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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!)

@aiguitarist.bsky.social

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 14h

I updated my Berklee Contact page.

I can’t sit around and watch the orphan crushing machine use art to anyone’s detriment.

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 13h

And I saw Van Halen at Madison Square Garden so I know the pain of concert damage.

I just saw Toto for the third time. Greg Phillinganes was on keys!!!

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 13h

Hah, my last guitar recording was my twist on Don’t Fear The Reaper, with the guitar part shifted one beat forward, like the “The Death Clock” being moved one minute closer to midnight.

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 14h

My proudest achievement.

My sister commissioned me to write that for her wedding.

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 14h

I updated my Berklee Contact page.

I can’t sit around and watch the orphan crushing machine use art to anyone’s detriment.

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 14h

It’s bittersweet.

I graduated in 2013 and the Boston Marathon attack ruined my life. I wasn’t injured, but I was in a 9h lockdown in a plane, and the blasts happened on the route I walked twice a day, so I developed ptsd.

You’d be surprised how many blood stains you can count on a brick walkway.

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 14h

I’m a Berklee alumna but as of last week, I don’t consider myself a pro musician anymore. The business is too corrupt. My mental health and transition are more important.

But there are myriad examples of me playing around the internet.

www.soundcloud.com/silashoulder/guitar-solos-compendium

Guitar Solos (Compendium)

Music is everything to me.

www.soundcloud.com

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 14h

Well, dyslexia came with the AuDHD, so I was always a quiet reader, I just love reading and writing.

I went to music school with the intention of broadening my own emotional understanding.

I didn’t really have parents so, gifted feral child found a library and grew up, spiteless. Trés Matilda.

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 15h

My grandfather was stationed mainly in the UK so I’m technically a second generation citizen after my grandmother, and grandad was a descendant of the founders+natives of the US.

I’m kind of a bookend, blood-wise. lol.

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 15h

I studied a the greats, Thoreau (my cousin), Twain, Carlin, Hicks.

But my biggest influences are Zappa, Dumas, and Exupéry.

“You become responsible for what you tame.”

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 15h

“Rich people, chucking teenagers at each other’s real estate”

That’s my take on it.

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 15h

I’m glad he has someone who cares. 🫂

I was left alone for most of my life and had to figure everything out backwards, in heels, upside down, and in six different languages.

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 15h

I still think it’d be cool to have some global freedoms without bloodshed, but apparently that makes me “weak, and unpatriotic.”

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 15h

*in

I’m dyslexic and I have a cold

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 15h

My grandfather was a Marine airman ai Iwo Jima. He brought backpacks and swords home with him.

My dad bailed on us and sold the lot on EBay.

I always wanted to return them to a consulate or their families.

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 18h

I could watch this all day.

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 18h

The drag thing is the only thing I like about him.

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 18h

I’ll be sick at home.

Love you, lady!

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 19h

Stupidity trickles down faster.

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Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 20h

Blue Angels shows are exciting, but to be fair, they were always propagandized displays of military coordination.

We pay a lot of money for those pilots.

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 1d

Total freedom is such a depressing ideal, you’d almost have to be a monk.

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 1d

In the words of Christopher Titus…

I choose to BE an anti-depressant.

(And I respect if the pills work better for you.)

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 1d

THIS👏IS👏NOT👏NEWS👏

I’ve heard Nixon say “cocksuckers” like it’s a bad thing.

Dog: Wagged.

Fucker said worse to Virginia Guiffre.

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhh nooooo

It’s too quiet in my head and I don’t want to replace it with music.

This is new and uncomfortable.

Ava Rose-Shirley (and DON’T call me Shirley!) @aiguitarist.bsky.social · 1d

Now restore the Library at Alexandria, and the Berlin Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft