...something musical. For years I have wanted to play an instrument, I absolutely adore music as anyone who knows anything about me would already know. I was forced to play the trumpet and viola when I was younger and although that didn't ruin me to music, it certainly made me a bit angry when it came to the idea of lessons. I picked up the bass in high school and I just was not willing to put forth the effort into learning it. About four years ago I purchased a pretty sweet black acoustic guitar and until last Fall I had never even played it.
Last Fall I decided to write a few songs for my classroom about different literary elements (symbolism, metaphor, simile, truth/fiction). The songs certainly were entertaining and the students got a kick out of the fact that I was recording music. When I asked them to be honest though they said it was cool that I tried but there were only two students who said they'd ever listen to it again.
I have great ideas for lyrics all the time (and maybe some of them are stolen ideas from Aes songs or from movies) and I have no real way to get them on paper, which is a shame. I mean I guess I could start doing songwriting for other folks; who in the world is going to pay me for the type of asinine things I come up with? In a perfect world, nobody. It's fun though. Either way, it would be neat to magically have the ability to pick up a guitar and play and song, or the motivation to pick up a guitar and learn how to play. Currently, I have neither.