A Rabbit?

You may be wondering, "Why would someone blog about such a random topic such as rabbits?" Well to be honest, I saw a rabbit on my way home from CCD last night, so i had my mom stop the car so I could chase him/her for a while. I've always wanted to catch a rabbit. I don't necessarily know why though. I would never be able to keep it on account of my parents and my hyper-friendly dog. I would have to let it go after taking a few pictures showing my accomplishment. That is probably why, the accomplishment in doing so that i have tried to do for so long. If I ever caught a rabbit my long quest would be complete and my life would be a little better. But this doesn't only apply to rabbits, you know. Everyone has this mindset that they should do something seemingly impossible or at least highly improbable, but they keep trying anyways just to say that they did it in the end. For example, there's this carnival game at the fair. Like the one where you get a machine gun and have to shoot out the star. It's relatively difficult and the prizes are not that great. Most of them in fact are just inflatables that would flatten in a week. But you see everyone trying this game. Many times it isn't because they can't shoot a machine gun anywhere else, because lets face it, almost everyone has an airsoft gun these days and could set the same thing up in their backyard. Or if they don't, they'd get a videogame, as most kids also do now a days. People play the game so that they can say they did it. They'd be the coolest kids at the carnival if they walked around with that inflatable for an hour or so and told everyone they won it at the machine gun game. This gives the kid utmost authority over the other kids playing the game, and it brings the game great business because now all the kids want to try to show the kid up and then be cooler. Really, this is a business tactic from the carnival, but it shows my point. Do something improbable, and you will be highly looked upon. Its a simple fact of life. If you shoot a full court basketball shot with your eyes clothes and backwards and make it on the first try, you will always be remembered as the person who did that. So, if I caught a rabbit bare handed, I would be remembered as the guy who caught a rabbit and would have such a cool cover photo on facebook.

Childhood In Motion

Childhood is really something that happens quite fast. Everyone around you sees it except those of your same age or younger. My parents always tell me as they open up the scrapbook of when I was 5, "Oh those years went by too fast." Really to me they didn't seem so fast, but when your an adult with a full time job, doing the same thing day in and day out, everything that happens seems so much faster. A year may seem like a week or two, a decade may be a year, a childhood might be gone in an instant. When you do the same thing over and over again, things tend to slip by and you forget to stop and take a glance at life daily. As a parent of toddler, this would result in seeing them as two one day, and then not acknowledging their 8th birthday until the day of. This might be overexagerating but the point is there. Childhood is quite quick, and it is a short period of everyone's lives. If you live to be 100, your childhood (childhood being up until you are 18 and move out) would only be 20% of your life! After that there isn't much else happening. Eventually you settle down and your life flatlines into boring. That's just how it works. Then one day you have kids and basically live your old childhood through them, but this time it's even quicker. Childhood is far too fast, but it is made to be that way so you can always have something new to enjoy.

Robot

This was an amazing song and an amazingly choreographed dance for the video. If the lyrics were in english i have feeling the song would be better still and would really express the view of the video openly without having to look at metaphors and such. It seems, however, that by the style of the music and dance routines they used this song had significant metaphorical value. The music was something like a techno-pop. Techno-pop mainly uses machines to make the different sounds, like over and over they used a mid-80s piano sound that was played a bit faster. Also the piano riffs were not played out as individual notes, a phazer was used, meaning the pianists only had to play one note and the machine would figure the rest of the notes to play in the scale. The dance was quite obviously robotic. The first thing many people would think of seeing that for the first time is "they are machines, all synced together and working together." I think this all shows how machine-needy the people of today have gotten. Almost everyone has a smartphone and uses computers daily. Everyone uses a car. Everyone uses at least one machine daily. This could even be taken a step further to say that all people are really turning into machines. This video was shot in New York, the place where the person next to you is the equivalent of a paint stain on your new jeans. No one really cares for another there. Everyone also just does almost the same exact thing day in and day out. They really become machines then when they don't do anything new and their emotions are nonexistant. It is a brilliant way to convey this point. And a good song

Fare Thee Well and Safe on Your Journey, my iPad (you large pain in my arse)

Wow. My iPad is leaving me. I feel so sad* to see them go. I'm going to miss them profusely*. I will definitely miss how easy* and quick* it is to type on them. I will definitely miss the camera function and quick tap to take picture button because the scirtbags will not be able to make our little flip-book-movies of each other anymore. I will also miss our Zen Pond very much. It was a nice way to chill and have a little bit of fun when listening and not doing anything else with the iPads anyway. My beloved* iPad, I will miss the great* times we've had. I hope in the future you will find someone who can have even more fun* with you. Please be safe and don't get into too much trouble. Love*, Paul D'Amico, your AFE *word changed as request from teacher and need for common decency of the post P.S. sorry about the title and the asterisks, but I had to get my true feelings out there at some point :P

No One Interprets Music How It Should Be

Music is way too often misconstrued in our modern society. You've got people like the dubsteppers, the LMFAOs, and then just a little bit of rock now a days, and most of them don't get it. Music should be that thing to listen to that makes you feel good about yourself, fill you with energy, or sometimes even remind you of life and bring you to reality. This is probably the main reason I hate dubstep. That's really another blog, but to put it shortly its just stupid. Music should be the writer expressing his inner feelings and giving something that the listeners can relate to. I'll admit, I listen to Iron Maiden who doesn't do any relating or soulful writing, but I still listen to Dream Theater, one of the most soulful bands I know and they still have amazing musical talent. This is what people need to do more of. Write what they feel inside. And stop dropping the bass. Who benefits from that? Anyway, lately this realization has been in my mind because I've been writing songs. All the time. Then I realize its hard to write a song that has no background; nothing behind it driving the lyrical meaning. So far all of my songs, yes all two of them, have had emotional background. It really feels good to get it out there, and especially in a way that works best for me: Music. Maybe this should be my goal in life: Start a musical revolution and bring music back to reality. Who's With Me?!?!

Why didn't I Go to Challenge Day?

I feel so depressed. According to everyone that went to challenge day and I talked to, it was amazing. To me that implies that they didn't find me amazing enough to go to challenge day and be enlightened. As I've heard it was a very very VERY enlightening experience. I WANTED TO BE ENLIGHTENED!! It sounds like it was like a This I Believe: Part 3!! And I was kinda getting into that!! And now I feel so left out because everyone is always talking about challenge day... and even my own scirtbags leave me out with their challenge day conversations. It would've been nice to go. I feel so depressed................................................................................ Oh well there's always next year.

It's Tuesday...

So today is just another Tuesday. No big deal. Oh what? It's actually Valentines Day? I didn't notice, probably because at this very moment in my life Valentines Day is just a day. Nothing more. And really, why do we need a day when couples should be great to each other? Shouldn't they do that everyday anyway? If the world decided to abolish Valentines Day, I think love would stay, lives would keep moving, and nothing would really be different. Well, except that companies like Hersheys and Nestle would be having a rough time around February. Really we should have a day when the singles are looked upon. No one ever acknowledges the singles, so they should have their own day instead of lovers because love just keeps moving. Singles just stay where they are. I propose Singles Appreciation Day to be on February 15, and instead of heart candies we can get the normal square kinds and the singles will have a huge party . All in favor??

This I Believe: The Song

I finally finished the lyrics and guitar part for the song. Hope you all like it. Please give me any feedback!!! This is only the first try so it may not be the best..and don't try to sing it because it has a certain fit with the guitar part so it only really works with it...i think haha. But seriously i need feedback because i really want to make it as best as i possibly can:


There's something wrong with our world today,
I don't know what to do,
Problems rising everywhere,
I don't know what to say.

So much I've learned so recently,
The struggles we all face.
The problems we encounter,
Our minds ripped out of place.

You just keep your
Head high, It'll turn around
No matter when or why just keep your feet on the ground
Be the best you can, with no limits
And don't forget, that you can't stop dreaming,
Just Keep Your
Head high, It'll turn around
No matter when or why just keep your feet on the ground
Be the best you can, with no limits
And don't forget, that you can't stop dreaming

Can't keep livin', the way we are; We gotta
Live strong and embrace our bonds; We gotta
Fight life, with torch and flame
Keep our light bright so we always remain

People may tell you, that you're all wrong
They don't know what's right, you gotta keep strong
From being grey* to procrastination**
It's not up to them, It's your imagination

Just Keep Your
Head high, It'll turn around
No matter when or why just keep your feet on the ground
Be the best you can, with no limits
And don't forget, that you can't stop dreaming,
Just Keep Your
Head high, It'll turn around
No matter when or why just keep your feet on the ground
Be the best you can, with no limits
And don't forget, that you can't stop dreaming

It doesn't matter what they say.
You can make it anyway

They will tell you that you're wrong,
But man you gotta be strong.

Just Keep Your
Head high, It'll turn around
No matter when or why just keep your feet on the ground
Be the best you can, with no limits
And don't forget, that you can't stop dreaming,
Just Keep Your
Head high, It'll turn around
No matter when or why just keep your feet on the ground
Be the best you can, with no limits
And don't forget, that you can't stop dreaming

And at here we take our leave,
Just remember:
This Is What I Believe.

*for Adam and his cold heart :p
**for Fridles and his bad topic :p

Plz feedback!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Know What I Believe

This I Believe has really put some things out in the open for me, not just in my paper, but in everyone's paper too. I've seen that what people believe really has a powerful force in their life, for good and bad. Whether it be hugging a pole (thank you for that amazing story Jenna :D) to talking about not talking (Michael), to simply rpocrastinating on everyting (which I still don't agree with Tyler), these things get people living and give them something to enjoy, or really believe in. Even my own has put me into a new state. For the past few weeks, I've been writing songs. There was no really reason at first, I just randomly thought of a really cool guitar riff on one of my walks home and have been improving on what I had to form a song. For those of you who are friends with me on Facebook, you may have seen that I keep getting mad at my computer. That's because I've had this great song idea up in my head right now and I've been desiring to get it recorded. This song has been driving me for the last few weeks. My music has been driving me for the last few months. I'm starting to actually give up the idea of being a lawyer or a computer engineer like my dad. Why? Because I want to do what I love, the very same thing my paper was on. This whole song thing was my inspiration for my topic. I know the number of people getting into the music industry, especially as a heavy rock artist, is very slim, but I'm willing to take a chance to be one of those slim-chanced people and follow my dream. Why? It's what I love, and if there's any reason not to do this, my life is going to be terrible. I'll be just like my dad who was very talented on the guitar, but couldn't take the risk and make it big. I want to do the opposite. This is what I believe. I'm realizing all of this would've been REALLY good in my actual paper

Day of Glass

After watching this video, A Day of Glass, I cannot wait until the future. I now actually want to buy a window just so I can start messing with it just to try to speed up the future. I can almost picture how I would make such a thing, but sadly I don't have the time, money, or knowledge to do it... only the idea. The only problem I have with the idea of glass as technology is that it's glass. Let's face it, we know that glass breaks, and the video shows kids running around with it? I think they'll need glass-shard cleaning machines everywhere. I guess they could reinforce it somehow, but I don't know if I would trust it. Also going back to kids having it, I don't think everyone and every family would own these. Not every family has a computer and these are clearly high-tech computers, making them more expensive and out of the price range for many. Until the law is issued that everyone must have these and they are given out for free, I think it's just an idea.

Technology Hates Me...Again

So I'm at my house and I need to install Windows XP on my mini laptop. I know XP is a little dated now a days, but the point is on my laptop that is designed for XP it would probably run it faster, and I need this because I wrote a new song that I really need to get recorded but my laptop is currently too slow to record without messing everything up because of all the junk I have on there. So anyway I got a cd to install XP and I've used it before, but all of sudden no matter how, when, or where I try to install it it just never works. It's really bugging me because I really want to get this recorded but I can't. Of course when I need it most technology fails me. Not to mention I'm still typing on an iPad......I think everyone gets where I'm going with that. *sigh* Why can't technology just work?? On the other, real side of life, things kinda suck.. But I'm not gonna bore you with that.

Lifely Length, Lengthy Memories

"The life given to us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal." -Cicero This statement is so true and everyone should be able to relate with it. Think about how long we are kids: a mere 18 years. 18 years out of about 85, which is not very long. Are you going to remember those short few years sitting in your basement playing Skyrim 24/7 or actually doing something fun and productive that will benefit your future? (anyone who answers skyrim will be over dramatically shunned, so please don't) It isnt our choice to move out of our childhood, but thats just nature. It is far better to have a good life while you have the chance than blow it away and wish you could have it back. That's called living in the past, and living difficulties may arise from this. Don't be that guy, be the great one.

Just tell me when....

I have disturbing experiences in the past. One in particular is going to a restaurant (Olive Garden stands out in my mind because it happens to be my favorite restaurant and it's also one of the greatest offenders with these disturbances) and they start like putting cheese on your soup or cutting your meat to a right size and they say "Tell me when." My first problem is why "when"? Really who actually says when? Why not say "Tell me when TO STOP." that would be so much simpler. Plus when and when you do say when, they don't take that as the que to stop. But yet when you say something that they didn't tell you to say, such as "That's good." they do stop. Then when you do finally say that you want them to stop in some way or another, they take like 2 seconds to actually stop. If they give you an option on when to stop, they should honor that option instead of taking their own little opinion on when with just a little use of the input you gave moments ago. For some reason that bugs me, but really I bet it bugs many people but they just aren't open about it. How StRaNgE....

Believe!

I believe in many things: God Jesus Monty Python AFEdom Chuck Norris Microsoft Music Life Santa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!?!?!!! Photosynthesis Humor Comic Relief Happiness Global Warming Technology Blogging Anti-Applism-hatred of anything made by Apple Law Enforcement Rainbows Lepricauns Cheetos Gold and finally... The Dirtbags