The Near Edge of Violence

So it’s been almost two years since I posted a totally new “about me,” and as is the nature of life, I’ve changed so much in those two years. I’m eighteen, I live in Ocala, Florida (it’s not too far from Orlando), and I like music. I’ma senior in the IB program at my high school, I’m part of the FIRST robotics team that was founded by one of my best friends this year, and I’m in band (I play percussion, but I used to play oboe). Mainly, though, I play guitar and bass, and am a big fan of Dance Gavin Dance, Protest the Hero, O’Brother, Periphery, and Vildhjarta. I want to go to college to study music (more specifically either Music Education or Music Production and Engineering), preferably at Berklee College of Music in Boston. I’m originally from Massachusetts and I miss the Boston area so terribly much. I’m not a huge sports fan, but I’ll watch a game of something every now and again (I like rugby. I don’t know why, either). I am a nerdfighter (see the vlogbrothers on YouTube if you don’t know what that is), a beardlover (Wheezy Waiter on YouTube), and I abso-fucking-lutly love parentheses. When I have spare time, I’ll read (David Foster Wallace is my favorite author right now, though that changes quite often) or watch YouTube. People tell me that I think too much, but it’s probably just a side effect of being analytically-minded. I hate when people say the following things, but it’s an about me, so what the hell: I don’t believe in religion (I’m not necessarily an atheist, I just don’t see organized religion as doing as much good in the world as an overall moral and ethical population), I am okay with drinking and drugs and a lot of the people who do that stuff and a lot of the people who don’t. I don’t understand vegitarianism from anything more than an intellectual standpoint, but I applaud people who can go without bacon. It’s none of my business what your views about premarital sex are, but my rules are love must precede it, period. As long as you can back your political views up with a logical argument, I will probably agree with them at least partially. Mainly, I think that if we altered society to reward honesty, logic, and ethics our problems would be solved. That said I get emotional a lot, which clouds my judgement. And I also get rambly. So yeah.