I have been playing electric bass for about 1 1/2, 2 years and I found out during the summer that my new upcoming school only offered an orchestra position for basses! I panicked! I had two choices:
a)I could ask my electric bass teacher to give me a lot of stand up lessons over the summer […]

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I just finished watching on dvd One Tree Hill Season 3 for like the 5 BILLLLIONTH TIME!!! I’m sure many many people write it off as some teen drama, which it inevitabely is, but it is also amazing. I watch a lot of tv, once, for reasons unsaid, I was grounded from watching tv […]

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Here is a perfectly wonderful video of one of my favorite bands, playing one of my all-time favorite songs, ‘With Arms Outstretched’ at an amazing tiny little place in LA called the Hotel Cafe. SSSSSadly it is 21+ so Iiiii can’t go there but anyways, this is just wonderful.
—–note On the recording of this song […]

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Hello all!
I want to contribute from my new discovery of the ability to post youtube videos on GHQ……….so HERE WE GO!!!!
I’m about to post an amaaaaaazing song and video by a band called Iron & Wine made up of Sam Beam. He also directed this warm video! You may know him from the Garden State […]

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GUESS WHAT I’M DOING THIS WEEKEND!!!!
I am starting this insane music workshop thing called the “Alternative String Group!!!” At school, in my strings class, (I play electric-bass and stand-up bass,) my teacher had her two friends come in to talk to all of the classes about music, their instruments, and the mini-school they run in […]

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Well, tonight’s MTV Video Music Awards definitely opened up my eyes to the fact that I’m getting older! I thought tonight’s production was mediocre, but did have its highlights. The excessive flashing lights, constant changing from one party to another upstairs at the Palms casino, and performance after performance were awfully distracting from […]

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Okay, so I don’t want to be infantilizing at all here: I think young women are totally entitled to their sexuality and it is really dissapointing how our society assumes that young women should be asexual until marriage or age 30 (it’s okay if it’s a choice, but pushing asexuality on women can be really […]

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Lately I’ve been pretty tired, just sleeping to much I think and I dunno, have been feeling like I’ve been in a weird funk. I think I’m mad at myself for so many different reasons, and didn’t really want myself to be happy. But, of course, you have a way of being helpless and defenseless […]

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I just read a quote that I truly fell in love with….
“Let the distance keep us together”
song title:
Bright eyes, Britt Daniel & Spoon:
Home, Vol. 4

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PASTE ROCKS!
I would love to to blurb a bit about my favorite magazine EVER!!!!!!!!!
Paste magazine!!!!!!!! Get ready, because this ramble that follows may conjure up a huge gust of wind that will blow you back in your seat a bit, so prepare and find a good and ready position.
Paste, “signs of life in music, film, […]

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