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I have noticed recently that as the days go on and I near the end of my high school career, I’m becoming less of who I am and more of whom I want to be.

My activities — no matter what they are — are more geared toward how I want to prepare myself for my future and for what I want to do for the rest of my life. I don’t know how or why this change started; heck, I don’t even know how I started to notice it. Whatever happens, though, I just know that I like music and that I like playing games. I like to program but I’m not so good at that. I’m prepared for a life of hours staring at my computer with my headphones on, be it playing games or writing music.

In other words:
I can’t wait to get started.

I don’t know whether or not you all have heard of Rebecca Black, but… I can’t help but feel sorry for her.

Here is a video of an interview of her:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjFIzWjT5I4 (embedding disabled by request)

Okay. So she makes a song that “sucks.”

According to the video, her song has reached #39 on the iTunes market. That’s past Justin Bieber.  If Justin Bieber doesn’t “suck,” then why is her music owning Justin’s?

According to an article I read, her parents spent $5,000 to produce the video. Now they’re making much more.

The song is “the worst thing” people have ever heard. She has the “worst voice ever.”

I know a lot of people who are worse at singing. Even with autotune. But a lot of other artists make bad songs, too, so why feel the need to single one person out?

She’s thirteen. She’s still going through puberty or whatever, which means that her emotions are probably going awry. I wonder how she sleeps at night.

But whatever. Her music is the epitome of American pop music. When I went to listen to it for the first time, I couldn’t tell that this was “bad” music. Most pop music sounds like that. It sucks? Then stop listening to it and stop whining, you baby.

I think we’ve had enough of making fun of her. We know she’s bad. Move on. Justin Bieber, on the other hand, sucks, but some people don’t know that. There’s a difference.

But then again, Rebecca likes Bieber’s music, so……

Immediately following my status on March 15 (“The English language has evolved from blocks of eloquent sentences to slurries of incomprehensible gibberish. Pretty soon we’ll all be speaking French.”), I went to take a shower.

While in the shower, I realized exactly how true this is. Not just with language, but also with everything else.

Many things, in the past, were structured; this being music, art, language, math.  As civilization advanced, so did the rules. Actually, no they didn’t. They became more loose as time progressed.

We came from structure and rules. Then we learned that there are exceptions to the rules. We took advantages to the exceptions and turned them into norms.

As there were no more exceptions to use, we learned to break the rules. And boy, we broke ’em good.

Rules almost aren’t even there anymore. Do we even need them?

I say: YES. Rules are what make things satisfying. We need rules. Rules are good. Yes.

Word of the day: orange

Skydive

write a kazoo concerto.

write a theremin concerto

write a vuvuzela concerto (Vuvuzela concerto in Bb Major)

write a piece entitled: “The Legend of Tritonia”

write an ocarina concerto

learn Alto Saxophone

learn trumpet

learn clarinet

learn french horn

learn cello

learn guitar

learn flute

learn piccolo

learn oboe

learn trombone

learn bassoon

learn tuba

learn bass clarinet

make a video of me playing every part in “Romeo and Juliet” using skills learned above

get married

have kids play an instrument or sing

change a life

write a symphony

write a book (probably going to be a children’s book)

visit Paris

visit Austrailia

visit Russia

beat Pokemon

play in and win a video game tournament

write a musical

And last but not least:

Go to college

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