psyche

I was meant to go for the Guitar-X thing today, but I woke up too late (at 14:34, to be precise). I don’t know what I’m doing or what I want to do. I’m so tired! It’s unbelievable! Nuclear projects were described as “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon”. Oh no! I am not sure what’s going on, you know. I really am not sure. Ha ha ha! Also, call me retarded, but was the point about Slughorn thinking that Lily was good at potions and that Harry, when using Snape’s textbook, had inherited her abilities because Snape, who had potions with Lily, gave her all the hints he devised? Snape is pretty great. So is Dumbledore. So is Voldemort. All great, really. How great.Sometimes I want to know everything and live forever and meet everyone who died and exhaust everything and just be eternal. Sometimes that’s enough to make me consider religion. HA HA HA, religion. I will live forever as a series of sceptical statements and hopefully scientific achievements. As Elliot said in response to me saying that I wanted to do something significant, “Most people don’t do anything”. How right he was.Pax

Lucifactor - I tried to say Lightmaker, yes. I love the way they did JKR’s website (I’m saying JKR like I used to say JRR for Tolkien). It reminds me of Myst. She will “probably” write an encyclopedia of Harry Potter stuff. I look forward to that. I burnt my hand while incinerating important documents last night. It hurts but it is the only reminder I will ever need of whatever was lost yesterday. Goodbye, past. Hello, future!Until this encylopedia exists, the Harry Potter Wiki on Wikia will suffice. The Myst one is good too.Nick Kellie - the guy taking the course I’m doing at Guitar-X - is going in for a tonsillectomy and so a guy called Les (?) will be taking us for the next two weeks. I’ve learned some interesting things. I had no idea how to make the blues sound bluesy but it appears to be possible to do so (in this case in G) by improvising using the G minor pentatonic over G7 (and the same over C7 but emphasising the important notes of C: C, D and G) and then using D minor pentatonic over the D7. It’s kind of strange. I like it.

Pax

I had my Guitar-X assessment and masked my lack of talent sufficiently to secure a place on the Intermediate 1 part-time course. Hopefully I will actually understand things after this. My instructor guy, whose name I didn’t catch because I’m bad at asking questions, while unwilling to make eye contact, knew a whole load of awesome stuff and could play really, really well. Inspiring (well, not enough to make me stop being so lazy but yeah) stuff.

Pax

After repeated visits to Denmark Street, I think I’ve remembered that guitar is pretty awesome. In some shop there, I was surprised to see the same leaflet given out at school - marked with the SPS insignia - for a performance by UnoGuitarDuo in the Wathen Hall. They were really good. Awesome. Rock. I’m going to do a Guitar-X course over the summer holidays. Pax