Today, no topic. No guidelines. Just write.
So, this format of writing suggests no prior outline or thought, or really very much effort. It feels odd, like I'm vulnerable which is crap because this is my blog, I make the decisions.
Regardless, I suppose I'll just write about current events that are unique to myself. That's a problem, I'm not unique, nothing that I have done recently or am doing currently has not been done by somebody else. Is that a problem? No, no I don't really think it is. You have options, or rather, I have options as to what I draw from in this pool of what has already been done. So now that we've cleared that up, I have been doing what a good deal of people do- practicing bass. I have a fender deluxe jazz bass (and the bridge happens to say "badass bass", because really, a bass is the most badass instrument in a typical "rock" band.) Oh, while we're on the subject of "rock band" instruments, I would like to say one thing. Bass is a damn cool instrument. I'm tired of all these guitarists saying that bass is unimportant and insignificant and hardly qualifies as a real instrument. Well, try taking it out of any band and notice the huge empty gap you hear which is regularly filled in by the bass. Seven Nation Army by the white stripes might have well included a bass because the guitar part was practically and imitation bass-line. The bass provides a low, deep, intimidating sound that fill the room and vibrates sound waves of massive proportions. Not to mention, it keeps the beat along with the drums, a steady, consistent beat, which without, there would be no purpose to the song, just a mishmash of notes that follow no order. Oh, and I'm especially tired of guys saying that only girls play bass. Not true, there are plenty of female guitarists and a few female drummers. Brody Dalle, for one. Kim Gordon played guitar as well as bass. The bass guitar is a lot heavier than the electric guitar and the neck is a shitload longer and the frets are a lot wider apart and the strings are goddamn ginormous, not to mention the bass amps themselves are heavy as shit. I can't even lift my small one, I have to let the drummer carry it up and down the stairs for practice and even he struggles. That was my semi-mini-defense rant about bass guitar.
What else have I been up to? Rediscovering art, for one. I'm taking two art classes in school, which I'm happy about because I'm too busy to do any artwork outside of school, which is a shame because that was my passion until I lost time for it. Today was the first day in months that I had held a piece of charcoal. It was liberating. I never wash it off my hands because the streak of your preferred medium is a badge of honor. You wear it with pride or you don't deserve it at all.
Other than bass and art, school. I actually don't hate all of my classes this year. In fact, I hate none. In my U.S. history class, a girl was trying to argue with me. She said that Sarah Palin had nothing to do with the tea party and that she is "not that conservative". She said it with such determination like she couldn't possibly be wrong and she said it in such a manner that she got other people to believe her. So I'm like "No, Sarah Palin most definitely endorsed campaigns for tea party activists and works with them and is definitely associated with tea partiers. And um, in case you didn't notice, Sarah Palin is the poster-girl for conservative." But she wouldn't listen. I think she's a republican. Or an idiot. Pshh like there's a distinction.
Oh, and still volunteering at Internationalist Books. Still fun. I like how every new volunteer we get, on their first day at the store, they always wear their che guevara t-shirts like they have to impress everyone. I find it cute. They're so enthusiastic because they think they're gonna learn a lot about radical leftism, mostly anarchism and then they figure out-nope. You're gonna learn how to shelve books. You might hear the occasional ramblings about "those damn corporate pigs!" every now and then, but it's not like we got a chomsky sittin in the back presenting speeches and opening up debates. No, we're a bookstore. We specialize in literature. Not to say we're not the coolest most radical bookstore ever and I love it so much I work for free, but yeah, still sell books people.
Guess that's about it. Still have no life plan. You know, besides happiness.
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