If I Were Picasso

Artist: Brad

I met Brad through Donning this year, and I must thank him for starting up weekly guitar session that Donkers and I joined in on. Not only did it encourage me to learn more songs on my guitar, something which I had put off for over a year, but it also gave me a chance to get to know Brad. Aside from being a man of integrity (I one day was thinking what word would describe him best and integrity hit the spot), he is also the best hope for caber tossing being passed on to future generation of Dons.

There is also something more fundamental that I see when I look at this drawing, and I will first have to go on a bit of a rant.

I have a problem with people steeling my music. Not literally taking music from me, but taking the joy I feel when listening to particular songs. I’m sure I’m not the only one this happens to. Usually it goes like this: I find a song I like, I tell a friend, and then my friend tells me that their brother died while listening to that song, and the song is just ruined for me! Okay maybe that was a drastic example that never really happened, but you get the point.

Anyway, some good songs have been taken from me do to negative associations, and I’m getting sick of it! But I think I’ve found a way to fight this take over of my music, and it’s to learn to play the songs, thus claiming some sort of ownership over the songs.

The program is rather simple; when I find a song I like, I learn to play it, and then when I hear that someone’s brother died listening to it (I pick this example ONLY because I don’t think this scenario comes up often), I’ll have already built a relationship with the song that won’t be easily disturbed.

So I really have to thank Brad for getting me back into playing the guitar, else I would be stuck perpetually loosing great songs.

On a side note, since nobody I know listens to Euro Dance, I’ve never lost a song from this genre from undesirable connections. This is good, because there’s no way I’m going to start learning dance songs on the guitar.