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world cup and guitars with an update

June 9th, 2006 | sport, music, site update

The first match of the 2006 World Cup just finished with Germany beating Costa Rica 4-2. Hopefully the USA will have a good Cup and make it out of the group stages. If the US has a good Cup run it could help the growth of football/soccer/whatever in the US. Hell, maybe the MLS would even be taken seriously…maybe I’d even take the MLS seriously.

The ESPN/ABC family has taken a big leap for the Cup and will be showing every single match live. That takes a huge effort and surely the World Cup won’t get the best of TV ratings, so well done to ESPN/ABC for taking the plunge and showing all the games! Put that along with Yahoo teaming up with FIFA to put together the official World Cup website, and there’s coverage like never before.

In other babble I’m currently on a gear binge for guitar equipment. Somehow when it comes to musical instruments/equipment, no matter how much stuff I have I always want more. Currently I have my heart set on a new Hagstrom Super Swede, Swede, or Viking. Hagstrom is an old company that was just recently revived and is once again making guitars. Along with the Hagstrom I’m still looking at a Gibson ES-335, which is a small fortune alone, as well as a DiPinto and a Rickenbacker 360. Aside from guitars there are about 20 combo amps I’m comparing hoping to find the single best one and there’s a list a mile long of fun effects pedals I want. Now if I could only justify buying more stuff…

Finally, there very well may be a new look to the site soon. I’ve decided I like the overall design, but the colors just aren’t up to my liking…they just don’t gel with each other. I dunno. Hopefully the background color 151515 will work with a few other tweaked graphic colors. Speaking of the link, I’m nearly ready to pull the trigger on that purchase as well, and thanks to someone pointing out a current promo/rebate, I might even get a free Nano, or a reduced price 60GB, ipod with it.

2 Comments

  1. PDF
    June 9th, 2006 at 8:09 pm

    I didn’t realize you were a student or teacher…

  2. majafa
    June 10th, 2006 at 3:33 am

    I know both students and teachers…plus I believe it extends to school board committee members and such. Someone would probably help me out.

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