Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever.
No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?
Weekend social 04/10/2013
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Gardening, breaking bad season 2.
My weekend is all taken up.
Gardening, me too!
Gardening is good!
Resistance is fertile
More exploring adventures with my 2 1/2 year old.
The Naked and Famous, new album In Rolling Waves “couldn’t be any more epic if they rode around on a lightning bolt in their underwear”.- The Guardian.
Planning to spend the weekend with my new AmpleSound AGT guitar plug in, even though it doesn’t work properly yet. In discussion, the developer says the problem has been fixed and will be available in the next update, and I just have to be patient. :grr:
Nice sounding acoustic guitar, perfect for programming strumming patterns, and still a lot less bothersome than trying to get chunky fingers working a fretboard and a clunky mind to move them.
Advance to analogue 😀
Chunky fingers and want to play guitar? That’s what slide and/or lap steel was invented for, in playing styles that range from from blues, country, bluegrass to Irish.
Mmmm, that’s what next year’s retirement is for- to get seriously acquainted with the banjo and the Weissenborn lap steel, and the hammered dulcimer, and the octave mandolin. Grandpa Mac1 on the porch in his rocking chair picking on strings, rather than the world.
Excellent Plan, a Steeleye Span
Going to have to stick with the software and daydreams of rocking it out, mac1.
Had loads of guitars before and couldn’t learn to play any of them, so the only benefit a bottleneck would have to me is when it’s hanging out of my mouth.
Good luck with the learning, though. You could get always get some retirement work playing the Dueling Banjo music from deliverance at act party functions. 😆
You mean the Act Party funeral, surely 😀
Either or 😉
I could play Ode to Joy on the banjo, then!
or..’don’t cry for me…liber-ter-ians..!’…?
phillip ure..
or..maybe..
..footage of banks..white shirt/tie..sleeves rolled up (two-turns..)
..shoes and socks off..
..cuffs turned up ..(two turns..)
..sitting beside/walking around..
..the tank-farm..
(lyrics)
“…sitting in the morning sun…
..i’ll be sitting when the evening comes…
..i watched my ship roll in..
..then i watched it roll away again…
(chorus..)..i’m sitting on the dock of the bay…
..watching the tide roll away..
..i’m just sitting on the dock of the bay..
..wasting time..yeah..!
..(verse two..)..i left my home in national…
..headed for the act par-ty..
..’cos i’ve had nothing to live for..
..and nothing’s gonna come my way..
..(repeat chorus..)
..(verse three..)
looks like..nothings gonna change..
..everything still remains the same..
..i can’t do what ten people* tell me to..
..so i guess i’ll remain the same..
(*..current membership of act party)..
(repeat chorus..)
(verse four..)
..sitting here by myself…
..and this loneliness won’t leave me alone..
..across several parties i roamed..
..just to make this basket-case my home..
..(repeat chorus..)
..end..
phillip ure..
“left my home in National” etc . Very good- in fact one could almost say “Whoaar!”
Once they go, Colin Craig’s Conservatives will take over the franchise.
I played music for a children’s theatre pantomime last year- when the bad/mad couple, the Twits, got into their evil stuff, the music I played for them was Duellin’ Banjos- full of foreboding and menace.
I’ve just returned from a music rehearsal for a show- the joy of playing driving guitar behind a really good fiddle player in the Irish tradition, or getting into a duet on the octave mandolin with the fiddle. Really energising, really positive- special stuff. I’m lucky.