Bareback Mountin'
You see, livejournal now has a Nudge feature, like MSN does.
If someone doesn't post enough, you can nudge them. You get an email to the effect of "Fucken update your journal you lazy bastard!"
Siobhan of ahistorical fame sent me a Nudge yesterday.
As usual, when you leave a post for too long, you have too much to say about too much of your life.
But yeah - I did that two nights of Beatles stuff I spruiked in my last entry. Was the star of the show, of course. It raised $2500 for FBi. That was pretty good. I stuffed up the intro to Martha My Dear. That was less good. I got the honky tonk piano bit in Rocky Raccoon, and down. I played on stage with people whose music I admire. My favourite song that I wasn't involved in was "Helter Skelter", where Bruno from Peabody stole the night with the most full-on performance of the song ever, complete with the kind of rock moves you can't fake. I enjoyed very much playing "Birthday", it and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" went very well. I also enjoyed finding random sounds in my keyboard's sound bank and playing them randomly and completely unrehearsed during "Revolution #9".
Some photos that the lovey Jadey took, before the camera batteries ran out:
Bruno from Peabody rocking out on "Helter Skelter".
Paul from Lazy Susan doing "Revolution #1".
Some guy in poor lighting.
Ben Fletcher singing "Mother Nature's Son"
Jamie Hutchings about to rock out on "Yer Blues" (and Casey from the Reservations, who did a great guitar solo).
Other things have happened since then, which I shall list in point form:
*A fun party at Gus's, the Reservations' bass player, at which there were group singalongs and nice conversation.
*Dinner with Katie of katura fame. Who gave me, as a Christmas present, an Air Supply CD. I will have to write about it in my music journal, o_song.
*Dinner (which Jadey cooked, well!) with Lindsey and her Tim, which involved more scrabble and some uno, which I resoundingly lost at.
*Jadey went back to Melbourne.
*My being sad that Jadey went back to Melbourne.
*My going back to uni, getting some work done.
*My testing another couple of people...I still need more musicians to do my experiment, kids!
*My going to a party at my ex-housemates where this girl told us (me, Tim and Casey) about how she had four guys at once, in every available orifice. After knowing us for about 3 minutes. That was a strange experience. As was going to a strip club afterwards (well, the Oxford Tavern, because it was basically on the way home, walking). Though the strip club was closed, so we didn't see any nudity. That was a very strange night really. Very strange.
*I might have an intimidatingly good bassplayer lined up to be in my band Sliced Bread. I hope it happens. I need to make him a CD of my songs and see what he thinks of it.
*Speaking of songs of mine, I recorded a couple a while back on my computer. You Will Be Revealed. Wrong Way Round. Consensus amongst everyone who's heard them is that my voice has never sounded better. Not that it sounded that great in the past.
Also, did I mention how awesome Jadey is? I don't usually go into detail on how awesome she is. I'm not quite a gushy guy. But she really is awesome. One of the presents she gave me for Christmas was 50 love letters in 50 days, a book full of love letters to me. That's pretty damn fantastic. Another was a melodica. I intend to join the Magic Numbers.
tim.
If someone doesn't post enough, you can nudge them. You get an email to the effect of "Fucken update your journal you lazy bastard!"
Siobhan of ahistorical fame sent me a Nudge yesterday.
As usual, when you leave a post for too long, you have too much to say about too much of your life.
But yeah - I did that two nights of Beatles stuff I spruiked in my last entry. Was the star of the show, of course. It raised $2500 for FBi. That was pretty good. I stuffed up the intro to Martha My Dear. That was less good. I got the honky tonk piano bit in Rocky Raccoon, and down. I played on stage with people whose music I admire. My favourite song that I wasn't involved in was "Helter Skelter", where Bruno from Peabody stole the night with the most full-on performance of the song ever, complete with the kind of rock moves you can't fake. I enjoyed very much playing "Birthday", it and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" went very well. I also enjoyed finding random sounds in my keyboard's sound bank and playing them randomly and completely unrehearsed during "Revolution #9".
Some photos that the lovey Jadey took, before the camera batteries ran out:
Bruno from Peabody rocking out on "Helter Skelter".
Paul from Lazy Susan doing "Revolution #1".
Some guy in poor lighting.
Ben Fletcher singing "Mother Nature's Son"
Jamie Hutchings about to rock out on "Yer Blues" (and Casey from the Reservations, who did a great guitar solo).
Other things have happened since then, which I shall list in point form:
*A fun party at Gus's, the Reservations' bass player, at which there were group singalongs and nice conversation.
*Dinner with Katie of katura fame. Who gave me, as a Christmas present, an Air Supply CD. I will have to write about it in my music journal, o_song.
*Dinner (which Jadey cooked, well!) with Lindsey and her Tim, which involved more scrabble and some uno, which I resoundingly lost at.
*Jadey went back to Melbourne.
*My being sad that Jadey went back to Melbourne.
*My going back to uni, getting some work done.
*My testing another couple of people...I still need more musicians to do my experiment, kids!
*My going to a party at my ex-housemates where this girl told us (me, Tim and Casey) about how she had four guys at once, in every available orifice. After knowing us for about 3 minutes. That was a strange experience. As was going to a strip club afterwards (well, the Oxford Tavern, because it was basically on the way home, walking). Though the strip club was closed, so we didn't see any nudity. That was a very strange night really. Very strange.
*I might have an intimidatingly good bassplayer lined up to be in my band Sliced Bread. I hope it happens. I need to make him a CD of my songs and see what he thinks of it.
*Speaking of songs of mine, I recorded a couple a while back on my computer. You Will Be Revealed. Wrong Way Round. Consensus amongst everyone who's heard them is that my voice has never sounded better. Not that it sounded that great in the past.
Also, did I mention how awesome Jadey is? I don't usually go into detail on how awesome she is. I'm not quite a gushy guy. But she really is awesome. One of the presents she gave me for Christmas was 50 love letters in 50 days, a book full of love letters to me. That's pretty damn fantastic. Another was a melodica. I intend to join the Magic Numbers.
tim.