Friday April 24

Greetings My Fellow Americans. It's finally Friday and I'm pretty sure I've set a new world record in the blogging world with four consecutive posts. Go me! So last night was the beginning of the weekend on the college calendar and I sought out to unwind after my final Spanish quiz of the year. Muy divertido. The esteemed institution of Pi Kappa Alpha was hosting a modest gathering of a dozen or so students with a "Dazed and Confused" theme. After a few glasses of wine and some hors d'oeurves, I discussed various topics of relevant world events, fine art, and dining with several of the party-goers. However, in accordance with the theme of the party, one topic that I conversed at length about was one of my favorites: 1970's MUSIC.

I consider Dazed and Confused to be not only an excellent movie and a social commentary on coming of age of American youth, but it also has what I consider to be one of the best soundtracks of all time. From the opening scene with Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" playing to Peter Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do," and Alice Cooper's "No More Mr. Nice Guy," Dazed and Confused captures the music that defined this generation. As a child of the seventies (okay child of children of the seventies), I have a love for this music. While I can never deny that the 1960s was the best single decade for music perhaps ever, the 1970s represented the last great epoch of rock and roll. Rock had its dying gasps in the 80s and had a fractured and largely unpopular (in the most musical sense of the word) following through the 1990s and 2000s. But while the 60s represented a revolution of rock music, the 70s represented rock at its best: aged to perfection. Often, 70s music is hidden in the shadow of the late 60s, especially 69's Woodstock. But the number of bands (some of the best of all time) who reached their prime during the 70s is remarkable. The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Cream, Simon and Garfunkle, Santana, Van Morrison, The Jackson Five, Led Zeppelin, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Foghat. Keep on Reading and Keep on Rocking,

Check ya laterrrrrr,

-ROF

Daily Food: N/A

Daily Activity: Party at the Moontower

Daily Song: Scarlet Begonias - The Grateful Dead

Daily Attire: Bleached Jeans

Daily News Everyone Should Care About: North Korea Decides to Indict 2 US Reporters

Daily News No One Should Care About: Stripper Stands in at School Reunion

Daily Life Goal: Play Golf in Scotland

Daily Complaint: The Digression of Music

Daily Drink: Ahhh Sixer

Daily Studies: None... Clearly

Daily Movie: Dazed and Confused