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Mike P. Mitchell: “I’m With Coco”
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No matter how seemingly insignificant, putting yourself in a potentially compromising situation to stick up for someone might be the most gratifying thing ever. And when the results end up exactly how you wanted, sublime.
I’ve almost let this useless little page slip to the back of the internet’s junk drawer. But I miss farting around on it, so I think I’ll pick it back up.
I will start it back with this: The other night, me and a buddy of mine were texting about some random bullshit, and we got to making some jokes about doing dumb shit in our younger days, and that this Jesus fella was supposed to have taken care of all that nonsense. He replies with, “Jesus ain’t tough enough to take credit for the shit I’ve done.” I thought that was pretty damn funny.
Goodnight.
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Last week, I while doing my random searches through used musical instruments for sale on CraigsList, I came across a mandolin for $40.00. Eh? Why the hell not. I’m pretty bored at the moment, and I know a little about the instrument. I’ve been playing guitar for over twenty years, so I figured I would at least flatten out the learning curve a bit.
So I picked up my new toy, which ended up being in remarkably good shape. You’re probably thinking “so, you bought a stolen mandolin. Good job.” But, the model only retails for $99.00, the dude said it was just sitting around for a couple years. I took it into my awesome local, country as hell music emporium, and not only did I have the owner personally overseeing the inotation adjustment and re-stringing of the instrument, but the mandolin instructor gave me a few quick pointers and gave me his card so he could email me some chord charts. Solid. And all the work they did only cost me $27.00.
Now that I am all tuned up and have been playing it for a few days, I just started thinking about my choices of songs to learn/figure out. This is one of those little lists that I think about and wonder if it makes me super cool and eclectic, or just a plain goof. Unfortunately, I’m pretty damn sure its the latter. Anyway, to date, these are the songs I currently know how to play (mostly, at least) on the mandolin:
Copperhead Road- Steve Earle
Going To California- Led Zeppelin
The Battle of Evermore- Led Zeppelin
Losing My Religion- REM (I think that this one was just a given)
Fly By Night- Rush
Stonehenge- Spinal Tap
Maggie May- Rod Stewart (c’mon, you know you’d like to play that cool little mandolin solo!)
Rocky Top (shut up)
Lawyers, Guns, and Money- Warren Zevon
I’m trying to learn how to play just like I learned how to play guitar. Backwards. Instead of learning how play and THEN learning songs, I would just learn the songs which in turn would teach me how to play the thing. If you think that sounds confusing, the guitar teacher I had for my first year of playing fucking hated me.
Oh yeah, I’m terrible sorry for the shitty pun in the title.
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I’m sure this is probably offensive, but it is so damn funny.
Laid up in bed all day, feeling like an overstuffed bag of mashed ass. Flipping between The Biggest Loser and America’s Funniest Videos. Eating soup, drinking tea, letting my dogs hang in the bed. I am one pathetic motherfucker.
Mike P. Mitchell: “I’m With Coco”
Spread the word. Show your support. Coco 4 Prez. Etc.
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I mentioned that yesterday I watched the movie Singles, and was going to write down my thoughts about it.
Well, don’t feel like it one bit. I will say this, though: It is a generic, tepid story buried in a shitheap of time-stamped pop culture. And while Pearl Jam may be a so-so band, they are downright fucking shitty actors. Campbell Scott has a dumb, reversed name and is a complete pussy. Bridget Fonda has the same nose as Chris Isaak. A cameo from pre-fame Paul Giamatti was pretty funny. Jeremy Piven’s sucks, and he has waaaaay more hair now than he did 18 years ago. Seattle is, asthetically, the nicest big city in the country.
Huh, I guess I did just write my thoughts about it. I’m a damned liar.
Fuck it.
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