Stress

I am finding myself incredibly overwhelmed this semester.  I feel like there is not enough time in a day for me to accomplish everything that I have to get done.  Including my blogs for my introduction to new media class. I have really got to get it together or I am going to fall really behind in everything.  I feel like I need a personal assistant to remind me of all the things I have to do and get done.  Also to tell me when I should start them.  Yea... That would be awesome.  If only. I need to find a bag of money so I don't have to work anymore and I can just concentrate on school.  I need to get it together fast.

Atmosphere is Inspiration

I love music and how it can change your mood in an instant just by a song.  One of my favorite groups to listen to is the underground hip-hop group, Atmosphere.  When thinking about atmosphere I wonder can two people be considered a musical group?  Is it just one person and a behind the scenes guy?It consists of two amazing individual artists, Slug and DJ Ant (born as Anthony Davis).  Their music has helped me through my worst days and kept me going on my good days.  Ant has the ability to project his mood through his music, bringing more life and meaning to it.   Atmosphere is considered an underground/independent hip hop group from the twin cities, Minnesota. Underground meaning they aren’t signed to a big name record label, like Warner or Sony Music, but instead signed to smaller labels to avoid “selling out”.  
They have been around since 1993 when they began to tour in 97' and hit every town they could. No matter how big or small the crowd. While pushing themselves to the limit, they poured their raw abilities ad hearts out onto the stage.  The people could relate and as the travels continued the fan base steadily grew and the legend was undeniable; a group of friends from the Twin Cities had established a thriving record label and made an impression on the Hip Hop world.  ANT still does 100% of the producing and Slug does all the MCing. There are older tracks where ANT MCs too, so yeah, they’re a group.  Their music and songs have an incredible rhythm and way with words.  In my opinion they are AMAZING.  I am incredibly excited for their show on October 7th, 2010 at the Congress Theatre for their To All My Friends Tour.  They are apart of  rhymesayers entertainment, which is the home of so many more talented independent artists.  It is definitely something worth checking it out.  yayaya!! 

Newest song by slug posted in blog below :)

Slug

Favorite Atmosphere song(s):
• 1597
• God's Bathroom Floor
• Trying to Find a Balance
• You
• Scapegoat
• Say Hey There
Favorite songs Slug is featured on:
• Insomnia 411 - Roosevelt Franklin feat. Slug & Jean Grae
• Bleeding Hearts Club - P.O.S. feat. Slug

Roosevelt Franklin- Insomnia 411 (Ft. Slug & Jean Grae)
One of the newer songs by Slug.
He is so gifted!

Bloggers on Blogging

What I really like about Trine-Maria Kristensen and her blog is she started off just like me.  Until recently I have not seen the purpose or use for blogging.  By reading through Trine-Maria's experiences with it, I understand the uses and excitement behind it all.  Trine-Maria sayd that was fascinates her about blogging is the interconnection with people and how you can link to any blog or anything you wanted to.  I feel that I can connect with Trine because I actually hate blogging because I do not know what I am suppose to write or put on these things, she helped me feel a little better about that.  I am not an incredibly vocal person when I am around people I do not know well so I suppose I treat blogging the same way.  it is going to take some time for me to get use to it, I guess.  I am going to try and take Trine's approach and make my blog more like me so i feel more comfortable and at home when i am here typing.  I think it's a brilliant idea to have email notifications for your blog, like how facebook does.  I am not familiar with any of the "blogging" terms or how things work so if it notified me when something was going on with my page I think it'd be really helpful.  I love that she uses her blog to rant about things that irritate her on the internet.  I think it is a great idea that she starts some ideas as drafts so that way she could come back to them later. This is an amazing and helpful tip for bloggin," And in order to get the conversation going I try to remember to send the people I write about a link—I am very often curious to find out how they decided on the solution/platform/blog-format or whatever.  I also write to get help. If there is something I don't know or something I am a bit afraid of, I ask for qualified tips and tricks—and I get a good response on those kinds of entries as well.  I don't think you should overdo either of these approaches but when I genuinely want to have the conversation I find that both ways work well on my blog."  Trine has been a bit of an inspiration to me to try and get the ball rolling on my blogging and get interested and motivated in doing so.  

My First Blog

Hi hi hi! This is my first ever blog post...yay!  I've never blogged, so this is my very sad attempt in doing so.  Go easy on me....and check back in for some nonsense of being a NCC student.  This class is way to early in the morning for my brain to be turned on.