I took a couple of guitars along to GuitarGuitar earlier to book them in for some TLC: I’ve had both since 2004 and they haven’t had anything done to them since. I don’t think there’s anything substantially wrong with them, but both could do with being setup again. In the meantime, I took my first ‘serious’ guitar, and Ovation I bought in 1983, out of storage. It was still perfectly in tune and sounded decent–a bit bright perhaps, but decent nonetheless.
The weather didn’t really work for finishing off work in the garden, so I went off to listen to an album from September 1970 and write about it, and to do some revision on the fiction thing. I also read I Crossed Back Into A State Of Denial by David Frum in the Atlantic, an interesting Canada/America contrast
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I meant to say on Saturday, that something which surprised me about my trip into town at the weekend was that I enjoyed being in the company of other people. I’m fairly self-contained and happy enough to stick around the house, but it was enjoyable enough for me to recognise it for what it was.
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Music: I was going to get heavy tonight with some classic King Crimson, but changed my mind. I haven’t thought of this song for a while, but once it pinged into memory I was compelled. Felicia Day and The Guild, from a more innocent time, though it didn’t seem like it then.
The song was written by Felicia Day, probably best known to my generation for her role of Violet towards the end of season seven of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and the music is by Jed Whedon, brother of Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy. The Guild was her own internet show based around gaming. Aside from its own, sly, merits, Do You Wanna Date My Avatar is also a curious companion piece to The Buggles’ Video Killed The Radio Star, I think.
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