I spent a lot of time this week cleaning. My drain pipes from my kitchen rusted out yesterday in the morning, leaving me with a basement full of rust, sludge and Dran-O. My landlord came over today and fixed it with a rubber band and some bond-O. Well, not literally, but I took a picture of it. I'm pretty upset with the situation. I lost a ( Read more... )

I just spend 8 hours playing the piano yesterday. It was an eventful time. We recorded demo tracks for auditions at the schools where I plan to audition. It can be uncomfortable to spend that much time under the microscope.

It turns out the concert Friday will be at least partially televised on KGW. It's from 5:30-6:45 (at the latest) so tune in if you're going to be at home ( Read more... )

Oh, and it's feast or famine, too. Those cliches are mighty helpful ( Read more... )

It's something I found thanks to google. It's a pretty good paper. I'd never heard of "long strings of eighth notes shaped in the sinoid waveforms" before. I don't know that word: sinoid. The end!

Hey, all. It's been a busy time. I've been practicing and sessioning a lot, trying to get my mind & chops in shape for auditions for graduate school. Auditions are in March, but the preliminary materials are due in early December.

I just did a home recording with David Valdez and Dave Speranza (bassist-about-town). We recorded a handful of ( Read more... )

So, I got some insufficient funds charges on my checking account this week, even though I usually have check protection, and they just transfer it out of my savings account. It turns out that the federal government prohibits them from doing more than six automatic transfers monthly, so that people don't use their savings accounts as checking ( Read more... )

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So, I've had the same NetFlix movie for 3 months and finally watched it. It was disappointing. Walk the Line is the Johnny Cash story, which has three major story plots (he became a singer, overcame an addiction to pills, and married June Carter). That's not much to base a feature-length film on. [dangling participle!] I was hoping it would be ( Read more... )

For the first three people that reply to this post who re-post this challenge: you win ( Read more... )