New Amp today!

Today was indeed a good day! At approximately 3:00 P.M., as I dozed in and out of about my 2nd hour of continuously interrupted sleep, a UPS lady arrived with a glorious Fender Hot Rod DeVille Guitar Amplifier, 60 Watts, with 2 12" inch speakers and a whole lotta tone. Of course it set me back roundabout 576 bucks, which I was concerned about as I had never actually played through a DeVille, but let me say I was not in the least bit disappointed.

Fender. Everything Fender is wonderful. I've got a Fender shirt on the way (clearance on thier website for $4.99 free shipping, how can ya pass that up?), I play a Fender Flame Maple Top Double Humbucker Telecaster [now] plugged into the Fender DeVille amp, I use Fender picks--everything Fender forever! I've messed with Gibson, Ibanez, Charvel, and others, but nothing compares to a Fender.

This is the guitar I play:

http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-FEN-262000-520.html

And this be the amp:

http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-FEN-213200.html

And the guitar I wish I had:

http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-FEN-101680-820.html

Sure, they may look similar, but believe me, as we can see from the price tag, they aren't. And whilst I am pasting these links, I find that I could have bought a brand new amp just like my 2 year old used one for 25 dollars more from a little "dent and scratch!" Arggh! Why didn't I see that a week ago? Oh well, nothing to be done.

Ya know, I really don't understand why this blogging thing has become so popular. I have yet to come across one that intrigues me. I will truly be surprised if there is anyone out there bored enough to read this...but, I suppose with the scope of the internet, it is possible, however unlikely. I plan in the future to discuss things that MAY attract viewers, so mayhap I can make a few extra bucks from AdSense like the rest of the population seems to be doing. I'm not a big surfer, so I won't have interesting websites to post all the time...perhaps a series of short stories? Or attempt open forums about music? Invite the radiohead fans to debate? My God, everything that could possibly be thought of has been done a million times over and taken the piss out of...I guess the only thing that keeps these things getting hits is the sheer enormity of the population.

Or is it simply the voyeuristic fascination inherent in reading about someone's day to day minutae that intrigues people? To compare our humdrum lives and explore a person's subconcious recesses via an online journal? Or are we just doing these things for our own sense for some form of perverse celebrity? To actually "be known" to the world at large, even in a microcosmic sense, where "the world" is represented by 15-20 strangers?

Or shall I post song lyrics? Poetry? MP3s of my music? Hmm. I suppose I had better copyright it first. If anyone is actually reading  this, and you want to hear some VERY OLD experiments into electronica, goto www.acidplanet.com and search for "erasable a." I haven't posted there for years, but a few of the tunes aren't so bad. Check out "Uninspired," and "The First Ones, Part II." Those are probably the best ones. I actually made the top 10 in the sites techno charts back in the days of ole, when I posted them.

So, it's 12:43 A.M. and the calls are graciously beginning to subside. I always look forward to "the dead zone," roundabout 2:30 and lasting until 5:oo--I suppose at that hour I shall dawn the headphones, turn on the Creative Nomad MP3 player, and listen to some music (what I'm listening to at the moment: The Helio Sequence, Love and Distance, and a particularly "lowbrow" audiobook by Dan Brown called Digital Fortress). Ya know, that guy everyone is screaming over because of The DaVinci Code fiasco.

I really don't see what the big deal is. Of course, if you're gonna contradict the Bible, I suppose you are always gonna be swept away on a fiasco. Hey, it made the guy a millionaire though...something tells me that anyone who "boycotts" the book or lashes out against it has not likely actually read it. Like The Last Temptation of Christ, wonderful movie, masterfully done, criticized and banned by a group of people who never even saw it. I just don't get it. Especially when the movie places the disclaimer from the book right at the beginning, something to the effect of "This is not based on the gospels..." and yet still, major fiasco. Typical quote: "I just know what I heard about it, and that's why I didn't watch it." Of course, don't find out for yourself, just blindly trust the people who also never saw it!

Ahh, enough of that. Don't get me wrong, I am a believer. But I am not, I repeat not, a follower of modern day mass religious organizations. I cannot think of a larger perversion of the intentions of Christ than the rampant judgement, piousness, and hypocracy prevalent in most modern day evangelical organizations. Go figure.

Wierd. You ever have deja-vu when you are writing? I could have sworn I dreamed about writing that very same line, in this very same outfit, at this very same time, in this very same locale. Is deja-vu real? Or just a self-imposed interpretation of a feeling of belonging and feeling a serendipitous purpose to one's existence and sense of self? Again, another mystery. Another aspect to the madness.

And it goes on and on and on...

Until your head needs another unloading, check out this story by yours truly (I have no idea HOW it's still online):

http://webpages.marshall.edu/~grubbs1/bookworm.htm

Please, comments welcome; If you are out there reading it...

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