Practiced for almost 5 hours today. Willis Delony popped into my practice room today...so I got a few ideas for making "Autumn Leaves" fancy for the recording i have to do. [James and I have to make a demo for Gino's to see if they'll hire us ( Read more... )

wow. I think today was almost a record for me. I practiced for 4 and a half hours. And well too! Not just half assed or anything. I feel productive. haha

I saw Over the Hedge last night.
it was so funny!
go see it.

Italy was great! We went to Rome for the 1st 4 days [air france didn't get us out luggage til the 3rd day...bah] but we saw the Sistine Chapel, the Colosseum, the forum, prison where Peter and Paul were kept...all that good stuff. Lots of historical things, and since I'm a nerd, it was fun for the most part ( Read more... )

new layouttttt. go look at it.
NOW
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yay! I just found out that I'm going to University of North Texas for a combo worshop ( Read more... )

good lord. everyone is STILL freaking out over the Da Vinci Code. ITS FICTION. Some poor guy name Dan Brown had a great idea for a page-turning novel so he could make a few bucks and now there are legalistic can't-think-outside-the-bible stone-age christians standing around the movie theater protesting the movie. I guess people have the right to ( Read more... )

I've learned a sad lesson this year: that there is a certain type of people who, no matter how nice you are to them, are, and will continue to be, jerks to you.
It's sucks.
It sucks even more when all of them seem to target you in one afternoon.

woo got a bud powell cd. :) I was deciding between brad mehldau and mingus, and there was this guy who looked like he was having a tough time deciding between cds too. So i went up to him and asked him, and said something like "yea, well i figured since i play piano i should get mehldau, but i really want mingus" and he said I should get bud powell ( Read more... )

i heard it through the grapevine that Brad Mehldau and Pat Metheny are going on tour together.
That should be awesome.