Music 201 - 1/13/06 - Period 7 - Class #2

[wyld-stallyn.livejournal.com]

TA: Crichton, John whitedeathpod
Bernadette, Pip
Blank, Martin
Callisto
Carlyle, Boone
Chase, Angela
Chiana
Carson, Bridge
Evans, Lily
Ford, James
Gavin, Jake Jr
Hopeless-Savage, Skank Zero
Kisaragi, Yuffie
McDonald, Lindsey
Mitchell, Cameron
O'Neill, Jack
Potter, Harry
Solo, Han
Stevens, Isobel
Sullivan, Chloe
Tate, Jessica


[OOC: More on the attendance policy. Because the classes are so close together, Thursday's class is only open for 24 hours for checking in and participation. Major discussions will be held on Friday's class. Friday's class will be open until Monday for participation. If you need longer due to RL issues, you'll have to contact me OOCly and let me know.]


This afternoon there is a big stash of jellybeans on the table. There is also a stack of hot, individually wrapped Big Kahuna burgers and cans of soda if anyone wants them. And, of course, there are the obligatory Twinkies. Ted would probably not notice if people who weren't in the class stopped by for a grab-and-run.




"Afternoon, dudes and dudettes! Today we're gonna map the multiverse so we know where everything is. The multiverse is a mysteeeeerious place. Anything you thought that wasn't real probably is real somewhere. Like, in the Ancient Rome in my universe they spoke Roman. But in someone else's Ancient Rome they might speak, like, Elvish or Muppet or Dutch. So, like, the music in one copy of a place and time doesn't mean that it's like that in every copy of that place and time.

So where does this leave us, my most excellent student-type dudes? With lots and lots of copies of every time and place that exists. Don't worry dudes, you won't need to know everywhere and everytime. In this class we're gonna look at a couple of different times and places so you can get a feel for the idea that music comes from everywhere and everyone can enjoy music and, uh, MUSIC ROCKS!"

Discussion Topic:
"So. Today we're gonna get a feel for the multiverse. Not, like, feeling it up or anything. Some of you have been students at Fandom High for a few months. Some of you are new here. Talk among yourselves about how you understand the multiverse. Like, how you picture it and deal with the weirdness."

Homework for Next Week:
"For next week's Thursday class, I want you to find out about some kind of 20th or 21st century Earth music." [OOC: Bonus points for fandomy music] "Come ready to tell me some stuff about it."

Comments

Re: Discussion Topic

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Denial. Ignorance. Heavy Drinking. Hiding under the bed in the fetal position sucking my thumb. Cricket bats. Frequent use of snark."

Re: Discussion Topic

[wyld-stallyn.livejournal.com]

Ted nodded sagely. "I hear snark is very popular this time of year."

Re: Discussion Topic

[harried-potter.livejournal.com]

"I think heavy drinking denial is indeed the best way to deal with something this big. You know, it's quite hard to grasp, the concept of the multiverse. The only way to deal with that without freaking out is taking a generous amount of hard liquor pretending it just isn't true." Harry nods.

Re: Discussion Topic

[wyld-stallyn.livejournal.com]

"A most excellent answer, Floppy Haired Glasses Dude. Handwavey 'it is as it is and I totally don't understand it but that's okay because I'm here and having fun' is totally the way to go."


And dude, your mom is totally in this class. Or, at least, she's on the roster. Watch the mun's head explode.

Re: Discussion Topic

[harried-potter.livejournal.com]

((OOC: She is planning on dropping it, i think, since ALL the mun's heads started exploding and we couldn't really work out how to do this in a non-trauma way :S ))

Re: Discussion Topic

[wyld-stallyn.livejournal.com]

Re: Discussion Topic

[mrs-tate.livejournal.com]

Jessica gives Marty a most concerned look. "Heavy drinking? Ohhhh my, look dear, there are better ways to solving one's problems. Drinking is never the answer." Jessica waves her pointer finger back and forth and smiles. "No no."

Re: Discussion Topic

[wyld-stallyn.livejournal.com]

Ted remembered, for once, that he was supposed to be a somewhat responsible teacher. "Uh, yeah, what Posh Spice Dudette said. Drinking is bad mkay?. Unless you're being attacked by zombies. Then drink up dudes."

Re: Discussion Topic

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Would snacking on sugary substances be an acceptable alternative?"

Re: Discussion Topic

[wyld-stallyn.livejournal.com]

"Naturally, dude! Sugar is the food of kings! And dukes, and even some barons."

Re: Discussion Topic

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty takes some notes on this. "But is sugar something that can be found across the different multiverses? Or is it only here on this... uh... 'verse."

Re: Discussion Topic

[wyld-stallyn.livejournal.com]

Ted looked almost panicked. "Sugar is multiversal. It has to be, dude! Right?" A world without sugar was unspeakable.

Re: Discussion Topic

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty ponders on this for a while. "How can we be sure? In all the multiverses there must be one or two without shrimp sugar. There are what? How many different universes? 89? 90?"

Re: Discussion Topic

[wyld-stallyn.livejournal.com]

"The dude who I haven't nicknamed yet, but looks like Little Boy Blue Eyes Dude said there could even be, like, three infinity universes. But there *has* to be sugar there, dude. They even have sugar in Hell!"

Re: Discussion Topic

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"What if those places *say* it's sugar, but it's really a sugar subsitute. Or a sugar totally unlike or own that we can't digest?"

Re: Discussion Topic

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Don't knock knock it until you try it," Marty says with a small grin.

Re: Discussion Topic

[mrs-tate.livejournal.com]

Jessica thought for a second. "Well, I guess you have a point there," says Jessica, grinning back. "I have nothing against having a drink now and again. It was the heavy drinking you spoke of that worried me. I just, well, wouldn't want you to get sick, thats all. You see dear?"

Re: Discussion Topic

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

"It depends on what questions you're asking, sister. I can think of quite a few where drinking is a really good answer."

Re: Discussion Topic

[mrs-tate.livejournal.com]

"Ohhh I don't know. I mean, a walk through the park on a beautiful sunny day is a much better remedy, I feel." Jessica smiles back at him, then throws her hands in the air "But...to each his own."

Re: Discussion Topic

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

"Tell you what. Some sunny afternoon, let's take that walk, break our brains on the multi-verse and then have a drink. We'll see which way works better." Han hits her with the Number Six "charming the pants off the galaxy" grin.

Re: Discussion Topic

[mrs-tate.livejournal.com]

Jessica may have blushed just the tiniest bit. “Oh...well, okay. That sounds like a very lovely idea.” Jessica gives him a smile, then turns away and plays with the pearls on her necklace.

Re: Discussion Topic

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron rolls his eyes at the weak pick up Han just came up with and hopes to god it won't lead to any of his favourite parts of the island having to be decontaminated. "I don't know, I thought you had a point about the drinking," he tells Jessica.

Re: Discussion Topic

[mrs-tate.livejournal.com]

Jessica turns and smiles at the kind new face. "You do? Really? Well, thank you." Jessica wasn't the type that needed people to agree with her, but it certainly set her a bit more at ease. The last thing Jessica would want to do was cause a confrontation of any sort. "Actually I do apologize, you see I didn't mean to cause such a fuss. I just wanted to let him [points at Marty] know they I cared, thats all, really."

Re: Discussion Topic

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I do." Cameron grins and waves a hand. "Don't worry. Marty likes making a fuss. Gets him lots of attention."

Re: Discussion Topic

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"S'all Right. No harm done. Everyone has their own way of dealing with weirdness."