Guys! Don't try this!

Man, The other day I messed up my drumset pretty bad. See, I bought two really cheap electric guitars, right? I don't know how to play them or anything, but I hooked them up to amps and had them all ready to go for this idea I've had. See, I thought it would be the bossest thing ever to play a huge drum solo, only with electric guitars instead of drumsticks.

Man, it really didn't work so hot. I broke all of my drum heads, and really dented my crash cymbal bad. My man Zooker videotaped the whole thing, and it turned out it didn't even look very cool. I thought it would be all electric guitars flying all over the place, but in real life it looks like you're hitting the drums really slow. Plus I kept on screaming "Oh YEEEEAH!" in this metal sounding voice that I thought would sound really cool, but it turned out it just sounded like I was a nerdy kid from a television show about people who make fun of nerdy kids.

The song is just about finished, but I can't record it until I get my drums fixed.

Zooker's song idea

OK, Zooker left a comment last night with a weird idea for a song:

Hey, are you still looking for ideas for stuff to write songs about? I was thinking we could do a song about a planet where nobody could dream (in the literal sense, and as in aspirations), and everybody got really depressed, and then at the end, like, a single child would begin having dreams, and sharing them with the people or something like that. It's hard to explain.

I guess that could probably turn out cool if it was done right. I've been directed toward a website that helps you figure out rhymes, so I'm gonna write these lyrics RIGHT NOW, fools! Just watch as the mastery unfolds!

There once was a planet where nobody could dream,
Everyone was so sad they wanted to scream,
Everybody all got so depressed
That none of them could win a happiness contest
But then there was a single child
Who went up to everybody and smiled
He had some dreams and shared them with all the people
It's hard to explain, but this all happened in a steeple

I'm not 100% sure what a steeple is, but I'm pretty sure it's a kind of church. I think this is basically what Zooker was looking for. It might be better if it was longer, but keep in mind this is only a 20 second song.

Zooker is in my band for now

I was trying to find somebody to play guitar and Zooker told be that he plays the "Honksichord", which is kind of like a piano, only when you press a key, it squeezes a bicycle horn instead of making a piano note. I had him over to help work on my song and he did some OK stuff, I guess. I was really hoping for more of a heavy metal sound, and the honkin' thing is kind of weak. It'll work until I can get a real guitarist.

I got my ride cymbal back, so we were able to jam pretty well. I found out that my song is only twenty seconds long, though. I was hoping it would be a little longer, but since it's like my first song it should be OK.

I'm trying to come up with some lyrics right now, but it's hard to come up with good stuff to sing about. I wrote one verse earlier:

The burrito had a lot of ingredients-ay
And I was in an eating ood-may
Why don't they serve burritos with ies-fray?
I wish somebody would do at-thay
I would buy like enty-one-tway
I wish I had some andy-cay
Come up to me and I'll kick you in the face
I will do this with my shoelace.

I don't know. I think that it's kind of weak. I was mostly just singing that stuff because I had just eaten a burrito, and I had burritos on the mind. I'm not sure if it's az good idea to make rhymes with pig latin either, because about halfway through, I realized that absolutely everything rhmes when it's in pig latin. It kind of feels like cheating. So on the last two lines I tried to rhyme the old fashioned way. It's kind of OK, but I'm not quite happy with it, because you kick people with your shoe, and not just the lace.

Capture the Flag

I just remembered the other day how fun it was when I was a kid and I used to play capture the flag. That was a pretty fun game. I've been trying to organize a game on the ship, but nobody wants to run around in the halls and stuff, and everybody is all worried about tripping over furniture. It's too bad. I have the perfect place to hide my team's flag. (I don't want to type it here, because I might want to use the place in the future, and somebody who might play might read my blog. Hint: It is a place where I can lock the door and nobody else can get at it!)

I met up with a wealthy enterpreneur online to pitch my idea about ranch dressing in a toothpaste tube, but he said he wouldn't pay for the idea until I told him what it was. I told him that I wouldn't tell him the idea unless he promised to pay me afterward. He said that he didn't have time for talking to me, and I got really nervous. I kind of blurted out the idea because I was scared he would leave (it was video chat), but I am not sure that he liked it. He just looked at me like I was wasting his time. I think the idea is safe.

Telloon wanted to borrow my drums because I hven't used them a lot lately (they are so hard). I let him borrow the ride cymbal, but nothing else. Right after he left, though, I came up with a really good idea for a beat. See, I would play on the bass drum something like this:

BUM bada BUM bada BUM BUM BUM baBUM!

Then I'd switch to the hi hat and play the same rhythm:

CH chicka CH chicka CH CH CH chaCH!

And I would just do that and go around on every drum playing that same thing. I end on the crash cymbal, because that's the best one for this beat. Unfortunately, without my ride cymbal it doesn't sound very right, because it's too short.

As soon as I get my ride cymbal back, I'm gonna see if I can get somebody who knows guitar to come over and figure out some guitar tabs to play with it. I think this is gonna be a pretty good song.