make it stop, someone, please...

i don’t think anyone likes the idea of just wasting time. everyone out here wants to take something away… and with 45 people in the station right now, there’s plenty to learn. we’ve got someone who used to breakdance, wrestlers, martial artists, boxers, kickboxers, salsa dancers… the list goes on. i spend most of my evenings messing around with a guitar… it’s less risky than breakdancing…pilcher got a guitar sent over, and has me out in the bay with him almost every night playing with him. i told him i’d teach him everything i know… which didn’t take long, cuz it isn’t much. i never had anyone to play with, never took lessons… pretty much just what i could pick up and play by ear is what i know. we’ve gone over how to read tab and some basic scales and chords… how to change his strings… that’s about it. now he just wants to get together and play. or “jam”… as he likes to call it……all in all, it’s great for me… i love playing with someone else, and it definitely stretches my abilities and forces me outside my usual repertoire. it’s been 6 weeks, though, and i love him to death… but we’ve got to expand his selection of music. i am so sick of playing metallica, and poison, and pink floyd, and smashing pumpkins that i can hardly stand it. i feel like a radio station, stuck repeating the same 10 songs. only from 80’s metal bands. plus… he wants to learn to sing while he plays. only, when he’s still trying to get the timing down, *i* end up singing. i dunno, but i’m guessing that i don’t have the voice to be doing smashing pumpkins “disarm”… “…the killer in me is a killer in you…” …it’s got to be something like listening to a group of tipsy sorority girls try to do karaoke to eminem. or when the drag queen decides to do the entire 10 minute version of “proud mary”. while laughable for the first verse, it’s like an SNL skit that drags on too long…