I always thought I was a happy drunk…
Apparently not.
Hooray for work drinks. Free alcohol and food.
Seven hours of solid drinking…
Steinlager Pure is bloody good. Not as bitter as regular Steinlager, kind of a middle ground between that and Heineken.
My kind of beer 
While My Finger Gently Bleeds
Everyone’s had one of those nights where, basically, they drink far too much and lose control over their motor skills.
It usually manifests itself in drunken stumbling and falling down stairs or into gutters.
Not too long ago, however, I had something much worse.
I’d been having a few beers with Jordan before moving on to Scotch. This was really where things started heading downhill. After beer, (as good as Stella Artois is) Johnny tasted absolutely divine, and I began knocking it back far too fast.
We decided to have a bit of a jam, maybe try and make a cover of a song.
I, slightly unbalanced, retrieved my guitar from my room and thankfully managed to get it back into the study without tripping and falling on it.
We kept drinking for a bit - I have hazy recollections of seeing my glass half full of straight scotch at one point - before I finally grabbed the guitar to play.
Or tried to.
I mean, I was making noise, but there is no way that could be called music.
Re-experience Hendrix
This week marks 40 years since the release of Hendrix’s debut album, ‘Are You Experienced,’ launching him into international acclaim and recognition as one of the greatest guitarists to have ever lived despite the premature end of his career after a supposed drug overdose in 1970.
Hendrix continues to rank as the greatest guitarist of all time (yeah, I know, even above Clapton), and ‘Are You Experienced’ ranks as number 51 in the 500 greatest albums of all time.
As IG of IG Blog suggests, the best way to thank Hendrix, to show him the respect he deserves, to listen to some of his music. Loud.
IG suggests buying an album. I won’t go quite that far - by all means buy an album, you won’t be dissapointed, but for those who can’t really afford or would rather save their pennies to support more contemporary starving artists, I would encourage simple appreciation of Hendrix at one of his defining moments: Woodstock, 1969, performing Fire from ‘Are you Experienced’, brought to you by the ever brilliant YouTube.
Yippee ki-ay
Die Hard 4.0.
You knew it was gonna be good.
20 Years later, the first three movies are still great. There’s no way they could fuck this one up if they used the same formula.
If anything, it was even better.
The usual amazing, death defying, completely unrealistic stunts (like jumping from a collapsing bridge onto a Jet) that leave you going “fuck yeah!.”
The same kickass classic fight scenes. I even read that in one scene Willis and the stunt girl miss-timed a kick, and a high heel went through his cheek.
The movie rocked.
And I watched, sunken into a massive lazy-boy, my feet up, with almost metres of space around me in the cinema, complemented by unlimited drink and popcorn (probably a ploy to make you miss as much of the movie as possible thus inciting a second viewing).
The ticket may have been expensive. More than double the regular price.
It may have led to girls talking about my “wee-wee.”
But fuck, it was worth it.
The Guitar: Ultimate way to get girls?
The age old belief: Take up the guitar and you’ll have no trouble getting girls. It’s a bit bizarre really. I mean, you have to wonder. If someone’s not getting girls, there’s probably a reason. And suddenly, because they play guitar, they can?
What, does the guitar suddenly make the guy cool?
Even with the meanest skills on the guitar, if he has no personality to begin with, he’s not gonna have one after he finishes playing either. Any girls who see past that and only a guy holding the guitar are probably a bit sexually deviant.
You know, attracted more to the tool than the weilder.
Settling for the ‘next-best thing’ in the guy.
There are always those who do start playing to impress girls though. Just have a look over at Ultimate-Guitar, or really any guitar website, there’s scores of guys asking which song they should play “to make her fall in love with me.”
Oh right, that song. Yeah, like I’m gonna tell you!
Unfortunately, there exists no such song.
And I’m pretty sure that the guitar is not a failsafe method of getting laid.
I mean, does it make this guy any more attractive?
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