Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Awwww Ya!

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!

Finally got my amp yesterday...It fucking kicks ass! Now I just have to keep fooling around with the knobs so I can get the sound I want...I'm close but still needs a little more. Pretty sure I played for a solid 5 or 6 hors yesterday, which is more than I've played in a long, long time. Played for another hour today, and cleaned a little of my house today. I was going to clean the whole thing out and take some crap to the dump but when the amp came in I just said screw it.

I've been listening to Dream Theater lately and it's making me realize how a lot of the guitarists that I have idolized in the past(Kirk Hammet mainly) and thought played so fast really weren't that fast. John Petrucci plays twice as fast and it sounds really fucking good. And it's not just really fast up and down scales. He's got some complex fucking patterns going on. And he still knows when to slow the fuck down to make it sound good. Now don't get me wrong, Kirk Hammet is still a great guitarist, but maybe he isn't as good as I always thought.

Been thinking about my future expenses. Once I get my amp paid off I'll just be paying for the car, which will only take me a couple years to pay off. Assuming that I am able to get an cheaper place to live in I'm going to buy a new instrument...well, two of them. I'm thinking a keyboard and a guitar. The keyborad will probably be on of the $200-300 ones from Cleo's where as the guitar I'm gonna save uo and buy a Gibson(SG or Les Paul...haven't decided yet but leaning towards the SG) But I'm not sure which one...The Gibson will be a lot more expensive but I think as a guitarist it would be a better purchase. So, in typical Andrew style I'm going to try and not make this choice and have you the reader tell me what to do. Now seeing as I have no readers I think this might take awhile but I can wait....


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Oh right...I have to post this first....chow!

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Stuff

Man, crazy.

Got my new eye glasses yesterday..the auto tint(Or transistions as the fancy people call them) is really nice..I can see with out the blur or the sunlight...It's great.

Also got my car yesterday..a 1997 Monte Carlo. Bought it from Anders...It's a pretty sweet fucking ride. I believe I am going to enjoy that car.....a lot.

And today I went to check and see if my amp was in...The week could have been perfect..New glasses, new car...new cabinet. That's right, only the cabinet(speakers). Seems the amp itself is on back order. Frankly I'm really pissed off at Marshall right now. They are one of the largest(if not the largest) amp makers in the world and they can't seem to make amps...It's been three fucking months. Now I get to stare at a cabinet mocking me for who knows how much longer. It's retarded.

And the bright side though...the cabinet is huge and very, very sexy.

Pan's Labyrinth - A young girl tries to escape from the man her mother is marrying by completing tasks to prove herself as the princess of a great underground kingdom. This was a pretty good movie with some good effects but I thought the story progressed very slowly, especially at the start. But it had some very good characters and monsters and some really gory scenes so all in all I think I will give it 7.5 eyeballs in hands out of 10