Think about it. When have you ever seen someone playing the guitar legit-ly not to impress? I mean camp is a totally different situation – you can’t exactly come to camp, electric guitar in hand and expect to play on the beach. Side note: really cool idea – rock concert on a beach. If not in a camp setting, guitaring is just… douchy. Go ahead, practice in your rooms, and yeah, occasionally go to open mic nights to sing and try to impress, but know that in the end you are all douches. I don’t mean any of this in a disrespectful way. I love people who play the guitar, I myself even want to start. But I don’t want to play it and pretend that I’m the best thing to happen to girls since boxes. (I know how much girls like building forts). I want to learn the guitar so that I’m proud of myself. That and to be able to play at camp near the campfire. The guys who do go up and sing though, some are amazing, others open up too much and basically say whatever they see. “She dyes her hair. It’s like she’s Cher. She puts on makeup. She doesn’t see me when I wake up.” THIS IS OPENING UP EMOTIONALLY?! No. I don’t agree. This is what defines douchyness. But as for the story which brought all this thinking up:
I went to an acoustic night here at York, and yeah it was really good. But some acts were just… bleh. Sure the girls liked it, but really guys? Listen to what they are actually saying. There was one good comic that went up and another one tried, but all he knew was one joke (which was incredible might I add – it made you feel like you made up the joke yourself, and then you realized that that was his intention all along!). Following some of the douchy guys, there was a guy who did summer of ’69 on the electric guitar which was fantastic. Another guy sang the remix to ignition – bad cuz it was acoustic, but phenomenal because of the song itself. And lastly, a mash-up of Apologize (OneRepublic) and Kids (MGMT) was sung by two guys which was really good. OH! And a magic act. Fun stuff. All that commingled together with a touch of fondue with a chocolate fountain and cheese and again phenomenal goat cheese, turned the evening into a smile. They even topped it off with Hit Me Baby One More Time by B-Spears which everyone knew the lyrics to. Smile, again.
Two thoughts I had come up during writing this:
1. Acoustic is a really hard word to spell (as is parallel)
2. I did not care much for Avatar, and was happy it only won 2 oscars. Defs best effects though. By far.
Some thoughts I had whilst writing the above thoughts:
1. UP won oscars! I was really happy.
2. My laundry is done, must go get it.
3. I have to go to therapy for my thumb tomorrow – more of that then though.
End of School + Vancouver Countdown – 28 and 29 Days respectively!
