mardi gras is now officially over for me. and boy was that last parade memorable. not in a good way exactly because it was pretty much 35 degrees and raining the entire time - i haven't felt that sort of miserable cold in a long long time. but in a good way because my drums (and the whole band) did an awesome job. when i first started here, the ( Read more... )

Friday night i got out of work late so that Mark and I could get some drinks before driving him home. I passed out after that, early, and then woke up late to cook a very late dinner and write some music. I think i ended up falling back asleep around 4:00am or something.

Saturday morning i got up around 10:00, did some cleaning, and wrote a ( Read more... )

today's the first day of mardi gras. and you can tell.

i went out today to buy a costume for the parade that i'm going to be walking tonight, Krewedelusion, and the city was buzzing. I drove over to magazine and there was a lot of traffic and a lot of people just Out and About, the first real sign of spring. The police barricades were on ( Read more... )

Here's a random story that occurred during Krewe De Vieux.

after parting ways with Mark and Amanda and company at the beginning of the parade roll out, i went in search of Dan and Allison and company more towards the end of the parade roll out. We decided to find a place to watch the parade on Decatur, but stop at La Fitte's on the way to grab ( Read more... )

i feel like i've been neglecting LJ for the past week or so, making me feel like all of those people that abandoned proper blogging for the micro-fashion of fb/tw/g+. there have been a few entries that have gone into draft mode that has never made it on to, um, "paper".

suffice it to say that things have been sort of busy, but i could have made ( Read more... )

i'm putting off the Projects part of my 2011 Lent for a day since Mark is still in town, but i'm still going to take a picture today and i'm hosting a poker game tonight, so that stuff is covered. I"m not sure what that's going to do with the after 40 days thing, but i think i stopped some of my lent early last year anyway, and it gets confusing ( Read more... )

stuff needs to be written about thwe weekend because it was pretty action packed. it's not quite over yet since it's lundi gras, but if i wait until after mardi gras to write about some of this i'll forget everything that happened.
( krewe of hermes )

i have this crazy sort of idea for mardi gras 2012, based on three things:

1. The Tulane drum line isn't that big. my first year we had enough people to field a full battery, but my second year and this year we cut out the tenor line because we came to the conclusion that it would be better to have a fuller sound of bass drums and snares (that ( Read more... )

can't quite fall asleep yet, so here's a reminder of stuff this week:

-practice yellow pages and three songs
-drum parts for mangione
-order new mike macintoshes
-velcro snare fixy fixy
-fog tropes rehearsal wednesday
-nienteforte poster and fb group
-email erica
-email amber/plan friday/sunday
-plan for muses
-media upload
-clean
-listen to ( Read more... )

i forgot to write about this, and i need to because i think it's a great story.

for those that only get the outside perspective on the mardi gras beads (throw) tradition, receiving beads and throws during mardi gras is not all about showing titties. Sure, if you go to the quarter you can get some of that, but move to the garden district side ( Read more... )