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New Favorite Artist

I've been listening to Kaki King (kah-kee king). Just the way she plays is unbelievable. Particularly her videos for Ingots and Playing With Pink Noise show her technique(s) and I've tried, but I got nothing on this finger style of playing. I'm going to blame the guitar I have, and use that as an excuse. I've been listening to her for the past few days, and I hear similar Jaco riffs. Maybe I'm just crazy, and it's the instrumental jazz aspects of it, but I'm loving it. Seriously, check out her site, the design of the site is cool too. (off to practice)

I'm Time Magazine's Person Of The Year?

Excerpt from Time Magazine:

Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?

The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you.

Well let's see...

• I'd DVR Lost.
  
• I have Movies starring my cat.
  
• I create mashups on guitar.
  
• I create blog posts around random things.

Yes, I do believe in fact I may qualify. Who knew?

Twisted Faithful

So I just finished watching last night's Tonight Show with Jay Leno because I saw that Twisted Sister was the musical guest. Thinking about that terrible Blue Grass rendition of Jump I saw on the way to Texas back in June, I couldn't possibly miss an amusing performance of old guys in makeup and pink boas. Apparently, to celebrate their 30 year anniversary, they are releasing an entire album of Christmas music as their final release. For some reason I watched their entire performance of O Come All Ye Faithful and heard a distinctly recognizable guitar riff. At 2:29 in the song as posted on the website, you hear "|Do Do DaDo Do | Do DaDoobie Da Do Do | Do Do DaDo Do | DoDoDo |" So what is that you ask besides a terrible way of describing rhythm via text? It's the rhythm of We're Not Gonna Take It a song by, you guessed it Twisted Sister So I'm just putting the question out there, was this an artful muse by the guitar player or something completely an act of sacrilege? I'd like to lean on the idea that the guitar player was thinking, "So, how can we take this song and do something totally ridiculous with it." I believe that marks the official start of my Christmas season. Comments are open for your opinion, all 3 of you that read my site. *<:-D

Randomness

Found an interesting article today via digg. Most apply.

Also, I posted pics of my bed a while ago, but never updated the blog about it. Hit the post's link or my flickr link on the right.

Forgot how much I like these guys

So I was flipping through the programming guide on my SA explorer 8300 HD when I came across this concert and I had slightly forgotten how much I like these guys. I just sat there and watched the concert in HD and surround sound, Jessica Simpson commercial reference aside and just loved listening to their music, and undecipherable vamps between songs. I know my Dad probably has all the Beatles on vinyl in the attic somewhere, and some people would say just listen to those and it's the same experience, but is it wrong to say I feel Oasis is "My classic rock?" It's been a little over 10 years since (What's the Story) Morning Glory? was released and I still remember all the words. Since I've been working on an iTunes web interface Olowan tunes I decided to lookup what I had on Oasis, and I have just a few albums. Anyway, i felt like writing a post about concerts in HD, and I love watching them.