Trolls Trolling! Trololo!!

If anyone has spent ANY time on some sort of social networking website or anything that deals with interacting with other people such as MMO's, then they have come into contact with a troll. These aren't your trolls from Norse mythology or the naked ones with purple hair, these are internet trolls. An internet troll is defined as:

"a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum,chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response"

                                                                             (Danny Devito as a troll)

These Trolls make A LOT of people very angry. For example, in the sandbox game, Minecraft, a troll is one who goes around destroying people's creations. They are bad guys in this sense. People find them very annoying and unnecessary; I however, think that they are needed. Although I believe in peace and harmony, there will ALWAYS be some sort of antagonist. They make things interesting. Imagine Lord of the Rings without Sauron: the Hobbits would just sit in the Shire smoking and prancing around. Sounds like a GREAT story, doesn't it? 


Lets take a real world example: Adolf Hitler. He spread fear around the entire world during the late 30's/early 40's through propaganda, brute force and other tactics. He wanted fear, and he got it. Yes, Hitler was a horrible person; however, his leading to war turned out to be a good thing. It brought much of the world together after the first world war. America came together as a country, and the world economy began to heal after the Great Depression. I'm not promoting Hitler in any way at all, I am only saying that the second world war, known as the Great War lead to the healing of a nation. 

Not all trolls were bad people. Look at Socrates. He was one of the first Greek philosophers. He went around asking people really tough questions in order to teach a point. His biggest thing was that the only thing you can really know is how much you don't know. He was later arrested and took his punishment proudly. This lead to more people asking questions and new ways of thinking. Imagine if Socrates hadn't trolled Greece. I'm sure someone would have come along eventually, but who knows how long it would have taken for a new troll to come along?




Yes, I'm expecting people for getting angry at me for this, because I AM trolling right now. I'll probably be called many different things, but it happens. I'll probably be told my facts are all wrong and that I know nothing of history, etc. etc. It happens. Please comment. I appreciate all of your opinions. 

                                   "You've gotta pay the troll toll, if you wanna get on that nerd's nerves!" 

The Hindemarathon is Over

 Last night was the Wind Symphony concert for winter quarter. We played a total of three pieces, one of them being the extremely long Hindemith Symphony in B Flat. We received the piece at the beginning of the year and worked on it up until the concert last night. It has been said that this is the pinnacle piece for wind bands, I'm not sure about that, but its pretty damn cool. It had been a long and sometimes grueling process. We heard many of the same metaphors and stories throughout the two quarters of learning it. Stories such as how "scholars" debate whether the Second Movement is actually the Second AND Third movement due the different sections in it.

Like I said before, we've been practicing this piece for a very long time, even spending entire rehearsals on it, known as "Hindemarathons" by saxaphonist John Seaton. Playing this piece sure seemed like a marathon. After the concert was over last night, I still felt the adrenaline of the piece until about ten or fifteen minutes after, when I  was hit by a wall of fatigue. The piece was very exciting and required quite a bit of thinking, it was a great experience to play it.

Its said that Paul Hindemith was a Nazi, being from Germany during that era. A lot of the symbolism used in this piece had something to do with Nazis (except for the part where clarinets were supposed to "tickle" us, I can't picture Hitler tickling anyone...). This symbolism allowed for some very risky things to slip during class, but it happens. I actually did not think of Nazis. The piece actually made me think of Hell and Dante's Inferno. This may have to do with my playing of the game around the time of receiving the symphony. If you can't tell, its a pretty dark piece, but it is also awesome.

So I would like to close with this: It really was an honor to play this piece. Even though sometimes I wanted to stab myself in the throat during rehearsals. In the end, however, the run of the Symphony went pretty well on the concert. I was glad to have the run we did, it could have been better, but it could've been worse too. Sp hopefully we did Hindemith proud!

 Paul Hindemith

"'Pick the cherries. SO MANY CHERRIES!!!" 

Controversy= Cheap deliciousness!

So I'm not sure if any you have heard, but Taco Bell has faced quite a controversy. There had been reports of their meat not meating (Ha) FDA standards. I'm not going to go into full details, but Taco Bell was almost sued for this. I'm sure they lost some sales because of this, at least sales from the people who eat there that aren't either: stoned, fat, up late or really really WANT to poop (Which defines all the people who eat there. AKA: College Students).

In an attempt to win the hearts of the community once again, Taco Bell has launched a campaign proclaiming that their meat is 88% Grade A beef. As proof of this, they are selling Crunchwrap Supremes for only 88 cents! (I know, right??) For those of you who have never had this orgasmic Mexican delight, here is a photo of one that oddly resembles Pac-Man:



                                                                                             "OM NOM NOM NOM"

This is one of the greatest ideas since sliced bread! I have eaten so many of these this week, I may officially be Mexican now. I would highly suggest going out and participating in this offer before its too late! Embrace the "high quality: beef that Taco Bell has. 

Note: Don't consume too much Taco Bell. Too much is bad for your plumbing system.

"Yo quiero controversy!" 

No Theory.

Well, this is my first post. I was recently inspired by my best friends to start a blog. They all started ones and I followed in their footsteps. It'll probably take it's spot in our "Project Graveyard" in a few weeks, but oh well. Lets start with this deal!

My name is Doug. I am a music student at Wright State University. I play trumpet but hope to teach music one day; however, there probably won't be jobs. The thing I would REALLY love to do is perform for a living but those jobs are even less available than teaching jobs. I was supposed to have Music Theory class right now, but it go cancelled, so I decided to start this guy.

I will probably post random things throughout the life of this blog: random funny things that happened, random thoughts, anything random (thus the word "random" being in the title twice). Along with random things will come many misspellngz, errors grammatical, and sOmetims losTS of CAPS! (But don't worry about that, okay? :) )  Today's blog won't be extensive at all because as I type this, the need to pee continues to grow but I don't want to leave my computer open to the threat of people hacking my Facebook!

Take it easy, and hopefully I can stick with this in the near future!

Dog