Michelle:
I am a bass player. I will always be a bass player. If I am in a relationship with anyone, I will have been a bass player before I met her. I will always be a bass player.

If any woman ever makes me choose, you know it will be the bass. I love what I do. The electric bass is more than just a hobby for me, it is a passion that burns inside my soul with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.

I hope that answers your question.

(The previous post is a musing. Make of it what you will.)

To be ecstatic is to know that the milky wonder glowing in the moonlight is fulfilled.
To be ecstatic is to be something you know nobody else can... but above all, it is to KNOW this...
To be ecstatic, in other words, comes from within, but it takes something external to find it for us.
Not just fulfilled. Fulfilled by YOU.
YOU are the last piece of a puzzle - a puzzle revealing the splendor in all things and euphoric overtones in which our existence is bathed.
To be ecstatic... is to be this... is to be aware of this.
This euphoria cannot be contained, it pours forth with undying satisfaction, pours forth into unlimited devotion.
To be ecstatic, by this definition...
is also what it means to love and be loved.
We are of a strange design, coinciding with each other where we need it the most.

Summer's over.
School tomorrow.

There's change in the wind.

I DID IT!

I can play "Portrait of Tracy"... THE WHOLE THING... ALL THE WAY TO THE END!

(this is the best thing I've ever done.)

The fact that a girl like that even EXISTS makes me exuberant.

The aforementioned robots with guns are now available to police departments as well, apparently.

Let's not jump the gun - this is far from the every-police-officer-is-a-robot scenario we've seen in so many science fiction novels... hey, who is Isaac Asimov, anyway? What's this nonsense about laws of robotics?

I wonder if androids dream of electric sheep...

BTW:
-I got a job at a very nice Italian restaurant down the street from me, and I never knew that I would enjoy being a "bus person" so much.

-I got my new longboard wheels today. They are sweet. :-)

Furthermore, it is safe to say I would be impressed by her skill on the guitar even if she were not female.

Rad.

Coming soon:
MURDEROUS MUD, an assembly of musical prowess only seen before IN YOUR DREAMS...

(Murderous Mud is the name of my new power trio. Super-sick dope-ass shit comin' up. :-))

Today I learned:
I ain't no Victor Wooten...

But this is kinda cool.

YEAH, NOW SEE IF YOU CAN GIVE ME MENINGITIS! (I got vaccinated today.)

I ordered Abec 11 Flashbacks - 70mm and 75a; they are pretty sweet. I'm gonna have to cut out the sides of my board to fit those things in. Sweeeeet. :-)

Saw a set of Flywheels that was something like 97 mm - THAT IS FUCKING HUGE - but it was damn near $100 for a set, so I said fuck that. :-p

Also I put Black Panther ABEC 7's in my old wheels but the wheels are undoubtedly the most annoying wheels in the world... so it wasn't that great.

Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" is unquestionably the greatest classical piece of the 20th century. (As far as I am concerned anyway.)

Dateline NBC:
You have had much success with your To Catch a Predator series - I am sure that you have greatly reduced the number of underage girls getting lewd comments on their MySpace pictures; props for that. Recently you attempted (with mixed results) to cash in even more on this success with To Catch an iJacker - a clever turn-of-phrase implying the show's plot: interrogating people with stolen iPods and, after gathering all the facts and statistics, coming to no conclusion whatsoever. I am sure that pedophiles and iPod thieves are a tricky bunch. It was probably very hard for you to outsmart them. However, as you have no doubt learned, hackers are smarter and they are not pleased with you. Do yourselves a favor and stop getting in over your heads.

(I am sorry if that sounded harsh, but I doubt that To Catch a Predator guy with the really awesome TV voice even knows what Sourceforge is.)

Continental Breakfast is great. We jam. It's awesome.

But there are some other projects I want to embark on... musical ones, of course.

Firstly, I want to find the sickest drummer there is, and start a power trio with him and Wes. Maybe also do some drum and bass groove stuff. I still want to have that band with two bass players. Also I want to try stuff with two drummers in it. I think two drummers and two bassists at the same time is overkill.

If you are a competent musician or you know competent musicians, drop me a line.

Dear United States Government,
Your latest technology (robots with guns) is very cool. It's so cool I definitely want one, but I regret to inform you that it is in blatant violation of Asimov's Laws of Robotics and therefore is most likely a Bad Thing.

Yours truly,
A concerned citizen