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^This song is called "Flowers -- the New Radicals." I fucking love it.^

I've got a new guitar! It's an Ibanez AEL50SERLV, and it's beautiful. <3 the sound as well.

What's this mean for you people? Well, it means you suffer through 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' as performed by me. Mic is so quiet because my webcam mic blows and randomly interjects with max-volume static (ie: total ear rape) without warning.

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Go easy, or I'll rape your ears singing in the key John Denver sang in originally. : p

[EDITED, NEWS POST UPDATED]

In commemoration of the first snow of the year, I've winterized my sig.

[EDITED AGAIN]

I uploaded a stock photo of the guitar. Mine's got some subtle differences, and seeing it on a computer screen doesn't really do it justice.

[THE REVENGE OF EDIT]

My account is whole again. This external HDD is a MESS, it took me a solid 30 minutes to figure out where I'd put my more recent NG related shit, but lemme tell you it was a trip strolling down memory lane from all the old shenanigans of saved pics I've got backed up. Shit like screencaps of my 1000th post, ancient signatures, flash that never saw the light of day, etc. Oh, and I changed my banner 'cause I just plain love that old one I had. So there.

[I've now come back to edit this newspost almost as many times as someone has viewed and commented on it]

I'm hired again! I got a more full-time position doing IT for this company that does outsourced IT work. It's pretty cool, they gave me a loaner laptop with windows 7, I'm getting 10 bucks an hour cash at the end of the week until I finish this 'trial period' and am officially hired (at which point I'll likely be paid more, plus a buncha other cool shit/benefits). So... yay!

Happy Thanksgiving! I've decided that I should keep my signature updated with each holiday/event/whatever. There's plenty of room for the text and I like changing up the colors every once in a while anyway.

No more bummin' around jobless. Got hired by Gamestop for seasonal employment. What's cool though, is they'll soon be opening a new store closer to home that I'll probably be able to work full-time at, etc. once I've proven that I'm a badass awesome reliable associate.

Even though nobody cares: I'll be recording myself playing some more music soon. The only reason I haven't is because I broke my D string two days after that last recording and have yet to replace it. Tried doing 'Doesn't Remind Me' by Audioslave the other day, but got frustrated after the third attempt 'cause I keep forgetting the words and/or mess up going from the bridge to the chorus and back to the verse again. But, I've re-acclimated to the squier's thin neck again, so I'll probably record that and toss it up in this newspost somewhat soon.

I've made a lot of progress since I started playing in August last year, considering I couldn't even finger an open A back then.

Anyway, one of the things that I really need to work on is repertoire. It's one thing to know scales and chords and licks and all sorts of shit, but if you don't have a practical use you can't make progress.

So... I've been learning 'Rosealia' by Better than Ezra and saw fit to record it. I'll probably be butchering some more songs in the near future, so stay tuned.

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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_
query=autotune+the+news&search_type=&a q=f

My personal favorite:

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My friend showed these to me. It's this project this band is undertaking where they've basically taken a week or so's news footage and applied the T-Pain autotune shit to it to make music out of it. It's actually pretty good, I recommend at least 4 and onward. They definitely get better as the project has worn on.

This`place?

Beats the hell out of my old first gen iPhone. Even during the course of typing out this message two different and improved features have been revealed to me.

Sadly, I don't own this one.

...that when the insects mark your presence naught
and are inclined to scale your flesh,

...that the soft hissing of the wind caught
no more than your clothing and hair,

...that a rafter doesn't feel they ought
run, nor fight, nor intimidate, nor fear,

...that these moments, are and unfought--
stolen by life, environment, and intention,

...that all possessions frivolity bought
become as unimportant as any detail,

...that any anecdote a moral sought
couldn't cheapen the experience,

for flesh, hair, fear, intention, detail, or experience
sought, unfought, caught, bought, naught, or ought

simply are, then were, then aren't?

So I'm driving down the highway and I notice this old hearse get on off an on-ramp. I get up closer before he hits highway speeds and see this rather large bumper sticker in the back window: "Got Bodies?" Closer still, and I can read the license plate. It's an antique plate with green lettering, saying "LSTRYD."

Unfortunately, I couldn't take a picture and apparently nobody else on the google has thought to take a picture either (indexable by the search engine, anyway). But, I admit it got me to smile wryly and shake my head. Who the fuck buys an antique hearse and takes such pride in having a cadaver-mobile?

These faggots had access to every piece of sensitive financial information I've ever had over the 6 most important years of my life and they don't touch any of it.

Nope, not one piece of sensitive information. All that they cared about was that they gain access to my online identity on this site in order to give the administrators and my fellow moderators somewhat of a headache. So, I don't know what kind of point they're trying to make with their efforts to 'bring NG to its knees' or whatever the fuck, but the reflection on them is blinding.

So, to bring whoever checks this page up to speed:
- My password was not easily guessed, it was a strong password containing alphanumerics including capital letters and not based on a common phrase.
- The cretins got my secondary email address (which also happens to be my MSN) because I've posted it here before.
---> The address had my private email as its secondary account
---> They correctly guessed the ancient security question attached
---> They correctly figured that the primary/secondary relationship was vice-versa for my private gmail account
---> Password recovery gets them access to my gmail
---> Password recovery gets them access to my NG account
---> "Havoc" wreaked.

Anyway, I'd like to apologize to all involved in the headache caused. Sure, it's not my fault, but I do bear the responsibility for my account's actions, regardless of circumstance. Sorry.

Lesson to learn here: don't gloss over the important of removing your ancient secondary email from your primary account when updating your online security.