there was once a guitarist named DJANGO REINHARDT. he made records from the twenties until some time in the fifties. The guy was a geius. after playing guitar about twenty years or something myself, everytime i hear that guys play i feel like im a six year old kid sittin on the tippy top of a picininc table eating an ice cream cone as big as me on a hot summer day. Get it? i REALLY dig Django.

Django was a gypsy in europe. he grew up in a "traveling band of gypsies". i dont know much abut that aside form the usual "dark wine drinkin' seducin' violin playin'"" stereotpyes of hollywood. I know they were looked down upon, and that the nazis tried to killem off- so thats the extent of my knowledge of gypsies. ya ya, im not that bright.

django started out on violin and later switched to banjo. then guitar. when he was nineteen or something, he was sleepin in one of those gypsy wagon things and it caught fire. it burned him up pretty good. he ended up in the hospital for two years.

i thought about that for a while. there was no television back then. the guy was illitrate, and not much in the way of radio. sittin around in that hospital, bored to tears. he could, of course, play guitar....thereby forcing him to play ungodly amounts.

he of course, at this point, he only had use of two (and a half sort of) fingers. he was therefore required to learn to play in an entirely different manner. through this, he managed to create a technique unseen before by man.(chipminks, on the other hand,had been doing it for years.}

this brilliant guitaristry (yes a new word) made the guy famous, and probably rich but who knows. at any rate eighty something years later, there are millions {or at least thousands} of fans. In fact, the nazis wanted to whack him, but he was so renowned they let him keep playing.

so as a result of a horrible fire, burning, ect. the guy became a brilliant guitarist. oh, and saved him from the nazis. that too.

so there's somethin' to think about. it made me realize that mostly i am incapable of looking at the REALLY big picture. i could never understand the mind of god.