Name:Lazar Country:United States State:Florida Metro:Sarasota Gender:Male
Interests:Philosophy; psychology; sociology; just about anything from Jello Biafra or Mike Patton, Dresden Dolls, Ministry, Down, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, and whatever music will wake up the "happy consumers;" George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard, Bill Maher, the Marx Brothers, Ron White, and various other sources of humor; anime (Hellsing!); martial arts (especially ninpou); and spreading the love. Expertise:Being a procrastinating student, a Gothic Hippie, and being boring in a general kind of way.
As far as I can tell, this is all because Republicans hate Senor Al Franken. Republicans always slammed Franken, constantly labeling him as a "far-left loon". They did everything they could to smear him, including Photoshopping his head onto age regression porn. They tried their best to keep him from being sworn into office by encouraging his predecessor, Former Senator Norm Coleman. to refuse to step down. Now, they won't even take Franken's side against rape.
Why are Republicans taken seriously? As far as I can tell, good marketing. Because what the hell have they actually been doing other than taking every conceivable position -- and apparently, inconceivable position -- against the Democratic majority?
So now I am a full-time student with a full-time job who is also trying to help start a band. Apparently, I don't have free time anymore.
I am attending the International Academy of Design & Technology at Tampa in their Bachelor's program for Recording Arts (ie: sound, in general). The school works in ten-week terms with each class meeting once per week in five-hour blocks. This term, I have four classes, but one is in a ten-hour block, yet is not worth twice as many credits. So I have class Wednesday from 6pm-11pm, Thursday from 1pm-11pm, and Friday from 8am-6pm.
This last Tuesday, I started work at Spirit Halloween, working from about 9am-4:30pm. I get two days off per week. Guess what days those are? Yeah, the two days I spent at school for ten hours, with an hour's drive each way.
Then there is the band, which is just a guitarist, Ryan, and I at this point. We have been meeting once per week in a three-hour block, renting the time and space at a production studio built into three storage units. May have to meet more often.
And really, if I do well in recording arts as a career, it will basically be like this. Especially as a producer, engineer, etc. for music, because as one of my instructors can testify, they don't get sleep. So yeah, no spare time, really. Heh. And I thought I was tired all the time before.
So, did you think Al Franken would be such a great model for senators?
"I got to witness something really special. About a dozen tea party activists had staked out Sen. Al Franken's booth, and confronted him loudly when he arrived. But within minutes, he'd turned an unruly crowd into a productive conversation on health care. The discussion went from insurance reform, to the public option, to veterans benefits, to cap and trade. He made a few laugh and even told a touching story that moved a few to tears. A whole lot of common ground was found." -- Dusty Rice
I have no idea how I managed to get a 4.0 GPA again this term. I didn't even do a large part of my midterm project for Musical Composition and Songwriting. Oh well. I'll take it, I guess.
Right now I am listening to dark psytrance. I should buy an album of this. Or at least download an album. Psytrance itself is rather interesting. It starts off simple, adding a new layer of sound every eight measures or so, slowly increasing in complexity, and just before it hits climax, most of the layers are unexpectedly peeled away, and the process begins anew. This tends to play at about 140-160 beats per minute for at least seven minutes. Basically, it is like tantric sex.
Dark psytrance, in addition to the tone that is implied, tends to use samples from horror movies. Here are a few examples:
Jersey Girl (whom most of you don't know; she is someone I met in Florida) is having her fifteenth birthday today. I am in charge of the music. She, her family, and her friends gave me more than 150 requests. She also wanted as much as NINE HOURS of music. Hooray for me.
Anyway, going to be rather busy, so I will just leave this here:
