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.