did something stupid. It’s January 30. However, I saved myself $500, so maybe it was smart after all. Fuck me, I hate these idiots with their stinkin’ hoopties playing (c)rap music outside my house. These motherfuckers put gigantic woofer speakers in their broken down shit wagons, and the loudest thing you can hear, is an immense farting sound as the tin can excuse for a car it’s sitting in, rattles and vibrates uncontrollably….. Thank God it’s stopped now…Where was I? Oh yes, I bought a guitar. The “stupid” part was that it was a “Stupid Deal of The Day”, so buying it wasn’t stupid at all. $500 off is a pretty good deal. I’ve wanted one of these D’ Angelico guitars for a while. In fact I bought three electric acoustics, but they all arrived with some kind of damage, so I sent them all back. D’ Angelico is a New York company, another reason to get one since I live here. The company was founded in 1932 by master Luthier John D’ Angelico in Little Italy, Manhattan. There is an interesting piece of info from Wikipedia which says, “While D’Angelico’s craftsmanship was not always exemplary the performance of his guitars established him as the premier marker of archtop guitars.” So his craftsmanship was suspect, yet his guitars played well? Interesting. Pete Townsend, Eric Clapton, Chet Atkins and soon me/I/them/there/his/it’s/fucking/retarded, have played these axes.
Well, the noise has gone. It’s a Monday, and I’ve spent most of the weekend painting the middle room on the 2nd floor. It used to be my office, but I think it’s just going to be a TV, reading room now. It’s a nice, bright room which gets a lot of sun. Too much for me, actually. It required putting up heavy curtains to make it usable as a office.Too much sun = bad. I can’t stand sunlight on the computer screen. Who can?
I just looked at the Daily Mail, “a new series of images taken from inside mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 90 percent of the world’s cobalt is mined and used to make the batteries that power our tech-led lives, raise uncomfortable questions.” It seems that the Green Revolution is hitting a few roadblocks. Now the Daily Mail appears to be questioning the value of tech companies and their endless greed to control everything we do. People will have forgotten it by tomorrow though. Do you think anyone is giving up their iphone to help the Congolese children in what is today’s version of child coal miners of the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s? Nope, they are not. Yes, they are still going to want the gay e-vehicles and stupid wind farms and all the rest of the dysfunctional Cultural Marxist claptrap, that we have to endure now.
It’s all quiet now. I want my new axe now. It will be here by Friday, Martin, the Guitar Center dude assured me. “I’ll call you Friday just to make sure it got here in one piece he said.” “Thanks”, I replied. “I should call you D’Angelico instead of Martin today.” (guitar joke). Ah, it’ll probably arrive in ten pieces now.