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Jordan & I stayed up way too late playing music. Despite feeling pressure to go to bed so I could wake up properly, I was completely over taken with the music.

Waves of songs pulsed through the room vibrating our guitars, violins, vocal chords while we strummed along in sweet bliss. We learned some new tunes and even visited some of our own works. I had a chance to bounce one of my tunes from the distant past off Jordan and it completely came out with a fully realized direction and emotion. No words, just tonal sounds and character in the nonesense words that formed the melody.

Nights like these are too rare in my opinion. When the world is mostly asleep, the blanket of evening gives the air an energy that you can feel. Knowing that I “should be in bed” is all the more reason to let my brain wander into those corners that would normally be missed during slumber. It’s like that feeling you get as a teenager sneaking out of the house for the first time and seeing the world asleep at 1AM - how excited, nervous, and free you feel walking through the field dimly lit by the stars and the distant football field lights.

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the Network Neutrality issue being under heat in Congress lately. I do urge you all to participate and help keep your most versatile form of exercising your first amendment right to freedom of speech from being hindered by corporations. It’s one of the freest places you can find, exchange, and post information without hindrance! (Weird to be able to sum that up in one sentence.) If this passes, well, you can kiss that entire convenience goodbye as big corporations scramble to pay for their preferred spot on your internet connection. I’m not here to preach though - go to the website to find out more.

http://www.savetheinternet.com/

That being said, I watched the video by Moby and frankly, it sucks. I would have expected a high school student to make a better video than what he ‘created’. It almost seems he’s being sarcastic and un-interested in really making a point to get people involved in this issue. Having staged actors and immature skits completely turned me off to his delivery of the message. Feel free to watch and be let down by the poor quality of the vid.

So disregard some people’s delivery of the same message. Try and do something about the freedom of your internet. We can’t always count on Google to save the day.