Owen Lanahan, 15, of Portland, Ore., "watches videos" on his laptop and "texts his friends" under the bedcovers to hide his late-night activities, called masturbating, from his parents.
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What the heck is that? is that a computer he's on?
He's making dope ass beats. His new project is called, "DubStepping it up".
It's a Maschine! A really great composition and performance tool for any kind of music you can make with samples or synthesizers. Depending on how good he is, masturbation may still be the correct description. It's plugged into his computer, blurry in the foreground, which is needed for the Maschine to operate.
In all seriousness tho, "vamping" sounds like the time-honored tradition of trying to have time for yourself during a smothered and over-scheduled adolescence. It might be better if kids — you know, being human beings and all — just had the ability to openly follow their aspirations and schedule their own time so they didn't have to follow their dreams under a blanket without their parents knowing.
Also, Owen, man... your parents are totally gonna find out about what you're doing if you blab to the Times about it, you know that, right?
If "vamping" is cool, call me Miles Davis.
