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honolulu horn

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  1. The list of idiotic women thinking that they truly understand their incarcerated lover in a way the rest of society can't is a very, very long one. I worked in a maximum security prison and believe me, there were no shortage of letters and love requests from outside admirers to the morally vacant ingrates that inhabited that place.
  2. "They can talk, but they can't curse. It's the anti-tourette's syndrome of the apes."
  3. Our WBB team is so badass.
  4. Got our Kylie Minogue tickets -- she's still sexy af and her last two albums have been a fantastic resurgence. Can't wait.
  5. Texas' trajectory and momentum is pretty remarkable lately. NIL has been huge (thanks again to all those here involved with that effort), coaching stability has been strong, and the portal and draft have been friendly to us. We have had lots of guys that could easily leave wind up staying (J Whitt, Taaffe, Arch), and the same is true of coaches. Hell of a ride lately.
  6. Single setting. I have to take a breath and rest a bit after 30-40, but I just keep at it until they are done. I'm sure you know by now that some days are easier than others, for whatever reason.
  7. Yeah I'm realizing I need a rest day every so often as well. My shoulder is not super happy lately. I have been doing 55 per day but I think I'll bump it up to 62 or 63 so I can take one day off per week without getting off track. I think I started at a different baseline than Imma -- these pushups are more maintenance than strength building for me -- but I still need to rest every so often.
  8. Well had I known that existed, I might not have gone to the trouble! Definitely could've started with that... BUT I do think that having my book be spiral bound helps a lot when playing. Also, the fact that most of the songs in my book span just two pages makes it way easier to read and play. The book you referenced certainly looks more complete, but I don't need all of the extra notations at this point. Plus I do think there was value for me in really taking the time to pore through things and write them down by hand -- part of my learning process I suppose. Maybe not necessary for others, but I needed the time it took to transcribe, etc to really process the different things I was learning and playing. Still, that's a cool resource book I didn't know existed, and it's now on my Christmas list, so thanks!
  9. I sweatergod, Surly is amazing. In a thread about Arch, the convo strangely turns to sausage and then within minutes Abe Froman (the sausage king of Chicago) brings in some insider intel from one of the great voice mails of all time. Just incredible. Well done, gents.
  10. Yeah I posted a while back I liked the idea so I'm doing it as well. I work best when I have these tangible daily / weekly goals, so this works really well for me.
  11. I have no problem with that. Not surprising, but justified. It's a badass song and performance.
  12. I finished the project over the weekend. Got the whole songbook cobbled together with bunches of tabbed solos, riffs, and instrumentation. Gotta say it feels pretty good to have that project tackled. Gil - AYBCS is a freaking blast to play, BTW. Either guitar. It takes me several takes and mistakes to eventually get into the rhythm well enough to do a half-decent job at it, but man it's such a great guitar song.
  13. Not too many ukuleles in Honolulu 😉 Good idea. Something makes sense on the Uke given the chord progression and how easily it is played on the uke. George was a big fan of Hawaii and wrote several songs about it -- seemed to fit his personality pretty well.
  14. on it mwaaah mwaeeer mwwmwwaaahhhmwooo mmm myaaa myaaa that should just about do it
  15. Yeah, I love that show. A lot of it goes over my head, but I still love hearing how the songs got developed over time with different takes, tempos, instruments, ideas, etc.
  16. I have been playing the guitar for most of my life, and even though I play mostly metal, the Beatles have always been my fave band throughout the decades. So a year ago I decide to play all of the Beatles songs in basic order of release. I took a spiral bound book of their songs ("The Beatles Compete Chord Songbook"), found the right song, and then opened up the same song's guitar tabs on the ultimate guitar site. The only tabs I use are the ones from PJVILL (seriously, his Beatles tabs are untouchable). I printed out blank guitar tab sheets, transcribed PJVILL's tabs onto those paper templates, cut them out, and taped them into the chord songbook. Yes, it's an old man's way of doing it but then again who am I kidding. I like paper books. Anyway, I am playing all of the songs, including chords and rhythm guitar parts. But I'm also playing anything that's not a chord and/or that featured a prominent instrument -- so that's obviously the guitar riffs, fills, and solos, but it's also piano solos, trumpets, strings, etc. Anything that can reasonably be played on the guitar. So that would include, for example, the trumpet solo in Penny Lane, the strings in Eleanor Rigby, the crazy orchestration in I Am the Walrus, the piano opener to Martha My Dear, etc. See a couple of examples below. I have played all of those songs and parts in basic order of release, following their chronological releases of singles and UK albums. The only thing I've really switched up are Let it Be and Abbey Road, because Abbey was actually recorded after the Let it Be sessions even though Let it Be was released last. And because I'd rather finish with The End instead of Get Back. I'm not doing all of the unreleased songs, alternate takes, remixes, etc. because my main two main goals are 1) to be able to sit down with my guitar, open that chord book, and play whatever song I want with whatever fills, solos, riffs, and other stuff right there easy to access, and 2) to basically play every formally released Beatles song in some sort of reasonable order. Beatles nerds should know that I played Her Majesty out of order, because I want to finish with The End. And I'm not learning shit from their Christmas albums, etc. It's been an extremely cool project, even more so than I thought it would be. I have really learned a ton about the evolution of songwriting, chord structures, and theory. I have also really started to appreciate the different attitudes and instrumentation that each Beatle brought to the different songs and albums. You can really see it in the music itself -- chords, solos, tones -- just how much they evolved in about 7 years, and just how divergent they became with their own individual styles. It's been super badass and I'm now four songs away from finishing -- just the last 4-song Macca medley on side 2 of Abbey Road. My wife doesn't give a shit about any of this so I figured maybe someone on here would. One of the greatest bucket list journeys I've completed so far In My Life.
  17. Pretty sure as an international student his legal cap is $10,000. There's a discussion about it on the Hero celebration thread, but it sounds like NIL wasn't the primary driving factor. It sounds more like he liked Texas and shit, he can play football.
  18. Goddamn, college football is so fucking fantastic.
  19. Have a friend whose nephew was a very good high school basketball player. He got some mid major offers, a few low level Tier 2 state school offers, and he received an offer from Harvard. Like all kids he wanted to play for Duke or some big state basketball brand, so he wanted to hold out. His family told him not to be regarded and said "You're going to Harvard, it's done."
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