FUCK LINKIN PARK

now that I have everyone's attention:

blog has gone toxic. must fix soon.

I'M JUST KIDDING OH PLEASE GOD AUSTIN DONT KILL ME

Remember that time you came onto the JnK expecting a real post?

That was priceless!

in regards to 9-11 and the onion

http://www.theonion.com/issue/3734/

If you look for the articles in that list that were written around the time it actually happened, you can see what Austin was talking about when he talked about Jon Stewart and his passionate response to 9-11.

The writers at The Onion, while still trying to keep up their comedy aspect, were pretty damn pissed.

"God Angrily Clarifies the "Do Not Kill" Rule"

"Arab-American Third-Grader Returns From Recess Crying, Saying He Didn't Kill Anyone"

"Hijackers Surprised to Find Themselves In Hell"

Summer Recap: ARIA, South Hadley, MA

(I’ll post photos later, my desktop is dead at the moment.)

I loved music camp. I guess that's mainly due to the independence I experienced in those 10 days. There wasn’t any reinforced practice schedule so you basically had a wealth of free time, and I explored the beautiful campus of Mt. Holyoke College when I wasn’t toiling away in practice rooms. It’s an adorable little place, with a stream running across the campus connecting two lakes and Canadian geese flapping right outside your dorm. A verdant forest was a jog away from the practice rooms, and there was an equestrian center beyond that. And ALL that was accessible outside of my practice hours, and I enjoyed (sometimes in a frightened sense) every minute of hiking on/off trails and poking at frogs at the edges of lakes. Once, I accidentally went off trail once and saw the outline of a fox in the distance. I bailed out, but it was awesome.

The teachers I worked with were just as great. There were three violin professors (all middle-aged men), and they were just brilliant- their wealth of knowledge of almost every aspect of violin playing was quite formidable, and I loved the 2 hour lectures we had every evening. There was a problem though- I had trouble applying the numerous concepts to my own playing, even though I understood them. Information overload, I guess. I didn’t improve fantastically, but I did get a better grip on classical music and the nature of their violin performers.

ARIA also taught me about living on the East Coast in general. I seriously think I would want to study on the East Coast. Not only is the music scene quite fantastic, I just can’t get enough of the environment of trees! I remember my first image of Connecticut/Massachusetts was lush forests and pastures and lakes on the plane. LA is becoming quite droll, although it’ll always be home. I think I’ll really miss the SoCal weather though; it was deathly humid at camp, and the dorms had no A/C so basically I baked to sleep every night. I think I would also dislike snow.

I'm currently busy with orch auditions, but expect a post soon about caves, cacti, and adobe architecture.