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[senoritafish]

We seem to have a number of musicians in the neighborhood. I'm just now hearing someone practicing drums in their garage - maybe the kids who have a punk band on the corner of the next block. I shouldn't say kids - they're probably in their mid-twenties. And the lead singer from a fairly well-known band bought the house at the end of my block after it had been sitting empty for almost a year after the real estate bubble. I haven't met him, but runsamuck (who is waaay more outgoing than I and knows ALL the neighbors) sometimes goes down and plays nickel n' dime poker with him and his buddies in the garage. I nod and smile at his wife when we run into each other on the sidewalk when we're out for a walk, and she's walking their little dog. runsamuck mentioned he'd seen something about them going on tour, and sure enough, when I came home from work the other day, there was a big bus parked next to the house. They hadn't been for awhile because their drummer passed away last year.

One of runsamuck's friends found a guitar in the trash out the alley - looks very much like this one, it says S-classic on the head, but I can't find that model on the website - it's a little beat up but still in working condition. He took it to Guitar Center and got it some new strings, had it cleaned and tuned, and the tech couldn't believe someone had thrown it away. Gareth cabbaged onto it and has managed to pick out the first couple of lines of the Skwisgaar's tutorial from the DVD we have. Well, he didn't sign up for band this year, but maybe we should get guitar lessons instead. Maybe when he gets his grades up. He tells me now he'd rather teach himself. Arrogant pre-teen. Skwisgaar you're not. ;p Ah, what do I know? Neil Finn is my musical genius.

We don't have an amp for him yet,and the pickup on the camera is not very strong, so it's very soft. He's only been fiddling around with the guitar for a month or two...I'm actually kind of impressed he's done this on his own.

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[miss-geek.livejournal.com]

They bought that house from one of my mom's high school friends. I used to go swimming there in the summers when I was a kid. Small world, no?

I mean, unless there is another rock star living in that area. Which I suppose isn't totally out of the question...

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Hmm, this was one of those tear down/rebuild jobs, and I don't think the prior house there had a pool - at least I don't remember any pool sounds coming from behind the big white fence that was around the whole property. There's one there now, but it was only put in recently.

This whole neighborhood has gotten so damn "prestigeous" (as the real estate fliers that get shoved through my mail slot say) I guess they aren't bothering with the gated communities anymore. Considering the city manager of Bell lived two blocks away as well, I guess I wouldn't be surprised if more than one well-known performer lived in this neighborhood too.

[miss-geek.livejournal.com]

Yeah, who knows. There was a big fence around this place, and there probably haven't been any actual pool sounds for at least 10 years. But I do know of at least two other rock stars in the area, now that I think back to Dasan's school friends from back when we were still living in the area.

I guess HB is where rock stars go to raise families...

[tikific.livejournal.com]

That's so cute - a mini-Skwisgaar, and he's ALREADY ARROGANT! :D

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Heh, the t-shirt a couple of posts ago should have warned me. He even had long blonde hair at one time - but not since he was about three.

And so much for the Paper Jamz guitar he so desperately wanted for Christmas. It only plays chords, so it's been abandoned in the corner.