Learn To Play Guitar Course

Click For More On Learn To Play Guitar Course!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

A Christmas Banjo Gift

By Walker Hayes

I'm sure that you have searched for a banjo in combination with Christmas or you wouldn't have come to this page. I'm also relatively sure that the need for a Christmas gift fits in here somewhere too. Connect all that together and we come up with a banjo Christmas gift. Okay. Now, consider this. Rearrange a banjo Christmas gift a little, and what do we get? A Christmas Banjo gift. I wanted to post an article about a Christmas Banjo gift. Do you see how this works?

Are you reading this well ahead of Christmas? Uh oh. Maybe not. If not, that probably means that the phrase, stuck at Christmas without a gift, means something to you. Whether you're here late or early, either way, read this, and you may get ideas about how to become a hero in the Christmas gift category. To work that out, let me ask a simple question. Do you have any idea about what price you can pay for a banjo? Or have you thought about what kind of banjo? Sorry, that's two questions. In one question, do you have any ideas about what price or what kind of banjo?

To really answer that question may require a brief encounter with Virginia Woolf or James Joyce. Say what? These two authors wrote in a unique style that often amounted to no style at all. It's officially referred to as stream of consciousness writing, that is to say they would come up with a subject and write for hours on end recording whatever came into their minds, forgetting about order, grammar, spelling, or sense. Oh, they did some rewriting, but, even with that, a lot of what they wrote is difficult to comprehend. And that's the key. Each of them understood fully what they were saying, even if the common reader could make no sense of it at all. If that sounds like gobbledygook to you, please don't click away yet, just bear with me for a moment.

The idea is to use your very own stream of consciousness. Even if it's a tainted stream, as it is with me, let's try it anyway. The rule is to let your imagination run wild. Try to listen for things you might overhear in your mind then write them down without any additional thought. That's another way to define "stream of consciousness". The following paragraph is an example from my own muddy stream using our subject Christmas banjo:

Christmas, don't know, what can I get, well playing, tie a yellow ribbon, red ribbon, rags to riches, yellow and black, good gift, great gift, guitar, banjo, what am I doing, who cares, late working, belated, better, brother in law, never, tide that binds, working late, hero, come unto me, do it, don't do it, do it all, my way, I did it my way, again for my in law, brother, sister, yourself, do it yourself, late working, banjo, banjo Christmas, Christmas banjo, Xmas banjo, never, not me, same thing, no, late wrapping, good gift, who cares, drum, metal, metal drummer, drummer boy, little, wood, wooden, little drummer, fife and guitar, banjo, how to play, who plays, too late, makes no sense, same thing, always, never, he already played, hate the sound of, no, make my own, make my day, daytime, economic downturn, family, family project, yes, no, staycation, lost our way, some trip, we're together, diy, do it yourself, for me and my family, for me and my shadow.

This is just so much nonsense, you say. Well, that is just as intended, or better than just as intended, just as expected. Sorry, I must remember that the crazy paragraph above is just an example, not the way I'm trying to write. To make sense again, let me suggest that you try this yourself on the subject of Christmas banjo. You can use any subject for that matter, but, since we are considering banjos . . . Using this procedure may provide insight into your inner mind. Often one is shocked at the revealing messages that are sometimes just below one's surface self. A very revealing ah-ha moment may jump out at you. It may give you a way to determine a unique, great, and perfect Christmas gift, whether you're somewhat stuck at Christmas without a gift or you are shopping early. Good luck to you. - 18780

About the Author:

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home