The Creative Type ...

Oh Yeah, one more thing:

Emily, Emily, Emily, …. Em! “I’ll never be able to learn it”??? What the…Djanjo Reinhardt’s left hand was so badly burned that his index and middle fingers were essentially fused. People listen to his recordings today and still can’t figure out how he did it.

I’m no Djanjo Reinhardt but I did remove the tip of my left index finger with a Makita Power Saw a while back. Ha - Gives me an excuse.

The beauty of the guitar is that someone can pick one up for the first time in their life and within a couple of hours have something that sounds pretty good. Then it just keeps getting better - - a guitar is such a personal instrument. BB King likes to name his favorite Axe “Lucille” but I don’t think Elton has ever named his Piano.

So anyhow, if you like guitars, head on down to the local pawn shop, find yourself an orphan that needs a good home, learn some chords (power chords if your new friend is electric, heh heh) and the next thing you know you’ll be rippin’ into Jimi’s “Red House.”

LOL. I know, I know, I know. I'm a defeatist... *thinks* But a defeatist with tiny weak hands, so that's an excuse :p (Guitars seem to be made on a gender bias - like trying to strum a freakin cello!) Right now I'm trying to relearn on a second-hand keyboard the bits of piano I used to know, so that's my first priority. But thanks for the encouragement. Between you and the impromptu lessens of my friends I'll force myself to learn eventually. :D

Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath had the tips of his index and middle fingers chopped of in a factory accident. He has prothstetics, but he can still rock.

I'm starting to get the impression that mutilated hands are an *asset* to ... uh... guitar-itry. Hmmm.........


...just kiddin! just kiddin. :p

Guitaritry. Thats a great word! I love words that people fashion out of pre-existing ones. particularly ones that end in -age, -osity, -ology, and now -itry. :D

I'd like to add to my previous comment of only building fires that I also walk in the dark and creatively get lost a few times a week.

simon -- your creative properties are most incongenial. Make a torch, man!


Oh, and...thanks, Kik! :D I routinely speak in Em-glish without even paying attention to myself. How many other languages offer so many opportunities for invention while remaining (relatively) grammatically correct? It makes brain happy.

Em :D

i really like the endings "ish" and "y" in the context of:
I am so on time(ish)!
or
what is that thing(y)?
use em all the time...not em, but em....ya know?

Hahaha...ha....*looks over shoulder*....
........... you want to use me for what now?

My creativeness at getting lost leads me to meet many creepy and unusual guys.

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Originally posted by simon
My creativeness at getting lost leads me to meet many creepy and unusual guys.

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Tell them Em says "hi." :D

I am not very creative at all:mad:. I have in the past tried drawing; Music etc. however it normally goes very badly.

Also, with regards to British women and cooking: It aint just the women that cant cook, we British guys are not that that good at it either.

...i don't think i'm creative either :( i love to cook, whether health food, asian foods, (you should see my "food" folder on favorites :D) cookies or any and everything with apples, and etc., and i've played flute and piano, but mostly my only creative outlet is poetry. i like to swim and walk, and am teaching my boyfriend's brother spanish next year; he's getting home-schooled, but i don't think that counts.

Whooooeeeee! I’m getting’ hungry. Can’t cook too well but I can sure eat. Cajun, Creole, Soul-food, Chinese, Japanese, Thai-food, French, German, Italiano mmm-mmm-good, North of the border, South of the border, oh yes and in de islands mon, way down yonder in India, Florida Oranges, Georgia Peaches, Texas Ruby Red Grapefruits, Jersey Beef Streak Tomatoes Washington Apples, Rainier Cherries, California Strawberries, Maine Blueberries, and Alabama Goober-Peas, Canoles from Mike’s in Boston’s North end, Beignets from Café DuMonde in New Orleans, and Irish Coffee from The Buena Vista in San-Fran.

OK, I have to go now.

I'm still hungry. Tango hambre.

Ray's Famous Pizza, NYC; Gino's Pizza, Chicago: never could warm up to Emo's Pizza in St Louis; Stubb's BBQ, Austin/Lubbock; M&J Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque; Hitchin' Post, Casmalia, California...