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I would love to play the piano on top of Ben Nevis just as the sun is coming up and the wind is whistling all around you. Man, the sound would be so spread out. At first I was fantasizing some birds or something there too, but I guess there probably wouldn't be birds that high up. Wow, can you even imagine that? Would it be cold up there, or kind of warm because of the sun being so close? I think I'd play How I Made My Millions. Or maybe Love Song to a Ballerina or Polly's Dress.
It would probably be tempting to play something really majestic beacuse you're on the top of Ben Nevis, but I think that would be a bad idea because it would feel like you were competing with this mountain, and a piano like that isn't going to be able to sound too majestic anyway. Better to play something humble.
I should really learn how to play the piano. And climb mountains.
Actually I already know how to climb lots of mountains.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/17/unevis.xml
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Today I was really celebrating the start of summer, hitting the tennis ball back and forth with my brother out on the driveway. Once I hit it a little too hard and it over the neighbor's fence. So I climbed over the fence to get it. While I was over there I noticed a lizard crawling around in the grass. I caught him! Me and my brother played around with him for a while. We threw him on my sister and she really freaked out, oh man. Then we took him into the other room and tried to make him fight our cat. Neither of them really wanted to fight though. Then we went outside to our mom and scared her with him. Ha!
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Happy Mother's Day, Mom!
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Imitation is the sincerest form of mindlessness
(from nintendorks)
Last night, Sony unveiled their ground-breaking PS3 console at their pre-E3 press briefing. The event featured little in the way of surprises, and Sony's talking points even included a subtle dig at Nintendo as they promised that their console would feature "no gimmicks" that could inadvertently entertain consumers.
The crowd response could be described as "reverent" or "contemplative" or even "monstrously underwhelmed," as reporters demonstrated the kind of objectivity for which the videogame journalism industry is renowned. But then, everything changed when Ken Kutaragi unleashed a new controller upon the world, the likes of which have never been seen:
Even with one glance, you can see the feature that Kutaragi referred to as "4-D control." This refers to Sony's ability to travel back in time and reproduce the exact layout of the PS2 controller. And along the way, they stopped in 2001 to steal the technology behind Game Boy Color megahit Kirby's Tilt 'n Tumble.
That's right. It can pitch. It can yaw. It can introduce such gameplay mechanics as "balancing" and "shaking" and even "mimicking the functionality of a 1987 PC joystick for flight sims." It's unknown how Sony's competitors could possibly top this innovative control device. Industry insiders speculate that the only way to disrupt Sony's advantage would be to create a controller with actual motion-detection and laser-pointing functionality, a feat that seems unlikely at best.
The console's $599 price point further solidifies Sony's commitment to its mainstream audience of oil magnates and captains of industry, though a bargain $499 version is available for lesser tycoons.
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Let's stop stealing each other's ideas. And while we're at it, let's stop making the same movies and songs over and over again. There's billions of sounds in this world, all just begging to be recorded.
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Today I went up to the north oval near a bench and sat down in the grass and watched these three families of ants for a while. They each had their own anthill, laid out like this:
A A A
(the "A" is for "Anthill")
The one on the left had ants that were a little bit redder than the other two. The main thing going on was just ants bustling around crazily. But after a while I noticed that there were two bigger ants with wings there too. I'm not sure if they were queens or not because I don't know that much about ants. I guess they could have been.
Anyway, I think one of the winged ants was dead because the other ants were carrying her back underground, burying her maybe. She belonged to the third anthill. The other winged ant was mainly walking around the first anthill. Sometimes the ants around her would go up to her and start rubbing their feelers all over her. I think they might have been giving her a massage.
I didn't want to touch the ants because I thought they might sting, but I did blow on them once, gently. They all started running around really fast, but they settled back down after a while.
A little bit later a ladybug came by and just started walking in some weird pattern from blade of grass to blade of grass. I picked him up and he just ran up and down my arm over and over again, he was really wild. I wanted to see what would happen if he got mixed in with the ants, but then I had to go.
I started walking back to my apartment. Along the way I had a nice conversation about music with a guy I had never met before who might have been gay. I really like talking to strangers.
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Good news you guys, we're not alone
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Just right right now:
1. The Pixies "Hey"
2. Marvin Gaye "I'll be Doggone"
3. Animal Collective "The Purple Bottle"
4. The Four Tops "I Can't Help Myself"
5. The Flaming Lips "The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always This Dark??"
6. Marvin Gaye "Stubborn Kind of Fellow"(*****)
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