Been Around the Block. Got Some Stories. These are Them.
And I’ll start by hauling a couple of megatars —
But, say … I could haul *lots* more megatars in this truck!
I have purchased a house here in Northern California, and the property had adequate space, and so it happened that, thanks to the goodness of the Benevolent Universe, a new shop is being constructed there. Mobius Megatar, where I make wonderful musical instruments, has outgrown it’s space at the Secret Megatar Laboratory, and soon will have this new and larger factory shop.
The construction has trampled the once-lavish grounds, but soon our team of avid gardeners will be back on the job. In the meantime, here are some pictures —
(a) The house (left) and new shop (right):
(b) The house (left) and new shop (right):
(c) The view out the windows:
If you’d like to see more photos of the shop construction project, on our Mobius Megatar website, in the News section, open up the MegaBlog, and choose “Factory” to find lottso photos from bare ground up through the current state.
It won’t be long before we move our equipment into the new shop, and create even more Megatars for a world thirsty for easy-to-play music.
These books are called “The Easy Touch-Style Method.” The purpose of the video series is to provide a demo of how easy it can be to learn two-handed touch-style play using this streamlined learning method.
The first video — viewable today — is an introduction which simply explains what touch-style is, and provides a demo of how one can play by touch. It then shows why having more strings makes playing easier, and shows how clear it is when both hands can move exactly the same. Then, using four simple chords, the Bloggard demonstrates —
And so, for your elucidation and entertainment, The Adventures of Bloggard presents —
PS: If you are wondering, the instrument used in the demo is a Mobius Megatar TrueTapper Eclipse. The audio recording was done entirely in Guitar Rig 2 with minimal effects. As you can see, the demo was filmed in the Mobius Megatar Space Station engine room. (Warp Drives were offline for an oil change. Otherwise, it would have been too noisy.)
Mount Shasta, CA March 1 (Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!), 2007, 5:15pm: When I was in the checkout line at Ray’s Supermarket, the serious young man asked me a question:
“Paper or plastic?”
I told him that I would take plastic, because it was very bad for the environment, and I wanted to do my part by helping him to clear out some of it. He looked at me, puzzled.
“It’s a joke, young man,” I said. “It doesn’t actually mean anything at all.”
He became pensive, or maybe he was thinking about something else, or perhaps he was reviewing the multiplication tables or the periodic table, or possibly wondering about dinner.
And so I explained it for him. (It is good to do this for the young people around us, so that we can enrich their lives, and some day they in turn can pass these wisdoms on to those younger still.)
“You see,” I said, “as you grow older, you’ll discover that, more and more things around you seem funny.”
He still looked puzzled, or perhaps concerned. I went on.
“In fact,” I said, “by the time you become very old, nearly all of life seems to be kind of a joke.”
He looked definitely worried now. I summed it up for him.
“That’s one of the reasons people die,” I said. “They just get tired of laughing.”
Back in 1970, as you will recall, Timothy Leary got busted and was sent to jail, as is fitting and proper for what our honest and insightful President Nixon described as “the most dangerous man in America.”
And as perhaps you know, Leary escaped from the jail. Some accounts mentioned levitation, but probably you don’t believe that. In fact, probably you were wondering how he escaped, really. You were, weren’t you? Wondering?
Well, it’s very simple …
As perhaps you are aware, prisons nowadays are very scientific, and they use psychological tests, for example to help them determine how trustworthy some incarcerated prisoner is likely to be. To determine how likely they are to escape, for example.
In Leary’s case, as per their normal procedure, they gave him such a test.
But of course you should remember that Leary was a psychologist, and in fact the initial LSD experiments he and Richard Alpert made were with prison inmates, so Leary knew a bit about prisons.
And of course, it helped tremendously that, 20 years earlier, Leary was in fact the psychologist who had written the test they gave him.
So, just as you or I would have done, he filled in the answers appropriate for a guy who wouldn’t try to escape, and therefore they trusted him, so later he just walked away.
So much easier than levitation, don’t you think?
Tibet, Long Ago: There once was a monastery where the monks were not allowed to speak at all, except that every five years, if he wished to do so, each monk was permitted to speak two words. And so it was that, after his five years, the newest monk went to see the head monk.
“Very well,” said the head monk. “What are the two words you’d like to speak?”
“Bed … hard,” said the monk.
“I see,” replied the head monk.
Five years later, the same monk returned to the head monk’s office. “It has been five more years,” said the head monk. “What are the two words you would like to speak?”
“Food … stinks,” said the monk.
“I see,” replied the head monk.
And when another five years had passed, and the monk once again met with the head monk, the head monk asked, “What are your two words now, after these five years?”
“I … quit!” said the monk.
“Well, I can see why,” replied the head monk. “All you ever do is complain.”
