happy day to everyone!
Well, let's cut to the chase eh? What kind of haul did i get this year? Well, let me tell you something, christmas isn't about presents, it's about caring, and people!! For shame.
I had an amazing day. And i hope you all did too.
I scored a digital camera, which is fantastic, because not only do i get a method with which to remember next semester, but i get to share pictures of myself with the lot of you. It really is a gift for everyone. Mostly you.
I also got a gift certificate at a jewlery store, so i could have all of my modesty medals polished.
Sheesh. It's a good thing I think i'm clever. Because there's no way i'm convincing anyone.
Moving on, i also got a fantastic book, called "zen guitar" and it's really cool. I wouldn't be at all surprised if i shared some of the book with people through the blog. Not now, but soon. Very soon.
Dorian bought me a flask. Thumbs up for that one.
I got two shirts, a winter hat, a gift certificate to future shop and a pair of pajama pants. Or whatever title they go by when they're sold alone. Long boxers. Picture it. Ooooh, that's hot. I think the important thing, is that they (like over ninety percent of my boxers, are plaid).
Plaid is an oddly spelled word, eh?
This can probably end now. Happiness to everybody!
I figure, as long as i act happy and natural, then the people who have grown to love me will continue to do so. I shouldn't really say act, cause i dont want to imply that it's good to behave in a way that doesn't come naturally. I just think that i shouldn't let negative thoughts interfere with the thoughts and actions that have made me the person i am. Cause i like who i am, and odds are, you do too.
My last exam is tuesday, i'm hopping a plane wednesday, and getting home on friday. I cant wait for friday to arrive. It's so close.
Sometimes, i worry about exams, and i worry about my marks. I worry about whether my dreams will be realized. I worry about the possibility in sinking myself into a life that i cannot become successful in.
Today, after studying for a few hours, i saw that it was snowing outside, and i thought that everything is pretty cool right now. Fear of failure is possibly the worst reason to not try something. Bottom line: a beautiful snowy evening made my troubles disappear.
I think i'm going to go to the mall, where every day this month is christmas eve. What a time to be alive.
I am really far from sober, with a double dose of substances affecting my doings.
And i'm listening to radiohead.
Earlier, when i was in the basement, my roommate and good friend, tony, made a comment about how radiohead reminded him of pink floyd. I was impressed, and very pleased with this comment, because i had never listened to them on the same level.
I love music. I really started to love music when i was 17, for christmas that year, i got 2 matthew good band cds. 1 3 doors down cd. heh heh heh heh. and an our lady peace cd (spiritual machines, which i've recently become increadably fond of). And with those cds, i began to really really enjoy music. And it's made me happy.
I can hear that tony and possibly fatty, are watching trailer park boys, and that's awesome, because it's an awesome show. Totally rad, and totally awesome.
Awesome.
The important thing, is how much i'm being entertained by writing this. Oh, if you could see me. Oh my. Rediculus.
I'll be back in a moment.
The radiohead cd had ended, and i was finding myself lonely without music. Or something like that. So, I think i was trying to talk about radiohead before getting off track on talking about how i became interested in music. I've decided to start with the music one.
When i got those cds for christmas i got very interested in music, but only as a fan, i guess. A short 5 months and 9 days after christmas i got a guitar for my birthday. And that was really excelent. How much it has changed my life for the better is alot. Poorly worded sentance, my sincerest apologies.
Uh, Short attention span. every time i start a new paragraph, i try to remember what i was talking about.
and by starting a new one here, i become even more confused. And i laugh, because i realize that i'm outsmarting myself by typing faster then i can remember what i'm talking about. Haha. Oh silly me.
Hmm. Back to radiohead. I might be wrong just started. I'm listening to the live radiohead cd. So it's really really good for me right now. But yes. I'm talking, and i'm saying that since tony told me how radiohead reminds him of pink floyd, i've totally seen them in a new light. I just had a thought that made me want to talk about me starting to love music again.
I think i got off track when i was talking about when i got my guitar.
In order to get off track again, i should mention a thanks to kent aitken, for teaching me how to play crash into me by the dave matthews band on the first night that i owned a guitar.
Huge thanks, two paragraphs worth.
But yeah, i might be wrong is just about to get to the awesome part. And while i was writing that sentance, it did. It's rocking me right now. So good. wow. I should give ed more credit, i always kinda put him down in order to stress how much i loved johnny, and i guess that wasn't fair. Ed is likely pretty sweet.
Morning bell, morning bell.
Release me.
Wow, so, anyway, at one point or another, i was talking about music. I started to play guitar on june the fourth, 2001. And i'd say there was a point in mid augest, when i went to scott montomerie's house, (and i must say he's a cool guy, if anyone know's him) but yes, i was in his house, and Brad Meulenkamp (or whatever the prefered spelling of his name is) and Chris Robison were there. And chris had his guitar, and scott had his guitar. And someone had rented a videogame. Some sort of fighting game if my memory serves me correct. And at one point in the evening, or afternoon, actually, scott put a song on a cd, and started playing along with the melody that came out of the stereo.
And this was amazing. The music had such a great feel to it. I was also particularly impressed with the deftness of scott's fingers as he played the song.
I ended up trying to learn the song, this was early on in guitar, back when i knew a few dave songs, basically just crash, two step, and the intro to tripping billies, i think i also played alot of 3am by matchbox twenty, if that helpes anyone set a timeline for when it was.
At any rate, the song that i was learning, that i heard at scott montgomeries house was Street Spirit. And that's what counts. Street Spirit (fade out) by radiohead, incase anyone wasn't sure.
I loved to play this song on guitar, it was really great fun, i loved the sound of it.
I've always stressed to people that the moment when you enjoy the sound of what you're playing on the guitar is the moment that will dedicate you to the instrument. I dont think i ever used those words though. who says instrument? like in a common saying. like y'know whatever.
On a different note, I loved this song from day one, and started trying to learn many songs on the bends, as well as alot of dave matthews band songs.
These bands were basically what taught me guitar. I did get lessons, however. Six of them, from my mom, for christmas in 2001, and they were appreciated. But i wouldn't really consiter myself entirely as a player who's had lessons. If that means anything. Some people pride themselves in saying that they were self taught, and although i'd think it was silly to brag of something of that sort, i wouldn't necessarily catagorize myself as not being self taught.
I may have gotten off track. I think that i was at the point in my story where i started playing dave matthews band and radiohead on guitar, and i got some lessons. Yes, that's what i was going to say. Yes! Score! Dude? Okay, well, i took a short thinking break, and upon rereading what i'd written, i've found that i have to remember what i was going to say, because i seemed enthusiastic when i said "yes that's what i was going to say." i remembered that the following yes, with the exclamation point was written with a sense of sarcasm, but i still forget what i had intended to say.
Success, memory prevailed, and i was going to say that as some people consider themselves to be self taught, and some people consider themselves to be taught with lessons or what have you, i would consider myself taught by the writings of thom yorke and david j. matthews.
And that's the tooth!
Hey! that's cool! I stole a big cool beer bottle from the bar tonight!
I bought a pitcher of moosehead, and it came in this big green bottle that was huge. And now i have said big green bottle. and it's pretty awesome. it's on the fridge.
I said to tony at one point that considering what i know, i am really happy with how i did on my latest exam. He seemed to think that was a funny thing to say. Maybe it wont sound funny because i delivered it differently, But the important thing is that i have one exam left, and it's on the 16th, then i'm going to feel much more like a million dollars.
Okay, so here i am, liking radiohead a whole bunch, as per normal.
I remember when i decided that they were my favorite band. Dave matthews had been my favorite for a while, after dethroning matt good summer of 2001 (in the months following getting a guitar, coincedence? NO@#@) Your tiny hands, your crazy kitten smile. Just dont leave. Well, those are some frigging nice lyrics. I think.
One thing i just started wondering, is if i would be different as a guitarist now, and as a musician, if there were matthew good band tabulature books for sale. Because if there were, i would've owned them, as such, i mainely just owned radiohead tab books, and dave matthews tab books. I think i was always interested in the tone of radiohead songs, but the technique of dave matthews.
The cd ended again, I may have been talking for a while, But i tend to enjoy long posts, both making and reading, so no harm. New cd. I'll be bark in a juffy.
Since i figured i'd want to talk more about radiohead, i put on Kid A, shit it's good. Shit. Everything.
Everything.
Everything.
Everything...
in it's right place.
Wow. So good.
So yeah, lemme see. I thought this was pretty exciting, tonight tony was saying that me and chris were writing riffs that were comprable to radiohead's guitar. and this made me feel nice inside. Tony and Jessica were both saying nice things about the workings of chris and i. And in that guitar is very important to me, it made me happy.
I may have lost a necklace tonight. The one that i bought in the store that jenna worked in. I'd be really disapointed if i did. Cause i liked it.
So yeah, i think the main reason i wanted to post was because i saw the laptop lying here, and i thought it'd be fun to do a high post, especially one that i'm drunk for.
I think i should mention this. Earlier today, we were watching america's funniest home videos. I dont think we were dealing with alot of selection. There was this woman, a fairly old woman i should mention, and she had a surprise party thrown for her, and she walked into a room, and when everyone jumped out, she feinted. and when she came to, she started looking around in shock, and remembering what was going on, she started crying tears of joy. When this happened, chris said "Y'know what that proves? Girls are girls untill they die".
I think fatty slapped him, it was allround an enjoyable event.
Pink Floyd has made me look at music differently. It has become less of something that is listened to, more of something that is experienced. And since learning about pink floyd in all it's splender, i've learned to appreciate radiohead on what feels like a higher level. Heh, it's a pun.
Radiohead is still my favorite band. I'm pretty sure i have to put dave matthews second. But it's difficult. I dont see how i could not put matthew good in third, but when i think about coldplay, it seems like everything but first is up in the air. I mean, coldplay is fucking good.
But yeah, i think it'd be increadably difficult to round out the top 5. For me, personally.
I thought one good quote for the evening was fatty saying that radiohead "wasn't even music". It was just such a great way of putting it on another level, made me happy.
Wait, i think i've discovered it.
My top five, can be rounded out with the fine work of ben folds five. That man can write music. That man can write a story.
So yeah, i'm glad i figured that out. I thought about saying floyd, but that's why i was reminded of fatty's quote, cause i think that floyd, on one sense isn't really music. It'd be almost unfair to compair it to anything else.
That's kinda how i see radiohead as of now. But it's playing, and it's hard for other bands to compete with that right now.
I think i'm going to grab some food. Let's have a good winter.
Wide Eyed and Full written by matt nathanson, performed by me.
Matt uses a twelve string, so my sound is less full, but it went okay. I feel like explaining where my errors were, and apologising for lack of quality, but that's retarded. So i'll just leave you with this even more retarded message. "Baaaaaaaa, Hissssssssss".
your move dave.
Oh, right, and i bought a plane ticket, i'm in halifax on the 17th, at 2:10. I'm going to be getting a drive to pei on the 19th. I'll be there with bells on.
Love you all. And to all a good night.
What's new? Glad i asked.
I still havn't gotten my student loan, so i'm still relatively poor, although i have gotten money from the mother, which has been helpful. My exams are tomorrow (5th), the 9th, 11th, and 16th.
I broke my front tooth last thursday, which sucked, cause i was going to go to a christmas party on friday, but i looked like a tool. Ian got some pictures of me, and i had a hat on all day, so my hair is pretty straight and greasy, it's a pretty rad picture, i'll put it somewhere when i have it.
Chris and i played an open mic on tuesday, and it started poorly, and got better as it went on.
We played shiver, brick, karma police, Our drop-d song, happy together, then chris played my name is jonas, and he tore it up, except for the outro, but nobody cared. We sat down for a bit, listened to some other dude, then i went back up and played go to sleep, and wolf at your door. Then chris joined me and we played two more originals, fall asleep, and troubled words.
I was told the improvement as the show went on was exponential. Turning point was playing our drop d song, it went pretty well. By the time we played our last two, we did well, although i forgot a part to troubled words. meh.
So yeah, exams, tooth, guitar. that's everything new by me. But more importantly, hows by you?
Well, let's cut to the chase eh? What kind of haul did i get this year? Well, let me tell you something, christmas isn't about presents, it's about caring, and people!! For shame.
I had an amazing day. And i hope you all did too.
I scored a digital camera, which is fantastic, because not only do i get a method with which to remember next semester, but i get to share pictures of myself with the lot of you. It really is a gift for everyone. Mostly you.
I also got a gift certificate at a jewlery store, so i could have all of my modesty medals polished.
Sheesh. It's a good thing I think i'm clever. Because there's no way i'm convincing anyone.
Moving on, i also got a fantastic book, called "zen guitar" and it's really cool. I wouldn't be at all surprised if i shared some of the book with people through the blog. Not now, but soon. Very soon.
Dorian bought me a flask. Thumbs up for that one.
I got two shirts, a winter hat, a gift certificate to future shop and a pair of pajama pants. Or whatever title they go by when they're sold alone. Long boxers. Picture it. Ooooh, that's hot. I think the important thing, is that they (like over ninety percent of my boxers, are plaid).
Plaid is an oddly spelled word, eh?
This can probably end now. Happiness to everybody!
I'm coming home today, should be in by nine or so.
I figure, as long as i act happy and natural, then the people who have grown to love me will continue to do so. I shouldn't really say act, cause i dont want to imply that it's good to behave in a way that doesn't come naturally. I just think that i shouldn't let negative thoughts interfere with the thoughts and actions that have made me the person i am. Cause i like who i am, and odds are, you do too.
While i was trying to study today, i found it impossible to remove the outro to politik from my mind. It's so good. I'm going to put on the dvd as soon as i get home.
My last exam is tuesday, i'm hopping a plane wednesday, and getting home on friday. I cant wait for friday to arrive. It's so close.
Sometimes, i worry about exams, and i worry about my marks. I worry about whether my dreams will be realized. I worry about the possibility in sinking myself into a life that i cannot become successful in.
Today, after studying for a few hours, i saw that it was snowing outside, and i thought that everything is pretty cool right now. Fear of failure is possibly the worst reason to not try something. Bottom line: a beautiful snowy evening made my troubles disappear.
I think i'm going to go to the mall, where every day this month is christmas eve. What a time to be alive.
I dont think i've ever been this enthusiastic about a post.
I am really far from sober, with a double dose of substances affecting my doings.
And i'm listening to radiohead.
Earlier, when i was in the basement, my roommate and good friend, tony, made a comment about how radiohead reminded him of pink floyd. I was impressed, and very pleased with this comment, because i had never listened to them on the same level.
I love music. I really started to love music when i was 17, for christmas that year, i got 2 matthew good band cds. 1 3 doors down cd. heh heh heh heh. and an our lady peace cd (spiritual machines, which i've recently become increadably fond of). And with those cds, i began to really really enjoy music. And it's made me happy.
I can hear that tony and possibly fatty, are watching trailer park boys, and that's awesome, because it's an awesome show. Totally rad, and totally awesome.
Awesome.
The important thing, is how much i'm being entertained by writing this. Oh, if you could see me. Oh my. Rediculus.
I'll be back in a moment.
The radiohead cd had ended, and i was finding myself lonely without music. Or something like that. So, I think i was trying to talk about radiohead before getting off track on talking about how i became interested in music. I've decided to start with the music one.
When i got those cds for christmas i got very interested in music, but only as a fan, i guess. A short 5 months and 9 days after christmas i got a guitar for my birthday. And that was really excelent. How much it has changed my life for the better is alot. Poorly worded sentance, my sincerest apologies.
Uh, Short attention span. every time i start a new paragraph, i try to remember what i was talking about.
and by starting a new one here, i become even more confused. And i laugh, because i realize that i'm outsmarting myself by typing faster then i can remember what i'm talking about. Haha. Oh silly me.
Hmm. Back to radiohead. I might be wrong just started. I'm listening to the live radiohead cd. So it's really really good for me right now. But yes. I'm talking, and i'm saying that since tony told me how radiohead reminds him of pink floyd, i've totally seen them in a new light. I just had a thought that made me want to talk about me starting to love music again.
I think i got off track when i was talking about when i got my guitar.
In order to get off track again, i should mention a thanks to kent aitken, for teaching me how to play crash into me by the dave matthews band on the first night that i owned a guitar.
Huge thanks, two paragraphs worth.
But yeah, i might be wrong is just about to get to the awesome part. And while i was writing that sentance, it did. It's rocking me right now. So good. wow. I should give ed more credit, i always kinda put him down in order to stress how much i loved johnny, and i guess that wasn't fair. Ed is likely pretty sweet.
Morning bell, morning bell.
Release me.
Wow, so, anyway, at one point or another, i was talking about music. I started to play guitar on june the fourth, 2001. And i'd say there was a point in mid augest, when i went to scott montomerie's house, (and i must say he's a cool guy, if anyone know's him) but yes, i was in his house, and Brad Meulenkamp (or whatever the prefered spelling of his name is) and Chris Robison were there. And chris had his guitar, and scott had his guitar. And someone had rented a videogame. Some sort of fighting game if my memory serves me correct. And at one point in the evening, or afternoon, actually, scott put a song on a cd, and started playing along with the melody that came out of the stereo.
And this was amazing. The music had such a great feel to it. I was also particularly impressed with the deftness of scott's fingers as he played the song.
I ended up trying to learn the song, this was early on in guitar, back when i knew a few dave songs, basically just crash, two step, and the intro to tripping billies, i think i also played alot of 3am by matchbox twenty, if that helpes anyone set a timeline for when it was.
At any rate, the song that i was learning, that i heard at scott montgomeries house was Street Spirit. And that's what counts. Street Spirit (fade out) by radiohead, incase anyone wasn't sure.
I loved to play this song on guitar, it was really great fun, i loved the sound of it.
I've always stressed to people that the moment when you enjoy the sound of what you're playing on the guitar is the moment that will dedicate you to the instrument. I dont think i ever used those words though. who says instrument? like in a common saying. like y'know whatever.
On a different note, I loved this song from day one, and started trying to learn many songs on the bends, as well as alot of dave matthews band songs.
These bands were basically what taught me guitar. I did get lessons, however. Six of them, from my mom, for christmas in 2001, and they were appreciated. But i wouldn't really consiter myself entirely as a player who's had lessons. If that means anything. Some people pride themselves in saying that they were self taught, and although i'd think it was silly to brag of something of that sort, i wouldn't necessarily catagorize myself as not being self taught.
I may have gotten off track. I think that i was at the point in my story where i started playing dave matthews band and radiohead on guitar, and i got some lessons. Yes, that's what i was going to say. Yes! Score! Dude? Okay, well, i took a short thinking break, and upon rereading what i'd written, i've found that i have to remember what i was going to say, because i seemed enthusiastic when i said "yes that's what i was going to say." i remembered that the following yes, with the exclamation point was written with a sense of sarcasm, but i still forget what i had intended to say.
Success, memory prevailed, and i was going to say that as some people consider themselves to be self taught, and some people consider themselves to be taught with lessons or what have you, i would consider myself taught by the writings of thom yorke and david j. matthews.
And that's the tooth!
Hey! that's cool! I stole a big cool beer bottle from the bar tonight!
I bought a pitcher of moosehead, and it came in this big green bottle that was huge. And now i have said big green bottle. and it's pretty awesome. it's on the fridge.
I said to tony at one point that considering what i know, i am really happy with how i did on my latest exam. He seemed to think that was a funny thing to say. Maybe it wont sound funny because i delivered it differently, But the important thing is that i have one exam left, and it's on the 16th, then i'm going to feel much more like a million dollars.
Okay, so here i am, liking radiohead a whole bunch, as per normal.
I remember when i decided that they were my favorite band. Dave matthews had been my favorite for a while, after dethroning matt good summer of 2001 (in the months following getting a guitar, coincedence? NO@#@) Your tiny hands, your crazy kitten smile. Just dont leave. Well, those are some frigging nice lyrics. I think.
One thing i just started wondering, is if i would be different as a guitarist now, and as a musician, if there were matthew good band tabulature books for sale. Because if there were, i would've owned them, as such, i mainely just owned radiohead tab books, and dave matthews tab books. I think i was always interested in the tone of radiohead songs, but the technique of dave matthews.
The cd ended again, I may have been talking for a while, But i tend to enjoy long posts, both making and reading, so no harm. New cd. I'll be bark in a juffy.
Since i figured i'd want to talk more about radiohead, i put on Kid A, shit it's good. Shit. Everything.
Everything.
Everything.
Everything...
in it's right place.
Wow. So good.
So yeah, lemme see. I thought this was pretty exciting, tonight tony was saying that me and chris were writing riffs that were comprable to radiohead's guitar. and this made me feel nice inside. Tony and Jessica were both saying nice things about the workings of chris and i. And in that guitar is very important to me, it made me happy.
I may have lost a necklace tonight. The one that i bought in the store that jenna worked in. I'd be really disapointed if i did. Cause i liked it.
So yeah, i think the main reason i wanted to post was because i saw the laptop lying here, and i thought it'd be fun to do a high post, especially one that i'm drunk for.
I think i should mention this. Earlier today, we were watching america's funniest home videos. I dont think we were dealing with alot of selection. There was this woman, a fairly old woman i should mention, and she had a surprise party thrown for her, and she walked into a room, and when everyone jumped out, she feinted. and when she came to, she started looking around in shock, and remembering what was going on, she started crying tears of joy. When this happened, chris said "Y'know what that proves? Girls are girls untill they die".
I think fatty slapped him, it was allround an enjoyable event.
Pink Floyd has made me look at music differently. It has become less of something that is listened to, more of something that is experienced. And since learning about pink floyd in all it's splender, i've learned to appreciate radiohead on what feels like a higher level. Heh, it's a pun.
Radiohead is still my favorite band. I'm pretty sure i have to put dave matthews second. But it's difficult. I dont see how i could not put matthew good in third, but when i think about coldplay, it seems like everything but first is up in the air. I mean, coldplay is fucking good.
But yeah, i think it'd be increadably difficult to round out the top 5. For me, personally.
I thought one good quote for the evening was fatty saying that radiohead "wasn't even music". It was just such a great way of putting it on another level, made me happy.
Wait, i think i've discovered it.
My top five, can be rounded out with the fine work of ben folds five. That man can write music. That man can write a story.
So yeah, i'm glad i figured that out. I thought about saying floyd, but that's why i was reminded of fatty's quote, cause i think that floyd, on one sense isn't really music. It'd be almost unfair to compair it to anything else.
That's kinda how i see radiohead as of now. But it's playing, and it's hard for other bands to compete with that right now.
I think i'm going to grab some food. Let's have a good winter.
I'm thinking this was several months overdue. But here it is.
Wide Eyed and Full written by matt nathanson, performed by me.
Matt uses a twelve string, so my sound is less full, but it went okay. I feel like explaining where my errors were, and apologising for lack of quality, but that's retarded. So i'll just leave you with this even more retarded message. "Baaaaaaaa, Hissssssssss".
your move dave.
Oh, right, and i bought a plane ticket, i'm in halifax on the 17th, at 2:10. I'm going to be getting a drive to pei on the 19th. I'll be there with bells on.
Love you all. And to all a good night.
I'm pretty sure i just had to post. It's been too long.
What's new? Glad i asked.
I still havn't gotten my student loan, so i'm still relatively poor, although i have gotten money from the mother, which has been helpful. My exams are tomorrow (5th), the 9th, 11th, and 16th.
I broke my front tooth last thursday, which sucked, cause i was going to go to a christmas party on friday, but i looked like a tool. Ian got some pictures of me, and i had a hat on all day, so my hair is pretty straight and greasy, it's a pretty rad picture, i'll put it somewhere when i have it.
Chris and i played an open mic on tuesday, and it started poorly, and got better as it went on.
We played shiver, brick, karma police, Our drop-d song, happy together, then chris played my name is jonas, and he tore it up, except for the outro, but nobody cared. We sat down for a bit, listened to some other dude, then i went back up and played go to sleep, and wolf at your door. Then chris joined me and we played two more originals, fall asleep, and troubled words.
I was told the improvement as the show went on was exponential. Turning point was playing our drop d song, it went pretty well. By the time we played our last two, we did well, although i forgot a part to troubled words. meh.
So yeah, exams, tooth, guitar. that's everything new by me. But more importantly, hows by you?