I Hate Him
If you haven’t heard of Sungha Jung, I have just enriched your lives. Unless you are a guitarist.
Yeah, but can he dance?
He’s eleven. He turned eleven in September. He started playing when he was nine, he practices about an hour or two a day. Please, please let this be a wind-up. Make him be 42 with a growth hormone disorder and ample free time.
Please let me find a shred of evidence among his other videos.
Seriously, no, I am happy for him.
A Whiter Shade Of Pale is one of those songs where the words do the word thing in my head and get mixed up. I get the verses muddled and then try and do the rhyme anyway. I keep digging.
One of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast.
When we called out for another drink,
the waiter brought us toast.
I hope your Christmas was a good one, and you’re enjoying some time off if you have it.
December 26th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Child prodigies are both amazing and envy inducing.
When I was 11, all I cared about were Hot Wheels.
December 26th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
When I was 11, all I cared about were Wagon Wheels.
Which, by the way, now have some sort of jam in them. Can that possibly be right? I don’t think so.
December 26th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
I had been playing guitar for 5 years by the time I was 11. This kid shames me.
Let’s shoot him.
December 26th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Hal - They are, but usually, they are all technique and no soul, and I always look for evidence of that when someone so young is really good. But I think this guy is really feeling it. There’s a moment from 1′10′’ to 1′25′’ that says there’s something going on in the heart.
Katy - When I was 11 I was allergic to chocolate and wanted to be Pete Rose.
Ed - I didn’t start playing guitar until I was 17. I bet he has a blog as well. A really good one.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Let’s take him out back and break his fingers. That’ll take care of him.
December 27th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Yeah, but does he have any friends?
December 28th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
What if you have no friends and can’t even play the guitar really well at 11 years old? That’s even worse.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I say kill him. Otherwise he’ll be around lording his superiority over us for the rest of our lives, like Danny Bonaduce and Daniel Radcliffe and Oprah Winfrey. [Yes, Oprah Winfrey — I’m old; I have a lot of lorders out there.]
And, no, Winfrey doesn’t play guitar; that’s not what I mean. But then I’m not sure that it is known that Charlie Hustle eats a lot of chocolate.
December 30th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Charley Hustle, Tom - that’s a name I haven’t heard it twenty two years. he was probably endorsed by local industrial confectioners Hershey.
I have no friends now and I’m not much of a guitarist.
Only joking - do the self-affacing thing. Of course, I’m an excellent guitar player.