Today was long, but very good!!! I spent the first part of it at school, average yes I know. The second part wasw downtown with my girlfriend. Which was so amazing!!!!! I don't alwats get to spend enough time with her. Any time at all is amazing. After that we walked back to the band room and we played!!!
We had a game tonight, last night now I guess. It was really fun!!!! we marched the show well!!! I messed up quite a few times, but I am really exited about improving it. It is going to look awesome! And sound awesome!!!
The only thing I didn't like was some idiot from our school went out on the field and made fun of th eopposing team. It made us look really bad quite honestly. And then one of our team members got hurt. Which was not good!
I am really tired now. Long but very good day as I said.
Peace.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Old Family
It was a crazy weekend. It's kinda late and I have school tomorrow, so I have to be kinda brief. But It was my uncle's fiftieth birthday!!! Well, his party anyway. So they had a huge party and I went. That was day before yesterday really. It's after mid-night. Today is my Birthday!! Which is pretty cool, I must say. Anyway, the party was awesome! Me and my brother jammed with my aunt's band. We had fun and did pretty well!
before that on Thursday my Cousin got Married!! It was a surprise wedding They had wanted to get married a long time and just hadn't done it. So they did!! That was fun too. Had to work pretty hard to get all the homework done though.
Life has been very good, a little dramatic but just awesome!! So far today is a great birthday! I have a game for Marching band on next Saturday which will be amazing! Our show is going to rock!!! Haven't written much in general. Poetry or blog. Will start I think. Sort of have an idea for a poem. Well! Later! Peace.
before that on Thursday my Cousin got Married!! It was a surprise wedding They had wanted to get married a long time and just hadn't done it. So they did!! That was fun too. Had to work pretty hard to get all the homework done though.
Life has been very good, a little dramatic but just awesome!! So far today is a great birthday! I have a game for Marching band on next Saturday which will be amazing! Our show is going to rock!!! Haven't written much in general. Poetry or blog. Will start I think. Sort of have an idea for a poem. Well! Later! Peace.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Eventful Waits and Marching Bands
Dude, my titles are very random. That's me!
Lots has happened since I last wrote. School has started up again, marching band played our first game, and life is going on. I must say, life is wonderful. Just hits you sometimes. Life may be hard, but it is wonderful. For all it's difficulty.
While I write this I am sitting in my room, listening to the Beetles and thinking about the day. A lot happened just today. Two close friends got into a fight. OR really continued a fight that I wish they would stop. They are both amazing people and need to work everything out. I will admit that I am probably biased to one side, but still. I wish people wouldn't fight. It just hurts.
Anyway! Even though that has been kind of eventful, life is wonderful!!! I am very very happy. School has been going fine, I like my classes and am having fun. Marching band is of course amazing!!! As always. How could it not be rockin? No way. As I said, we played our first game, which went better than I thought it would! We weren't perfect, but it was really good! Especially for a first game. We've been cleaning sets for a while. Which is very good! But maybe we could even work a little harder. It's amazing anyway.
I didn't mention before that Jazz band started! That is also amazing! I'm so glad to have picked up my bass for a group again! It really is fun! Music is indefinably good for me. Along with the people in my life right now. You know who you are!
Band camp was fun! Very intense. Didn't want to move afterwards.
Life has been really good, as I said! There is a little drama here and there. But that can't ruin life!! I have amazing people, once again who know who they are, in my life! I've really been happy! And will stay that way. Very very sorry that I haven't written sooner! Just have been really busy! That's all for now!
Lots has happened since I last wrote. School has started up again, marching band played our first game, and life is going on. I must say, life is wonderful. Just hits you sometimes. Life may be hard, but it is wonderful. For all it's difficulty.
While I write this I am sitting in my room, listening to the Beetles and thinking about the day. A lot happened just today. Two close friends got into a fight. OR really continued a fight that I wish they would stop. They are both amazing people and need to work everything out. I will admit that I am probably biased to one side, but still. I wish people wouldn't fight. It just hurts.
Anyway! Even though that has been kind of eventful, life is wonderful!!! I am very very happy. School has been going fine, I like my classes and am having fun. Marching band is of course amazing!!! As always. How could it not be rockin? No way. As I said, we played our first game, which went better than I thought it would! We weren't perfect, but it was really good! Especially for a first game. We've been cleaning sets for a while. Which is very good! But maybe we could even work a little harder. It's amazing anyway.
I didn't mention before that Jazz band started! That is also amazing! I'm so glad to have picked up my bass for a group again! It really is fun! Music is indefinably good for me. Along with the people in my life right now. You know who you are!
Band camp was fun! Very intense. Didn't want to move afterwards.
Life has been really good, as I said! There is a little drama here and there. But that can't ruin life!! I have amazing people, once again who know who they are, in my life! I've really been happy! And will stay that way. Very very sorry that I haven't written sooner! Just have been really busy! That's all for now!
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Telescope's making peace
Ok, the title by itself will make no sense. So let me explain. I was at a concert today. Telescope, a little local band that is stellar opened, Meat Puppets was second, they weren't that great. And finally Rodger Cline and the Peace Makers closed. they were the main attraction. It was a great concert! Telescope was really really good! I've had a CD from them but hadn't listened to it yet. I wish I had sooner. They are really really good! Kind of a punk/pop/rock thing. They need their own bracket. They have a my space page if you want to check them out. Or a website. If you Google telescope band you'll be able to find it!
The Meat Puppets were just chaos. Not my thing at all. A lot of people liked them a lot though. Just not my thing. They were a country chaotic band. I don't know. Google them if you want to find out more!
Cline and the Peace makers were rockin! If you like rock, U2, stuff like that, you would love them. They were just amazing. Everything. Wonderful show, songwriting, musicians. I was really happy. I almost touched the bassist! I was right by the stage jumping up and down. He was so close. It was really cool. Great great show! I got a CD there, a live album. It had a lot of the same songs and stuff. I'll get a studio one next!
Cline is an Indy artist, a really good Indy artist. He Has had a lot of fairly popular songs. Not too mainstream though. It's really great. Definitely look him up!
Well, that's about all I have to write about this time! Baritone is going well, as is bass. My person is doing better. So life is good! Music is amazing.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
A Baritone!
I finally got my baritone horn! It isn't a marching instrument, but I need to learn to play before marching season starts. So I have my instrument! I love it. It completely rocks. I can play a total of five notes. I got it yesterday and could do nothing, so I'm improving. It's really really fun.
Now to go back a little ways, our trip to Utah with our cousin was really really fun! We did a lot of hiking and swimming in rivers. The best was one called Bear Creek, great swimming whole. There's a cliff to jump off of and all. the hike down is pretty easy too. The trail is a tad hard to find, but once you do it is amazing. We stayed at a place called Boulder Mountain Lodge. That is a really stellar place to stay. It is run by really nice people and beautiful. Location wise and kept wise. They have a restaurant there called Hell's Backbone. It is my favorite restaurant. By far. Their food is truly amazing. I can't even tell you.
My cousin was really fun to hang out with. She's a cool person. She might come down here next year too, that would be amazing. I know she occasionally reads this too. So ya. That's to you cousin!
This is a weird entry. I liked my last one better. Whatever though! It's always fun.
One more thing, fencing starts up again tonight, so that makes me happy. I've missed it. My sword has been on the wall too long, it's time to go fight my friends!!!! I'm a little out of it today. People very important to me are having a lot of drama. So it's just a little draining. I want to be there for them. I am I guess, but I want to do more. I dunno. Like I said, I'm kinda out of it. It will all be ok. I know it will.
Bass guitar is going well too! That's me at a glance lately. So ya! Later everyone.
Now to go back a little ways, our trip to Utah with our cousin was really really fun! We did a lot of hiking and swimming in rivers. The best was one called Bear Creek, great swimming whole. There's a cliff to jump off of and all. the hike down is pretty easy too. The trail is a tad hard to find, but once you do it is amazing. We stayed at a place called Boulder Mountain Lodge. That is a really stellar place to stay. It is run by really nice people and beautiful. Location wise and kept wise. They have a restaurant there called Hell's Backbone. It is my favorite restaurant. By far. Their food is truly amazing. I can't even tell you.
My cousin was really fun to hang out with. She's a cool person. She might come down here next year too, that would be amazing. I know she occasionally reads this too. So ya. That's to you cousin!
This is a weird entry. I liked my last one better. Whatever though! It's always fun.
One more thing, fencing starts up again tonight, so that makes me happy. I've missed it. My sword has been on the wall too long, it's time to go fight my friends!!!! I'm a little out of it today. People very important to me are having a lot of drama. So it's just a little draining. I want to be there for them. I am I guess, but I want to do more. I dunno. Like I said, I'm kinda out of it. It will all be ok. I know it will.
Bass guitar is going well too! That's me at a glance lately. So ya! Later everyone.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Right Now
Right now it is 3:49 in the morning, I am writing a blog entry and listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers at my aunt's house. she picked me and my brother up at around four from our house. She lives about half an hour from us, so we drove to her house, waited for our uncle to get home from work, and left for an hour and a half drive to the airport to pick up my cousin.
My cousin's flight was delayed of course, so we had a long wait at the airport. Once she got there we drove an hour and a half back. Me my brother and her watched videos on you tube for a few hours. There is some crazy stuff on that sight. I'm not sure if it's good or bad. Any way. It was a long day.
It's really nice to see my cousin again! I haven't seen her since last summer. She's just about me and my brother's age, so it's easy to relate to her. Most of our family is older than us. It's nice to have someone our own age.
I'm tired but can't sleep. You know the feeling. I have an idea for a poem and an idea for a story, I might just start one or both of those. But not tonight... I need sleep.
Yet another day of chaos over! Seriously, today was chaos. Things lost and things found. I have stopped making sense. Later all!
My cousin's flight was delayed of course, so we had a long wait at the airport. Once she got there we drove an hour and a half back. Me my brother and her watched videos on you tube for a few hours. There is some crazy stuff on that sight. I'm not sure if it's good or bad. Any way. It was a long day.
It's really nice to see my cousin again! I haven't seen her since last summer. She's just about me and my brother's age, so it's easy to relate to her. Most of our family is older than us. It's nice to have someone our own age.
I'm tired but can't sleep. You know the feeling. I have an idea for a poem and an idea for a story, I might just start one or both of those. But not tonight... I need sleep.
Yet another day of chaos over! Seriously, today was chaos. Things lost and things found. I have stopped making sense. Later all!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
The Happening: a movie reciew
I just saw the happening last night with my brother. This morning we looked up reviews because he said that it had gotten bad ones. We found these horrible reviews, so I decided to write my own.
The Happening was a disaster movie, but only in a certain sense. It was not at all like Signs, or The Sixth Sense, or any of his previous movies for that matter. It was more a statement than anything. More than that I would prefer not to say, as I believe that you should see this movie. I will only tell you that it starts out with some kind of an event, a terrorist attack or something starting at Central Park in New York. The main Character, Mark Wahlberg, is a science teacher at a high school in New York. He and all the other teachers and students are excused from the school as soon as news of this event reaches them. He, his wife, his best friend's daughter and his best friend's wife go away from New York, just to be safe. The wife of his best friend gets held up, and they decide to meet her at their destination. This is the introduction to the movie, and a lot happens in a short time.
That is not to say, however, that the characters are inadequately introduced. They were introduced with an art that surpassed almost anything that I have ever seen. I felt connected to the characters in a human sense. I also never for a second doubted their reality. The acting was simply amazing. The movie was intense to a degree that is quite amazing, and the way the actors deliver small moments of comic relief is wonderful. Without these small, funny moments to relieve the tension, it would become unbearable. Any one who degrades this technique for making a play or movie more enjoyable should know that Shakespeare, possibly one of the greatest writers (hacks) of all time, used it. Besides these funny moments, the film is frightening, engaging and thought provoking.
The thing that I loved about the film more than the moments of shear terror that I experienced sitting in that theater was the message. This movie has a distinct message to America. Or even to the entire human race. This message cannot be ignored.
Also, the science of the movie was, I think, and I will update all of you on this if I am wrong, good. I did a little research last night after the movie, and I believe that I found several articles that confirmed key points made in the movie to advance to plausibility of certain causes of the event. Research such as this is very rare in Holly Wood at this time. I will do further looking into on this subject, and write on it again.
Besides the acting and the plot in general, the camerawork was excellent. It was natural, with smooth cuts and occasional rough spots at the appropriate times in the movie. The cinematography was very well directed and executed.
The direction in general was simply amazing. You could see M. Night's hand in everything, but it was subtle and let the actors interpret things as they saw fit.
I loved this movie. I, quite honestly, believe that it is the best movie that I have seen this year, maybe in several years. I highly recommend it to anyone. You must see this movie. You cannot go to the theater expecting that you will come out exited about simply entertainment. It will leave you speechless, you will be far more than exited. It will make you think, maybe even change the way you do certain things everyday. When I left that theater I could feel an Aura of astonishment and awe. It was an amazing movie.
And I ask you this, what does the critic risk of himself? He does not share a part of himself with the world. opening it for critics to attack. Not a single critic has ever written a play, a song, a poem or a movie. None of them has ever acted or directed or been a cameraman. I am an actor and a writer. I ask you to keep an open mind and see this movie. It is amazing. It does not have a plot twist like the Sixth Sense, but it does not need one. It is just fine as it is.
The Happening was a disaster movie, but only in a certain sense. It was not at all like Signs, or The Sixth Sense, or any of his previous movies for that matter. It was more a statement than anything. More than that I would prefer not to say, as I believe that you should see this movie. I will only tell you that it starts out with some kind of an event, a terrorist attack or something starting at Central Park in New York. The main Character, Mark Wahlberg, is a science teacher at a high school in New York. He and all the other teachers and students are excused from the school as soon as news of this event reaches them. He, his wife, his best friend's daughter and his best friend's wife go away from New York, just to be safe. The wife of his best friend gets held up, and they decide to meet her at their destination. This is the introduction to the movie, and a lot happens in a short time.
That is not to say, however, that the characters are inadequately introduced. They were introduced with an art that surpassed almost anything that I have ever seen. I felt connected to the characters in a human sense. I also never for a second doubted their reality. The acting was simply amazing. The movie was intense to a degree that is quite amazing, and the way the actors deliver small moments of comic relief is wonderful. Without these small, funny moments to relieve the tension, it would become unbearable. Any one who degrades this technique for making a play or movie more enjoyable should know that Shakespeare, possibly one of the greatest writers (hacks) of all time, used it. Besides these funny moments, the film is frightening, engaging and thought provoking.
The thing that I loved about the film more than the moments of shear terror that I experienced sitting in that theater was the message. This movie has a distinct message to America. Or even to the entire human race. This message cannot be ignored.
Also, the science of the movie was, I think, and I will update all of you on this if I am wrong, good. I did a little research last night after the movie, and I believe that I found several articles that confirmed key points made in the movie to advance to plausibility of certain causes of the event. Research such as this is very rare in Holly Wood at this time. I will do further looking into on this subject, and write on it again.
Besides the acting and the plot in general, the camerawork was excellent. It was natural, with smooth cuts and occasional rough spots at the appropriate times in the movie. The cinematography was very well directed and executed.
The direction in general was simply amazing. You could see M. Night's hand in everything, but it was subtle and let the actors interpret things as they saw fit.
I loved this movie. I, quite honestly, believe that it is the best movie that I have seen this year, maybe in several years. I highly recommend it to anyone. You must see this movie. You cannot go to the theater expecting that you will come out exited about simply entertainment. It will leave you speechless, you will be far more than exited. It will make you think, maybe even change the way you do certain things everyday. When I left that theater I could feel an Aura of astonishment and awe. It was an amazing movie.
And I ask you this, what does the critic risk of himself? He does not share a part of himself with the world. opening it for critics to attack. Not a single critic has ever written a play, a song, a poem or a movie. None of them has ever acted or directed or been a cameraman. I am an actor and a writer. I ask you to keep an open mind and see this movie. It is amazing. It does not have a plot twist like the Sixth Sense, but it does not need one. It is just fine as it is.
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