Let me tell you 'bout my new obsession
No, not riding high upon a deep depression, but rather, the chords of this:
Yes, that would be the ukulele my sister brought me back from Hawaii. It's a Leolani, not too bad quality-- at least it's laminate and not plastic. And LOL at my reflection in the mirror behind me. What up, newsprint PJ pants.
Apparently ukes are all the rage nowadays, which is weird and once again leads me to feel like I'm always unknowningly trendy, just a bit too late. It seems like half the stuff I find is already sweeping the nation, but since my media knowledge decreases daily I'm always waving the aforementioned stuff around going, "Look what I discovered! Aren't it neat?" and everyone else goes, "Yeah, I saw that three months ago."
Regardless, I've always been attracted to the more diminuative instruments, namely the uke and the banjo. The banjo has the Nanny Ogg appeal, obviously, and the uke is just too cute. Cute and dorky and awesome. And when I heard that the uke was one of the easiest instruments to play (not to play *well,* just to *play*), I figured it was the one for me, so I requested my sister to find me one in Hawaii. And she did. And I love it. It's become the new crocheting-- something that I mean to do when I'm just sitting around, but that is so addicting that I end up finding myself with much more sitting around time.
I can play "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" (though my chord changing between C and Em is slow, and the E string on the thing keeps slipping out of tune), and most of "Monster Mash," which I taught myself last night so I could wake Seb up with it this morning.
So of course I've been looking at other ukes, ones with geared tuning pegs that hopefully won't be complete crap for staying in tune. So far I likey: this mahogany one, or this simple soprano one, though none so much as this cheapo black sparkly one, because I love the idea of playing a uke that looks like a mini HARD ROCKIN GEEETAR. I would totally learn to play Smoke On The Water on that bad boy. Makala is supposed to be a good starter brand. It's the cheap version of a Kala. Why am I telling everyone this? I could probably count the number of interested people with the fingers of one foot. Don't care, my journal, blah blah blah.
I also like music played on plastic children's instruments. I thought this was an original idea until I heard... crap, forgot the name of the band. But it's been done. I wish I could remember that band, they were rad and I downloaded got ahold of some of their tunes long ago when I lived with my mom, but have since lost any CD I made.
Mmm, well, it's HALLOWEEN, BITCHES. My costume is done. Mike's is almost done and WOULD be done if he'd tried it on AT ALL during the week, like I kept asking, but he didn't so I'll have to make some guesses today and if it doesn't fit, OH WELL TOO BAD FOR YOU. Mostly I'm trying to keep sane today, not get too excited about leaving the house like a grown-up and remembering to drink tons and tons of water so I don't feel sick tonight. At least Eau Claire now has non-smoking bars, so no worries about smoke headaches. And hey! I'm going out with people I like. Who don't argue incessantly. And who won't make me sit in a corner all night, listening to bitching. I aim to have some fuckin' fun tonight, and if that means walking around tweaking peoples' noses and throwing glitter at them, so be it.
Yes, that would be the ukulele my sister brought me back from Hawaii. It's a Leolani, not too bad quality-- at least it's laminate and not plastic. And LOL at my reflection in the mirror behind me. What up, newsprint PJ pants.
Apparently ukes are all the rage nowadays, which is weird and once again leads me to feel like I'm always unknowningly trendy, just a bit too late. It seems like half the stuff I find is already sweeping the nation, but since my media knowledge decreases daily I'm always waving the aforementioned stuff around going, "Look what I discovered! Aren't it neat?" and everyone else goes, "Yeah, I saw that three months ago."
Regardless, I've always been attracted to the more diminuative instruments, namely the uke and the banjo. The banjo has the Nanny Ogg appeal, obviously, and the uke is just too cute. Cute and dorky and awesome. And when I heard that the uke was one of the easiest instruments to play (not to play *well,* just to *play*), I figured it was the one for me, so I requested my sister to find me one in Hawaii. And she did. And I love it. It's become the new crocheting-- something that I mean to do when I'm just sitting around, but that is so addicting that I end up finding myself with much more sitting around time.
I can play "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" (though my chord changing between C and Em is slow, and the E string on the thing keeps slipping out of tune), and most of "Monster Mash," which I taught myself last night so I could wake Seb up with it this morning.
So of course I've been looking at other ukes, ones with geared tuning pegs that hopefully won't be complete crap for staying in tune. So far I likey: this mahogany one, or this simple soprano one, though none so much as this cheapo black sparkly one, because I love the idea of playing a uke that looks like a mini HARD ROCKIN GEEETAR. I would totally learn to play Smoke On The Water on that bad boy. Makala is supposed to be a good starter brand. It's the cheap version of a Kala. Why am I telling everyone this? I could probably count the number of interested people with the fingers of one foot. Don't care, my journal, blah blah blah.
I also like music played on plastic children's instruments. I thought this was an original idea until I heard... crap, forgot the name of the band. But it's been done. I wish I could remember that band, they were rad and I downloaded got ahold of some of their tunes long ago when I lived with my mom, but have since lost any CD I made.
Mmm, well, it's HALLOWEEN, BITCHES. My costume is done. Mike's is almost done and WOULD be done if he'd tried it on AT ALL during the week, like I kept asking, but he didn't so I'll have to make some guesses today and if it doesn't fit, OH WELL TOO BAD FOR YOU. Mostly I'm trying to keep sane today, not get too excited about leaving the house like a grown-up and remembering to drink tons and tons of water so I don't feel sick tonight. At least Eau Claire now has non-smoking bars, so no worries about smoke headaches. And hey! I'm going out with people I like. Who don't argue incessantly. And who won't make me sit in a corner all night, listening to bitching. I aim to have some fuckin' fun tonight, and if that means walking around tweaking peoples' noses and throwing glitter at them, so be it.