backasswards

I'm up early, though I was up late practicing w/ Lo Fine. Up early because the kittens have a 9 am vet appt for their follow up vaccinations. They're still too young and adventurous to realize that the cat carrier (to the adult cat, a sign to scratch its owner then run and hide in a 3 inch crawl space and never come out) isn't a really fun place to be. I take it out, open it and they go running in. Yipee! Weird.
BUT not as weird as the fact that Niko, the 13 week old male who gets bigger every day, plays the popular DOG game, Fetch. Throw the bouncy rubber ball, he chases it, puts it in his mouth, and brings it back, dropping it at your feet.
Unlike a dog, and more like, say, me, he gets bored after about 4 fetches and, yeah, that should be enough for now. Let's move on.

So, the title of this post refers to a story on NPR's weekend edition about people who play guitar like me. Lefty on a right handed guitar. I knew Dick Dale did it (and thought, well, that's cool, but isn't he just like one stringed solos and melodies?), but learned also that Albert King's made himself a blues legend playing upsidedown (and I thought, ok, if I practiced, I could play blues solos, but that's not really my objective either) HOWEVER, then they mentioned a woman named something (Joephine?) Cotton, who FINGERPICKED upside down. And in fact she in part invented the fingerpicking style which was picked up by correct-style players and became a common method.
Now THAT interests me, because I thought that was impossible to fingerpick upside down.
Well, maybe it is for me.
Makes me realize I haven't exhausted the possibilities of my weirdass style of playing guitar.
Listen to the story
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6536162
see you later.