Day 3
Friday, April 14 2006
Lunlunta, Argentina
9:54
Missed T'ai Chi, oops. Worked on Where Is The Nurse w/ Alejandro and Roberto, refreshing A. on the lead. Once through MF at around 96. Another very twitchy sitting this morning. Sounded like someone to my left was scratching / shifting constantly, for over a minute once. Showered after breakfast. Division of Attention at 10:30 w/ Alain: "Level Three", meaning by him "you can handle 5 against 3". Could be interesting.
On Tea today, meeting at 2:45. It's Good Friday, I hear.
12:37
Cold outside today. Chilly, w/ a breeze. Everyone is inside, hard to find a spot to practice. Tried outside for 10 minutes or so. The L1 are in the ballroom, w/o guitars – circulating claps, now moving from side to side (probably clapping in 5 and/or 7 or something like that?).
The Division of Attention thing was over quickly for me. Alain showed L-R-R in the feet and L-R-R-L-R in the hands. If you couldn't do that, go practice. So I did. Only got it a couple times. Hard to focus in this environment. Will miss and AT lie-down, working tea. Alejandro wants to play La Mer (NIN, not Debussy) – he knows all the parts apparently. Interested to hear it – the drums really make it, IMO.
17:36
Tea was only a little crazy. Put out 12 baskets of bread, 8 trays of cookies. About one of each left. Went through 7 or 8 thermoses of water, 3 or 4 of coffee.
Sat in one of the green chairs to write this (plastic stacking things, kind of like patio furniture) and it broke. Crashed to the ground. The feet splayed a bit when I sat. I looked down and saw how much, didn't quite finish the thought, "This isn't good", and down it went. Two legs broke off and the back split. Fell backwards for what seemed a very long time. Maybe ti was one leg then the other, as I remember a "what, there's more?" feeling on the way down. Didn't hit my head, but cramped a few muscles tensing on the way down. Was quite close to the glass doors dividing the hallway, half expected to hit my head, but didn't. Landed on my back. Maybe I'm accident prone today – broke a plate in the kitchen earlier. Eek.
20:24
Dinner: rice (long-grain), coleslaw, sponge-cake roll w/ dulce de leche for dessert. 5? performances: Big Time, Zum, Kiel folks, Alain (playing a Warr Artisan through a little amp), Alejandro (who got "the tooth"). BR and TR presented the new guidelines for clean-up. Big Circle (or "Supercircle") scheduled for 9:30.
24:00
Tome led some circulations in C major for three concentric circles. Then a quasi-group-loop (gave one group a line, then ours picked something (each) to play), then more parts, solos, DK singing, and organized "Hoo!" and "Ha!" and "Aaahhh!" sounds from groups. Some dynamic arrangement, start/stop, went on for 20 minutes? A note from Tony about banking energy. Sat outside for 20 minutes or so. Full moon (last night?), clouds moving over. Good sense of the scale, on this planet w/ the clouds and the moon/stars. Some hot tea. Music For a Found Harmonium group session in the hall w/ Curt and a chunk of people. Then some La Mer w/ Alejandro, Igor, Glenn. Igor hates the song, so showed Glenn his part. Not sure if I want to play it. I'm on dinner tomorrow.
Lunlunta, Argentina
9:54
Missed T'ai Chi, oops. Worked on Where Is The Nurse w/ Alejandro and Roberto, refreshing A. on the lead. Once through MF at around 96. Another very twitchy sitting this morning. Sounded like someone to my left was scratching / shifting constantly, for over a minute once. Showered after breakfast. Division of Attention at 10:30 w/ Alain: "Level Three", meaning by him "you can handle 5 against 3". Could be interesting.
On Tea today, meeting at 2:45. It's Good Friday, I hear.
12:37
Cold outside today. Chilly, w/ a breeze. Everyone is inside, hard to find a spot to practice. Tried outside for 10 minutes or so. The L1 are in the ballroom, w/o guitars – circulating claps, now moving from side to side (probably clapping in 5 and/or 7 or something like that?).
The Division of Attention thing was over quickly for me. Alain showed L-R-R in the feet and L-R-R-L-R in the hands. If you couldn't do that, go practice. So I did. Only got it a couple times. Hard to focus in this environment. Will miss and AT lie-down, working tea. Alejandro wants to play La Mer (NIN, not Debussy) – he knows all the parts apparently. Interested to hear it – the drums really make it, IMO.
17:36
Tea was only a little crazy. Put out 12 baskets of bread, 8 trays of cookies. About one of each left. Went through 7 or 8 thermoses of water, 3 or 4 of coffee.
Sat in one of the green chairs to write this (plastic stacking things, kind of like patio furniture) and it broke. Crashed to the ground. The feet splayed a bit when I sat. I looked down and saw how much, didn't quite finish the thought, "This isn't good", and down it went. Two legs broke off and the back split. Fell backwards for what seemed a very long time. Maybe ti was one leg then the other, as I remember a "what, there's more?" feeling on the way down. Didn't hit my head, but cramped a few muscles tensing on the way down. Was quite close to the glass doors dividing the hallway, half expected to hit my head, but didn't. Landed on my back. Maybe I'm accident prone today – broke a plate in the kitchen earlier. Eek.
20:24
Dinner: rice (long-grain), coleslaw, sponge-cake roll w/ dulce de leche for dessert. 5? performances: Big Time, Zum, Kiel folks, Alain (playing a Warr Artisan through a little amp), Alejandro (who got "the tooth"). BR and TR presented the new guidelines for clean-up. Big Circle (or "Supercircle") scheduled for 9:30.
24:00
Tome led some circulations in C major for three concentric circles. Then a quasi-group-loop (gave one group a line, then ours picked something (each) to play), then more parts, solos, DK singing, and organized "Hoo!" and "Ha!" and "Aaahhh!" sounds from groups. Some dynamic arrangement, start/stop, went on for 20 minutes? A note from Tony about banking energy. Sat outside for 20 minutes or so. Full moon (last night?), clouds moving over. Good sense of the scale, on this planet w/ the clouds and the moon/stars. Some hot tea. Music For a Found Harmonium group session in the hall w/ Curt and a chunk of people. Then some La Mer w/ Alejandro, Igor, Glenn. Igor hates the song, so showed Glenn his part. Not sure if I want to play it. I'm on dinner tomorrow.
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