| hahahaha xanga
i found you! this 5 month game of hide and seek must now stop
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| 12:00 get out of class = lunch
1:00-3:40 Write and Record Rhythm/"Stomp" Contest Video
3:45 Begin rehearsal with Wind Symphony
4:10-6:00 Finish recording Rhythm/"Stomp" Video
6:00 = Dinner
7:30 - 10:00 Playing Guitarness and some drumness with Robin at Church
11:00 Practice Jazz Vibes in Cathedral
Everyday of my college career should have been at least this musicful/performanceful
(When I went to KC I was playin Drums/Percussion 1 - 3 & 1/2 hrs a week day, and 1 - 4 hrs total during the weekend. So my performance opportunities definately dropped off. Hopefully that will change with the next phase in my life)
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| Today I bought a smoothie
Today I rode my bike
Today I hit a speed bump
Today I bought a smoothie, rode my bike, and hit a speed bump
Today I have no smoothie for the speed bump took my smoothie away from me
Today I am sad
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| so i have to go back to school in like 4 days
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| Seriously...
True tales of a mixed-up world
All fired up
Seriously has found irony heaven in
the recent news coming out of Conroe,
Texas. It seems a secondary school
reading assignment upset one student
and her father so much that they moved
to have the school ban the book from
the curriculum entirely, despite the
fact that the school board allowed the
student to read something else.
The first layer of the irony cake
is that the news came at the same
time as 'Banned Books Week' - a
national campaign to raise awareness
of censorship and threats to freedom
of information and speech. The icing,
however, is that the offending book
in question is none other than Ray
Bradbury's Fahrenheit451. The sci-fi
classic tells of a time when books are
banned from society and all information
is controlled by the state through
television, and 'firemen' ensure that any
books found are immediately burned
(paper apparently catches fire at 451
degrees Fahrenheit).
Diana Verm, the 15-year old student
who first objected to the book, told
locai reporters: 'The book had a bunch
of very bad language in it... If they can't
find a book that uses clean words, they
shouldn't have a book at all.' [ed. our
emphasis]
Despite admitting to not having
read the book, Diana's father Alton
adds: 'It's just all kinds of filth'. In his
complaint to the school board he cites
'discussion of being drunk', 'smoking
cigarettes', 'violence', 'dirty talk', 'using
God's name in vain' and 'talking bad
about our firemen' as reasons why it
is inappropriate for teenagers. If that's
reason enough to ban something, what
does that mean for that classic yarn
of gory violence, death, disease, rape,
incest, infanticide, deicide, patricide,
matricide, genocide, and other ides
[ed. except the Ides of March which is a
different book], drunken debauchery and
a whole lot of smiting, er... the Bible?
It remains to be seen whether the
school will act on the request to ban
it. The real question though is: at what
temperature do Seriously readers
think copies of Fahrenheit ^^i will
burn? Was Bradbury right? Does New
Internationalist's uber-recycled paper
burn closer to room temperature?
Perhaps we'll find out soon enough at
the next Conroe literary barbecue.
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