Well, between the old man screaming at me in front of the gym and this guy on Youtube....

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I was leaving my gym and as I was pulling out of the parking lot someone changed lanes into the lane I was pulling out into so I stopped with the nose of my car halfway onto the sidewalk. Along comes this old fucking assbag on his motorized wheelchair with the poodle riding along and instead of stopping and giving me a second to back up out of his way proceeds to tear me a new one and pull in front of me ranting the entire time. "Fucking asshole" was probably the nicest thing he called me. Not getting out of the car took a supreme effort. Beating up an old man in front of his poodle would have been a bad start to my day.

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If there's one thing that I've learned over the past couple years of playing it's that music theory and formal technique are what you rely on when the sound/musicians/room/environment/whatever isn't optimal for everything to "just flow".

We all love those magical moments when everything is clicking and music just flows from your fingers.... but unfortunately those moments can be fleeting or sometimes beyond our control. All the traditional theory and training gets us through all the rest of the time until the next magic moment happens.

I learned this pretty late in my musical career, so I've been scrambling to keep learning more theory and technique. It's made me a different kind of player, but I'd have to say I'm much better off than where I was 3 or 4 years ago.
 
bluemooze sounds like an ignorant twit and the asshole pedestrian sounds about right. did you at least stare him down?
 
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jaxn slim said:
If you put yourself out there, you will encounter a lot of shitty people.
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even in the gym parking lot :embarrassed:

I encounter a lot of negativity online...just part of what I do but when someone is just this ignorant it just kills me.
 
micwalt said:
Just ask the Republican party!
Ooooweee, I gotta tell ya!
Sorry.
Oh and fuck that non-counting motherfucker in his fucking face!
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baimun said:
I don't know how to answer this without crossing into a Politics/Religion discussion, which is inappropriate for this forum. :helper:
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I think we can leave it at bagging on people who pray on the altar of musical laziness.
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From my ever growing experience, usually when driving or reading comments on the web (not here, thankfully), I know without reservation that there are two giant contests going on. The Stupidest Motherfucker Contest and The Absolute Asshole Contest. Occasionally I see someone who is a contestant in both!

I could fill pages of stories about some of the leading contestants, and so could the rest of you.
 
it's the growing condition in the USA, and prolly else where....but here for sure.

everyone is all about themselves and everything has to be right goddamn fucking now.
and goes back to smart phones and tablets and the like.
everything revolves around ME and i better get an answer RIGHT NOW.

so NO ONE has one freakin' lick of patience anymore.
the other day i pulled into a parking spot and opened my door to get out......and apparently i "blocked" some fucking asshole trying to cut across the parking lot driving THRU all the parking spots......he puts down his window and is giving me the finger and yelling FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCKYOU.....i'm the one IN a parking spot, like i'm supposed to be.
try driving IN the isles instead of across them.

like i said.....everyone now thinks that everything is ABOUT THEM.:mad::mad:
 
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mongooz said:
it's the growing condition in the USA, and prolly else where....but here for sure.

everyone is all about themselves and everything has to be right goddamn fucking now.
and goes back to smart phones and tablets and the like.
everything revolves around ME and i better get an answer RIGHT NOW.
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You must know my clients.

Which is why (at my wit's end today) I am taking the next 2 days as vacation days to have a long weekend.
As a matter of fact I am taking the rest of today off, too.

Because if I don't, I really don't know what I am going to say to someone......

I mean...there are professional ways to say "I have a better idea...why don't you go fuck yourself?", but none that really sum it up more succinctly than that.

And since that's about where I'm at right now....it's probably best if I just crack a beer and take 2.5 days off.
 
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