Ouch :-/

Here in Maryland it is hot as hell too.

At least I get to go to Zappa Playing Zappa :-D

[QUOTE=ArrestThisMan]Ouch :-/

Here in Maryland it is hot as hell too.

At least I get to go to Zappa Playing Zappa :-D[/QUOTE]
Aw man, I'm jealous. The only day my family could've gone to that was the day before bonnaroo, so we decided not to.

Oh damn. My dad went ahead and got us the nice 75 dollar seats. I cant wait.

could anyone tell me a little about Two Gallants and maybe recommend an album to try?

The Throes is the one I have. It's cool, bluesy acoustic stuff.

I started reading [I]A Clockwork Orange [/I]yesterday. I thought I was gonna give up on it after the first chapter, but once you get past the early language difficulties it's prooving a great read. I'm trying not to compare it to the film at this stage, but there are some noticeable differences.

i started reading On the Road, by Kerouac, a few days ago. i'm 63 pages into it and i love it.
it makes me want to hitchike across the country with only $50.

I tried to read that but didnt get past the first few pages. I'll probably try again soon.

I really liked that book. It was one of the two books I've ever read in my life that I finished in a day.

[QUOTE=ArrestThisMan]I tried to read that but didnt get past the first few pages. I'll probably try again soon.[/QUOTE]
to me or Kyle? if that was referring to On the Road, i'd say the first 10 pages are a bit slow, but once it gets more into detail about his early hitchiking experience, it gets better. and the story mainly kicks off as soon as he reaches his first destination. everything up until that is kind of preparation.

It seemed like something I would really like, but it just felt really disjointed.

edit: yea im talking about On the Road

[QUOTE=Kyle the 2nd]I started reading [I]A Clockwork Orange [/I]yesterday. I thought I was gonna give up on it after the first chapter, but once you get past the early language difficulties it's prooving a great read. I'm trying not to compare it to the film at this stage, but there are some noticeable differences.[/QUOTE]Yeah, he kind made up words so the slang would not become outdated. I watched the movie yesterday for the first time. It was good except it made me kinda mellow the rest of the because of the kind of dark overtones.

Anyways, I'm gonna become a regular poster in this forum.

Kidding.

One the Road definately wasn't what I expected. I thought it would be this huge intellectual mindf[COLOR="White"]u[/COLOR]ck, when really the entire book is just stuff happening. But it's good for some reason.

I want to read Clockwork Orange before I see the movie.

I tried reading A Clockwork Orange but it was just like "woah, too much man." I'll try again eventually but first I think I'm gonna be lazy and just watch the movie.

I'm reading Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad right now. It's about the author's trip up the Congo river in 1890, and the book heavily influenced the film Apocalypse Now, especially when they're going up the river to find Colonel Kurtz. Good book so far.

[QUOTE=EightMilesHigh]I'm reading Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad right now. It's about the author's trip up the Congo river in 1890, and the book heavily influenced the film Apocalypse Now, especially when they're going up the river to find Colonel Kurtz. Good book so far.[/QUOTE]

eughggg... I did not like that book at all.



I just started "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce. It's a slow begining.


Has anyone read Jonathan Livingston Seagull? It is certainly a fabulous book, but you wouldn't think so, since every character is a seagull...

[QUOTE=bucket]
Has anyone read Jonathan Livinston Seagull? It is certainly a fabulous book, but you wouldn't think so, since every character is a seagull...[/QUOTE]

HURRRRRRRRRRRR thats one of the worst New Age-y pieces of hippie bullsh[size=2]it[/size] ever made. We were forced to read it in school and just laughed at how terrible it was.

I've seen the movie (A Clockwork Orange) and I Dagged it and I just found an old copy of it on a bookshelf in my house the other day. I suppose I might read after I finish up Thoreau and his sweet pleads against slavery. And Walden was a mighty fine book. I'm glad I forced myself to finish it after getting halfway through, I started to appreciate it more as I finished.

Recommend me some more hippie bullsh*t books then :upset:

I got a clarinet today. I'm really enjoying it.

I know you hate Anticon but there is this one really cool song by Alias with a clarinet.

I used to know a song about a clarinet, but I don't remember it. Something a bout a girl playing her clari-clari-clari-net.

Anyways, I never got past Mary Had A Little Lamb on my clarinet. I should break that old thing out.

I've been playing the trumpet for like 8 years, so I have the ability to really fill up my lungs and belly and use my diaphragm like a wind player. It makes supporting a sound on any wind instrument easy, and that has made all the difference in picking up clarinet today. I still have trouble with the embouchure (causing honkiness and bad intonation), and I don't know any fingerings, but I've only had the thing for like 8 hours.

I can play the recorder.

Impressive, really.

I have no idea why I said I had a clarinet. I have a recorder :)

I've been seriously considering taking piano lessons.

It seems like a super fun instrument to take up, but I'd like to know a couple of things.

1)Should I bother with online "free" learn to play things? or are they a waste of time? considering I'm not trying to play anything overly complicated.

2)How much does a decent teacher cost?

3)How long does it take to get to the point where you can fool around and still play stuff that sounds decent?

I woudn't know, since every piano teacher I've ever met has sucked (and can't even tune a piano). So yeah, I tought myself.

[QUOTE=Eliminator Jr.]I woudn't know, since every piano teacher I've ever met has sucked (and can't even tune a piano). So yeah, I tought myself.[/QUOTE]


most piano players cant tune a piano, you normally have to hire people for it from what I've heard :p

I've been trying to teach myself, and I have a decent ear...so I can kinda play things that way but I'd just like to know how I'm playing these things, you know?


(yeah, that was confusing)

Yeah I get what you mean.

I just dumb it down and relate it to a fingerboard.

Most decent professional-level teachers I have encountered will charge about $15 for a half hour lesson once a week. My current piano teacher is really great, and I decided to bump it up to $20 hour-long lessons. I really learn well from one-on-one instruction, and devoted self-motivated work based on my own wishes, but I don't do well reading myself a book and playing out of it. I know people who can do that, though.