still thinking about word press.

but in the meantime- guess what? IT'S MY BIRTHDAY IN 2 DAYS!!!!!!

15, here I come! Wanted to watch an M15 movie on my birthday but now I can't think of a single decent thing to watch. Always the way.

Anyway.

This one's going to be quite short, its just to let you know (whoever ‘you' are, cause I still don't know who reads this thing) that I'm teaching myself guitar, using my mother's old guitar and one of those perky ‘teach yourself guitar' books you can find just about anywhere. This includes libraries, home bookshelves, and the local tip. I'm having trouble with the chord change from A maj to D maj (which is the first bleepin' change they teach you in the dang book!), and I'm beginning to wonder how long it will take me to literally throw away the book (well, return it to the library, that is) and actually teach myself with an old chord book that was, you guessed it, my mother's. Which was what I was doing before I discovered ‘teach yourself'. About the fact that she keeps a guitar for future generations- well, I have no problem with it.  I think its inspired. More people should do so, instead of selling theirs.

What I do have a problem with, is that it is a classical, not an acoustic, guitar. Meaning the neck is wider than an acoustic guitar, meaning that my fingers need to sttttrrreeeeettttccchhhhhh to reach the chords, meaning an F maj chord is pure torture. And let me tell you, long my fingers may be, but flexible in guitar is something they just ain't.

So I have a problem.

Wish I had a double-jointed extra-long fingers like a couple of tree-swinging primates I could mention (or this girl in my class- she has fingers one and a half times the length of her palm, plus a bit more. Creepy), but won't. Or what about the feet? I could just play really low to the ground. Heck, even the tail'd be good! They should make it a mandatory statement that all pro guitarists should grow a tail.

Although, you might run into problems in the clothing department. How to stuff a tail into a pair of jeans or a cocktail dress would be a little challenging.

So all the monkeys, orang-utans, lemurs, etcetera, whatever, are way ahead of us- they have tails and they don't need clothes.

(This is another argument against evolution. At some point, why haven't we evolved a tail? And why lose them in the first place? So dang handy.)

So, in conclusion, to tree-swingers the world over, I say to you:

Take advantage of your anatomy and learn to play with your feet.

That is my profound quote for the bleek. Thank you.