My art teacher is officially really awesome.

DOSW

So in my drawing class, our professor just started playing music last week during class (which is about 2 and a half hours long). It's usually pretty good stuff, but I don't recognize most of it. Anyway, today he put on another mix and a few songs into it I hear the opening chords of Comatose. I just thought, 'cool, he must like PJ at least a little bit.' It was a nice surprise to know that he's familiar with more PJ than just Jeremy and Even Flow.

So after that mix ended, he put in another CD, and I hear the opening notes of Setting Forth... he put on the Into the Wild soundtrack! It was pretty cool, because usually he just puts on mixes, so putting on an actual album (and an amazing one at that) was awesome. So he walked over and I said, "alright, the Into the Wild soundtrack!" and he seemed surprised that I knew it. It seemed to get a good response from the rest of the class too... a few people had seen the movie and loved it, and a few others recognized Ed's voice but didn't know what the music was.

So it played all the way through and Guaranteed ended a few minutes before class ended. It was pretty cool.

LukinFan

Very cool. Being a middle school teach myself, I find that over the years, very few kids these days have even heard of PJ or Ed. I try to "educate" them in the art of PJ as much as I can. I think for out poetry unit next year, I'm going to throw in some stuff from ITW.

This year, I played some Doors, Beatles, and even a Barenaked Ladies song- "If I had a Million Dollars". Two of my students only weeks before the unit had asked me if I had ever heard the song before, so I decided to surprise them with that song during the unit. They loved it!

DOSW

LukinFan wrote:

Very cool. Being a middle school teach myself, I find that over the years, very few kids these days have even heard of PJ or Ed. I try to "educate" them in the art of PJ as much as I can. I think for out poetry unit next year, I'm going to throw in some stuff from ITW.

This year, I played some Doors, Beatles, and even a Barenaked Ladies song- "If I had a Million Dollars". Two of my students only weeks before the unit had asked me if I had ever heard the song before, so I decided to surprise them with that song during the unit. They loved it!

Well, this is a college class, but most people still didn't recognize any of it. I wasn't expecting anyone to know anyway, but it was cool that at least a few people knew about it or seemed interested.

wma11

As a 2001 Alum, I'm not surprised...what class and who is the Prof?? Sweet tunes to draw by...

pjfan85

I've told this story a few times on here, but I'll relate it again here. My teacher showed us Single Video Theory instead of giving us our geography test. She was also the art teacher. My religion teacher put on Rearviewmirror (greatest hits) one day when I was in grade 12.

fanch75

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/47-arts-degrees/

"Stuff White People Like"

#47 Art Degrees
February 1, 2008 by clander

When white people go away to college, they tend to study what are knowns as the Arts. This includes actual Art, English, History, Classics, and Philosophy. These can of course be broken down further into Film, Womyn’s Studies (yes the spelling is correct), Communications, Gender Studies, and so forth. It is important to note that a high percentage of white people also get degrees in Political Science, which is pretty much like arts, and only seems to have the word “science” in it to make white people feel better about themselves.

These degrees enable white people to spend four yeas of their lives reading books, writing papers and feeling great about themselves. It is a known fact that Arts students firmly believe that they are doing you/society a favor by not getting a job and reading Proust. They use this to protest for reduced tuition, more money for the arts, and special reduced student rates on things like bus passes.

But what about the white people who study Science, Engineering or Business? Unless they become doctors, they essentially lose white person status (and can only be regained by working at a non-profit).

So why would white people spend all that time studying and working to get into college if they are just going to read books that they might have read in their free time? Because white people have it made. They can take that degree and easily parlay it into a non profit job, an art gallery job, or work in publishing. If the pay is low, no problem, their parents will happily help out with rent until they magically start making six figures or non-magically turn 40.

White people can also take that degree and go to graduate school (future post) and eventually become a professor or adjunct professor where they will still require parental support.

If they are REALLY ambitious and need to make money, they can take that degree and go to Law School.

But the real reason white people need these degrees is so that they can sound smart at parties. Of course it trickles down to making connections, getting hired, knowing rich people, and so forth. But ultimately it all begins by saying “reading Henry James was the most rewarding part of undergrad.”

Using this to your advantage can be very difficult as attempts to talk about the books they skimmed while hungover can expose you. It is best to say that you were a first generation college student and your parents demanded that you study math, chemistry, economics or computer science. You had to read Joyce on your own.

DriftingByTheStorm

fanch75 wrote:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/47-arts-degrees/

"Stuff White People Like"

#47 Art Degrees

Fanchy,
when are you going to start writing for this site?
you love it so much, i think you should contribute.
You could add one.
#101 Natty Lite
oh wait ... is that the white list or not?

fanch75

I'm already ahead of you....

DOSW

fanch75 wrote:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/47-arts-degrees/

"Stuff White People Like"

#47 Art Degrees
February 1, 2008 by clander

Well I don't really know how to respond to that... I find nothing wrong with people getting liberal arts degrees and feel people shouldn't be ridiculed for it... I also don't see how it relates to skin color, but whatever. Sounds like the person who wrote that has a massive chip on his or her shoulder for whatever reason.

Maybe I just need more of a sense of humor about these things.

LukinFan

pjfan85 wrote:

I've told this story a few times on here, but I'll relate it again here. My teacher showed us Single Video Theory instead of giving us our geography test.

please tell more

pjfan85

LukinFan wrote:

please tell more

We were supposed to have a Canadian Geography test in grade 10. When we came in the calss, the teacher said "we aren't having the test today, we are going to watch a Pearl Jam movie." I didn't bother to ask why. She was busy directing the musical, where many Pearl Jam songs were played, so maybe she didn't have time to make the test up. For whatever reason, when I was in tenth grade (2002-2003) the whole school was crazy for Pearl Jam, Blind Melon, and Nirvana (PJ especially). There was only about 250 students in the school and everybody hung around with each other, so I guess music caught on easier. I remember her telling me how nervous she was about getting Pearl Jam tickets when they came to St. John's. She was at the first show, there was 5 or 6 other teachers at the concerts as well.

LukinFan

pjfan85 wrote:

We were supposed to have a Canadian Geography test in grade 10. When we came in the calss, the teacher said "we aren't having the test today, we are going to watch a Pearl Jam movie." I didn't bother to ask why. She was busy directing the musical, where many Pearl Jam songs were played, so maybe she didn't have time to make the test up. For whatever reason, when I was in tenth grade (2002-2003) the whole school was crazy for Pearl Jam, Blind Melon, and Nirvana (PJ especially). There was only about 250 students in the school and everybody hung around with each other, so I guess music caught on easier. I remember her telling me how nervous she was about getting Pearl Jam tickets when they came to St. John's. She was at the first show, there was 5 or 6 other teachers at the concerts as well.

VERY cool- thanks

Kilgore_Trout

fanch75 wrote:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/47-arts-degrees/

"Stuff White People Like"

#47 Art Degrees
February 1, 2008 by clander

When white people go away to college, they tend to study what are knowns as the Arts. This includes actual Art, English, History, Classics, and Philosophy. These can of course be broken down further into Film, Womyn’s Studies (yes the spelling is correct), Communications, Gender Studies, and so forth. It is important to note that a high percentage of white people also get degrees in Political Science, which is pretty much like arts, and only seems to have the word “science” in it to make white people feel better about themselves.

These degrees enable white people to spend four yeas of their lives reading books, writing papers and feeling great about themselves. It is a known fact that Arts students firmly believe that they are doing you/society a favor by not getting a job and reading Proust. They use this to protest for reduced tuition, more money for the arts, and special reduced student rates on things like bus passes.

But what about the white people who study Science, Engineering or Business? Unless they become doctors, they essentially lose white person status (and can only be regained by working at a non-profit).

So why would white people spend all that time studying and working to get into college if they are just going to read books that they might have read in their free time? Because white people have it made. They can take that degree and easily parlay it into a non profit job, an art gallery job, or work in publishing. If the pay is low, no problem, their parents will happily help out with rent until they magically start making six figures or non-magically turn 40.

White people can also take that degree and go to graduate school (future post) and eventually become a professor or adjunct professor where they will still require parental support.

If they are REALLY ambitious and need to make money, they can take that degree and go to Law School.

But the real reason white people need these degrees is so that they can sound smart at parties. Of course it trickles down to making connections, getting hired, knowing rich people, and so forth. But ultimately it all begins by saying “reading Henry James was the most rewarding part of undergrad.”

Using this to your advantage can be very difficult as attempts to talk about the books they skimmed while hungover can expose you. It is best to say that you were a first generation college student and your parents demanded that you study math, chemistry, economics or computer science. You had to read Joyce on your own.

im currently studying painting and art education and that was hilarious to me... then again i am a self-proclaimed honky and proud of it!

Stephen Flow

my high school math teacher was a PJ junkie I've seen him @ 2-3 PJ shows since graduating in 01.