TED EX + Listening HW

TED EX

Beware because everything around you is a lie, that’s what I got from this video. It’s crazy to think that the things we hear on film may be a deception and are created using the things we would never imagine would create those sounds. Bacon sizzling is rain? A guy doing a cannonball in water in an underwater submarine? Bones breaking are just vegetables being stabbed/crushed? What you see on screen and what you hear are not always one and the same, that is the point I got from the video. This concept is what creates illusions, it is what deceives us, what tricks us into believing that what we see literally sounds like what we hear, I know there are plenty of things we see on film like a car exploding that we never heard in real life so how does one know that the sound actually sounds like that if you never experienced it in real life, that makes me think that Hollywood can trick even our perception of sound and train our ears to hear differently than they are supposed to, and that thought is scary as shit. I feel that this Ted Talk opened my eyes to the reality that we are being deceived and that we should be more aware and analytical of the things we encounter, on film, on television, on radio, in music, on all forms of media, TRUST NOBODY, and in the words of Gambino “Stay Woke”.

Carpenters- "We’ve Only Just Begun”

This song immediately makes me feel happy like I’m floating on cloud 9 and im as happy as ever. I felt like I was eating cotton candy and skipping like an immature idiot thinking that the world was all sunshine and rainbows, holding hands with a beautiful girl running across a rainbow high as a motherfucker. I like the way this song made me feel, I like the way it made me forget about the shitty world we sometimes live in and how it can transform your mood to be absolutely lifted and joyous. #LOVE-HAPPY-SONGS

America- “A Horse with No Name”

I’m not a cowboy, but this song reminded me of some cowboy shit because of the whole desert thing, all I envisioned was sand blowing in the air and a cowboy riding a horse trying to get to a source of water. At some point, he loses his horse but finds water under a lone tree that gives him enough shade to carry on with his gangsta thug life style. Later he thinks he sees his horse in the distance and runs towards it, it turns out to be an illusion. He turns around to return to the tree but it’s gone, so is the water. He looks up and his horse is falling from the sky and he thinks it’s going to crush his body, instead he sinks into the sand and once he’s in below the sand he starts drowning, he’s losing consciousness and his eyes close, seconds later they reopen and he is emerged in water, he swims up to find himself next to the same tree he was resting at and sees his horse drinking from the water. He found his horse and thinks to himself what the hell he’s being dreaming about, he hops on the back of his horse and rides the desert plains returning to wherever the hell he journeyed from.

Simon and Garfunkel- “The Boxer”

Well it’s been a long journey, and a long day and I finally want to just lay in bed and let go of all my worries, that’s what I feel like when I listen to this song. It made me feel like life was this eternal struggle to become someone honorable and great and you’re in a fight with yourself constantly struggling to become Great realizing only on your last day on earth that you have always been Great. That Greatness has always been inside of you and that you were chasing yourself, running in circles this whole time. If only you’d stop to realize you were chasing yourself you’d feel like a fool for running in the first place. That’s what this song truly brings out, what it makes me feel like and think about.