Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 39 times  Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 9:51 am Author: TE Subject: Makin' love   Some machines are great and help me get things done more easily. At the same time, they have drawbacks. Sitting at this computer makes my back and shoulders extremely stiff- bad posture I guess. If my electric guitar is considered a machine then I love machines. I have spent the last 20 + years playing and it's like making love (in a certain way).

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 37 times  Date: Wed Mar 5 2003 9:17 am Author: FD Subject: Re: Makin' love   Hi TE- I also play guitar (though probably not as well as you, as I play punk). I also have had this "talk" with other guitarists about the guitar being a feminine object. Many have thought of the guitar as a phallic symbol (the long neck), and consider the playing of guitar to be a metaphor for sexual masturbation, but I have tended to dismiss this as overly simplistic. There is a masturbatory element to playing guitar, no doubt, we all get off on what we do, but if this were true, then being at the computer is also masturbatory (for we are, in a way, alone; as we would be with a guitar), but the guitar is also shaped like a woman (you'll find that in much salsa and merengue, the singer will refer to his guitar as "his woman," or refer to a desired woman as being "shaped like a guitar"). Maybe I'm holding to this definition because the idea of masturbating on my guitar sounds homoerotic, and I am probably unconsciously homophobic, regardless of how much I deny it, but the idea of the guitar as a woman sounds much more realistic. So your analogy is appropriate, at least to me.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 33 times  Date: Thu Mar 6 2003 8:31 am Author: TE Subject: Re: Makin' love   The question I am still not sure about is - is an electric guitar (or any guitar) a machine.I have never thought of it as such, but I now think that it might be.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 36 times  Date: Thu Mar 6 2003 12:27 pm Author: FD Subject: Re: Makin' love   Your post is quite provocative TE. Now we have to think of what is a machine, and not assume that the term applies only to our computers and our appliances. Is the human body not a machine?

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 30 times  Date: Thu Mar 6 2003 2:12 pm Author: SE Subject: Re: Makin' love   Hmm. When I would play guitar, the guitar was an instrument. The pandora's box was a machine! That baby made it fly.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 29 times  Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 8:19 pm Author: PC Subject: Re: Makin' love   That is something I forgot about because I don't really consider it a "machine" but it would be hard to live without my guitar. Actually it would be hard to live without any musical instrument. What would life be without music? I think music is life!

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 27 times  Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 5:39 pm Author: MS Subject: Re: Makin' love   i have to agree with you on that music is Defiantly life. i couldnt like with out it.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 29 times  Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 7:32 pm Author: CA Subject: Re: Makin' love   wow, let me get the name brand of that machine you've been playing with.. (just a small joke)

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 26 times  Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 4:01 pm Author: OE Subject: Re: Makin' love   Yes FD, the human body is a machine ! A great, marvelous, complicated biological machine. It only gives you back what you put into it, it even breaks down every now and then. You certainly have brought up a very interesting topic here. I suppose before we can try to examine our relationship with machines, we should try and define what a machine is.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 22 times  Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 4:20 pm Author: CA Subject: Re: Makin' love   Why is it that most instruments are named after womwn?

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 22 times  Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 8:14 pm Author: AJ Subject: Re: Makin' love   Because men named them.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 18 times  Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 10:47 am Author: TE Subject: Re: Makin' love   Probably the most famous woman named instument is B.B. King's guitar called Lucille. He was playing at a place and a fight broke out between two guys that eventually caused a fire to break out. B.B. crawled back in, dodging flames, to rescue his guitar. He found out later that the woman they were fighting over was named Lucille, hence the name of his guitar.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 20 times  Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 1:51 pm Author: PR Subject: Re: Makin' love   to me a machine is anything that does work or a specific task i think were all machines without cords and gadgets.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 17 times  Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 1:54 pm Author: PR Subject: Re: Makin' love   my xbox is a machine that has drawbacks i would say because i play it so often that my fingers start to stiff up on me plus my eyes starts feeling funny from being centered in one spot.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 18 times  Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 3:40 pm Author: HK Subject: Re: Makin' love   I don't really know what you mean about the making love part but maybe you'll explain to me later. Yea Machines do have their drawbacks, my eyes hurt sometimes from being in front of a computer as my back getting stiff on me from that damn chear. Hey but like you said things can go much easier when to you have machines working with you, also you already know from your own personal experience how great it's having a machine like your electrical guitar to play with all the time.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 22 times  Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 2:44 pm Author: MS Subject: Re: Makin' love   we are a malti tasked machine

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 19 times  Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 8:23 pm Author: GI Subject: Definition of machine according to Merriam & Webster   Main Entry: [1]ma·chine Pronunciation: m&-'shEn Function: noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle French, from Latin machina, from Greek mEchanE (Doric dialect machana), from mEchos means, expedient —more at MAY Date: circa 1545 1 a : archaic : a constructed thing whether material or immaterial b : CONVEYANCE, VEHICLE; especially : AUTOMOBILE c : archaic : a military engine d : any of various apparatuses formerly used to produce stage effects e (1) : an assemblage of parts that transmit forces, motion, and energy one to another in a predetermined manner (2) : an instrument (as a lever) designed to transmit or modify the application of power, force, or motion f : a mechanically, electrically, or electronically operated device for performing a task (a calculating machine) (a card-sorting machine) g : a coin-operated device (a cigarette machine) h : MACHINERY — used with the or in plural 2 a : a living organism or one of its functional systems b : a person or organization that resembles a machine (as in being methodical, tireless, or unemotional) c (1) : a combination of persons acting together for a common end along with the agencies they use (2) : a highly organized political group under the leadership of a boss or small clique 3 : a literary device or contrivance introduced for dramatic effect So accoring to the defintion, a guitar is a machine.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 21 times  Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 10:31 pm Author: CM Subject: Re: Makin' love   Shoshana you can say that us humans are machines that are easily adaptable and upgradeable when the need be. that's one of the advantages. You can say the doctors or nurses are our programmers or repair shop to check us and get us working back to "normal" again.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 20 times  Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 10:35 pm Author: MS Subject: Re: Makin' love   i like that if only it was that easy

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 18 times  Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 1:12 am Author: NS Subject: Re: Makin' love   Yes MS, if only it was that easy because repairs from the doctor costs an arm and a leg. If you don't have insurance then just hope that you have enough money to pay for that repair.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 18 times  Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 1:14 am Author: CC Subject: Re: Makin' love   I think guitars are machines. I think my acoustic is a machine and like most machines they can be amazing at one point and a pain in the ass the next.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 17 times  Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 1:16 am Author: CC Subject: Re: Makin' love   PANDORA'S BOX=GREAT MACHINE but like anything, you can upgrade a piece of machinery with more machinery

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 21 times  Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 1:17 am Author: CC Subject: Re: Makin' love   most instruments are sweet and to fully master and learn them it takes time. Same goes for a woman

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 15 times  Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 2:36 am Author: CN Subject: Re: Makin' love   at least with instruments you just oil them or fix them and problem is solved unlike with us women i admit we play mind games.

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers) Read 11 times  Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 11:50 am Author: FD Subject: Re: Makin' love   You wouldn't be talking about that elusive "tone" that guitarists are always searching for, would you? It's like the Golden Fleece of guitars!!

Current Forum: Your relationship with machines (especially computers)	Read 12 times
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 11:51 am
Author: FD
Subject: Re: Makin' love
I say the same thing. I look back at some of the fights I have had when I was younger, then look at the women I have been fortunate enough to be with later on, and wonder, why did I get involved in such nonsense?