There are no conventions in my country. ;-(

This advice is perfect for me...sometimes awareness is half the battle.

Good point, SarDeliac!

Drumeo.com looks professionally done...the videos look awesome...definitely not one of those shoddy 'fly-by-night' websites.

The Haskell W. Harr books look great! I played some of the exercises and they seem to have a nice balance of challenge and fun for me.

Thank you kindly for the book suggestions and advice, captainfez!

So if I understand you correctly, you mean to say that I should focus on rudiments, rudiments, rudiments and even more rudiments? ;-P

Forgot to add: I also breathe out as much as possible, then I start drinking.

Yep! I do this as well and it works 99.99% of the time. The only thing I add to your method is that I hold my nose while swallowing, so that it creates slight suction in my nasal cavity.

I love this movie with every fiber of my agnostic being.

Does anyone know any good resources for playing both snare drum and drumset? I am quite interested in both, and I did dabble in snare (in a band) for a short time, but I would like to continue on my own for my own pleasure.

Grandma couldn't play Yahoo bridge

This is bullshit. The entire Caribbean is missing.

I am definitely more emotionally sensitive than I am physically sensitive...so can I consider myself a 'highly sensitive person'?

First, I honestly didn't guess the identity of the traitor.

I am madly in love with 'America Fuck Yeah!'.

You don't know Jack!

I just want to give you a hug...

Just a tad too much Warp Stabilizer when he edited in Adobe Premier.

When I bake, I 'clean' the metal beaters of hand mixers by licking them.