Saturday
Saturday, August 27 2007
18:33
The Far Side for Friday was "Big Bob's Ball Bearings, Bananas, Roller Skates and Floor Wax, Inc". Employees all falling down w/ their coffee, boxes of ball bearings, etc. I looked at that and thought, hey! that's like my insides!
25:37
Began the day with a longer, hotter shower than was necessary. Well, it was needed. Got to calisthenics at about half past consequently. Just Curt and Christina there at that point. Worked with some "simple" patterns on the first two strings, but ones that just show what I already knew, that my brain still can't quite wrap itself around that change. A long sitting after that, had about 20 minutes to reflect and get distracted etc near the end. Out for coffee w/ Bill and Curt, hearing about Bill's ordeal trying to get his "money" (in the form of miles) back for a cancelled return flight from Boston.
The first 90 minutes of the circle we worked with some of the stuff from last week – it was good. VV1, Tony's thing (not to be confused with a song about a superhero named Tony, called Tony's Theme), and the limb-attention-rotation circulation. AB couldn't make it, still we had 12 in the circle for that.
After the break, running through some TTA repertoire, taking stock of where we're at there. Was really glad that I refreshed my memory on a few of the pieces last week – hadn't touched them at all since the last show July 2nd really. Overall, surprisingly with it. Bloed Spoed was super easy, I was really weirded out about that, as I figured my speed chops would be lacking, given that all I've really been doing is circulating for 8 weeks. Maybe the tempo was just on the slow side. A few of us forgot bits and pieces of things here and there, mostly Kashmir and My Precious Dream. The only group-almost-fell-apart was, yes, the middle section of Sharona. But we got through that.
Joy to be playing my main guitar again. There's some wooliness to the low end, as a consequence of it actually having low end. And the frets still need a little work on the high strings, or at least those strings need to be raised a bit. But it is just better in every way than the spare.
Stopped at Than Bros. for pho on the way home. Napped in the afternoon, until about 6. Then up to Yanni's to see Lost Pedro. Sat w/ Meleah, Diana, and Christina. Got the chicken saganaki. The waitress goofed and brought us the wrong first dishes, then the right ones, so I had soup and a salad first. Went through a couple bottles of wine at the table. LP sounded good, though honestly we were pretty busy listening to Christina's tales of crime in Detroit when she was young.
Then over to Howard and Diana's, Curt came up and joined us. Wonderful tequila and some pastries to finish off the evening. I got there first, and while I was waiting by the driveway, heard rustling and cooing sounds from the bushes. Walked around the corner, to see two raccoons about 10 feet away, staring at me. They kind of did a "back away slowly, maybe it doesn't see us yet!" move, then climbed up the tree and stared at me.
music: Meshuggah - Catch 33; Herbie Hancock - Headhunters; Interpol – the new one
18:33
The Far Side for Friday was "Big Bob's Ball Bearings, Bananas, Roller Skates and Floor Wax, Inc". Employees all falling down w/ their coffee, boxes of ball bearings, etc. I looked at that and thought, hey! that's like my insides!
25:37
Began the day with a longer, hotter shower than was necessary. Well, it was needed. Got to calisthenics at about half past consequently. Just Curt and Christina there at that point. Worked with some "simple" patterns on the first two strings, but ones that just show what I already knew, that my brain still can't quite wrap itself around that change. A long sitting after that, had about 20 minutes to reflect and get distracted etc near the end. Out for coffee w/ Bill and Curt, hearing about Bill's ordeal trying to get his "money" (in the form of miles) back for a cancelled return flight from Boston.
The first 90 minutes of the circle we worked with some of the stuff from last week – it was good. VV1, Tony's thing (not to be confused with a song about a superhero named Tony, called Tony's Theme), and the limb-attention-rotation circulation. AB couldn't make it, still we had 12 in the circle for that.
After the break, running through some TTA repertoire, taking stock of where we're at there. Was really glad that I refreshed my memory on a few of the pieces last week – hadn't touched them at all since the last show July 2nd really. Overall, surprisingly with it. Bloed Spoed was super easy, I was really weirded out about that, as I figured my speed chops would be lacking, given that all I've really been doing is circulating for 8 weeks. Maybe the tempo was just on the slow side. A few of us forgot bits and pieces of things here and there, mostly Kashmir and My Precious Dream. The only group-almost-fell-apart was, yes, the middle section of Sharona. But we got through that.
Joy to be playing my main guitar again. There's some wooliness to the low end, as a consequence of it actually having low end. And the frets still need a little work on the high strings, or at least those strings need to be raised a bit. But it is just better in every way than the spare.
Stopped at Than Bros. for pho on the way home. Napped in the afternoon, until about 6. Then up to Yanni's to see Lost Pedro. Sat w/ Meleah, Diana, and Christina. Got the chicken saganaki. The waitress goofed and brought us the wrong first dishes, then the right ones, so I had soup and a salad first. Went through a couple bottles of wine at the table. LP sounded good, though honestly we were pretty busy listening to Christina's tales of crime in Detroit when she was young.
Then over to Howard and Diana's, Curt came up and joined us. Wonderful tequila and some pastries to finish off the evening. I got there first, and while I was waiting by the driveway, heard rustling and cooing sounds from the bushes. Walked around the corner, to see two raccoons about 10 feet away, staring at me. They kind of did a "back away slowly, maybe it doesn't see us yet!" move, then climbed up the tree and stared at me.
music: Meshuggah - Catch 33; Herbie Hancock - Headhunters; Interpol – the new one
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