SHINY TOYS: In Which a New Friend is Introduced

DUDES DUDES LOOK WHAT I GOT.

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On Sunday I went and got this RAD BANJO off of Craigslist and now I know like three chords but I can't really remember them, I'd have to look them up in my book. G is easy, that's just an open strum. *hop*

I was going to name it Django because while yes, I know that's totally inappropriate for this particular breed of stringed instrument, Django both sort of rhymes with "banjo" and is vaguely onomatopoeic.* But Mother Dearest vetoed this emphatically ("Django is NOT a banjo name. No, no, no. Do not sully the name of the Almighty Django by affixing it to a banjo!") and suggested Suzannah, which I actually rather like, so I'll probably stick with that. Suzanna the banjo! (I like how you can see my guitar peeking out from under my thumbs-up in the picture. Don't worry, Persephone, you're still my one and only!)

ANYWAY the banjo may or may not make an appearance at some point in a few months once I've figured out how the hell it works. I shall have to dress up in a snazzy suit, in the event. 

LADIES.

ANYWAY on to this week's song. Because I am still working millions of hours, I bring you: 2010 SONG OF THE YEAR. That is, the one and only good song I wrote in 2010. (In fact, it might be the ONLY song I wrote in 2010. Remember what I said back in the beginning about my paltry output?) It is a song about love, and death, and war, and it would have taken only one shot to record, but then my microphone started pooping all over the place and I had to do a couple re-takes to get it right.

I've found that I really miss writing songs and working them out every week, so I'm really hoping that my work schedule will calm down and I'll be able to get back to that next week. I already have some ideas for a new song which I should really write down, which I think I might be able to turn into something that I'm not ashamed of.

Had an interesting surprise the other day: I was flipping through an old three-ring binder of sheet music from various choral ventures of my past, and in the very back I found a bunch of songs and poetry I'd written between approximately the ages of 12 and 15. Heaven help me, I had no idea that stuff was still around and capable of seeing the light of day.  I may have to post some of it here, to embarrass myself and to prove to you all that my songwriting skill really has improved over the past ten years!

By the by, friends, I found this really cool graphic of the Ira Glass quote that helped inspire this blog. I think it might be a poster in which case I would love to have it for my wall, but I can't figure out where to find it.

What are you, new? Go to the first post to find out what this blog is all about!

*That's the first time I've spelled "onomotapoeic" correctly on the first try! Be proud of me! Writing this footnote was the second time!