I’ve recently bought three books on the celts/Gauls.... enjoying them thoroughly. If we do not include books then the latest thing I have bought is a new pair of shoes. My old ones were throughly decrpit and tattered
Hmm, no major purchases since I got back from vacation, but while I was there (I've mentioned this elsewhere) I bought a new pair of devil sticks. There's a guy at the Ren Faire who sells various juggling stuff, and probably twenty-five years ago I bought my first set from him. They cost maybe fifteen bucks and were just the basic "cloth wrapped tennis balls on a dowel wrapped in electrical tape" type. I still have them, here in Japan even, although I broke the dowel at one point and had to replace it. My new ones cost me sixty bucks, and they're carbon fiber arrow shafts, sleeved in silicone rubber tubing, with weighted ends and threads added to slow them down... amazingly responsive set, I'm in love with them. From left to right: My newest sticks, my heavies from a couple years ago, and my OG flower sticks, still going strong after all these years.
Same thing They're quite difficult to play. Having to regulate your inward and outward breathing (because breathing in and out produces a different note in the same position) can make it difficult to coordinate, and when you start wanting to pitch bend it gets even harder When I was a teenager I taught myself to play the opening harmonica solo in the song Pink by Aerosmith. It took ages to learn and I never really nailed it.
I watched a video yesterday after deciding to buy one of these: Learn the harmonica in 5 minutes was the title. It was baloney, as all he was showing was how to perform a simple 'chuck' (the in/out technique you mention). It's a start and I'll certainly be practising it when my gob iron arrives, but I'll be doing my usual thing of trying to run before I can walk.
One thing studying biology has taught me is that every single species, including humans, is fucking weird. We're all freaks, and I don't know how we were allowed to come into being.
A big ole tub of bicarb of soda. It has a million (ish) purposes but the main reason I got it was for brushing my teeth and scouring the bathroom sink. I've barely made a dent in it so far, I'm guessing it will last a while.
I bought another Venus Fly trap today, there's lots of wasp around the fruit trees here, the traps love 'em. I noticed the plant I bought today is actually three plants in one pot, come about february I will separate it in into three pots. In the winter Venus fly traps die right back to the rhizome (rooty thing) and you can split them into lots of bits so next year there are more traps to eat more wasps.
I just got my 100mm stage ball to learn to contact juggle with. Black, rubber so it doesn't smash itself or anything else when I bobble it. Time to get cracking!
They die back naturally during the latter part of the autumn, it's a function of shortening days and,,,, other stuff. Venus Fly Trap salad is an intriguing idea, maybe it could include such dainties as 'sting of scorpion' or 'Anthrax sprinkles' Any ideas anyone???
One of these. I don't need it and will probably never use it, but amazon fecked up with my harmonica order and gave me a £5 voucher as recompense, so it cost me 99p.
i found one of these on the ground around 2006 and still have it on my key chain today. keep it, might be mildly useful lol.
I've had the one just a click up, that has scissors as well, on my person pretty much continously since about 1987. We are tool-using apes, it befits us to open packages with a small blade rather than our teeth.
