At the close of Rush's most recent album Clockwork Angels is a little gem called "The Garden." If you haven't heard it, I would recommend giving it a listen. I find it very soothing: And if you aren't a huge Rush fan, don't stop reading! I'll sum it up for you. The lyrics are a tad…
I started playing tennis at the ripe age of 16, which was actually too old if I wanted any hope of being good at the sport (most of the people I played against had been playing since they could pick up a racket). In hopes of doing well on my high school team, I practiced…
One of my small passions is watching infomercials on Saturdays. There is something simply mesmerizing about the sheer enthusiasm of the salespeople that are promoting various gadgets. I never even buy anything that is pitched on an infomercial, I just enjoy learning how awful my life is without [insert product] and how much better it could…
Back in the day, popular music was full of these things called "bands" that would usually consist of a singer, guitarist(s), bassist, and drummer, with maybe a keyboardist or sax player in some cases. The singer had obvious glory, people naturally sing along to songs, so your singer was usually the charismatic front-man for the band.…
Several years ago I remember watching a documentary show (I actually forgot what the documentary was about, I just remember this one tidbit from it). It featured an interview with John McAfee, the genius software developer and creator of the McAfee antivirus program. What was interesting about the interview was that it was conducted not in a…
Perhaps the defining feature of adulthood is the necessity of making important decisions. In childhood, everything is decided for you: where you go to school, what you learn, what you eat, etc., but in adulthood, things become far less clear. To some degree, my generation of Millennials has had a hard time transitioning into pure…
In my last article I let everyone know about my negative opinions towards political correctness, and now in this one I am asserting that some commonly used terms are offensive. So what gives? Have I gone soft? I don't think so, I am more or less alluding to the fact that we have a knack…
Ah, Political Correctness. What a touchy subject. It seems that in our humane attempt to please everyone, we are more or less pleasing no one. People get riled up about political correctness on every end of the political spectrum, some say we need more, others say we need less, and I don't really know of…
Parallette bars are a cheap and easy way to upgrade a home workout routine. There are a number of great bodyweight exercises you can do with them, and they are light and portable, so you can take them anywhere you want. I first discovered parallette bars when browsing through the Buff Dudes Youtube channel, where…
The "build-up" is one of my favorite types of songs. What is a "build-up" song? Well, I define it to be a song that has some sort of mellow or slow opening that gradually increases in either tempo or volume until it hits a climax (preferably with an epic guitar solo) and then goes back…