I mention this because it’s rare. I’m strictly a one-click purchaser on iTunes. Want to buy me a gift? One of those iTunes gift cards will do nicely.<\/p>\n
However, I had lunch at Tres Amigos at the intersection of 290 and 183 and as we sat down for our traditional fajitas, I noticed a guitar nearby, leaning up against a few speakers. I sighed. I’m not a big fan of live entertainment at a restaurant. I like sitting and talking, and far too often, especially in Austin, a place has booked a live band of some kind. Sometimes I bring earplugs to a place if I fear I’m likely to be entertained<\/span>. (I hate TV’s in restaurants too, but that’s a different rant.)<\/p>\n But as we waited for our order to arrive, a guy sat down, picked up the Takamine G Series Acoustic Electric Classical Guitar and with no announcement or anything, just began strumming. Most of the pieces Buzz Guerra played were old standards, like Misty<\/span> or If You Could Read My Mind<\/span>, but done with complex strumming and arranged so that I just enjoyed the music, and only when well into the piece, could I recognize the name of the song.<\/p>\n The sound was comfortable. Mary Ann and I ate and talked world politics (tribalization problems mainly) and were never unpleasantly distracted. I greatly enjoyed the meal, and walked over to his little table with CD’s, a business card and a tip jar. As the meal wound down, I visited his website on my iPhone and begged Mary Ann for cash to pick up his CD’s. His playing and instrumental arrangements, I knew, would be perfect background as I wrote.<\/p>\n I mention this because it’s rare. I’m strictly a one-click purchaser on iTunes. Want to buy me a gift? One of those iTunes gift cards will do nicely. However, I had lunch at Tres Amigos at the intersection of 290 and 183 and as we sat down for our traditional fajitas, I noticed a guitar… Continue reading I Bought 2 CD’s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-GP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2656,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}