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In the lower left hand corner of the paper with the names of things I haven't completed is written, larged and seriffed, "KLH". Reminding me, hopefully, of KLH. Who is celebrating a birthday soon. What should I do for her birthday? How does one celebrate a ghost's birthday? especially one who was never born. With any luck it'l be at least more enjoyable than my own birthdays.

Sometime in the night I found a tab of the version of Skip James's Hard Time Killing Floor Blues they used in O Brother Where Art Thou. Not too hard, really, but he plays it with such a grace. I'd like to see some of those bebop cats who stick their noses up at anything modal try and play with as much soul as Skip James.

I enjoy Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire. I think he's got a pretty voice and a mean fiddle.

So Anyway. Here's a little recording of me playing around with H-T-K-F Blues. It never came out graceful, no matter how many times I tried it. And I have a tendency to space out, doing anything, No matter what it is. I'll suddenly remember I'm doing something and the moment's hesitation throws off the time so terribly slightly. I try to only allow myself one take, that's why a lot of the old recordings were so bad, either because I only let myself have one take or I tried so many takes i completely forgot what I was doing. It works if you're Roy Harper, but not so much when you're just another kid with a guitar.

directory: hardtimekillingblues.mp3 2:48@56k/s 1.12mb

nb: the more I write about myself here the less i'm writing about more important things elsewhere.