Yes, ladies and gentlemen. We had the honor to go to the house where the all mighty and powerful Rafy Van Halen lives and plays his music. Here is a video of him showing us his magical powers on the plastic guitar.

Just amazing, isn’t he? Powerful moves!

Thanks to María José for the video!

Mwahahahaha!!!! You just wait!! Mwhahahaha!

I’ll explain this later on.

University of Puerto Rico in Humacao band, ready for a concert

Today, I will visit the past. In a few weeks’ time, Universities in Puerto Rico will celebrate a sort of Olympics-type competition called Justas de la LAI (Liga Atlética Interuniversitaria, or Inter-university Athletic League). As expected, most of the bands will participate. This year we, the University of Puerto Rico’s Humacao Campus Marching Band, got the chance to go for the first time and participate with the other bands (Mayagüez and Ponce campuses, along with another one I’m not sure which… I’ll update this later!). We each have to make our entrances with our teams as we would do by default in any random activity we do but the different part about all of this is that we will have a sort of intermezzo made of a few members of each of the bands. Today is the first practice for this intermezzo; it will be held in UPR Mayagüez Campus.

Now, here’s the thing. I studied for one year in the Mayagüez Campus. I loved it. I came to Humacao Campus for my second year and didn’t stop praising the Mayagüez Campus for nearly three years! I never felt I was a part of the Humacao Campus until just recently… and still have doubts. What I was studying there is so much more like me than what I’m studying here. Surely, one changes course over time and, since life works in mysterious ways, I now have a love / hate relationship with what I’m studying… but that’s not what I wanted to talk about here.

Yesterday, while working, I told my boss about this, that we’re going to visit El Colegio (as it’s called). Her reply? “Do come back, please. I don’t want you to fall in love all over again. We need you here.” Right… I hadn’t thought about that since she said it. Crap! But, you know, I’m trying not to worry. I’m going with *my* band. This band has certainly become a family to me. If I have to say something that makes me go to college happily, that I do my best in and actually enjoy… well, it’s got to be the band.

But, I don’t know, I’m just here rambling. Don’t know what got into me. I’d surely love to feel like this more often because I actually get to blog, hehe. I don’t know, I just feel weird. Hehehehe.

It is now 5:34 AM and I am getting dressed to go to college. The band will leave to Mayagüez (located in the west side, the other part of Puerto Rico) at 6:30 AM. It’s normally a two-and-a-half hour trip… but since we’re going in a bus, I think, it’ll take lots of time longer. Yes, I’m prepared: iPod is fully charged, with new games and the whole of the Watchmen graphic novel series in the Photo Gallery (lol); I’m also thinking of taking my Electric Circuits book to do exercises… you know, just for the heck of it. But, I don’t know, I’d surely fall asleep since I’m so tired.

Okay, I will call this a blag: blah-blah-blog. Take care, all!

Do you have any experiences in life that are something like mine? Are you afraid to go someplace that might make your feelings go on a roller coaster ride?

This is a good one for musicians like me. You know you need staff paper to write down your music on but you never have an empty notebook to annotate it all in. I should know, it’s happened to me before.

Well, problem solved, buddies! The guys and gals over at BlankSheetMusic.net have a Flash application that lets you create and print our your own staff paper, all for the low, low price of FREE!

Are you a musicican? Did this site help you out?

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I think I might have found the real reason why I want to buy Guitar Hero: World Tour. No, it’s not because it has some awesome songs that you can play with your friends. No, it’s not because the drum set is so awesome. No, it’s not because it’s part of the Guitar Hero franchise. Want to know why? Well, it’s real easy: Guitar Hero: Metallica. Take a look at the teaser video for the game. Clickthrough to YouTube for HD version.

The game will contain 45 songs: 28 will be by Metallica themselves, while the other 17 will be from Metallica’s favorite bands or bands which have influenced their style. It will be available for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360. Expect to see the game is store shelves in the first quarter of 2009.

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