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This is only part of my setup.. and this is also why I'm so embarassed that I can't sing.  I'm a musician, and THATS the toughest part of this.. I don't have a clue how to use my voice.. It's not like anything I've ever played before..


This was one of my more recent project.. (well within the past 8 months, moving stuff around a mirroring the walls)

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I even still have the floodlights up so I can feel all famous 'n stuff



and this is the wall next to where I'm sitting now.. (computer is in the dining room) this is the adjacent wall

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you dont "play" your voice staven..you use it to communicate..just like you would yell if you were angry, singing is just a different way to use sound to get attention..think of it as talking but in melody..remember when you said the pledge of allegiance as a kid...remember the cadence when you recited it..you were actually singing it but we dont percieve it like that...same thing with a little kid..they rarely never sing Twinkle Twinkle out of key...why? because they are communicating the way they know how to immitate..singing is just like that..when i do GnR, i really almost do an impression of the singer rather than sing the melody the way i know how...its a weird concept i know, but the sooner you stop thinking of a voice like a guitar, the faster you realize that we ALL have it in us to perform...i mean you are right on key in Norwegian..how is that possible, if you dont know how to sing yet..because its a song you have heard a million times in your head, like the pledge and you recite it or sing if yopu will directly back how you remember it !! good luck dude ....you are awesome man, dont give up !

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Since I started singing though..  THe plants have died

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Hmmm, let me guess, you are into Botany? Very cool.  Did you take the pics of the flowers?

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Awww, I guess that answered my question...

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Mikey,

  Billy was telling me this about his Keyboard player too, and Ccindy who's a voice pathologist said it's normal for some reason for instrumentalists to have a tougher time grasping onto vocals because unlike instruments, it's an internal process, and just really different both in terms of methods, and psychology.. Sort've like when I first started, I was singing DELIBERATELY soft to blend into the singers and let THEM be the front.. (even though they were background in karaoke), the concept is just alien to me.. I'm not of "front musician" mentality, I become comfortable hiding behind your folks that sing...   So I felt REALLY weak (and still do) being "A front person" or soloist now.. It's not been my niche in a long time.. I've always had an instrument to HIDE behind as an instrumentalist whos an accompanist

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Dani,   Sorry didn't see your post until after I posted...


I bought a digital camera a few months back...  about august I learned photography for the first time too..  Photography is something VERY new to me... I played with this photo I took and used as an avatar one day I was bored...

People were wandering the significance of this avatar
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11460522@N03/1130952196/


(you like the note to my mom?)

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Nah,  Reason I have so many plants is that I get really ticked when I walk past a dumpster and see people throwing out living healthy things.  These are almost all orphan plants that have grown...  It really ticks me off when people throw away plants for some reason <dunno why> so I salvage them


You want to see something scary,   you should see my attempts at pastel and water-color work    There are things that are worse than my singing.. such as what happens when a box of craypas are in front of me

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Photography is very cool, it's one of my favorite hobbies! Nature is my ardor, sunsets & clouds are the coolest!!

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Blending with musicians I can do.. I particularly noticed it in the job I did of the Who's "We're not gonna take it" with the several layers of harmony.  I actually can tell I did that decently but what I was also doing was getting confidence from HIDING behind harmony vocals !!

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Wow, that was pretty brilliant! Seriously, the way you captured that was pretty amazing!

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Cool, so you take in living things huh?  Well I have a couple of snakes that need a home, any volunteers??  LMAO

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Oh yeah !   I LOVE that stuff, however photography not unlike singing to do well is an artform, and takes time.. I'm going to get a Canon or Nikon SLR this winter it'll be fun to experiment with settings.. It's my understand that the Nikor lenses are affordably better lenses so Nikon is the route to take I think for me.. Perhaps the D-80 or D-200 (prices will likely drop).. But I'm giving myself permission to do ANOTHER thing and enjoy it without having to be GOOD at doing  it.  Sometimes it's nice to not feel it's important to excel at something to be a part of it !  I've done that with both singing, photography, and I'm trying to learn it with everything I do.. Somewhere around average is no sin... TOUGH thing to grasp in our culture of Looks, wealth, and power..

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Yeah ME !  If there's a snake ANYWHERE in this building, I'm OUT !   I had a dream about a snake just last night as a matter of fact.  This is a recurring nightmare...SERIOUSLY... YOu just KNOW how I love snakes !!!!

OK, please.. noone post a snake photo.. That's not funny !!  I'm mortified of them..

Last night (during a few hours of sleep) I was standing at the door of my condo, and somebody next to me (couldn't make out who this was) said, my good look at the size of that snake in the parking lot.. I said,

"Are you nuts" and started to head inside.. the said "no, seriously look", it's huge.. I said, "And that's why I'm supposed to look, leave me alone".. turned out a sick python escaped and animal protection came to pick it up, but for some reason they had to walk thru my condo with it.. and I was FREAKING out !

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Yep, good thing I have all three!! Teehee, I'm only kidding...The Nikon camera is the way to go, I will be shopping for one pretty soon too.  I can't wait until it snows here, I'm gonna have a blast taking pictures in the park!!

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Oh I know, I remember! hehehe

You seem to have been tramatized Mr. Kaplan, what is it about snakes that you despise?

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Yeah,  I'm looking forward to the D-80 prices to drop... OR, better yet the D-200 (which is still over 1K)..  that's supposed to be the best affordable bet that we can grow into.. The D-40 is only 6.1 MP and isn't that balanced somewhat awkward since the body is small ?  (or am I confusing that with the Canon comparable model that has more bells and whistles but needs more computer tweaking for the final product?)

Anyway, what I was told is that out of the box, the Nikon takes better photos.. Canon requires software and computer tweaking and that to me isn't really what photography should be about.. but that's JMHO... I don't want EVERYTHING computer tweaked... something I'd like to remain a skill without technology having a means to perfect it

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