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My fingers are killing me. Seriously, playing mandolin as I have been trying to do for the past few days is way harder on the fingertips than guitar strings and I feel almost like chopping my hand off.

It sounds fucking awful when I play, too... but if I don't do that, I'll never get any better. I just hope that the pain goes away enough to continue some more tomorrow... I've had this idea of getting Londonderry Air down properly so I can go play it for my gran. I'd have to wait for the weather to improve, but I think it would be a nice idea.

What else? I watched The Producers movie-of-the-musical-of-the-movie-about-a-musical which was passable. I haven't seen all of the old one, so it's not like I had that weight on my expectations. Nice to see John Barrowman as an Aryan Nazi... although even now after De-Lovely and Doctor Who and everything else, my first instinct when I see him is: Live and Kicking!

I'm now in the process of trying to watch that one called Brokeback Mountain, which I also rented today. I hear it was quite successful. I don't know if I'll like it, not cos of Teh Gay but cos I have no concentration at the moment, and I'll probably turn off at the first tracking shot of mountains. Ah well, let's see what happens...

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Mandolin players amaze me. My dad recently bought a bluegrass documentary from PBS, and on it there was this duet between Chris Thile (from Nickel Creek) and Jerry Douglas that was absolutely beautiful. They make playing mandolin and dobro look so easy. I have a hard enough time with guitar, much less either of their instruments.

Good luck with the playing. When you get better, I'd love for you to put up a song so we can hear you play :)