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“I found my inner bitch and ran with her” Courtney Love

Posted on July 9, 2010 9:39 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

I’m stalling.

I’ve packed the ashes in my carry-on luggage. The bag that I expect to check is empty. I leave for the airport in seven hours.

As I have maintained, my sleep schedule is beyond unreasonable at this point. I suspect that waking up tomorrow will require two alarm clocks and my cell phone.

I’ve slowly weaned myself off the medications that have slowed me down as of late, which may be why I’m sitting here playing along to Foxboro Hot Tubs and having chord progressions and lyrics float around inside my thick skull.. (rather than pack, or even pretend to get ready).

It feels like the journey is nearly over. Even though I can’t bring myself to believe it was a journey in the first place.

Must be the denial.

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“I thought that our defense stymied them all day, and really played extremely well,” Les Miles

Posted on July 9, 2010 2:05 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

Never underestimate the power of outside influences to screw things up.

My sleep schedule has been inconsistent, to say the least. I was up until four last night. Knowing that I was expecting a delivery from Fedex today, I slept on the couch so that I wouldn’t miss the delivery. Unfortunately, rather than being a regular delivery, it’s a no-longer-available out-of-stock youth sized snowboard for my daughter. So, I needed to receive it today. With my impending travel plans, I couldn’t risk missing it.

So, I awoke at one, and checked the front door. No delivery. I would have heard if someone knocked and even had my home alarm off so that I wouldn’t set it off when I yanked the door open (as I have often done). So, I checked FedEx’s website and sure enough, it said it had been delivered!

The FedEx lady is usually pretty good. Long story short (and an hour later), I retrieved the snowboard from the house two doors down. *sigh*

In other news, I found a completely gorgeous neck-through Robin Machete – for a great price! But unfortunately, I’ll need to liquidate all my guitars (except two) to justify buying it. It’s a gorgeous guitar, but ….now….is….not…the….time. Must….resist!

*Edit* Couldn’t resist….now here.

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Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Posted on June 30, 2010 11:33 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

Do I really need all this crap to write a song? Apparently so. After dragging this all out, I ended up writing a rhythm, a verse and a chorus. Lyrics are not far behind. We’ll see if it actually pans out all the way to recording….

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“They’re not telling Music Row how to record the songs. But I think more than ever before they’re dictating the look and the feel of the genre.” David Bennett

Posted on June 14, 2010 12:19 am by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

SWEEEET!

Finally got all my pro-tools stuff in place, and managed to quickly lay down the rhythm ideas, lead ideas, and vocal ideas I had for this one song.

I’m pretty pumped. I forgot how much fun this is.

(I also forgot how badly I need to practice with a metronome)

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“The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing” John Adams

Posted on February 21, 2010 10:15 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

Ow.

My TMJ is kicking up a storm.

I was clenching my teeth while figuring out a solo. In fact, the solo that had quite a hand in beginning my interest in guitar.

Among the many guitar players that I’ve spoken to, the scene in Back to the Future was one that inspired many guitar players. I’m sure Chuck Berry is pissed. Granted, Chuck’s been shit on pretty much since the 50’s, so his bitterness is well earned.

Finally, thanks to the magic of YouTube, here’s the infamous Chuck Berry vs Keith Richards:

I really wanted to go to VLV 2010 to see Chuck, but I can’t swing it. He’s truly a rock and roll legend.

Here’s some (more) random recent pics of my office…..er….music room.

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“There is a very real brain component to addiction, and society up to now has for the most part has viewed it as failure of will.” Richard Pops

Posted on February 17, 2010 7:37 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

We have entered the culture of lowered expectations – please raise your tray tables and fasten your seat belts, this will be a bumpy ride…..

I managed to get a “B” on my Texas Politics test. I was a little disappointed that it was an “on the edge” B – it was an 80. Although, for the time I put in, I deserved exactly what I got. So, I went to class today and the professor was astonished that our class did so poorly. The class average was 53. FIFTY-THREE. This is a class where we were allowed to use an index card (both sides) with notes for the test!

As it turns out, there were two A’s, two B’s, about 6 C’s, 12 D’s, and the rest were F’s. Freaking amazing. I too was astonished. Just think if I had put some time in on it!

Piano class, I managed to underwhelm myself when I volunteered (too early) for something that I wasn’t really ready for. I thought I was going to get away with not-really-practicing-at-home, but I’m not going to be comfortable doing that. Many of the playing elements are solid, but other parts are not.

For golf class, we went to Mansfield National and hit some balls at the driving range. Now that was fun. Although, I didn’t realize that I was supposed to use my almost-full-stroke yet, so when the coach was saying, “Bring it back more” I’m like, “Huh?”. So I think I’ll be heading to Top Golf this weekend with Rod and hit some balls. Stretch out my aching triceps anyway. Monday was a snowy/wet day so we hit the cardio room. I also hit the weight room and REALLY pushed myself. Ouch.

A student got smart with the RnR History/Appreciation class professor. I couldn’t believe it. He looked like he loved Nickelback and was like, “Duuuude! Why are you talkin’ smack to me?” to the professor. A hush fell over the class.

Stupid kids.

In other news, when in a funk I managed to mangle one of my rims, and I’m in the process of buying another one. Also, got some windshield wiper blades which are Honda year/model specific which is crazy. At least they were easy to install.

The amp showed up – somehow I thought it would be bigger. LOL.

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“I usually take a two hour nap from one to four” Yogi Berra

Posted on February 9, 2010 9:19 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

I took a nap a little earlier and I’m feeling better after this weekend. Friday and Saturday night some friends and I went to a burlesque festival – it was a lot of fun. We ate sushi at some place I’ve never gone on Friday. At the show, drinks were plentiful and made merry – and looked at the pretty girls.

BTW – I totally stole these from my friends since I didn’t take my camera. There were approximately 50 performers total over the two nights, so this obviously is just a sample.

“There’s plenty more fish in the sea” is a very quick, glib way of explaining the truth. And the truth is………………

……there are plenty of women in the world that will “get” you. You just have to seek them out.

I’m working on a project again after realizing that life is short. I’ll update as the project gets harder (which it is already hard, but for some reason I chose superbowl sunday to start again)

My piano class is fun – I keep getting included on the really hard stuff. Two tests coming up this week – RnR History and Texas Politics. I’m really not taking this semester seriously (unfortunately) but I’m sure I’ll be fine. I’ve been practicing guitar like a mofo and I’m happy to report that I’m very pleased with my progress. Woodshedding (when done right) works.

On the way:

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“Walking on a rubber foot is like walking in sand. It compresses under the weight of the body. You get more tired when you’re walking in sand.” Tony Saia

Posted on February 3, 2010 10:12 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

Yes, yes, yes. I’ve fallen off my internet abstinence program. I have my reasons.

Having a sick child monopolize the TV does that to me. LOL

The burlesque festival is this weekend. I’m looking forward to it.

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“To me, music is like air, food or water. I just have to have it. I use it to shut things out when I want to study … it helps pass the time on the long walk to class, and is just my way of unwinding at the end of the day.” – Fred Russell

Posted on January 19, 2010 1:49 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

I’m taking liberty with my “only sunday” posting policy as I went to my music appreciation class today (History of Rock and Roll). Looks like it will be a lot of fun.

The instructor is a professional drummer and is a pretty typical musician professor – laid back, goofy, funny etc.

Before I left I asked him if he took points off for “drummer jokes” but then gave extra credit for “guitar player and lead singer jokes”. He laughed, so I’m off to a good start.

I did answer a bunch of open ended questions that he asked (when everyone else was silent) and I knew every single artist on a survey that he handed out….so this looks to be a really fun class.

He did ask if anyone was a fan of heavy metal – most of the class raised their hand. I didn’t raise my hand but said, “Reformed”.

The girl beside me said, “Reformed? How can you be reformed?”

I just smiled.

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“Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.” Remy de Gourmont

Posted on January 17, 2010 2:44 am by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

Gosh – is it Sunday already?

Time has flown a bit. I kicked some ass this week – spent most of it practicing scales, learning a jazz chord progression and simultaneously watching streaming Netflix (Damn you season 1 of “Lost”!!!)

Other than that, not much else is going on – school starts next Tuesday….with “MUSIC 1306 – History of Rock and Roll”. Looking forward to it.

Found an friend from way back on Myspace (which then transitioned to Facebook) as Myspace still is too cluttered. It’s a shame that Facebook can’t come up with a companion site that deals solely with bands/artists/etc. The “fan” pages don’t do much for me.

There’s a burlesque festival in February that I bought some tickets to. Should be a fun time.

Everything else has been…..pretty quiet.

Nice.

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