Does anyone use LJ anymore?
If Russia already knows everything about everyone from the whole Facebook/Cambridge Analytica thing, then there's no more harm in posting to LJ, right? Perhaps as a privileged white american I have an overestimated sense of security, but I'm not so sure that Russian trolls would find my life interesting, or my opinions manipulatable.
Besides, all I wanna do right now is write about music and be self-reflective.
It's frustrating that no matter how hard I practise, I will never be as good as people who started playing when they were 15, because I didn't start learning bass until I was 26. But I can play Boris the Spider and London Calling and a handfull of other songs, so I bet my 15-year-old self would be more proud of me than regretful. Although one thing I have yet to master is the art of not measuring my own sense of accomplishment by comparing how much other people have accomplished. I fully realise that this path only ever leads to me making myself feel inadequate, but still I do it all the time, in everything I pursue (work, school, hobbies).
I might not quit bass yet, because there are still so many songs I want to learn. I want to learn Time is Tight, because I love that tune and I should try to learn some instrumental songs. Kyle made me a Clash mix to listen to in the car which has a cover of it that I hadn't heard before. I'm more familiar with the Booker T. and the MG's version, because I have it as a 45. One of the first 45s I bought, I think it was at Dodd's.
It would be cool to be able to play a Mitski song or more Breeders songs, since getting into their music last summer was one of the things that prompted me to ask my mum if she still had the bass.
Besides, all I wanna do right now is write about music and be self-reflective.
It's frustrating that no matter how hard I practise, I will never be as good as people who started playing when they were 15, because I didn't start learning bass until I was 26. But I can play Boris the Spider and London Calling and a handfull of other songs, so I bet my 15-year-old self would be more proud of me than regretful. Although one thing I have yet to master is the art of not measuring my own sense of accomplishment by comparing how much other people have accomplished. I fully realise that this path only ever leads to me making myself feel inadequate, but still I do it all the time, in everything I pursue (work, school, hobbies).
I might not quit bass yet, because there are still so many songs I want to learn. I want to learn Time is Tight, because I love that tune and I should try to learn some instrumental songs. Kyle made me a Clash mix to listen to in the car which has a cover of it that I hadn't heard before. I'm more familiar with the Booker T. and the MG's version, because I have it as a 45. One of the first 45s I bought, I think it was at Dodd's.
It would be cool to be able to play a Mitski song or more Breeders songs, since getting into their music last summer was one of the things that prompted me to ask my mum if she still had the bass.