phaha, nooo.

[maskitheclown]

World is full of fandoms in which you can write "beautiful fingers" and mean -clean, manicured, soft- y'know, 'beautiful' like the moon reflecting in the water is 'beautiful'.
Bandom is just not one of them. :) And I mean that with like, all the love in the world. Musician-fingers are freaky. They are broken and spread out and peeled and splinted and wounded and bleedy and callused. 
The one time I tried playing the guitar and my friend pressed my finger on the neck so it was actually strong enough I flipped in my head - There's a wire under my finger! OMG THERE'S A WIRE UNDER MY FINGER STOP PRESSING! 
But I'm cool so all I said was "Hm, I don't think this is for me." 
Piano went somewhat better, and I was pretty frikkin good at it, but then we got to the part were I was like:
"Yeah, my pinky can't do that."
"Sure it can, you just have to..."
"Nooo."
"But if you just..."
"Nuh-huh."
"Your fingers will..."
"HURT. FOREVER. OMG SHUTTUP NO."

Don't get me wrong. Their fingers ARE ~beautiful. But they are beautiful because of what they do, not because of what they look like. 

Two pics under the cut, one seriously GIGANTIC, to prove my point. 

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OMG LOOK AT HIS (right hand index) FINGER! HE LOOKS LIKE HE HAS TWO THUMBS. Ouch ouch ouch! The only way my fingers could do that would be if I broke them and then made sure they healed wrongly and maybe not even then! How is he not crying? 

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Snagged from bunniewabbit .

These two look like they spent the day digging out potatoes. I should know, because I actually did that. 

Comments

[afterxbirth.livejournal.com]

i love how people never mention that guitar playing actually hurts a lot.

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

I looked at my friend's calluses and cringed all the time :( Fuck that is nasty :( And painful. Even when her skin hardened... still ouch ouch ouch

[afterxbirth.livejournal.com]

is worth it in the end though :P.

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

I know :) Just like... here, have some lotion or I will cry ;/ And she wasn't even bummed about it, it was like, badges of honor :)

[afterxbirth.livejournal.com]

totally. i hope my fingers will be all gross like that someday, lol.

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

haha I hope they will too! :)

[afterxbirth.livejournal.com]

i only wish i didn't have such tiny fingers :(. or that the spaces on the fret weren't so far appart. i know that they make guitars that are lighter and smaller and have smaller fret spacing and shit just for girs, but i'm stubborn and i refuse to have a girly guitar <.<.

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

See, that's why you need to grow those awkward fingers with a lot of space between them like Brendon.

[afterxbirth.livejournal.com]

yeah, i'll get right on that :P.

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

*g* you should ask him how he got his :D Or ask Ryan how he gets his joints to bend backwards.

[afterxbirth.livejournal.com]

ryan was born with freaky fingers, i don't think that's something that can be learned sadly.

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

hehe... I love his freaky fingers...

[afterxbirth.livejournal.com]

completely random, but dude. i just had a terrible thought. what if bob left because he can't play anymore? because of his wrists?

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

Brian said it's not true :)

[afterxbirth.livejournal.com]

he did? i'm not following him so i've missed that... lol.

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

he said some wonderful things :) But, ok, I saw someone mention that Brian said it wasn't Bob's wrists so I went to look and this is what I found:
@mizu0810 supposing I did I would not talk about it. I do believe they are okay. Well enough to twist the throttle on his motorbike. Vrooom

[afterxbirth.livejournal.com]

bob's motorbike... *dreamy sigh*
uhm, i mean... i'm happy he's still able to play. because if not, that would be TERRIBLE.
also, this made me laugh http://i27.tinypic.com/5zo8ih.png

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

I know right! *cuddles him*
I'm kinda going through his tweets now collecting all the stuff I notice refer to Bob or MCR. I mean, I'm bitter, but he's WHOA bitter :) It kinda suits my mood :)
Like:
Trey_Wilson: @iamjustbrian do you still manage My chemical Romance ??
Brian: @Trey_Wilson nope. And we don't talk about them here either or we get blocked. Capiche?

Hee, I remember seeing that, it's so cool :D

[afterxbirth.livejournal.com]

ouch... that no sound good...

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

Yep, and check this out, Bob's friend, when asked if he would take Bob's place in the band: No. Even if it did I was Bob's friend before I worked for him. I wouldn't do that to him.

[afterxbirth.livejournal.com]

DDDD:

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

In fact, I'm in total love with Brian because of how he's handling this and the things he's saying :)

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

i have to tell you that i'm lol-ing at you. :D

i have muso hands but ALSO i already had funny fingers, and my thumbs bend all wonky ANYWAY. :D

[maskitheclown.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's ok, my friend did too :D

:D Maybe there's a connection between funny fingers and musicians? :)

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

hee! maybe!