Today's soundtrack is A Perfect Circle: Eat the Elephant, which is everything I hoped for and more. It's wonderful to finally hear Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan's voice again after so many years. The lyrics are, of course, thoughtful and thought-provoking. It's one of those albums that I'd love to sit down with the lyrics … Continue reading 10.09.2018: Special Edition – One Moth Meme (and studying for pre-calc test)

Today's soundtrack is Breaking Benjamin: Ember, a hard rock album that ticks all the boxes for me. It has heavy guitars, the drums sound huge, and the vocals are alternately singing/screaming. The production is very sterile, almost over-produced, but in this case, it works. The album reminds me of a cross between Project 86, Pillar, … Continue reading 10.08.2018: One Lesson of Math – Formula Sheet for Sequences and Series

Today's soundtrack is Parquet Courts: Wide Awake, a fun and funky punk-inspired indie rock album. This afternoon, I'm learning about infinite geometric series. We learned in this September post that geometric sequences can be either finite or infinite; by extension, we would assume that the associated geometric series would also be either finite or infinite, … Continue reading 10.07.2018: One Lesson of Math – Infinite Geometric Series

Today's soundtrack is Netherlands: Black Gaia, an album that I don't really know what to make of, but I do genuinely enjoy it. The band clearly has tons of influences; throughout the album, I heard sounds and riffs reminiscent of Ghost, High on Fire, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Talent, Devin Townsend, and Gojira. The only … Continue reading 10.1.2018: One Lesson of Math – Geometric Series

Today's soundtrack is Jesus Piece: Only Self, a 30-minute technical hardcore masterpiece that borders on deathcore, kind of like what I think a collaboration between Hatebreed and "The Unspoken King" era Cryptopsy might sound like. Really good stuff, with lots of memorable moments. For example, I love the tongue-in-cheek Six Feet Under-esque breakdown on "Dog … Continue reading 09.30.2018: One Lesson of Math – Geometric Sequences

Today's soundtrack is Myles Kennedy: Year of the Tiger, a solo album by the singer of Alter Bridge, the band that Mark Tremonti is a guitarist in. It's interesting that Alter Bridge is the middle ground of these two artists' solo efforts: Mark Tremonti's solo albums are very heavy, almost metal; Kennedy's "Year of the … Continue reading 09.29.2018: One Lesson of Math – Arithmetic Series (2/2)

Today's soundtrack is The Advantage: Elf Titled, a really cool instrumental Nintendocore album that features prog rock covers of classic NES-era video game tunes. This evening, I'm working on arithmetic series, which are related to arithmetic sequences. An arithmetic sequence is a set of numbers with the same difference between each one (2, 4, 6, … Continue reading 09.26.2018: One Lesson of Math – Arithmetic Series (1/2)

Today's soundtrack is Thee Oh Sees: Smote Reverser, a band that, despite their tech-death style album art, is actually a psychedelic garage-punk prog band. It's really a bit misleading, but I'm glad for it in the end, because it's really a good album. I especially love the final 30% of "Sentient Oona." This evening, I'm … Continue reading 09.21.2018: One Lesson of Math

Today's soundtrack is Haircuts for Men: Solo Works Discography 1982-2016, a chill v a p o r w a v e album that's perfect for homework. I'm bypassing the Randomizer's activity today; I want to start off my math course on a good foot, so this afternoon I'll be doing a quick review of what … Continue reading 09.18.2018: One Lesson of Math

Today's soundtrack is Natalie Prass: The Future and the Past, a neo-disco album with gorgeous harmonies and intriguing chords. I have fallen in love with her song "Hot For the Mountain." This afternoon was the orientation day of the math course I'm taking. While I was going over the introductory refresher assignment, I discovered that … Continue reading 09.17.2018: One Lesson of Math