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Dec. 30th, 2010 11:47 pmMy banjo strings arrived, so I was able to try out my Christmas present from Ciro. (Tentative name: the Pine Goose?) I'm picking it up quickly, although if my fingers don't callous (I don't always), I'll have to switch to nylon strings, which as far as I can tell I can only order from one company. (I play classical guitar, so why not classical banjo?)
So far, I don't seem very interested in playing clawhammer or bluegrass, but in strumming without a pick and brushing my other fingers across the drumhead, so it sounds a bit like a mandolin with a jazz snare. Interesting effect on stuff by the New Pornographers and Pink Floyd. I'm pretty sure "Creep" is going to sound great. And not at all like a banjo. I don't know why I'm always compelled to play instruments as though they are found objects. It's what I do instead of dismantle electronics, I guess.
Ciro and I watched part of Apollo 13 before bed, but only up until takeoff so we could leave while things were still going well. It's the only Ron Howard movie I like, but I like it a lot. As a kid, I didn't want to go into space (for much the same reason I don't care to scuba dive or climb tall mountains - I like to be surrounded by stuff I can breathe), but I really wanted to be CapCom, the mission control member who talks to the astronauts and relays things to them.
But this job is always filled by an ex-astronaut. I thought about it. But to be an astronaut, I'd need to be a Navy pilot, probably. I thought about it. But there's no question that if I joined the military they'd put me in engineering or sigint, so I just studied engineering and codebreaking and programming until I got tired of my fellow students' misogyny (the teachers weren't like that, but also weren't the people I'd end up working with) and said "fuck it" and decamped for the arts.
Point being: if you are an astronaut, I think you should try to become CapCom, because it is the best.
So far, I don't seem very interested in playing clawhammer or bluegrass, but in strumming without a pick and brushing my other fingers across the drumhead, so it sounds a bit like a mandolin with a jazz snare. Interesting effect on stuff by the New Pornographers and Pink Floyd. I'm pretty sure "Creep" is going to sound great. And not at all like a banjo. I don't know why I'm always compelled to play instruments as though they are found objects. It's what I do instead of dismantle electronics, I guess.
Ciro and I watched part of Apollo 13 before bed, but only up until takeoff so we could leave while things were still going well. It's the only Ron Howard movie I like, but I like it a lot. As a kid, I didn't want to go into space (for much the same reason I don't care to scuba dive or climb tall mountains - I like to be surrounded by stuff I can breathe), but I really wanted to be CapCom, the mission control member who talks to the astronauts and relays things to them.
But this job is always filled by an ex-astronaut. I thought about it. But to be an astronaut, I'd need to be a Navy pilot, probably. I thought about it. But there's no question that if I joined the military they'd put me in engineering or sigint, so I just studied engineering and codebreaking and programming until I got tired of my fellow students' misogyny (the teachers weren't like that, but also weren't the people I'd end up working with) and said "fuck it" and decamped for the arts.
Point being: if you are an astronaut, I think you should try to become CapCom, because it is the best.
