Awesome Weekend
I had myself a pretty damn fine weekend. What was so great about it? I really don't know. Nothing in particular. I didn't really do anything, but I did enough to stay busy. I really don't know how to explain it. I went home Friday night feeling all weird after talking to Elena. The odd thing is, talking and hanging out with my younger brother, Mark, actually made me feel better. Usually we're at each other throats and can't be in the same room together long. But we were just BSing around while he played some XBox and I played/practiced my guitar. I showed him all the electrics I'm debating getting and he liked the Gibson SG. But it was nice to just sit and chill with Mark for once. He said I was getting better at my playing, which was nice.
Saturday I got up crazy early, exercised (only missed one morning in the past 2 weeks), and went to work for a little over 2 hours. Went home, went to my lesson, went to the movies, got some dinner and called it a night after watching Anchorman.
I didn't do much Sunday either. I went to my mom's office to fix a busted computer around noon, then came home, relaxed in the sun, but it was too hot, way too hot. I was reading this book called Zen Guitar that Shari's ex-roommates husband recommended. He plays too, and we actually share the same birthday, small world right? Us and Matt Cameron, drummer for Pearl Jam! Its a pretty interesting book, basically applying Zen philosophy to playing the guitar, but its points are valid elsewhere. Like don't procrastinate. If you're going to do something, do it, don't say you'll do it. If you say you're going to practice, do it, or else you may find in a year your guitar is covered in dust and cobwebs. That was me this morning. I got up and didn't want to exercise, but I said to myself if I start skipping out now, its just going to be easier to do it later and more frequently. So I got up, and did it. I'm only halfway through the book, but already its been helpful.
After the sun I sat down and practiced Hear You Me, even though I couldn't play it if my life depended on it Saturday night, as is always the case. So instead Saturday I just messed around trying to get the opening riffs to Rearviewmirror and the Von Bondies "C'mon C'mon" (theme song to the excellent show on FX, Rescue Me), and I actually had it, just very slow. I figure its better to know it perfectly slow and work it up to normal pace, than to suck at it and play it badly at the correct tempo. So I sat down Sunday and worked out the song based on the chords and strumming I had written down in my lesson. I broke it down into the intro, verse, chorus and bridge of the song, and thats basically it. The intro is basically just the verse with one chord played twice as long. So its really simple and now that I know the order of everything (mostly) I may be able to play a full song. Who would've thought in just a month that I could do that? Surely not me. But hey, there I am, so there's hope for me yet.
After that I just kind of loafed around the house, watched some TV, ate some dinner, had an Italian Ice for dessert (no fat and no cholesterol, but probably a crap load of sugar!), watched Six Feet Under and Entourage and went to bed.
I just have a feeling that this is going to be a long week, and I don't like that! At least I have Weezer to look forward to Wednesday night as a midway point.
Alright, enough babbling out of me, enjoy your Monday everyone!