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Time again for a post. It seems I just forget about this thing from time to time. Life itself hasn’t changed much. My (what I think was) girlfriend stopped returning my phone calls, looks very upset whenever she sees me and generally tries to avoid me. Just going out on a limb on this one, but I believe she might not want to see me anymore, oh well. Moving on to a more important item for discussion: The Columbus music scene.

I have noticed that people in general don’t seem to care about music like they used to. It’s not about rights to songs and listening to them all cooped up in your room feeling like no one understands you. Music is there for people to connect. To share feelings that have no words to express them. It’s supposed to be an aggregate facilitating a coming together of minds and bodies. Sure musicians like to be paid for playing music. How do you think they are able to continue doing so? Most musicians I know work one or two jobs and then find time to be creative and write songs that inspire us all.

I understand we all are not made of money and can’t be expected to shell out five to ten dollars every night. But trust me if more people did go out you would find all kinds of groups of musicians that are very talented and worth listening to. I guess the biggest thing that needs to happen is people need to go out more and interact with other people face to face. Find new bands make this city something worth being in. Make it a cultural center. A place where people from all over the country say, “wow, did you know that the Columbus music scene is kicking?” It would help us all, musicians and non-musicians alike. If we have an awesome scene, more bands you do want to see will come as well as the cream of the crop from around the country. And I’m not just saying this because I play music, but because I’d like to really have something going for this city.

-V-

That moment when you know you were the best of show. You did everything within your power, everyone should have felt the same way. You were it, what happened? Why is it like this? It’s all about the money, it’s all about who has more. Remember, It’s not about the originality, it’s about the lies. Cheat who cares, why not do it.

Bit of a rant today. I recently was having a nice huge burrito from one of my more favorite burrito joints: Chipotle. Since burrito eating is generally an eating by hand ordeal (not to be confused with fork and knife food), I decided to make a trip to the rest room. Well… I had other things to take care of as well, but you know, I really wasn’t sure where my hands had been all day. While in the restroom, I noticed one of the most illogical things in my life. When I went to the sink to sanitize my hands down by the faucet hand was a small red sign that read, “Employees must wash hands.” Now, I don’t usually claim to be a genius, often, and I really do appreciate the gesture, but as I was there making a good lather on my hand I thought about this sign. I don’t know how many Chipotle restaurants you’ve been to in your life, but I seldom see many English speaking employees there. So the first thing that occurred to me was that this sign should probably also be in Spanish. I’m not one for promoting a bi-lingual society, but sometimes one has to consider the reality of certain situations. The other major problem I noticed with this was that the sign was placed right by the sink, a place that only if one was going to wash their hands they would see… Not on the door, where one would be sure to see on their way out. No, no, no, right by the sink, off to the side and barely in view. I mulled over the reasons why this might be. Then it hit me like a large thing that hits people when they have an epiphany. This sign was here to make the people who wash their hands feel like the company promotes cleanliness. It might be that there is a law requiring the sign here, but that, of course, just lacks common sense. Not that there ever is much relating to many laws on the books. Anyhow, I thought I would just share this oddity with everyone. As you were.

I added a little tool that I have been using recently to help me improve my bass playing as a page in the right-hand-side navigation bar. Basically it lets one pick a standard tuning the root of a scale, and the scale itself, then displays all the notes on the neck of a guitar. I have found it very helpful in memorizing patterns of scales. Perhaps it will help you too.

OK, I have actually been working on this recently, if you see any scales that I have missed I’d be amazed. I have added initial functionality to get custom tunings, I notice that no one out there has made something similar to this. That really amazes me. Granted there is something available at the active(bass/guitar) sites, but they don’t cut it if you want to be able to change your tuning for whatever reason. Right now the new “tuning” functionality only works in Firefox (or what I have tested), and it works pretty poorly. But I hope to have this working well shortly after the new year.