Finally…

I finally have some time to get around to this. I’m revamping the style of my blog, as well as adding new content, some of it including: Movie Reviews, My UT3 Maps, and My Drawings. Eventually, I may add chapters for the story I am writing, and make it a serial novel. More coming later, so stick with it and check up on this blog. Peace my friends.

=Dave

Cleaning my mute…

So, here’s my trumpet mute, before I began to clean it. It’s a Tom Crown copper bottom straight mute. Very nice mute, very nice sound.

Now you can see the problem, it’s very unsightly. Everyone else that I know who owns this mute, theirs is very shiny, and not all tarnished like mine, and mine is newer than theirs! So I took it upon myself to clean it. My dad has a metal polisher that can be used for all sorts of common metals, from chrome, to aluminum, to copper, to brass. So, I took some of this, and began cleaning it, which can be seen here.

I mean, wow. This stuff is working tremendously. I begin working on the rest of it, polishing the entire copper side. It began to look really good. Then I ran the polish over it one more time, and it was astounding how much cleaner it had gotten. Here’s the final product of my labor.

Here’s the polish I used:

The stuff retails at around $15 for a bottle. If you wish to look into it, their website is www.xtremegloss.com/

Frisbee and the like…

So lately, I’ve been getting really into playing frisbee. My friends and I all met last Saturday, and played for about 5 hours, then walked to a local hot dog joint for lunch. Since then, I’ve been getting outside to play frisbee whenever I could. I think the thing I like most about frisbee is its free-ness. It’s not a super competitive game, and its just plain fun. It also totally fits in with the fact that my neighbor calls me a “crazy hippie.” Then on Monday, my friend Josh and I couldn’t find anyone to play that had their own frisbee, because neither of us had one. So we gathered up some money, and walked to a Walgreen’s a few blocks away, there, we spent about $10 on four frisbees. Two of them are official sized, 180g frisbees, and the other two are smaller ones, obviously directed towards younger players. Turns out, the official sized ones were made really poorly (they were only $2.99) and the smaller ones were shaped very well (and at only $1.99, I thought, “what a steal”)

Shown above are the four frisbees we purchased, the smaller clear ones are really really nice. They fly amazingly, and are really easy to throw. The larger ones are poorly made, the molding of it was really shoddy, so that there was a sharp line running along the bottom of the disc, so that it’d cut up your hand when you threw it.

Playing so much got me thinking. Frisbee is a very mellow game, so it probably wouldn’t attract the more competitive, jock-type people that we all know and hate. Shown below is an example of this, just two people having non-competitive fun playing frisbee in a field or something.

I’ve thought up an idea that will bring in the over-competitive, fun-sucking ghouls that ruin everything, and suck their money. It’s called the MurderDisck, and will retail for $49.95 per disc. Below is an illustration of my idea. If there’s anybody out there who would help me produce these, I could do the marketing, and we could start a new craze among the violent, the jocks, and the depressed who want to end it all.

I think that picture says enough. I nearly have my idea down, I will work on the schematics for its function later. This will either end in an arrest, or the biggest stock market rise in history. You be the judge.

Now for real life stuff…

So a lot is going on this week. It’s my brother’s birthday today, so we will probably visit my mother, if she does not return home today. Also, tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday, our school’s drama club is putting on a version of George Orwell’s play 1984. I believe it has something to do with communism, so it shall be interesting. I’ll be going to see that with my girlfriend hopefully. Well, that’s all for today, I need to get off to school.

Questioning an old adage…

Now, I’m sure we’ve all heard the saying “What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.” But I must refute. There are many things that won’t kill you, that definitely don’t make you stronger. The main exception to this adage is crippling diseases. Polio doesn’t always kill you, but doesn’t increase a person’s physical strength, quite the opposite. Below, I have an illustration showing my point. On the top is a man who is physically fit, and below he is shown after having been diagnosed with Polio.

How MAB does it…

Michael Angelo Batio is an exceptional guitar player. If you have not heard of him, or his style of playing with more than one guitar neck, please consult this video. After running a Google image search of MAB, the first and second links show you him with his four neck guitar. Yes. Four necks, on one guitar. This led me to start thinking about how he actually does it, and the only thing I could think of that would allow him to play four necks, is that he must be part octopus. See fig. 1 for a visual of what he must be, in order for him to play all four necks.