5.00 AM / April 5

I now truly believe that since watching Man U win the treble I will never be able to see Man U play a good match. You see, I don't have cable and since TV rights have sky-rocketed I pretty much have no soccer to watch. But thanks to an external antenna(I don't even know if this is spelt correctly), I can watch the UEFA Champions League through an intercepted transmission of Malaysian and Indonesian free-to-air channels. And seriously, every time I watch Man U play it never looks like what I read about in the papers. I know that this is Europe's premier club competition but come on...Being outplayed more times than I can count on my fingers and not being able to answer back is kinda retarded.

I think I know the problem. Man U's first team is stellar while their reserves are like Man City(I know this dosen't make sense). I'll try to explain. Except for a few notable players (i.e. Park, Solksjaer, Heinze,etc) there is no considerable quallity in their reserve side. It's only made up of a group of players who have never really made enough of a mark to really own a place in the first team. Example : O'Shea. He's been in the team for a considerable amount of time but has yet to really show that he can own a place in the first team. The most he can do is make cameo appearances in the form of a late substitute. Other than that, he hasn't really stepped up. But when it comes time for them to step up they stutter. So when crunch time comes (and this usually happens during the Champions League) they seem to under-perform. Thus the bad performances that I am left with to watch.

Jamming this Friday again. It feels so good to jam again. Last Friday was a blast and we jammed in the best studio I've been in ever. There was actually space to walk around. There was even a sofa. Cool right? And damn this new band is great. I don't know if it's permanent but it sure is great. I was playing bass and I didn't have to worry about anything else. Everyone kept in time except for a few slip-ups where we forgot the arrangements but it was great overall. I got two songs to learn, Razorblades by Story Of The Year and Sleepers by Saosin. Sleepers is a tough song to learn. The riffs are just all over the place but I managed to grab a hold of it quite fast. Now I'm just left with memorizing the arrangement for Razorblades and I should be ready. Can't wait to jam. But one little thing...We need a VOCALIST!

5.53 AM / March 26

As you can see above on the top of this window, I have changed the title of my site. No more Mutilated Mind. I don't even know what that meant.

I remember way in sec 4 Lisda always asked me what 'subliminalintellect' meant and to a certain extent I haven't really given her a proper explanation. So here it is...

Here's what I know. The brain at any point of time is only a very small amount of its power to process everything we do. The rest of it is the subconscious mind. Aware but not really in use.

What if the subconscious mind could grow in power to become sort of a secondary conscious mind? The subconscious mind still processes stuff, just without your knowledge. So what if you leave the stuff usually processed by the conscious mind to the subconscious mind to deal with?

I don't just listen to music half of the time. I try to decipher it. Break it down to guitars, bass, vocals drums and whatever else that could be in there. Quite a tough thing for your brain to do. Takes time. But I don't have that time. I have to study most of the time you see. Either that or something else. So I just do it while I do something else.

Amazingly, there are times that I realize that I actually have figured out whole songs even though I don't sit down and listen to them. I find myself able to re-create the timings and general riffs of the whole songs in my head without really remebering listening to the songs that often. But not really to the exact chords or lyrics. Things like drum-pedal timings and general switches in timing.

Sooner or later, I could figure whole drumming sequences while doing things like studying or reading. This pretty much amazed me. Was I just simply slacking off or was I actually using my subconscious mind more effectively?

I'm still very much fascinated by the power of the subconscious mind. This is what subliminalintellect is based on and what it represents. Being able to comprehend and understand without really realizing it. Not just in everyday mundane circumstances, but in more amazing situations where you pretty much turn it into a superpower. Imagine reading about Biology while listening AND understanding a lecture on Physics at the same time.

The power of the subconscious mind is an untapped resource at most. Make full use of it.