I've always been interested in luthiers and the way they make their instruments. These days there is a great variety of techniques to make guitars, my weapon of choice, better and louder. There's the double top, the sound port, the raised fret-board, the lattice braces, and perhaps the most intimidating looking technique of all and a personal ( Read more... )

In all honesty, I would have to say no. That kind of make's it sound like it's someone else's fault. Had we met a year ago, yes, we'd be star crossed. But we met almost three years ago, and neglected to find sure footing. Then I gave up. Then you gave up. Once we'd finished giving up, the Atlantic Ocean got in the way. Now things could be easier, ( Read more... )

Pay no attention to titles. They rarely have any significance to my audience, and only feed my hunger for ambiguity ( Read more... )

So I have this really good friend who is a lot like me in some ways. He gets very excited about creativity, art, story, and he's a big geek too. The difference is that he's a pretty handsome dude and I'm a bit average aesthetically. We go to dinner a lot when he's in town. Both of us are moderately social guys and like to converse with the wait ( Read more... )

You know how you'll be driving at night and a deer will just pop out and stand in the middle of the damn road? Yeah, the deer in headlights look. Know why he does that? It's truthfully not his fault. His eyes are designed to magnify light. Light enters his eye and bounces back and forth to magnify like in night vision goggles. So when you come ( Read more... )

1. It's cold in here. I mean, really cold. Both my bedroom and bonus room sit directly above the garage. Garages have no heating, and apparently neither do I. (The contractor of the house didn't really think out the climate control part of the whole house building thing.) In fact, if I were to leave a glass of water in my bonus room over night, we ( Read more... )

It sometimes feels like being a fish staring down a fisherman's lure, not knowing the danger of the concealed hook. A natural instinct compels the fish to bite, if the fisherman presents the bait correctly ( Read more... )

I was so close. And then I had to go an ruin it. I was in the most perfect headspace and making things fall into place. One late night ruined it. Now it's back to drawing board. I have to decide on a goal, determine if it's realistic, and then figure out the new plan. My fault for being sober.

I haven't sat down to write in forever. Amazing how much I miss the act of actually processing my own brain waves. It's just so weird! This used to be a bedtime routine for me. Brush teeth, put in pajamas, check email, write in LJ, watch Nick at Nite, and then sleep. Guess the reality that no one will ever want to read my daily accounts as much as ( Read more... )

When you get nervous, your body reacts. Blood will gather in your chest, around vital organs, instead of your extremities. Your body will also release adrenaline for about four or five minutes. Your heart will beat faster. You may even breath in some irregular manner. As a result of these reactions, your arms and legs can feel cold and kind of ( Read more... )