To The people happily reading this,
so this is my first time ever doing a blog since Xanga ( I know some of you remember those days, you know, before myspace and facebook existed) I'm currently a student at De Anza college majoring in communications with a focus in public relations. My goals as of now are to transfer to preferably San Jose State due to the fact that I hear they have an amazing communications program so it should be pretty interesting to see how that is but I'm not being picky about where I get accepted to :]
on to the autobiography part, out of the eight types that are listed I would have to say my relationship with recordings is the greatest. Even as I am writing this autobiography I have my itunes blasting playing music. I feel recordings or music is a soul soother, theres music for every type of person out there and its universal. I've been so involved in music after supporting the local artists even some that are my friends that it just takes over and I get lost looking for songs that I cant get out of my head. Music and Recordings have been important to me since I was a little baby, my parents told me when I was younger the only way to get me to sleep was to put me in a car, play music and go for a short drive around the block, weird I know. The Internet to me is like a gateway to so many things, music, friends, family, news. It is the one thing I can do all day and never get bored and always find something to do. I have it on my phone, theres wi-fi almost everywhere you go. I love how you can see so many different views and different sources for information all in one convenient location.
I'm just going to combine the two categories of Books and newspapers because honestly, I dont read either of the two as much as a should. I went to a private school all my life (besides De Anza) and there was always some short of summer reading or a stack of books we had to read either before school started or during the school year. Instead of reading being something enjoyable, it became more of a obligation and that is no bueno. For example: in middle school we had the option of doing a book report on whatever book we wanted and at the time the Harry Potter series was just starting to become popular, but we couldn't even use that book because it spoke of "wizards and magic," Can you say stifled childhood? Anyway, went off on a little tangent there, as for newspapers I just never really had an interest in what was going on in the world until I had taken my first Politcal Science class at De Anza. It was a real eye opener for me and I honestly took an interest in politics and especially the tactics used by media to convey information in different ways. This class where I learned my most important rule of living: Dont believe anything just hearing it one time, always look for different sources. Other then that poli class I stopped reading the newspapers and just keep up with the yahoo! news feeds as a way to stay semi-connected to the rest of the world.
Hmm so i stopped listening to the radio a long time ago simply for the fact that, I among some other people that I have talked to are convinced there is so much better and deeper music that can be found via the internet, Besides podcasts and pandora because both of these allow you to customize what your hearing to a certain extent.I dont listen to News radio either, never tried it before, and most of the time I'm told its extremely opinionated, but opinions are good I guess. Movies, I wish I could watch more due to the fact that I think its an excellent source for entertainment especially when your with a large group of friends or just by yourself with another person. Television is more a past time for me. I really only watch it when there are certain shows on , and the other times its just channel surfing. When I was younger I would watch t.v. alot more. Lets just say if I wasn't at school, I would be in front of the t.v.. Now-a-day, I just don't have the time for it. School, work, homework, dance, repeat the next day. This is way longer then I had ment to be so thats all for now, but before I go here is my musical injection of the night: His name is Chilhood Gambino. Check him out :]
J
