Inspiration must come after despair

It's an issue, always an issue - how do you run a three-people band?

One bassist, One Drummer, One guitarist.

Someone has to sing!

I've come to the level when I can sing to simple syncopated rhythms. Like let the chord ring and you sing over it. It's the easiest way to sing, play, and dance at the same time.

I thought I was getting somewhere lah, and yes I'm getting somewhere, if not for the 7th month processions going on. Readings and projects automatically fill that void, if not for a fervent desire against symbolic violence against children. It's largely their fault that children all across the world do not have very bright futures, and they deserve the upheavals against child labour. Unfortunately no one mainstream enough seems to understand that it's really their politicians' fault that there's so much sand and grime in our children's lives.

Heck, even the term "Child" is a intrinsically violent term lah. Who is a child? Who is not? If I label people from other countries as "Others", can I avoid calling them "Children"? That way I do not have to extend the children rights in my country to your country.

Sometimes common sense is not enough. If you're advocating/campaigning/mobilizing a cause, and if you're using the tired rhetorics that the bigger, 'global' NGOs are using, and you seem to feel like you're doing the world a whole lotta good, then chances are you're doing negative stuff man. The need to inculcate personal habits of critical thinking and deep reflexive rationalization of your cause, WHY you are fighting it, and the reasons you give - are they sound? Read up more, incorporate a wide base of diverse opinions on the matter. Don't get bought into some flimsy pamphlet printed on 'green' paper. It's your responsibility to reflect on what kind of social change you want to see - and to do that you need to expose yourself to wide range of diverse, sometimes even opposing views. I personally believe in the dialectic practice, clash two opposites together you know, and the end result is something much stabler than what you had previously.

That's why I find it imperative that in this period of my life, I listen to radically-different music that is at once quirky, progressive, sometimes very funny too, and all capable to cover at least 2 or 3 of human emotions. I'm listening to The Fall of Troy now, and damn.... I've never come across anything so smooth yet so radically-prog. Here's a video, but you know you can always listen in the player at the side, provided they dun give you a stupid 30 seconds preview.

I mean, how in civil music society does the bugger do it?? Sing and play such complex lines like nobody's business. If you can teach me how to do it I don't mind being your sociology tutor for the next 2 sems.

I feel I've fallen to the deepest darkest despair after looking at the trio play. Three-people band leh!!! And it's not like Breaking Benjamin the kind of ring-the-chord-and-sing-over kind leh. Wah lao.

On a lighter note, there can only be Inspiration after despair. This promises to be the next level I'm getting to.