'If your soul is pure, the music will flow.'

'And if your soul isn't pure?'

'Then you must practice like a motherfucker.'

That is the best damn line about practicing music that I have ever heard. I have heard all of those ones about 'practice makes perfect' and 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall'...but that is the best one in the world.

Speaking of practice, I picked up the guitar last night around 9:30 or 10 to log another hour of practice. I think that I may have overdone it in the morning. My hands just were not working together. So I put the guitar down and said 'I'll be back tommorow'. I felt no remorse...I wasn't skipping out...I had already logged my time that day.

My check went into my bank account today (direct deposit is pretty cool). but my commission for last month. I really was looking forward to the extra few hundred dollars. Well...I'll be able to survive on the $450 I got for 2 weeks...although it will quickly turn into only 50 bucks after I pay my bills and all that fun stuff.

The tri-tip was good last night. I enjoyed it. The green beans were kinda gross though. Bummer...good thing we had baked potatos.

I brought 'The Historian' to work today. I intend to read at least a hundred pages of it today. I did about 50 yesterday and am now about half way done with it...maybe a bit less. I am loving the book, but by the time I get aound to reading it at night, I am just so exhausted.

I was listening to Rush's 'YYZ' today and realized that that song would have been so perfect for jazz band. All it would have taken to turn it into a good jazz song was just a bit of arrangement to get all of the instruments playing, but all the solo's were there (its an instrumental). I would have loved playing that song.

Speaking of music, if anyone would like to see the general music that I listen to, go to the link for my Audioscrobbler. On MySpace, and Blogdrive, the link is on the side section of the main page, and on LiveJournal the link is at the bottom under where the 'My Web Page' should be. It doesnt list the music I listen to at work or what I listen to when I am listening to my iPod, but anything I listen to on my computer gets logged. There isn't much right now, becuase I just got it working yesterday afternoon, but soon it should be pretty full of music. You'll even be able to listen to a radio station of music that I like. Very cool...if not eclecticly disturbing. So far I believe that the list is really just a lot of random rock/metal music.

I have a haircut appointment on Thursday of next week. Don't worry...I am not cutting it all off, just getting a trim. Here is a bit of a convo I had with Elle about it andwell...it develops into something kind of crazy.

WinderHunter: im getting my hair cut next thursday
ElleBelleCharms: ahh!
ElleBelleCharms: the horror!
ElleBelleCharms: whhhyy?
WinderHunter: i know...sampson and delilah
ElleBelleCharms: noo
WinderHunter: its just a trim
ElleBelleCharms: "I like it when girls run their fingers through my hair" <--- The best reason to keep it
ElleBelleCharms: !
ElleBelleCharms: oh ok
ElleBelleCharms: thats bette
ElleBelleCharms: better*
WinderHunter: i would never let it get too short for a girl to run their hands through it
WinderHunter: i miss it when they do that
ElleBelleCharms: :-D
ElleBelleCharms: good!
ElleBelleCharms: good good, i like it long
WinderHunter: im a musician....i must be keeping it long
WinderHunter: its part of the code
ElleBelleCharms: ;-)
ElleBelleCharms: long hair is good
ElleBelleCharms: short is ok
ElleBelleCharms: but long is....
ElleBelleCharms: more floozy-like!
ElleBelleCharms: lol
ElleBelleCharms: kidding.
WinderHunter: yeah....it gets all in your face when your playing guitar and drives you crazy
ElleBelleCharms: its much sexier! thats what i was looking for!
ElleBelleCharms: lol
WinderHunter: i know
ElleBelleCharms: but thats sexy? lol cause girls love the long hair
ElleBelleCharms: so i guess it works
WinderHunter: true
WinderHunter: i guess ill have to be playing live more
ElleBelleCharms: :-)
WinderHunter: would you come see me if i played live?
ElleBelleCharms: heck yes!
WinderHunter: lol
WinderHunter: my friend Kristi said she would come and throw panties at me
ElleBelleCharms: lol!
ElleBelleCharms: ill throw bras then!
ElleBelleCharms: :-D
WinderHunter: oh jesus...thats just what i need
ElleBelleCharms: ;-)
WinderHunter: im deathly afraid of people throwing things at me on stage
WinderHunter: ill be diving around like a crazy person to avoid the flying lingere
ElleBelleCharms: then! oh then! ill pay some UBER hot chick to come up and just plant one on ya when you are done! But shhh, you arent supposed to know! lol
ElleBelleCharms: ;-)
ElleBelleCharms: or she will just willingly do it
ElleBelleCharms: and i will convince her!
ElleBelleCharms: ha ha!
WinderHunter: great...my friend getting my hopes up through quasi-prostitution
ElleBelleCharms: :-P
ElleBelleCharms: did ya read the second part? she will probably willingly do it! so then i just shove her up on stage and all is well! ;-)
WinderHunter: youre just saying that to cover yourself from getting charged with soliciting...and getting your friends heart broken
ElleBelleCharms: :-(
ElleBelleCharms: noooo
ElleBelleCharms: its true
ElleBelleCharms: girls have a thing for sweaty rockers
ElleBelleCharms: :-D
WinderHunter: but come on babe....I dont need any help getting girls....Im Yodhan...savvy?
ElleBelleCharms: savvy
ElleBelleCharms: ;-)
ElleBelleCharms: i knew that, just helpin a bit
ElleBelleCharms: where was Han without Chewbacca?
ElleBelleCharms: :-D
ElleBelleCharms: where was Yoda without
ElleBelleCharms: ..... his clarvoyant mind?
ElleBelleCharms: lol
WinderHunter: Mace Windu?
ElleBelleCharms: Maybe!

I have some seriously fucked up conversations with friend. Although...I do love my 'Come on...I dont need any help...I'm Yodhan...saavy.' I was in a very Johnny Depp mood after watching 'Once Upon a Time in Mexico' yesterday. I love the soundtrack for that movie. It is absolutly amazing. It has the song Maleguena, which we used to play in jazz band....but Brian Setzer plays it way better than we used to. I really wouldn't mind learning some mariachi music. I love the way that it gets played in that movie with the electric guitar. It sounds so beautiful and pure.

I am 17 days short of my 30 days of unrepeated music goal. I realize that it took me years to get all of this music. I think I will have the 30 days of music when I am about 25. Thats a good goal. Although, when looking at my cd collection, you can tell which cds I bought before I moved out here from MI and which I bought after, becuase I left all of the normal jewel cases in MI and took only the cds and booklets when I moved. There are a lot of normal sized cd cases on my cd racks...a throwback to my more youthful days of spending a couple hundred bucks at Amoeba music every few months...I havent spent that much at a time on music in a long time, although it would be like. I think I would rather spend the money on music gear though.

I have been open for an hour and no one has come in. That could be a sign of a slow bussiness day...or that it is going to be fucking busy later. I actually would prefer the 'fucking busy'...gives me bigger numbers and makes me look good and gets me more money.

I am hungry...and I think I am taking my break at some point around 1:30 or 2:00....the agony. I forgot to grab a protein bar on the way out of the house today....very sad. I had a bagel and cream cheese for breakfast...I had to lay off the cereal because I have become lactose intollerant lately and its been bad. The cream cheese doesnt cause and problems...which is fine with me.

Okay...I am officially bored out of my skull...time to get my book out.