September 2010
3 posts
My new account
My new account has a picture of me (without my face in it though) with a white t-shirt, black pants, and a sunburst fender stratocaster. I have my arms up in the air. Its the exact same title as my current blog, so look it up!
- My final post for this account,
Drew!
Drew!
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Changing Account
Dowloaded Google Chrome. Couldn’t remember my email for this account to transfer onto chrome, so I’m dowloading all my posts to this new account. More on it later!
- Drew
Expansion
I’ve realized my flaws. And I know I’m not going to have a huge change of heart and perspective. In fact, that’s what I did over the summer. So instead of micromanaging, I’m just going to live however I want. Because I know most people In my school are losers anyway, so why be like them? I say fuck ‘em. I’m going to do well school, play music all the time, and...
This summer nothing happened.
It is as it sounds. I mean I learned a lot of stuff on guitar, and I got better, but what else? I stayed the exact same weight I was in May. I got a fender stratocaster finally, and its amazing. I played guitar everyday, and sang. My voice sounds a lot better too. And I did a lot of personal thinking. Oh, and I really killed my video game addiction. I went on 2 trips, one with...
August 2010
6 posts
nickholmes:
Can’t sleep? This won’t help.
Oh God Dammit.
carlmayer:
Is it too much to ask the free porn sites to be a little more discriminating in who they chose as advertising partners?
I don’t expect to see banner ads for Coke or State Farm on a site devoted to providing videos to frugal porno fans, but it’s disconcerting to hear “CONGRATULATIONS, YOU WON!” blaring from my speakers while some runaway is on the receiving end of a brutal...
Just one...
I was addicted to videogames for about a year. I admit it. When I started playing guitar, its went out the window almost completely. I still, like them…but don’t play the as much as often.
Theres just one game I really like. The Mass Effect games.
Essentially, Mass Effect is to me like crack is to a crackhead.
And I’ve always loved Space exploration, so it just makes it that...
Songs Im Listening To #1
I’ve been expanding my horizons lately. Not necessarily on just listening to music either, also in playing music. I’m getting a lot of Jazz/R&B/Blues mixed in when I’m jamming. Sure, I still will play like a rock star, but I’m feeling a lot more deep and relaxed lately, so I’ve been noodling around. It has been extremely fun and beneficial to my playing. My...
July 2010
25 posts
My own.
Today was amazing, one of the best this year!
And that is because today I got my first Fender Stratocaster. Maple neck, sunburst finish. Huge Amp, the best I’ve ever played on, EVER!!! And a fuzzbox, the same model Stevie Ray Vaughan used. I can not put the thing down!!
Technically, its the… “family” guitatr (which means, Me, Dad, and Ian, my brotha), but my dad primarily...
All scales and chords on the guitar, in all of the... →
The Philip Defranco Show is my drug, Ke$ha, not... →
one forty plus: Halo (1) →
I miss the days when all I would do in my free time was play the first version of (the video game) Halo. The game was perfect. It was so balanced in terms of risk vs reward you could lose yourself in it for hours, if not days. People would plan to meet up only to challenge each other to…
I loved doing the console link!! Me and almost 10 other people would take 2 tvs, put ‘em in the...
Sarcasm and a little wit: Thoughts from the gym →
So, last night I went to the gym. Nothing groundbreaking there. However, I had several thoughts as I ran in place on a moving conveyor belt. Here are some of them.
Do other people experience this? It seems like every time I go to the gym, there are a couple of people who are always there. It…
Not boring at all! Pretty funny actually. Plus, v-raps rule
My Album
Composed 2 more melodies today. I plan on writing lyrics in within the next week or two. By the end of this year I may even have my album recorded in studio! Hoping to squeeze in around 12 songs. Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Drums, Piano and vocal is the basic setup. And all of them are gonna be rooted too acoustic. I love music.
Im 14.
-John
Ouch.
Has Anyone else had the experience of being in the middle of finger picking, and then having that sneaky bastard called the first string cut into your index finger like butter?
Here’s a hint: It stings like hell.
There are times.
There are times that really suck. Days where I wake up late, have a headache, and feel bad. I don’t really feel like working out to really get in shape, but I totally should If I don’t want to look like an idiot freshmen. I’ll try to listen to a record but the music isn’t coming through because I’m so closed off. Its almost noise. A not so great friend may call up and...
““You’re a Dick.”
“Well you’re a fucking...”
– Bob & Me. This is made up, but most of this has appeared in a lot of our other banter, so whatevas! God I love Bob.
one forty plus: The Woman →
Sometimes I get the itch to go out for a drink thinking I might miss meeting the woman of my dreams, but then I realize the woman of my dreams isn’t at a bar at 12:36 on a Wednesday morning. No, the woman of my dreams is asleep in bed with her lame boyfriend she’s only now beginning to see is…
All real women are.
I am on the verge of accepting artists today. What I mean by that is simple; accepting people like Justin Beiber and Demi Lovato as musicians.
That does not mean I’m adding them into my play list next to John Mayer and Jack Johnson, but It does mean that I’m not going to Rip on them. I beleive in ripping on bands that deserve it. Like most of the stuff produced in a Disney lair of...
So, before I write this short little perspective thing, let me assure you that half of this is rephrased from another Tumblr page. However, it sounded so good I had to use it.
Sometimes, life is good, and life is bad. Sometimes life gets you laid, but the next day you may find out you got the Hep, or worse. So I say, live life to the fullest! The Good and Bad stick together, but if you have a...
Songs of The Week
Lean on Me - Bill Withers
Life by The Drop, Lenny, Riviera Paradise - Stevie Ray Vaughan
My Old Friend - Eric Clapton
Red House - Jimi Hendrix
Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
All of The Wall - Pink Floyd
Green Onions - MT & The Booker G’s
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Im So Tired - The Beatles
Traffic Jam - James Taylor
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Stop This Train - John Mayer
...
Lulu
sucks. I watched a couple of her shows and I have to say, not very good quality.
No wonder Hendrix did a tribute to Cream than do a prissy duet with her.
- John
So lovable to hate
Over the past few months, I was in love with a girl, for the first time. Also, the first time I really ever cared about what a girl had to say. Now…I want her gone. But then I’d feel like a legless asshole for just ignoring a problem. That’s not how i work…I always have a vicious tendency to deal with everything, get these problems worked through. So, whether or not the...
Fruit Ninja HD
Always look to Apple to have a convenient way to make passing time way more
fun than it should be!
jhnmyr:
My favorite app Fruit Ninja is now available in full screen For the iPad. I knew multiplayer was coming but I thought it would have been over wifi. What they came up with is better. Both games are played on the same pad, symmetrically laid out facing opposite ends of the screen so it can...
Room Full of Mirrors
That song…that idea altogether…is just pure poetry. Hendrix is one the best guitarist of all time, up there with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, and John Mayer. Yeah, ignore all you want, Mayer has got some serious skill. You know it.
Starting to read Hendrix’s Room Full of Mirrors Biography as well right now. I can’t wait!
- John
“Fuck You Bitch, Love, Bob”
– Bob Stephens on My Yearbook Page
one forty plus: Simple. →
The Truth is spoken. This why I love you; honest, true, and shockingly real. I love listening to your perspective and advice, and overall, music. It’s full of the most detailed and true words you can find in an artist.
Keep yourself where the light is ;)
- John
I wish that when I was younger, I could have met my current self. We would have sat down at a coffee shop so that I...
Change
Is what I’ve done. I’ve changed. A lot. I’m no longer playing guitar for giggles. I play for my love and desire to play. To be a musician. To stop being semi-fake. I’m changing to express myself more, always say whats on my mind. I’ve realized that’s the only way I’m going to survive inside my own mind. Is to express myself completely. To really like...
June 2010
5 posts
Songs I know (or know most of at least and could...
Mother, Wish You Were Here, Money - Pink Floyd
Paint it Black - Rolling Stones
Smells Like Team Spirit - Nirvana
Birthday, Blackbird - The Beatles
Stop This Train, Your Body is a Wonderland, Daughters, I don’t Need no Doctor, Why Georgia, Vultures, Gravity, Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - John Mayer
The Times Are A Changin, Knockin on Heavens Door - Bob Dylan
Cocaine - Eric Clapton
...
All the Things I know about Guitar
Over the past 3 months, I’ve been learning guitar. These are the things I know…
1. Its amazing
2. All basic chords (Around 12)
3. Hammer On/Pull Off/ Vibrate
4. Improv Blues Tunes
5. Multiple Scales mastered (C, Pentatonic, Full Tone, etc)
6. Able to read tabs well, easily and FAST
7. Able to learn songs FAST
8. Know Lots of Songs
Music
Nothing more than sound.
Running through your veins
Closing your eyes
Making you soar
to leaderships caged room
then breaking free
without a sound
While the demons think you’re still there
Fighting your way through life
Soothing your mind
to forget the twisted
and possibly take on
the Valleys of a planet
in fantasy
Music is crazy and fun
But when all work is done
Its...
Blow Your Mind
I just heard this: A snake eating its own tail. Try to imagine that…
—-
Yeah, I know. My mind was blown too.
- Drew Stuart
Wow.
I am AMAZED with myself right now. And that hasn’t happened in a while. In the last 2 months, I’ve gotten 5 great song ideas, and written on them. Even started with melodies. One song is entirely complete!
This summer, I hope to completely write all these, and then make more.
Guitars, ho!
—Drew Stuart, VP of Chill & Co.
May 2010
10 posts
Band.
Its not that....
Its not that I don’t like rap music. There are some really good rappers out there; Kanye West, Jay-Z, maybe even Drake. Its not that I don’t like pop music, I like artists like Lady Gaga and Ke$ha. I can admit I definitely listen to them sometimes. I just find that its sad that there are so many other artists who sound so similar, or who are just plain crap. Everything great inspires...
Terrible things happen between people
Especially to me. I mean…really. Cmon. Last night was terrible. I feel so meaningless. Like I fucked up somewhere down the road. Odds are I did. But I never knew it would feel this terrible. I never new that sometimes…you don’t want to hear the truth. Im heartbroken, jealous, puzzled, pissed off, and confused entirely. Im not sure what to do.
Sometimes people need a savior. To...
Im going to be a musician
My mind is now set on that goal. For the past couple months I’ve been listening to tons of music, and have started playing guitar…and I’m really good. Im also a capable singer. And I’ve dabbled a bit in songwriting, and improvising blues music on the go. Its a wonderful feeling, and right now I feel like a volcano ready to explode with vigorous color and emotion. I’m...
My Life so far (albeit a little quickly written...
As a young kid I was very imaginative. I had a very good memory, was very bright, and was open minded. My parents were, and still are, very good. They knew how I would develop grown and paced me. I had a perfect life untill age 12.
That was when my mom died. She had an irregular heartbeat, and on a road trip down to Oregon, she had a heart attack. After being hospitalized, she died 27 days later...
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How do you know what real love is??
Many say its undefinable
Those fuckers are just try to be poetic
Love is when you want to spend every moment with a person. When you don’t see them, you think about them. When you’re close, the world melts around you, and only you, together, really exist.
“Stealing from one person is Plagiarism. Stealing from multiple people is called...”
Isn't it Amazing?
Isn’t it Amazing?
The most beautiful works of art, any kind of art; musical, paint, literature, or otherwise, are always in simplistic nature. I can give you multiple examples
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo DaVinci is one of the best paintings of all time. Though, upon a first look, it’s a portrait. No fancy city skyline here with a multitude of colors or anything along those lines. It is...
April 2010
4 posts
