Charles Houston - he was one of the grassroots fathers of the civil rights movements of the 50s and 60s. We were asked to write a book report on the book "eyes on the prize" and hand it in today. The first chapter of the book is almost solely about him and what he did for the movement.  when i came into class his name was written on the board. Our teacher asked to write what we knew about him in about 5 minutes time. I sat all around a group of black people. When he asked us to finish, they all began to talk and I heard them asking, "who was Charles Houston?" "What did you write?"... are you kidding me? You are a black American and you didn't even read the book? I can't believe any proud black american wwould take no effort or care in learning there heritage. That's just insane to me. I suppose maybe they have just moved on.

"'That's there business not mine.' Now I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be business of us all" - Mamie bradley

She was the mother of Emmett Till. Right now I am reading "eyes on the prize" by Juan Williams for my US history class, and what I read scares me and impowers me. Supremacy of any kind can be used by a majority to manipulate any culture, race, society, or one single individual or idea.Without sounding racist myself,Blacks were nothing special. They were a color of people. The Jews are nothing special. Gays are nothing special .. they are simply different people of different socialogical backgrounds. It is scary the hate, and indifference the world so often times possessed. It is important to hear the voices of people who have been told to keep quiet for centuries so that we know how to raise our own if ever   the time comes (and I hope it doesn't).

My music

This is my new toy! I'm getting back into recording (not that I strayed very far) but I finally have some wiggle room financially and I made this amazing purchase.. I got this digi 002 board for a few hundred dollars under list price and I couldn't be more happy. I've been lookin at this piece of hardware for about 4 years, and although it is a little bit older design, it's capabilities are tremendous. I can't wait to make a couple other purchases, namely: Blue Spark Microphone and a couple mic stand's and I will be pumping out some new tunes with the piano I have at my house, and the guitars I already have. I'm seriously so excited. It's gonna be great!

The Avett Brothers - Souls Like The Wheels

So lately, I've been drawn to this song. It's beautiful right? It's even harder to play on guitar!! This is the song I need to learn to get my finger picking skills better. So I found the song to help me with that. I love the message of the song as well. It really speaks my heart.

I got those red tulips in the mail about two weeks ago from one of my favorite friends. She said we she sent them that they were just bulbs, but when they arrived they had already grown 3 or 4 inches!! WOOOOWW... So I didn't really do a good job of taking pictures of the tulips growing everyday, but I DID take a picture of the flower arrangement I made with them. I found these other tulips and flowers in my garden and I put them together into arrangement and surprised my Friend. She was quite surprised indeed. One good deed facilitating another. Thank you to both of you being in my life. :)

*edit: Notice that the vase is actually just a tall narrow glass apparently from the spaghetti factory

Meet Gobi

So I have this fish bowl at my house that has been sitting empty at my house since I moved there. It's really nice, and I wanted to get a fish but never got around to it.

Shae came over the other day and she said "Let's get a fish!" and so we went to Petsmart and got this pretty blue Betta Fish, and we named him Gobi. Good story where that name came from too, maybe she'll let me share it on here sometime.

Gobi is part hermit, and likes to chill in his palace from time to time and avoids strangers. He doesn't eat very much but he is also very inquisitive. He's gonna be a great house-mate, and I'm sure since he's a Betta will be a good protector over our house.

I'm gonna see this guy tonight suckas

Tonight Steve Aoki @ The Warfield. Sold out. It's gonna be so awesome. I've been meaning to see him for so long. I'm sad that the Bloody Beat roots won't be in attendence, but hey... Tiga will be there! So excited.