MUSIC = endless hours of FUN and ENTERTAINMENT and PROCRASTINATION!!

So I've finally gotten around to recording some of my music, since I got introduced to this *free* program called Audacity (thanks Argus!) and got my hands on a tiny little computer mic my mum got from somewhere (better than nothing, and at least it was *free* as well!)

I won't torture you with any of my singing...this is just some piano playing which was recorded and then reversed using Audacity...a rather interesting effect (also distracts from the bad quality of the recording! - Sorry about the annoying high pitched noises...don't know where they came from)

Download from here:
http://savefile.com/files/179714

(Yes it says "Rock of Ages", but don't worry if you don't recognise it as the hymn/song at all, because I played *my version* of Rock of Ages, which is unheard by anyone played forwards, let alone backwards =P)

ARGH!

Too many things to think about!

etc, etc.

About a band

Before we begin...
1. Apologies for bad sentence structure, I like, can't be bothered. Also apologies for gratuitous use of the work "like".
2. Ignore this post if you are meant to be writing an honours thesis.


Discovered a U.S. band called Breaking Benjamin while googling lyrics on the net (yes, yes, procrastinating as usual, but I have a headache, so I can't possibly be doing any work anyway), the name caught my eye, so I youtubed* them, and it's like, yay, angsty music! Nothing groundbreaking, but I seem to have a thing for angsty music at the moment. I think they're slightly reminiscent of Evanescence, Hoobastank and Linkin Park, and probably several other bands as well.....anyway, I've never heard of them before, don't know if anyone else has?? I could just be like really out of it...

Anyway, I liked this video in particular for one of their songs, Sooner or Later, and the acoustic version of this other song, Diary of Jane, was pretty cool too.


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In other news, I had an informal interview thing for a casual job at a Wynyard pharmacy this morning, turns out they don't really have anything available at the moment, but the pharmacist is opening a new pharmacy nearby soon so they might need someone then...anyone want to bet he'll get back to me...oh well at least I'm taking small steps in the right direction...I think....

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*since "google" is now used as a verb, and Google have now acquired Youtube, I figured "youtube" should be used as a verb too

Lecture notes

Hehe, I'm no artist, but I like to doodle. You might even like call this "Extreme Doodling".




Well...I was bored. And sitting up the back. So there was no point trying to concentrate anyway, right?

By the way, it's an attempted sketch of Bosch Lecture Theatre 1. Parts of it anyway, the seats with people in it were too hard to draw. As was the rambling lecturer, and several other projectors, even though I've got about three in there already.

Papercut - Linkin Park

Why does it feel like night today?
Something in here's not right today
Why am I so uptight today?
Paranoia's all I got left
I don't know what stressed me first
Or how the pressure was fed
But I know just what it feels like
To have a voice in the back of my head
It's like a face that I hold inside
A face that awakes when I close my eyes
A face watching every time I lie
A face that laughs every time I fall
And watches everything
So I know that when it's time to sink or swim
That the face inside is hearing me
Right underneath my skin

It's like I'm
Paranoid looking over my back
It's like a
Whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I
Can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

I know I've got a face in me
Points out all my mistakes to me
You've got a face on the inside too and
Your paranoia's probably worse
I don't know what set me off first
But I know what I can't stand
Everybody acts like the fact of the matter is
I can't add up to what you can
But everybody has a face that they hold inside
A face that awakes when they close their eyes
A face watches every time they lie
A face that laughs every time they fall
And watches everything
So you know that when it's time to sink or swim
That the face inside is watching you too
Right inside your skin

It's like I'm
Paranoid looking over my back
It's like a
Whirlwind inside of my head
It's like I
Can't stop what I'm hearing within
It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin


The sun goes down
I feel the light betray me...