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I was jesting but with a wink to some Zappa lore 
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When Frank Zappa was auditioning guitarists, a young, inexperienced Steve Vai rocked up. He could barely muster stubble at this stage, while Zappa was
well-established as the moustachioed maestro, making the audition akin to a high school student taking a few conical flasks over to Nikola Tesla’s
lair and asking for a job. Nevertheless, Vai had the skills to impress. “He’d play something, and he’d say, ‘Play that’, and I’d play.“
Vai recalled. “Then he says, ‘Now, play it in ⅞’. So I play it in ⅞. He says, ‘Now play it in reggae ⅞”.
This continued for some time, with Vai seemingly passing all the early tests with aplomb. But Zappa wasn’t finished yet. “He said, ‘Okay, add
this note’. And it was impossible. It was physically impossible, not just for me but for anybody,“ Vai continued. “I said, ‘I can’t do
that,’ and he said, ‘Well, I hear Linda Ronstadt is looking for a guitar player‘”. Crestfallen, the young guitarist began to trudge to the
door before a deadpan Zappa revealed he was joking and Vai had secured himself a job.
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I hope you enjoy being compared to Steve Vai!
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No!! I have work
to do and I’m on my own clock.
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Ah yes Bonny, I remember that now. In my case, I’m auditioning for my own band.
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Good answer!
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My vacation has started! By tomorrow I'll be at BF's, we booked a stay in an alpaca farm.
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An alpaca farm???
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Yes, where we will get our locks (well, my locks anyway) brushed by teenage girls and where we eat healthy alfalfa...
At any rate, I love animals, seals, elephants, cats, tigers, duck, list goes on, so we do occasionally go to the zoo or the petting farm together.
This was a fun twist.
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We're coming to Amsterdam tomorrow - we'll be there until Wednesday evening. Meeting up with eldest son and his partner.
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Went to this yesterday in Vincent Hall. The centre piece is an elaborate immersive movie, the first half is about Hieronymus Bosch and the second half
about Frida Kahlo. Very cool experience.
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Sounds great, did you have a good time in Amsterdam?
I just got back from the stay BF and I were at, which was at Alpaca Farm Ijsseldelta. Last yearś seals as neighbours were replaced with the also very
cute alpacas. I got to feed one!
We went to visit the pretty Hanseatic League towns of Zwolle, Kampen and Hattum. In Hattum we also visited a museum dedicated to (and as it turns out,
designed by) Anton Pieck, one of the best-known and most productive Dutch illustrators, known for his nostalgia style, calendar plates and the work he
did for the Efteling.
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Back home! It was great staying an extended period with my BF. I now have 2 days to clean my room, then get back to work.
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When you write something and it gets published, except it's heavily cut and they misspell your name
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/dec/26/best-worst-gifts-gu...
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Pity about the name, but good to get your post in there. Funny story.
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The uncut version is funnier and sweeter.
I'd only mentioned in passing to my colleague (who is such a massive Pernell Roberts fan she went to the States on her own to visit some sights), that
I was a huge Tim Curry fan. That had been several years ago by the time she made that gift for me. I was travelling abroad to see Dir en Grey at the
time. So it was not just the mug, but more that she would remember a small detail.
I think we related the 4 Dogs story here, but...
We don't shy away from second-hand gifts, provided they're spot-on. I am a keen visitor of second-hand shops as you may have gathered. At one
temporary shop not far away I saw 2 DVDs of 4 Dogs Playing Poker (4DPP). Unfamiliar with the title, but as Tim Curry was on the cover I very quickly
took one of them - and the girl next to me warned me that it was a really bad film. I thank her for the warning but buy it anyway. If you already
muscled your way through Annie and 2 Barbie movies for Tim you may as well.
Back home I put it on that evening and found myself talking through Tim while I was complaining to my father how bad it was, less than 10
minutes in. I lasted until Tim's character died, then the poor unrealistic plot, hollow characters and the foul mouth dialogue made me turn it off.
Fast forward to St Nicholas two weeks later - Dad had been to the same store and bought the other copy, hoping I would be over the moon with that
gift. He was mildly crushed, but when I reminded him that was the film I complained to him about, he remembered. We gave the copy away to my sister
who has no doubt rehomed it since.
Four months later, for my birthday, I was surprised to find he had gotten me 4DPP again! And was disappointed that I was not over the moon with it at
all.
After reminding him of the earlier episode we regifted it to someone we don't like (and who we haven't seen since, so I guess mission accomplished)
and I resorted to cruel and unusual punishment to make him remember not to buy that piece of crap - I made him watch it.
He liked it.
In the end I did watch the film to the end, as there was some TC I had missed - but gow it was awful, every last second of it.
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I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, ours went well...
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Eddie RUKidding
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well past boxing day here - forgotten what happened at xmas but was good 
South of the Border
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We had family staying, bit I've been crook for a couple of weeks now. Three different things in succession and those after a not long break from the
nasty thing before then.
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I managed to have some good cheer interspersed. I hope everyone had a great time.
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Happy New Year to all!
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