My Blogs are Mobile...No Big Deal

So I have to go to the Forbes Music Center once a month and see a concert in order to get a grade in my music class. I'm here now, but I'm not sure if I'm at an event that will give me credit! I'm suppose to see something that involves instruments. Right now I'm at a broadway show, and I'm not sure if this matches with the criteria in the music class I'm in, considering we study Mozart and composers like him. This is definitely way different than classical music, but it's still music. I guess I'll find out on Monday if this counts or not. Hopefully it does count because I'm going to end up being here for two hours...on a Saturday night!
I guess the positives are that I got to dress up, the singers here are good, this seems like a funny idea for a blog, and while sitting here I was able to find an app on my iPhone that allows me to blog from it. Yup, that's right, my blogs are mobile now. I feel like I'm actually talking to you guys while I'm sitting in the audience. Anyways, wish me luck. It's intermission now, only one more hour to go!

Sneaky Sneaky

          I thought it was out of left field for the author of "Jesus is a Brand of Jeans" to compare advertising to religion, but now that I think about it it actually is a pretty good comparison. Both religion and advertising promise some sort of satisfaction if you obtain what they are offering; the only difference is that religion requires sacrifice. The media does a good job of promoting the idea that if a person obtains their product he will be instantaneously happy without having to give anything up.
         Another thing that advertising is being compared to is relationships. I was shocked after looking at all of the examples provided in the article that so many of them actually had to do with relationships. Advertisers really do a good job making the product they are advertising seem like it can love a person back. The personification of inanimate objects is overwhelming in the media and I didn't even realize it at first.
         I think it is kind of funny how I am one of the people in the boat that doesn't believe advertising affects me, but I wouldn't be surprised if it somehow subconsciously makes me buy certain brands without realizing it. If that is the case than advertisers are doing a pretty damn good job, and I applaud them for that. Advertisers: 1 David: 0.

Conference

         I thought the conference went well. I learned about a lot of the flaws in my paper that I did not recognize. It was a constructuve period of time because I was able to get feedback from my group members and Professor Martin. One of the things I need to work on is picking a specific audience to write to so that i can fit more emotion into the paper.
        Google Drive posed a bit of problems for our group, but that was honestly the only rough experience of the conference and it wasn't even that big of a deal. I was able to add my group members on Facebook so I do think there will be any more problems with communication in the future.
        Overall I thought the conference was a positive experience, and I feel that it will help improve my paper greatly. My next step is to go to the library and finish my paper.