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this is awesome. thanks, Mike!

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i received my latest djangos order today: Shakes the Clown (DVD) and George Harrison's Cloud Nine. i put on the Georgie CD and played along to one of my all-time favorite songs: "When We Was Fab". to my surprise, every single note came instantly. no finding the key, no fuckin around trying to find the roots for any damn barre chords... i just played along, even with the melody lines. it was just there, instantly, like i'd been playing that song my whole life. i'd never played it before! sometimes, i think maybe i'm a much better musician than i give myself credit for. i still can't play no damn arpeggios like the shredders back in the day could. but who needs that crap anyway? i can play the hell out of my axe, and i can play a lot of classic rock and roll solos note-for-note anyway ("Comfortably Numb", "Time", "Hotel California", "Lights", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "More Than a Feeling", etc.). in fact, all no doubt thanks to Mike's mom's piano tutelage when i was young and awful.

so i also went out tonite and got the new Harrison album, the deluxe edition with the poster, guitar pick, sticker, DVD, etc.. i couldn't resist.

i can't wait to get my shit together and finally record a decent album. this next one will definitely be more guitar-oriented; more organic. oh yeah, here's the pic i'm thinking of using for the cover.

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saith George:
"If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there."

how amazing is that?! i mean, shouldn't that have occurred to people before? what a lyric! so simple, so obvious, and yet he's the first to actually say it. classic George.

i'm going to make this my mantra, from now on.

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note to self: Slim-Fast and soy milk do not mix well. they're just not a very positive combination. i mean literally. oh, they taste just fine together, that is if you like soy milk. and i do... soy milk, rice milk, whatever... as long as it isn't some weird, filthy bodily-juice from the highly evolved sweat glands of a fuckin' cow... but they just do not literally mix well. you stir and you stir and you stir, and all you end up with is a heap of powder, a bunch of gooey liquid, and a mound of foam. kind of like those 5th-grade science experiments. in fact, if i had discovered this powerful combination when i was ten years old, i might have won first prize at the county science fair. who knows? i could've had a god damn MacArthur grant by now! and been twenty pounds underweight at the same time!