Yeah. Endorphin junkie mostly, but rollers do help for long steady stuff.

I may even ride them in the summer if I need a quick fix in the evening.

Damn good job too!!

Except when I am not being serious about being serious which can be devilish difficult to tell, mostly because I despise the use of emoticons, which though I can agree make intent more clear, still bug the crap out of me for reasons that remain a mystery to me. Seriously.

See now for me I like trainers better so that I can completely tune out and dive into the tunes. With rollers I end up on the floor with this technique.

I gotcha. :thumb:

Really bad? :crash:

Srsly? :eek:

That's funny. :lol:

Or is it serious? :notamused:

You're a riot. :roflmao2:

Don't get mad at me. :mad:

Then again, who cares? :p

Gotta go. :)

if we are talking about who deals witht the worstest drivars evar, I think I would win hands down. Asian drivers are the pits and I think Taiwan drivers are the bottom of the pits. Unless someone living in India wishes to take the prize, I claim it.

Like I didn't know that was coming.

the truth will out.

why is surgeonstone....."stone". You take kidney stones out?

The movie Flight ​that I watched last night features some amazing flying by an addict/alcoholic.

Unfortunately, in the real world this is the sort of thing that typically happens.

Are you serious about that?

I knew someone would beat me to it, but I had to say it anyway.

Like I didn't see that coming!

Actually I meant that for BillyD's and Herbie53's comments.

Nope, That's a urologists work. I made a pledge long ago to touch no penis but mine.

The interweb is super cereal.

Correct.

I went to a song writing seminar down in more populous Bergen County NJ tonight, one conducted by a friend of mine who is a pro songwriter performer (she does inspirational genre music, she's cut albums in Nashville, etc.). For all you idiot flyover boys out there, Bergen County is the NJ side of the fabled George Washington Bridge. Affluent close in suburbs of Manhattan. Like 35 miles south of here.

The more I hear of other people's song writing material, the more confident I get in my own. This included one professional song writer in this group who has sold music to TV and Madison Avenue and collects royalties. Her song was the only one there that I liked at all, I thought we gave her helpful input on it. They all liked my song, nobody really could find anything wrong with it. There really isn't, you either like it or you don't but for what it is, it works. That may be the strongest one I've written to date.

Any song writing books you would recommend for a couple of teenage boys who want in in the industry, one's a quite talented 15 yo guitarist and the other a drummer.

Oh the hilarity!!!!

http://guysamericankitchenandbar.com/

I'm sure there are song writing books out there. You can learn stuff about how to write songs, structure, etc. But I do firmly believe it can't really be taught. At the end of the day you either have it or you don't. That has been my experience. I have no idea why I couldn't write songs for many years, but now I can. It's very strange.

Part of it may be that I play lead guitar, and I practice at that quite a bit, more now than ever before. When you are improvising lead guitar lines you are continually coming up with melodies on the guitar that you play over the chord changes. Maybe that flipped a switch in my head, because I used to play around with chord progressions and not hear melodies, but now I do.

I learned a few things at this music seminar last night about song structure, etc. I suppose, but nothing that I didn't sort of already know. I went primarily to hear what other amateurs like me are doing.

That's the music part. The lyrics aren't hard for me, I am a bottomless well of Pcad bull****.

Oh yes, **** the music industry by the way. Too hard to make a living in the field. Great hobby. Abysmal career choice. Sure .01% of people make it. Only .001% make any real money in it. If you want to go into music as a career, be prepared to starve.

Hard to convince 2 teenage boys of that though. In their mind a plan b is not wise, it's a cop out. They both eat , live and drink music. The drummer and eldest is pretty awesome at it. The younger and guitarist, Sam, is also superb and , according to his teacher,has what it takes to succeed in this unforgiving world.
The creative impulse.. Truly a mystery.

Either they will find out the hard way, or maybe they'll make it in the music biz, you gotta follow your dreams. But honestly, I can't tell you how to teach anyone how to write songs. Lots of people try, but out of the 10 people there last night it was like 8 facepalms, then the pro song writer's song and mine. Mine was the strongest song there last night.

The problem with having no plan b (I have a few good friends who started out that way 35+ years ago) is that by the time you realize you have to come up with one in your early 30s you are a bit behind the 8 ball. But a couple of guys I know did fine, one started his own custom drum company, the other is a computer consultant, both very talented musicians.

Magstar Drums (he doesn't have a website, go figure):

http://www.drummaker.com/images/magstar_drum.jpg

I'm so friggin' tired. :o