March 2010
2 posts
essay outline
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February 2010
3 posts
A speech from the bizzarro me
Music is pointless. I don’t understand why people get so caught up with it. Music should be something to make people dance, that’s it. I especially hate classical music, and pretty much anything before 1990 is really annoying to listen to. I’ll admit, there are a few artists I like, Missy Elliott, and Little Wayne are probably my favorites. They’ll get any party going!
I was walking through...
Private Investigation
My initial idea for my investigative paper was to interview a place in Pittsburgh, seeing how I attend school here, and live here. I was thinking of something along the lines of a restaurant that nobody knows about, maybe taking a walk through the south side and picking a random hole-in-the-wall establishment to uncover. I wouldn’t have wanted to do anything in downtown or the strip, seeing how...
Riddle...
Stretching the Current, to join the Now. The middle sibling more proud than its brothers, yet shier than them both. Built of bulk, not twine, with skin of wrinkled mustard, hair of frazzled sapphire. He smiles upon the queen, greeting her at the station, guiding her subject’s steps from the smithies, gallantly treading the path of which its walls collapse. Born at the colloquial quartet of the...
January 2010
3 posts
Beyond All Expectations
Pittsburgh certainly has one of the most distinctive personalities of all the cities I have been to, yet it was not until I attended college here that I have realized this. My personal view of Pittsburgh has always been that of an industrial city, with little commercial significance. This, however, is certainly not the case. Although Pittsburgh’s history does seem to have many roots oriented in...
...But when will the muses sing?
The frustration is almost palpable whenever I sit down to write lyrics. Musically, I find myself to have a broad understanding of composition and variation. One of my favorite examples of excellent variation in music would be the album Quadrophenia by The Who. The capabilities of three simple melodies are seemingly endless, as demonstrated by their repetition of such melodic reoccurrences through...