Eternally fighting, but carried side by side

I'm making steady progress on the guitar after nearly two weeks at it, and can play a significant amount of Iron Maiden's worst song, The Angel and the Gambler (which Steve Harris must have written to make up for some sort of A-chord deficiency). Watcher in the Sky was also quite simple once I realized that I was playing it from the wrong end. In fact, a lot of things that you'd think to be very difficult are actually reasonably easy once you've tied your fingers into the right knot, but currently I'm stuck on attempting the B minor chord, which is like a miniature version of Twister.

I'm also surprised that after however many years of its existence nobody has invented a way to denote rhythm in tablature yet - that's a pretty major deficiency for a musical notation. As it is, most writers of the ones I've downloaded just put a fairly arbitrary amount of spaces in between each note and hope that you've already heard what you're trying to play enough times to emulate it.

I finally created an account at last.fm last week, too, though at the moment I can't recall why. I let it upload my recent playlist just before realizing there were a lot of hideously embarrassing things from DDR on there, and have pieced together a playlist of some favourite bands, but haven't got around to linking my account to anybody else as yet. I've noticed that if something goes wrong with the online radio, you get the information page for a prog/death metal band from Spain called "Undefined" (which could hardly have been a better way of getting recognition if they'd thought it up intentionally). And while looking around the default links from my account's charts, something leapt out at me on the page for the jazz pianist David Newton...



I wrote that. Fair enough, it's got a grand total of one play worldwide, it's there because of the system's inability to differentiate between songwriters with the same name, and is naturally unavailable on the site itself - but I have a song on last.fm!