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Friday, Nov. 17, 2006: 
The advantage is a fairly new band that plays songs from the original NES. I was fortunate enough to interview them via email this week. Yeah, they're from canada, so it's not like they have much else to do. Here's some vital information on the band for your everyday life:
1. How did the band get started, and why NES music? The band was started originally for a high school talent show by the original members, nick, forrest, and cassie. Its as much a mystery to me why they were so obsessed with 8-bit music. I guess I like playing the music so much because the intracacies and catchiness of such disposable music mystified me as a child, and still does.
2. How did you get so good at your instruments? Thanks for the compliment, I feel like I'm just trying to keep up with the precedent set by the previous guitarists nick and forrest. Learning parts that weren't originally intended for guitar is a good excercise, I think, as is having the part be written already (like if you were writing a song and you made a part up and just couldn't play it, most people would just change the part and move on). I took some guitar lessons when I was younger, that helped some with technique, and ingrained the habit of practicing stuff slow until you can get it up to speed. We're trying to raise money now to send Robby to the Steve Vai institute, so he can play the really hard parts in songs that are giving us trouble.
3. Will you ever have a cd of songs you've written? Not as the advantage. I think we all hope one day to be able write music that has some of the unique qualities and energy as that era of game music, in other musical projects, though. Spencer especially has an 8-bit sensability when it comes to melody in the stuff he writes for his other band, Hella.
Thank you very much. And, you should do Tetris.
Yes we should.
-Ben
Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006: Happy Bob Marley Appreciation day!
Monday, Nov. 6, 2006: Happy National Coffee week! This whole week, Sunday-Saturday, has been devoted to the beverage of ground up roasted beans we all know as coffee. Why you might ask? Because it's the time right after halloween where the sugar starts to wear off and you need to find something else to keep you awake. And because I was bored in church one day and started adding more made up holidays to my phone's schedule.
And so, in the spirit of this holiday here's a brief history of coffee...
The history of coffee begins in the 9th century. It originated in the highlands of Ethiopia and spread to the rest of the world through Egypt and Europe. The word coffee is believed to be derived from the word coffee may have come from the word Kaffa, a region in Ethiopia where coffee is originated. Later through its expansion, the name later evolved into Arabic word قهوة Qah'wa, over Ottoman Turkish Kahve, and also into Rhode Island Cawfee. In the 15th century, Muslims introduced coffee in Persia, Egypt, northern Africa and Turkey, where the first coffeehouse, Kiva Han, opened in 1475 in Constantinople. The stimulant effect of drinking coffee caused it to be forbidden among orthodox and conservative imams in Mecca in 1511 and in Cairo in 1532 by a theological court.
From the Muslim world, coffee spread to Europe, where it became popular in the 17th century. Dutch traders were the first to start the large scale importation of coffee into Europe. In 1538, Léonard Rauwolf, a German physician, having come back from a ten-year trip in the Near East, was the first westerner to describe the brew.
In north America 90% of adults consume caffeine daily. It takes less than an hour for caffeine to begin affecting the body and a mild dose wears off in three to four hours. Caffeine is ergogenic, meaning it increases the capacity for mental or physical labor. From this we can conclude that a 10% drop in coffee production would result in 10% of all work everywhere not getting done which would throw the earth off balance and send it spiraling into the sun. While relatively safe for humans, caffeine is considerably more toxic to some other animals such as dogs, horses and ethan due to a much poorer ability to metabolize this compound. Caffeine has a much more significant effect on spiders, for example, than most other drugs do (please refer to figure 1A).
For more coffee, go to Wikipedia: coffee.
Thursday Nov. 2, 2006: As you can tell, I didn't have any homework today, so I got to add some very intriguing content. I thought I'd take this opportunity to share with you the beautiful view from my window in autumn.
If you look very closely, you can see a leprechaun that haunts my house. Get away from my flipping halloween candy!! Not you, the leprechaun.
I also found some old articles from xanga and such.
Come back soon for updates =)
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