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I’m taking the cure so I can be quiet

Scrivener May 7th, 2008

I’m taking the cure so I can be quiet
Originally uploaded by Scrivenings
I bought my guitar two years ago yesterday. When I got home with it, I realized it was my blogiversary and put up a post joking that I had gotten it as a present for my blog, that’s how I know the exact date. So to mark the date, here is a little video clip of the first 90 seconds of me playing “Needle in the Hay,” by Elliott Smith. I learned this song not too long into my lessons and just loved playing it and kept coming back to it even as I got new songs, but then eventually it got wrapped up in learning all these new songs and I probably didn’t play it at all for close to a year. A few months ago, I was flipping through my older lesson book and saw it and played it again. I’ve been playing it off and on since then. You know, it’s still one of the songs that I most enjoy playing.

So, just shy of two years of guitar lessons and I can at least kind of play 90 songs now! Full list beneath the fold.
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At the bouncy place with the kids

Scrivener November 8th, 2007

This is my first experiment with posting video here on the new blog. I hope it works. This is what I do with the kids when they are not in school. The last of many, many such races that day: