{"id":3850,"date":"2013-05-03T11:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:53:14","slug":"pinky-fingers-sounds-like-a-pickpocket-pianist-from-the-jazz-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/pinky-fingers-sounds-like-a-pickpocket-pianist-from-the-jazz-age\/","title":{"rendered":"pinky fingers sounds like a pickpocket pianist from the jazz age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently whether you can be a great violinist resides in large part in your left pinky finger<\/a>. I mean, it’s the kind of thing that makes more sense once you read it, but who knew? I wonder how many serious violinists and fiddlers can’t do that. I’ve always had a large amount of “yeah? go fuck yourself” to “you can’t do that,” so I wonder whether this is one of those brick walls I’d throw myself against.<\/p>\n

Tho’ not literally, because I have that left pinky finger property. Which clearly in and of itself does not make you a great violinist, because “Doctor, will I be able to play fiddle once the cast comes off?\/Yes, yes, you’ll be fine!\/That’s weird, I couldn’t play the fiddle before!” I guess you have to study and practice and stuff. But I do have the viLOLin – the $36 violin I picked up at a pawn – and I do want to learn to play sometime.<\/p>\n

But that’s the thing, isn’t it? Too many pieces, too many parts, too many things to learn in not enough time. For me, it’s a bunch of music things, and languages. Now there’s<\/em> a brick wall I throw myself against – I’m great at grammars, my accents are too<\/em> good (in that people assume I’m fluent or even native-speaker and firehose at me), but I can’t learn vocabulary to save my life. As in, I’m so bad at it, my secondary school let me out of the language requirement, as long as I just kept trying.<\/p>\n

Really, that’s what I need the brain enhancement for: memorisation. Particularly of language vocabulary, but not just that. If I could stick a chip in my brain and fix that? SIGN ME THE FUCK UP.<\/p>\n

Should that be a poll? “What enhancement would get you to try it?” That might be fun. Suggestions in comments, if you got ’em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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