Drumming, singing, hiking/outdoors, listening to music all day, psychology, ecology, quantum physics, and making lists of my interests.
Music
Oh goodness. Prog: Dream Theater, Ayreon, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Coheed and Cambria, 3, System of a Down, Tarot. Alternative: Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Weezer, Pelican, Coldplay, Muse, Metric, Emily Haines. Electronica: Freezepop, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, Crystal Castles, Basshunter and all kinds of other trance. Also Pirates of the Caribbean soundtracks and nostalgic soundtracks from Final Fantasy and Sonic games. ;D
Television
VH1 is effing off the hook. EVERY show they make is great. Best Week Ever. Flavor of Love. Rock of Love. I Love New York. Every other reality show on the station. Every other documentary on the station. It's all fantastic. Get whatever stupid prejudices you have out of your head and turn it on. (Do not, however, turn on MTV. Everyone of their shows takes two minutes to make.) I like Fox when they're playing Malcolm in the Middle and The Simpsons and Two And a Half Men and House MD. I like Comedy Central when they're playing South Park and stand up.
About me: I'm Jay. What's happening right now is something called Jay updating his information, which hardly ever happens. Like once in a blue moon. Seriously. Anyway I'm pretty cool. I figure I've gotten progressively cooler as time has moved forward. I'm a drummer and a singer. Music is basically my life, which you will find out later if you're patient enough to read all of this. I'm the type of guy who makes music videos and hikes in the woods and writes raps about calculus in his spare time. Yeah, that type.
I like smart people, but they're insufferable if they're not funny. I value a sense of humor more than anything. I'd spend the day with a hilarious stupid person, but I'd probably kill myself after a few hours with a genius who doesn't get my jokes and doesn't make any of their own. Granted the two tend to be related- It's hard to be a riot with cobwebs in your skull- but still. I like funny people. If you're funny, talk to me. I'll probably dig you.
I like school cause I like to learn and I like to show off by answering the teacher's questions. I started caring about school in fifth grade when Mrs. Dawson put a poster on the wall that made public every kid's number of missing assignments. I was one of the only ones without any and I was like "I kinda like this." That was the end of my days as both a weirdo and a slacker, and the beginning of my days as just a weirdo. I'm still in the middle of that chapter. I'm pretty sure it'll end only when I die.
I really like music. I like playing it. I like writing it. I like listening to it. All the time. Including during classes. About one third of my teachers will get mad at me if they see me with my iPod in their class. The part I don't understand is they don't even notice the headphones in my ears until I raise my hand to participate in the class discussion. So what's the problem? It doesn't hinder my ability to pay attention. In fact it prevents me from falling asleep. So get over it.
So you may have noticed I'm a libertarian. In case you didn't know, that means I'm economically conservative and socially liberal. I don't think anything should get in the way of the rights of the individual, as long as that individual's rights don't get in the way of another's. Example: Censorship? What the ****. But seriously, if parents don't want their kids to watch or see something, they need to take it upon themselves to prevent it. It isn't anybody's job except the parents'. What happened to the first amendment? Censorship is simply retarded. The end. Okay, other, more complicated example: I support the legalization of all recreational drugs. I'm not one of the hippies who're all "woo I like drugs." Actually I don't drink or smoke or anything of the sort. But I think it's a travesty that people who are responsible and feel that they need drugs to have a good time are having that right taken away just because of the dumbasses who get into trouble. If the dumbasses do dumbass things the government needs to let them take the consequences instead of taking the right to use drugs away from everyone. Now I know what you're thinking: "Jay, when the dumbasses get in trouble, they'll go to the hospital and the innocent will have to pay for their medical bills." That's why I don't support universal health care. And it's not hypothetically legal drugs that have the innocent paying for the dumbasses' mistakes. In order to prevent that we'd either have to remove any kind of universal health care or take away every right ever. And the latter isn't too appealing to me. Bottom line, intelligent, responsible people should never have to pay for the dumbasses' mistakes, financially or by having their rights taken away.
Now I realize the eradication of universal health care could result in the suffering of a bunch of sick people who can't afford the hospital bills. This is where I differ from other libertarians. While I don't want to give my money to poor people who make stupid mistakes, I am willing to pay taxes to educate people who are gonna put in the effort to learn. If all the tax money that went toward fixing people's mistakes were put into sending people to college, so they could pay for their own mistakes, we'd probably have enough left over to support them while they went. Now doesn't a system where everyone can do the things that they want and everyone has the opportunity to get to the point where they can support themselves sound good? Better than a system where half the things we want to do we can't, and the other half we have to pay for when dumbasses do them in a dumbass way? It does to me. And that's the end of boring talk of politics.
In case you missed it, I don't party. I mean I do party. But sober. I'm straightedge. Except for the part of being straightedge where you're abstinent. But I don't alter my state of mind. I figure I'm altered enough as it is. I don't have anything against people who do, as long as they don't try to make me do it. In fact I like being around high people. They're less inhibited. Enough said.
I attend Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN. It gets down to -20 degrees in the winter, so I have to remember to close my windows or my ipod will break. But it should be pretty sick. It's a small liberal arts school, which means smart kids and professors who actually like teaching.
That's about all I got. Any questions? Ask and you shall be enlightened. Sorry that mofo was so serious. I'm usually pretty silly I guess. But I had to tell you stuff that I think and know, so I did. Talk to me and I promise you will giggle or chuckle or possibly fall off your chair.
Oh, and one more thing. I never do ANYTHING on myspace. Find me on facebook. I'm the Jay Schwartz that lives on Bainbridge Island and is 18.
This is what I look like when I'm getting beaten to death by Poseidon:
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