I just had my first guitar lesson. Painful two hours, indeed. Actually, that was not my first “first” guitar lesson, and I bet it’s not the last. You see, like any other fan of the rock music I want to learn, but like 99% of the fans I just don’t have enough patience, or talent, or both, to really learn it.

Actually, it’s bass guitar I’m most interested in, but I don’t have it, so I guess it’s perfectly okay to start with simple, yet, gorgeous acoustic guitar and move from there… eventually.

A few days ago, a friend of mine (Iva) and I started a punk band. The fact that none of us can’t sing or play any instruments did not stop us. After all, it’s punk we’re talking about, and punk does not have rules. No, it doesn’t. We came up with a perfect name for the band, all we need is… well, a singer. (But the lack of singer didn’t stop us, either. Yes, we’re cool as that).

So yeah, in order to play at least some of our band’s future songs, I had my first guitar lesson. Tell me, is it normal that a) your left hand hurts b) you don’t feel your left fingertips, c) your heart hurts, d) you have a really weird feeling in your left breast due to the fact that you practiced without a bra?

Same shit, different package. But still…

I have to admit I prefer Facebook. And I do have to admit it’s because you can adopt all those animals and babies and… stuff. Yes, I know it’s pretty pointless and I do try to visit it only one in a while. But somehow I can see a point in it.

Myspace, on the other hand… Myspace… Yeah, um… myspace. I just can’t see any point. Is there a point in myspace? I mean, is there something you can actually do out there except adding random people to your friends list?

I do believe myspace sucks. Facebook is not much better, but it’s still not that aggressive (meaning: there are not that many idiots who want to be your friends just because you have a nice profile image and you look ooooh, soooo hot!)

I was born in the 80s (1981 to be exact), and I love my childhood. But when it comes to fashion, music and rest of popular culture, you have to admit: 80s sucked a big time.

Remember those “wild” hairstyles that made you look like Edward Scissorhands? Ugh. These were really popular among Yugoslavian folk singers, such as Lepa Brena (don’t ask). But international musicians loved that hairstyle as well, especially, well, hair bands. And that guy Jonbo. Oh, how he loooved it.

Which brings me to subject of music. I might sound like a complete bitch but 80s music makes me vomit. Yes, I know there were some good stuff, like R.E.M. or Dire Straits or late Queen or early RHCP… And late 80s were also the time when that new Seattle alternative sound (lately called grunge) was born. But that was a minority, and most of us never learned about those bands before the 90s.

In the 80s, that-music-tv-thing was born. Which made videos extremely popular, and, as we all know, killed radio star. Cassettes were extremely popular, which in turn, killed vinyl (we can argue about this). Oh, those 80s!

Interesting, 80s were a good thing when it comes to Yugoslavian rock music. Best bands from all over Yugoslavia were rockin’ in the 80s to make an interesting sound of a country that will break up no more than 10-15 years after that sound was born.

PS- Absolutely unrelated to the post, but this shit just made my day. Thank you, shit.