He ain't Heavy He My Brother

I'm not sure if anyone else in our class is a part of the Greek community here at MTSU, but if you are... You were forced to watch this awful video this last Thursday.

Okay, first off, this was a video about Hazing, since PIKE at UT just had to make one of their pledges butt chug a beer and it almost killed him.. We all have to go through these 'anti hazing' events to reassure our new babies that we won't make them do thing like this.

The movie starts out pretty hilarious, I actually was laughing pretty hard because of the funny things they were making the guys do. . But very quickly it gets disturbing.. They start to beat the pledges with wooden paddles, until they can't take it anymore, and every time they are struck they must yell out "he ain't heavy, he my brother". Now how this makes you a closer brotherhood-- I'm kind of confused.

My sisters would never make me do anything that would make me feel so small and insignificant, they always loft me up and make me feel like I'm one of a kind. This movie was so extreme, but the sad part about all of this, is that this actually does happen, especially I the African American fraternities.

At the end of the movie, one of the main characters were being forced to run for hours and hours, and finally his heart gives out and he has a heart attack and dies.. And where was his brothers? Running away from him without even calling 911 until after he was dead.

Sarcastic little Dana

After reading Dana Stevens article where she basically is just bashing Johnson's article about how TV makes you smarter, by saying that TV doesn't make you smarter. She just flat out disagrees with him by pointing out his main points, and then gives specific examples as to watching tv really isn't helpful. She also touches on commercials and if you think about it, most people now a days don't really even watch commercials because we have learned to tune them out, or fast forward through them. I feel like when she talks about Johnson's graph or chart that he uses is "hilarious",she may not just understand where he came up with that graph and how it shows the difference between the complication of modern day TV and what they watched back in the days. I never really realized how important TV was to a lot of people, and honestly I had never heard of this "tv turn off week" so maybe TV is important to me, and I just never knew it!

Gangnam style

So I'm sure everyone has seen this new video that is surfacing around on YouTube these days called Gangnam Style, where this Korean man is dancing around like he's ridding a horse.. And if you haven't seen it, I suggest you do. Apparently it has become the most view video ever.. Now that seems a bit hard to believe, but then again it's hilarious. So a few nights ago when another one of my friends in Facebook posted the famous video, I traveled over to YouTube and started watching other videos that it suggested to me after I watched this one.

Let me just say, Koreans know how to get down, and I never knew this! I spent about an hour watching different K pop as it's referred to, videos and I must say I am now a fan.
Even though I don't speak Korean, or even slightly understand it, I still enjoyed watching these girls who were absolutely beautiful dance around and sing in these almost too high pitched voices. it's funny to see that even their pop music is suggestive and has women prancing around barely clothed in their videos, just like in America!

Movie time

This weekend when my boyfriend came home from school he wanted to go see a movie. So after we argued about what movie to go see, we finally decided on the new horror movie called The Possesion. Let me first start out by saying if you a scared very easily by demonic things and such I wouldn't even go near this movie. I normally can handle those exorcism movies because usually they are fake, or overly dramatic to the point of being hard to believe. But not this time.....

Not only was I tightly grasping Jonathan's (my boyfriend.. Well fiancé but that's still so new for me to say) hand out of love, but I was holding on for dear life because I was so scared! The most thrilling part of this movie is of course when the demon completely takes over the little girls body and starts to run rampid through this hospital she is in, and she runs into the mourge where all of these dead bodies are laying just faintly covered with sheets.... And all of a sudden you see her standing underneath this red emergency light and she starts chanting almost this one phrase "help me daddy, I'm scared" over and over again... And then she goes silent, and BOOM! The lights go off and it leaves you like " where the hell did she just go?!?!?"

Of course, there was the stereotypical black guy in the theater with us and when this happens he stands up and yells "awh hell naw, she gon get yo ass." that made everyone laugh and helped lighten the mood! Over all I loved this movie, it actually felt like something I could actually believe would have happened! GO SEE THIS!

Baby grive me one more try..

Now I know you're probably wondering why my title says "grive" instead of give.. Well it's solely because for the last four, extremely long years of my life I have worked at an Asian restaurant. Most Chinese people have a hard time pronouncing certain words or in my boss' case... Every word in English. So the other day when I was working I was talking with my boss and she was trying to name a song to me.. Sort of like a guessing game.

She would "sing" a few words and do a little dance.. Now even though I knew what song she was asking about after the first time she showed me, I kept saying "no.. I don't know what you're singing."
Without fail, Lisa, my boss, starts to sing the new maroon 5 song that goes as follows. "..got you stuck on my body, on my body, like a tattoo -ooo and now I'm feelin stupid, feelin stupid, runnin' back to you -ooo.." there's more, but this is what she kept singing. Her version was more of something along these lines.. " got oo struck on my brody, on my Brody, like a tattrrooooooo.. Now I is stupid, I is stupid ruhnning bat to rooo"

It's safe to say I was laughing so hard to the point of tears. I love my little Asian family and all of the funny things they do, it's just crazy how much othey LOVE our culture, and the things you wouldn't think they'd enjoy.. They do(:

I found these memes on Chinese people so I thought I'd share!

Prepared for class? Nahhh

I usually don't per say prepare for class so much, I just mainly read the material and try to understand what it's saying. I try to be involved in class, because it seems our class is a very quiet one and not many people speak up. But that's okay, it's only the second week of class so I suppose some people are still within their shells. I personally enjoy classroom discussion because I don't always understand what I'm reading so if I hear others ideas about the same things I've just read, it helps me really grasp what's going on!

Does TV really make us smarter?

In Steven Johnson's essay 'Watching TV Makes You Smarter' he talks about this theory called the Sleeper Curve and how it can actually have a positive outcome on us as we watch these shows that are so called "bad for us". He then goes on to talk about how most sitcoms are not challenging us to engage our minds, and that the intellectual work is more or less happening on the screen than it is Off the screen.

My initial thoughts are that this man is so right! Too often are people my age and younger told by older generations that what we do, watch, listen to is "bad" and will only lead to negative outcomes, when it's just pure ignorant people who actually choose to take the violence they see on TV and use it in real life. I believe that these violent TV shows and video games can show a child or teen ager what isn't acceptable in society, such as gang violence, drug use, and profanity.

I didn't quite understand the graphs that he used in this essay to illustrate the "total number of active threads" so hopefully someone could help me understand them!