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one of the beautiful things about art is it can express without words the hundred qualia that will never have them

my bloody valentine soon e standard open chord cover send tweet

there are thoughts. ideas. memories. particular neurons. that stumbling upon can make you feel like your brain is fried

reading about the music industry

there's this funny thing going on with my guitar arc where, right from the start, i refused to learn it pedagogically and just wanted to throw my very semitonepilled brain at the strings with no direction. half a year of little progress later i got fed up and bought actual books…

electric guitarists be like:

“i found a new chord”
“new chord or just stacked fifths/inverted fifths again”
“just stacked fifths/inverted fifths again”

“wow are those cowboy chords hikari 🤨”

nope i assure you my ass is too white european to ever be a cowboy

“what does that even—”

yeah so cowboys were historically often black or american indian or hispan—

“no it's a kind of guitar—”

no they hadn't yet invented electricity

hell is complex tools (this is the preface to a rant branching off from that smartphone thread)

so, four months ago i got a new smartphone. i was excited to have a fully-working, modern, usable device.

then a bit less than three months after getting it, i smashed the screen absentmindedly, and had to send it off for repair

so in the meantime i had to use this other phone:

clip of me noodling on my favourite acoustic guitar (capo on first fret)