By Zac Taylor

Well, O.J. is finally going to jail, and Axl has finally released Chinese Democracy; snowflakes are falling outside The Groove office, and apparently in hell, too… We’ve all but made it to the end of the semester, and it’s been a fast one, no? It’s always a hectic last couple weeks, when you’re trying to cram in all of the proficiency material to make it look like you’ve been absorbing the material note by note in a practice room, upping the metronome 4 bpm each round.

Did you get to go to the James Taylor clinic? I wonder if people walking by on Boylston peaked through the windows to see the living legend sipping coffee on a stool, chatting about broken guitars and summering in Martha’s Vineyard. I can’t believe that one clown asked, “So is Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain’ about you or what?” What a bunch of savages in this town. I stayed after the clinic and waited in line to meet James, and confessed to him that I regularly tell people I’m related to him, and that it was great to finally meet my long lost uncle.

The Groove has come a long way in the last several issues in my humble, biased opinion, but we still have a few bugs to work out and bars to clear. We’ll be developing the website over the spring semester, so if you know how to code HTML, or other such online flim flam, come talk to us. And come May, I’ll be out of this joint, off to a to-be-announced destination where I will wish I was still under the cozy blanket of music school, writing cheesy lyrics over clichéd cadences for Songwriting class and shredding through pentatonic scales.

I hope you all have an excellent holiday break, and get everything you want from Santa, including but not limited to Wall-E on DVD, Elixir guitar strings, and of course, your very own copy of the long awaited, soon-to-be legendary Guns ‘n Roses album, Chinese Democracy.