Quote of the day: "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." --T. H. White, The Once and Future King
[02-13-2002]
Here is my first original song:
Ana (1.5MB, MPEG Layer 3 compression @
96kbps)
Ana was recorded using the PS02 internal microphone and my Lignatone
acoustic guitar made in Czechoslovakia in 1968 ($20 at a yard sale). I'm not
satisfied with the guitar sound--I think an acoustic/electric guitar would
sound better because the volume level on the microphone was too low, resulting
in some hiss (not to mention that a higher quality guitar would sound
better--my acoustic is a parlor size which means less volume, bass, and
projection). Also my fingerpicking could have been better, but after about 25
takes my patience was wearing thin... :-)