On Old People

        Aging is a funny thing. You don't just wake up one morning and decide from there on out you are old. I think age is more of a mentality thing, where you have admitted to yourself you are past your prime and are on your way out. I've met some pretty old people who have only been alive for 40 years, and many of the youngest people I've met are upwards of 70 years old. So when does one decide enough is enough, or this old is too old? When your body quits working? When you've accomplished your life goals? When you've put the one you love to rest? When you have accepted the cold reality of death in an infinite universe that you only had a snowball's chance in hell of even existing in to begin with? It's fine to be 55+ years old, and many should wear that as a badge of honor, but please, never get old.

Podcast #2 - All That Jazz

This is a short paper I had to present to my World Music class about the concept of Jazz. It will provide you with a short overview of what jazz is, what it means, and how musicians treat it.

Featured in this podcast is Tower of Power's influential hit, What is Hip?

Podcast #1 - It's GRE-at!

Hello sports fans, today I have for you, for a limited time only, my very first Podcast! It's on the subject of GRE test-taking, and I might actually start a regular series for this sort of thing! The Podcast is available for download here, but it is also included below if you'd just like to listen to it. Let me know what you think!

Real Composers Do So In Their Sleep

Alright, so I was just minding my own business sleeping a few weeks ago, when I had a really creepy dream about a "sound virus" called "The Sound". As with any good horror flick, I (the main character of course) wound up contracting the virus. What it did was come from nothing, just barely audible, and grew into this roaring, slightly unsettling sound.

At any rate, I decided to write down what I heard, and for all you musicians out there, I even provided the score. Let me know what you think, because it creeps me out.

A Music Tech Experience pt. 1

So, I've had to do quite a few things for my Music Technology class, and not the least of these projects was the mashup project we did. I've got another one I've been working on that I may upload shortly, but here's the first one. I hope you like it!