Briefs.
Things I learned last week:
- Good Friends will always make time for you.
- Good Manners are everything, but Cost Nothing.
- Tiredness makes wierd things happen to your head.
- People can be arseholes wherever they're from.
- People can also be surprisingly nice...
- Beer hates me.
- Forgetting to eat is a big mistake...
- I have more music in my head than I thought.
- Uillean Pipes are awesome.
- Crans are also awesome, but tricky. Especially on a fiddle. ¹
- Banjos, however, mostly suck.
- the Full Moon makes people go Bonkers...
- Most things aren't worth falling out with people for.
- 'All musicians really need is a room' ².
- There is no limit to how much fun you can have with a bouncy pub seat.
- Never fart after a week on the Guinness. Unless you're brave, stupid, or sitting on the bog already.
- Burgers hate clean jeans.
- Playing in funny keys isn't big, or clever, or a great way to showcase your talent whilst simultaneously preventing every other musician in the room from joining in. You Know Who You Are, and You Have Been Warned.
- Playing in funny keys because the tune "sounds nicer in the Bass Register" is acceptable, but only in the right company...
- Just because you look like Jesus and you're wearing sandals, that doesn't mean I won't smack you upside the head when you start speeding everything up by banging said sandals on the floor, you dick.
- Money can't buy you love. Or, for that matter, decent fashion sense. *mutters about Man Jewellery*
- Sitting down for hours at a time is going to have Consequences.
- Playing a lot hurts.
- Drinking a lot hurts more.
- Pretty people are often dull.
- Free beer tastes better.
- Kittens are cute.
- Dogs are stupid.
- Certain people will develop an unnatural attachment to their instrument... (and just think what that guy would do with a Cello. *eek*)
- I am not photogenic.
- You can never have too much clean underwear.
- In some people's hands, a guitar is an instrument. In other people's hands, it is merely an instrument of destruction... ³
- Ferries used to be boats - now they're soulless, floating fast-food emporia with a bar at one end and a balcony full of shivering smokers at the other.
- Playing traditional music is not a hobby. It is a way of life. It will take over your brain.
¹Discovered a new cran on the fiddle, one that works and has been "officially sanctioned" by a piper as being "not bad".
²Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun, London: Jonathan Cape, 1996
³*waves* at mara_sho
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- Good Friends will always make time for you.
- Good Manners are everything, but Cost Nothing.
- Tiredness makes wierd things happen to your head.
- People can be arseholes wherever they're from.
- People can also be surprisingly nice...
- Beer hates me.
- Forgetting to eat is a big mistake...
- I have more music in my head than I thought.
- Uillean Pipes are awesome.
- Crans are also awesome, but tricky. Especially on a fiddle. ¹
- Banjos, however, mostly suck.
- the Full Moon makes people go Bonkers...
- Most things aren't worth falling out with people for.
- 'All musicians really need is a room' ².
- There is no limit to how much fun you can have with a bouncy pub seat.
- Never fart after a week on the Guinness. Unless you're brave, stupid, or sitting on the bog already.
- Burgers hate clean jeans.
- Playing in funny keys isn't big, or clever, or a great way to showcase your talent whilst simultaneously preventing every other musician in the room from joining in. You Know Who You Are, and You Have Been Warned.
- Playing in funny keys because the tune "sounds nicer in the Bass Register" is acceptable, but only in the right company...
- Just because you look like Jesus and you're wearing sandals, that doesn't mean I won't smack you upside the head when you start speeding everything up by banging said sandals on the floor, you dick.
- Money can't buy you love. Or, for that matter, decent fashion sense. *mutters about Man Jewellery*
- Sitting down for hours at a time is going to have Consequences.
- Playing a lot hurts.
- Drinking a lot hurts more.
- Pretty people are often dull.
- Free beer tastes better.
- Kittens are cute.
- Dogs are stupid.
- Certain people will develop an unnatural attachment to their instrument... (and just think what that guy would do with a Cello. *eek*)
- I am not photogenic.
- You can never have too much clean underwear.
- In some people's hands, a guitar is an instrument. In other people's hands, it is merely an instrument of destruction... ³
- Ferries used to be boats - now they're soulless, floating fast-food emporia with a bar at one end and a balcony full of shivering smokers at the other.
- Playing traditional music is not a hobby. It is a way of life. It will take over your brain.
¹Discovered a new cran on the fiddle, one that works and has been "officially sanctioned" by a piper as being "not bad".
²Ciaran Carson, Last Night's Fun, London: Jonathan Cape, 1996
³*waves* at mara_sho
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