An unusual week thus far
Greetings. Told you I wouldn't abandon LJ and I haven't. Been quite the week. Since I last posted, many things have happened, or at least given that I was expecting them, a number of little things that then add up to quite a few if that makes sense.
Kirsten and Jake went off on their holiday to Spane for two weeks as of last wednesday. I would've been going with them, but a friend of mine from Germany is here on the exact same dates, 7-21 July so he's staying with me and we're going site-seeing and geek-shoping etc, so in a way it's like a holliday but one where I don't leave my home city.
So far it's been quite interesting. Haven't gone anywhere exciting yet, but did introduce him to the local fish and chip shop where he had, of course, fish and chips, not something you can just go get in Germany apparently. He seemd to think it was pretty good as well, so that's a bonus.
Sleeping alone for the first time and the longest, since my wedding is also strange. Jake isn't waking me up in the night demanding food at 3 o'clock so I'm sleeping for a lot longer than I would otherwise, and somehow, not feeling particularly great for it. I guess the old body-clock is waiting for the human alarm and it's not happening, which causes all sorts of strange occurrences to occur, or something.
The fish and chip thing happened on Wednesday evening, and on Thursday, mister German man and my brother took a trip accross town to where Dwayne works, and then mister German man went about his business, with a map on how to get back here. From what he told me last night, he went to Oxford circus, Piccadilly, Hyde park and a couple other places and had a good time. I have some recordings he made actually using the Zoom Q3, which I will be showing in my next show on TBRN whenever that happens.
During that same time, a keyboard player friend of mine Alex came over to visit me. I didn't know he was bringing a keyboard, only visiting, so we had an impromptu jam right here in my living room, and obviously I had to record it. No way I was going to let an opportunity like that pass me by.
In parts it gets just a little bit clippy, but it's unedited, and all yours if you'd like to give it a listen
right here.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it. Now please, take this at face-value, ok? It's better for me if you do.
I'm an OK keyboard player, OK leaning to pretty good, I guess. This isn't me talking here. I dispise that kind of self-arrogance in anyone, so this is just what I've been told. Alex however, is on a totally new level of playingness. What I do, he can do 10 times better. What he does, I can't dream of doing. So put a somewhat good player and an extremely! good player in a room, provide them keyboards and this is the result.
Naturally, like with most jams, the warmup is average, but I can garontee it does get better. Quite a lot better by the end of it. Nearly a two-hour file there, I think it's 107 minutes and some.
Comment here if you like, I'd be interested in your thoughts.
On that note, no pun intended, I will go away, read a book, catch up on the madness that is twitter at this time which appears to be mostly about NFB and the iPhone 4, and start my day at some point.
Have fun, and thanks for reading.
Kirsten and Jake went off on their holiday to Spane for two weeks as of last wednesday. I would've been going with them, but a friend of mine from Germany is here on the exact same dates, 7-21 July so he's staying with me and we're going site-seeing and geek-shoping etc, so in a way it's like a holliday but one where I don't leave my home city.
So far it's been quite interesting. Haven't gone anywhere exciting yet, but did introduce him to the local fish and chip shop where he had, of course, fish and chips, not something you can just go get in Germany apparently. He seemd to think it was pretty good as well, so that's a bonus.
Sleeping alone for the first time and the longest, since my wedding is also strange. Jake isn't waking me up in the night demanding food at 3 o'clock so I'm sleeping for a lot longer than I would otherwise, and somehow, not feeling particularly great for it. I guess the old body-clock is waiting for the human alarm and it's not happening, which causes all sorts of strange occurrences to occur, or something.
The fish and chip thing happened on Wednesday evening, and on Thursday, mister German man and my brother took a trip accross town to where Dwayne works, and then mister German man went about his business, with a map on how to get back here. From what he told me last night, he went to Oxford circus, Piccadilly, Hyde park and a couple other places and had a good time. I have some recordings he made actually using the Zoom Q3, which I will be showing in my next show on TBRN whenever that happens.
During that same time, a keyboard player friend of mine Alex came over to visit me. I didn't know he was bringing a keyboard, only visiting, so we had an impromptu jam right here in my living room, and obviously I had to record it. No way I was going to let an opportunity like that pass me by.
In parts it gets just a little bit clippy, but it's unedited, and all yours if you'd like to give it a listen
right here.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it. Now please, take this at face-value, ok? It's better for me if you do.
I'm an OK keyboard player, OK leaning to pretty good, I guess. This isn't me talking here. I dispise that kind of self-arrogance in anyone, so this is just what I've been told. Alex however, is on a totally new level of playingness. What I do, he can do 10 times better. What he does, I can't dream of doing. So put a somewhat good player and an extremely! good player in a room, provide them keyboards and this is the result.
Naturally, like with most jams, the warmup is average, but I can garontee it does get better. Quite a lot better by the end of it. Nearly a two-hour file there, I think it's 107 minutes and some.
Comment here if you like, I'd be interested in your thoughts.
On that note, no pun intended, I will go away, read a book, catch up on the madness that is twitter at this time which appears to be mostly about NFB and the iPhone 4, and start my day at some point.
Have fun, and thanks for reading.