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Listening to: The Fall of Troy - Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles

i love the name of that song, mouths like sidewinder missiles. it's so cool. it's like a statement in itself. you've got a mouth like a sidewinder missile baby. i want thomas' skillz!



so i believe i have come down with a cold. i suspected it was coming yesterday, i sneezed and i was worried sickness was on the way. stupid work. i'm pretty sure this is because i was out on carts for almost 2 hours in the cold rain. lamesauce.

today was good, tiring as sunday's usually are. i stayed up too late last night, like i usually do before sunday. practice went good, church service went good. after church i gave a short little guitar lesson to a 6 year old at church, his mom had asked me to. he was surprisingly smarter about it than i expected, he was able to teach to caleb what i taught him, i was impressed. a short attention span though equaled a short lesson, but it went pretty good. his mom insisted on paying me for it even though i said it was nothing. she handed me a rolled up bill which i put in my pocket. later when i looked at it, i discovered it was a 20. that's far far faaar more than i'm worth as a guitar instructor. especially for such a short lesson. but his mom said that it was the longest he's sat still in forever, so that's cool. kids are cool. i hear he draws pictures of me with my guitar during church, cute.

band practice was coolio. i love band practice time. we are totally playing my rewritten version of Say It Ain't So on tuesday, and i'm pretty much super excited. i want to bust out thomas-like guitar skillz on it. i'm doing his version of the guitar solo, which is decidedly cooler. love love love guitar. i wish i didn't have this small hole in my finger though, it keeps getting caught on my strings. i need to band-aid it or glue it or something.

i worked on writing a song while on carts today at work. there's something about being out there during that daylight that makes me write stuff. i've written at least like 3 songs while at work. maybe i'm like, conditioned to lyric writing while i'm pushing carts. but what i was writing today is decidedly emo-ish. not whiny though, at least not in my mind. whiny is the stuff i despise. i write stuff that makes me sound sad. i'm not sad though. maybe writing things like this is what keeps me from being sad about it. getting it out in words, in verse, helps. sometimes i really don't like posting words without being able to speak/sing them. they work so much better when you hear them how they were intended to sound. so i won't post them, maybe if the song gets finished. i leave too many songs unfinished.

i intend to get a decent amount of sleep tonight, so that means now is bedtime. tomorrow is work and portugal the man concert! and we'll see if minus the bear is good. peace out bros and sisses.