slow day ahead of me, a luxury i like

got drunk again last night, mojito's this time, work christmas do, terrible vegetarian food, nice time,

the saramago book is gradually becoming great, the other one i read by him blathazar and blimunda was good, great in places,

i may go round to my landlords to play his piano, i need to shift a few things in the music for the play which i'm going to see a run of tonight,

also i've been thinking alot about recording the 4-piece, i spoke to S the other day after a long, long run of answerphone tennis spreading over 2 months, i'd done a session for her track back in... i don't know maybe may? i'm getting a vinyl copy of that track in the post soon, the artist name is Tominaga i think.

she mentioned to me that overtones studio have a lovely grand piano and they're pretty cheap, this in relation to the solo piano theatre music, then we started to talk about the 4-piece slotting ideas in and out of it... it would be tricky in there but possible,

then two conversations last night at the work do, one at the end with E, who was the voice and sax player all those months back @ this jam session, she reminded me about the LMC's studio down in brixton, they have a steinway grand piano, it would be about recording it all together i guess but possible.

the other conversation was with G the technology tutor, he's just bought a mobile studio setup and he wants to check it out so i suggested the 4-piece as a little recording project, we'd take the stuff over to my landlords probably and do it there. he has 8 inputs possible easily, if we have 2 mics getting the overall sound, then 2 mics on the piano, 1 from everyone else, (including voice).... we've tentativley set a date for early febuary.

he's committed to doing at least one track, so i'd record harbour walls first,..

hmmmmm, just thinking about it,

but i have to get the band rolling again for that to happen, and it would be really great to get a performance in before any recording to get us tighter, i haven't got that band together for awhile now, still a few things i need to resolve, this is another impetus for that.

lovely to see josiah & grace yesterday, grace came round for a little while so that her mum could go and sort some stuff out. i sang her harbour walls again which is great, the verse being very akin to the song i sing to her, origin of my wa ha name. she can now go up and DOWN stairs, also she stands without support every now and again, although i didn't witness it too much i'll no doubt see a whole lot more when i have her on saturday.

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