"Whos on first, whats on second, I Don't Know is on third..."
-Abbot and Costello
I thought I'd begin my second post with a quote about seconds, this was the best one. Now if you would, let me offer an explanation for the previous post. I typed for about 30 minutes, and hit post, and it had an error and lost the whole things. I shall try to offer up a replica of what i wrote but I can never repair the damage this fucking blogspot has forever caused. The first half of my rambling epiphany was to do with this program at my school, called International Bacolaoreractfeate. Something like that. IB for short. What it is is a rigorous program at select schools, to set a standard that colleges will recognize all over the world as excellence. Up until now, Ive just been cruising along, nothing was hard, (my middle school is supposed to be the best in the city (Tulsa, OK), but i could have done everything in there but the math with what i learned in elementary. really it was pathetic) and running on the assumption that I'd do IB. I'd done stuff like it before, easy stuff. But last night during my insomnia I got to thinking about it and its really an important and difficult issue. To pass it, you basically take the hardest courses around in high school, and spend most of your evenings and weekends during high school doing homework. As most of you, my loyal army of readers know, homework is the devil. I am listening to a cd I made of my favorite Pink Floyd. Speak to Me/Breathe is on. I never have had good homework habits, and i never will. of course education's so fucked up, no one does. I took algebra 2 my freshman year (2 years ahead) and most nights i didnt even do homework. not just for that class, for any. Its such a hoax. After only a year of this rigorous schedule ive set for myself, I know that the whole reason for existence, the motivation to go on for a high school student is for the weekend. most go get wasted friday night, sleep till the afternoon saturday, laze around (comfortably numb), stay up late again, if they are lucky or smart they sleep in sunday morning too. Not even think of homework till Sunday after dinner. weekends are a much needed stress reliever and break. I guarantee everyone would fail even if we only had one day off a week. But yeah, Ive realized IB is the real deal, tuff stuff. By doing IB, you are commiting to losing this glorious 2 day pit stop, as well as those nice quick pick-me-ups known as hours of sleep, adn evenings watching tv. Your only free time from start of junior year to graduation would be summer. And for most of those poor souls, after that its on to Princeton or Harvard or what not. What would make someone want to do that? To go to a "good" college. Why would anyone want to go to Harvard, or any hard working, Ivy league institution? Supposedly because the education they would receive is at least marginally better. It may well be. But think of how much better, for instance, a law degree from Harvard is from OU's. Its nice to display on your wall in your office, but I think its safe to say a given Harvard lawyer is equal to a given OU lawyer, except that the OU lawyer starts his career with much more cash. (Dogs) What it all boils down to for a lawyer is if they have charisma, confidence, logical thinking, and natural talent. You cannot learn that at Harvard. But me, the majors im mostly interested have shit paying jobs, or high competition, and what i currently want to do later in life (be in a band, be president, be an author, anything where i can freely express myself), doesnt really require a major. Brian May majored in Astronomy, he sure put that knowledge to good use playing guitar for Queen. But more importantly, it doesnt matter where I go to college that much to me, if I major in something like Astronomy or Music. Mother Fucker. This was so much better the first time. but basically somehow i came to the conclusion that i need to figure out 2 things soon: one, is IB as hard as it is made out to be, does it help one get into college, and all in all, is it worth it? Two, I need to figure out what i want to major in in college, where to go, and ultimately what I want to do with my life. God damn the first fucking draft was so fucking much better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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At this point in the first draft, I got up and got an orange, and then went on to discuss Pink Floyd. Well Im chewing gum now, and i shall proceed to attempt to duplicate my writing, though at the sacrifice of much quality in the content of my work, shit blablabla. In the Flesh is on now. This song is so good, they sound like a fucking symphony. It is in the middle of a great sequence of songs on the wall, starting with comfortably numb and ending with waiting for the worms. i have them in sequence on this cd. cept Dogs is stuck in there after Comfortably Numb. But anyway, Dark Side of the Moon is a much better album. There is something present in the songs on it, or maybe beneath the songs, broader than the scope of the songs individually, but rather there in the album-more color, more variety, more uniqueness (as opposed to the wall where Pink Floyd sounds almost like a normal rock band, either in the typical rock beat of the songs, or in the fact that they did a poor job of connecting the songs together, usually using things breaking or people shouting), more creativity, more sould, a more stand-alone quality, yet still more united, fuller sound, more complexity, more meaningful lyrics, I dont know- but what it is makes DSOTM much better than the wall. It seems to be connected on some level to the fact that on DS, each member wrote their own material, whereas on Animals and The Wall, Roger wrote everything and Dave contributed to one or 2 songs. But Roger wrote Brain Damage by himself, one of my favorites from Dark Side, and it is much better than most of the wall. Lyrically speaking, DS is better, even though Roger wrote every word on that, too. Time is a very interesting commentary on time and letting your life pass you by put forth by Roger, and nothing on The Wall compares to it. All I can say for sure is that there is definitely something present in DS that they lost afterwards. I don't think sudden fame had to do with it, I think they could have cared less. For now, I'll just sit back and listen to Time, and await feedback from my loyal army of readers. yes an Army of One. Something. God I must go now im typing like a fucking paraplegic.
