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Does anybody else think this is a bad idea?

I have another bad idea: let’s continue to use oil to power our world.

Question: are oil companies truly seeking the best interests of us all or are they ultimately, simply, just trying to protect their bottom line?

Final question (back to my original topic): If you set the oil on fire, will the fire spread all the way back to the off-shore well, consequently blowing up the offending broken pipe itself, along with the very oil source this company has tapped?

Okay, I lied. One more question: who foots the bill for this clean-up – the oil company or taxpayers?

Good overview article about this thing here: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63O27L20100426

It turns out that BP owns the well, and they’re responsible for the clean-up bill. Hardly enough, if you ask me.

One final comment: I *think* I *barely* remember when this other spill happened, about twenty years ago: https://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=exxon-valdez-20-years-later-oil-spill-prevention

Today, for the first time in a couple of years, probably, I sat down at the piano with my music advanced music theory book in hand. I opened it. I read. I played a few chords. I can’t believe how much has slipped away of these past few years. All composers should never forget – and the best do – that there is a myriad of tools at our disposal.

Today, I needed a refresher on augmented 6th chords. Don’t worry if you have no idea what I’m talking about. This is just a group of three chords that composers use to move a piece of music to a new key.

It was awesome. It’s the first time in a long time that I’ve been excited about composing non-popular music (unpopular music?) like orchestral stuff and jazz. Anyway, it made me want to go back to school to study music as a grad student.

I doubt that will happen.

Anyway, if you’ve been thinking about going back to school, I’d love to hear from you about what you’d like to study and what school you think you’d like to go to.