New blog!

Hello hello,

Welcome to my blog!  I figured that it's a good time to start blogging, since college starts in less than two weeks.  Damn.  College starts in less than two weeks.  It's getting scary how fast time passes.
My most productive use of this blog will probably be the answering of questions I get on YouTube that I either don't feel like typing in a tiny message box, or that I feel is good stuff for the public.  My Facebook page is okay for specific questions that I can answer in a few lines, but otherwise... :\
So feel free to comment with questions or things that you want to discuss.  I'm not sure how many of the YouTube folks will follow this blog, so it might end up being very bland and empty.

I'll also post about random musings and adventures and photos and whatnot.  That'll be pretty fun!
As for the blog title, I've been on a bit of a Beatles craze lately.  I'm ashamed to admit that I had never really listened to their music before this summer.  Sure, I knew the classics like "Yesterday" and "Yellow Submarine," but beyond that, not much.  Deprived childhood, right?  My first foray into the Beatles was last fall, when I arranged "Here Comes the Sun" for a performance with a few friends for my school's board of trustees.  And now I've bought their entire discography, and am watching the Anthology dvd set.  There's something magical about their music.  I don't think it's the lyrics.  The melodies are infectiously happy, and are so perfectly tied to the harmony that you really can't tell them apart at times.  Listen to "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and try to sing it without the harmony.  And their chord sequences are pretty incredible, like in "Penny Lane."  "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is amazing in this regard.  George Harrison was brilliant.
And so, I've been learning a bunch of Beatles fingerstyle arrangements, and working on some of my own.  If you haven't seen this video, by the way, please watch it now.

That's what happens when two string masters get together. 
And trust me, it is so much better live.

Aaand I'm rambling.  Wow.  I'd planned to only write, "I got the blog title from a great Beatles song that I'm currently learning."  See, this is why Tumblr shouldn't be considered "blogging."  Tumblr is about throwing up cool pictures or links, one at a time, for your followers to see and hopefully reblog.  "Tumbling" is, in essence, showing off bumper stickers.  It's not geared for writing long posts, and you can't embed more than one picture or video per post.  A good blogging platform should inspire rambling.  Hell, Tumbling isn't even a satisfying verb.  Coming up with a catchy name is a necessity for any successful internet venture.  That's why Skype is much more popular than Oovoo, right?  "I'm going to oovoo you tonight" just doesn't work.

I'm done.  Future posts will be more cohesive, I promise!