"Anywhere You Go It's the Same Cry. MONEY WORRIES."

All you Bedouin Soundclash fans should recognize this title. (As for Money Worries...stay tuned to my blogs to come!) I'm so freakin' excited that they're coming back to town I could just spit!! Went to two concerts this term and I swear they're what kept me going. Sad...but true. To quote one JP, the concerts just had that "change your fuckin' life" effect on me. It's funny how music can do that to ya. I'm not sure what it is about it but it gets under my skin and shakes me. My only desire is to be more musically talented. I haven't taken music in years and find that all of my knowledge and rhythm has left me. I even did a Psych experiment where I sat in a sound-attenuated booth and had to discern whether clips of music were the same or different, etc, and found that my ear has gone tone deaf. Can that happen? Maybe I was always tone deaf...maybe I'm just in a rut.

As for my adventures in learning to play the guitar...what a sad little adventure it has been!! I guess it doesn't help that my guitar sounds like death. I've progressed but in 5 months I am still struggling. However I refuse to give up. There's something about the feeling of hitting a beautiful chord that, well, "strikes a chord" within you (god, what a load of cheese I am!). I think I squealed with excitement for an entire day when I was able to play something that actually sounded like a song I knew.

I'm just not one of those people who can walk and chew gum at the same time so having two rhythms in my head at the same time is mind-boggling. Thus, problem #1: I cannot strum and sing simultaneously. Problem #2: I cannot sing even when I get the patterns figured out cause I'm too nervous and am used to singing along with music. Problem #3: I can't use a pick. For now I am a rhythmically-challenged chick tryin' to play ANY song (and I mean ANY song. I have no prejudices...if I might be able to play it, I'll try it. I don't care how lame I have to go!!). And for any lovers of music do not ask to hear me play because you'll cry when you hear me kill every classic song...

But fear not, I will emerge victorious and be able to play the fuckin' guitar soon enough. And then you will all worship me and be floored by my greatness. Muuuaaaaawwwwww!!!!