i miss you

[insert self-pitying dramatic rant here]

Yeah, motha fucka. Yeah...

Erik Kleven died in a car crash last night. He was the bassist in that gig I described in my last post. I watched him play two years ago and he inspired me to take up upright bass. Everything about his playing was so effortless and beautiful. He served the music selflessly, and had the utmost respect for all the human beings around him, while ( Read more... )

tonight at 7:00 pm at John Natsoula's art gallery across the street from Borders. I'll be sitting in on Adam Jenkins' band's gig. There should be lots of professionals from around this area playing. We'll probably do a lot of messing around... it will be really "avante-garde," which must be french for "crazy as fuck loud!" There will be two ( Read more... )

i just reread a lot of my early lj posts. ive changed so much. but also am still the same on many levels.

life has gotten better and better through these past few years. now, i never have to take a physics class again. indeed, better and better... the pattern continues. i thought about the last half hour of grad night and how that combination of people will never be together again. but i dont feel sentimentally attached to that group at all. yeah ( Read more... )

If you can, come see me play tonight at Pasta? restaurant sometime between 7 and 9 pm. THe gig should be killer, because we have three guests: Sean Conte--DHS alumnus-- on tenor, Jesse [last name], an amazing sax player from the bay area also on tenor, and 9th grade prodigy Colin McDaniel on drums. Plus me and Morgan. It doesn't get too much ( Read more... )

Berklee gave me a half tuition scholarship :-)

I am an organized mess ( Read more... )