Blake Parker is a fourth year environmental-science major from Blacksburg, Va., and is known somewhat widely on campus as a member of the band The Fox and the Feather. Aside from writing, he enjoys music of all varieties, Studio Ghibli movies and hammocks. He hopes to wind up in a journalism field relating to environmental issues or music, after taking some time post graduation to explore the United States by way of seasonal environmental jobs. He has been called affable, pensive, and tall, and is always excited to make new friends!
Lyrics that dropped references to Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and the near extinction of buffalo had me equal parts grooving in my desk chair and pondering the deep sociological issues of our consumerist culture…
Anyone who has been to a music festival knows the unmistakable thrill: foregoing the commodities of modern living, dancing in the dirt to ever-pulsing music, and camping out under trees and stars. But looking at it analytically, a festival is just a whole bunch of people getting together and putting some wear-and-tear on the local nature scene…
I stare in awe at the studio speakers, audio interfaces and CD player racks, coated in a thin film of dust. The entire history of the Paul Smith’s College radio station, here in a pile, condemned as a prisoner of club storage…