Songs Old and New

I've picked up another song from Guitar Hero.
It's Same Old Song and Dance by Aerosmith.

I can play all of the normal bits.
I can play one of the three solos.
In time, I'll be able to play it perfect.

It's an excellent electric guitar song.

It's not particularly easy, and there's not a perfect tab.. but I figured out the opening guitar solo out myself.

Darren's been playing my guitar all of a sudden...
I'm surprised to see they want to handle it now, esp. as I'm leaving Thursday for Idaho.

I've been busy - I've got lots of packing to do.

But I did put in a fair amount of guitar practice today.

I've been looking for the old version of Be Like That by 3 Doors Down that I learned. Darren's been messing with it.
I used to have that song perfect... on acoustic.





If I could be like that... what would I do...

Subscription and Bookmarking Images

Today I added the buttons for RSS, Delicious, Technorati, and Digg.
I had found the ones I wanted on the www, but they were in one image.
The only solution I could find was to manually separate them.

Hence, today's photoshop project.

What I had to do was right-click "layer via copy" the best selection I could muster, and then fill in the left out white areas on a layer behind them.

All but the RSS were missing corners. I selected a corner of them and transformed the selection over the missing corner, then filled it in with white behind, like I said.

It was a big pain, though I was clever enough to get through it without a ridiculous amount of effort.

For those of you that want to use non-square images on your own blog/websites, here's how it's done:
- You save it as .png, having transparency.
- You upload it wherever (I use Photobucket)
- You include it in the code whatever way you is easiest. Basically you'll use an <img> tag.
For more info on the <img> tag, see Here.
If you're doing this and have questions, don't hesitate to ask.

My artwork for today is already visible, so of course I'm not posting under "artwork".

Caught up on iKnow at Smart.fm

Today I did the usual 10 w/ 2 new, then one with 3 new... then an all 10 new!
The all-ten-new ones are harder usually... but this one had a lot I've just done myself.

First off ,there was:
高校生 - koukousei - High School student
上手 - jouzu - good, skilled

Then:
強い - strong - tsuyoi
七 - nana - seven (alternate 7 pronunciation)
they covered 二十日 / hatsuka / 20 days, surprisingly.

The two ones I had trouble with were:
触る - touch,feel - sawaru
痛い - pain - itai

The ten new were mostly numbers and family members.
Curious? See Numbers#1, Numbers#2, and Family.
The few truly new ones are:
暖かい - atatakai - warm
有る - aru - exist,possess
良い(いい)- good - often just in kana
上 - ue - up,above
動く - ugoku - move

I picked out two words from sentences:
誕生日 - tanjoubi - birthday
桃 - momo - peach

"Happy Birthday" is 誕生日、おめでとう。(tanjoubi, omedetou)

For you who are interested in this, but not particularly 私の日本語, it's pronounced
(tawn-joe-bee, oh-med-et-ohh).

My sentences for today are:
banana ga nanahon arimasu.
バナナ が 七本 あります。
(There are 7 bananas)
I love saying this fast... lol... there aren't spaces in 日本語.

The other was had wind in it (kaze)
kyou wa kaze tsuyoi.
今日は風が強い。
(the wind is strong today)

I'm getting better at understanding the sentences without the translations... yay.


和
(peace.)

Bradley+Guitar and "Radio Song" Lyrics...

Today Bradley was messing around with my guitar...
He has been thinking about learning to play bass.
I highly suggest he start with guitar, though...
To me, a bass is a dumbed-down guitar.

Even if it might be an octave lower, the only thing that I could think of that might explain why it even exists, it's still not worth the ridiculous comparison of prices and capability.

Anyway... He was doing all kinds of things with it. He ought to have fun while he can... I'm leaving for Idaho in 5 days... :( I'm going to miss Sarah... makes me nauseous just thinking about it...

I went and looked up the "Radio Song" lyrics...
They are French - I was right. I have a translation.

Radio Song - Superbus
J'en ai jamais assez, je suis vite lassée,
Je voudrais combler ce manque
Mon obsession me hante,
J'en ai jamais assez, je voudrais bien trouver
Que j'ai beaucoup de chance,
Me rendre à l'évidence,

We are we are on the radio now, the radio now !

J'en ai jamais assez, je vois toujours après,
Des fois je me demande
Comment je peux m'y prendre
J'en ai jamais assez, je suis vite lassée,
Je suis jamais contente,
On dit que je suis chiante,

We are we are on the radio now, the radio now !

J'en ai jamais assez, j'aimerais bien penser
A 2 centimètres à l'heure pour éviter les pleurs,
J'en ai jamais assez, je suis vite lassée,
Il faudrait que j'entende, un jour tu seras grande,

We are we are on the radio now, the radio now !
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I never have enough, I get tired very easily
My obsession haunts me
I never get enough, I wanted to think
That I'm very lucky
that I've become the evidence
We are, we are, on the radio now, the radio now!

I never have enough, I always see the 'after'
Many times I ask myself:
How can I be sucesseful
I never have enough, I get tired very easily
I am never happy
and they say I'm sanguinary

We are, we are, on the radio now, the radio now!

I never have enough, I wish I though
By 2 cm per hour, to evoid the tears
I never have enough, I get tired very easily
Is necessary to me to understand, one day I'll be big

We are, we are, on the radio now, the radio now!