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FunkyJoshua
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Name: Joshua
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: nacogdoches
Birthday: 7/17/1982
Gender: Male
Interests: My fiancee, Playin and lovin the basses in my life, Music, video games are fun, reading, movies, chillin
Expertise: Bass, Music
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
AIM:  Funky Bass Guy
Member Since:
2/1/2005
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| Wow, it has been a long time since I actually wrote anything on this page. Too much has happened to actually reproduce it in prose...but I'll give you some highlights I guess.
I got a new amp! Now I'm no longer a ghetto free-loader of amps!
I'm now getting a masters of art in music theory. Yes, I'll end up being the next theory teacher of the decade, just you wait!
We had to put our dog to sleep. Let's have a moment of silence to remember the wonderfully awesome Precious.
I'm having to buy new pants because I'm the fattest I've ever been. A big 140 pounds!
Missed out on the Europe trip with SFA becasue I got sick before we left. Unfortunate!
Arranging a song for jazz band, should be awesome, I'm not going to spoil the surprise!!!
Wasting time with my xbox 360!
Barbara and I have been married for ONE YEAR as of June 4th. WOWEE!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Fireworks)
That's about the exciting news in my life. I'll mention more exciting things soon!
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| What can I say? Um....let's see......
A couple of days ago, Barbara and I went to BBQ House for dinner. Well, we were the only people in there when an older gentleman came in and asked me if I owned a silver Corolla. I said yes, and he told me he had backed into me. I was upset, but it's an accident. Now, since it wasn't his vehicle...the company that owns it just wants to cut me a check. Seems shady to me, but we'll see. Just sucks that my "family sedan" is now Ghetto....at least more than it was....
This semester has come and gone. My first graduate semester is finally done. It ended with an analysis paper over a Schoenberg piece (serialism), a 13 page paper over the beginnings of rock and roll, a take home Advanced Analysis final, and a 3 part marathon Bibliography final. So far I have a 4.0...though I'm still waiting on my bibliography grade. That's exciting!!
I also am now the Theory and Jazz Graduate Assitant. I'm now full time and have added the theory stuff. I'll mostly be grading and documenting assignments (such as the evil MacGamut stuff), proctor tests, and perhaps someday fill in for a teacher and teach the class. That will be fun, and I'll also have the jazz stuff too. More money equals a happy Joshua.
Our first married Christmas is upon us. We're leaving Wednesday to spend a bunch of time at Barbara's family. Then Christmas afternoon we'll head down to my family and spend a couple of days there before returning sometime Tuesday afternoon before my church job kicks back in. It will be great for both of us to relax and take easy; however, my break is much longer than Barbara's. She'll also get to spend a lot more time than usual with her family, which I know she wants to do.
The only other thing is a sad one. My amp has died. Warranty has expired. It was during the beginning of a gig so I was kind of SOL for a while. Luckily we had a backup means of amplification. It was a great sounding amp, it was just too bad that two of them failed to meet what should've been quality assurance things (a jack fell off, and the speaker and it's connections fried). I'm currently in the process of purchasing an Acoustic Image Contra amplifier. It's 400 watts and only weighs 20 pounds. That's like 40 less than this current amp and it's like half that wattage. It's also 750 bucks more than this one I have. At 950 bucks it's the greatest thing on the market for me!! Here's hoping it happens soon!!!!
Come on Spurs, stop suckin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is all for now. I waste all kinds of time everyday, and I've worked too hard and need too much of a break. I'll let you know how cool my Christmas was later!!! Take it easy!!!
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| I'm trying really hard to do this homework, but I'm not that into this
stuff. Actually, I'm just not feeling school right now. I enjoy
playing, and I guess I'm just ready to play. I don't know what I
want to do with my life other than play music. I don't think I
wanna teach or anything, but I may be wrong. I just enjoy playing
jazz, rock, pop, even classical at times when it's not redundant beat
you to death because the other people can't play stuff day. I'm
even diggin playing some bass solos, though I will never be good enough
to play classical solos other than in my lessons.
I don't know. Figuring out what research books I'd use for what
purposes and other classes that I will have to take (however, I'm very
intrigued by the theory stuff) is not something that will interest
me. I just love a good groove, nothing else ever compares.
I think that's what I want to do for a living. Groove.
I have my friends back home. I think it would be awesome to jam
and make it big playing. I've played in many "bands," but never
one with any inspirations. If you haven't heard Dean sing (he
sang at my wedding), he's one of the most incredible pop singers (which
is completely different to me than the classical stuff they teach here)
I will probably ever know. He writes really good stuff (you
should hear the "present" he gave me at our wedding, it is one of the
most incredible songs I have heard in a while). I think it would
be awesome to take it on the road and just groove. If I didn't
have to worry about help supporting my FAMILY, I would be down there as
much as possible doing just that. Not to say that I regret
getting married because I could not be happier. I love being
married to Barbara, and she has in no way hindered me from pursuing
this dream. More like the idea of failure and making actual money
has hindered me. I know, sounds silly, but I'm more worried about
having food on the table for my wife than being a rock star.
Groove. I think that's where my heart will always lie.
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| YAY!!! Other than constant sweating, I'm feeling a bit better
today. I even had Chicken Express. Now I Just have to
completely heal.
You know what I hate, people. More specifically, people that say
one thing and completely do another. Like people that give you
advice on something or say that they would never do something, but
never tell you that they're doing that and much more. I won't go
into details on here that's for sure, but let's just say I know people
that are doing things like that. Holier than thou ideas are silly
and hypocritical.
Now all I gotta do is a test and a paper! YAY!!!
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| I just threw up twice....I think I ate some bad meatloaf last night at cotton
patch...or maybe Kenny's evil virus has finally won the
battle.......we'll see....not the best start to my already busy weekend
of homework and tests. That is all.
EDIT: I'm starting to feel a little more normal, but now I can't
decide if I'm hungry or if I feel sick again. I might try to eat
a little something, then maybe something good will happen......now,
that is all.
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