[QUOTE=BassVirtuoso;17766656]oh my bad i thought you were serious =([/QUOTE]

Nah man I appreciate your concern :).

I do use my swiss ball for lying dumbell flys but it seems to be safe enough.

I really need to do cardio but I don't want to jack my knees in doing running on the sidewalks around here. I'm thinking of either exercise biking it or swimming laps.

I use my swiss ball to stretch my back because it gets absolutely destroyed at work :\

[QUOTE=BassVirtuoso;17766577]Ben, I get where you're coming from and everything, but your argument would be much more valid if you weren't currently digging "Them Crooked Vultures"

Seriously dude? A combination of Nirvana, Zep, the Foo Fighters, and QOTSA? I challenge you to name an animal whose feces I would rather not eat than listen to any of those bands.[/QUOTE]

I actually don't like any of the bands on their own, but there's something about the album I dig.

I'm aware my taste in music sucks.

They're wicked comfy for that.

I sit on it for playstation playing too.

It's my happy place.

I haven't gotten around to checking out the Them Crooked Vultures album but I'd really like to hear John Paul Jones going at it. I still groove on Zeppelin on a weekly basis. It's so good to play those tunes live in a room and hear just how fat the riffs really are, the recordings don't always do justice.

Okay I'm not stoned but I just freaked myself out and you guys can please help it's kind of interesting.

Outstretch your hand fully and measure the distance from your wrist to the tip of your middle finger. Compare this to the distance between your wrist and elbow. What kind of proportional relationship is normal?

The funny part is that I'm sure 95% of the population would absolutely hate the music I listen to.

[quote=gaslight;17766685]okay i'm not stoned but i just freaked myself out and you guys can please help it's kind of interesting.

Outstretch your hand fully and measure the distance from your wrist to the tip of your middle finger. Compare this to the distance between your wrist and elbow. What kind of proportional relationship is normal?[/quote]

1:3

So my hand should be one third of the distance from my wrist to elbow? That can't be right.

Actually I think 1:2 for that kind of break. 1:3 is like finger joints, hand span to arm length, etc.

My hand outstretched is like 2/3 of wrist to elbow length.

Well you have big hands? haha. Wrist-to-finger should be approximately 1/3 of your total arm length. Shoulder to wrist.

[QUOTE=gaslight;17766701]My hand outstretched is like 2/3 of wrist to elbow length.[/QUOTE]

Same...

^^^

Well that's two of us so hopefully that makes it normal.

Wrist bone to tip of my outstretched middle finger is 7.5" but same part of wrist bone to approximately my elbow is 11". Haha.

It's just tripping me out 'cause I wouldn't have guessed the proportions were like that.

Bodies are funny.

Dead right about wrist to finger being 1/3 of total arm length.

Mad interesting.

I'm telling you to do shoulder to wrist, not elbow to wrist. Stop doing it wrong.

What? I did shoulder to wrist and told you that you were dead right, shoulder to wrist is more or less three times wrist to finger.

[QUOTE=gaslight;17766726]What? I did shoulder to wrist and told you that you were dead right, shoulder to wrist is more or less three times wrist to finger.[/QUOTE]

Oh I didn't see that at first. You ninja-edit'd.

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Golden_ratio_line.svg/270px-Golden_ratio_line.svg.png[/IMG]

Yeap, I proved myself right.

Haha yes quite possible I do usually njina edit a post three or four times before I'm done.

Not this one though.

Ah well, I'm just happy I found evidence. I knew I was right somehow. I think an old doco I saw. I remember because Liz Hurley was in it, and she's like, totally hot.

^^Haha yeah I'd bang out Johnny Depp in a heartbeat.

Golden ratio plays a big part in "Pi - The Movie" quite a cool flick.

Have you guys heard the track The Ocean by Zeppelin? It's ****en fat.

Watching Rocknrolla at the moment too that's a fat movie.

[QUOTE=gaslight;17766758]Golden ratio plays a big part in "Pi - The Movie" quite a cool flick.

Have you guys heard the track The Ocean by Zeppelin? It's ****en fat.

Watching Rocknrolla at the moment too that's a fat movie.[/QUOTE]

It is, but not as good as LSTSB or Snatch thought.

Good times had by all.

I want a new guitar.

I want a motorbike (finally) but I keep blowing all my money. I have a license, and helmet and crap, I just keep blowing it all haha

Damn dude :(.

What are you pissing it away on, are you on the drugs?

Last was my amp, then a whole bunch of books, DVD's and video games which was like a $700 credit card bill :lol: damn christmas season. Now I've got about 1500 sitting aside for it, so hopefully in a month or two I should be sweet.

Ahh credit cards :(. They do have that effect at Christmas.

Should be cool man.

I'd love to buy a car this year but I think I'll wait until I'm 25 to buy a first hand one so I don't get hit with all those extra charges for being under 25.

This is hopefully my last semester of uni ever unless I do a worthwhile second degree at some point.

i spent all my money on bud and protein powder

[QUOTE=BenJammin;17766566]You're mistaken if you think the majority of bass players hold Jaco up on a pedestal of what a bass player should be. [/QUOTE]

Way too many do, though.

[QUOTE=gaslight;17766588]At the end of the day [B]I just think it's really weak when people write off something that is well beyond their level just because they "don't want to learn it" or they "don't like how it sounds".[/B] There's play time and there's serious time and practise time is serious time. What's the point of making excuses just to keep in your comfort zone? That's hugely counter-productive to developing your playing.[/QUOTE]

Nah, I do that a lot.