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title: "I've got blisters on my fingers!"
author: George Mandis <george@mand.is>
date: 2014-02-26
tags: post, post, guitar, gross, short
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<p>I've played guitar for nearly 20 years. Haven't had a blister this good since I was learning how to play, and definitely not one that filled with blood like that.</p>
<p><a href="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/georgemandis/media/20140226-130741.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-436" alt="20140226-130741.jpg" src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/georgemandis/media/20140226-130741-768x1024.jpg" width="768" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p>The watery blister part subsided, but the blood darkened. It looks like I dipped my pointer finger in ink or something.</p>
<p><a href="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/georgemandis/media/20140226-130816.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-437" alt="20140226-130816.jpg" src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/georgemandis/media/20140226-130816-768x1024.jpg" width="768" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p>I think this is perhaps karmic retribution for the new song I was working on with <a href="http://inkyshado.ws">Inky Shadows</a>. Today I realized it's a far too obvious, though genuinely subconscious rip of the beginning part of Goran Ivanovic's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Svatbarska-Racenica/dp/B000QLMHQ8?tag=snapwebl-20">Svatbarska Racenica</a>. A song that everyone would immediately recognize, I'm sure.</p>
<p>Fair enough fate. I'll rewrite it.</p>