Bohemian Rhapsody

I was listening to Bohemian Rhapsody today for the first time in about a whole week. (Yes, that's a long time.) And, as usual, it blew me away. But this time I decided to do a little research of the song. And if you think the song is amazing, wait until you see this. (Thank you, WikiPedia) The song went straight to number 1 in 4 seperate country's top 100 lists, and stayed there for as long as nine weeks. After Freddie Mercury's death, the song went to number 1 once again in America and Britain, staying there for 4 and 5 weeks. Wow. That is absolutely ridiculous.

The part where they all start chorusing over eachother's voice "Galieo, Galieo, Galieo, let me go" took 3 WEEKS to record and perfect. At that time, a single album could be recorded in less than 3 weeks. But for 8 seconds of the song, they spent 3 whole weeks recording. Amazing.

The song has anywhere between 80 and 90 individual chords in it. Most songs today have anywhere between 3 and 7 or 8 chords. 80 chords? That is just so... overdone. But it is Queen, so there you have it.

I could go on and on about this one song, but I already sound like a geek and the Sandman is smashing my head with a hammer trying to get me to go to sleep. So, until next time.

~Jameson

Days of School Left: 162

Sleep Through the Static

I'm going tomorrow to get my driver's permit. Yay. Stay off the roads, at least until I get the hang of my dad's stick shift.

Anyways, as you can tell from this post's title, I really could sleep through static right now. In fact, I could probably sleep through the sound of a million firecrackers going off at the same time. Covered in gasoline.

My Uncle Trent (My mom's brother) is getting married next July. Hooray for him!

I have a new musical obsession with Jack Johnson. Every few weeks or so I get another addiction to some random artist. I just started listening to one of his newer albums and it's just ridiculous how talented he is. I'm jealous.

I'm (as usual) tired, so I couldn't really think of anything creative to write in this post. Sorry about that. Maybe I should just go to sleep. I'm typing with my eyes closed right now anyways. Really, Jameson. Go to sleep.

Days of school left: 163

Oh, and for those of you that haven't seen this yet, it's absolutely hilarious. One of my all-time favorite videos.

Star Wars according to a 3-Year-Old:
(If you are hearing Music playing in the background, scroll down to the bottom of the page and turn the volume down to 0 to hear the movie.)

All Things Must Pass

The end of my 2nd weekend is over. Woo. I'm so excited to go back to school. The 3rd week is that magic time when the teachers stop being nice and start cracking their whips. So I'll actually be starting work in every class except AP US History, which started at Day 1. (I've already read through Chapter 5 of our 40 something chapter book in the first two weeks. At this rate, I'll be done with the book before Thanksgiving)

Grandpa says that he used to wish for the 2nd coming to come so that he wouldn't have to go to school anymore. I'd much rather be standing in the middle of a burning Hesperia and having the mountains collapse around us and living through the 3rd World War than go to school anytime, Grandpa.

One of my friends at school is a music nut, just like me. He can talk about music and instruments and any band or artist on the face of the earth. And actually know what he's talking about. All except one thing. He doesn't like The Beatles. Yeah. You can probably tell how a lot of our conversations go.

"The Beatles suck."
"No, they don't."

Days of school left: 167. A whole 10 days down!

And thank you Grandpa for recommending this post's title.

I'm So Tired...

The title says it all. I've never ever ever ever ever ever been this tired before. Ever. Just to let everyone know. Think waking up every day, hating what you're doing, getting dressed and ready to go to a place that you hate, spending 12 hours away from the house at different places that you wish would have fallen over in the earthquake, and then coming home to do more work. Did I mention that I hate it?

Hmmm... But really, school isn't all bad, it's just boring. About as boring as listening to "Yellow Submarine." For 12 hours straight.

Have a good day, everyone, and I'm going to sleep.

~Jameson

So if you think your life is complete confusion...

In general, when someone asks me the question "How was school today?" I answer by saying "Well, it was school." Which, in the language universally spoken by all teenagers, means "Well, I'd much rather be at home playing Guitar Hero 3 and sleeping, mom." But you can't say that about free education. Because it's a good thing. Right?

I've come up with this clever idea of naming all of my posts after songs. The only problem is I'm already running out of ideas. And I need to slow down the posting. 3 posts in 3 days? Maybe I should just go by once a week or something.

Anyways, today was my first day of school. I started the day off with a very pleasant surprise. Some behind-the-scenes IDIOT decided to place me in a college level Chemistry class instead of the regular class. After investigating, I discovered that the behind-the-scenes idiot was me. I had accidentally asked for the Advanced class instead of regular last year when I signed up for classes. Absolute genius.

Just to let you all know, I'm not that great a writer. I like to meander through whatever pops into my mind while I'm typing, so If I suddenly change topics between paragraphs, that's just me being me!

Days of school left: 176

~Jameson

Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away

This is the actual last day of Summer. But yesterday was the last Saturday of my long break, so now I actually have to face getting up tomorrow morning, taking a shower, and going to my own personal prison camp. Yay. It seemed like it would last forever. Even yesterday I was thinking "I've still got 24 hours of freedom." Not anymore. I'm going to cry myself to sleep tonight.

But anyways, this is my second post on this blog. Amazing. I really didn't expect myself to come in and do all of the work to put a flash music player on the bottom of the page AND write another post all in the same hour. I'm still trying to let everyone know that this blog has come into existence, so no one's even seen it yet. And I've already got 2 posts up. Incredible.

I'm going to be keeping a count of the days of school left on this blog until the end of this school year. So, as of today, there are exactly 177 days of school left until next June. What should this demonstrate to all of you? I have no life. And I like it.

Have a good school year, for everyone in school. Teachers and students both. Just remember that we're the future of America. Me? The future of America? Yes. Buckle your seatbelts, everyone.

~Jameson

School's not out forever.

I love the end of the school year. It's nothing but video games and fast food on my mind for 2 and a half months. Sometimes. Grades worry me to death. For good reason. I am the worst procrastinator any of you will ever meet. Guarenteed. In fact, I'm retaking Algebra 2 this year because I never did my homework. I'm the first kid in out family to retake any highschool class. That's a great feeling to have, huh?

I hate the end of Summer. It's about as fun as eating a full tube of frozen toothpaste. Always. You have to go back to school, responsibility, etc. I think I should at least get an "A" for effort. It's pretty stinking hard to stay awake in Spanish class. Heck, I should get at least a "B" just for showing up at school at all.

Anyways, I've been trying to shove all of the messing around that I've been meaning to do this Summer in the very last day. Making this blog, for instance. At 10:30 PM. On the last day of Summer break.

I've been trying to come up with something witty to write in my first post. I'm a Heywood. Really. I should be able to think of something to say. But no. Nothing at all. How dumb. A Heywood without a sense of humor is not a Heywood. I'll need to think of something before my next post.

On to what has actually happened this Summer. I saw a Beatle impersonator group, the Fab Four, and also saw the LOVE show. Both were amazing. I got to hang out with the Fab Four for about half an hour after the show, and they were really cool guys. The LOVE show was definitely the highlight of the Summer. Never seen anything like it.

~Jameson