And where the fuck were you?!?!

I love playing with the emphasis on that. I think the closeness of where to were really helps with it.

Anyways, I obviously have been away from this for a while. I'm contemplating maybe some format changes, cos let's be honest, no one reads this anyway.

In any case, there will be something "real" up likely tomorrow, maybe on Haiti, maybe on more pressing matters, like the Lifetime movie Cyber Seduction. Whatever the case may be, prepare to be enthralled.

So lately I've been organizing my efforts to be an even more super awesome person on my road to personal betterment. A few nights ago, after "Jersey Shore" came to a close, I popped in my old smashing pumpkins dvd (Vieuphoria, if anyone's wondering), and as I'm watching Billy Corgan straight up wail out song after song, I realize something -- I used to be able to play like that, and what the fuck happenned. Ok, maybe not that good. But the point stands. I used to have well above average chops and a fuggin awesome ear, and due mostly to "guitar atrophy", I've lost ability in both, though mostly the former.

That being said, I have not-so-carefully crafted a list of songs from four artists, three of which had a pretty profound influence on my "playing days". It could get expanded or amended in the future, but goddamnit, I am going to learn these songs; every single one. Let's see how far i get/bad it gets before I make any changes.

so the list, broken down by album (from american release) + 1 single


Smashing Pumpkins
Gish
Siva
Rhinoceros
I am one
Crush
Siamese Dream
Geek USA
Cherub Rock
Soma
Hummer
Quiet
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Zero
Muzzle
Where the Boys feared to tread
Bodies
Jellybelly
An ode to no one
Xyu
Thru the eyes of ruby
Porceleina of the oceans
1979
Here is no why
To forgive
Bullet with butterfly wings
Love
Tales of a scorched earth

Blur
Modern life is rubbish
Popscene
Parklife
This is a low
London loves
Blur
Beetlebum
m.o.r
on your own
you’re so great
movin on
13
Bugman
Coffee and tv

Radiohead
Pablo Honey
Blow out
The bends
Street spirit
Sulk
Planet telex
Black star
My Iron lung ep
The trickster
Permanent daylight
Ok computer
Airbag
Paranoid android
Lucky
(single)
talk show host
Kid a
Morning bell
Everything in its right place
National anthem
Amnesiac
Knives out
I might be wrong
Dollars and cents
Hail to the thief
2+2=5
Backdrifts
Go to sleep
There, there
Where I end and you begin

Mastodon
Leviathan
Seabeast
Blood and thunder
Iron tusk
Blood mountain
Colony of birchmen
Hunters of the sky
This mortal soil
Sleeping giant
Crack the skye
Oblivion


Those last ones are gonna be a doozy, damn hybrid picking.

and now, because it would be unfair to pick one video after listing a bunch of awesome music, an equally awesome link.

Jersey Shore Nickname Generator
Could You be the next "the situation" or "ms./mrs the situation"?
Maybe you'll find out what a snooki is....

-- Knuttel