Back when I did the ambulance thing, I had the 06:00 shift, so I needed to get up rather early to be on time for work. I couldn't really face getting up at 04:30 for any reason, so that, coupled with certain... affinities, led me to set my alarm for 04:40 ( Read more... )

I love my city. Tonight, 22:30, 80F, light breeze, (almost?) full moon, big dark grey clouds making the sky beautiful, I drove home the long way again just to see where I live. It's magickal here, and I'm not sure why. I love the concrete of the new Leverett connector with the Zakim bridge in its background, I love looking at the city as I get ( Read more... )

I can't come up with only six, but the first seven that came to mind that were easy to write about follow:

String Of Pearls - Glenn Miller OrchestraWhen I was still playing with dolls and trucks, my mom had a lot of records that I loved to play. Most were her 78s and her 45s (I didn't really care for the LPs, dunno why), which were usually jazz ( Read more... )

Last night at our show, a local guy in the scene (call him... The Guest) came to see us, and we invited him up for a couple of numbers. Usually, this guy's pretty cool; he's been around forever, actually plays well and sings okay, and he tells some good stories about the music business from the last hundred gazillion years or so. This is, of course ( Read more... )

Sometimes when you're doing a particularly difficult gig, time stretches into eternity. During last night's show, I wanted to either go home NOW, or spend the whole night playing AC/DC or Blue Oyster Cult covers. Even Allman Brothers tunes could have created a welcome reprieve from the complete lack of understanding/relating of the six members of ( Read more... )

In my opinion, one of the signs of maturity is when you've reached the size and strength to be able to break your toys, but you've also developed the self-restraint to put them down instead of flinging them against the wall.

I'm not feeling very mature today.

I was dreaming about training because I knew I had to wake up and go immediately to class this morning, and I still don't know how I did on my test so it's On My Mind. Now, being the unemplo^W full time musician that I am, the alarm clock has been used maybe 3 times in the last 6 months, so I am not accustomed to its sound. When it went off, I hit ( Read more... )

I love my job. At tonight's gig, we had an unexpected guest star, a harmonica player who had a harp in every key, yet an amazing inability to play in tune regardless. We didn't actually invite him to sit in (although he did prophetically tell me earlier that [he] "can really blow!"), but he tried to nudge his way on stage anyway, after saying ( Read more... )

I just wanted to throw that image out there so everyone knows Exactly How Cool I Am.

with a dear friend, in a bout of mania, on irc...

[him] teach me how to sing in three lines or less.

[me] search your soul. express your heart. use your voice.