and I would rather go to that then see two out of four bands that I like and have seen plenty of times before. The Academy Is... is probably one of my favorite bands ever, it's just really annoying to have to write ... at the end of their name and then keep typing the sentence.

Here are the tour dates if anyone just so happens to be traveling over the summer, you can catch them!

Jul 21 2009 8:00P
Six Flags Jackson, NJ
Jul 23 2009 8:00P
Nikon At Jones Beach Wantagh, NY
Jul 24 2009 8:00P
Dupage County Fair Wheaton, IL
Jul 25 2009 8:00P
Meadowbrook Gilford, NH
Jul 27 2009 8:00P
Pier 6 Pavilion Baltimore, MD
Jul 29 2009 8:00P
six Flags Louisville, KY
Jul 30 2009 8:00P
Six Flags Eureka, MO
Jul 31 2009 8:00P
Six Flags Gurnee, IL

If It Means A Lot To You

Okay, some songs are actually REALLY difficult to find meaning. Not as much meaning as words that are words in the American Sign Language dictionary that will all come together and fit to make sense. My individual song for my project is "If It Means A Lot To You" by A Day to Remember. It is probably the HARDEST song I could choose to do. For one, the song is a duet, so I have to be two different people when I sign. Second, they sing "la la la la" a lot. Because signing something repetitively doesn't look good, I need to find meaning to la la la. Also, finding the meaning of that song is hard in general. It sounds like two different things to me. Either the singer is going on tour and is leaving his girlfriend blah blah blah. Or that he is going into the military and is leaving his girlfriend blah blah blah. The lyrics are below along with the song, is there anyone else's interpretation of this song?

Songs in Sign

So it's that time of year where my sign language class does songs. We have to pick a song with lyrics that actually mean something, then gloss them and put it in ASL word order. This is the hardest part with signing songs because you don't just sign the words, you have to sign the meaning of the song. When you gloss a song, that means that you take the lines of the songs and break it down into words that are in the ASL dictionary and sign what it means. Because sign language is very literal, signing songs is hard. Now that we are looking at music in a different way and taking the lines piece by piece, I see how meaningful some songs are and how much bullshit other songwriters come up with. Before we do our individual song, we are practicing glossing with the class with Every Day by Rascal Flatts. That song has a lot of meaning and it's really fun to sign. (: