Now because the quality with the new setup might be aweful, I’ve got a solid audio recording I made just in case. Check it out:

And because the audio is horrible, a recording of just the song was made here.

And for those of you who love those lyrics, check them out here: Jake Williams song

I’ve seen a lot in my life, some of which I wish I’d never seen. I see people who are so lazy and yet they slip by the system and make their way through life until they meet a wall. Then they hit the wall like a fly hits a windshield at 70 miles per hour (pardon the gross analogy).

I’ve also seen the ones that powers that be would describe as possessing “potential”, or being “bright”. There’s nothing wrong with that. The problem is when the system gets the chosen few under their thumb and use the gifts and talents that they posses in order to obtain more money from states that freely give it to those who qualify. I would like to equivalent this to an offering that ancient Mayans made to the gods in order to have a good harvest. This would often involve a human sacrifice in a bloody ritual, with one less farmer in the city after the ritual was completed.

It’s hard to be a teenager. We just try to wander through life and hope not to end up like that fly I mentioned earlier. Right here I would offer some advice on how to beat the system and rise up to be our own people, however that is to be saved for another blog post. I am here just the same as you. I would like to make my way through just fine, but there seems to be no happy medium. I hope that over these next couple of posts, a series if you will, we can explore what it is that keeps us down, why it’s wrong, and how we can rise through the ranks to expose improper expectations and rebel against what they currently stand for.

God has a plan for your life, like he has for mine, and I hope that we can understand that there’s a reason why you are reading this post at this moment in time.

Here’s a really cool video I saw a while ago and I think It’s appropriate for this topic, it’s more of a song than a video (includes Spanish subtitles):

Please feel free to comment below with questions or just what you think about this new series of posts.

It’s pretty cool. I just folded up the bags once they were cut up into flat sheets, and sewed the sheets that I got from there. After adding some straps, which took way longer than expected, I got what you see above. Kinda cool eh? I even learned how to sew. I’ll be going on a missions trip leaving sunday and I needed a bag to carry some extra stuff in. The cool part about this is that the whole thing is recycled, except for maybe the velcro used to hold it shut. Check out the video below and try making your own bag.

So while watching Church Media Design (churchmediadesign.tv), host Brad Zimmerman talked about this church who in a promo video decided to rather than use gratuitous amounts of after effects work, they decided to mount a powerful projector onto a generator and projected onto the ground as they drove a truck and filmed the whole thing. The whole combination of things provided a stunning video that required no post-editing and no excessive computer generation. More on Ken’s blog (http://www.avclub.us/2009/05/19/now-what-series-open/). Enjoy!

So for the last day of school, we walk our schedules and visit our new teachers. Allow me to review my teachers in order of the day.

French 5 – Madame Mahalidge – Madame wasn’t in school today and therefore can’t be reviewed. However, there’s only like 7 people in my homeroom. Nice small, and not that loud. Thumbs up!

AP Composition – Miss Zarzecki – I haven’t heard the best from her former students, I hope she’s gotten better. Two books to read, and some summer work that will take some time, but is not that bad.

Web Design/Gym – Miss Yanko – Glad I have friends who’ve had her before. She reccomends a prior computer course. Forget that! I’ll take my chances! (note sarcasm)

Honors Pre-Calclus – Mr. Dennis – Laid back and really knows his stuff. I’ll probably pass normally without becoming a favorite student or anything.

AP Euro – Mr. Burns – This class I’m most excited for. I’ve heard some really good things about this teacher and I look foward to his class. Those of you who know anything about his room understand.

Honors Physics – Mr. Rhule – This guy looks intresting. Shaved (I think) head and really abstract in his ways. He looks harmless I guess, but I’ve said that about several teachers before.

Music Performance – Orch./Chorus – Music + Jeff = Happy. Need I say less.

All in all, I’m really excited for this upcoming year. For now however, I just want to enjoy my summer.

Listen to it here:

And play it for yourself by getting the chords HERE

Say for example you were in a tennis court (I’ve had this happen to me a lot) and one of the players hits the ball such that it flys out of the court and is just out of your reach. With the force, instead of having to:

• run around the court to the door
• run out to the ball
• pick up the ball
• and run back to the court

one could just

• use the force to lift the ball back over the net
• keep playing

Still not convinced? What if you were running late to a class or some big event and you needed to cross a flat surface quickly? Without the Force, you would have to:

• jog or sprint
• be out of breath
• become sweaty
• still take a long time
• drop anything you’re carrying in the process

but with the force, you could:

• force run to your destination
• continue without looking like you’re late

Are you still not convinced? Consider the common crowded hallway. There’s 30 seconds to the bell and your teacher is totally strict and won’t cut you any slack. Without the force you would have to:

• push your way through the masses
• learn about how salmon swim upstream (I’ll give you a hint, it’s not easy)
• make some not nice friends
• and possibly not make it to class on time

Now consider the force. If you had the force, you could just:

• activate your awesomely cool force powers to run on the wall
• make it to class on time while impressing all

Need I say more? Now for another simple question, what other superpowers would be cool to have? And better yet, is the Force really a superpower? Comment below on your thoughts.

P.S. On the subject of Star Wars, what Force post wouldn’t be complete without a good lightsaber duel?

(not my video, but still cool anyway!)

Cat’s played. I was declared a varsity usher.

National History Day state competition. I didn’t win. But I learned a lot.

I twitter. http://twitter.com/jeffersonbenson Don’t worry, I’ll still blog.

I’ve also begun to write songs. Check it out:

And by popular demand, here’s the chords for both songs:

Hope and Despair Chords and Lyrics

The AP Testing Song Chords and Lyrics

Then I decided that any good movie needs to be made by a production company.After bouncing around several ideas that were already taken, I finally arrived at Jeff Benson Productions. I am personally not thrilled with the name but it’s the best I could come up with. So now I throw it out to you readers and fellow bloggers, what should I name my production company?