hello bitches: anne frank here.
a few things today:
1) I am starting to mistrust the accuracy of the "times profile checked" counter Blogger provides. Back when only adam knew I had a Blog, the counter went from 4 to 8 to 13 to 42 to 66 within a span of three days. I doubt adam would have checked my profile that many times -- though I suppose he does have a lot of time -- so I figured it was random blogophiles searching for sufjan lyrics or information on Hurricane Katrina. Not so!
Now that I am open about my blogging-problem, and I've indiscriminately disseminated the web-address to the glass menagerie (ass menagerie?) of former girlfriends and other life errata, my profile has only been checked ONCE MORE, bringing it to a grand total of 67 times. Now, either no one cares that I'm blogging or there's something screwy. Anyway, if someone checks my profile leave me a damn comment or something -- I want to know if this thing is working. The face of the modern internet is blemished with things like blogger and myspace and friendster and blasted facebook: a place where tiny infringements on privacy are blithely overlooked. So if I'm going to do this thing I want to have the scopophilic knowledge that comes with it: who the fuck is reading this??? Tell me, internet!
2) Science of sleep: gondry. I don't really know what to say but I really liked it. And yes I hear all the words critics are using that asymptotically approach "puerile" (and, I guess, sometimes they literally say that), and I'd even agree, but watching someone regress has always had a sort of perverted appeal to me -- and I think the collapse of the movie into its own psychotic infantile narcissism is pretty damn interesting. And sad, too, because it is so thinly-veiled as autobiographical. And never has regression been so visually appealing. Yes: I liked it, and I'm going to see the exhibit in SoHo this weekend. And for all you nay-sayers, suck it. Movies don' need plot events. Plot events are crutches.
3) After briefly not being so, I'm single again -- so if you have cute friends, give me a shout out. Accents are a plus. I'd also like to date a girl named Sarah, since all my friends do, but please make her not-jewish, and tolerant of my obsesses with winning arguments, and a good cook, and she has to really like animals...
odds look bad.
-MSN
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Aside from technical prowess, distinctions of Malmsteen's guitar style include a wide, violin-like vibrato inspired by classical violinists, and use of such minor scales as the Harmonic minor, and minor modes such as Phrygian, and Aeolian. Malmsteen cites the Fender Stratocaster and the single coil pickups (of which he uses his custom design by DiMarzio, which are actually a vertically-stacked humbucker mounted in a single coil housing Malmsteen sought to combine the tone of a single coil with the reduced noise of a humbucker) as being instrumental to his unique tone. The Malmsteen signature model Stratocaster made by Fender is based accurately upon this combination.
The guitars he uses are recognizable by the addition of a custom scalloped fretboard. This is similar to a regular fretboard, but with wood 'scalloped' or scooped away to form a concave shape in between the frets. Malmsteen allegedly conceived this design as a teenager while working in a music store in Stockholm, Sweden when he came across a 17th century lute with a scalloped neck using the raised wood as frets. However, this can also be viewed as an influence from Ritchie Blackmore, one of his most readily admitted idols, who also favors scalloped neck Fender Stratocasters. Malmsteen himself has said he learned most from Ritchie Blackmore's guitar riffs and solos as a beginning guitarist. Also, jazz-fusion guitarist John McLaughlin used scalloped fingerboards long before Malmsteen came on the scene.
Even for the experienced guitar player, the scalloped fingerboard proves very difficult to perform on, as there is no surface contact between finger and wood to aid in the feel of the vibrato motion. The strings of the guitar, when fretted, are easily pushed sharp and out of tune. The highly accurate, delicate yet controlled touch required to play properly with Malmsteen's modified Stratocaster is elusive for most, and an integral part of Malmsteen's technique.
Just wanted you to know that I have checked your profile. I hope this helps with your research...
alejandra! Thanks- big help!
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-Matt
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