I often find myself trolling Youtube when I am up late/home from a night out and have had a drink or two/feeling melancholy/whatever.
I find myself looking for songs from 1995-1998.
...my New Jersey days.
The one time in my life that I really wish I could have a do-over for.
I would change so many things...so many things.
One thing I would never change was the music though.
Never.
This music defined me, in so many ways.
(if you dont see the videos on Facebook, click on thet helpful go to original post link, or hit up www.erin-patricia.blogspot.com )
(3eB get 3, you know why? It's cause I still have the CD I bought all the way back in 97, It has a place of honor in my car, and I still listen to it all. the. fucking. time.)
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"But you don't have to take my word for it..."
well, yeah, yeah you do.
'Cause this sucks.
A lot.
Anyonw who knows me in real life knows what an insanely voracious reader I am...Reading Rainbow has a lot to do with that.
At the risk of sounding old, kids these days, dont really read. Of course you get anomalies like Harry Potter or Twilight, but for the most part, kids read only if it's assigned to them, they dont have the love of reading that some people (me) do. Reading Rainbow going off the air is just another way in which the dumbing down of America is advancing.
Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter
Even if you can't remember a specific Reading Rainbow episode, chances are, the theme song is still lodged somewhere in your head:
Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high,
Take a look, it's in a book — Reading Rainbow ...
Remember now?
Reading Rainbow comes to the end of its 26-year run on Friday; it has won more than two-dozen Emmys, and is the third longest-running children's show in PBS history — outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers.
The show, which started in 1983, was hosted by actor LeVar Burton. (If you don't know Burton from Reading Rainbow, he's also famous for his role as Kunta Kinte in Roots, or as the chrome-visored Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation.)
Each episode of Reading Rainbow had the same basic elements: There was a featured children's book that inspired an adventure with Burton. Then, at the end of every show, kids gave their own book reviews, always prefaced by Burton's trademark line: "But you don't have to take my word for it ..."
"The series resonates with so many people," says John Grant, who is in charge of content at WNED Buffalo, Reading Rainbow's home station.
"I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being," Burton said in a 2003 interview. "It's just such an integral part of the human experience — that connection with the written word."
"I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being," Burton said in a 2003 interview. "It's just such an integral part of the human experience — that connection with the written word."
The show's run is ending, Grant explains, because no one — not the station, not PBS, not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — will put up the several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the show's broadcast rights.
Grant says the funding crunch is partially to blame, but the decision to end Reading Rainbow can also be traced to a shift in the philosophy of educational television programming. The change started with the Department of Education under the Bush administration, he explains, which wanted to see a much heavier focus on the basic tools of reading — like phonics and spelling.
Grant says that PBS, CPB and the Department of Education put significant funding toward programming that would teach kids how to read — but that's not what Reading Rainbow was trying to do.
"Reading Rainbow taught kids why to read," Grant says. "You know, the love of reading — [the show] encouraged kids to pick up a book and to read."
Linda Simensky, vice president for children's programming at PBS, says that when Reading Rainbow was developed in the early 1980s, it was an era when the question was: "How do we get kids to read books?"
Since then, she explains, research has shown that teaching the mechanics of reading should be the network's priority.
"We've been able to identify the earliest steps that we need to take," Simensky says. "Now we know what we need to do first. Even just from five years ago, I think we all know so much more about how to use television to teach."
Research has directed programming toward phonics and reading fundamentals as the front line of the literacy fight. Reading Rainbow occupied a more luxurious space — the show operated on the assumption that kids already had basic reading skills and instead focused on fostering a love of books.
Simensky calls Reading Rainbow's 26-year run miraculous — and says that its end is bittersweet.
Reading Rainbow's impending absence leaves many open questions about today's literacy challenges, and what television's role should be in addressing them.
"But" — as Burton would have told his young readers — "you don't have to take my word for it."
'Cause this sucks.
A lot.
Anyonw who knows me in real life knows what an insanely voracious reader I am...Reading Rainbow has a lot to do with that.
At the risk of sounding old, kids these days, dont really read. Of course you get anomalies like Harry Potter or Twilight, but for the most part, kids read only if it's assigned to them, they dont have the love of reading that some people (me) do. Reading Rainbow going off the air is just another way in which the dumbing down of America is advancing.
Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter
Even if you can't remember a specific Reading Rainbow episode, chances are, the theme song is still lodged somewhere in your head:
Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high,
Take a look, it's in a book — Reading Rainbow ...
Remember now?
Reading Rainbow comes to the end of its 26-year run on Friday; it has won more than two-dozen Emmys, and is the third longest-running children's show in PBS history — outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers.
The show, which started in 1983, was hosted by actor LeVar Burton. (If you don't know Burton from Reading Rainbow, he's also famous for his role as Kunta Kinte in Roots, or as the chrome-visored Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation.)
Each episode of Reading Rainbow had the same basic elements: There was a featured children's book that inspired an adventure with Burton. Then, at the end of every show, kids gave their own book reviews, always prefaced by Burton's trademark line: "But you don't have to take my word for it ..."
"The series resonates with so many people," says John Grant, who is in charge of content at WNED Buffalo, Reading Rainbow's home station.
"I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being," Burton said in a 2003 interview. "It's just such an integral part of the human experience — that connection with the written word."
"I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being," Burton said in a 2003 interview. "It's just such an integral part of the human experience — that connection with the written word."
The show's run is ending, Grant explains, because no one — not the station, not PBS, not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — will put up the several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the show's broadcast rights.
Grant says the funding crunch is partially to blame, but the decision to end Reading Rainbow can also be traced to a shift in the philosophy of educational television programming. The change started with the Department of Education under the Bush administration, he explains, which wanted to see a much heavier focus on the basic tools of reading — like phonics and spelling.
Grant says that PBS, CPB and the Department of Education put significant funding toward programming that would teach kids how to read — but that's not what Reading Rainbow was trying to do.
"Reading Rainbow taught kids why to read," Grant says. "You know, the love of reading — [the show] encouraged kids to pick up a book and to read."
Linda Simensky, vice president for children's programming at PBS, says that when Reading Rainbow was developed in the early 1980s, it was an era when the question was: "How do we get kids to read books?"
Since then, she explains, research has shown that teaching the mechanics of reading should be the network's priority.
"We've been able to identify the earliest steps that we need to take," Simensky says. "Now we know what we need to do first. Even just from five years ago, I think we all know so much more about how to use television to teach."
Research has directed programming toward phonics and reading fundamentals as the front line of the literacy fight. Reading Rainbow occupied a more luxurious space — the show operated on the assumption that kids already had basic reading skills and instead focused on fostering a love of books.
Simensky calls Reading Rainbow's 26-year run miraculous — and says that its end is bittersweet.
Reading Rainbow's impending absence leaves many open questions about today's literacy challenges, and what television's role should be in addressing them.
"But" — as Burton would have told his young readers — "you don't have to take my word for it."
Friday, March 27, 2009
"And Now", Cried Max, "Let the Wild Rumpus Start!"
I watch this and I feel like a kid, all anticipation and excitement.
If this dosent stir something in you, you have no soul.
If this dosent stir something in you, you have no soul.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Mix Tape Memories.
So while in the midst of my massive cleaning jag in the house I have come across a lot of memories.
Pictures good and bad, people I never want to forget and those I'd rather not remember.
Some things priceless, some things painful.
One thing I found today struck me as particularly meaningful, throwing me into a wistful mood for simpler times. I sometimes I wish I had college to do over again, I wish I could change the person I made a priority and get back everything else I let slip past me.
I found a cassette case, with liner notes, minus the tape ,of a mix my ex made for me in college, and while I truly think he was a*****REDACTED***** when we were together I threw away, or more honestly burned, most everything he ever gave me, except for this tape. Sadly it has been lost to the sands of time but I wish wish wish I still had this tape ( yes I know I can just download it all,but it's not the same as a good old fashioned mix tape)
It completely sums up what I was listening to in 1996/97.
Enjoy.
The only songs I couldnt find on Project Playlist were
"Rude Awakening" by Prong
and
"Moisture" by Dishwalla
Edited to include track listing. Because you know what, the sight of his handwriting pisses me off and it needs to be thrown out. Sue me.
Side I
The Perfect Drug Nine Inch Nails
Lakinis Juice Live
Pity the Dead Bad Religion
Personal Holloway Bish
She Green Day
I'll Stick Around Foo Fighters
Zombie The Cranberries
Hooker with a Penis Tool
Long Way Down Goo Goo Dolls
Streets of America Bad Religion
Having a Blast Green Day
Suffer Bad Religion
Side II
Anasthesia Bad Religion
Rude Awakening Prong
Humans Being Van Halen
Shame Stabbing Westward
Stinkfist Tool
Greedy Fly Bush
The Plan Nada Surf
Moisture Dishwalla
What Do I Have to Do? Stabbing Westward
Infected Bad Religion
Tiny Voices Bad Religion
Pictures good and bad, people I never want to forget and those I'd rather not remember.
Some things priceless, some things painful.
One thing I found today struck me as particularly meaningful, throwing me into a wistful mood for simpler times. I sometimes I wish I had college to do over again, I wish I could change the person I made a priority and get back everything else I let slip past me.
I found a cassette case, with liner notes, minus the tape ,of a mix my ex made for me in college, and while I truly think he was a*****REDACTED***** when we were together I threw away, or more honestly burned, most everything he ever gave me, except for this tape. Sadly it has been lost to the sands of time but I wish wish wish I still had this tape ( yes I know I can just download it all,but it's not the same as a good old fashioned mix tape)
It completely sums up what I was listening to in 1996/97.
Enjoy.
The only songs I couldnt find on Project Playlist were
"Rude Awakening" by Prong
and
"Moisture" by Dishwalla
Edited to include track listing. Because you know what, the sight of his handwriting pisses me off and it needs to be thrown out. Sue me.
Side I
The Perfect Drug Nine Inch Nails
Lakinis Juice Live
Pity the Dead Bad Religion
Personal Holloway Bish
She Green Day
I'll Stick Around Foo Fighters
Zombie The Cranberries
Hooker with a Penis Tool
Long Way Down Goo Goo Dolls
Streets of America Bad Religion
Having a Blast Green Day
Suffer Bad Religion
Side II
Anasthesia Bad Religion
Rude Awakening Prong
Humans Being Van Halen
Shame Stabbing Westward
Stinkfist Tool
Greedy Fly Bush
The Plan Nada Surf
Moisture Dishwalla
What Do I Have to Do? Stabbing Westward
Infected Bad Religion
Tiny Voices Bad Religion
Friday, February 13, 2009
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