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The Longest Afternoon Ever

Usually on the day before Thanksgiving I end up posting something about how the day before Thanksgiving always seems to me to be the longest day of the year. We’re just hours away from a four day weekend that includes the best holiday on the calendar.

I can’t say that this year. I had something going on at work today that made the 9am to 1pm stretch fly by faster than light. Now that it’s over though, what does that leave?

It leaves the longest afternoon of the calendar year. My wife just sent me a turkey recipe. Comedy Central is bringing back the greatest television event in history, the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon!

How can you possibly avoid getting caught up in the anticipation while sitting at work? The result of all that anticipation (I can taste the stuffing already, really I can) of course is that the clock slows down drastically.

Thanksgiving is the best, but waiting for it to get here is the pits.

Song #5

Garageband played nicely tonight. Lucky.

This is the fifth of seven songs. It fills the need for both a rotating speaker effect and guitarmonies. The melody is crap. I am 99% sure that this exact melody has been used in at least 10 of my older songs. I don’t pay enough attention to old stuff to be able to catch when I repeat myself repeat myself repeat myself.

I Hate the Term Black Friday

I want to pass a Federal law in this country. The law will make using the term, “Black Friday” to describe the day after Thanksgiving in the United States a misdemeanor punishable by a $10,000 fine.

Search for “black Friday” on wikipedia.org. It returns a list of cases for which the phrase is used. Here are a few highlights:

Oh yeah, it also means a day of crazy Christmas Shopping.

On Thanksgiving we join with family and give thanks for all of the things we are fortunate enough to have.  On the day after Thanksgiving people storm the malls and the shops for ridiculous bargains and the result is more and more often riots, violence, and in some cases even death.  All of this on the day after Thanksgiving.

Only in America, am I right?  It’s disgusting and it’s embarrassing, and it proves that no one gives a damn about the meaning of Thanksgiving, and that all that matters in the US is money.  To make matters worse, more and more stores are opening on Thanksgiving itself so you can get those great Black Friday deals early.  Again, rendering Thanksgiving meaningless.  If you own a store and you open on Thanksgiving you should be fined millions of dollars.  I’ll add that to the bill I put before Congress.  Of course money rules Congress too, so I guess I’m shit out of luck.

Back Yard Visitors

We had some visitors in the back yard today.

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They usually make their first appearance of the season in November. I was beginning to get worried that they wouldn’t be coming around this year. Fortunately they squeaked in before the month ended.

Song #4

I hate the new garageband so fucking much I can’t even express it. I want to light my god damned laptop on fire right now I am so friggin’ pissed off at garageband.

This is the fourth song. Listen to the minor seventh chord I snuck in during the mega-ending.

Oh wait. You can’t hear it. Why? BECAUSE GARAGEBAND WON’T EFFING EXPORT IT, THAT’s WHY!

When I play back, the last three bars of the song are there. When I export it to iTunes, the last three bars are gone. It’s not even a case of it just deleting a region because it plays the first god damn bar of the four bar region and then just ends. I can’t even believe what a piece of shit Apple has reduced this program to. It’s just awful. Every single thing I try to do is screwed up in some way. I HATE GARAGEBAND!!!!!!

Crazy

This has been the craziest busy day ever. Everyone seems to be cramming a full weeks worth of crazy into one day.

I started mixing another song last night but decided I would be better served by sleeping. Good thinking on my part.

So The Walking Dead… I knew they were working on a spin off, but I thought it would be all new characters somewhere else in the world. I didn’t think it would be just about The Governor, and I didn’t think it was replacing the original show. Did the main cast need a vacation or something? Two weeks in a row of side story. I’m ready for the main story arc to come back now. Hell, I was ready seven days ago. That being said, the crazier that character gets the more fun he is.. and he’s getting pretty crazy again.

The Bruins play the Penguins tonight in a happy playoff rematch. Remember how the Penguins were heavily favored and then got swept by the Bruins? Remember that? Do you think his Bruins teammates let Jarome Iginla forget that for even a second? Tonight is a match up between the two top teams in the East. I probably won’t watch much, but I might catch some on the radio. There are just so many things going on right now.

I had planned to finish up the last two or three songs worth of guitar parts today but I watched zombie television instead. The whole project this month is completely disorganized. I don’t even know how many songs are left to finish. After the big chunk of work I did on Friday, I expect it to get finished on time. I just don’t feel very good about the whole thing. My guitar playing has been so bad it’s painful. It’s painful to listen to, and it’s painful to play. My finger tips are still burning from Friday. My playing has been bad enough to take a lot of the fun out of this. If I don’t keep practicing between now and February I might not do RPM. I mean, I know I suck but at least when I’m at my best I can fool myself into thinking I don’t suck too bad. I can’t do that right now.

Song #3

Hello and welcome to the blog debut of the third song from my NaSoAlMo fiasco.

I had originally thought of using my 12-string guitar for all of the rhythm guitar parts. That idea fell by the wayside, but this is one of the songs that stuck with the plan. I also wanted one song to have a sort of free form section that resolved into a straight up rock groove. This song does that, it just doesn’t do it well.