Miss Productivity

I complained a lot about the Mass Comm. Department at my school, but there was always one thing I did like. I really enjoyed working on media projects at night in the mass comm building. With classes during the day, specific lab hours, and a multitude of mass comm majors, students flocked to the first floor of Temple at night to work in the recording studio, editing room, and the mac lab. I pulled countless all-nighters working on radio wraps, TV packages and page layouts. The thing that made it so great was working with all the other students and witnessing the craziness that ensues when left unsupervised, and most likely sleep deprived, in a school building. The environment that erupted at night was a life, and world, all its own. My absolute favorite place and thing/memory was working on layouts in the mac lab and playing the most random collection of songs, mostly from the '80s I believe. But there was one song that got played just about every night, multiple times a night, and often caused a musical breakout in the entire lab. For some reason or another, I think this song actually did help us work. Now that my productivity level has dropped dangerously close to zero and I need to get some semblance of three commercials edited together by 7:30 tomorrow morning, I think fondly of those nights and call on the spirit-lifting powers of this amazing song.

That's right! Highway to the Danger Zone. Kenny Loggins. Top Gun. We sang along and loved every minute of it. I get nostalgic just playing the video. We probably threw in a little Top Gun Berlin in there too, along with some Cindy Lauper or Footloose. (honestly, this is the only song I can clearly remember because it was played so often) Multiple Pandora stations stopped at the first few seconds of this song. So, tonight this song will be played in memory of those productive Temple nights and hopefully restore my work levels to an all-time high.

Another favorite memory would have to be my friend Nicholas tripping over the camera and tripod and somehow managing to fall backwards in slow motion.