Album Review

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Warner Bros. 1991
Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Without a doubt, one could say 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik' was produced at the peak of the Chili Peppers' carreer, despite it being their fifth. It holds songs such as Suck my Kiss, Under the Bridge and Give it Away which all posed a strong statement for the young 90s band. They have little room to improve because of their excellence and progress. Something they're missing in their recent album 'Stadium Arcadium' was the great bass lines by Flea, a long time member of RHCP. The success was a surprise due to the loss of two members, the guitarist, Hillel Slovak, who died in 1988 due to heroine overdose, and the drummer, Jack Irons, whom left because of the death.

John Frusciante, a solo guitarist, joined in 1989 to put out 'Mother's Milk' the same year, which did not nearly make as much success as Blood Sugar Sex Magik made two years later.

Most would consider this album being a funk rock genre, and it's true that the majority of their earlier work has the funk feel to it with the outstanding bass lines and the crazed shouts of Anthony Kiedis. Although their later work is losing the classic style and turning to alternative rock, so this album is in high regard.

Worthy of a 4.5 out of 5

-Adrian White

My Three Wow Songs

I was surprised when I listened to this, because I was given the impression that it was really boring and it sucked the life out of Little Richard's original version, but I was perplexed when I heard this guy give new life to this song, not exactly more, but new/different. I also enjoyed it more musically, it gave me that old 50s feeling more than the original. I feel it's a matter of opinion though, they are the same song, so one is not better than the other.

I chose this because I've heard it many times before and I like the guitar part to it, reminds me of some modern guitar riffs I've heard. The British invasion is probably the most exciting music to me because so many bands use their style now-a-days so it's easy to relate to these. I was struck by the fact music that sounds so modern was produced in the era this was made.

The Sex Pistols are very well-known through out the youth of today, and that's what a band strives for, making an impact on people. With Sid Vicious, the Sex Pistols rose to the top of rock and became legends. I chose this because I've heard alot of songs by them, and it's always refreshing to hear them again and possibly jot down notes about them like this. I've heard this song in alot of videogames too, like Guitar Hero 3 and Tony Hawk games, it was surprising to see that games produced today still use music made before the new millenium.

Literature Circle Post II

Book: A Clockwork Orange

Author: Anthony Burgess

Page: 1-130

Section A:
What I found striking about the book, was the fact that the main character was pushed to his extremities by being put into a rehabilitation facility. Usually you wouldn't see the main character who is supposed to prevail all things thrown at him, is being treated this way under these harsh conditions. I also find the book interesting because I don't know what's going to happen next and whether he will escape this mental torture house.

I like that the book contains a lot of violence and topics of the sort because in my opinion it really spices up the book. In most books the description of such actions would not be so vivid as they were in this book, therefore this book is in my top 5 favs.

Section B:
"What's your interpretation of the word clockwork orange?"
"How would you react in the situation the main character, Alex, is in?
"What connections can you make to the real word from the government in "A Clockwork Orange"?

Section C:
"And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom"
I chose this because it was repeated through out his time in jail but he didn't really get what he had expected. I liked it because it says you can't anticipate many situations in life such like this one, and he learns this the hard way. It was important to the book because it told them that he would be nice, fine and back to the way he was when the book first started but he doesn't, this part acts as a pivot point where the book turn from bad to worse, which you'll notice close to the end of the book.

Literature Circle Post I

For the past two weeks, I have been assigned to read a book called "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess from the start to page 130. It's about a kid gone wrong, named Alex who is fifteen years old and has a team of "droogies" which in their language of nadsat means friends. They go out at night time and cause mischief like there is no tomorrow. Although, during the day he acts as any other high school student and he has a taste for classical music. Others like millicents (police), his parents and others see Alex's flaws and want to have them corrected, and Alex himself was the one to make sure of that. After trying to rob a starry (old) woman's house, he was betrayed by his droogs due to bad leadership and egoism, so he was turned into the millicents. They planned to have him corrected by a secret program that hasn't been released to the public...

At first, I was really confused about the wording of the book, since half of it was practically in a different language, but as my teacher expressed, it did become really clear after getting through to about half the book. I can picture in the end of the book, Alex turning into a perfectly good person, because currently they are strongly emphasizing that this new program will permanently correct Alex of all mal-doing. Then again, books always have twists...

I noticed that a part in the book connected to a topic live in today's society, police brutality. There is a scene in the book where Alex is being beaten by whomever wanted to, with acceptance of the police. I'm not sure if it would directly happen in the police station in real life, like it did in the book, but still it's the same rational treatment.

Funny Science Article

This is just something I found while looking for more sea plants, it's not really a contributer to our project but I thought it was funny, it talks about how you would get a plant on mars and how to grow it. Anyways more real information coming later.

http://www.physorg.com/news5688.html

Ocean Plants?

I was thinking today about what more to blog about this plant subject, and I had a sudden idea, plants that live under water don't need any more water from rainfall and stuff. So if there were no water, would there still be sea water? My guess would be yes. Knowing that I did a little research on marine plants and what they need to survive, heres a link to a Mad Science post, which discusses how they survive.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-02/917019997.En.r.html

Water-Wise Weekly

I noticed on this website that I use quite frequently for articles, posts a number of articles written in/by Water-Wise Weekly, now I don't know too much about the group, but from the name I think we can infer that they do discussions about watering plants wisely or anything healthy about water in general. Anyways, this article talked about how plants need water not every once in a while but on a regular basis. Thinking about our situation "What if there were no water from a plants perspective", they cover farms more than plants that dont have too many uses, Why is that? Because humans gather food from their farms and if the farms happen to have no water, than there would be no food for humans, leaving everything a big mess. So what it's trying to say is humans are would also be affected by the lack of water for plants. Other small information they include is proper watering, soil type, etc.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20070804/ai_n19441766