Bass

I've always loved music, ever since my dad would play me the beatles and green day and other phenomenal bands when I was a kid. Around fifth grade I attempted to get on the pop music bandwagon, and I almost succeeded, but as it turns out, most of today's pop music sucks. So I find more comfort in grunge, rock, metal, and alternative music.

Most recently I've been very much into the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Cage The Elephant to name two, but focusing more on the Chili Peppers, and in Flea, the bassist, in particular. Over the summer one of the junior counselors had an acoustic bass guitar, and I haven't really shown that much interest in guitars, but it was then I realized that bass is a super cool instrument! My reasoning was this: one, it'll be fun to learn and play, and two, chicks dig guys with guitars, or so I'm told. So when I got home from camp that summer, my dad found me a used acb (acoustic bass guitar) that I could borrow, and I've been learning ever since, mostly learning bass tabs from the Chili Peppers but otherwise slowly teaching myself, familiarizing myself with the bass and having way too much fun. My advice, if you have way to much time on your hands, then pick up an instrument and mess around. Even if you have no intention of learning it, it's still a ton of fun.

Such Great Hights

I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images
And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned

And I have to speculate
That God Himself did make
Us into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay

And true it may seem like a stretch
But it's thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
And when I am missing you to death

And when you are out there on the road
For several weeks of shows
And when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home

They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now, they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we'll stay

I tried my best to leave
This all on your machine
But the persistent beat
It sounded thin upon the sending

And that frankly will not fly
You'll hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
And this is guiding you home

They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we'll stay

They will see us waving from such great heights
Come down now they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
Come down now but we'll stay

(They will see us waving from such great heights)
(Come down now)
They will see us waving from such great heights
(Come down now)

DO NOT READ THIS POST! PLEASE, WHATEVER YOU DO, JUST DON'T READ IT!

Ok, since you've obviously disobeyed my above request you may as well read this post, because by now you're already almost all the way to the end of the second line. The real title of this post should have been reverse psychology, but I thought this might be a little more intriguing.

Most people have, at one point in their life, used reverse psychology on someone. That someone was probably younger than you, and you wanted them to do something for you or stop doing something. This tactic doesn't normally work on older people, who are more experienced in the use of reverse psychology, and know when to just not listen. Then of course there are the people who say, "listen to me, and the subject of this command must choose whether to ignore them, and therefore listen to reverse psychology, or obey the command. What should you do when caught in this situation? Well listen to me of course, and jump up and down on the spot until you fall asleep from exhaustion.

xkcd

A few years back, I was given a copy of Randall Munroe's, "What If?" I began to leaf through it and found increasingly ludicrous, and, might I add, interesting and thought provoking. From just the cover you can see that it really is ridiculous. It shows a dinosaur dangling over the sarlacc from star wars. After reading through the absurd answers to questions such as, "Is it safe to swim in a spent nuclear fuel pool?" and, "What if we put a portal that is one meter in diameter at the bottom of the mariana trench to drain the oceans?" and many more.

After finishing the book, I wanted more, because there just wasn't enough destruction for me in that one book. To solve this, I turned to the internet, and more specifically, xkcd, which is Randall Munroe's online web comic. xkcd doesn't actually stand for anything or mean something, but the actual comics are amazing. here are a few of my favorite ones. Hope you laugh a little and if you want more, just search for xkcd.com!