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Dave Matthews is coming to LA in late July, and KSCR has tickets, but I’m not going to be here. #

Here is an mp3 of my solo for this semester’s percussion jury. The performer is somebody at USC, I’m not sure who. The track is from the Fall 2002 USC Percussion Sampler.

I love the marimba. It is the most beautiful instrument in the world. #

Seen here.

A WARMONGER EXPLAINS WAR TO A PEACENIK
By Victor Forsythe

Dedicated to the Love it or Leave it crowd

PeaceNik: Why did you say we are invading Iraq?

WarMonger: We are invading Iraq because it is in violation of
security council resolution 1441. A country cannot be allowed to
violate security council resolutions.

PN: But I thought many of our allies, including Israel, were in
violation of more security council resolutions than Iraq.

I should be finishing a paper right now, but I can’t stop thinking about this.

This morning, I woke up with numbness in three of my fingers in my left hand. It persisted for about 3 hours. This is a very common symptom of the beginnings of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. These days I use my left hand for mousing, because I can’t handle it on the right because of my injuries. When I was in high school, I developed tendonitis on the right side from overuse, and I ended up having surgery to fix that.

I have chronic pain in my right hand, wrist, and arm, that will never completely go away. Therapy helps, but doesn’t heal. Stopping activity doesn’t seem to help at all… after a week-long break, two minutes is enough to make it hurt again.

I started crying in the shower this morning at the prospect of losing my other wrist. I’m doing everything I’m supposed to do. Wrist wrests, high-quality split keyboard, proper posture and ergonomic desk/chair setup. I’ve devoted a lot of time recently to learning to type and mouse properly. I stretch before I use a computer and before I practice. It still doesn’t help. #

I was reading some RATM reviews, and I stumbled upon this gem:

Does he go shopping with that voice? (“I think I’ll take these in a nine. Do they come in brown suede, capitalist motherfucker? Yeeaaaah.”)

Haha. I can’t say I agree with the review, though. #

They just played Bli^HH^H Good Charlotte again on MTV2. Ugh. Next up, the Chili Peppers. DUDE.

No more TV for me.

I’m thinking about doing a summer semester. I could do math 407, and a GE. I would be home the first or second week in July. Problem is, it doesn’t start until late May, so I’d be sitting around doing nothing for a while. Maybe I could get an internship or something in LA.

I’m broke. Need to stop spending money, period. Time to start living like a poor college student. Should be getting my next check from WiFiLand soon, so that’ll help. Working part-time from home at my own pace rocks.

I had some thoughts about KSCR today. Right now we market ourselves as “revolutionary radio,” the student-run station at USC. Instead of that, we should take on a slogan like “independent radio los angeles,” and market ourselves as the center of the los angeles underground music scene (whether we are or not). We should be publicly anti-corporate: an alternative to everything LA radio is about. We should spend time plastering LA — not just USC — with KSCR stuff. The fact that we’re in LA is a huge disadvantage sometimes as a fledgling college radio station, but there are some aspects to being in LA that we should exploit. Imagine how cool it would be if we got a vibe going in the community that KSCR is LA’s cool independent radio. #

It’s almost time to go home. I just have to take two quizzes, do two labs, complete a pset, have a lesson, and finish my research article before Sunday. I can do it. I just have to push.

It’s hard to push. I missed three weeks of school, and everything is piled up. Good thing all my professors gave me extensions. I’ll be working a lot over break, despite my earlier private resolve to completely relax. I have about thirty pages of music theory to do, a journal article to write, and some other things. kscrradio.com is also moving to a new server, and I need to do that. The problem with my research article is that I’m actually really interested in the topic, so when I’m doing research, I just end up reading for an hour or two, and don’t get any writing done.

My sister is here, and that’s cool. I picked her up at LAX today, and I dropped off Tom. We had a bunch of fun hanging out in Hollywood, Malibu, Santa Monica, etc.

I’m up so late because I went to Susan’s to play games with the gang — decided I needed a break. I’m hungry, I’m lonely. Why are girls so confusing? Why does something so wrong feel so right? When do I know for sure? And when am I going to stop asking the questions that have no answers, and accept that there’s a time to move on? #

key:
numbers = non-believers
X = death
arc = god
arrow = path through attack #

Recap: fever, flu, pneumonia, sinus infection, emergency room, hospital, home.

I’m on lots of drugs. Skipped two weeks of classes. I went back yesterday and did two makeup exams, but that totally wiped me out and now I feel sick again. I didn’t go to classes today. I don’t know about tomorrow.

It’s really hard not to work. I told most of my professors that I would be back in the game by now, but I really need to take more time. I’m really getting screwed by this academically, so much for good grades this semester.

Work on KSCR and WiFiLand progresses.

I need to sleep. #