first off: adding club soda to de-sparkled, sparkling pomegranate juice does not re-carbonate it.
okay... it DOES, but... you get the idea.
i used to blog because i was angry/frustrated/upset/sad/drunk. lately, i'm the opposites of those things.
aside from drunk.
despite all my awesome ideas and adopted suggestions for bands*, i ended up in another indie punk band, and i LOVE it. writing music and actually PLAYING it for and with people is really exciting. it's been years. the past 18 months or so i always looked at my guitar (scarlett) with a bit of a sneer. see, scarlett wasn't cooperating; i wanted to be able to pick her up once a week and be the most amazing guitarist ever. apparently, she's not into that idea. she wants my TIME and DEDICATION. she told me if i played for more than 45 minutes a week, i might actually get better and (gasp) write a new song or two.
she was right!
after playing guitar for 10 years, i'm happier with my playing than ever, though i'm not as good as i was two years ago. that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but i'm subbing in better musical ideas for technical skill. as in:
tasteful phrasing > sweep arpeggios
original progressions > sweep arpeggios
solid harmony > sweep arpeggios
playing supertennis made me really sore and tired. for those who don't know:
THE RULES OF SUPERTENNIS
1.) find an empty set of courts.
2.) one player stands to the right of the net, inside the service line on one court, the other person stands in the same position, facing, two courts away.
3.) one person yells "SERVICE" and hits the ball as hard as they can.
4.) i'm not exactly sure what happens here, but it usually involves a lot of running around and crashing into chain link fences.
i'm making up for this shitty, uncarbonated, recarbonated drink with straight brandy. ugh.
an extremely close friend of mine is in a state of emotional turmoil, due to the stabbing of his heart by someone he loved very much. this is upsetting to me. it's one of those situations where you really WANT to give good advice, but you're incapable of doing so because your OWN track record is SO TERRIBLE, that the friend would politely listen to your advice and respond with appropriate "yeah"s and "definitely"s, only to later remember whom they received said advice FROM and do the exact opposite of what was suggested.
as they probably should.
pretzel logic by steely dan is one of my ten favorite albums of all time.
in an attempt to further my marketability as a future firefighter, i have submitted my application to join the united states coast guard. i'm not sure if you heard about this, but we're in some kind of economic downturn. municipal fire departments don't have enough money to hire people regularly, and this is just flooding the pool of firefighter candidates. i think the estimate for the amount of applications SFFD received during their last hiring period was 10,000. the estimated amount of available jobs was something like "as low as 40 and as high as 200." not great odds, either way. USCG would give me:
1.) a livable wage
2.) veterans preference when applying for firefighter jobs
3.) money for paramedic school
4.) a life experience i've wanted for going on three years
i just hope they don't turn me away for medical history or other nonsense. REBUTTALS!
USCG: so it says on your application that you've used marijuana?
ME: yeah, i got kinda used to it when i was doing chemotherapy. the cancer went into remission, but my need for weed did not.
USCG: you had cancer?
ME: yeah. fought and won one, man.
USCG: and you have a titanium rod in your leg?
ME: just call me steve austin.
USCG: like stone cold? i loved wrestling.
ME: *eye lasers*
did the six million dollar man have eye lasers? before my time. oh well.
*SUGGESTED:
Elliot Sith - Screamo band that dresses up in star wars costumes and only plays elliot smith covers. thanks @joshkinkade
IDEAS:
GOLOBULOUS - G.I. Joe (specifically G.I. Joe the [animated] Movie) themed doom metal band.
Deathboard Confessional - straight-up dashboard confessional covers with growling, death metal vocals.
Probotector - NES covers. http://www.myspace.com/probotectorrocks**
**SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION.
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If you feel like you can't give good advice, don't feel guilty. You're his friend, and he'd probably just want to know that you're there for him, rather than what you'd consider to be misguided advice.
ReplyDeleteAlthough if the exact opposite of the advice would be a positive, maybe it's a good thing :)
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