The Mosh pit is calling

As a photographer, I must say that one has not lived until they have photographed a band while in a mosh pit (this excludes photojournalist in war zones). It is challenging and overall FUN. I don't know why. It is a very dangerous place to be, and there is no escaping it especially when your in a small local venue that is in a stockroom in the back of a store. It gets hot and sticky.

Its been like a few months since I have been in a mosh pit and I have an urge to go to one of these "underground" shows like I used to do often.

I WANNA GO BACK
AND I DONT KNOW
WHY!!

Evil music

When I was in my single digits and early tweens I was never really into music, I just listened to what ever my parents had on the radio. My mother usually had it on some country station or some other weird shit. My father usually had an Iron Maiden or Soundgarden CD in his truck. I did not know to much about music either. One thing that did stick with me was when I was like ten years old and my mother was watching "I love the 70's" on VH1, and one of the things that was mentioned was the KISS merchandise, one of the people that was interviewed about it was Marilyn Manson. Before this I did not know who he was neither have I saw him before, I asked my mother who he was and she told me "That's Marilyn Manson, he is a devil worshiper.".

Now this did slightly scare me cause I was going to a private baptist school at the time, which was the only school I had ever been to. On a daily basis during school hours (especially on Wednesday or "Chapel Day") I was either having the shit scared out of me or asking for forgiveness from a spirit that lives in the sky and has surveillance on every thing, including your thoughts. Thankfully I grew out of this.

About 4 years ago when my parents got a divorce, I got curious about music after seeing the music video for Only by Nine Inch Nails. So I got Limewire, which pleased my dad when I found it. He was a big fan of Napster back when it was free, then Metallica put a fucking end to that. So I started downloading stuff, all kinds of stuff. I got more curious, I searched Marilyn Manson, and there it was, lyrics that scared the shit out of my twelve year old Christian brainwashed mind. Same thing with Nine Inch Nails. However it took me a year to listen to the more anti-religion stuff, I slowly eased into it. I found something I liked. Pretty much every weekend at my fathers place, it was a full dose of evil. He introduced me to Anthrax, Accept, Alice In Chains, Iron Maiden, Mega Death, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Primus, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, and more.
Some bands I knew already, but it was a more formal introduction with background and meaning.

Then there was a point where I liked Green Day, they where my favorite band for about a month, then it got old. Then Coldplay, which I'm still a fan of. Then R.E.M., one of the best bands of all time!

Music strongly influenced me. More than the words of a man writing on paper long ago writing for "God" cause "God" is being lazy. It got me out of my depression. During the dark years of my early life, music was all I had. I had no friends I could not relate to the few people that liked talking to me, we had nothing in common. I remember many days I sat at a lunch table at the private school, where everyone was supposedly friendly, sitting all alone. I felt like shit, kids made fun of me for being me.

And that's part of how I became me.

Blogging From The ITouch

This is awesome, really geeky but awesome. the only bad thing is that I cannot find a blogging app for this with landscape typing. Landscape would make it easier and faster. I'll have to. Write a review on improving this app, so far this is the only blogging app I like.

I guess this means that I will now be blogging in places were the ideas for blogs come to me, so I will not have to hold them in my thoughts all day long. They will be more fresh!

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Commodities

Commodities range from things from gold to wheat. The prices of these things are manipulated by investors and the resources they come from. Many of these commodities are not renewable and many are, many are a necessity for living and not a luxury. Although the price of some of these things are due to the cost of these things. There are some things that are should not be. And if they are expensive new ways to generate them that are low cost for every one must be found and if that is not enough these things must be rationed to the people. A while back a company called Enron tried to make broadband a commodity. There mission failed, then they went back to hypothetical accounting and ripping off the people of California millions on electricity. Internet access should not be a luxury, if any thing it should be free, like use of libraries, free information for everywhere and for every one. Water is being privatized all around the world, especially in poor countries that have no choice but to accept it or have funding for aid cut off from them by the World Bank. Water should be regulated by the people not foreign corporate interest and investors. There should be more regulation of what is in the water, both bottled and tap. More and more people seem to support capitalism but refuse to acknowledge the bad and ugly side of capitalism. A commune system could help control companies and regulate the essential needs better. A social system could help benefit the US and the rest of the world that has not adopted such systems or have not applied them correctly to their nations. The most important thing of the social systems is to make sure the governing is entirely democratic and will alert it's people of what they are consuming accurately.

Things that should be available to every one at a low cost (if not free) are: water, electricity, food, clothing, education, and information.

Instant Lunch

A tasty treat, that is hot and full of sodium, but oh so delish.

Right now with the help of a friend I kinda just really made last night, cause we found something in common (Linux) about each other and he knows more than me about it, which I need people like that in my life so if I have a question I can have some. So I'm looking to make a live USB later when I get my hands on a USB stick and install Ubuntu 8.10 cause there is this software I want that dell does not have in their sources, cause all Dell computers bought with Ubuntu have some kind of Dell tampered form of Ubuntu on it. Though the more I think about it the more I think that this software is for bigger computers. Like a desktop machine, I want a an old desktop to play with, I think it could be fun to see how much you can push it to the limit.

Lots of things happening all at ONCE

Me and an old friend (Hope), I purposely act as awkward as possible sometimes.

Oh god I thought today would never end seriously.

So my mother thought I was kidnapped or sold into sex slavery cause my phone was off and I did not tell her that I was going to a party and she called several people in the band I work for and harassed them into calling me and thinking I was doing five dollar tricks behind a bar in New Jersey.

Now that I'm getting off topic I will continue to get off topic. There are very few places in NJ that I like, the rest are shit. Lodi is one of them cause the Misfits are from there and they are cool as hell and even better live.

IN OTHER NEWS
I got my Coldplay tickets today, and I am becoming an active person on Facebook. Ill post links to the side for all my sites and stuff cause there are many of them.

ANY WAY
The party I went to was okay, I had a good time and saw the sexiest machine on Linux ever. It was a Lenovo, you know the new IBM ITS NOT A BORING Thinkpad series. This kid had the desktop look so clean and so integrated it was like porn. It was something on the eyes, there was this this one app on his desktop though that was nothing about data and I want it, I did not ask what it was, but I want to know what it is. He liked my Laptop. The Dell Mini 9, which is a cool thing, so cool is practically my primary computer. In fact I'm using it right now. There is an old Gateway Desktop in the other room that was on Win 98, then viruses ate it alive, then we restored it, then time got to it ("Sorry the newest version of Macromedia Flash player is not compatible with your computer"). Then one day I said "NO MORE" did some research and now the 12 year old computer is on Xubuntu and runs faster than my step dad's laptop on Vista (which is a brand new normal HP).

North Korea?!?!

Many of you are familiar with The Democratic People Republic of Korea, that's its formal name it is not a joke, remember its just a name a kid named Adolf is not more likely to declare that he is a member of a superior race and kill a bunch of people of a certain race that follow a certain religion more than the next guy.

Now to the point, North Korea to many people is EVIL, to me its one of those countries with a little to much national pride (like Iran, Israel, Russia, Venezuela, United States, France, etc.). North Korea got the evil eye from Hilary Clinton not to long ago, and it has come to light that there may be a power struggle in the North for who is going to take over Kim Jong-Il's thrown, it is rumored that it will be his youngest son (yes he has children and a wife). So this means that the North may be changing soon, it may be a year or two, but when Kim dies there will either be civil war or foreign policy with North Korea will drastically change.

No one really has stake in the progress of North Korea, the only two things that seem to have interest in the North are China and Samsung (yes the company). Samsung can easily relocate and China can lose interest. If these things happen and the same policies are continued then North Korea is doomed to collapse and the South will swoop in with humanitarian aid and occupy the North permanently, and Korea will be a peninsula divided no more.

First blog post.........in this blog.

Okay!

I usually do myspace blog, but I am seeking more people to read other than people that I see everyday.

So I am sophomore in high school that does want to do some thing with my life and I will usually rant about how stupid people I encounter daily are carefree about certain things and stress over other things that they should not stress over and it angers me.