guitar

the guitar I will recieve in a few months

Tuesday and the weekend.

My three-day weekend is over! noooo... I wish I cherished it more. It was very fun, on friday I hung out with Allen. We 'roll bounced' (went) to carl's for lunch after school then played video games and guitar. Saturday I had a basketball game, which we won. I had over ten points so I had a good game. My team mates finally started passing me the ball nd I only missed a few shots that I took. Later that day, I went to my cousin Matt's house. My younger cousin was having a borthday party and there were about 20 12-13 year old girls yelling and screaming throughout the house. Ughh, I had a massive headache after... On monday I went out to go get my guitar. I went to the guitar center in Northridge and they said they diddin't carry Rickenbackers. I was a little angry at myself for not listening to my mom when she said I should have called to make sure they had my guitar in stock. But on the way there, I spotted a guitar shop. We stopped there and they had a Rickenbacker 330 with fireglo brand new in the box. The problem was it wasin't the colour I wanted and it was 300 dollars more than what I can get online, and the guy selling it did not budge on his offer one bit. So I decided to go another week without a new guitar. The shop I went to is on Tampa Avenue. It was filled to the ceiling with guitars, basses, speakers, cabinets, drum sets, cymbals, records and just about anything else that happens to deal with rock and roll. All of you who are in So. Cal, I advise you to check out this store. They had huse marshall cabinets, fender heads and cabinets and even had a few vistalite drum kits.if you get off the 101 freeway going southbound, get off on tampa avenue and take a left. It is down quite a few blocks on the left side. If you see nordhoff street, you've gone too far and turn around. This place has good deals. Check it out, I almost bought a bass but my mom wouldin't let me until I had to pay for some of my new guitar.

Today was alright. Just another typical tuesday.

Keep on truckin'!

-Kevin

The Boy Who Heard Music

TBWHM is finally over. I Really loved the story and I will miss the week-by-week new chapter thing. It always made me wonder what was going to happen next week, and now it is done. I am a little sad it is over. But I have no idea if I am going to be in the method... to find out what I am talking about, go to http://boywhoheardmusic.blogspot.com/. You'll enjoy it.

Concert

I just got back from my jazz concert. We played (b band) along with our "A" band and lindero's bad at Lindero canyon middle school. That is where I went to middle school and started playing music 5 years ago I think. I met with my old band teacher, Mr. McKagan, which was very nice. I also ran into my trombone teacher and we had a chat before my gig. It sounded awful, though. We played in a huge gymnasium and the reverberation of the concrete walls sounded terrible. It was an enormous echo effect. There were no such things as dynamic levels in that gym. It was all fortissimo. I had fun though, and it sure beat sitting at home doing nothing. More tommorow, I am tired.

-Kevin

Keeping my cool...

Ok, so I diddin't get my guitar yet. I was supposed to get it last week, but my dad was lazy and decided to watch the superbowl instead. So today I did 6 hours of math homework, because my dad threatned me by saying that I would not get my drivers license or guitar anytime soon. I did it, and finished by just before three in the afternoon. He then decided to check every problem, and he yet again weasled his way out of not taking me to get my guitar. He said I was doing some math wrong, but he was corrected yet again. he claims he is helping me by checking my work, but I think it would be better if I did it myself. He is learning from my mistakes, I am not. then he wanted me to sit with him and go over the few problems I had wrong, and I simply told him that I wanted to do it myself, I do not like that tone of voice and that I was not getting the respect that I deserve. It looks like he finally saw my point of view. That is what I hope.

Now I am not even going to try to estimate when I am getting my new guitar.I am barely keeping my cool, and I hope I don't just erupt with firey anger and sailor-like cussing. I can't bottle it up forever, you know?

But on a happier note, I played that game my cousin gave me called Age Of Empires III today. It is really fun. And I watched a little olympic action today, it looks great on the new TV that I got a few months ago.

KMC (Keeping my cool)
-Kevin

Wednesday

Ahh, wednesday, the middle of the week. I was sick tuesday, I woke up with a splitting headache so I stayed home and slept. As some of you may know, sunday was my birthday. It turns out that I diddin't get a guitar because my parents were "too busy" because of the superbowl. I was very angry, because all I asked from them was a guitar. I even offered to pay for more than half of it if it was financial burden. I specified which guitar I wanted (Rickenbacker 360 w/ Jetglo) and now my dad is threatening to not give me one because, "(you) are giving me attitude". Attitude for what? YOU are the one who broke a promise and basically devistated me. How dare you. How fucking dare you. I have every right to give you attitude... My dad values a fucking (american) football game over me. That is complete bullshit. And then, worst of all, he invited family over when I was supposed to have a Bruce Lee movie marathon. Not that I don't love my family, but I had plans that I had to bail out on. I gotta go do homework. Will post soon. KOKO,

-Kevin

Jay Leno

Hey everybody! I am really happy this morning (at 6 o' clock) becuase right after school, I got tickets to see Jay Leno for my birthday! I am really excited! My trombone teacher plays in the tonight show band, so he was able to hook me up with tickets. If you can, watch it tonight! You might see me in one of the seats. Do you get the tonight show in the U.K.? Just wonderin'. KOT.

-Kevin

5 facts

Five facts about myself

1. My eyes change color. Sometimes they are blue, sometimes they are green or slighty hazel.

2. My dream car is a Jaguar XKE from the 60's. If not a car, my dream motorcycle is a pre-40's BMW without a sidecar, and my dream scooter is the ace-face's scooter in Quadrophenia the movie. I believe it is a lambretta.

3. I lost 20 pounds from simply not eating as much as I normally would. Really people, its that easy.

4. I am a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus. I watch it all the time now that I have BBC America.

5. Two of my favorite forms of music besides rock are Spanish guitar, and mariachi (Hugo Montenegro in particular). I can listen to that music for hours straight...

KOT, will post tomorrow.

-Kevin