I Only Listen to the Sad Sad Songs

[ase]

Okay, it all makes sense now: Teardrops on My Guitar was written by Taylor Swift when she was seventeen. Love Story has no excuse. But the arrangement stands up in piano and cello mashup.

(It turns out I like my country a little bloodcurdling, like the Dixie Chick's Goodbye Earl and SHeDAISY's A Night to Remember.)

Also known to show up on my music playlists: Lonestar ("borrowed" from my sister several years ago), Big & Rich, LeeAnn Womack. It turns out I really like country-pop crossover.

I left my mp3 player at my desk when I broke for the door today, which is probably for the best, since I'd just load it with ridiculous quantities of guitar.

I went looking for a topically appropriate picture and found nothing. I need to go to more concerts. In the meantime, can I break for an ode to macro settings? I use mine to fake depth of field all the time when I'm taking small-scale pictures. Macro is my favorite setting on my camera. So have a pretty flowering plant of known species. If I just killed your bandwidth dead, tell me and I will stop posting 640x480 pics unless they're behind a cut.

Comments

[morineko]

Two things I need to find: my Big & Rich CD; my camera manual. :)

[ase]

Your camera manual is probably available on the manufacturer's website; your CD I can't help with. Good luck!

[phoenixsong]

Love the picture! I wish I'd discovered the macro setting more than a year ago, because it's perfect for some of the pictures I like to take.

[ase]

Macro is one of those "greatness or awesome?" items in my life. If only I could get similar depth of field effects in large-scale pictures! (Today the $200 Canon; someday the dSLR. Watch and see.)