"Steadier Footing" by Death Cab for Cutie
Transcribed by Tony Duckles
Last Modified: Jun 2, 2007
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Tuning: Normal
Verses:
"It's gotten late and now I want to be alone..."
(B) (G#m) (E) (B)
e|---------------------------|
b|-------------(0)-----------|
g|--8-----4-----1-----8-----.|
d|--9-----4-----2-----9-----.|
a|---------------------------|
e|--7-----4-----0-----7------|
Pre-Chorus:
"And here I sit on the front porch..."
(D#) (E) (C#m) (Em)
e|---------------------------|
b|--4-----5-----5-----8------|
g|--3-----4-----6-----9-----.|
d|--------------------------.|
a|--6-----7-----4-----7------|
e|---------------------------|
Chorus:
"The people we have met in the last five years..."
e|----------------------------------------|
b|--------4-----------4-------------------|
g|--------------------------------6--4---.|
d|-----6-----------6-----------4---------.|
a|--4--------4--7--------7----------------|
e|--------------------------7-------------|
Yes, somewhere along the line…I became a geek. I started using multiple computers, not just between home/work/school/etc., but even multiple computers at home. (Though, I mainly use my MacBook for all my casual web-surfing needs these days at home…) I was always annoyed by having different bookmarks on the different computers I used, which meant frustration when I had to remember which computer I bookmarked that useful such-and-such on. I wanted a way to have a centralized webpage for my bookmarks and hence could access from wherever I was. So, inspired by an entry on 24ways.org, I created one. It was my little pet project, and it was good…
Then I found out that someone else had already done the same thing and they had done it better. Enter del.icio.us. (Ooh, the pretty pretty tag-clouds! Yes, my tag-cloud is quite delicious indeed…) Tags are such a simple concept, but oh-so effective. It just makes so much sense to have a webapp where you save bookmarks and can assign arbitrary tags to each entry. del.icio.us then makes it very easy to navigate around your list of links by tags, even providing nifty “easy” URLs like http://del.icio.us/tduckles/madison, which shows me everything I’ve tagged with “madison”.
Even better, people out there have written even slicker tools to access and navigate around your del.icio.us bookmarks. John Vey wrote this amazingly cool tool called del.icio.us direc.tor. In it’s native form, it’s meant to be a bookmarklet which you use at api.del.icio.us after you’ve done all your HTTP-Auth stuff, so that the JavaScript code doesn’t need to worry about auth when trying to access your bookmarks.
Not only is this a uber-slick UI for navigating around your tag-tree and for quickly finding a link based on (real-time!) searching, but the page itself also goes into the design and architecture of direc.tor. This was a really fascinating read for me, from a web-dev perspective. What really blew my mind about this is the whole concept of using AJAX methods to grab the del.icio.us XML DOM, and then use XSLT and XPath features which are built-in to most modern browsers to do all the searching in real-time on the client-side. So, really, the whole bottom pane of direc.tor is the output of an XSTL on the del.icio.us XML DOM of your bookmarks. I had never realized that you could do XSLT and XPath operations via Javascript before. This was a watershed moment for me, because a whole new perspective on web-development opened up for me: you could use XMLHttpRequest to grab an XML document, and then use Javascript to do an XSLT to transform that XML data into HTML or whatever presentation-layer you wanted. In the past, I had always only thought of AJAX calls returning some chunk of HTML which you could then insert somewhere into the document DOM.
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I don’t know about you, but I remember playing a fair amount of Street Fighter 2 back in the day. College Humor is running this hilarious series, looking into the lives of the Street Fighter combatants…10 years later. *insert suspenseful music here!*
http://www.collegehumor.com/tag:streetfighterthelateryears
"Gravity" by John Mayer
Transcribed by Tony Duckles
Last Modified: Nov 23, 2006
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Tuning: Normal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-urpryE_Ws0
Verses:
"Gravity is working against me..."
(G) (C)
e|----------------|
b|--3-----(8)-----|
g|--4------5-----.|
d|---------5-----.|
a|---------7------|
e|--3-------------|
(T)
Chorus:
"I'll never know what makes this man..."
(Am7) (D7) (A#6) (D#maj9) (D7)
e|--5---------------------------------|
b|--8------7------8------6------7-----|
g|--5------5------7------7------5-----|
d|--7------4------8------5------4-----|
a|---------5-------------6------5-----|
e|--5-------------6-------------------|
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Tagged johnmayer
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"Stars" by The Gufs
Transcribed by Tony Duckles
Last Modified: Oct 29, 2006
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Tuning: Normal
Capo: 2nd fret
(All fret-positions are relative to the capo @ 2nd fret...)
Intro: (Piano arranged for guitar)
(F#) (G#m)
e|-------4-------------------------4---------------------
b|-----------5-------------7-----------5-------------7---
g|-----4------------4------------4------------4----------
d|---------------------------4---------------------------
a|-7-----------------------------------------------------
e|-------------------------------------------------------
(B) (F#)
e -------4-------------------------4---------------------|
b -----------5-------------7-----------5-------------5---|
g -----4------------4------------4------------4---------.|
d ------------------------------------------------------.|
a ---------------------------7---------------------------|
e -5-----------------------------------------------------|
(T)
Verses:
"Two o'clock on a Friday morning..."
F# G#m B F#
e|-0-----0-----0-----0-----|
b|-0-----0-----0-----0-----|
g|-1-----2-----2-----1-----|
d|-2-----4-----2-----2-----|
a|-2-----4-----0-----2-----|
e|-0-----------------0-----|
Pre-Chorus:
"If time would just stand still..."
G#m B G#m C#
e|-0-----0-----0-----0-----|
b|-0-----0-----0-----0-----|
g|-2-----2-----2-----4-----|
d|-4-----2-----4-----4-----|
a|-4-----0-----4-----2-----|
e|-------------------------|
Chorus:
"All my life I've waiting for one love..."
B F# D#m C#
e|-0-----0-----0-----0-----|
b|-0-----0-----0-----0-----|
g|-2-----1-----6-----4-----|
d|-2-----2-----6-----4-----|
a|-0-----2-----4-----2-----|
e|-------0-----------------|
Bridge:
"Have we made it through the dark? ..."
G#m B F# C# G#m F#
e|-0-----0-----0-----0-----0----------(0)----|
b|-0-----0-----0-----0-----0----------(0)----|
g|-2-----2-----1-----4-----2----------(1)----|
d|-4-----2-----2-----4-----4-----------2-----|
a|-4-----0-----2-----2-----4-----------2-----|
e|-------------0-----------------------0-----|
Ending:
D# C# B
e|-0-----0-----0-----|
b|-0-----0-----0-----|
g|-6-----4-----2-----|
d|-6-----4-----2-----|
a|-4-----2-----0-----|
e|-------------------|
(Intro)
(Verses) 2 o'clock on a Friday morning
heard a voice, thought I heard the phone ring
I was hoping it was you
Looked outside and saw it raining
I saw a face then it started fading
slowly into view
(Pre-Chorus) If time could just stand still
I wouldn't let you walk away
I'd find the words I meant to say
(Chorus) All my life I've waited for one love
that I can fall into
And every line of every song I hear
reminds me of when I first saw you
When I saw...
(Verses) ...stars.
When I saw stars...
I saw stars...
There were days that I watched you sleeping
I wondereed what you were dreaming
I hope you know you're not alone
(Pre-Chorus) If time could just stand still
I wouldn't let you walk away
I'd find the words to make you stay
(Chorus) All my life I've waited for one love
that I can fall into
And every line of every song I hear
reminds me about you
All my life I've waited for one love
that I can fall into
And every line of every song I hear
reminds me of when I first saw you
When I saw...
(Verses) ...stars.
When I saw stars...
I saw stars...
(Bridge) Have we made it through the dark?
Are we in recovery?
Will my broken heart start to beat?
It's not a mystery...what you do to me...
(Chorus) All my life I've waited for one love
that I can fall into
And every line of every song I hear
reminds me about you
All my life I've waited for one love
that I can fall into
And every line of every song I hear
reminds me about you
When I saw stars...
When I saw stars...
When I saw stars...
(Ending)
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I finally succumbed to recommendations of friends and picked-up the Firefly TV series on DVD…and it definitely didn’t fail to impress. It’s the best sci-fi show I’ve seen in a long time. It reminds me of ST:TNG in some ways, in so much as it’s very character-driven, with engaging characters who are developed very nicely. I would certainly recommend it to any sci-fi fans who haven’t had a chance to see it yet.
The fan community for Firefly seems to be alive and strong, and it looks like a fan-compiled Firefly documentary is on the verge of being released. I’m still debating picking it up… I know I can get fanatical about some things, but I’m not sure if I’m too that point with Firefly yet. I certainly wish that the TV series hadn’t been cancel mid-1st-season.
http://www.donetheimpossible.com/
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"Spotlight" by Dave Matthews
From the Solo Acoustic Show 09/11/92 - DKE House at Univ of Virginia
Transcribed by Tony Duckles
Last Modified: Aug 24, 2002
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Tuning: Normal
Capo: None
INTRO\PRE-VERSES
In the spotlight life is so peachy yeah yeah yeah yeah
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|---------------6----------------------------1---------x---------|
|-7-------------7-----------------4----------2---------2---------|
|-8-------------7-----------------5----------2---------3---------|
|-8-------------5-----------------5----------0---------3---------|
|-6-------------------------------3--------------------1---------|
Wouldn't you like to retire with a million
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|----------------------6-------------------------1---------------|
|-7--------------------7--------------4----------2---------------|
|-8--------------------7--------------5----------2---------------|
|-8--------------------5--------------5----------0---------------|
|-6-----------------------------------3--------------------------|
1ST VERSE LEAD-IN:
|----------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------|
|-2--------------------------------------------------------------|
|-3--------------------------------------------------------------|
|-3--------------------------------------------------------------|
|-1--------------------------------------------------------------|
VERSES:
A million beating hearts . . .
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|----------------------------------------------------------------|
|-2------------------5-----------------------------------------*-|
|-3------------------7-----------------------------------------*-|
|-3------------------7-------------------------------------------|
|-1------------------5-------------------------------------------|
CHORUS:
Big city Black city rising up around me steal my soul away . . .
|-0----------------0---------------0---------------------------------------|
|-1---------3------1-----------3---3------------8----------------------3---|
|-2---------0------2-----------0---2------------x-------------------7--0---|
|-2---------0------2-----------0---0------------x-----------------5----0---|
|-0---------2------0-----------2----------------7-------------3-0------2---|
|-----------3------------------3---------------------------------------3---|
POST-CHORUS:
But all out in the world the night it crawls it falls much harder . . .
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|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----3---------------------------------7---------------5-----------|
|----x---------------------------------3---------------2-----------|
|----1---------------------------------5---------------3-----------|
|----3-------------------------------------------------------------|
Lyrics:
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In the Spotlight life is so peachy yeah, yeah, yeah
Wouldn't you like to retire with a million?
A million beating hearts
Behind brick and cold steel piping
Fighting for the top
Fighting for the room to breathe
Bench parks sleepers lie
Cold blanket bedless babies
Here this must stop
I cannot stay
Damn you, big city, black city
Rising up around me, steal my soul away
Big city, black city
Rise and take me over, steal my soul away
But all out in this world
The night it crawls it falls much harder than i recall
Out in this world
A siren calls from every corner
In the Spotlight life is so peachy, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
All of us in the Spotlight for a reason, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Caught for stealing somebody's riches, no, no, no, no
Wouldn't you like to retire with a million bucks?
Yeah
Came here from a small town
I see my dreams here in the big city
Sour dissapointment
I cannot stay
Damn you, big city, black city
Rising up around me, steal my soul away
Big city, black city
Rise and take me over, steal my soul away
But all out in this world
The night it crawls it falls much harder than i recall
Out in this world
A siren calls from every corner
In the Spotlight life is so peachy, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
All of us in the spotlight for a reason, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Caught for stealing somebody's riches, no, no, no, no
Wouldn't you like to retire with a million bucks
Yeah...
