Blues blues

Wilson has told me that Antony is now upset that HE hasn't had a blues written about him. He's sitting in his hammock doing his best, but is a bit stuck for a rhyme with 'Antony'. 

His last resort, he says, will be to write a non-blues song, called Sad-Eyed Antony of the Lowlands. All  all the work has already been done for him by Mr Dylan, but I can't help thinking some of the lyrics are not entirely appropriate to be sung for a toy anteater… but I don't suppose Antony will mind.

Where is this all going to end? Will sTony demand his own blues song? The Easter Island Heads in the garden? 

Diesel Blues

Wilson, apparently not quite ready to abandon his Dylan roots, has written a 12-bar blues to Diesel, his goldfish. He calls it, "Diesel the Goldfish's Blues", and here it is:

Well, I woke up this morning
   With Diesel on my mind;
Yes I woke up this morning
   Diesel was on my mind;
Then I gave him some of my best ants' eggs
   'Cos I was feelin' kind of kind.
   Oh yeah!

Now it's more than just a tattoo...

Last night we watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. We thought it was a good treatment of the first novel of the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, but now Wilson wants not only a tattoo, but also a Honda CL350 motorcycle!

That is SO not going to happen! 

What is Reality?

Yesterday Wilson went into the village to buy some guitar strings. While he was there he popped into WHSmith and bought this week's New Scientist… the What Is Reality? special edition. This morning I came down to find him engrossed in it.

I fear the worst.

Practice makes perfect. Eventually.

Wilson's constant practicing of Sisters of Mercy is driving me mad. It's not that he makes a lot of mistakes… it's more that he makes the same mistakes every time. 

Another string has just snapped, leaving only three. For a little while he just hummed the missing notes, but now he's popped into the village to buy some replacement strings. 

Wilson has a new Life Plan

This morning I asked Wilson how he was getting on with Leonard Cohen.

He replied that, while he found him quite lugubrious, his new ambition is to become 'a melancholic minstrel in the manner of Mr Cohen, wandering the world playing my guitar and meeting beautiful, but enigmatic, ladies.'

First, though, he says he must master Emin7#5 which he is currently finding very difficult. Apparently the Bert Weedon Play In A Day book fails to properly address the difficulty of playing this chord if you happen to have claws.

Well, it sounds like a plan.

OCTOBER DAWNS!

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September has been a very busy month for Wilson Vermilingua OBE!

I've just uploaded the ninth monthly volume of Ant Wars II: SEPTEMBER 2012 so you can catch up on anything you've missed.

Please tell all your friends, as it is Wilson's stated ambition for his life story to be, as he puts it, "As Popular as Xmas!". 

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Wilson makes remarkable progress!

My old guitar has only four strings intact, but Wilson is in the kitchen strumming away happily, the Bert Weedon book propped up in front of him. Maybe the low string-count makes it easier to play for a beginner -- a bit more like a ukulele, perhaps. 

I asked W how he was getting on, and he said his claws were great for finger-picking styles, but made it very difficult to fret the strings. 

Personally I think it's remarkable that an anteater can get any kind of tune out of a guitar, so I told him I thought he was doing really well and to keep practicing.