The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...

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Fuckin' hate white people.

Haha nah white people are awesome. Especially me.

[Blackened Soul]

Fuckin' hate white people.

Haha nah white people are awesome. Especially me.

And from what I hear taste like chicken.

[snipelfritz]

At least we got this going for us:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDjkRiNLeJU[/youtube]

[StudioShutIn]

Y'know what I hate?...when you find out about a band that seems like they'd be awesome..but you can't find any of their music..so you forget about them..
Then, when you vaguely remember reading about them again, you can't remember who they were or where you found out about them or anything!

hmph..

[mathias]

The problem is though, after 15 minutes of playing the same passage, my hand and my brain are bored. Definitely trying to focus on it,

What I do - and this depends entirely on how your mind works - is play something like seasons of South Park while I do exercises. You still have to concentrate on what you're doing though. If you can multitask well, it will help you keep from getting bored. Victor Wooten recommends watching tv while doing exercises.

Dunno about that -- I hate being distracted while playing. Certainly it's something I should work on (playing without thinking about it / being completely focused on it) if I ever want to play in a live context.

I've been slowing down my ascending/descending warmups per the video you linked (1234/4321 up, then 4321/1234 down the neck, which I learned awhile back and have used to dramatically increase my alternate picking and finger coordination.) I've been working towards not moving any other fingers when ascending/descending, even the minute little flex you get while trying to really push with a pinky. It seems to be increasing finger strength. Accuracy (getting my pinky to land right on the string where it needs to be, not too close to my nail or off to the side) has gotten worse, for some reason. Need to work on that..

The book I'm working on has string skipping exercises - these are what I get screwed up on, but not necessarily because the string skipping part is hard at speed. My accuracy just sucks. I have to keep acknowledging that I probably picked up the pace too quick and turn the speed down. The author's recommended "10 reps of 2 measure exercises, at each speed 40bpm to 120bpm" isn't a good prescription for me. It's more like as many reps you can fit into a 20 minute period, then break for five minutes and/or play anything for five minutes, then increase 4bpm, practice until mind numb(roughly another 10-15 minutes), bring speed down, rest 5 minutes, repeat." Which takes a lot more time.. Oh well. I don't know whether I'm getting better at this rate or just more OCD about my fingers and my practicing

[McSpunckle]

Apparently because it's mother's day I'm supposed to stop being a vegan.

And apparently I didn't come up with anything better. OTHER THAN THE PART WHERE I SAID I'D COOK DINNER.

But, you know, whatever.

Oh, and O'Charlies? Seriously? Guilting me into going there because you "chose it because they probably have something for [me] to eat"? There's fucking nothing there anyone wants to eat. Every time we go there the food tastes blatantly unfrozen upon ordering, and apparently once a year they have to be reminded of this. Like shopping at K-Mart.

Oh, don't mind me. I don't have anything to do or anything. And, don't worry, changing the time of your plans all day so I can't do anything doesn't interfere with my shit or anything.

I GOT UP AND COOKED YOU BREAKFAST AND SET UP SOME NICE FLOWERS AND THIS IS WHAT I GET? FUCK MOTHERS DAY.

[mathias]

Apparently because it's mother's day I'm supposed to stop being a vegan.

And apparently I didn't come up with anything better. OTHER THAN THE PART WHERE I SAID I'D COOK DINNER.

But, you know, whatever.

Oh, and O'Charlies? Seriously? Guilting me into going there because you "chose it because they probably have something for [me] to eat"? There's fucking nothing there anyone wants to eat. Every time we go there the food tastes blatantly unfrozen upon ordering, and apparently once a year they have to be reminded of this. Like shopping at K-Mart.

Oh, don't mind me. I don't have anything to do or anything. And, don't worry, changing the time of your plans all day so I can't do anything doesn't interfere with my shit or anything.

I GOT UP AND COOKED YOU BREAKFAST AND SET UP SOME NICE FLOWERS AND THIS IS WHAT I GET? FUCK MOTHERS DAY.

That sucks dude. My family has always been cool with my brother being vegetarian and me being vegan.

For mothers day we got her a basket full of stuff from the hippie co-op

[McSpunckle]

I don't mean to sound bitter. It just pissed me off. As a disclaimer, I love my mom to death, but she grew up in this tiny hick town on a farm and uses it as an excuse to not understand newer things.

But they do this stuff all the time. Even my extended family. There I was, Christmas Eve, having 3 fat women tell me my diet was unhealthy. I was polite, but inside I was raging.

... so that's where that came from. Needed a vent is all...

[mathias]

My girlfriend's family is the same way. I just let it all slide as best I can.

The same family will slip butter/milk into food for my girlfriend's grandmother, who is deathly lactose intolerant. Like they "forgot" or something, or they don't take it seriously -- they'll say something like "well a little bit won't hurt you." or "There's only a *little* milk in there." We seem to end up in the ER with her grandmother on family holidays more than should really happen. Consequently her grandmother just doesn't eat anyone else's food, but she's also completely upset by my GF and my diets (vegetarian/vegan) and tries to force us to eat meat. Long story short, my girlfriend's family never really understands us and frequently forgets we won't eat their food, but instead of downplaying it (we can usually go find our own food. we're adults..) they make a big deal out of it and maybe even try to stage an intervention to talk us into eating meat.

So yeah. Been there, done that.

[jfrey]

I don't really understand the vegetarian thing myself. I tend to get tired when I don't eat meat, and red meat in particular is the only food I ever actually crave the way most people seem to crave sweets. I don't get why they're so antagonistic about it though. When we have friends over for dinner I always make sure that I make a few vegetarian options because a couple of our friends don't eat meat. It's courtesy.

[mathias]

My deal is that I don't care what anyone else eats, but I prefer to eat a certain diet, and that's my personal decision. The only time I get offended is when people repeatedly try and convince me that I shouldn't be vegan. I don't approve of the veg*ns who try to convert others or chew out people who are eating meat. Oh, and those who throw red paint on furs or whatever. Those people are crazy.

But let me have my own personal choice in what I eat, damnit. Some of us do it for many reasons, including health. We're adults, we can make this decision for ourselves, we're not just "being picky" about food. End of story.

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Oh, and O'Charlies? Seriously? Guilting me into going there because you "chose it because they probably have something for [me] to eat"? There's fucking nothing there anyone wants to eat. Every time we go there the food tastes blatantly unfrozen upon ordering, and apparently once a year they have to be reminded of this. Like shopping at K-Mart.

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. THIS IS EXACTLY HOW I FEEL ABOUT THAT SHITHOLE. I FUCKING HATE OCHARLIES. LETS FUCK.

[mathias]

jfrey:

I spent some time on the UG forums reading up on practicing and technique after your suggestion, and I've come to the conclusion that UG people are obsessed with Paul Gilbert. (I've got Racer X and his solo stuff and I think it's cool but overrated? And not something I'd listen to very frequently.)

That said, I'm frustrated that my accuracy and speed in playing aren't going up. Stuck playing perfectly at 58bpm on an exercise the author says to practice up to 120bpm. I'm not learning to "play along" to anything with these exercises, too, and I've been neglecting my Blues You Can Use book. Gah damnit I'm fail.

[snipelfritz]

jfrey:

I spent some time on the UG forums reading up on practicing and technique after your suggestion, and I've come to the conclusion that UG people are obsessed with Paul Gilbert. (I've got Racer X and his solo stuff and I think it's cool but overrated? And not something I'd listen to very frequently.)

You don't even know the half of it. That place is like a virtual version of guitar center. There used to be some cool people who frequented the Alt&Indie music forum, but last I checked, that place was a ghost town.

Really that site is one giant I've said it before, I'm glad I got banned. If forums were drugs, ILF would be cocaine, and UG would be crack; it's worthless and will probably leave you permanently brain damaged.

[jfrey]

The only place I like on the UG forums is the guitar techniques section and the music theory section. There are some geniuses in there.