I love the band Weezer. This might not sound that odd since Weezer’s first album went triple-platinum and had three smash hit singles, but realize also that I have a certain kind of despicable distaste for alternative rock music. I just simply cannot stomach the grungy guitars, angsty vocals and unimaginative drums that come with your run-of-the-mill alt-rock band, but something about Weezer makes them different. Even when their songs lean towards the highly despised pop rock genre, I still feel right at home with my musical sensibilities. No matter my anguish upon hearing any of their counterparts, Weezer strums a wonderful chord with me whenever I hear anything from their first two albums. This strange and inconsistent love is the result of nostalgia. Nostalgia is when you see an old episode of Sesame Street and enjoy every second of it because it makes you remember a time when you were small. Nostalgia is the feeling of comfort you get when you visit your old elementary classroom and relive your grade school memories. When I was too little to know it, my brother and sister loved Weezer, and whenever I rode in their cars, I loved Weezer too. Nostalgia is a love for something from your past, no matter how illogical and outdated that love may be. Nostalgia is most comparable to déjà vu. It’s familiar, but at the same time new. But, where déjà vu is unsettling, nostalgia is a comfortable sort of bliss that is distinct and undeniable. We all have re-watched a childhood
Chuck Klosterman, in the article “Nostalgia on Repeat,” there is two sides of nostalgia, how it can be good and bad for you. Klosterman, gives examples from both sides. Memories are the past, it is ok to remember them and think about them, maybe even smile from them, just don’t live there. Looking at the past can hinder growth, if a person cannot move on from it and wants to keep reliving that part of their life. The Authors purpose is to shine light on both sides of nostalgia, it is not all bad to remember the past and even flash back to it. However, trying to relive the past is not all good either. It stunts growth and keeps a person from living their life in the now. Chuck Klosterman, writes in a casual tone for those readers that are too
“I didn’t think the Twinkie would thrill the way it used to, and it didn’t. But it tasted like memory” In this quote from “Goodbye to My Twinkie Days”, author Bich Minh Nguyen, is describing a sense of nostalgia. Nostalgia, as defined by the Cambridge English dictionary, is a feeling of pleasure and sometimes slight sadness at the same time as an individual thinks about things that happened in the past. This feeling can be evoked through old photographs, food, music, and even literature. Nostalgia provides a temporary relief of present times, which is why people actively seek a feeling of nostalgia.
Phish has inherited the legacy of the Grateful Dead. A responsibility that includes: playing a different set every night, constant jamming and experimenting. Phish is trailed across the country by adoring fans that think their heroes can do no wrong. What makes them so special is that their music winds together. It is full of freedom and happiness. Their lyrics are totally original; they have this weird way of looking at the world and when they express this in their songs it takes you to a whole different level of thinking.
I spent the first ten years of my life, roughly, homeschooled and constantly around both my parents. During this time, I had no choice but to listen to whatever music they enjoyed playing drying the day, whether it was Seal in the car or Melissa Etheridge on the home stereo. Once I had struck my preteens, and with the help of my then high-school aged sisters, I was introduced to punk rock and hard rock genres of music. This became a new addiction for me; it felt rebellious, cool, in style and new. Eventually, it felt very repetitive and it seemed as if everyone was trying to emulate the same sound. So, after a short time, I began searching for music on my own. I bought Coldplay and Vampire Weekend albums, and was on the lookout for music with a more sophisticated feeling than what I had been listening to previously. I was then hopelessly addicted to music that I was discovering, and was proud to say I found my own style of music to listen to. After I received Coldplay’s album, “A Rush of Blood to the Head” as a Christmas gift, I would play it daily to
Nostalgia is America's fatal disease. We love to "go back," to talk of the good old days, to wish we could return to an era forever gone. This rhetoric that warms our hearts, though, is, ironically, the impetus for our national self-destruction. Nostalgia valorizes a past that never was, casts a dark shadow of distortion across the present, and prevents us from projecting a viable, sincere vision of a better future. When we, as a nation, say we want to go back to a time past, that's very often what happens, for such talk sends us into a regressive downward spiral that prevents critical social progress in America.
Memory provides a sense of personal identity. Memories that were made from the past create the person that they have become today. It helps to ground judgments and with reasoning. As an illustration, one day a young girl was shopping at the mall with a group of friends and they deiced to steal a cute
The patient has just been prescribed Lisinopril by their physician. When assessing the patient’s current knowledge, the patient was only able to identify that Lisinopril does something with their blood pressure. They were unable to state what the medication actually does, warnings/precautions, or side effects. This teaching will provide the patient with the missing information regarding Lisinopril (what it does, side effects, warnings/precautions). The patient’s weakness is that they are currently unaware of any information about their medication. The patient’s strength is that the patient is eager to learn about the medication and has basic knowledge that the medication deals with blood pressure. If you miss a dose just take the dose as soon as you can remember. If it is almost time for your next dose go ahead and skip that does and just take the next one at the normal time. Do not take a double dose if you forget.
EWBAITE is less a return to form and more a “sum-of-all-parts” record, successfully touching on their entire discography. From the crunchy garage-rock of their first self-titled albums to the rockin’ solos of Maladroit and, yes, even the unfortunate cheese of Raditude, it’s all here it in the band’s attempt at a definitive 41 minutes of rock music. Technically, Weezer isn’t “back” because, well, they never left.
Nostalgia is the feeling of missing the past. In “Grape Sherbet” by Rita Dove, the speaker develops this feeling by using past-tense verbs. The speaker also uses family to show that she misses the past. Furthermore, the speaker indicates the fleeting nature of time by using themes of death. The speaker in “Grape Sherbet” by Rita Dove has an attitude of nostalgia.
Linkin Park is a new metal band from Los Angeles, California. It has been an active band since 1996. Their labels are Warner Brothers Records and Machine Shop Recordings. The six members are Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Joseph Hahn, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon, and Dave Farrell. Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson recorded the band's first material in 1996. The two had attended high school together, where they met the band's drummer, Rob Bourdon. Mike Shinoda hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena. Meanwhile, attending UCLA, Brad Delson shared an apartment with bassist Dave Farrell, who left the band after college and returned a year later. At this point, they named themselves Xero and
1. While James Lampinen, a professor of Psychology from the University of Arkansas. He defines that Deja Vu is the strong feeling about the global similiarities thet occur in the new situation. The similar experience in Deja Vu is overall, because every small detail is very similar with the experience happened in the past. But this experience always accompanied with unreal feeling.
False Promises (Poem based in the discography of linkin park) The messenger of our lives is talking; The faint thoughts are pushing And screaming from the inside loudly. Don’t stay watching my pain With you I will never go that way.
French Poet Victor Hugo once said, “music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” We already know the saying a picture is worth a thousand words, but music plays an important role in further expressing our feelings embedded in a picture. Music has the ability to convey the feelings one would like to express but is unable to do so through pictures and words. Our feelings often come from memories; American musician Stevie Wonder (2004) mentioned, “music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.” For someone like me that loves listening to music, we almost always try to picture the scene the song is describing while
To relate the topic of nostalgia with food to my life, I recall a cherished memory I have about making enchiladas with my grandma when I was nine. My mom’s father is hispanic, but her mother is not, so she learned how to make hispanic food just for him. I have always admired this, because she learned how to do this just to make my grandpa happy. She made us many hispanic dishes, but my favorite is still her enchiladas. I still remember the smell of the chicken and beef that my grandma had prepared
People who are nostalgic about childhood, were obviously never children. Few people can remember the truth about adolescence. Their minds "censor" their memories; and have them believe that being a teenager was was one big party, free of cares and responsibilities. Well let me say this, you couldnOt be more wrong if you had a lobotomy. There aren't that many adults around who realise what adolescence was really like. The anguish, the fear, the anxiety, the stress. People don't remember those problems because they want to forget them.