Warning: Ego Stroking in Progress

[thefool_wa]

I did not reach my goal of 1000 posts last weekend so I'm trying again today.

Help me out DU lounge: tell me something you like about me :)

I know, its a little self centered and egotistical, but I am a red-head Sagittarius male who needs to have his ego stroked every once in a while. I can't help it, its who I am.

1000 posts here I come!

:silly:

[lizziegrace]

1. Favorite musical artist?

:hi:

(Besides yourself. ;) )

[thefool_wa]

2. Nine Inch Nails

Trent Reznor = most talented songwriter ever!

[lizziegrace]

3. How well do you play?

:)

[thefool_wa]

5. I think I'm alright

I've been playing for almost 7 years now (self taught) - I know about 5 or 6 chords that I can move between well and it has led to a library of 20 or so songs.

I've never really performed for anybody other than my wife and kids. Unless you count my entire neighborhood when I have the house to myself. I live on a hillside that overlooks most of the residential area I live in (not quite urban, not quite sub-urban). When the wife and kids are gone I open my bedroom window, turn up the volume and play my tooshie off! The way sound travels down through the valley I know anyone who is home can hear every note and has no clue where it is coming from.

:headbang:

[lizziegrace]

7. That's the only way!

I love to drive with the stereo cranked so I can sing along. Self-contained with scenery. :)

Congratulations on teaching yourself to play. This sounds strange, I'm sure, but guitar is too abstract for me. I've played music since I was in 2nd grade and learned to read music. For me, the note always corresponded to a fingering or a key on the piano.

:)

[thefool_wa]

9. I am kinda the opposite

I excell at string instruments and played violin between the ages of 6 and 11. I was considered quite gifted (3rd chair of 5 in the Los Angeles All City Youth Orchestra @ 10 - the orchestra was for ages 10-16). But I have a HUGE problem with the piano.

It's like I can coordinate my hands as long as they are doing two completely different kinds of actions. The similarity of motion left-to-right on the piano has made it problematic for me all my life (I tried lessons at 8 but hated it).

I wish I had picked up the guitar when I dropped the violin (which I did because my parents could no longer afford private lessons when we moved to WA and the schools up here had bands, not orchestras) - if I had, who knows where I would be right now.

On the other hand, I spent a couple years working video for some local bands and figured out pretty quick that the musician's lifestyle is not one I desire in the slightest. I love to play, write music, work in the studio, and have fun with it, but I think I have outgrown the whole rock star thing.

[Deja Q]

4. Well, ego or anything else, we'd all still cheer you on!

:rofl:

Congrats on the milestone! :woohoo: :party:

[thefool_wa]

6. 4 posts to go!

This one makes 3.

I think hitting the 1000 mark makes one feel like they are truly a member of this community. Maybe its just me.

I've been a posting member for almost a year now and I love it here (even when I hate it here). I've met cool people, rancid people, and people who surprised the heck out of me.

[lizziegrace]

8. How long have you been in the NW?

My parents moved to Portland 15 years ago. They refuse to move back to the midwest - ever.

[thefool_wa]

11. Since I was 10

We moved up here from Long Beach, CA in the summer of '85. I will never live anywhere else in the world. The PNW is beautiful, the people are great, the weather is beautifully mild (plus I love rain), and I love being surrounded by mountains. I do like to travel, and have done so pretty extensively, and there is no-where in this nation like Washington.

OK, maybe I would live in Colorado, but only if I had a lucrative job and the ability to come back and visit my family whenever the desire struck me.

[Deja Q]

10. It's a good thing I have multiple personality disorder!

:spray:

(I don't, but I'll do anything for a laugh... or a date, but that hasn't helped either... :spray: )

2 to go, I noticed. :party:

[Haole Girl]

12. You live in a beautiful area and you seem very nice......

...hey..you only have 2 more posts to go!!!

[thefool_wa]

14. 1000 POSTS!!!!

YEA!!!!!!!! I did it!!!!!!!!

:woohoo:

:woohoo:

Thanks for the help, and the compliment. I try to be a nice person, and even when it doesn't work out that way, I try to always be conscious of my failures and apologize when I fall short.

[TheBaldyMan]

15. gratz

[TheBaldyMan]

13. you have one to go fool

[thefool_wa]

16. And, I'm over the top!!!! (nt)

[Haole Girl]

17. Happy 1000th!!

[lizziegrace]

18. Congratulations!

:applause: