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Bobby McFerrin is
INCREDIBLE! He played today at the Phillips Center at UF, and some
friends and me got tickets to see him, even though most of us (including me)
didn't really know who he was. He's famous for the "Don't worry... be Happy"
song, but his talent extends so much more than that. He has an amazing range of
voice, and can do all kinds of noises and sounds with it, not to mention it
sounds incredible. It truly is like another musical instrument. He also is big
on audience participation, and had us singing the "Itsa bitsy spider" song, and
then mimicking some of the beats he created. What makes it so unique is that he
improvises everything he does. He brought out a sax player to do a duet with,
and then brought out UF's star gymnast Orley Szmuch to create a song based on her movements. He ended by bringing out
Bo Diddley to play along with, as they made up songs and just went wild. It was
an AMAZING concert that completely blew me away. If you ever get an oppurtunity
to see him live, definitly do it, you'll thank me later. I am in awe.
I was really sick on Monday, by far the sickest I've yet been in college. I
think I have some kind of stomach bug, because for most of the day all I did was
puke my guts out. A total of 7 offereings were made to the porcelien throne, by
far the most I've ever done in one day. I felt somewhat better by late Monday
evening, and could finally keep food down, but it was not a fun day. This also
marks the first time I've ever missed class due to sickness, but luckly nothing
*too* important was going on that day.
Yesterday I went and saw two local Gainesville bands, Hey Nice Guy and The Busdrivers. They were both
really good, with HNG being more rock/punk and Busdrivers ska. I came out
partially deaf, but it was a lot of fun.
If you're familiar with hard drives, then you know that it's hard to "trully"
erase something. Deleting something from the recycle bin is easy to recover if
you know what you're doing and it hasn't been overwritten yet, and even more
complicated measures have their pitfalls or possible failings. So one guy
decided to make sure no one could read the old data on some old hard drives: he melted them.
I'd say it did a good job.
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