Women, does anybody get them?

This is another one of those instances, trust me, there are a lot of these instances.
So, the other day, I'm bored. Decided to call up a friend of the feminine kind.

Me: Hey! What's up?
G1: Hey, nothing much. How come you called?
Me: I was bored, thought I'd check in on you. =) {observe the benevolence}
G1: Oh, so you call me only when you're bored huh?
Me: Err.


I don't gettit! Why else would you call a person to talk to? Does she expect me to call her in the middle of a surgery? "Hey, I'm getting my guts ripped out, thought I should let you know."
And I did ask her that. She tells me, I should call her when I'm happy. So I proceed to make a mental note and do just that.

A few days later.....
Me: Hey! I'm having an ice cream and I feel awesome.
G1: How rude you are, having an ice cream without me and then rubbing it in!

I'm still going, what just happened here! She asked me to call when I'm happy, didn't she?

Anyway, after monumentally cocking up, the wise old me decided to narrate this to another girl and take her opinion on whether or not this is normal behaviour.
They should invent an app I tell you, that can analyse your brain signals and then give you sound advice on what to do and what not to do.

So, I call her

Me: Hey, watcha doin?
G2: Hiiieeeeeee! I'm finishing up a draft.
Me: Can I pick your brain for a second?
G2: Sure! What's on your mind?
Me: *Narrate the whole story* Is it normal.
G2: You're such an asshole, you call other girls when you're bored huh? Are you implying I'm not fun or something?
Me: How can you not be fun, you always talk so loud and happy!
G2: The nerve of you! Now you're implying I'm annoying! Goodbye!

(Ok, I might have exaggerated a bit at the last, but it went somewhere down that tangent, being a little more drab)

Sigh
Maybe I should move to the mountains and socialise with the birds and trees :\

Chords and expressions

Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

Backbeat the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

Those are the lyrics for one of my favourite songs to cover.

Ok, I gotta be honest, it was the first proper song I learnt and it's really easy to play, more importantly, it's the first song I learnt to sing.

I admit it, I'm a good musician, I can handle a guitar and piano fine, I'm confident enought to say that. But singing is woah! It just throws me off. Call it being tone deaf or whatever, point is, I need help!

I guess that's one of the reasons I'm so adamant about writing original songs rather than covering artists. I can write it the way I can comfortably sing it. No breaking donkey imppressions here. 

If you play an instrument, give it a try. Pick it up, play a random chord progression. Try to fix a rhythm to it. I find it hard to write lyrics, play an istrument and get a tune all at the same time hard. I particularly have a problem with lyrics.

So this is what I do, read random stuff, but with a tune. I doesn't matter what it is (hell, I once sang the application form for a drivers licence). The first part is to get a tune right.

Then comes the lyrics. I usually go with the flow and it almost always ends up being about straight roads, cloudy skies and coffee :\

However, it also helps if you're naturally inspired by a situation, and if that doesn't happen, take up a subject, and then write the song about it.

That's it for now, I could've done better with it, but a friend needed the basic guidelines asap, so I just penned it all in a hurry.

Feel free to put in your thoughts

Cheers =)

Ping

And I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!

What glorious two (or is it three?) years I've had. Halfway through becoming a money sucking, justice providing lawyer, social life at a high, music goin great and hell, even my hair's having it's good moments.
If this was looked at in the future, I guess I'd say these days were my haydays, when the sun was always bright, the clouds were always beautiful and damn, the breeze just never stops blowing.
If this wasn't enough encouragement from the BIG GUY, pretty girls have been popping up around my home all too regularly.

Yes, life is grand, sure there are ups and downs, but I'm an optimist. Places where the sun don't shine, I just take a lantern along. I can get irritating by how I rarely get annoyed, but man, it feels good!

I just brought a new guitar btw, brings it to a total count of 3 and this one's gorgeous.
Maple wood with a spruce top and all that Yamaha craftmanship.
I think it's about time I get off my ass, get a little active and start doing things I know I can do.

So from today, I pay more attention to the singing, the guitar, and yes, the writing.
I'm working on a story, something that struck me a year ago, and slowly I've built a world around it.
I'll keep it posted.

And Happy go lucky, thanks for bringing all that inspiration love =)