Ben geeks around…
And adds avatars / profile pics to his blog 
For you Wordpress.com cats, your profile pic won’t show up. If you want it to show up on mine and countless other non-wp.com blogs, head over to Gravatar.com and register (It’ll take all of a minute) and choose yourself a pic.
You can even use your Wordpress.com profile pic. When it asks to specify the address of your pic, enter the following:
http://wordpress.com/avatar/USERNAME-96.jpg (where your username obviously needs to be replace by your Wordpress username)
Once that’s all done your lovely pic will begin showing up everywhere, and not just over at the .com!
And, whenever you change your pic within Wordpress, sites like mine will be updated too.
Yay.
Would you sell your soul play guitar?
I’ve been holding off from posting this one because of Bass Player Appreciation Week, but I figure it’s been long enough now that we can poke a little fun…
Found this comic at the brilliant blog ‘Pencils at Dawn’ (posted smack in the middle of bass player appreciation week might I add!).
It is interesting that Robert Johnson, the guitarist often seen as the father of modern guitar music, reportedly sold his soul to the devil in order to attain his skills on the guitar.
Everyone needs commitment to master the guitar. I guess RJ was just more commited than the rest of us.
But does that mean that every guitar player influenced by his playing is doomed? They’re playing music effectively created by the devil!
Looks like I’m screwed.
Pickture this.
Crap.
Half-way through a song, my pick broke.
Snapped clean in two.
And the little end fell in the guitar.
Think its hard to get a pick out? Try getting half a pick out. The little end. There’s no weight to it.
Guitar Hero 3
Oh my god.
This game is going to rock.
I am almost definitely going to have to purchase an Xbox 360.
Or finally get an electric.
Poor Steven Seagal
I keep seeing articles talking about how the FBI destroyed Steven Seagal’s career, how he went form big time action movie hero to dtraight to dvd has-been.
You gotta feel for the guy.
I mean, look at his contemporaries - Bruce Willis just did Die Hard 4.0, Syvester Stallone did Rocky Balboa, both sucessful box office hits.
Seagal starred in Attack Force.
Ever heard of it?
Neither.
What do you do when you are a washed up action movie star with little future prospects on the silver screen?
You start playing the blues. And, of course, you say you’ve always been a blues-man, never mind the action movie career. And the whole complaining of the way it went away.
He’s not overly bad, really. I mean, it sounds like he might be able to sing. And play a few decent licks. He’s even played with greats like Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Bo Diddly shows up on his CD ‘Mojo Priest.’
I still have trouble getting past the fact its him though. Keep expecting him to be attacked by hundreds of ninjas or whatever.
Not the bluesiest song, but everything else has fairly bad sound quality.
Check out how amazingly mutli-racial the video is though, can anyone say Politically Correct?
Apparently he’s working on a new action movie. About the blues.
Is it wrong of me to want him to smash someone over the head with a guitar?
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