Cheat Muse Act

I suppose as a student studying music that this is sort of an unfair pick for me to get. I'm really familiar with this whole scheme, there's a grand staff at the beginning fallowed by two clefs, the treble clef and the bass clef, then fallows the time signature fallowed by the key signature the time signature delineates the beat of the song and amount of notes per measure and the key signature corresponds to the pitch that the song is centered on. the various forms of notes are the eighth, quarter, half and whole note the refer to the amount of a 4/4 bar that they consume in time. Each of these notes is then placed on the staff in position of corresponding pitch. Now that I've had my boring talk.

I think music is a form of art and science. There is an exact science as to how to make "good" sounding music, and in that science lies the art from, for once a person understands the science it is used to create what is considered to be art. This I agree with but I feel that art can be many things. It's interesting though that in todays musical world, many bands don't know the first thing about the theory of music, and yet they can make music and in some cases good music. It makes me sad to say but I think in this age we're approaching a time when the ability to read traditional sheet music is becoming less important all the time, It's being lost to computers and most of all tabiture, which I will admit that I have used and still continue to use in order to play the guitar.

I sincerely hope that things can change and the majority of people can change to see the beauty and science that can be found in traditional sense. I still feel that the best music comes from those who know theory.

Desert Island Top Five

My first choice for the artist that I would take with me on my deserted island is the late great Mozart the album I would then choose is The Essential Mozart

Next I would have to choose the band Tool and I would have to burn my favorite Tool Songs onto a blank CD.

I would also have to have to take a compilation of Coheed and Cambria songs with me as well.

I'd have to take the Rolling Stones album Hot Rocks 1964-71

And finally I would take On Letting Go by Circa Survive.

This was probably the hardest thing I've ever done. I probably changed my mind about 15 times in the course of creating this list. I don't have a pocket five artists that I swear by, because I love so many different bands for different reasons. Some bands that I really love I still couldn't listen to everyday because their songs either make me feel melancholy or I would just get tired of listening to them. So what I decided on was to go with a variety of stuff.

I had to pick Mozart because his music is timeless to me, what I've heard anyway which is why I picked the album that I did. It has many songs that I don't think I've ever heard. At least then I would be able to listen to new material.

Then I went with a band that would help me maintain my mental sanity through symbolism and metaphor, I don't think any other band does that better than Tool, they used to be my favorite band until my musical great awakening.

Next I picked a band who's songs would make me happy and that's Coheed and Cambria to me. Their songs shred real hard, great vocals, funky bass, and good poetry. I've been listening to them for years and haven't gotten tired of them yet.

Stones... One of the greatest blues bands ever. The best part of it all is that most of their songs aren't sad but about hope, I'd need that on an Island.

Finally I picked Circa Survive, this was a hard choice to make because I was introduced to them just recently and I'm listening the hell out of them right now. Their music is very passionate, but also mathematical at the same time which is why I feel as though they would be a perfect closing point to my Desert Island top five.

Writting project w/ dilemma

I've considered many different ideas for our writing projects that are just ahead. Most 0f them are flawed though and I would not be able to make them into a suitable "project." However I had an idea last night as I tried to sleep and couldn't. There is a spot in my hometown that overlooks all of the neighboring city of Omaha. It's not a lookout point because almost no one knows about it it's too far out of town.
To my friends and I it's known as "The spot." Now obviously it's a place that I'm familiar with so it wont work either, but the act of finding it in the first place would work. "Ninja," we called it. Late at night traverse the town to a set destination, and be seen by no one. Diving into bushes, hoping fences, tuck and rolls, anything to not be seen. I experienced some of the more brilliant things in my life playing this game. It changes every time. Now carrying/writing in a notebook while I dodge cars is impossible. But perhaps a nighttime walk to another hidden vantage point, one more gem I could add to my collection of sights now that is something to write about. (I probably would have anyway.) As a kid most of what I did was exploring, I would find quick routes to anywhere in my hometown through the thick wooded bluffs or crevasses that my home town is known for.

I have been to the far reaches without even touching a street. But there are areas of my hometown that I haven't accessed, or anyone has for that matter, maybe I'll make that my project.

Key to life.

Yet the water is murky and was said to be condemned and you were not supposed to eat any fish that came from it or go swimming in it. It is next to the dog park and they share a stream. After they found many accounts of dead or mutated fish they had to dredge the lake, I remember it to be a very unpleasant smell.

-Kate Nootz

The reason I chose this particular quote is two fold; I wanted to pick something that pertained to the project that we have coming up in this class, as I have almost no Idea what I'm going to do for mine. Kate chose to go to a park, sort of cliche in it's roots but it's an understandable choice. Second as I thought about the lake the first thing I thought of was swimming, I'm an avid swimmer, I swim probably 4 days a week, it's common place to me. It made me think about how much of a role water plays on humans, though my point is obvious and trite, when you actually think about it it's still crazy. Almost everything that comes from the water is beneficial to life.

Swimming preserves your joints and works you harder than most other forms of excercise. It's necessary for almost all forms of cooking. Food from the water is has the highest amino acid and fatty acid content in the world, these are essential building blocks of life, no organism exists without them. Life on this planet has been scientifically backed that it began in the water the first complex organisms were only able to develop in the water. Enough Science.
Since man came to be from water why is it that man treats the water as he does. The first places that man resulted to for landfills were bodies of water. Maybe it's due to the face that if something is assimilated in a vast body of water people think that whatever they offer it will just disappear indefinitely. But this isn't usually the case. To trash a lake is almost like destroying mankind. If for some reason all bodies of water were to become condemned all people would die eventually. Water should be the first thing we respect. There is a reason that the Egyptians, Greeks/Romans, and Norse all had gods whose soul function was the control of water, It is a god in it's own right and should be respected as such.