Audial Exploration

The prongs slide into the outlet causing power to surge into the amplifier. The dial labeled master volume is turned up to 9/10, an inadaquate display of the massive potential energy resting in your hands. You slide the pick over the low string which vibrates violently, what is a C to a technical musician means only one word to you, thrash. You begin to chug on the string, rebeginning the vibration anew at over 10 times a second, the thin strip of metal seems to flutter like a hummingbirds wing in your hands. You move a few strings up, hitting the higher frets, what was a painful symphony of power now seems to transform into a sonnet. Your hands transforming every sound of the poem at your will, like a puppet master commanding a beautiful ballerina. She dances proudly, seeming to move the air around her like paper thin leaves flowing in the autumn breeze. Your hand moves again to the low string, once more causing the agonizing roar of a charging elephant, all sense of the ballerina is gone, but the memory has not faded, she is waiting to dance again, at the beckoned call of her master.

As you may tell from my description, I find music's aesthetic property's very appealing and thought provoking. Oftens times I find myself not playing any particular song, but simply moving from key to key to warp the music into more than what it is. What were mere audio waves change into emotions, and emotions into poetry in your mind and in the air around you. You do not need to know how to play an instruement well to experience the great depth of music, all you need are your hands, and an open mind.

History Is Written By Those Who Hang Heros

I was watching my favorite movie, Braveheart, the other day when I hear this quote from the movie. As a kid, watching the movie and hearing it really made no impression on me, but this go around, it really got me thinking. What if here in America, we were beaten by the British, and our history was written by those who conquered us. We wouldnt hear tales of the vallient heros and founders of our great country, instead we would read a mere snippet in a British textbook about some man named Patrick Henry, who inspired a rebellion, was crushed, tried for treason in a British court, and hung at the fine London Gallows. Thankfully, we Americans won our revolution and we remember Patrick Henry for his incredible quote, "Give me liberty, or give me death!". In the same parallel story, we have the Native Americans who were crushed by our hand. What if they would have destroyed us in the begginning? Their historys would read of the founders of Jamestown as nothing but hairy beasts who walked around in clanky armor firing their boom sticks. So you see, history really is written by those who conquer. Think about how many viewpoints have been lost at the tip of the sword, and the end of the beyonet. 

Frivolous Stimulus

The recent talks of where the money is going and how it will be wasted has been the cause of my growing !wrong! enduced headaches. The way our capitalist market system works is, company x loses money because customers would prefer to purchase better products than what company x makes. Lets imput this into the failing US auto industry.

Point #1. The US car companys blow in comparison to foreign automakers. This is because they make a less marketable product that doesnt last as long, and doesnt run as well. Due to this they push less product and lose more money. There are a number of thinks that could concievably happen to company x in their current predicament.

a. They go out of business
b. They get government aid
c. They make better more innovative products and win back their customer base.

Please forgive me for speaking in metaphore, but it just sounds better to me.

A boy opens up a lemonaid stand in his front yard and tends to it for a number of days with great success, he is the only one really making and selling this lemonaid and profits are booming. Then, after about a week or 2 of great profits, the asian boy next door starts his own stand. Now the difference between the stands is simple. The boys lemoniad is barely satisfying, only keeping its good taste for a while, whereas the asian boys lemonaid lasts for a very long time, keeping its sweet taste for hours. Everything runs smoothly for a while, but adventually the customors in the lemonaid market realize that asian boys is a lot better. So they naturally purchase the better product, putting the boy out of business. He has 2 choices. He can learn to make a better batch of lemonaid or he can just ask mom and dad for money. It would seem he would want to make better lemonaid unsuring years of profit instead of just a lump sum of cash to keep him in business making the same crap and still selling less than asian boy.

So my message to automakers and the government, is leave eachother alone the way youre supposed to. If the automakers want to stay in business, they will innovate and make some damn energy efficient cars, which will bring back the market. So get back to work you lazy idiots, and stop begging mom and dad for money.

And to the government, how bout taking all that money and burning it to give me some value back to my dollar.

High School Whimsical

Have you ever seen those kids walking around saying how "in love" they are with their highschool mates. I can think of nothing more painful to the eyes than seeing 2 morons making out in the hallway, and nothing more painful to the ears than hearing them say "i love you sooo much babbyyy booooo." This is not true. Why isnt it true? Because they are young idiots who are forced together by whimsical chance, who both find eachother attractice therefore they get together so they can hook up. This creates the need for the word love. They must find a way to justify their lust so they arent just whores with a constant "John". This is why there are teenage pregnancies, this is why there are suicides from complete morons who break up with their "special someone" because they just dont show they love eachother properly. Of course i shouldnt complain, if they do kill themselves, they do remove 1 more idiot gene from the world. That conceivably removes hundreds of generations of other over dramatic morons that could have surfaced from her ill fated eggs. Clearly darwin is at work here. If you are in a high school relationship, please examine the following points to see if you are a total moron.


#1. Do you say I love you more than once a day: If you do, congrats, you are a total moron. You do not love them. You only think you do because of that last episode of the OC where some idiot told some other idiot she loved him, and since they are cool, they are obviously right. If you are guilty of this, stop, maybe then you will only be a moron instead of a total moron.

#2. Do you make out in the hallways: If you do, please do us all a favor, and kill yourselves. Noone wants to see that. Noone. If you must do it, then ditch your next class, dont worry, youre probably failing it anyway.

#3. Do you update your facebook status to absolutely agonizing things such as <3<3 OMFG I LOVE GHF<3<3!!!!!!: If you do this, delete your facebook. This is completely idiotic. I would rather read the autopsy reports of 2000 brutally murdered cute puppies than read this update.

#4. Do you think your relationship is more adult than the other petty ones around you: If you do this, you are wrong. You may say, Ethan, you just dont get our relationship, we really do love eachother, and we are not just some petty fling. Wrong, yes you are. You are just as petty and idiotic as everyone else.

#5. If you say i love you to your partner in under 3 months, you are more than just a complete moron. You are a mind blowingly daft person, with a brain the size of an acorn, and the central nervous system of a paint sniffer who cant wipe himself anymore.

As a final note, I will say, it is conceivable for very rare occurences of love to exist between HS students, this can only occur if both people have been with each other for 80% of their HS education, and did not say i love you until at least 6 months into the relationship.

I do not want idiotic messages from idiotic people telling me that I have never been in love and therefore dont know what im talking about. Do not presume to know anything about my personal life and make accusations about me. I have had relationships in HS, and I am talking on experience here. End rant.

A Not-So-Modest Proposal

After being inspired by a recent essay read in class, I have formulated a plan to save the US economy. Here goes nuthin.

After noticing the economy going up in flames, I have accumulated a small list of ideas to tackle the situation.

Phase 1: Everyone who is working at or who once worked at any big bank corporation such as JP Morgan, Citi Bank, ect.. should be taken to New Mexico, where upon arrival they will dig a massive trench 15 feet deep, and a mile long. Upon completion of said task, they will be lined up infront of said trench in single file while facing the trench. After completion of this queue, armed gunmen will arrive in trucks and gun down everyone into said trench. Finally the trench will be filled by newly hired, legal, once unemployed workers that complain illegals get every job. They will make minumum wage. Also to prevent any sort of demonic spirits from escaping the bodies of the rotting bankers, the hole will be surrounded by new churches and newly hired priests and paranormal investigators.

Phase 2: Every Congressmen who has ever voted to raise their own salary, and every congressmen who has ever be involved in any scandal whatsoever will be tied to pieces of US Steel, and thrown into a large lake. After their bodys decompose, cleaning services will be hired to create more jobs.

Phase 3: Anyone who is involved with a company who gives obscene bonuses from tax bailout dollars to its multimillion dollar CEO's will be sent to an area on the outskirts of a rainforest where they will be made to ly down. They will then be ran over by US workers paid to drive US made electric cars until everyone is dead. Then a team of US employed botanists will plant US made genetically altered trees to increase the size of the rainforest phinominally and thus reduce the effects of global warming.

Phase 4: The office of the Fed, or the Federal Bank will be vaporized along with 5 trillion US dollars and Ben Bernake. This will remove an uncostitutional, inflation mass producing house of money whores from the world, and will also reduce the money in circulation to drive up the price of the dollar, and lastly it will also rid the world of its most moronic man, Ben Bernake.

Phase 5: Anyone who has ever gotten away with reducing the funding of electric powered cars, hydrogen cars, or any alternative fuel cars, will be crucified upsidedown on US made crosses.

Phase 6: Big Oil companys will be destroyed, because due to more efficient energy, they are no longer needed. Anyone who ever rose the price of gas due to it being the only way to get around will be boiled alive in their own oil, and they will pay for what they boil in at their own high prices.


These 6 simple phases will remove the scum of the Earth, Create new efficient cars and services, reduce the need for foreign oil, stimulate the economy with new jobs, reduce the effects of global warming, new clean energys, no more hyperinflation, the dollar will be worth more, no more opressive banks and ponsi scemes. Ummm, pretty sure that covers everything.

Wait A Second....

So we get nailed on 9/11. Terrorists from around the Middle East attack our soil in an effort to make their point. President Bush uses this event as an excuse to attack Iraq. All of this seems like its coorelated doesnt it? I mean the iraqi's are arabs, they must have been part of the attack. Wrong. Dead wrong. 9 of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. 9 of them. How many were from Iraq? 0. ZERO. NADA. So that excuse to attack Iraq is total horseshit. Now think about this. Why didnt we attack Saudi Arabia? Why, because they are our best buddies. Bush and cheney love the saudis. They are our oil buddies. Just a little food for thought.