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5/10/2007 The Next Generation of Blogs2/5/2007 The Death Of A SpaceDearly Beloved Readers,
We are gathered here today to say goodbye to AA's Guitar Space. It was a good space that served it's purpose for a long while. It was a place to learn guitar basics for me and as I hear, for others too. It was also a place for me to rant about the world in general.
Some of you may be crying out (but probably not). Why! Why! Did it have to die!
I can only say, "I dunno", all I know is: there seems to be some serious problem with MSN Spaces that prevents me from viewing the main page after logging in, so I will no longer be able to update any of the slideshows or add to the blog.
So whether I like it or not, this is The End for Arpeggio Andy's Guitar Space. Maybe I will make another space or blog here or some place else. maybe I will come across some of you again in the process. Who knows? God willing?
I will now read the last will and testament of the Guitar Space.
To meemes I leave:
The overwhelming networking power of the internet that can easily be harnessed for the purpose of finding your significant other. I recommend the yahoo personals. It worked for me.
To Red Kitten I leave:
A wish for continued therapuetic action in the writting of your blog.
To Holy Schmidt I leave:
The greatest appreciation for unknowingly introducing me to the world of MSN spaces.
To Paula (the only person from myspace who reads this) I leave:
The convenience of never having to visit this slow website again.
To all ten or so MSN spaces people that read my blog I leave:
The best wishes for finding good spaces to read.
To the multitude of forum posting guitar players from the "Rock House" I leave:
Full rights to the slideshow info to use for learning purposes. evilbmxer, I'm looking in your direction.
And to those I have probably missed I leave:
All the memmories of the last 2 years.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. May the space rest in peace. 1/16/2007 The Triumphant Return of AAHey kids!
I am finally back after a hectic Christmas season, and a very busy first couple of weeks to the new year. Between having way too many people to visit for the holidays and a last minute business trip and a backed up drain in the laundry room that caused what we'll always refer to as the great sudsy flood of 2007, I have only been able to add a few random entries in the blog. This has of course driven away almost all the people that were dropping by to read them. So, it looks like I am essentially writing to myself again for awhile which means I don't have follow the afformentioned format if I really don't want to.
I think I will try to get back into writing song lyrics. Oh, don't worry, I will revist the small topics, but probably not daily. I will try to write a new song every week, and if I can't then I will write the Arpeggio Andy thoughts of the week the way that I used to. Whenever there is something blatant that needs addressed that falls into the recent daily categories, I will of course feel obligated to revisit them. So basically, I am reducing my blog to one entry weekly, but maybe more deepending how things roll.
Rock on!
-AA 1/2/2007 Tuesday's B(o)(o)B
This weeks Tuesday's B(o)(o)B blog goes out to all the stupid people who actual drive while intoxicated on of all nights, New Years Eve. Do they really think police are gonna be taken totally by surprise to find drunk drivers on New Year's Eve? Not only does practically every cop in the city work to enforce DUI's that night, but you see them on the side of the road practicing ways to catch drunks about a week in advance. How stupid can people be? "Somebody's got a case of the Monday's stupid quote"
"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" - Lee Iacocca, Chairman of the Chrysler corporation
You're absolutely right Lee, what value could air possible have to people anyways? Isn't it enough that Detroit CEO's like you have taken away jobs from american auto workers? Now you also want to take away the air they breathe too. 12/29/2006 Weekend Wise Crack - New Year's EditionInternet Users Resolution List
16. I resolve... I resolve to... I resolve to, uh... I resolve to, uh, get my, er... I resolve to, uh, get my, er, off-line work done, too!
15. I will stop checking my e-mail at 3:00 in the morning... 4:30 is much more practical. 14. When I hear a funny joke I will not reply, "LOL... LOL!" 13. I will stop sending e-mail, ICQ, Instant Messages and be on the phone at the same time with the same person. 12. I will try to figure out why I *really* need 9 e-mail addresses. 11. I will stop sending e-mail to my roommate. 10. I will not buy magazines with AOL disks bound in just to get another 1.44MB disk. 9. I resolve to work with neglected children... my own. 8. I will answer my snail mail with the same enthusiasm I answer e-mail. 7. When I subscribe to a newsgroup or mailing list, I will read all the mail I get from it. 6. I will stop using, "So, what's your URL?" as a pickup line. 5. No more downloads from alt.binaries.* 4. I resolve to back up my new 400 GB hard drive daily... well, once a week... monthly, perhaps... 3. I will spend less than five hour a day on the Internet. 2. I will limit my top ten lists to ten items. 1. I will read the manual... just as soon as I can find it.
12/22/2006 Weekend Wise Crack - Xmas EditionA little girl goes to see Santa Clause at the local shopping mall. When she arrives and sits down on Santa's lap, Santa asks "What do you want for Christmas little girl?".
"I want a Barbie and a GI Joe" says the little girl. "But Barbie comes with Ken" Santa says, "No”, said the little girl, “Barbie only 'cums' with GI Joe!"
On Christmas morning a cop on horseback is sitting at a traffic light, and next to him is a kid on his shiny new bike. The cop says to the kid, "Nice bike you got there. Did Santa bring that to you?"
The kid replies, "Yeah." The cop says, "Well, next year tell Santa to put a tail-light on that bike." The cop then proceeds to issue the kid a $20.00 bicycle safety violation ticket. The kid takes the ticket and before he rides off says, "By the way, that's a nice horse you got there. Did Santa bring that to you?" Humoring the kid, the cop says, "Yeah, he sure did." The kid continued, "Well, next year tell Santa to put the dick underneath the horse, instead of on top." A man walks into the toy store to get a Barbie doll for his daughter. So he asks the assistant, as you would, "How much is Barbie?"
Overheard in Santa's Toyshop: "Please, Mrs. Claus, those batteries
are for the children's toys!!"
12/14/2006 To all my FriendsTo My Democrat Friends:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.
By accepting these greetings, you are accepting the aforementioned terms as stated. This greeting is not subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself/himself/others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.
This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.
To My Republican Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 12/12/2006 Tuesday's B(o)(o)B
This weeks Tuesday's Boob is the BMIC at Seatle-Tacoma International airport who decided to have all the Christmas trees removed because they "might" be offensive to the Jewish passengers. Dude, they're christmas trees, not swastikas. Since when is a symbol of a holiday that recognizes Christ's birth offensive to Jews? All the boobs out there that are trying to remove Christmas from society need to realize that Jews love Christ too. So much in fact that they are anxiously awaiting his arrival. This airport head really needs to get a clue. 12/11/2006 "Somebody's got a case of the Monday's stupid quote"
I told myself when I started this blog that I wasn't going to do the obvious and post a quote from the imbecile that lives in the white house, but I have since changed my mind. Since there are such an abundance of stupid quotes from that guy, I gotta at least post my favorites.
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
Townsend, TN
02/21/2001
"They misunderestimated me."
Bentonville, AR
11/06/2000 "We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job."
Gulfport, MS 09/20/2005 And my absolute favorite.
"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." Washington, DC 05/25/2004 12/8/2006 Friday's Weekend Wise CrackA one dollar bill met a twenty dollar bill and said, "Hey, where've you been? I haven't seen you around here much."
The twenty answered, "I've been hanging out at the casinos, went on a cruise and did the rounds of the ship, back to the United States for a while, went to a couple of baseball games, to the mall, that kind of stuff. How about you?" The one dollar bill said, "You know, same old stuff ... church, church, church."
12/7/2006 Thursday's Guitar Pic(k) of the WeekThis weeks guitar pic is this Gibson Les Paul of one of the guitarists of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. If you haven't seen a TSO concert, I highly recommend it. It not only rocks, but it has a meaningful story that has developed over the last few years, and they combine that with the best lazer light show of any concert I have ever seen.
12/6/2006 Wednesday's Stay Tannic Verse
This weeks Stay Tannic Verse is a real appetizing one. This command of God directed to Ezekiel would make Martha Stewart proud.
Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel." – Ezekiel 4:12
Mmm, poop flavored cake made with God’s own recipe. No thanks, I’ll just have some wine.
12/5/2006 Tuesday's B(o)(o)B
This weeks Tuesday's Boob is Lana from Yahoo's YMusic "Unlimited" customer service department. In response to my e-mail question, "Why am I unable to transfer music to my player without getting a message that says to reacquire the licenses for the songs?" And, "Why when I try to reacquire licenses I get a message that says to buy the service that I already purchased?", she wrote, "Right click on the song to transfer, left click on re-acquire license, then try transferring the song again."
Clearly Lana is incapable of reading my question and just copied and pasted someone else’s pre-made response.
Don't get me wrong. I applaud Yahoo for giving employment opportunities to the functionally illiterate. However, I really think they should limit those opportunities to positions in the custodial department of their company. Because even though Lana is totally useless in the customer service department, her abilities can still be put to good use sweeping floors and scrubbing toilets.
Word to the wise; Yahoo's YMusic Service SUCKS! I bought a 1 year subscription and had to spend 4 days of each month complaining to the customer service department to reactivate my service after they shut it off at the end of each month. Skip the headache and get Napsters service. 12/4/2006 "Sombody's got a case of the Monday's stupid quote"
U.S.M.C. = UNCLE SAMS MISGUIDED CHILDREN – Anonymous bumper sticker writer
This quote is the most stupid thing I have read in a long time because of what it says about the writer. The first stupid thing is the fact that the writer prefers to NOT have someone protect their freedom of speech that allows them to make such stupid quotes. The second stupid thing is the reference to brave 18 years or older men as children, which clearly makes the writer seem like less of a man. The third stupid thing is the insulting nature of the quote. If this person actually said this to a US Marine, they would have the crap beat out of them on the spot. This would explain why this pussy left the quote anonymous. 12/1/2006 Friday's Weekend Wise CrackA famous heart specialist doctor died and everyone was gathered at his funeral. A regular coffin was displayed in front of a huge heart. When the minister finished with the sermon and after everyone said their good-byes, the heart was opened, the coffin rolled inside, and the heart closed.
Just at that moment one of the mourners started laughing. The guy next to him asked: "Why are you laughing?" "I was thinking about my own funeral" the man replied. "What's so funny about that?" "I'm a gynecologist."
11/30/2006 Thursday's Guitar Pic(k) of the WeekThis weeks guitar pic features the Gibson Les Paul Junior played by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.
11/29/2006 Wednesday's Stay Tannic Verse
Today’s wine induced verse comes from the 22 chapter of Deuteronomy, verse 8.
When you build a new house, make a [railing] around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.
What were these drunks doing walking on the rooftops of houses anyway? Did anyone stop to think that people wouldn’t be walking on rooftops if there wasn’t a railing to make it SEEM safe? Seriously, I think it would be a lot smarter to simply tell someone to get their drunk ass down from the rooftop and avoid the guilt of bloodshed by not letting them kill their self in the process of doing something stupid. You know I’m right and I’ll drink to that! 11/28/2006 Tuesday's B**B
This weeks Tuesday's Boob is Jesse Jackson for unnecessarily sticking his nose into the already bad Michael Richards N-word situation. You just know this dumb ass is studying a recording of the whole thing word for word in order to find new racial meaning for each utterance of the n-word. The only thing he could do worse than attaching himself to yet another racially negative current event would be to secretly have children out of wed-lock. OOPS, toooo laaaate.
Just a note for future reference. If Jesse Jackson seems to show up often in this blog, it isn't because I don't like him. It's because he continually does stupid stuff like this. Hopefully I don't have to return to this event next with Al Sharpton as Tuesday's Boob. 11/27/2006 "Somebody's got a case of the Monday's stupid quote"
Today's Stupid quote is from former NFL coach Chuck Knox.
"Football players win football games."
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