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My summer school "Experience"

Summer School-NOT THAT AGAIN 

Hey sorry I have not writen in a while but things at home have just been crazy because of summer school and trips and stuff but the real reason I wanted to write today is because i'm out of summer school! Yay thank god but know that i'm out I think I will tell you the story of my crazy summer school experince with my computer teacher one of the most crazy things he does is he is so inexperienced that he trys to teach when he doesnt even know the material like yesterday the last day of class he told us our Final was to make a dispicable me photoshoped picture and he didnt even know how to start he just sat there playing around with the settings and then other days he started playing Nikki Manage and Justin Beiber on the apple T.V. I just couldent belive it "How could he" its a computer class not dance.

How I feel about summer school.

form here it got even worse he always says that he can drink in class but we cant so the crazyist thing happend he spilled his goddamb coffee on his computer while some unlucky kid I think his name was Nick well when he spilt his coffie he blamed it all on Nick well I did a background check on "Spukio" or some other thing and found out he's not a teacher at all He's a stage manager so anyways i'm glad i'm out of that mess and begining my summer "Again". See you next time.
Thanks,
AmazingJared1000

Who do YOU want to be.

What To do with your LIFE.

Its what we all talk about when were kids "who were going to be what were going to do" and now that i'm almost to that time in my life I thinks what and the hell am I going to do with my life I cant do anything but think of writing in this blog and yet iv'e filled journals with ideas "2 to be exact" ideas ranging from "What and the hell is I cant believe its not butter" to how to make the best "Punch ice cream" and after all that I've thought about what I want to do in life. A VERY LONG LIST LATER...
But over all I want to make YouTube videos and be able to make a living of that or maybe a Radio talk-show host i'm not that good at making videos tho but if you have any tips for me please feel free to comment or message me.
Thanks,
Jared Smith

YouTube!

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Announcing that my first video is now on youtube so... Check It Out!

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Kitty Commands YOU!

The END of the Swing Era?

NO not the Swing Era!

Possibly my favorite type of music after Emo and Pierce the Veil is Swing Music. Swing Music makes me feel truly happy inside. "Well, until the song is over at least" and can even be a sanctuary for me during bad times. But, the question I ask is why has the music stopped? "Party's over guys," a fellow blogger has written a very good response to my question. 

Thanks to JUstTheSwing"The swing era was killed by a number of factors, World War 2 being one of them. Although swing music was popular among the sailors and soldiers off at war, the war drafted many of the band members forcing the remainder of the band to hire unskilled performers. Glenn Miller broke up his band and joined the Army Air Corpse (which later split from the Army to become the Air Force) where Glenn Miller was lost. Fuel rationing also hurt swing bands - band tours became next to impossible.

Another factor can be blamed on the Musicians Union which went on strike on August 1, 1942. No agreement was made until September of 1943 when Decca Records made an agreement. Blue Note followed in November, and other record labels later that year. However, most swing bands were signed to Columbia and Victor Records. These two record labels would not settle until November 1944, a full 27 months; that's over 2 years in which no swing bands from these two labels were published.

However, singers were not part of the Musicians Union, and thus they were not on strike and could be recorded. The result of this was that singers became popular and the bands, particularly swing bands, diminished in status.

Additional factor was a cabaret tax in 1941 causing clubs to pay 30% of their ticket sales in taxes. This meant that bands that were hired by the clubs had to be smaller and cheaper, something swing bands - especially swing jazz big bands - could not easily adjusted to.

A new jazz sound, Bebop, began to grow in popularity as did the inexpensive rhythm & blues bands.

Finally, with the end of the what became known as World War 2 and of what became known as the Great Depression, people did not want to be reminded of either of them. Swing, which became popular during the depression and was so popular when the war started, became a reminder of those bad years. With the bad memories and the bad emotions that swing music brought back to mind, people simply stopped listening.

With that the Swing Era was dead.

Very soon, partner dancing in general would be dead, too. East coast swing, the dance that replaced Lindy Hop at the end of the Swing Era, as well as dances like the Waltz, Foxtrot, and others would die off when in the early 1960s, Chubby Checker's "The Twist" killed partner dancing."-JUstTheSwing

Thanks, that explains a lot.

Here's a list of my favorite Swing Music."Not in rated order"

  1. Sing, Sing, Sing - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (1937)
  2. Take The A Train - Duke Ellington (1941)  
3. In The Mood - Glenn Miller Band (1939)  
4. God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday (1941)  
5. White Christmas - Bing Crosby (1942) 
 6. Begin The Beguine - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra (1938) 
 7. Stardust - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra (1940)  
8. Chattanooga Choo-Choo - Glenn Miller Band, w/Tex Benecke & The Modernaires (v) (1941) 
 9. I'll Never Smile Again - Tommy Dorsey Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers (v) (1940)
10. Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong (1955)
11. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon - The Andrews Sisters (1937)
12. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - The Andrews Sisters (1941)
13. String of Pearls - Glenn Miller Band (1942)
14. At The Woodchoppers Ball - Woody Herman Orchestra (1939, Decca/MCA)
15. The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me - Sidney Bechet & His Hot Six (1951)
16. Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland (1939)
17. T'Aint What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) - Jimmie Lunceford Band (1939)
18. One O'Clock Jump - Count Basie Orchestra (1937)
19. Flying Home - Lionel Hampton Band (1942)
20. Blues In The Night - Woody Herman (v) w/His Orchestra (1941)

Thanks for reading,
Jared Smith

Class work in the summer!

Why do parents put us through this?

Well my day was fun, all I did for the first two hours of my hopeless existence was a boring summer school "Prep Class" but was the teacher happy with just giving us a nice easy workbook page well I can answer that NO! she wasn't she decided for our last Essay we were going to do the worst possible thing as a sort of "Fuck You" assignment.  So I sat in that class for 2 hours and wrote "The best essay in the class I might add".  So I just wanted to share how bad my essay was with you, here it is!

Jared Smith

P.1

7/18/13

Time Management

Well I know I’m going to sound counter productive but study skills don’t work for me all they do is hold me up maybe if there was one thing I needed to work on because I’m a very forgetful person is time management I can identify things that I could do a lot better if I could manage my time well. This skill has never been easy for me mostly because the sure amount of stuff I do I’ve tried planners I just can’t seem to write anything worth anything in them.

Time management I found out was not just having planners and neat organized workbooks it was about key leadership functions like Planning, Organizing, Directing, and controlling. Let’s talk about some strategies for Time Management. One Planning short-range planning is the best way for you to get through the week which may involve writing in a notebook about the next day and the previous one or planning every hour of your next day but also do not become over obsessive with writing everything down because this will just stress you out more. Organization one of the most “important parts of Time Management.”-Douglas McGregor Organize your study place get an Organization chart or buy a label machine so you can label everything in your bag and house so you know right where everything is. This helps to shorten the time lost between finding supplies. Directing your life “taking a new direction”-POSEC method if you are doing your organization on what someone like your mom or dad tells you tell them you’d like to try to find your own way to study and Manage Time. Controlling Like directing this is taking control of your life telling other peoples what to do when you do group projects being spontaneous because life should not be all work no play.

I will try and use these strategies in my everyday life like organization I have a labeler so ill go home and label everything all the office supplies doors and cabinets for other equipment and then ill go buy another student planner. The next strategy i'll use is directing i'll direct my student group in class and find out who has better working efforts and who will help me out more.

I will use these strategies not only in school life but in my regular life for organizing my room, House, Life, and Blog and most of all my brain. When I use these strategies it will make me a more productive member of class and life and help me through the, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing moments.

I would like to achieve my goal of being able to Time Manage and do it effectively and I will achieve my goal by following the steps above. The four skills I will use are the above and my goal is to become self-reliant and stop depending on my teachers to update homework on websites and tell me my assignments.

Thanks for listening,

Jared Smith