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Nerdy + Awesome =
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Guns N’ Roses Members Reunite At Anniversary Show
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Axl wasn’t on hand but the other members of the classic Guns N’ Roses lineup did attend the 20th anniversary party for their landmark debut “Appetite for Destruction,” which took place at the Key Club in Hollywood on Saturday night.
I suddenly feel very old.
A Musical Experiment
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Anyone who’s known me for a few years is aware that I enjoy playing music. For a while there I defined myself as a musician first and foremost. Over the past couple of years though, my guitars have been gathering dust, which is depressing to say the least.
Today I ran across a video of Jonathan Coulton performing “Re: your brains” – a ballad about zombies – at the Penny Arcade Expo this year (see video below). While the video is hilarious, what got me thinking was his “Thing a Week” project – basically, he recorded a new song every week and made the songs available for free on his site. He described it as an attempt to keep the creative juices flowing, which is exactly what I’m lacking at the moment.
So, I thought to myself – why not try the same thing? I don’t think I’m up to recording a song per week, but I could at least *write* a song a week. It doesn’t have to be long, it doesn’t have to be good – it just has to be a song.
We’ll see how it goes – starting Monday 🙂
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Now this is fun
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Just found a link to Dean Gray presents American Edit – basically they took Green Day’s “American Idiot” and took bits and pieces of other songs and mashed them all together.
So you have “Boulevard of Broken Songs” which combines “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” with Oasis’ hit from a decade ago, “Wonderwall” (with a cameo by Aerosmith at the end) And it works surprisingly well 🙂 They have several other tracks from American Idiot worth checking out.