Archive for February 2007

February 26, 2007

Back into the Fray

8:48 pm | My Life | Comments: 18

So I’ve picked up this gig with the GVSU student orchestra. My sister needed some help in the percussion section, and I with my big heart and future wicked-awesome percussionist aspirations decided to lend a helping hand. A couple observations. First of all, it’s tough to play in an orchestra if you’ve never seen or heard the music you’re supposed to be playing along with. Second, there’s more to hand-held cymbal playing than meets the eye. After my second night of stumbling along being generally confused but still having a great time I managed to get ahold of the music, and a cute bassoon player showed me how to make loud cymbal crashes - I’m well on my way to making music history.

Being back on campus has been quite surreal, to be honest. It’s interesting how a college campus is somewhat timeless. Even though eventually you grow up and move on, the atmosphere of the Student Union stays the same as it was the first day you walked into it. Same fratties on the couches, same nerds playing videogames. The pizza even tastes the same. It’s a bit refreshing, really. I won’t say it’s like coming home, it was never home for me. The nice thing is knowing that you know so much more about life than all the kids shuffling around you. I find myself wishing I could sit them down and say, “Well son, when I was your age…”

February 17, 2007

News Items

12:19 pm | News | Comments: 9

If you’re a fan of reading dozens of weblogs commenting on current national and global issues, you’re probably often disappointed by the disconnected and mostly-doesn’t-give-a-crap attitude of SIO. Today, however, I’m catering to you folks because I’ve nothing else to do. So here’s some observations on cosmically important stuff.

- Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems that democrats don’t like George Bush. And I guess the Apocalypse is upon us, too, now that a few more of them got elected.
- Global warming is still a crock of crap. Even if it were true, all that would happen is a few billion of us would die off and only the rich would survive, meaning that rebuilding the human population would be relatively easy.
- Iran will blow us all up in the name of peace and love. You really have to love muslims with nukes.
- More importantly than all of that nonsense, though, Britney Spears shaved her head! And she got red lips tattooed on her wrist!
- Galactc is coming to Grand Rapids on April 17!

February 10, 2007

Thinking is so Yesterday

11:02 pm | Random | Comments: 7

Seriously, doesn’t it seem like that sometimes? Often I tell myself, today is going to be “wallow in thoughtless abandon” day. Those are the days when you’re in the most danger of falling in love. So I’m glad people like my poetry. I can’t write poetry really, at least not on a whim like the greats. I need some serious inspiration, or motivation, to come up with it. I figured instead of rambling about some tomfoolery I would post a nice, romantic poem from one of the greats, whether you like him or not.

3. The Rose Family

The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple’s a rose,
And the pear is, and so’s
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only know
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose–
But were always a rose.

- R. Frost