Journal 29 - The Resistance

Are you missing out on your classical music? What about your experimental rock? Well if you said yes to either of these two genres of excellent music, then you may fall under the category of people who should listen to the album The Resistance by the band Muse. Even if you do not fall under either of the categories, you would be missing out on the listening experience of a lifetime. Matt Bellamy does an excellent job at powering the songs. He is one of the greatest musicians of our generation. For the band, he sings lead vocals with a very powerful and harmonic voice. He has a very wide range of tone and often uses a falsetto voice. It is a very unique style of signing and it just works. Works I tell you. Bellamy also is the lead guitarist for the band. He is a very solid guitarist and is very creative with his riffs. Not only is Bellamy a double threat in the music world, but he is a triple threat. That is right; triple threat. Bellamy also plays piano/ keyboard. He is one of the greatest piano players ever known to the human race. If you look up the song Piano Thing by Muse, then you will see how good of a piano player he actually is. He composed the music and then played it for the recording. Back to The Resistance. The Resistance is led by Matt Bellamy. The bassist and backup vocalist is Christopher Wolstenholme. The drummer, who is quite underrated is known by his name, of Dominic Howard. These three long time friends combine in their musical talents that is one of the most unique sounds ever made. Many people say The Resistance is a poor album. As it is very different from their other albums, it is still an excellent album. The album is written after the book 1984, which is a very interesting way of writing music. GET THIS ALBUM!!

Journal 28 Convintion

Convintion is the act of convincing somebody into what you want them to do. That is a new word I just made up just now. That just happened. But people perform convintion many times throughout the course of their life. I myself have done this a couple of times throughout the sixteen years, eight months, eleven days, fourteen hours, and thirty six minutes that I have been alive. I do not recall any specific times that I have done this but I am sure, according to the natural nature of my human (yes I am indeed a human) nature, I am selfish and want things for my life and my own good. So I do not know any specific times, as I have just sad. Just to clarify, I do not know any specific times that I have done this. So I will make up a story. So my last journal featured Billy Bob the Calf/Bull so I guess I will use Billy Bob the Calf/Bull in this blog once again for this story. So all Billy Bob the Calf/Bull wanted to be when he was young was a bull with horns. So he was selfish and convinced his body to mature and age and soon enough he sure was a bull with horns. So Billy Bob the Calf/Bull convinced and argued and talked to his body over and over and over again and through all of this discussion and stressful argumentation, Billy Bob the Calf/Bull became the beautiful bull that he was always dreaming of being. I cannot believe that he convinced his body to do this. So the next time you try to convince someone to do something remember the principle rules of convintion. The first principle is to keep yourself first and to give no feelings or respect or sense of emotion towards the other person until you get what you want. That is the first thing you must learn. Maybe when you are older you will learn the other principles.

Journal 27 - Persistence

Persistence. What a word. Many people I know are very persistent. Madison made a very funny comment and said Mr. Scropos is very persistent with giving his AP United States history class homework. This was very true because he never fails to give us homework. But this is very true. According to dictionary.com, persistence is the act of persisting. What a great definition! Thank you dictionary.com! That is they never give up and do it often. It is a good life skill to be persistent. It means that you will stick it through to the very end no matter what happens. You could be going through your eighth year of medical school and it could seem like life just sucks. But if you are persistent and you stick it through you could be a cardiac doctor and make billions, well maybe not billions, but millions of dollars because of all of the things that you learned throughout those torturing years of medical school. This reminds me of a little character I know as Billy Bob the Calf. You see, Billy Bob the Calf was a goat in this world f Bulls. He was this small little calf that could not become a bull. He was very small and young, but maybe, just maybe, if he stuck it through to the end, and he was persistent, he would become a bull. So Billy Bob the Calf was just this young calf in this world of bulls and then he stuck it out and soon enough he was known as Billy Bob the Bull. You see, if Billy Bob the Bull was not persistent, sure, he more than likely would have become a bull, but he might not have stuck it through and could have had some sadness and never really matured and grew his horns to become the bull. But Billy Bob the Bull did stick it out to the end, was persistent and became a bull in the world of bulls.