So i was talking with a Marine today about MRE's. Yes we actually talked about MRE's, a product so common it would be like a civilian talking about toilet paper. Anyway he taold me a recipe for snack made from MRE items. First off you need items from 3 different MREs. You need the oatmeal cookie, a peanut butter packet and spiced apple slices. You also need an MRE heater and something to mix and eat out of. You crumble the cookie into minuscule crumbs. Then you heat the peanut butter and the apple slices. Once the peanut butter is heated you mix it into the crumbs as fast as you can. You make a paste out of this and add it to your apple slices making pretty much apple peanut butter cobbler.

I bring this up to give a glimpse into Marine life that civilians don't often think about. We are always finding ways to replicate the comforts of home using anything we have on hand. Improvise, adapt, dig in!

on Bill Evans and Jazz nerds

First Listen to this
http://youtu.be/8Fhd689Pwak

Now that was awesome. I hope you didn't spend your time reading comments like i did. This is the reason I will never be truly happy. Here I am in a country like Afghanistan with the ability to listen to something like this and instead of appreciating it, my adhd addled brain of a 3 year old thinks "OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH COMMENTS!!!!!"

It's sad. It really is. but i want to listen to this comment.

@theorygeek00, there is a lot more to soloing than just arpeggios.
I think your advice of ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS using arpeggios is VERY BAD advice. It will make your solo's lack variety.
1)"Block chords" will provide a level of depth that can't be matched.
2) Using "Motifs" will provide context.
3) Using right hand "octaves" during a solo will dramatically increase the power of your notes.
Arpeggios are great, but it's a TERRIBLE idea to "ALWAYS, ALWAYS" use them.

Now I don't take issue with any of his opinions. In fact they sound well informed. However Just like i ruined my ability to enjoy this awesome musical awesomeness, theorygeek00 ruined my ability to not write a pointless blog.

Does he understand what youtube even is? I'll bet there are all kind of jazz websites where he and his java sipping friends can argue over #11's and the general audience of that website might give a damn about what that even means!

I love jazz and used to play it nonstop and since i've gotten into other things I figured out why laypeople don't like jazz. Because of conversations jazz enthusiasts have.

It's like trying to watch an X-men Movie with a comic book guy. Not fun.

wagner

Now if you are a Marine who reads terminallance, or you have been stationed in Oahu, you  may have read  the phrase "Wagner loves the !@#$". Now I've known of 2 marines named wagner both out of ohau. I wonder if this statement is meant to apply to either of them. I mention terminallance because that is what caused me to think about this. In a port o john the phrase "Wagner loves the !@#$" is proudly displayed. I have seen this in Pohakuloa training area, 29 Palms and Afghanistan. Someone is mocking Wagner all the way from Hawaii, through the mainland, to Afghan. Wagner if you are reading this. No. All the Wagners of the world. If you are reading this.  Even if your name is not Wagner. I don't think you love the !@#$.

my thoughts on delivering the news of Osama's death

imagine America, the Rock walks tall(yeah i made a movie reference eat my shorts) to the podium accompanied by red white and blue fireworks. He say nothing for five minutes allowing the American people to lose our minds in anticipation. He raises the People's Eyebrow allowing for another cheap pop of adulation from the people. Oh my God he's gonna speak! "FINALLY!! THE ROCK HAS COME BACK TO D.C." which makes absolutely no sense because as president he is almost always there, but who care the Rock is president and he gets to deliver awesome news. He brings the mike up again to speak and deliver the awesome news when "WHACK" a chair hits him, wielded by Triple H his opponent last election. known for smear campaigns and brutal innappropriate physical assault. He grabs the mike to speak when Mick Foley out of nowhere ambushes him with a dirty sock allowing Mr. President to give the news of Bin Laden's death. Go ahead. Say it. I'm immature. But don't pretent you didn't for a second think this would be awesome!

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