[QUOTE=Chippy569]any of you guys have summer projects?

i'm half way through mine, here she is:
[img]http://inkinc.hostedz.com/images/Motorcycle/6-27-06.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]


Homina. Looks nice. I have no idea what I'm talking about, but still.

[QUOTE=Antigone] *snip* [/QUOTE]

Yeah I stood up for your "wanna be intellectual name" lol that guy was an idiot.


and the letter..

lmao that was ****ing awesome.

apparently not many people think anything of me, i have -25 points, only one rep was positive.

i have repped many people but apparently no one returns rep, like they do on pdf

I think it's because of your confusing user name..

Drum-aster Dru-master?..Dr. Umaster?..


Ohh the confusion!!@!!

Neg rep.

This is a nice video:

[url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8173765088736599715&q=drum[/url]

[QUOTE=British Boy]This is a nice video:

[url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8173765088736599715&q=drum[/url][/QUOTE]


Yes.. but I freaking DRED solo and ensemble type stuff..where you have to play a peice in front of judges..I always do ok, even though most of the time I cram the night before. Thats why I enjoy set, I have some bit of creative freedom..and not so much being critiqued on playing other peoples things...

Haha, I've been repped once.

By Tang.

Positively.

YAY 10.

Ahh, 1997...when the Weekend News Update on SNL was still worth watching and Beck didn't have his own music genre.

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Oh wait I lied. Futuro repped me too.

And when did I get 650 posts?

Yeah I repped you. But.. on a different note, I took you off of myspace because you kept leaving depressing bulletins about starvation and what not. It made my day cloudy...

Sorrah.

I'm eating again, I promise.

I just can't eat when I'm upset. And...well...I was upset.

I tried to make a myspace..
Buy I cancled it..
God I hate those things.

My friends back in Japan forced me onto myspace so they'd know I was still alive over here.

sunshine, when you lived in japan did you ever go to tokya, and if you did was it as awesome as movies and whatnot make it out to be?

i think my rep is like locked negative, tang repped me and it didnt give me anything, and antigone repped me and it was like -10. and she left me a wonderful note about her first period

edit:i tried myspace once, no songs would upload, and i didnt feeel like getting friends on it, so dont use it

cool

[QUOTE=Antigone]But that isn't the point.
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You live in America. Like it or not, you do.
I don't give a f[B]u[/B]ck how unsophisticated and all around sh[B]i[/B]tty you think it is, you're obliged to support it. You've been protected all your life, you've been given somewhere to live, and you've been given money. You don't live an uncomfortable life, I don't care how awful you seem to think it is.
You dwell in relative comfort.
And because you're country allows you to do this, there isn't any reason why you shouldn't support the economy and support you're fellow citizens by purchasing things made here.

And did you ever think that maybe foreign made cars are perhaps cheaper in those third world countries??[/QUOTE]

I'm not obligated to buy an American car. My parents are both in the army, I think that's enough for me. Anyway, I pay taxes [not just my parents, but I pay my own taxes], I shop at the stores 'round here, I'm going to go to an American college and live in a house or an apartment...I think that's enough support for me not to buy a damn car here =/

And no. The reason the 3rd world countries all have old-*** Asian cars is because-
A)They last a damnably long time, which is why you see cars from freaking-forever-ago with well over 200,000 miles on them over there
B) In Asia, the taxes to buy a used car are more expensive than it would be to buy a new one, so there's a huge surplus of Asian-made cars and no room, and they give them to 3rd world countries for free.

[QUOTE=drumaster]sunshine, when you lived in japan did you ever go to tokya, and if you did was it as awesome as movies and whatnot make it out to be?

i think my rep is like locked negative, tang repped me and it didnt give me anything, and antigone repped me and it was like -10. and she left me a wonderful note about her first period

edit:i tried myspace once, no songs would upload, and i didnt feeel like getting friends on it, so dont use it[/QUOTE]

I lived about an hour on the normal trains from Tokyo [15 minutes for the Romance car...which was only like $8 so that was pretty awesome]. And yes, it's just like the movies.

Except The Grudge. It said it took place in Shinjuku, but whenever they showed city shots they were actually in Yokohama, which is on the other side of the train line [Tokyo on one side, Yokohama on the other, and where I lived directly in the center].

Ugh. Go sit on the edge of a highway one day and just count the number of ancient Buicks, Cadillacs, and Pontiacs you see go buy. Those huge old boxy ones from the 70's and 80's with atleast 150,000 miles on them.
Those will go on forever.
I guarantee that you'll see more of those than you will old asian cars.

And those are choices you make because you have to. Are you really going to fly overseas to buy everything there? Are you going to go live under a bridge instead of a house or apartment? Are you going to go pay a $5,000 fee of going to a college out of the country? No. It's simple. There isn't any choice in doing that. But there is in buying a car.

I'm done arguing.

$5,000 isn't that much...I could swing that.

But anyway.

New Muse CD gets released in the US on July 11...whoo. I'll be in LA, maybe I can pick it up since God knows they won't carry it here for awhile.

[QUOTE=maniac0796]The amount of water an ice berg displaces is = to it's volume or surface area or something. therefore, if an ice berg melts, then there is no difference in sea levels... but ice melting off land makes a difference. Global waming sucks. I'm jsut gonna beilieve it doens't exist, and go wild....[/QUOTE]
thats not true, ice takes up less space than water, the colder an object gets the closer its molecules come together, not to mention parts of most icebergs are ontop of the water.

if you were to fill up a glass with water, directly to the top, then freeze it, there would be a few inches off the top

from 2 pages ago, but whatever.

And if you fill a cup with solid ice to the brim, when it melts it'll overflow =D

[QUOTE=styler]thats not true, ice takes up less space than water, the colder an object gets the closer its molecules come together, not to mention parts of most icebergs are ontop of the water.

if you were to fill up a glass with water, directly to the top, then freeze it, there would be a few inches off the top

from 2 pages ago, but whatever.[/QUOTE]

Water expands when it freezes. Its one of the few liquids that do that, and it expands by apporx. 9% of its original size

^i knew it

i just didnt want to say anything because ive already been owned once today by pessi

Oh wait. Damnit. You're right.

'S why you never put beer in the freezer --- it explodes 'cause it expands.

Seriously. My dad did it =/

So I lied. Fill it with solid ice, there'll be less when it melts. That's why they dont' suggest ice cubes if you need lots of water --- you'd carry more with plain water.

Well, I was cool for like 5 seconds. It was nice. I'm done now.

sup hold? im at work and need to pee, but someone stunk up the toilets so im holding on till i can bear the smell.

I'm frustrated.

I was going through my sisters old guitar notebook from when she used to take lessons, and in the parts about theory, I know how to do everything he explained. Like, I know how to form chords and construct scales and I know relatve and parallel major/minors, but I do everything he did by a different method.

I know all of my major scales by heart, so it doesn't really matter, but I figure them out by an obscure method. I draw the letter of the scale in my head, count how many strokes, and the number of strokes it takes is the number of sharps in the scale. Flats are the BEADGCF thing, where you count up to the letter of and add the next letter as well to figure out the flats.
He taught her to do the whole/half step method. That method makes more sense in a logical kind of way, but it's crap for me.

I also figure out my minors, which I don't know by heart, with sayings.
Dirt Gets Clean From Bathing Everyday Always for flats and Even Best Friends Can Get Dumb Always for sharps.

I learned to construct chords by counting the lines, which was probably bad. But I can figure them out rather quickly by visualizing it in my head.

If I go get a teacher, I'm kind of sure that they'll use the other methods.
It's going to be all akward.

And, I'm thinking about going for guitar.
I already know a dozen or so chords on it, so the first lessons is going to be totally pointless. I think that after I learn the notes on the neck and I'm able to actually apply that and read music that lessons might be pointless. I don't have that much interest in learning songs by bands I like.
It's either the music that I listen to has terribly simple guitar parts, or really hard funky acoustic stuff. It seems like all my sister did was learn songs.
=/

Aaagh. If I do go for bass, then I'll have to learn bass clef.
I already know how to read some of it, but it's nowhere near as fluent as treble clef is to me. It's not really a bad thing. Grr.



I only have one bass but I've got five guitars.
AAAAAAAAAAGH.
I hate this. I can't choose.

go for bass, you already play drums and theyre both rhythm, and rhythm is the coolest

Except I just looked at the only two places offering lessons.
Both of them have the guitar teacher playing bass. e.e

I might as well just take guitar.

[QUOTE=styler]thats not true, ice takes up less space than water
[/QUOTE]
How the hell is that true? Why is it ice breaks up the roads, frost breaks house foundations and such. You put a full bottle of water in the freezer and see what happens. or a can of pop or beer.

Although I could be way off...I'd say take guitar. I've heard bass is really easy to learn bass after you learn guitar.

It's similar that they've got the same tuning and basic set up, but the technique is completely different, the use in music is completely different, and just in general it's a completely different instrument.
It's like, you can always tell a guitar player who's playing bass.


'Sides. I've got a $500 Ibanez Erodyne bass versus my $2,000 super awesome vintage-y cool 1963 Fender Jaguar with 12 gauge strings.

You know, you're right. I've only really known 3 bassists who weren't guitar players first, and they did have a totally different feel and flavor to their stuff. I thought it was definetly alot nicer sounding.

That's a tough choice. I'm kind of flip flopping on lessons too. I want to take drum lessons since I've never had any, but I also want to take guitar lessons. I think that would be alot of fun because my son wants to learn guitar too and it's something we could do together.

Aaaagh.

Get him started as soon as he gets back. =/
I can't count the number of times I wished my parents had gotten me lessons when I was young. The fact that he's actually interested in it is all the cooler.
Plus, I think you having to practice right along with him will keep him more interested. He'll have someone to kind of jam with or something so playing wouldn't be completely boring.

We're planning on buying him a guitar as soon as he gets back from Montana. We'll have to look into lessons for him still. We've only really talked to one guy so far, and he doesn't like to get kids started before the age of 7, but we'll see what happens. And I think you're right. I might just have to take some guitar lessons too. That would be alot of fun.

Isn't he 6?

That's bull anyways. As long as he can hold the guitar properly he'll be fine.

Yeah, he's 6. And I agree. We did only talk to one guy though, so hopefully when we do a little more research we'll find someone who will teach him.

What do you think? Do you think we should pick up the guitar and have it as a surprise waiting for him when he gets home? Or have him come pick it out with us?

Suprise. Or, maybe not.
Maybe you should take him to try them out to see what ones he can handle.

I dunno. Just don't get him an acoustic. =/
My parents got me an acoustic when I was a kid, and I was royally pissed.

My mom tried teaching me acoustic when I was like 6 or 7.

It really sucked, because I was a midget and the damned thing was bigger 'n me.

We're probably getting him one of those mini-statocasters (sp?). They were the only ones we saw at Guitar Center that were his size. He really seemed to like them too. But yeah, we're not getting him an acoustic. I might get an acoustic though. I have an electric one I bought, but I like how acoustic sounds.

Well if that's the only one, then get it for a surprise.
Hide it. Make his little a[B]s[/B]s search for hours. =/

Haha. I'll have to hide it in his pants drawer since he never wants to put his pants away. He'll never find it.

ming to the ling! whats up?