SUMMER!

HA! It is summer and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it! I can do whatever I want now! I have no obligations! I just played a ten-minute Brawl against a team of three Level 6 computer players and won, 7 to -7! So yeah! Summer vacation is going to be AWESOME, even though my high school Spanish teacher already gave me homework! UGH! Some people! I am going to bury my yearbook! And buy a purple sweatshirt!

-Yogipie

BOO-YAH!

Some Stuff

As chief publication of the counterculture, it is Yogipie's job to inform you that Rush are coming back into style, so if you are unfamilar with that band, I recommend you pick up Moving Pictures. It contains the song " Tom Sawyer," which I listened to on repeat for about five hours on end while I finalized my homework project based on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. That was quite fun, and the best part is that the song never got old; Neil Peart's drumming is just that delicious.
Also, if you're not already familiar with it from the newspaper comics page, I would check out the comic strip Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis. I recently got a book of it. The guy is a genius. It's amazing that even though he Pastis is actually a Santa Rosan, we did not actually get his strip in our paper until very recently. He said that until then, his neighbors had not believed him when he told them he did a comic strip. Anyway, it is funny stuff.

Summer Is Almost Here!

I stayed up past my tiredness threshold last night, meaning I was tired, but I stayed up so late it went away and I couldn't get to sleep. Anyways, I used to write and draw a lot, but recently I have done these less and less. However, last night I wrote a "composition," continued a story that I must have started at least a year ago and that is itself the sequel to one I wrote near the end of sixth grade in the free time I had during state testing, and drawn a patakume, which is an art form I created a while back, if you could call it that, consisting of an extremely active battle scene drawn in one color on the back of an 8 1/2" by 11" sheet of paper, involving up to four sides battling for dominance of the sheet, sometimes including God as one of those. I dug up an old patakume I drew; here is a scan of it (feel free to laugh, but keep in mind that I was twelve years old). The quality of the art is not how you judge it, but rather on the amount of things simultaneously going on. If you count which units live and die on which sides, you can tell who is going to win the battle. Last night, the USA and the JFAA (Japanese Federation of Anti-Americans) ended with an equal number of troops, but since the invaders, the Japanese, suffered more casualties, I think it is safe to say the Americans won. I will post again after dinner if I can.

Groovy RG Bug and Progressive Music

My only adventures in photography that have not yet been published on my blog are about to be now. There was a groovy red and green bug chilling on my "Sport Court," so I busted out the camera and took a couple of pictures.

Yeah, they are pretty nice, and don't try to tell me otherwise, because I simply will not hear you.

I bought an album today called Spontaneous Combustion, by Liquid Trio Experiment, who are the abridged version of Liquid Tension Experiment that recorded an improvised album while their guitarist was busy. It is awesome prog music. Moreover, I am love with the album art. The strange thing is I also listen to Hiromi, a trio of the same ingredients who recently added a permanent guitarist to the mix. And they both have bassists named Tony. Coincidence? I think not.

My mom totally does not get prog. Every time the band do something rhythmically interesting, she thinks they messed up...

Mike Portnoy may be a better drummer than me (by a little bit [HA! Damn, I'm funny.]), but if one looks at the liner notes to Combustion, one sees I can spell better than him ("existance?"). Anyways... Until next time!