This Last Week

This last week has been filled with bucket loads of stress. From final drafts to midterm test, it has been a really stressful week. Although I did well on all my tests and quizzes I was still a long week.Overall teachers really need to start pacing themselves with their tests and quizzes or the school should not require a certain amount of tests and quizzes. This is mainly because sometimes tests and quizzes can get in the way of actually learning new material especially when one whole week would be filled with tests/quizzes. This is just something that I have been thinking about all week.

Some of my favorite music right now

The Top 10
1. Ian Sweet-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWd5by5f-nM - this a really small band but they have a great wall of sound that is just hypnotic
2. The War on Drugs-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsoqmFL1vlU- crazy simple chords with with a driving beat and great lyrics makes this band one of my favorites.
3. Lil Yachty- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=251cxou3yR4- This young guy has an extremely different sound to most and good chorus makes his music great. The lil Boat Mix tape is the best.
4. Kendrick Lamar-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3rDc7sL0Co- By far the most meaningful rapper, and the most complex. Rap music with jazz is amazing. To Pimp a butterfly is what got me into him.
5. Chance- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TErySTMbFlk- This guy is more meaningful as well, but for me it is definitely how mellow he is especially in the acid rap mixtape.
6. Bill Ryder Jones- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a7TcW_2b9s- By far one of my all time favorites. I don't know what it is about two to birkenhead but I can not get it out of my head, with it dynamics and catchy chorus, Brilliant.
7. Black Keys-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygdVEIrVnIk- Their latest album turn blue was not a big hit, but turn blue is by far my favorite album they have ever made. Weight of love the first song has simple guitar slots but the solos are just so powerful.
8. The Wombats-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayuooyWPEUc- Their new stuff is a bit to popy for me but their first album has some of the most catchy choruses ever.
9. Frank Turner-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Ns6ouwO1g- This guy is far and above the best performer I have ever seen and definitely one of the best some writers in history.
10. Alabama Shakes-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oib0a2_itA- An incredible singer, makes this band great. So much soul, every time I listen to gimme all your love I get goose bumps.

Honorable mentions
RadioHead- In Rainbows
Sonic Youth- Teenage Dream
Royal Blood- Royal Blood
Courtney Barnett- A sea of Split Peas
The smith street band-No one gets lost anymore

Some Photos I took

These are a few of my favorite photos I have taken this year around Newark. I took all of these photo for my photography class. The first one is a candid portrait of my Dad, the second photo is a picture of a Handicap sign in a parking lot. The next one I took while taking pictures of a field and a truck fly by and I managed to capture it. The next is a multiple exposure of my friend crossing the street. The final photo is of some flowers by a grave stone although I did use some photoshop magic.

College

Over winter break I was watching this show called Skins, it is a hilarious but also gut wretchingly sad and it is about a group teenager that are in high school (college) in Bristol England. Anyway at the end of the show all the teenagers split up to go to University and to pursue careers somewhere else. The moral of the story is that I came to the realization that I will be doing the same at the end of this year. How I will be moving away from a lot of my best friends and my family to follow new paths and to go to University. When this first came to me I found this really worrying, but after talking to a lot of my friends I came to the final decision that this really would not be that bad. Sure I might miss some of my friends for a while, but I will just have to make new friends and to meet new people. Overall I think I am really looking forward to new begins somewhere else.Other than that idea my winter break was alot of fun and although I did not do much it was still fun to have a break. If you guys have any thoughts on your University experience please feel free to tell me.