Early Bird Special: Raaaaaaaandy claims Justin Bieber’s hit song “Baby” is a straight ripoff of his song “Baby Baby” — and he’s got the reenactment to prove it.
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2010 DRUMMIES! Vote for us!
The 2010 DRUM! Magazine Drummies have just been announced. Simply click “Next” to get to #4 - Industry Product Ballot and click SJC. Then click next til you get to #6 - Drummies: Media Ballot, and go down to vote for sjcdrums.com as the “Top drumming website of the year”.. Then click “Done” and the form is submitted!
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Proof of the power of music, and how it can make it any of us feel larger than life. I’ve seen this teacher and his students on youtube before. I wish there were more like him fighting to keep art in schools. I went to high school of the arts in Palm Beach, Florida, in the time from my freshman year to my senior year i had seen a drastic change in the schools curriculum. As a result of Dreyfoos being a public school they would adhere to the boundaries set by the school county. If a withdrawal of arts can take place in an arts school imagine how many kids across the country are being stripped of the same thing in a normal school. All our lives from day one we have the weight of society telling us our path. Middle school, to high school, to college, to a job, to a wife kids and a house, to a mortgage, to a coffin. Everything is set out before us because it’s been tried and tested and “thats what we did so that’s what you’ll do because if you want to be happy you have to do it this way”. Why hasn’t it occurred to the bright minds out there that maybe we all are gifted in different ways and call me crazy but maybe we don’t all have to know exactly what we want to be for the rest of our lives at 17 years old. Or maybe we don’t even all have to do the same thing day in and day out for a lifetime. What the point of life if you don’t get to live it? We are all gifted in many different ways. The winner at the spelling bee can’t paint a mosaic of Italy. Why should academics come first when we barely use them in real life? Why can you deny the most talented basketball player in the school’s history of being able to play because he can’t pass a science exam of atom separation. Find me another scientist out there that’s as talented at basketball as he is. Rather than keying in on making cookie cutter copies of every child that walks through the doors of school we should be giving every kid the option to try as many major’s as he or she would like. Who are you school county commissioner to decide what’s best for someone you don’t even know? I don’t care what you’re report papers say, number’s don’t mean anything. Between you and i, i hope the basketball player cheated the science exam to play the game and honor himself and the school. If i was in his shoes, i would have done it too, because i’d go to great lengths to do whatever it is i’d have to do to shine and play music. Test’s don’t mean anything. If you want to test someone, look at the integrity and dedication to a job. Job of life. How much do they put on the line every day to keep the ones around then happy as well as them selves. Forget about the rules for the next three minutes and listen to the voices (in perfect harmony) of the hearts and minds that are going to carry out everything i put before you. These kids are already setting them selves up to live the life they want to live and they don’t even realize it yet. That say’s a whole lot more than the ones trying to get a nice check from the man for their neat test scores.
-EL
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Friday i’m in love! (:
I dont care if mondays blue, tuesdays gray and wednesday too, thursday i don’t care about you, it’s friday, I’m in love!
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MARCH FORTH, TWO THOUSAND AND TEN
Today is one of my favorite days of the year. Partly because its six months from my birthday which is reminder of how fast each year goes by, but more importantly because of what it means to me. March fourth is a self empowering date which encourages us to continue to strive for our dreams. Getting out our dreams and working in every way we can to get them is what makes the world turn, are you listening people? Let’s march on together as one, together as we work together to make our dreams real.
Hugo Reyes aka Hurley aka The best damn Miley Cyrus music video you will ever see.
Absolutely brilliant
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David and I on one of the biggest HD screens in the world. Have you been on a billboard in times square?
David and I on one of the biggest HD screens in the world. Have you been on a billboard in times square?
Happy Birthday blog. Two years eh? Just like that? Damn. I guess I should make a toast, thats what you do at a celebration right? On tour it’s not always easy to stay in touch with the people you want. Everyday is as busy as the one before it with totally different things you did the day before, and those same things you’ll do day after day after day after day. I started iamelliotjames.com as a way for my friends and family who i didn’t always get the chance to talk to daily to see what i had been doing, where i was at, what i saw, and the stories along the way. Never did I expect it to turn into something that thousands and thousands of people would subscribe too and read every day. I was skeptical at first about writing all my truths in one place about things. Giving a statement to the actions of your life isn’t always easy to justify to other people, especially when i already feel so misunderstood by the world sometimes. Or i should say, not the world, but the people on it. I think the secret to my success in this though has been honesty. Anytime a fan has approached me after a show, come into a chat online, sent me an e-mail, called me out about something that seemed out of place, all i’ve ever done is just be honest. I get the feeling that a lot of times people who are under the light sugar coat their lives a bit more than they are, and although there’s nothing wrong with that to an extent, being honest and straight up with the people that are allowing you to live your dreams isn’t exactly a large payback. I couldn’t imagine reaping fame in my life for something that isn’t me, i always want my message and art to be taken for exactly what it is. Alive. This blog started as an atlas, it’s not only become a gallery of my life but it’s in many ways my therapy. Every so often i come on here and write a longer entry, I’m going to bring that back and start letting people into my head a little more, along with all the other monsters inside of it. My message to you all today. Live high. Be alive. Each morning i wake up and know that i am the boss of my own life. I’m the luckiest man i know to feel all five senses. Weather i wake up on someones couch or my own bed i know that the following day will be an adventure. I don’t have a lot of friends, but the ones that are my best friends know who they are. And they know that anything i would do anything for them, just like they’ve always done for me. I have a beautiful family and a drop dead gorgeous mum who can out cook bobby flay. I have a talented father who taught me everything i know. I have a brother with a snappier mind than me, he’s grade A on paper and in person. I have person who see’s me for me. Who turned me inside out and didn’t mind what was under the wrapping paper. I am only twenty and some of my wildest dreams have become my life. The best part, i can be anything i want to be. I get to struggle. I get to grind and try for something. I even get to fail. Nothing is for certain and one day i will be able to say “i did it all”. And so can you. We have our whole lives to be anything. So i encourage every single one of you to chase your dreams. Your parents might tell you can’t, followed by your friends and society but that fuel you. You are alive and you are amazing. You are beautiful.
I don’t want to be famous. I want to be recognized.
I will be a duck and a swan. I will be a legend.
Too the last two years, let’s have two more. Cheers-
-EL
