what are your talents?
 

title is pretty self explanatory. make a long list if you want or feel free to brag.

playing guitar/bass, singing
drawing, painting and art using other forms of media ie photog, collages
sewing (by hand)
fixing shit
cooking, cleaning, and other domestic tasks
writing

I am pretty good at picking up musical instruments and playing them. I can also draw stuff. I am a good amateur photographer. I cook a lot and can be relied on to present a good meal. I am well on my way to mastering the english language.

I am also a rookie time traveller- though I have only time travelled once before, I'll count it as a talent as it's pretty impressive.

Rock
Sarcasm
Lifting and moving very heavy things
Putting on the occasional event and not going in the hole
Writing (highly debatable)

tons of useless boy scouting knowledge
guitar/bass playing
insightful (vague, I know, but I'm known to raise interesting points in my philosophy classes)
good at debating/argumentation
decent photographer although I haven't done it in years

Procrastinating, missing opportunities, and self-delusion are the top three, followed far behind by typing skills, an affiinity for animals, and knowing more than most people my age about the popularity resurgence of the long-player record.

A woman who can fix shit? I'm down on bended knee.

i'm very good at fixing things. i don't know why. once i read my own palm and it said something about that due to the shape of my hand or something like that.

Painting
Being a bitch
Assembling the best Powerpoint presentations anyone has ever seen
Not cooking; getting other people to cook for me
Crossword puzzles

I like to think I can write, play guitar, and think critically, but I may be delusional about all that.

By the by, a local "alternative" newspaper is publishing my article on "the resurgent popularity" of the LP.

that's excellent, congratulations!
i could never have anything published, i'm too shy and self critical to have my name attached to anything.

1. sexo (not boasting-- runs in the family-- many of us have been thus ruined)
2. cooking (i'm a glutton)
3. writing (dubious)
4. pissing people off (you've all seen plenty)
5. solving problems through improvisation (a low-rent mcgyver)
6. analytical thinking (i can see through your bullshit, assholes)
7. wasting time on the internet (again, this i proof)

I'm a good speler.

Correcting everyday grammar mistakes ("good" instead of "well", that one hurts), sarcasm, writing to some extent.

I make a pretty mean omlette as well, western specifically.

hello nick.

ahem..

1. most percussive instruments
2. back tucks
3. writing
4. i can run fairly fast.
5. correcting grammar, and going on to pretend i don't make mistakes.
6. getting four subjects of homework done during a 50 minute lunch
7. just like luxy, i am a powerpoint goddess.
8. i can play many major movie and television theme songs on the marimba
9. i can play along with the drum part to most sonic youth and deerhoof songs.
10. massive sudoku books, electronic sudoku, blah blah sudoku
11. delusions of adequacy
12. fixing things
13. working out problems.
14. being a big sister

I'm good in bed.

i bet you are

i'm debating whether i should post this version of sister morphine i've been recording in the post yr art thread. i need to clean it up some more i think.
edit: i mentioned this because it would showcase any talent i actually have

tappa danca
pianey

All writers feel that way. Or at least many do. It's part of it--you always see ways you could have done it better after it's in print.

If anyone here's a natural writer, you are.

Wow, yeah, you should. Is it acoustic or electric? I love that song.

no. if i met you in person i would be at a loss for words. for a while at least. when i first meet anyone it's incredibly awkward and i become very soft spoken and don't say much at all. however around people i know well it's totally different, i'll be very loud and talkative.

well i'm working on it as we speak and so far i really do like the rhythm guitar track and the vocals. it's acoustic because i don't want to piss my mom off and wake her up but i'm doing these little guitar parts in the background and i'm going to put overdrive on it.

My bro and I used to do that one all the time, both of us on acoustic. It's got a lot of good places for easy fills and stuff.

sports [except soccer and skateboarding] which happen to be the cool ones in australia....

uncanny knowledge of actors' roles in film...and several obscure ones...basically im an audio student, and when i watch film with film students at school, they always say 'oh, him from so-and-so' , and i always come up with the name of the actor and what previous work theyve done [usually immediately]...i dont even know if this qualifies as a talent...

noise-making?....i like to think so...im fairly decent with the use of effects to achieve the sounds im looking for...

grammar/english-language editing/writing....and spelling.

One's conversational voice isn't necessarily the same as one's writing voice--even though one tries to write conversationally. I know excellent writers who can barely put two words together over a cup of coffee, but who write circles around me.

What I've found helps to get over my shyness around people is to pretend I'm somebody else. Sometimes I put on Larry David, other times David Duchovny, depending on how old and bald I'm feeling.

well it seems i can't quite line up my "lead" track with the others because i'm slightly incompetent so we will just have to see how this turns out.

but basically don't let my bright colours and exotic fabrics fool you. i'm completely different conversationally.

what are you recording to? software i presume?

uh yeah audacity
i used to have this really neat sony acid program but i don't know where that went

There's something cool about the rough mix, though. You should post it when it's ready.

it's a bit too late, i already wrote over the guitar track but this sounds better anyway. you'll see. i'm working on all the EQ and stuff now because i don't feel like doing any more.

drawing
remembering stuff from a long time ago
cooking (newfound)
smoke rings
trivia
playing bass
animal trivia

I record on a little cassette player sometimes. Just me and my acoustic. Then I play it back on the stereo. It's usually pretty awful.

i have one of those and sometimes i do that
to be honest i like doing that better than doing all the processing and mixing and shit.

okay so i'll post this in this thread in a minute. it's exporting the mp3 right now.
forgive the big fuzzy noises you may hear in a couple places, i think it has to do with the microphone but maybe it adds to it. who knows. i'm going to stop talking and just post the damn song.

I'm freaking impressed! Nice job. I like how you go from the minor to the major at the end. Are you just going from A minor to A major?

I like the different strum pattern from the way the Stones do it. It's subtle but updates it nicely.

My WMP window makes a nice light show to go with it, too.

wow, thank you!
yeah at the end i'm going like this, i don't know the chord names because i never do, just the specific note (i would call them both an A chord but i cant get more specific than that)

e|x
B|3
G|3
D|3
A|0
E|x


e|x
B|2
G|3
D|3
A|0
E|x

Yeah, top's A major, bottom's minor.

My version is a copycat of the Sticky Fingers cut, although sometimes I slow it way down to try to make it sound even more desolate.

You might try that for a different effect w/ yr version. Slow it down a beat or two. Not that you have to. It's great as it is.

My brother sends me copies of songs, him singing with his acoustic, that sound like he's on speed. Like bluesy songs five times to fast, so they almost sound cheerful. I'm kind of the opposite. I like taking a fairly upbeat song, say, like Dead Flowers, and slowing it all the way down to a dirge.

Anyway, very cool, C.

i usually slow everything down to a space rock tempo. if that makes sense.
i'm trying to think of another song i could play. i could play dead flowers actually. i might do that.

- Fucking around with musical instruments
- Drawing on my binders (don't think this means I can draw at all, I just draw patterns or anti-patterns... all over the place... like... ALL...)
- Writing, I think...
- Noticing girls that are hot... I do this like a champ, it's weird.
- Sarcasm
- Talking about philosophy and my beliefs... it's weird I do that, too...
- Getting bad haircuts (I don't mean to, they just fall on me... from the sky... the sky of bad haircuts. Although, the cut I got today is actually not looking atrocious.)
- Talking for too long.
- Wearing tight shirts.
- Warping fragile minds.
- Putting distortion into every song. Fucking right.

e|x
B|3
G|3
D|3
A|0
E|x


Actually, I think that's a typo--you're one fret too high for an A on those numbered ones. Should be more like 2 2 2, and 1 2 2. ??? For an A chord anyway.

I think. I'm confused. I'm tired. Going to bed.

Cool. Have you heard the Cowboy Junkies' version of Dead Flowers? They take it way down, narcoticize it.