Mundane Thoughts or Comments

[Nuuska]

I want to be all done with working for a living!

Are you saying that with your vault having more guitars than all us-continent guitarshops combined - you do not have the US-equivalent of THIS - it is very small - no need for large space

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Are you saying that with your vault having more guitars than all us-continent guitarshops combined - you do not have the US-equivalent of THIS - it is very small - no need for large space

No.

 

[spoox]

So today I put on that same Hawaiian shirt to meet my new health coach. The phone rang and I answered it wearing only the shirt after my shower.
Glashtyn my Manx looked at me and didn't react. He's sitting on my lap at the moment cleaning my arm. "So--what about the shirt from hell?"
"Eh, what shirt? That? What are you talking about?".
So I guess that trauma is gone from his life...

 

[PreacherBob]

This stuff will probably even find it's way into the ocean and take out a few sea turtles before it's over. Living in a beach town I can't begin to describe all the crap washed up on the shore every day. Other than plastic bottles, the worst things seem to be plastic netting, sippy-cup straws, and plastic tampon applicators. At least broken beer bottles eventually tumble into something decorative.

Yeah now after I‘ve read some articles on this plastic landscape netting, I’m really surprised it’s not been banned. It never rots, I’ve had 30 year old netting get wrapped around my weed eater spool. Though I did see a company that makes it out of something biodegradable, looks like old hay twine.

 

[PreacherBob]

If humans sleep for 1/3 of thier lives (supposedly), what percentage do cats sleep? I see our 8yr old cat asleep in different places in the house throughout the day, but I’ve never seen her walk to get to those places. Our other cat lives in the garage but goes out after breakfast. I found he sleeps in the old corn crib during the day before coming back in for supper and bedtime. I’m lucky to get 6 hours a day. Just how do they do it? I really need to know this Information….

 

[fronobulax]

If humans sleep for 1/3 of thier lives (supposedly), what percentage do cats sleep? I see our 8yr old cat asleep in different places in the house throughout the day, but I’ve never seen her walk to get to those places. Our other cat lives in the garage but goes out after breakfast. I found he sleeps in the old corn crib during the day before coming back in for supper and bedtime. I’m lucky to get 6 hours a day. Just how do they do it? I really need to know this Information….

Answering possibly rhetorical questions the rule of thumb I have heard is that a cat sleeps about 16 hours out of 24.

The fun part is trying to get as many of those 16 hours to overlap with the 8 hours the people spend sleeping. The flip side, waking the cat up when the people are awake doesn't seem to have the desired success.

 

[gjmalcyon]

Trying to get tickets for Billy Strings at The Met in Philly in November. A mere 1,300 people in queue ahead of me.

<<sigh>>

 

[Opsimath]

Trying to get tickets for Billy Strings at The Met in Philly in November. A mere 1,300 people in queue ahead of me.

<<sigh>>

And yesterday I hung up after the recording told me I was number 6 in line - but not for any ticket purchases.

Good luck on the tickets!

 

[gjmalcyon]

And yesterday I hung up after the recording told me I was number 6 in line - but not for any ticket purchases.

Good luck on the tickets!

Nope.

I did learn that I need to queue up a heck of a lot sooner than I did.

 

[PreacherBob]

Trying to get tickets for Billy Strings at The Met in Philly in November. A mere 1,300 people in queue ahead of me.

<<sigh>>

Now you replied to this thread a few weeks ago,

“Intermission at Al Di Meola at The Levoy in Millville, NJ.

I'm burning all my guitars.”

So if you really didn’t burn them then, I’m guessing you’re just a glutton for punishment
When I want to see some guitar playing, I just go over to the local feed store and watch the guys playing inside on stools. Now that does always seem to still give me some hope, but barely.

 

[gjmalcyon]

Now you replied to this thread a few weeks ago,

“Intermission at Al Di Meola at The Levoy in Millville, NJ.

I'm burning all my guitars.”

So if you really didn’t burn them then, I’m guessing you’re just a glutton for punishment
When I want to see some guitar playing, I just go over to the local feed store and watch the guys playing inside on stools. Now that does always seem to still give me some hope, but barely.

Yeah, I guess I'm a masochist.

I have the same "burn the guitars" reaction when I see Tommy Emmanuel or Andy McKee.

 

[Nuuska]

I remember my reaction when I saw Stanley Jordan tapping away solo. I thought "Why am I even trying?"

I'm still tampering my guitars - but fortunately I have no false expectations - sometimes someone even wants to listen when I play

 

[PreacherBob]

I would almost wager all my guitars that you guys are be overly modest, and I’m pretty sure I would be the one burning my guitars after sitting in with you for a spell

 

[PreacherBob]

I’m wanting to try learning a new instrument, something different and obscure. Thought about harmonica. But then I saw this for sale. $5k but hey it’s a short life. 1910 resophonic violin. I think I can learn to play it, but will need to move out I’m pretty sure. Oh it comes with the nice OHSC.

 

[Midnight Toker]

^ would love to play that thing just out of curiosity. The price is definitely obscurity/interest based. For 5k you could get an insanely good Bohemian violin from the early 1900's whose tone and projection would even turn the heads of $30k+ Cremona violin players.

Fiddling about on my late 1800's violin through my dual amp guitar rig w/ octave and hall reverb.

 

[davismanLV]

PB how would you know if it needed a "whatever" reset?? I mean.... I'd be lost. Okay, I AM lost.

And as I've said before, I don't play because I'm good. I play because I enjoy doing it. It makes me happy. For a brief moment in life.... things are copacetic.....

 

[JohnW63]

I need to learn to relax when I play, if there's anyone watching. I play WAY better when it's just me, one of the dogs, and a YouTube backing track. Still, I enjoy doing that, like Tom said, it does make me happy.

 

[spoox]

I'd love to have a Stroh Hawaiian guitar or ukulele. I do have an incomplete single string "Jap" fiddle I bought in London in 1975.
As I recall they had a band in "Boardwalk Empire" that featured Stroh violins.

 

[Midnight Toker]

I need to learn to relax when I play, if there's anyone watching. I play WAY better when it's just me, one of the dogs, and a YouTube backing track. Still, I enjoy doing that, like Tom said, it does make me happy.

There are indeed varying disciplines of playing an instrument. The one that brings me the most joy is indeed playing for myself, if anything just for the freedom of exploration. On the other hand, the discipline of learning a piece....and beating your self silly w/ repetition until you can play it purely on muscle memory and you can play it start to finish w/ your eyes closed. (Which can be laborious, if not outright painful) It takes woodshedding to get there.....but then you will have no problem playing w/ confidence in front of company. People of all skill levels CAN achieve this. Experts in minutes, novices in a few hours a day for days.... but it's doable for all. And let me tell you...putting a smile on someone else's face by your playing is...priceless! The ultimate high.

 

[PreacherBob]

I’m wanting to try learning a new instrument, something different and obscure. Thought about harmonica. But then I saw this for sale. $5k but hey it’s a short life. 1910 resophonic violin. I think I can learn to play it, but will need to move out I’m pretty sure. Oh it comes with the nice OHSC.

Ok. So after supper I subtly disappeared into “The Room”, that secret room that only my trusted butler Alfred knows about, and stood amongst all my guitars. I thought hard about which ones to sell to pay for the resophonic violin. Oh maybe after three or four minutes, I turned the light off, exited the room and retired back to my recliner. I can retrieve enough coins under my furniture cushions to buy the harmonica instead….