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New Song Weirdness

Talk about over complicating things!

This was meant as just a little finger picking noodle. I am hopeless as a finger picker and did this more as an exercise than anything else. It’s four tracks of guitar, all with a different picking pattern. I was curious if I could accidentally come up with something along the lines of the awesome stuff Mike Rutherford and Steve Hackett used to do in Genesis. I didn’t, but at least it’s finger picked. The chorus is dumbed down. It’s only two tracks. The break part where the drums go away and the cello comes in (yes, I am a prog nerd) used a pick. I can only do so much, you know?

What are the lyrics about? Well, some days completely suck, but other days don’t. If you persist you can get to the non-suck. That’s sort of the point. I spent all of 10 minutes writing them. Gimme a break, okay?


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Here is the iOS mix too.

NHL Free Agency Day Update

It took about two and a half hours, but Jarome Iginla signed a three year deal with Colorado.

Well, it was nice having one of my favorite players ever on the team for a year at least. Good luck, Iggy. May the Bruins play a role in dashing any hopes you have of that illusive championship.

NHL Free Agency Day

We are a shade under 90 minutes into the NHL’s annual free agent feeding frenzy.

As of right now, Jarome Iginla is still available. Let’s hope he decided he loves Boston more than long term deals and great big gobs of cash.

Let’s hope.

We Must Get to the UK, Right Now

It’s 6:00am here in Methuen, MA. We have to get ourselves to London, UK like right this instant.

Monty Python is doing reunion concerts and the first show is tonight! It’s like 11:00am or something there so we have to haul ass getting there.

Actual real Monty Python shows!

Theft

I started a new song tonight, because I’m an idiot. It was really just an exercise. I can’t finger pick to save my life, so I quadruple tracked a little eight bar thing with a different finger picking pattern on each track. I then worked it into a song. 3:15 of song later I had four tracks of rhythm guitar, one track of lead guitar, drums, an upright bass, and a cello. That’s right, kids, a cello.

It wasn’t until it was all done and I listened back and realized the four different finger pick patterns and the chord changes combined to form…

A Led Zeppelin song.

Oh for crying out loud!

Super Mario Bros. in Under Five Minutes?

Watch this video. How is that real? This person finished the original Super Mario Bros game in under five minutes. I don’t get how he’s jumping over the venus fly trap looking thingies, or how he’s not falling into the narrower holes. Either this is fake or the player knows much more about Mario than I ever have.

Even if it is fake, the player still knows more about the game than I ever have.