LATE BLOG lol case study

This case study is about to turn into a little rant to Stephanie. Now I would never disrespect her as her teaching methods ,because she is the only teacher so far here that has personally helped me through my class, but maybe this will give her a little insight. I have a little problem with our peer revision process. My concern is that many people don’t care what happens with the revision. I would never say any names and I would just hope that anyone that has slacked in the review process can see this problem. In my opinion if someone has no motive to help the writer than the person cant give a very good review. A little bit of initiative should befall the writer to find another person to review but maybe a solution is to weed out the people that have no desire to do well in the revision. I hope someone in the class can identify with me on this.

Cultural Opportunity:Restaurant

This cultural opportunity is for a foreign or culturally different restaurant, for mine I decided to go to Flat Top. Flat top may not seem like a very authentic place because it is more main stream with their fancy chains of places and the fact that many people go there on a weekly or monthly basis. They are actually a Mongolian grill but they decided to put there business out there as a stir-fry buffet of sorts. For anyone who hasn’t been there basically you just take a bowl and grab some rice veggies and meat then they cook it for you. Seems simple but the many choices of each of these items and your choice of many different sauces. It really is a different experience from the regular restaurant but I’m not too sure where the authenticity comes from I don’t know if they also do the buffet thing but I know they use stir fry as a known meal and some of the color themes are really firey. Plus they give you chop sticks

Cultural Opportunity: Play/Musical

This cultural opportunity puts me at eastlight theatre in east Peoria to watch Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. I have seen this musical/play about five times because I have a cousin that has been in many of them and a few friends that have also been in the cast. The play is a family fun play with all of the costumes lights music and humor. It is based in biblical times about a father with 12 children and he favored the one Joseph. Joseph had special powers where he could read dreams. The eleven brothers were extremely jealous and sent him away and told the father he had been killed. Only for the eleven brothers to find out that Joseph turned to be prince of the land and needed his help during a starvation period. The play was exciting as always with many great local talents filling out the cast. My girlfriend and I both enjoyed the play very much especially all of the colors and lights that accompanied the singing.

Cultural Opportunity: Concert

For this cultural opportunity I am focusing on a Concert I went to in Northern Illinois. I went to Mad Maggie’s music parlor in Elgin, Illinois. Performing there was Haste the Day, Story of the Year, and The Devil Wears Prada was the headlining act. We drove just about three hours just to see Haste the Day because they are my favorite band and they are pretty much the greatest thing to happen ever. We got to the venue about a half hour before they went on stage and fought our way to the center of it. When they started to play the crowd Erupted and bodies flew everywhere but I didn’t jump into the pit because I was entranced by the band onstage. After their show ended I walked outside to go put something in the car and the entire band was just standing outside so I got to stand there and talk to them, at which point I texted Cole and told him to get his ass outside. After we talked with them for awhile we went back inside to catch the last of Story of the Year’s set and get a good spot for the much anticipated The Devil Wears Prada. As TDWP show went on I was spotted at the stage, the moshpits, anywhere that action was and getting myself all beat up and sweaty. It was an amazing show and a very tired ride home.



Danger Wildman-The Devil Wears Prada
I KNOW A GHOST,
And when doubted his truth reveals incredible vengeance.
Vanity is a sepulcher,
Do as you please, shame will follow.
Languages rot and insects lose interest,
Mountains of plastic: Melting away.
As long as these struggles are aimless,
We will all be standing still.
When worded correctly, truth is never a cliché;
This is because so many are attached to their deaf ears.
Collect the leaves,
Count them,
Name them,
Study each and every single one of them.
As long as these struggles are aimless,
We will all be standing still.
When worded correctly, truth is never a cliché;
This is because so many are attached to their deaf ears.
All mistakes can be marked by borders,
All of love can be traced to a maker.
It seems as if what is most important,
Isn't noticed when forgotten.
Do as you please, shame will follow.
The sun and the moon,
You'll always take them for granted.
What's delicate is lost.
As the selfish forgot what is sacred,
The humble forget themselves.
When worded correctly, truth is never a cliché;
This is because so many are attached to their deaf ears

Big Wiggly Style-The Devil Wears Prada
Condemned,
My regret is not writing more for you, lord.
As this ocean comes to be deeper our vessel becomes less stable,
Look to the sky.
Encourage the elements of god,
Rather than the jars that contain them.
If only the ingredients of man were of such elements.
If only.
With great horror, I admit that we all live off the lust and misfortune of others.
All lives off the lust and misfortune of others,
This is vision, not contradiction.
I see greed in the face of a priest,
And deterioration in the walls of cathedrals.
What was right, now wrong,
Casts a cold reflection on glory,
Look to the sky.

Chorus of Angels-Haste the Day
Chorus of Angels
Destroy my silence
That haunts me
That claims me
While darkness walks beside me
I saw the Angels sing along to wake up the beautiful sleeping world
Their voices will rise to test the strength of man
Wake up the beautiful sleeping world
Wake up
wake up now, wake up now (ambient)

We will see the fire
We will see The skies will open up
The sky will open
The clouds will burn red and our sins will forget us
Our sins will forget us
And time will not shake us
Our hearts are made of gold
Made of gold
These walls won't over take us
These walls won't over take us
Over take us

I saw the Angels sing along to wake up the beautiful sleeping world
Their voices will rise to test the strength of man
Wake up the beautiful sleeping world
Wake up

We will see the fire
We will see
The skies will open up
The sky will open
The clouds will burn red and our sins will forget us
Our sins will forget us
And time will not shake us
Our hearts are made of gold
Made of gold
These walls won't over take us
These walls won't over take us
Over take us

I saw the Angels sing along to wake up the beautiful sleeping world
Beautiful sleeping world
Their voices will rise to test the strength of man
Wake up the beautiful sleeping world
Wake up

Chorus of Angels
Destroy my silence
That haunts me
That claims me
While darkness walks beside me


I saw the Angels sing along to wake up the beautiful sleeping world
Chorus of Angels, wake me, wake me
I saw the Angels sing, wake up the beautiful sleeping world
Wake up, lay the foundations, the foundations of the earth, of the earth

The Last Goodbye-Haste the Day
This is the last of all the last times
My dear, no more
Where's the comfort?, where's the end?

This is the last time
This is the last goodbye
You say that you're not sure
But I think you feel the same
Over and over we try to work this out
All this time all I wanted was you
All I want is you

Mad Man-Haste the Day

You said it yourself. To convalesce from empty sorrow, someone had to squeal. To drive to the bottom. You said I know. I know it's not your fault. Like wire around your bones you would never numb. I take it I'm a mad man, but I would never squeal. I never said it was no good.

The innocent will rest in the peace they've been given. Paintings will sleep on the floor. Build walls of lonely dreams as beauty fades. I can't take this anymore.

Lock yourself up like a bird in a cage. You sing but no one ever listens. How much were you paid to sell out the mad man? Like a scientist or a master of design. I knew exactly what I was doing. And I heard of your disease, and shots of penicillin barely kept you alive.

The innocent will rest in the peace they've been given. Paintings will sleep on the floor. Build walls of lonely dreams as beauty fades. I can't take this anymore.

I am the clone. I dwell in silence. (4x)

The innocent will rest in the peace they've been given. Paintings will sleep on the floor. Build walls of lonely dreams as beauty fades. I can't take this anymo

I eat stickers all the time!

One of my favorite things to watch on TV is UFC. Some may call it barbaric and violent, sure its violent but the technicality it takes is amazing. One of the best fighters in the sport is Georges St. Pierre or as he is more well known GSP. GSP recently announced that he would try to make that transition to the sport of olympic wrestling and compete with Canada at the next olympics. I think that this would be a goood idea especially if he ends up competing in the next set of games. It will be good for him to show that the guys who compete in the UFC aren't just beating the crap out of each other, but it takes some planning and a lot of physical talent. Granted he won't be able to throw punches or anything but the ground and grappling game will be fairly similar at the games. This would also open up the opportunuty for other fighters to wrestle for their countries like my favorite fighter BJ Penn for Brazil.

Stop making your life decisions off of old scooby doo episodes.

So I'm in my car on my way to work listening to my favorite talk show on XM radio.The Jason Ellis Show. This is a radio show that pretty much talks about some of the dirtiest stuff I could ever think of, and lots of stuff you just cant converse about on public radio. They had a topic of conversation regarding the recent job that Mark McGwire recieved as hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. As many of you hopefully know, Mark was one of the main suspected athletes in the ginormous baseball steroid scandal. Mainly because Jose Canseco admitted to injecting McGwire when they both played for Oakland. So do you think that it is right for someone who has used performance enhancing drugs to be on a mlb team, mentoring youn players? He is the one that rookies will turn to when they start thier journey in the bigs. I think that it is wrong, he hit 70 homeruns back in the day and wants more recognition for it. Personally I think that there should be a giant effing asterisk by his name in the record books along with Barry Bonds, who I have more dislike for. I think that Bud Selig should step in, and make an exxecutive decision to help keep our young sluggers on a more influential and natural track to superstardom.

Illiteracy....What does that word even mean?

Alright so check this out I would totally think its awesome if everyone could post a response about this, if you choose not to do the whole 5 sentence thingy that’s totally cool but I wanna hear some peoples opinions on this. So me and my friend tyler were drivin around in my car and talkin bout music which is what we always do. And he poses the question “If you could pick two bands that defined rock music and what it is about, Who woulds you pick?” Suprising enough out of everyband in the world we selected the same two bands. The Foo Fighters, and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Now they are not our favorite bands but we believe that they define the genre so I pose the question to the rest of you. Pick the genre, pick your two favorite bands, and determine whether they are there for the music or for the life style. So I throw out the Genre of Punk Rock, what band would you ask someone to listen to if they have never heard of punk rock, if I were to choose newer bands, I would say Green Day and Rise Against, two bands that have gone out there and proven that they are here for the fans and for the music. Now the Sex Pistols would be a great example to give out there but they are a fairly “older band” and there are plenty of others to choose from, now everyone else throw out a genre and pick your musicians, you might learn something. Weird.