A Week Later...

I'm sorry that I haven't been able to post, but saying that the past week has been hectic would be a gross understatement. I have had play rehersals jazz band and life. It's insane. Rehersals for Our Town (which I am in) are going well. It's really fun. We have new music in jazz, which rocks, and life is just as wonderful and complex as ever.

something important is very close, and it will be upon me soon.

Just a Few Concerts....

Hey all. It's been a hectic two days. I had a concert with the jazz band last night, that's why I didn't post anything. I got home and was totally dead. It was insane. We did well, all of us. I was happy with my performance personally as well. It was good. Concert band and orchestra also played, so I was there a long time. Orchestra was especially good. Not too much else yesterday, save a fun bass lesson, we went played With a Little Help from My Friends. That's a fun song. The Beatles are the best.

We had another concert today, in the morning. It was the NAU Jazz Fest, and that was fun too. We got a superior, which is awsome. I personally was happier with my performance last night, I lost my place near the beggining today and that threw me off, but I kept playing and noboby noticed. We did well enough. It would've been nice to get a superior with distinction, but supior is good.

We were all excused from the first three classes of the day, so when we got back me and a few others went to Taco Bell and got some food. That was fun, it was nice to be off campus. I did miss a test in Personal Fitness, though. I'll have to make that up. It's worth it. Leavig class like that could get addictive, but I need to keep up on my studies and everything. It's just nice to get away from all the wrok sometimes.

After all of that, I went fencing. That was awsome as always. I've been insanly busy lately, and I know my blog hasn't been too exiting. That's life though.

We have another concert tomarrow for jazz, it could be cancelled though. It'd be fun to play, always is. I love music, it's almsot as nessasary as oxygen. You can express anything through it, it can protect you or make you see the world. It's just amazing. Life without music would be a mistake.

Goodnight.
May your dreams stay happy.

Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 18 and 19.

I'm sorry for missing the post yesterday, it was a very uneventful day. I went to see Jumper, and we rented across the Universe later. Jumper was alright, not the best movie I had ever seen. Acting was not the best, but good, same with the writing and directing. Visual effects, however, were really good.

I love Across the Universe, one of my favorites. They did so wonderfully with the adaptions of the Beatle's music, the acting, writing, set, direction, cinimatography, everything was very good. I love the entire movie, but one of the scenes where the acting was really really good was that scene at the laundramat. Jude and Lucy get into a fight about the war, and fighting to stop it, and it was just real. Amazing.

Today was slightly more eventful than yesterday. Woke up early for jazz this morning, and then went to jazz. I have fun there, despite being tired. I just love the music. Our director wasn't in the best mood ever though. I'm sure he had a good reason. Just after an emmensly long and tiring day at school, I went to the after school poetry meeting. I always have fun at those. I did some writing I liked very much. I'll post it on here once I've revised it.

After poetry, I came home and went dancing. I love dancing. Ballroom, waltz tonight. Usually I would also have advanced salsa tonight, but I had too much to do at home. As I said, I love dancing. It's one of my passions. It was a good lesson; I have been through this level of waltz before, but it's always nice to refresh. Dancing is a good way to meet poeple and what-not. It is also a wonderful escape from all of life's problems. We all need a break sometime.

I felt like running away today, I was tired and out of it and behind in all the school work. It was terrible. Wrote a poem about it actually.

My escapes from life are, as I may have said before, music, acting, dancing, writing and reading. They all work wonderfully. We all, even the one with the easiest life of all, need escapes. I simply endevour to make mine healthy. Mine work better than drugs any way. Music will make everything go away, and has no negative side affects.

It's funny how tupsy-turvy life is. Isn't it? It can just be so crazy. Ah well, a story needs a conflict, right?

One more thing, if you do deside to check out the links on my favorite web sites list, I'm God of the Congo on the Dead Poet's society. All of my favorite stuff is there, writing anyway.

I'll see all of you, however few there are, tomarrow.

May happiness live in your heart,
Stay Well.

Just Another Few Days In The Life

Hello all, it hasn't been a very eventful weekend. I stayed at a friends house Saturday and Sunday. That was fun, we played a lot of Halo three. fun game, even though I'm terrible at it. My falconry sponsor came over today and did an autopsy on Beren. We think that it was a blood perisite or something of that nature. Whatever it was, it was nasty. It's not much easier now, but it's getting there.

On a happier note, I saw the movie Lucky Number Slevin at my friends house. It was pretty good. Wonderful plot, amazing acting and some nice explosions. It was about vengance though, which kinda put a damper on it for me, but oh well. Still a good movie.

I have been practicing my bass, as always, and I think I'm getting slap-bass down. I might be doing it wrong though... I'll have to ask one of my amazing bassist friends. Bassists are always awsome. I think I have a concert soon with the jazz band. That's always fun.

Thank god there's no school Monday (tomarrow)!!! I'm exhausted.

A little random tangeant on music, I'm kinda getting out of the heavier stuff. I.e. Some metallica, all Panterra, disturbed, some godsmack and some seether. It just doesn't appeal to me as much as it did.

I think this post has gone on for quite long enough. I won't bore you any longer. I'll post info on my little revolution tomarrow. Or the next day maybe.......

May your dreams stay happy,
your heart be filled with love,
and the best of fortune follow you.

Music

I would just like to talk about my musical tastes, to give you a small taste of them. I love any music that is Really Good. Jazz, rock, broadway, country, whatever. As long as it is meaningfull, and musically good. My favorite, howeverm is jazz. This is not common nowadays, but I don't care. I especially like jazz bass, as that is the instrument I play. It's wonderfully complex and challenging. Some of my favorite artists are Luis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Micheal Buble, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beatles, and there are so many more that I could not mention all of them. I need a really good jazz bassist to listen to. I'll ask my amazingly good bassist friend. He knows at least one.

I love my bass, I own a Jackson C20 concert bass, red. It's a wonderful bass. I can't play slap bass on it very easily though. It just takes a little effort. Funk is amazing, and I'm just getting good enough to play it well. Practice always pays off.

Farewell to Beren

As I mentioned earlier, my hawk, Beren, is no longer of this world. He died sometime yesterday, or the nigt before. We're not sure exactly how. I am simply saying my farewell. I loved him like a son, and now he's dead.

May his soul find eternal peace and happiness.

Some say that animals do not have souls, I think that he did. Everything does, but all of the souls are different than any other. That's what I think anyway.

Today is kinda that kind of day. Just thinking back on all the times we went out hunting and never caught anything. He would chase though. And all those times he would just be so stubourn and not do what I wanted him to. Anyway, this day I dedicate to Beren. In memoriam.

One Day in the Life of a Revolutionary

Hello, I am an artist. Not a drawing artist, but a musician and an actor and a writer. My life has been... well, I just lost my first hawk (I am a falconer as well), he was like a brother so forgive me if my postes have a slightly sad element in them for a little while.

I will post many things on this blog, poems, short stories, maybe even sheet music that I write. I will also post acounts of some of the important days of my life. This will be an outlet, and we all need an outlet sometimes.

I thank all that read it, For you will be seeing a glimpse of my life.

-Eric