Finally Chugging Along

Orders a MacDonald's Big Breakfast...

@ Burgandy Crescent
The newly-formed trio is finally progressing towards a tangible direction; preparing for our rehearsal, due end of this month.

We worked out a song yesterday at Dilane's place, which took an amazing 2 hours. I consider that pretty time efficient, considering the lack of initial musical momentum. A good start. We finished the arrangement for "I got Rythm". Rather excited about this new music endeavour that I've embarked on. The chemistry is good, and so is the sound of this trio. Kudos!

Sound System...yeah...
Deciding to purchase a 2.1 system, under a 100 bucks. Have set my eyes on either an Altec or Sonic Gear. Deciding to check out Challenger today first before making the final call. It's gonna be exciting! This system shall double up as an amplifier for my guitar.

Sigh, no money, heart pain. Why must tech toys be so costly (a rhetoric, considering the amount of research that goes into such things)? Hopefully, I can afford a decent home recording setup before flying in September.

Bertrand Russell's frightful outlook...
Completed his book yesterday. The closing chapters paints a world governed by a scientific government, a rather bleak and frightful one, and apparently one that served as inspiration for Huxley's novel and many other science-fiction books in the similar vein (I would say even Matrix parallels the ideas Russell puts forth, back in 1930s).

Russell envisions: A ruling class of scientific experts ruling over a working class specialising in maual labour. In order to provide amusement for the latter (as boredom is seen as a possbility of mutiny, revolt and scientific enquiry, which the governing class would not want the working class to acquire), the governing class, in disguises of democratic forms, provides social benefits (such as short working hours) to keep the majority in adequate satisfaction, and therefore not questioning authority.

Sounds like Europe. Frightful.


Uncle T