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and lo there were hundreds of people in the evening ready to battle to the death. two trumpet players and i led the procession of the five fighting teams from the five borrough museums across the grounds. all assembled around the giant reflecting pool in Queens at dusk. the crowd had been put into mandatory togas. some had been sitting on the banks ( Read more... ) -
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today i played two shows. the first was my regular brunch gig, which provided me with some pocket money and, as always, bloody marys for breakfast. i got to play my mellophone as well as my bass, and it was cathartic. the second was in tompkins square park for a crowd of - you know those people who frequent that place, and are adorable. i played ( Read more... ) -
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i was feeling a little disconsolate today, when out of the blue three wonderful people contacted me at once. thank you, wonderful people. sometimes i forget how important other people are. drinking is not always the answer. ha.
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i've almost dropped politics, at least as much as can be done given the current new rash of demonstrating by my fellow students and studenttes. this week involved little but music, strange, odd time-signature music, and loud. and rehearsals with other kids, individually, to teach them how i want them to communicate with me through music, so we can ( Read more... ) -
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last weekend i went to dc. this weekend i went to maine. i am in excellent spirits, and haven't done any of my homework. it turns out it's not travel itself that i like, it's travel with friends ( Read more... ) -
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today i went to a rehearsal of the one and only Rude Mechanical Orchestra. they rehearse in a basement down under the manhattan bridge overpass (DUMBO), and use consensus and love to make their decisions. i've hardly ever seen more beautiful people assembled in one spot, and never have i not been the only person in a room to have no preferred ( Read more... ) -
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today i played a french horn in a jam session for the first time. it was epic, as french horns are want to be. i got to do some mind reading again, too, which is always very rewarding. the trombone player and i hit harmonies and swelled together, and i saw the rhythms people were going to play ahead of time and harmonized dissonantly with them. now ( Read more... ) -
Welding with Oxy and Acetylene
today, i got up early and learned to weld with my dad. the Tech Shop is like a gym for machinists: you become a member, and can use the facilities whenever you want. we got cleared on oxyacetylene welding. the casual references to the possibility of blowing up our half of the building with the tanks, and the large streams of fire i got to control ( Read more... ) -
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my school had an occupation this week. just to mark this, the situation isn't over and our time here is fluid in the extreme. the situation at school is complicated: a host of things touched off the occupation, so it's hard to say exactly what it's points were. it had demands, but they were incomplete, i think. it had a sentiment, but that was ( Read more... ) -
heavy
here we have, since a weekandahalf ago, the following Ordered Set: [homework, gig, stress, the CCR event, gig, planning meeting, rehearsal, planningmeeting, rehearsal, Meher Arar hearing, workshop, rehearsal, stress, bob kerry and the provost fiasco, board of trustees protested, Millard, student senate, emails calls, finals, brian, alissa, life, ( Read more... )