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Sunday, February 10, 2008 
Lately

Wow, time has flown since my last post. Here's what's going on with me:

I recently fractured my radial head (elbow/arm) while playing with Colin at home. I was carrying him and playing this game where Kristen is supposed to chase us around while I run (really more of a light jog) with Colin. Bad idea, I know. We'd played this game many times before with no problems, but this time, I tripped over Dali (our Cocker Spaniel) while turning a corner and badly hurt my right arm. Colin was fine, mostly due to the fact that I broke our fall with my arm. I'm recovering from the injury and am gaining use of the arm for more things with each passing day. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to play guitar again very soon.

Over the holidays I got a number of guitar pedals and a new guitar. The guitar is a Fender Nashville Telecaster. It caught my eye because of its unique colors and because it has a middle pickup. Classic Telecasters don't have a middle pickup, and this Tele does, so I tried it out and the thing sounded great to me, so I picked it up (rather cheaply, I might add). It was made in Mexico, but the workmanship is great and it sounds awesome. I compared it to Teles made in the U.S. and honestly couldn't tell a difference, so why should I pay more for an American Tele if I can't tell the difference between that one and the Mexican one?

In my ear lately:

Radiohead
Ingrid Michaelson
Hillsong United
Owen (the Mike Kinsella project, not the other band)

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I'm glad that you're feeling better. I love you!

Posted by Blogger Kristen | 2/11/2008 8:41 PM   

G&L (Guitars by Leo Fender) released an ASAT III which also featured a middle pickup - in fact all three p/u's were "Strat style single coils"

FYI - G&L - Leo's final company, ASAT = Leo's last interpretation of the Tele

nice to see the present day company called Fender put out this new Mexican Tele - nice guitar - now go play! :-)

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Sunday, November 04, 2007 
So much new music!
In the past month, I've been inundated with new music releases from a number of my favorite bands. Radiohead released "In Rainbows" in early October. I'm quite happy with the release. As many of you already know, Radiohead has so far only released the album digitally and allowed customers to choose whatever price they felt was fair (including $0.00 if they so chose). I paid 4 GBP (about 8 USD) to show my support for the band. I was disappointed to find that we only got 160Kbps MP3s in exchange. I was hoping for better quality, but considering the bitrate, the songs sound very good.

Coheed and Cambria have released "No World For Tomorrow", their followup to their 3rd studio album, "Good Apollo...". It took me a few listens to appreciate it, but it has been firmly entrenched in my music rotation for over a week now.

Thrice released "The Alchemy Index: Vol. 1 and 2" last month as well. Volumes 1 and 2 consist of the Fire and Water albums, with the Earth and Wind albums due out sometime next year. I've got to be honest...the albums aren't bad, but they aren't blowing me away either. I've given them a fair number of listens but I just can't seem to get into them. I'll keep trying, though.

Saves the Day have released "Under the Boards", and I haven't even heard more than about 4 songs on the album, but already I don't like it. I don't know why, exactly...I just don't think the songs are very good. They seem thrown together. I'll give the full album a few listens before I make my final judgement on it, but I'm disappointed given how much I enjoyed "Sound the Alarm".

Finally, Thursday have released and album, and if this tells you anything, I don't even remember the name of it. That's how unimpressed I was by listening to the first 3 or so songs. Again, I have to give the whole album a listen to be fair, but so far, I really couldn't care less about it.

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