...or did someone make this joke already?

I left for my gig at 3:30 in the afternoon, armed with my hideous fake-burberry scarf, my sweet velvet jacket that clashes with it, and The Brothers Karamzov. I made it to the gig with only fifteen minutes until the downbeat. That was okay, because I didn't have an amp to set up and because the sax player was late. I can forgive the sax player ( Read more... )

Today, comme d'habitude, I played along to Cannonball Adderley's great recording of "Stars Fell on Alabama." I played along to it twice and then thought "I should transcribe Paul's bassline to this." So I sat down and listened to it ( Read more... )

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Claire got here at nine on Thursday and spent five whole days here! It took me until now to catch up on the affairs of the world that I missed while she was here. She made me some very fine pancakes and I made her some excellent bacon (although the excellence is entirely due to the Russian grocery store down the street).


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Dear William Blake ( Read more... )

Four hours on the bass
45 minutes on the piano,
a productive class,
a hilarious game of capture the flag,
two new connexions,
a good glass of wine,
three cheeseburgers,
two delicious burritos,
oh yeah, and my girlfriend gets to go to Venice.

Life is good.

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I had to go to userinfo, pick out some interests, and then delete them to keep myself from being stalked. I'm pretty impressed that they found a photo of the St. John's Bridge. I think what they selected for "swing" was pretty funny.

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So, Claire came down to SF this weekend at around four and at around five she was my girlfriend. We ate our way through San Francisco's restaurants and, because she is an urban planner by profession and I am an urban planning critique by nature, we explored the many plazas of the city. Here we in front of the statue of Ashurbanipal, which was ( Read more... )