Anything Week

September 12, 2009

Today is the official start of "Anything Week" where instead of writing about the writing life, I write here about whatever the hell comes to mind. Why? I don't know. Just for variety.

So.

Starting Monday morning I'm going to go over to the high school and help out the guitar teacher with his two beginning guitar classes. This is a rather convoluted story, but the former guitar teacher was one of the band directors (and a friend of mine) and also my guitar teacher. He quit suddenly for personal reasons. The school quickly (very quickly) hired a new director because they needed somebody to teach jazz band, two guitar classes, music appreciation and assist with the marching band.

The new director, Joe, seems like a nice guy. He's very young, probably early 20s, and his primary experience, certainly the reason I suspect he was hired, is because he's got an amazing amount of marching band experience, really world-class marching band experience. But he doesn't really play guitar. 

So, thinking that 1. it might be fun., and 2. I might be useful, I volunteered to help him out once or twice a week. He accepted and I'll go in Monday with "Larry" (the name of my acoustic guitar; the Epiphone Dot Studio's name is Ares) and see if I can help.

I'm not sure it's a good use of my time, but it ought to be interesting.

Do you ever do things that make no sense just because it seemed like a good idea at the time you opened your mouth?

Cheers,

Mark Terry

p.s. That's a photo of me and Larry playing to Frodo.