You know when you are really old? When people start saying "that's so and so, he's ___ years young!". That has got to STING. When I get old enough that people say that, I'm going to start coming up with some crazy habits, so instead of saying it, they just say like "that's Andrew, he stabs people!" or whatever.
This is the second long weekend this summer that I have suddenly got a crazy urge to get a wah-wah pedal and just play wah-wah guitar all weekend, it's sick. This weekend it's partly cause I've been listening to the Meters all week. I was phoning around today trying to find a music store that has the wah-wah I have decided I want (it seems good quality and isn't too expensive). I called this one music store and I said "I was wondering if you have a certain wah wah pedal in stock, the Morley Power Wah". The guy checked and said "we have the Morley Mark Tremonti Power Wah" and gave me the price, which was more than I expected, so I went online to see what the deal was. The features and stuff kind of looked like it would be a good wah-wah and I was thinking okay, maybe I'll get that, so I looked up Mark Tremonti to see who he is. I had a feeling he was in Rage Against the Machine or something. Turns out he is in CREED, so I obviously can't even consider buying his signature wah-wah pedal. I don't want to ever think about Creed, I don't want to start a horrible, boring, possibly christian, band*, I don't want to be in a sex tape with Kid Rock, I am not getting the Mark Tremonti wah-wah pedal. The only thing it has going for it is that I assume it's cheaper than it should be, and would cost a lot more if they didn't name it after a guy who was in the band Creed.
I called another store, and the girl there went and looked and said they had one in stock. I asked the price, but she said "we are not allowed to say prices over the phone. But, let's just say it's AROUND 100 dollars". That is sort of helpful, but not really, I don't want to show up and find out that they consider $125 to be AROUND 100 dollars. Because I am the kind of guy who thinks fast, I immediately came up with a tricky idea so she could tell me the price without really breaking the rules, and I said "Hmm okay, well let me ask you this: How old was your grandfather when you were born?" and she just paused and then went "WHHHHHAAAATTT?". I expect something more like "He was 94.99". Thinking fast only works if people have a remote clue as to what you are talking about. Oops.
* I would be in a christian band if it was the Danielson Family! I went to see them a short while ago, and only found out a little ahead of time that they are a christian band, I had no clue, I thought they were just a bunch of wackos. Then I started listening to their lyrics and there's one song that just keeps going "I love my lord, I love my lord, I love my lord" haha, oops, how did I miss that? What a good band though.
1:29 a.m. - Sept. 03, 2006