September 29th, Entry 9

Today is tuesday september 29th and on friday i get paid finnally! I love to get money then on saturday is homecoming! i suppose thats a good thing im going to the dance. Lately ive gotten into alot of older style rock playing like lynyrd skynyrd or foghat or maybe even the band free, thats just a couple that ive been playing. Oh don't forget poison they are a pretty good band. tomorrow is rockstar day i have a feeling im gonna bring a guitar along with me...probably not such a good idea but oh well i have like 8 others. Maybe swanson will jam out with me during 5th hour psychology. I guess i am opossite today one hand has painted fingernails and the other don't thats opposite right?...

September 24th, entry 8

So yesterday we went to the college fair and first i looked at some colleges found one up in minnesota that Im interested in. It has multiple recording studios on campus which i think is a big plus. After that i hung out w/ some friends of mine that were there first i hung out with kelly from metro ehh she was in a blah boring mood so then i found my friend kenzi from linn mar and i hung out with her and her grandma which was fun sort of? Walking around finding information a out colleges. I guess you could call that fun. Ive been recording some videos on my computer to put on youtube they are instructional videos on how to do certain things on a guitar. Then today I thought my male cat was dead but turns out he was just being super lazy and didn't even move when i was petting him then i put food in his dish and he came running as fast as he could idk y? Last night i learned how to play cowboys from hell by pantera. If you get a chance listen to it, it has some pretty cool sounding guitar parts in it.

September 22nd, Entry 7

So today is tuesday, anyways this weekend was alright but I didn't get to buy that one guitar that I was planning on buying because the kid's parents said they didn't want him to sell the guitar even though he doesn't play it or probably will never play it. On the other side of things Im about half done working on my epiphone flying v the one Im always talking about Im waiting for more parts to come in the mail. This weekend I went to Guitar Center and bought some parts for my favorite guitar that originally didn't need anything done to it but i got the bright idea that i wanna replace a part on it thats way better but i basically have to destroy my guitar to do it... But in the long run it will be a good investment on this guitar... hopefully. This weekend Im going to guitar center just to buy some more things because i got two 15% off coupons in the mail. Sometime i have to talk to Mr. L the choir teacher about the variety show because id like to use my own equipment as in my own sound system for the acts that i will be doing. Hopefully sometime soon i can bring in one of my guitars and play for everyone during one class period. It could possibly be this period maybe after the final test over the crucibles?

September 17th, entry 6

So today is thursday september 17th. Well finally I got to go to Guitar Center last night and buy some things for my birthday and I wasn't completely sure on what I wanted to buy so I just bought some things that I needed. Which was a strap for my dads bass and some tuning pegs for my flying v epiphone the one guitar Im always working on and I got home went to put the pegs on and they wont work which was a bummer but ill just have to go back down and return them within the next 30 days which ill probably be going down there this weekend so yea it will be all good. Im still looking for parts for my dads guitar that he like totally ruined when he was a younger kid... Yup the eiphone that i fixed up and put the new electrical system in the pots (volume control & tone control) started humming so Im taking it down to guitar center on saturday or tomorrow friday for them to look at it and possibly fix it. Maybe ill buy another guitar this weekend my cousins boyfriend wants me to buy his started pack that he got awhile ago. He was just not totally interested in playing guitar so he decided to sell it i guess. The guys at guitar center are telling me not to buy a crate amp because its to much of a beginner amp and its weird because my uncle has one and he is telling me to buy one so yea im not completely sure what to do...

Setember 15th, entry 5

Well yesterday was my birthday i havent gotten much for it yet but hopefully tonight my mom will be taking to cedar rapids to go shopping for my birthday that should be fun we would only be going to one store and if you know me you should know what one store that is... GUITAR CENTER!! So yea that will be fun, but the past couple of days have been really long and tiring. Staying up all night working on one of my guitars (the guitar that i bought from Aaron C in our class) but im not completely done with it yet i have to spend about another 100$ on it for the tuning pegs. and i already have over 200$ put into the guitar in parts and accesories. Some people might say its a bad hobby to get into but i think its well worth the money spent because each dollar you put towards a guitar it just makes the guitar that much better and that much more valuable. Not sure if you noticed but today i was wearing swishy pants and once again if you know me that usually means i feel very lazy today...

September 11th, Entry 4

Today is Friday end of the week, weekend starts once school gets out. Tomorrow my cousin is getting married that should be fun I think? Hopefully afterwards I will get to go to my uncles house and we can have a little family concert type of thing. I would like to go to guitar center this weekend hopefully I can ill have one of my other cousins drive me down there after the reception so I can get parts for my guitar. The latest songs I've been learning on guitar are Cannon Rock by JerryC, Eruption by Van Halen, Sweet Child o' mine by Guns n Roses, thats just a few of what I've been practicing lately. Im also wanting to clean my room this weekend its a complete disaster. Well I shouldn't say clean because it is clean its just disorganized with amp cords, pedals, guitars, amps, power cords, and a couple power strips. Oh and don't forget all the guitar magazines and catalogs lying everywhere. I also need to buy a new guitar rack or a bigger one because the one I have now holds 7 guitars and I have 8 guitars in my room now.

September 9th, Entry 3

Well today is Wednesday otherwise know as hump day, half way through the week. Next monday is my birthday september 14th. I brought my new guitar to school today... bought it last friday for 280$ it's a LTD by ESP Mirage series. A fender strat look alike but it plays like the ibanez GAX series and sounds a lot like the ibanez RX series. Everyones bagging me to bring my amplifier to school so I can play sometime. Im just kinda like maybe some other time, its such a drag to bring my amp to school and lug it around everywhere thats why im asking for the amp plug and play for my birthday it runs off of a 9 volt battery. Basically just a small speaker that plugs into your amp about the size of the palm of your hand. Its pretty handy for backstage practicing or just playing for your friends at school with out lugging around your big amplifier. Well sadly enough guitar center had their big labor day sale or memorial day sale which ever it was and i was too busy to get down there, what a bummer. Hopefully next friday my friend can shadow me here at school that would always be fun.

September 3rd, Entry 2

So this weekend is going to be great because tonight my mom is paying me for all this summers work. Which will be around 1200$. On top of that Guitar Center is having a blow out sale 83% off most in house items so yea you can about imagine what I will be doing. On Sunday ill probably be working on two guitars that are in the middle of being rebuilt one is an old 1950s gibson the other is a 1985 epiphone jupiter I have to cut a hole in the body and then cut almost through on the back side and a little bit on the front side also around the hole because I'm installing a Floyd Rose. Its a pretty complicated job. During my free time I've been looking for guitars that don't work anymore but have a good neck and head stock on them because I need a neck and a headstock for my custom 1950s gibson that I'm rebuilding. If you're interested just ask for pictures of both guitars. I can get pictures of them very soon. Im redoing all electrical work on both guitars also. It may sound very complicated and hard to do but honestly ill fix or install any thing on a guitar besides a bent neck because that means the rod inside the neck is bent and you cant really fix that.

September 1st, Entry 1

So this weekend I found out that back in the 80s koreans were not the greatest electricians because my epiphone jupiter guitar had bad pickups in it so i changed them and realized that all the wires were different. None of the same color.