You're making me sweat just to hold your attention!

So, admittedly, I do listen to my own music. This helps me reflect on how I play, how I can improve, helps me keep from losing old musical phrases that I like, and also... well, I only make music because I like it, so I like to hear my own sound. Just not TOO much.

But hearing the Continental Breakfast EP has got me thinking - why DON'T we gig more than we do? That is to say, why haven't we really promoted ourselves, other than because we are lazy?

There are some gigs we just aren't cut out for. For instance, when someone hires a band to play at a wedding, they want a band to play sets of standards that people know and enjoy.

But if you hire us to play for three hours, you are hiring four musicians to create four hours of music that you've never heard before and will never hear again. We are SO improv-oriented it's not funny. Don't confuse us with the kind of "jam band" that plays the same chord progression for an hour and drifts off into minor pentatonic heaven without listening to each other. If we play the same chord progression for an hour it's because we haven't finished exploring it yet. Watch what happens on stage. There is more communication between us than some of you have in an entire month... and almost none of it is verbal.

We have an INCREDIBLE group dynamic that I have never seen another local band achieve. We are not just musicians playing together. We are friends, brothers, comrades in a common form of expression, playing, feeling, and thinking the same thing at the same time.

Through music we are drawn closer together and through that expression we make something COMPLETE.

There are a lot of things I could think about the band. I just can't believe how far we've come and how amazingly TOGETHER we are.

The woman was a dream I had, though rather hard to keep,
For when my eyes were watching hers, they closed and I was still asleep.
When my hand was holding hers
She whispered words, and I awoke
And faintly bouncing 'round the room
The echo of whomever spoke

New Rule:
Nobody that I know is allowed to make generalizations about people. You kids who think you have seen it all are laughable.

Maybe if you would stop trying to be older than you are and puffing yourselves up, you could learn from your experiences instead of viewing them through an unjustly (and incorrectly) jaded eye. The world doesn't suck, and you don't know everything there is about people. Hell, you have only met like 1/28 of the people you're ever going to make, so what the hell makes some 17-year-old qualified to make General Statements about humans? Nothing, that's what. Shut up, sit down, and learn your fucking place in the world, you cocks. Y'all make me ashamed to be under 25.

(Yes, it has recently come to my attention that many of my peers seem to think they know everything there is to know, probably because they are old enough to have some significant experiences, but they jump the gun and generalize about things before they have experienced even a tiny fraction of what life has to offer, and I really hate the way they do that.)

Sorry for being so angry.

P.S. If you think the previous post was written just for you... it wasn't. Stop being so full of yourselves.

(That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.)

Phenylalanine is touted as a "wonder supplement" by a lot of people.

If you understand a few things about the incredibly complex redox reaction going on inside your body you will appreciate the abilities of BOTH isomers. It's pretty much worth it.

Also, it has come to my attention recently that I am apparently the only human being that does not read very much into every single action that a person makes - so, if I have offended any of you with anything I've ever done, it was most definitely unintentional; please do not hold it against me. Furthermore, stop reading in to the things I do! You know very well that I don't put any thought into the emotional bearings of anything I do on anyone around me. It's not because I'm mean, it's just because I don't think about it; does that make sense?

So, in conclusion, that's why I seem like a spaced-out asshole to a lot of people a lot of the time. I make social gaffes because I am very different from all of you. Rest assured, the feeling of incomprehensibility is mutual - I have no more idea why you do what you do than you have an idea why I do what I do. If we can set aside these cognitive differences I'm sure we could be great friends. I do enjoy my friends you know, and I'm not such a lunatic once you get to know me. :-p

I'm not the kind of nerd who doesn't know how to have friends. I'm just the kind of nerd who doesn't know how to have completely ordinary social relationships. With some people. Do you see where I'm going?

Didn't think so.

Honey, I Shrunk The Kids is incredibly unrealistic. I mean, aside from the REALLY OBVIOUS ones. Shut up. :-p

The point here is that they are being shrunk really small. Do you have any idea how much energy it would take to shrink someone that small? We all know that pressure and temperature are related, and realistically you couldn't just jump to such a small state without passing through every possible state in between; in other words, you are being compressed. Pressure is directly proportional to temperature according to the combined gas law (Gay-Lussac), you know, so if someone were shrunk that small, the heat would probably be enough to kill them. I don't want to do all that math right now. (note to self: do this later!!)

Also, I'm pretty sure that a lot of forces that humans take for granted because they are so small - the energy from radio waves, some kinds of light, maybe even things like magnetism and background radiation, hell, there are all kinds, just think for two seconds - would have a much greater impact on the human body if it were that small. Also, simply based on the observation that other animals that small have heart rates that are WAY FAST, human hearts are not designed to beat so fast, so you'd have tachycardia and, eventually, cardiac arrest or heart failure.

You'd probably go into shock also (at some point before you start to die) and lose consciousness, either from the sheer speed of the physical changes you are undergoing or from the pain of the heat and your heart and all that damn energy. Also, where would you get all that power from? I'd imagine it takes a lot to compress a human being. You would also weigh exactly the same amount unless that ray somehow removed matter from your body, which would also probably hurt. Also, it would cause infinite genetic mutations if it worked on an atomic/molecular level because it would remove a different pattern of information from every single chromosome in your body. You would probably just lose all essential function in your whole damn body, and if the shrinking mechanism worked by just making the atoms smaller, it would cause the laws that govern the universe on an atomic level to function differently, with unpredictable results. If that were the case you wouldn't be able to breathe anymore because all the oxygen molecules would be "huge" to you and your cells wouldn't know what to do with them, if the hemoglobin even managed to get them there.

Reference to muscles and their strength proportional to the rest of you, vague comparison to a flea and a football stadium... I will finish this some other time.