The Obnoxious Lady (Part 1)

There was at the Relient K concert, on very large woman. She was about 6 feet from me. She wore a spaghetti-strap shirt and it showed more skin than i have on my body. It was not a glamorous sight in the least. Well, since we were near the front, there was a lot of pushing. I got shoved right into her. i thought she would just move a little, readjust her balance, and continue listening to the concert, but NO!!!!

That's it for now, see you in a day or 2

Mandolin

My mom is pushing me to get a mandolin too. She's shoving her card into my hand. No not really. I wish. Well, Tom and I are preforming a spoof of the old song "Old Time Rock and Roll" at our school auction. It should be good. We get lots of sexy lighting. Sweetness!!!!

Bye
Patrick

Mandolin

I was up fairly late last night, just kinda browsing the internet, hungry for anything that could keep my interest. I was browsing Musician's friend last night, and I came across this:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Rogue-RM100A-AStyle-Mandolin?sku=519193
How awesome is that? A Mandolin for $50? I ordered it this morning, with my mum's credit card. It is right handed, but heres the interesting thing about it: It's tuned like a violin. A violin is tuned G-D-A-E. If I played the Mandolin, which is tuned like a violin, upside down, then it would be E-A-D-G. Those four notes happen to be the bottom four strings of the guitar, or bass strings, if you will. Pretty awesome, right? I'm overjoyed, and I can't wait to get. I was thinking of, if I get good enough at it, taking it on World Youth Day with me. It's small. Otherwise, I was thinking of getting one of these babies: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Martin-?sku=512396 . Very handy... I tried one out at a shop, and it sounded fairly good. Good enough, considering it's portability.
But anyway, enough of my boring crap.
Talk to you all later.
-Tom

Sinistra.

I went down to the guitar store "Portland Music Co." on Broadway today. It's smaller than the one on MLK, but deals exclusively in acoustic guitars. They had some pretty nice 12 string guitars there for a cheap price. They were all right handed. But, the guy showing me the place told me that they could probably order a left handed one. I asked which company he would suggest for getting a 12 string from. He suggested Martin, since they probably wouldn't charge extra to make it left-handed. I checked their site, the cheapest one there is $819... so I think I might hold off on trying to get a hold on a twelve string for a bit.
If I ever make it big, I'm going to have a guitar company make a sellable custom guitar thats left-handed.
-Tom

Relient K

I went to the Relient K concert, which ended about an hour ago. The different groups, with my personal notes on them follow.
Sherwood: a band from California somewhere, the singer was good, drummer was good (and cool), the keyboardist was freaking hilarious, doing all manner of dances while playing, the bass was fine... I don't remember a whole lot more.
Mae: I don't know where they are from or how they got where they are with their current singer. He had a nassal voice that would remind you (if you are like me) of Kermit the Frog. the bassist was good at bass, but did not move more than once during the entire show, the keyboardist was good and very funny (in an angry sort of way), I think the guitar stuff was good, but nothing remarkable.
Relient K: What can I say, they are really a great band. The bass was awesome, the drummer, who by the way played the entire show without a shirt, incase anyone was interested (I wasn't but you might have been), anyways, teh drummer was great, the vocals were good although poorly amplified, the guitarists were both awesome. I especially like Jon. He is funny and cool and stuff.

That's about it for tonight. Later I may write about the obnoxious woman I happened to bump into.

Relient K

I am going to a Relient K concert in Portland on Wednesday and it is going to be Awesome!

Sweet Ocean Breeze

I am at the beach on vacation. The weather is crappy, bu that is OK, 'cuz I am having fun. I have my guitar and cable TV and stuff, and I can run on the beach, rain or shine, so I will be having a blast while my loving audience watches from their boring couches at home. I hope you all had a great break and are back to work or school or whatever you do for "kicks".

Life's good in the hood. I don't know that for sure cuz I don't live in the hood, but that's what my friends from the hood say. OK you can go enjoy bordome for a while longer, by.

Sorry!

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, there hasn't been things really happening lately, other than Easter and Spring break!
Wooh!
Catch you all on the flip-side!
-Tom