A suggestion, if I may: Don't ever force yourself to practice guitar. That's boring. Whenever you can, play guitar. That's fun. Don't practice scales, play scales.
Good luck.
Rock on.
Posts by Tom Traub
“Ghost notes”
Lotta good stuff here, but Jeff Goldblum was out-of-place, imho.
"You don't photograph the thing, you photograph the light on the thing."
“Goodbye Girl”
“Considering Her Options”
“Red skies at night”
“Goddess of Wine: Harvest Festival”
“Apple”
To be fair, her job was having sex with people she barely knew.
“Sir, you don’t speak for me.”
“The speaker has the floor”
You might try playing with a slide on your left ring finger. Good luck!
“Sailfin Molly”
“Break-up scene”
“The world moves on a woman’s hips”
“Spike”
"If I die, I'm sorry for all the terrible things I did to you. And if I live, I'm sorry for all the terrible things I'm going to do to you."
That has always been part of who we are, true, but it's never been the whole story.
“James”
And boy was Jodie Foster impressed!
He doesn't care about us enough to hate us. He doesn't think about us at all.
Yet another reason to skip everything before chapter one, page one.
“Blocky the Bear”
“Mona Lisa’s high school graduation photo”
“Exit: Stage Left”
“Take the money and run”
“But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter”
“Ozzy sees the War Pigs”
can't imagine how you'd think that could be relevant today...