Alright, I took my guitar in, and it turned out the jack just needed a good tightening. I also got a new cord that is angled. It helps keep the jack from breaking again. I brought in my acoustic for a re-stringing as well. My amp's tone is a little weird right now. It sounds good with flange effect on it, but with nothing it sounds strange. I'm learning (well, I learned) "Like A Stone" and "Fake Plastic Trees" today...hah, my parent's are about to leave the house!!! They won't get pissed when I play guitar instead of do my homework. Sorry, I'll get back on topic. Yeah, both songs are easy, so maybe I'll cover those when I get my Inspire 1394 dealy.

Random topic: At school, it's the end of the trimester, and I have good grades, here's my classes and grades:

Algebra 1/2 Honors: B, 86%

Science: A, 95%

Social Studies (History): A, 95%

Tech: A, 96%

Language Arts (English): A, 101% :shock: (I'll explain that later)(1)

P.E.: A, probably a 98% because I never where my P.E. uniform.

(1): We have twenty word spelling tests every week, and we get five bonus words worth a point each. These words are extremely easy, so I usually get a 25 or a 24, making up for any missed assignments.

Weird thing is, I've been pretty lazy this trimester (for Algebra, I've failed two Homework Quizzes, which I will not start explaining because they're REALLY HARD). I still have very good grades, 4.0 or not. My GPA is a 3.8333333, which is more than I expected being in Algebra Honors. Also, this years classes are very easy. I find myself putting off my homework and projects every time, and I still do well on them. I'm done. Bye.

Today, I was doing my Algebra homework (coincidentally the only HW I have right now). I had skipped one HW assignment, so I made it up. Then, I was gonna start tonight's HW, but I said, "Ah, f**k it, I'll make it up tomorrow at Lunch because there's nothing to do." I hadn't got a chance to play guitar since almost a week and a half (nearly spoiled my chops), so I started. It was getting late, so I didn't start with my amp. I did a pretty typical quick warm- up (five minutes non-stop improv on pentatonic scales all over, play the riff to Sweet Child O Mine over and over, getting faster, then slowing down to practice quick soloing movements, play Black Hole Sun to practice barre chords, a little more improv, and done), then decided that I should quickly learn how top lay something. I have over time, forgotten perhaps 35 songs, and I now can probably play 10 fluently, and a couple I'm working on, or improvise a solo, when I shouldn't have to. I figured I should learn something quick. I started off with "Geek USA". Fair enough, intermediate riffs, pretty hard solo, but nothing unmanageable. None of the tabs were good enough. They sounded really weird, and it took me two minutes just to fix the way they tabbed the riffs. That's off the list. How about, "Fall To Pieces". Very intermediate song, shouldn't be to difficult. Upon more thinking, the tab was long and had about 15 minutes to learn something. Next was "Even Flow". I'm going to learn this possibly tomorrow or Friday (yes, I'm aware there's still a Thursday), but not enough time today. Then, I got it, "Like A Stone". Perfect. I find a good tab, and it's very easy. I immediately can play the whole song. The solo has some weird effect though, so I try playing something similar, using all the notes in the original, but adding more inbetween to change the sound. Okay, then I check the tuning (I sometimes learn in a different tuning, so I memorize the notes, rather than just hearing the right sound for a part, then moving on, it helps somehow, like learning something on acoustic). It's in standard tuning, so I go to tune it. Then, the noise breaks off. The guitar's connection to the amp got screwed up. I thought it was the amp, but I fetched my strat, and it worked fine. I need to take it in tommorow. Learning will have to wait.

My slog will come out this weekend because nobody has volunteered to write a section or rant. I mostly have the lists worked out, and what I'll review. I'm getting some guessing lines, so I should get it out quickly. I really want to record something right now, but I need my Inspire 1394. I've figured out that the layering (unless pedals work with it) would be about 6 guitars (intro/outro rythm, intro/outro lead, verse/chorus rythm, verse/chorus lead, solo w/ flange effect, and the vocals) for my "Mayonaise" cover. I've learned everything, although I might need to brush up on the rythm sections. I've got the lead parts down, the vocals perfect, and I've got my tone modeled perfectly for the solo. I'll say the release date (subject to change) will be 12/26, coming out in the afternoon. This will be like a demo tape. I will pay my friend (who's great withcomputer software) to mix and produce it, and that's that. Oh, yeah the produced version will probably get done around the 30th.

It's been slightly postponed for two reasons:

1. HE is bugging the crap out of me, and I've spent some time commenting on him and expressing anger. I'd just like to say, feel free to keep insulting us. Just stay the f**k out of Shadow's blog just to insult Sharky.

2. My friend told me three days ago that his birthday was yesterday, and we went to Six Flags with two other friends. I'll list all of the rollercoasters at Six Flags: Magic Mountain, and why or why not I went/didn't go on it.

1. Goliath- Yes, it's hugmongoug, terrifies most people, but I love it. I've been on it about 15 times since I first went on it 1.5 years ago.

2. X- Yes, it was my first time, and it looks like it would scare me sh!tless, but it was fun. The freaky part is that it drops straight down while your seat is flipping. It's really disorienting. It's called a 4-D rollercoaster (one of a kind) because the seats are on an axel that's attached to a device running on the track, and while moving, the seat's flip around, so even if you do see the track ahead (which you won't because you start going backwards, laying down), unless you've memorized it, you have to know when it will flip. They're re-dong this ride in 2008, calling it X2 (X squared), making it 5-D, with newly designed seats and visuals.

3. Colossus- Yes, this is the classic rollercoaster, so you have to go on it.

4. Scream!- Yes, right net to Colossus. like all of them but X, I've been on it before.

5. Batman the Ride- Yes, inverted coasters rock.

6. The Riddler's Revenge- No, only I wanted to go on it, nobody else, so I didn't want to hold them up.

7. Deja Vu- No, only my friend and I wanted to go on it, and the line was too long.

8. Superman the Escape- No, this isn't even a real rollercoaster, and it's a 45 minute wait for a 20 second ride. I'll never go on this.

9. Psyclone- No, this is supposed to remodel the original Cyclone, but it does a terrible job. I've been on it, but I don't want to again. It hurts my ribs.

10. Viper- No, we got really lucky and there were no lines for anything. There's never a line for this, so it would be a waste of time, pplus I've been on it 8 times before.

11. Tatsu- Yes,this was the group favorite. You really feel like you're flying, while you have this total feeling that you're gonna die, but you know you're safe. It's just so fun.

12-17. All the rest of the roller coasters are wuss rides that give no adrenaline rush at all. One has a maximum hieght of 48"!!! The only exception is Revolution which is fun because it has the first loop ever built.

Favorites: X, Goliath, Tatsu (Riddler's Revenge too, but we didn't go on it yesterday)

To see pics of the rides, go to sixflags.com, and find Magic Mountain and there will be ride

descriptions/pics.

SUBMIT YOUR BEST RANT

For my slog, I will have a section called the "Nail Board TM" where I pick out the best rants I get (about something or somebody), and post them. Either PM me it, or leave it as a post.

I've decided to quickly give away 5 of my top solos before the slog, so here:

1. All Along the Watchtower

2. Crossroads

3. Go

4. Geek U.S.A.

5. Readymade

Today I picked up two new CDs from Borders. I was checking through the music (there's books, movies, music, etc.) section, when the album "Vitalogy" by Pearl Jam. I have "Vitalogy" already, and have for months now (I for some reason never listened to the whol thing, I will tonight or tomorrow), but I decided to flip through the Pearl Jam CDs. It went "Vitalogy", "Ten", "Ten", "Ten", "Ten", "ten, and "T-, wait a second, that's "Vs."!!! Having been told of it's huge power to kick bottom until your buttocks are sore, I picked it up. On the way out, the Foo Fighters section caught my eye, so I flipped trough those. There were only three, "Skin and Bones, "ESP&G", and the self-titled one! I got the self-titled, and bought both, and left to go listen to tehir awesomeness. "Vs." kicks extreme bottom to the seventh degree. It is so good, I have to question it's superiority to "Ten". I can't decide which is better. "Vs." sticks out because it sounds very raw, not overdone, not produced to the point where it doesn't sound like a band anymore, just right. The guitar on "Vs." is better as well, such as the amazing "Go". Their is also a good mix of style, from the hard rock 'n' roll grunge sound, to some softer songs. "Glorifed G" is also a very catchy, somewhat poppy song, that sounds a little like Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic" during the chrous, when they sing in harmony. "Ten" has more catchy rythms, such as "Why Go", and "Alive", but "Vs." is quite possibly better. I'm leaning towards "Vs." right now, but I'm not done debating. No matter what, my tew favorite PJ songs are "Why Go" and "Go", funny huh?

The self-titled Foo's album is definitely the second best next to "The Volour and the Shape". It sounds like a Nirvana CD where Dave filled in for Kurt more than a Foo Fighters. Although it is a Dave Grohl album more than anything, it rocks. It starts out kind of poppy, but it works it's way into more heavy tunes. I'll review these two new albums in my giant blog. They both receive high ratings, in fact this is what the scores round to (but "Vs." is a perfect 10):

"Vs"- 10/10

"Foo Fighters"- 9/10

I like them both a lot

I'm preparing my slog as I call it, the most massive blog I've ever made. I'll have aboout fifteen topics, with short rants, jokes, and guess the lines as well. I'll even have a guest writer (possibly) and get a friend to rant about whatever's pissing them off terribly.

10 isn't enough, and 15 turns into a huge blob of great bands, so here: *gasp* one and two are tied

No seriously, #1 AND #2 ARE TIED

1. Smashing Pumpkins

2. Red Hot Chili Peppers

3. Foo Fighters

4. Soundgarden

5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience

6. Bad Religion

7. Pearl Jam

8. Nirvana

9. Velvet Revolver

10. Radiohead

11. Social Distortion

12. Bob Marley and the Wailers

13. Sublime

Check out my next slog (super blog) which will include, music and movie reviews, top 50 (if I'm up to it) guitar solos list, top twenty South Park episodes, another top ten albums list (no reviews this time), 15 guess the lines, and an inspired by Elmis (something he was going to do) Bad Albums by Good Bands. Surprisingly, many of my favorite bands have one on there. Other things included in the blog will be reviews of Elmis's four covers (don't worry, they're high ratings), and a long list of videos. Look out for it soon. You better look cuz it's gonna take me an hour probably.

Today, November 27, 2007, is Jimi Hendrix's 65th birthday. Everybody knows who Jimi Hendrix is, otherwise they have no soul. The revolutionary guitarist did in 27 years, what noone else has achieved in a normal lifetime. He changed the way we though of guitar, and now, every great guitarists is in some way influenced by him. No matter what music you play, hard rock, blues, grunge (that's me), metal, or anything, something rekated to what you do, was somehow revolutionized by Hendrix. No mattee if you are a devoted Hendrix fan, or you've only heard perhaps "Purple Haze" or "Fire", you can't deny that guy was amazing. Undoubtedly the single greatest guitarist of all time. Nobody will ver be as good as him. Hell, the only person who has gotten close to Hendrix's skill is Clapton, and he doesn't measure up even comparably with Hendrix. If you think he's overrated, you can go just go somewhere and think about it real carefully, because you know I'm right. Hendrix f'ing rocked.

Now onto more of a musical view at Hendrix. He was never taught anything about guitar like most people are. He just got a guitar one day, and he began rocking. He quickly rose to become a British favorite, and eventually, a star in America as well. He headlined the famous Woodstock festival, where he blew everybody away, with his blues influenced rocking. Hendrix was by no means a rock guitarist, but simply a blues guitarist behind a wall of distortion. The sad, quick riffing, purposefully made sloppy by the fuzz, his amazing riffing, and ability to sing and solo at the same time, not only was he the greatest guitarist of all time, but without a doubt, one of the five greatest rock musicians of all time. I'lll now do a short lyrical dedication to Hendrix, and post some of his most memorable lyrics:

"Scuse me well I kiss the sky" from Purple Haze

"And so castles made of sand, slips onto the sea. eventually" from Castles Made of Sand

"I didn't mean to take up all your swett time, I'll give it right back to ya, one of these days" from "Vooodoo Child (Slight Return)"

"Fly on little wing" "from Little Wing"

"I don't live today, maybe tomorrow, I just can't say" "from "I Don't Live Today"

"After all the jacks are in their boxes, and the clouds have all gone to bed, you can hear happiness, staggering on down the street, footprints, dressed in red, and the wind cries Mary" from "The Wind Cries Mary"

Here are five videos of Hendrix. The first is a perfect example of his ability to multi-task, singing and shredding at the same time. The rest are pretty much comepletely about his playing:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CjOq9r35uiU

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TV74PsUo1dc

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A4AU7oK-xMQ

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dw1Lvn5g621

http://youtube.com/watch?v=97ZNMhNiwyQ

I'll get some pictures of him in as soon as I'm using a different browser than FireFox, which doesn't allow copying and pasting.

R.I.P. Jimi 1942-1970

You are dearly misssed.

P.S. I realize for most of the world, it's no longer the 27th, but bear with me.

"honey, as long as there's some money."

You win the glory of being the smartest if you guess that first. Just for the people who feel bad they're not the smartest because I already know it,, and therefore got it, here's some more.

"When I'm sad, she comes to me"

"She's been diagnosed, by some stupid f**k"

"Someone spilled blood many years ago, someone spilled blood but didn't know"

"It's been a long long time, since I got you on my mind"

"Can't burn her out of my head, drag her off of my mind"

"Backstroke lover always hidin' 'neath the covers"

"One nation under God, that stands above the rest, with mighty high technology we're never second best" (never huh? Yeah, in things like "Most wars declared" and "Country with stupidest leader")

"Well I wake up in the morning, ohhh maybe in the county jail"

"A green plastic watering can, for a fake Chinese rubber plant" (Elmis, I'm looking at you)

"Mine is yours, and yours is mine, there is no divide, (insert title) I would die tonight"

"Too cold to start a fire, I'm burning diesel burning dinosaur bones"

"It's getting near dawn, when lights close their tired eyes"

Guesstem all right, and you win a special prize!!! A good job from me, and a pat on the back from yourself. Doesn't get much better than that.

Line 6 Spider III!!! Well, I'm making a choice. They're the same amp model, but different power levels. I'm choosing between 75 watt, and 120 watt. I realize $100 more for the 120 is ridiculous, but that gives more use to the amp. Say I play at school in the auditorium some time. I want to have something loud enough for everyone to have their ears split, and pathetically, I like the way it looks better, it's wider. The 75, is $100 cheaper, still bigger than my current amp, just as good, but it doesn't have as good reviews on multiple websites. Multiple websites I've seen give the 120 5 stars, and the 75, 4.5 stars. The 75 I realize is still blasting loud, more than enough for practice, and a small show, and I probably will keep it at the same volume, just on this it will (for pratice) be on, about 3, and for the bigger amp, probably 1 or 1.5 on the dial. I'm leaning towards the 75, but hell, this is a Christmas present, I just have to decide what to ask for :P. I usually get one big present from my mom, same from my dad, and then a video game from my step-dad, and then get a bunch of clotes, CDs, and other sh!t from relatives (not to mention gift cards and $$$$$$). I'll head down to Sam Ash and check them out soon. Heres some pics:

Line 6 Spider III 120 Watt

Line 6 Spider III 75 Watt

There's a much larger chance at getting the 75 watt one.

Here's two other things I'll get:

Presonus Inspire 1394

Social Distortion Tickets

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09003EE6F0F0D369?artistid=736149&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60

CDs: I'll get Adore, Vs., Contraband, and many others.

Yup. That's what I asked for (I know I will get the amp, recording system, and tix, rest I'm unsure of).

That was pretty out of the blue, but while we're on the subject, my cover is coming close. My long awaited cover of "Mayonaise" is only a month away from release date. By the fact that it will rock harder than any emo crap like Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance, it should logically top the charts. But look at Elmis's guitar covers. They rock, and do you see them on the charts? No. Maybe it's because the only place those songs are is MySpace, and they can't legally get anywhere, but that's besides the point :P. I'd like to see Billy f*****g Joe and Green Day make something half as good. God, I'm on a rant right now!!!!!!!!!!!!! My cover will rock, only outdone by the song itself. The only thing that will stand in my way is my crappy mixing and producing skills. I'll have to see if I can figure it out. Maybe I'll pay my friend to mix and produce it. He's good with computer programs. Maybe I can get him to play bass for it. Unlikely because he's been learning the bassline from "Sunshine of Your Love" for about a year now, which is ridiculous. I mean, that line rocks, but this long to learn a riff? That would take me less than a minute, but a year? Oh well, I'm off topic, and out of my mind. I want a band, but nobody in my town who plays an instrument can seem to understand that punk is not the most popular superior music on Earth. I mean, it's good, but somebody I know actually thinks that Pennywise's guitarist is actually good, even though he doesn't know anything other than a few chords really. No drummers, a few bassists, both my friends, but one sucks (the aforementioned), and one borrows a bass when he plays it which is no good. In fact, by default because the only thing anybody else in my school can play is a few punk songs and "Smoke On Water", I'm the best musician. Everyone else has limited to no talent. Am I saying I rock? Absolutely. Do not watch my videos as an example because those suck, while I really rock. My only decent video is my "Suck My Kiss" one, but everything else is an example of my skill about two years ago, even if it's about half a year when I made them, I hate them. I might make a "Why Go" cover too, and possibly "Everlong" and "Cherub Rock". I will undoubtedly at one point cover "Hey Joe", because it is my favorite song ever to just jam to with friends and solo. I remember making a low quality cover with a friend, in which for some reason, our solos sucked. We had played with our amps upstairs, and rocked the song, and soloed especially well, but when we recorded it, we just had a blank. Actually I only know if his sucked, because my guitar was too quiet to hear, but I wasn't to sure of it, mainly because out of the blue, he told me to start soloing, and I started. My intro rocked though.

I'm in San Francisco (God help me, I feel like the only normal person in this city) visting friends for Thanksgiving. South Park had it about right in the Smug Alert! episode, hippies, lesbians, stuck up artsy as$es, ugggggghhhhhhh. GET ME OUT!!!!!! I miss my guitar :( It's at home, and those new strings are going to waste. Speaking of guitar, I'm possibly getting a Line 6 Spider III 120 Watt for Christmas. If you don't know how big that is, it's pretty damn big. Almost twice the size, and twice the volume of my current amp. I have a craving for Soundgarden right now, so I'll levae you with a quote from one of their best songs:

"It wouldn't pain me more, to bury you rich"

I also crave Pearl Jam right now:

"Rests his head on a pillow made of concrete"

And lastly, Velvet Revolver:

"Can't burn her out of my head, drag her off of my mind"