Min effort, max results
Earlier in the week I got inspired to study for my Math exam. (This Saturday at 7:00 am…yikes!) It’s amazing how much useless Math you can forget in 3 1/2 years. Of the 40 questions on the practice test, I forgot how to do 10 of them, leaving me with a sucky 75%. In true slacker fashion, I looked online to see what the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania required as a minimum score. Lo and behold, a 136/200 would make me an ordained Pennsylvania High School Maff teacher. Hahahahahaha, a 68%, a “D”. Shizz brotha, I can score a “D” any old time in anything! Needless to say, I put down the Math book, and wasted my time elsewhere!
I once took an “Education” class in which the grading scale was 0-69 F, 70-75 C, 76-100 A. No D’s, no B’s. Guess what I scored? A 76, an “A”. Bill Ayers was the professor, no lie. Though his mouth moved, I recall hearing little. (Punk) Band practice would end 2 minutes before class started. Here’s the kind of crap we were playing/recording. That’s me on guitar. Don’t judge, it was 1991.
Hay that sounded kinda good. The vocals were a bit hard to hear but that has nothing to do with your talent. Why are you teaching math? You should be on the road!
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Time to get back to your slacker roots and relearn how to sleep in (at least on weekends, for cryin’ in a bucket!).
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Nice! I liked it a lot!
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getting back into teaching again? nice
your guitar playing is awesome, what tone did you use?
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Rock!
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Greetings from Schaumburg! I never knew you were in the Violent Femmes! Good luck on the exam, tell me at the party how it went!
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no, i’m not real serious about teaching again…but i should have my credentials in order in case something drops in my lap. it might be fun to teach for a year, just to get out of the house a little more.
the guitar i was playing belonged to the bass player. i think it was a gibson sg jr, or something like that. is that a guitar? he owned it because the dude from minor threat/fugazi, ian mckay played one. kind of silly. the effect pedal was a crappy low end red dod distortion pedal. the unique sound has more to do with the mics we used, and the analog 4-track. the mics were some ancient junk that we found in the bass player’s attic. also i think the recording was done at way too high of a level, adding some nice distortion. it would have been a train wreck if it had been digital.
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Ian McKaye is the guy you want to model your musical career after. That’s not a call to go straight edge or anything though.
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where’s the cowbell?
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