Introduction to Music

Music is great. It's really the only universal language and anyone can do it. Lets face it, everyone likes music. Almost everyone who can afford an mp3 player has one. Everywhere on the planet there is music, no matter how poor, no matter how stuck up, there can, and always will be music.
Music is an extraordinary activity. Every culture has their own language and no one knows every single language. But everyone knows what music is and anyone can make it. You can give a drum to a person that has been cut off from the rest of the world, he could figure out what to do with it. Music's pretty extraordinary.

Now its available everywhere you go, which is great for me because it's like having a soundtrack throughout my entire life. The Walkman was the first mobile music player and I think it was fairly revolutionary, I know some people that still have them, considering how old they are, it's impressive to me. A few years down the road something called the ipod was created by the good folks at Mac. This invention has no doubt changed my life, and they're constantly getting better. I just recently bought the generation Nano, which has a camcorder on it. It's amazing but I'll save that for another blog, anyways, the mobile mp3 player revolutionized the music industry because now music is available anywhere you go.

To sum up, music is a mystery. Anyone can play it (though not everyone should) and everyone likes it, or at least, they like good music. But that leads to questions like, what makes good music? Why does music stimulate the brain? How does classical music make babies smarter? I have absolutely no idea, but I have no problem talking about it, and i will be.

Canadian School bans Skateboards from School Property

Skateboarding is a very simple sport. You have a piece of wood with wheels attached to it, but its getting increasingly hard to do this. It's like the world's out to get us. They keep coming up with new ways to stop skaters from doing what they love. Thousands of skate stoppers are installed every day and with ever increasing numbers, there's just not very much to go around.
But skating can't, and won't, be silenced. As long as we have hammers, there will be a way to skate what was previously "stopped" spots. There are way too many of us to be silenced, we might not all get along but we all have a similar cause. But as i mentioned before there are forces uniting against our will to skate. For instance, here's an article about a school in Canada that has banned skateboards from school property.


Skateboard ban prompts student petition

A Calgary high school has banned skateboards from the property, upsetting hundreds of students who have signed a petition.

The principal from St. Francis High School wasn’t available for an interview, but Catholic school board spokeswoman Janet Sutherland said safety concerns were behind the decision.

"There is a district-wide policy that states that skateboards cannot be used on school property and some schools have gone a step further to make it their policy that skateboards cannot be brought to school," she said.

Liza-Jane Karieter, a Grade 12 student, said a skateboard cuts her commute by a third.

"It's fun just to go down hills and just go extremely fast, and if you fall off, then whatever, you fall off, you get back up and do it again."

Students who skateboard said the rule singles them out since it doesn't apply to bikes or inline skates.

"We're troublemakers or whatever you want to call them,” Karieter said. “I don't think it should be like that."

John Maitland, a Grade 12 student, said he isn’t allowed to even bring his skateboard into the school and put it in his locker.

"The rule is you're not allowed to take it in and put it under your arm because it's a weapon,” he said. "All I want is so that I can be able to pick it up and put it in my locker, so that I can go to school faster and leave school faster, even if they just made amendments to the rule."

The students have a petition with more than 800 names, but Sutherland says the policy is not up for review.

"They're in place for a reason so students may not like the policy, but it is there for their safety,” she said.

How fucked up is that? The word is out to make us look like bad guys. A lot of people on use them for transportation, what these people are doing is a form of discrimination, and it's just because we ride around on a piece of wood? Now you can see why some skaters are all like, "Stick it to the man!". It's because the man is trying to stick it to us, so I say, fuck the establishment.

Statement of Purpose

I intend to write about the pressing issues I see in our society, mainly skateboarding and education. I am also going to write about music, it's my life. I love music, it, and the need to go to college are really the only things keeping me in school. In fact, I’ll probably be writing about that in my blog.

Hopefully, this blog won’t just help with my perception of the world, but my writing as well. I’m going to be writing an exorbanent amount of material so all aspects of my writing should improve. This actually involves us in the real world, something I rarely see in school today.

My purpose is to expand my level of thinking and writing from the conception of a teenager and student. I feel this is a great opportunity to do so.

p.s. sorry Mr.S couldn't do it at lunch on Friday and i was at my dads all weekend.