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Archive for the ‘bass’ Category

[edit: This was written yesterday and I forgot to publish it. Whee!]

Rent-a-dog! Fantasy Fuff: about as close to a real relationship as hiring a prostitute, imho. Inclined to agree with the RSPCA person.

Cloned sniffer dogs are after your Mary-Jane!

Arrest warrant issued for Darth Vader

Birdie

I was reading this (short) experimental report on chimpanzee grooming. It's from 1958 and laughably patronising, not to mention a bit unimaginative. (Didn't E. ever think of grooming Malcolm in return?)

Also, these things. PRATCHETT things. (David Tennant is involved, for all those who inexplicably find him attractive.)

And finally, a sad tale. Because it's official: I can't hear that damn Metallica song without my fingers twitching. (I'm not a guitarist or guitar-gamer, I point out; I would probably hurt myself if I attempted this track on Easy.¹)

Slen has five-starred almost everything in GHII and III's career modes on Expert (with only that Slayer auditory fart and Misirlou left to go, I think—not counting DragonForce because that is solid damn.) All this has had the effect of making me vaguely itchy to play an actual instrument.

Also, we only have a righty bass guitar, but I'm strongly lefty by instinct. Boo. >:( (cf achirality, which I have in heaps, but I'd really really rather not pluck with the hand whose fingers seize up. Oh well, sucks to be driving this body, I guess.)

¹ Well, my claim to the realm of not suck can be that I got 70% into TTFAF on my first attempt at the game, on Easy obviously. I attribute that to beginner's awesomium coupled with knowing the real song very well. I also epically failed Slow Ride mere minutes beforehand.

[also, edit: must stop air guitaring to Cliffs of Dover in lift.]

Hah! I forgot to say. I can play a beginner, Fairy-Footsteps version of Cycle Of Light And Shadow (download it!) on teh Tigerbread. As in the basic notes without the fiddly bits and certainly without the solo (but still, that it has a bass solo at all is droolsome, and I'll get the hang of it someday…).

All our lives are one
Stage in time
And now our time's begun… \m/