Science Mt. Hood volcano could erupt with little warning and devastating consequences

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    Im gonna nerd out for a second. I just love the violin, and piano, I love how great musicians in general can touch places in my mind that nothing else seems to be able to find. It can relax me, inspire me, make me sad, make me happy. I just love the pureness of orchestra’s, classical music, and just music with no singing really makes my mind work.
     
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    First concert I ever saw was the Iron Butterfly....Inagaddadavida baby...it was in an old tin armory and I was in Jr High School...I think Mountain with Leslie West played that same year and I saw them next
     
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    They sing Henry the VIII I used to sing that to my wife all the time heh.
     
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    The great poets can make the mind work the same way but it requires shutting off your own dialogue to hear it sometimes. Leonard Cohen or Dylan.
     
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    I used to read and write poetry a lot. I still have a love for writing, it just has taken a new form in I write a ton of code, which I think of in many ways like my own creative work.
     
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    As a teen I had 4 albums I listened to often:
    Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
    Enya - Paint the Sky with Stars
    Metallica - Black Album
    U2 - Zooropa
     
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    I can definitely understand that with my mathematical mind. Poetry is fantastic and has a meaning somewhat different for each of us.

    WS Merwin's poem, The Last One, is one of my favorites.

     
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    Everyone knows it but this is mine.

    We Wear the Mask
    BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
    We wear the mask that grins and lies,
    It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
    This debt we pay to human guile;
    With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
    And mouth with myriad subtleties.

    Why should the world be over-wise,
    In counting all our tears and sighs?
    Nay, let them only see us, while
    We wear the mask.

    We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
    To thee from tortured souls arise.
    We sing, but oh the clay is vile
    Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
    But let the world dream otherwise,
    We wear the mask!
     
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    Enya?

    ENYA?!?
     
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    Yeah, her music is very relaxing. Awesome for listening while walking and meditating.
     
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    Dude, you said you listened to that as a teen. The closest a teen boy gets to meditating is masturbating.
     
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    Haha. Well, that was certainly a huge part of it. Walking and meditating at that time was quite easy until seeing a beautiful woman. You know the rest. :biglaugh:
     
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    Did it make walking difficult?
     
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    No, it was more embarrassing than anything. My girlfriend and I were both on the track team and we would work out together all the time. Well, you know how a boy is like with a girl he likes and he's excited. The body does its thing and bam. There it is. At attention you might say. Haha.
     
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    Enya.

     
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    I had the Lord of the Rings sound track, used to listen to that a lot.
     
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    When I was 15 my martial arts instructor got me into TM. The benefits are amazing.

    To this day I can will myself to sleep in about 60 seconds, anytime, anywhere.
     
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    I like jamming with it.
     
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    When I was in grade school starting in the fourth grade and possibly the third grade, they used to play classical music over the intercom in my Oswego grade school. I only recall Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Nutcracker but I'm sure other stuff got played. That's where my love for classical music began.
     
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    My favorites were Mrs. Brown (you've got a lovely daughter), I'm in for Something Good, I'm Henry the VIII I am and A Kind of Hush.
    When I was in the Army and assigned to a school in New Jersey I had a friend from upstate Michigan, Ishpeming, who had a 57 Chevy. We would drive around listening to Hermits Hermits looking for what every young man dreams of, girls. We undoubtedly drove around and listened to other music also but I don't recall it. We both graduated from our school with a new MOS in electronics. I'd give anything to look him up. He's the one that taught me how to properly pronounce sauna (sounah as in ouch).
     

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