it's possible my ipod shuffle died today... i was thinking about using different people's voices in my improvisation and i emptied the shuffle so i could play the voices through it and it... well... i don't know, it doesn't look good now but you never know, it may come round...
so i did use the voices, william burroughs, hakim bey, archie shepp, daniel pinchbeck, neil young...
speaking, although william burroughs was also taking a tape recording of his voice and pushing it backwards and forwards over the tape head... well... it was the 60's - or maybe the 70's...
the improvisation was the 32nd in the weekly series, i've just watched it... the voices work well... i think...
google is being weird, it's been uploading for half an hour and it's got almost nowhere, so i won't be putting it in this post...
it's the longest of the improvisations @ 27.44 minutes, i wonder if anyone will have the patience for it...
mind you, unless it's another symptom of google's weirdness (which it probably is) it looks as if 92 people watched my 3rd cutup film yesterday and 138 people watched last week's improvisation... yesterday... all in all the report tells me that my videos were watched 1969 times... yesterday!
either i've suddenly got a lot more popular or google is suffering from something... the improvisation blanket page over on my newly updated longcat.net has been behaving strangely yesterday and today...?
...
T came round today for some help with his HTML... i told him what i know which is something but not much... in fact my HTML knowledge should be increasing fairly soon being as i now have longcat.net to play with... tinkering with HTML for blogger or myspace has kept me fairly well oiled but most of the work is done by their respective templates...
my own blank website...
maybe i'll reluctantly get a piece of software to do it for me...
ok, big day tomorrow...
x
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
venus impovisation blanket
as i turned off my computer last night i thought to myself:
oops, i should have checked that email about what time the meeting is tomorrow... oh well, i'm fairly sure it's @ 2...
earlier that day i'd had two meetings, one @ 11 and the other @ 2 and for some reason i thought the meeting today was @ 2 as well...
but it was @ 11...
and i knew this as i was waking up, picking up my phone and seeing it was my work phoning... the only reason they would ring would be to say where are you?, so by the time i'd answered it and was speaking to L from work i couldn't pretend not to know, that i'd fucked up, which gave my voice a certain resigned sound... i'm sure she thought i'd just slept in deliberately...
so my day was somewhat shadowed by a slightly guilty feeling of missing work... also some work i was overdue on which had to be completed, (still being completed)...
felinity rang late afternoon when i was @ manolis's, having spent a few hours writing reports... she was going round to J & A's, parents of connie... J our cousin... she's moving out of that neighbourhood soon and she never remembers their house number as she walks passed their road... actually having organised a visit she'd once again forgotten the number, did i have it?
the kind of thing i would ring her for... i did indeed have an email from them awhile back with the relevant details...
much later me & dinah went out to see pans labyrinth but it was sold out so we saw venus which was very good...
and in between all of this i have been tinkering with longcat.net and animated GIF's...
it has expanded to 2 html pages, the second of which has the improvisation blanket which pulled a fancy GIF from me and by then i was rolling along, in FLASH, in vegas, smartFTP, photoshop...
also made a rather nice GIF of my signature which now lives at the bottom of that page...
oh the in's and out's of web spaces... my head is full of that stuff and i need to get back to the reports...
oops, i should have checked that email about what time the meeting is tomorrow... oh well, i'm fairly sure it's @ 2...
earlier that day i'd had two meetings, one @ 11 and the other @ 2 and for some reason i thought the meeting today was @ 2 as well...
but it was @ 11...
and i knew this as i was waking up, picking up my phone and seeing it was my work phoning... the only reason they would ring would be to say where are you?, so by the time i'd answered it and was speaking to L from work i couldn't pretend not to know, that i'd fucked up, which gave my voice a certain resigned sound... i'm sure she thought i'd just slept in deliberately...
so my day was somewhat shadowed by a slightly guilty feeling of missing work... also some work i was overdue on which had to be completed, (still being completed)...
felinity rang late afternoon when i was @ manolis's, having spent a few hours writing reports... she was going round to J & A's, parents of connie... J our cousin... she's moving out of that neighbourhood soon and she never remembers their house number as she walks passed their road... actually having organised a visit she'd once again forgotten the number, did i have it?
the kind of thing i would ring her for... i did indeed have an email from them awhile back with the relevant details...
much later me & dinah went out to see pans labyrinth but it was sold out so we saw venus which was very good...
and in between all of this i have been tinkering with longcat.net and animated GIF's...
it has expanded to 2 html pages, the second of which has the improvisation blanket which pulled a fancy GIF from me and by then i was rolling along, in FLASH, in vegas, smartFTP, photoshop...
also made a rather nice GIF of my signature which now lives at the bottom of that page...
oh the in's and out's of web spaces... my head is full of that stuff and i need to get back to the reports...
Monday, January 29, 2007
longcat.net
up until today (by which i mean sunday) my website @ longcat.net hadn't been updated since 2nd february 2003... which predates this blog by a year and a bit... very nearly 4 years ago...
well i changed something and now it's very easy for me to upload stuff to it again, not that it was that hard before, just hard enough that i never did it...
also i've been thinking more about the improvisations and selling them on CD's and the website would be a good place to base that...
so if you'd care to pop over there you won't find very much yet... but it's there, and there's no longer an advert for the online radio show i used to do, with a piece of code my brother made me which still tells you when the next broadcast would have been had i still been doing it...
it amazes me that i was still doing it back in 2003 actually, but i must have been...
at present i have all 35 improvisation videos all laid out, small... but working...
it appeals to me...
my plans for that site include a random improvisation button, a list of improvisations based on type - (piano only, piano/voice, rhodes only...), and this notion of the bespoke cd... not that i know how that's going to work yet... oh and a section for my films... maybe a section on teaching too...
anyway, got a meting tomorrow that i need to check the time of then get myself to bed with that lady of mine...
be well
x
well i changed something and now it's very easy for me to upload stuff to it again, not that it was that hard before, just hard enough that i never did it...
also i've been thinking more about the improvisations and selling them on CD's and the website would be a good place to base that...
so if you'd care to pop over there you won't find very much yet... but it's there, and there's no longer an advert for the online radio show i used to do, with a piece of code my brother made me which still tells you when the next broadcast would have been had i still been doing it...
it amazes me that i was still doing it back in 2003 actually, but i must have been...
at present i have all 35 improvisation videos all laid out, small... but working...
it appeals to me...
my plans for that site include a random improvisation button, a list of improvisations based on type - (piano only, piano/voice, rhodes only...), and this notion of the bespoke cd... not that i know how that's going to work yet... oh and a section for my films... maybe a section on teaching too...
anyway, got a meting tomorrow that i need to check the time of then get myself to bed with that lady of mine...
be well
x
Friday, January 26, 2007
pre gig dundeeism
so it was 1:40 am, last night, searching the internet for the word "mellotron", some citizen of dundee using firefox on a PC became the 5000th person to visit this here blog...
(since july 23rd 2005)
dundee...
in the east of scotland on the firth of tay... known as the city of discovery due to it's scientific background and also... but look, there's no point me just repeating information i read moments ago on this page about dundee...
suffice it to say that i hereby recognise dundee as the place of residence of my 5000th visitor and let's be done with it...
it was very nearly going to be finsbury park, london but my beautiful girlfriend did in the end agree to let someone else be the 5000th... she is after all far more special than a mere number...
we're going out in about an hour or so to my gig @ the metro club, oxford street, i've had a mad day of it... teaching this morning, racing over to kennington to run through the set one more time then back on the bike to soho square to load the gear in for the gig, soundcheck... before cycling home through strangely empty cycle lanes ...
i'm pretty knackered but a good dinner will sort me out... then tart myself up and take dinah by the arm and lead her through the bowels of the underground to tottenham court road where we'll probably catch the band on before us (the unready) before i get up there with T's band and rock the place out...
very slight nerves but they've got time to arrive in more numbers as 10 o'clock looms nearer and nearer...
x
(since july 23rd 2005)
dundee...
in the east of scotland on the firth of tay... known as the city of discovery due to it's scientific background and also... but look, there's no point me just repeating information i read moments ago on this page about dundee...
suffice it to say that i hereby recognise dundee as the place of residence of my 5000th visitor and let's be done with it...
it was very nearly going to be finsbury park, london but my beautiful girlfriend did in the end agree to let someone else be the 5000th... she is after all far more special than a mere number...
we're going out in about an hour or so to my gig @ the metro club, oxford street, i've had a mad day of it... teaching this morning, racing over to kennington to run through the set one more time then back on the bike to soho square to load the gear in for the gig, soundcheck... before cycling home through strangely empty cycle lanes ...
i'm pretty knackered but a good dinner will sort me out... then tart myself up and take dinah by the arm and lead her through the bowels of the underground to tottenham court road where we'll probably catch the band on before us (the unready) before i get up there with T's band and rock the place out...
very slight nerves but they've got time to arrive in more numbers as 10 o'clock looms nearer and nearer...
x
Thursday, January 25, 2007
welcome 5000th visitor
...(since july 23rd 2005)
which was roughly a year? i think since i started blogging...
was it really 2004 when i started this thing...? yes indeed, june 2004...
anyway, as i did almost a thousands visits ago i will bestow upon my 5000th visitor some kind of geographical reference...
there, now that's an incentive if ever i offered one...
long day of travelling by public transport today, gigging tomorrow and my keyboard has to be where we're rehearsing so that i can cycle from my work in the morning...
so it meant that i strapped it to my back and braved the tube down to kennington this morning, dropping it off and getting straight back on the tube to go to hammersmith, where i stayed an extra hour beyond my regular classes (but why?) which put me right in the rushhour as i caught the tube home again...
were those mad storms last thursday? yes i believe so... so that's two thursday's in a row that i've been tubing it to hammersmith... last week because of aforementioned storm and wind... i remember getting off the tube @ finsbury park to a veritable wall of commuters... fighting my way out of the tube doors, more fighting just to make my way off the platform...
dismembered limbs and blood all around me and i had to wash my sword on the...
hang on...
no, no, no...
so why did i stay an extra hour at hammersmith?
because my boss turned down my idea for splitting up my two classes over there into those who find it easier and those who find it harder, as recompense she offered me an extra hour or perhaps two if there was interest from the students, a space where select students could get more attention from me... and this week 5/6 students took up that offer... more hourage for me and also potentially a good learning situation, early days thereof today but hopeful...
you know, i think the mad storms were two weeks ago... can't be sure...
what all this tubing did for me today was give me an opportunity to read from 2012 the year of the mayan prophesy by daniel pinchbeck that Wfloopy(shaman) & T have leant me... it's turning out to be very good... (set me up for a satisfying fantasy the other day where i was somehow the chosen one writhing in spiritual agony while a blinding light created a crop circle around me)...
oh... and i've had a notion about my weekly improvisations... i don't know if there's interest enough for this, but i thought i could offer for sale a cd of whichever improvisations people wish... each one typically 15 minutes long, so you could fit 5 on a cd...
but how to make them nice not just the usual burnt cd's i can do myself... hmmm... cdbaby?
anyway, i'm rambling...
welcome oh 5000th visitor, your presence is a present...
x
which was roughly a year? i think since i started blogging...
was it really 2004 when i started this thing...? yes indeed, june 2004...
anyway, as i did almost a thousands visits ago i will bestow upon my 5000th visitor some kind of geographical reference...
there, now that's an incentive if ever i offered one...
long day of travelling by public transport today, gigging tomorrow and my keyboard has to be where we're rehearsing so that i can cycle from my work in the morning...
so it meant that i strapped it to my back and braved the tube down to kennington this morning, dropping it off and getting straight back on the tube to go to hammersmith, where i stayed an extra hour beyond my regular classes (but why?) which put me right in the rushhour as i caught the tube home again...
were those mad storms last thursday? yes i believe so... so that's two thursday's in a row that i've been tubing it to hammersmith... last week because of aforementioned storm and wind... i remember getting off the tube @ finsbury park to a veritable wall of commuters... fighting my way out of the tube doors, more fighting just to make my way off the platform...
dismembered limbs and blood all around me and i had to wash my sword on the...
hang on...
no, no, no...
so why did i stay an extra hour at hammersmith?
because my boss turned down my idea for splitting up my two classes over there into those who find it easier and those who find it harder, as recompense she offered me an extra hour or perhaps two if there was interest from the students, a space where select students could get more attention from me... and this week 5/6 students took up that offer... more hourage for me and also potentially a good learning situation, early days thereof today but hopeful...
you know, i think the mad storms were two weeks ago... can't be sure...
what all this tubing did for me today was give me an opportunity to read from 2012 the year of the mayan prophesy by daniel pinchbeck that Wfloopy(shaman) & T have leant me... it's turning out to be very good... (set me up for a satisfying fantasy the other day where i was somehow the chosen one writhing in spiritual agony while a blinding light created a crop circle around me)...
oh... and i've had a notion about my weekly improvisations... i don't know if there's interest enough for this, but i thought i could offer for sale a cd of whichever improvisations people wish... each one typically 15 minutes long, so you could fit 5 on a cd...
but how to make them nice not just the usual burnt cd's i can do myself... hmmm... cdbaby?
anyway, i'm rambling...
welcome oh 5000th visitor, your presence is a present...
x
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
31st longcat weekly improvisation
i'm gigging on friday @ the metro... in tony cannam's band... today i've been checking out the sounds i'm using and today's improvisation comes from my keyboard and the 2 modules i'm using for that band...
also the arcdev industries dubbox tape delay simulation on the hammond organ...
i'm loving where those two sounds take me...
x
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
pre assessment jitters
so i'm @ work, but the students are self organising in preparation for the assessment of this particular module which is in about 40 minutes...
strange to be so close to them but not actually helping them...
but that's the way it is today, i've got yimkin coming in to help assess and that'll be nice... now i'm popping over to have a cuppa fith M...
lurvely
x
strange to be so close to them but not actually helping them...
but that's the way it is today, i've got yimkin coming in to help assess and that'll be nice... now i'm popping over to have a cuppa fith M...
lurvely
x
cutup of 31 weeks improvising
rehearsed tonight (monday) with T's band, really looking forward to friday's gig @ the metro...
fancy it?
let me know if you want to come xx
PS - enjoy the cutup x
Sunday, January 21, 2007
judaism rehearsing
not sure why i've slowed down blogging...
but there you have it, i have for now slowed down... from sometimes as much as twice per day, and at least daily, i'm down to 2 or 3 a week...
it won't last...
dinah became officially jewish on friday, along with her mum, & me & Wfloopy(shaman) went along to the friday night shabbat service at the liberal synagogue to mark the occasion...
i love the way the shadows fall in a lattice in this picture, this is the eternal flame, and there are seven lights shining down on the support casting this very precise lattice... hmmm...
the service was pretty empty, apparently the saturday morning shabbat service is larger and i'd like to check it out one day, to hear the full choir singing the songs and also a full congregation repeating those hebrew words...
afterwards we went to thaitanic in crouch end... ate our fill... and later went back to W & T's for tea, pink wine, conversation, smoking...
found out that T has a book by peter lamborn wilson, a writer i love, i've borrowed it and i'm gathering all i can find by him (under that name and also under the name hakim bey) to take round there sometime... i think W in particular would love immediatism...
rehearsed yesterday with T's band, we're gigging on friday @ the metro... 1st gig outside of the south london pacific... nervous but really looking forward to it...
and my backdrop for my mypace page went offline so i've uploaded a new one, similarly foolish to this backdrop, what with the various different bright patches and the difficulty of reading some words... something i will fix one of these days, must ask Wfloopy(shaman) how to level out an image to make reading against it easier...?
ok, hope all is well with you dear reader... catch you soon x
but there you have it, i have for now slowed down... from sometimes as much as twice per day, and at least daily, i'm down to 2 or 3 a week...
it won't last...
dinah became officially jewish on friday, along with her mum, & me & Wfloopy(shaman) went along to the friday night shabbat service at the liberal synagogue to mark the occasion... i love the way the shadows fall in a lattice in this picture, this is the eternal flame, and there are seven lights shining down on the support casting this very precise lattice... hmmm...
the service was pretty empty, apparently the saturday morning shabbat service is larger and i'd like to check it out one day, to hear the full choir singing the songs and also a full congregation repeating those hebrew words...
afterwards we went to thaitanic in crouch end... ate our fill... and later went back to W & T's for tea, pink wine, conversation, smoking...
found out that T has a book by peter lamborn wilson, a writer i love, i've borrowed it and i'm gathering all i can find by him (under that name and also under the name hakim bey) to take round there sometime... i think W in particular would love immediatism...
rehearsed yesterday with T's band, we're gigging on friday @ the metro... 1st gig outside of the south london pacific... nervous but really looking forward to it...
and my backdrop for my mypace page went offline so i've uploaded a new one, similarly foolish to this backdrop, what with the various different bright patches and the difficulty of reading some words... something i will fix one of these days, must ask Wfloopy(shaman) how to level out an image to make reading against it easier...?
ok, hope all is well with you dear reader... catch you soon x
Thursday, January 18, 2007
surprise cinema success with 30th improvisation
expected nothing and got everything...
we were walking to the cinema to see perfume and our stomachs were full and we were late, and dinah suggested we take our time walking and see night at the museum instead...
and we both shook our heads slightly as we nodded..
even in the cinema we still kept looking at each other and wondering why we were there...
but it turned out to be really great... it made me cry (steve coogan & owen wilson)... it delivered...
that's not a recommendation, it was a certain situation that led to us being in the right place for that film.. but it was great...
and of course i did my improvisation today as you know because it's there at the top of this post... didn't broadcast it live... just set it up around 5 and went for it, balthazara coming in and staring at the space echo for awhile on my lap in the middle... the whole thing a bit too dark... and my hard drive giving up about a minute before the end (and the end only being the end because i finally noticed it had stopped recording)... but it was a good one anyway i think...
working tomorrow, 1st time time in almost a week... i love my life...
x
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
creative deoxy gig
yesterday was one of this semesters' tuesday offs...
the semester ends in a week...
so although i popped into work to assess 2 of the students briefly, i haven't been working at all since last friday...
a nice long stretch of time to be thinking about things...
my film making is in an interesting place... what with the water & improvisation film in a nearish the end phase and the water & memory film so near the beginning...
as usual the end process informs the beginning process and my film making ability raises up another notch with each film i make...
also engaged in music making a fair bit... mainly the music to water & memory but also thinking about putting music to one or all of my royal northern gardens short films...
& i've finally uploaded a video of that online gig i did in december, as you can see it's at the top of this post... almost half an hour of music... i put a couple of video things overlaid on it to suit my whimsy...
x
Sunday, January 14, 2007
foolish again
Wshaman(floopy) came round tonight with his new for christmas chess set...
we didn't get it out in the end because we were working on my film, water & improvisation - also a little bit of thought on the new film as well..
i'm deeply in debt to him for tonight... several hours of work and it's almost finished now... just a decision about the colours... and maybe a second opinion from spanna if i can pin her down to a day...
dinah had been out at the theatre and when she came home we were wrapping up the work and we fell to chatting and playing cards...
a very pleasant evening indeed, and once the evening drew to a close around 1 am i set about preparing the film for rendering, intending to set it going and then go to bed, checking it in the morning...
but it seemed to be going so quickly... it's estimate of how long it would be was only around 30 minutes...
shame to leave the computer on all night for only 30 minutes of rendering i thought to myself, i'll stay up until it's done...
and of course it took a lot longer than it thought it might... and i'm still awake @ 4 in the morning even though my baby went to bed around 3 hours ago...
so i'm taking my foolish self to bed right now...
x
we didn't get it out in the end because we were working on my film, water & improvisation - also a little bit of thought on the new film as well..
i'm deeply in debt to him for tonight... several hours of work and it's almost finished now... just a decision about the colours... and maybe a second opinion from spanna if i can pin her down to a day...
dinah had been out at the theatre and when she came home we were wrapping up the work and we fell to chatting and playing cards...
a very pleasant evening indeed, and once the evening drew to a close around 1 am i set about preparing the film for rendering, intending to set it going and then go to bed, checking it in the morning...
but it seemed to be going so quickly... it's estimate of how long it would be was only around 30 minutes...
shame to leave the computer on all night for only 30 minutes of rendering i thought to myself, i'll stay up until it's done...
and of course it took a lot longer than it thought it might... and i'm still awake @ 4 in the morning even though my baby went to bed around 3 hours ago...
so i'm taking my foolish self to bed right now...
x
Friday, January 12, 2007
cats love
really tired tonight after a strange but great day, working this morning and spending the afternoon drifting around with my bike and my camera...
some eastend wasteland, the book stall under waterloo bridge, although we couldn't play chess because it was too windy... the canada memorial, regents park, a lock on the canal...
a little blue now but balthazara is right here x
some eastend wasteland, the book stall under waterloo bridge, although we couldn't play chess because it was too windy... the canada memorial, regents park, a lock on the canal...
a little blue now but balthazara is right here x
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
broadcasting to noone
when i did my online gig just before new year i had 2 online audience members, today i broadcast my 29th weekly improvisation through the same system and got no audience members whatsoever, noone online, and noone in the room with me...
which is exactly how i normally do it... there have been two improvisations with audience, the one in the online gig and the one in that gig in early december... all other improvisations - all 27 of them - have been solitary affairs, me & my instruments, my camera videoing and my computer recording...
but there's something quite melancholy about inviting an audience and getting noone...
it's my own fault, i only started spreading the word about it last night, just like the online gig only sending out a mypace bulletin that day about it... i need to get better at getting my audiences for these online things...
i still intend to broadcast the improvisations each week but i don't know how many no audience broadcasts i can do without giving up on it... which would be foolish... but it's easy saying that now... 10 weeks and no audience later would feel very different...
so today's improvisation is uploading now... also the video of the online gig is currently converting to DIVX to make it even vaguely small enough to upload later on...
la la la... things happening in my computer that i just have to wait for...
ok, the video uploaded, as you'll know as it's at the top of this post now...
other than the improvisation today i did a couple of cool things, the first of which was to teach a piano lesson first thing...
i was really asleep when B rang me for directions to my house... but she'd been awake since 3:30 am, driving an hour to the airport in germany, catching a flight to london, travelling to finsbury park station... only to hear my nowhere voice emerging from dreams 5 & a half hours after she'd got out of bed...
good to do, my first one to one piano lesson for awhile, i intend to get back into it and build up a few different students... (do you live in north london...? do you want lessons?)
and the other thing was to cycle down to the canada memorial to resume filming for the water & memory film... strange business as when i arrived the water was turned off, blue skies and clouds reflecting off the smooth surface that is normally covered in cascading ripples...
i'll have to find out what the deal is... i don't like it, even though it gives a great contrast for the film...
afterwards i cycled over to waterloo bridge to play A @ chess... very windy it... we only played one game (we used to always play 3) and i won...
(of course)
x
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
1st day back
taught for 6 hours today, after the not teaching for a 3 weeks... a little tired now, i'll be sleeping well tonight, which will be in contrast to last night when i attacked dinah in my sleep again...
details will be over in the hardly ever updated sleepviolence once i've blogged here...
as the sign says... the 29th weekly improvisation will be taking place tomorrow afternoon, same setup as the online gig, you need ventrilo to hear it, (details)...
i might start doing it online every week you never know, anyway it'll find it's way online sure enough once it's video'd, uploaded... you know the drill...
i've got a piano lesson 1st thing tomorrow too, 1st of many i hope, good for the bank balance...
and that's about all i can say right now, boring huh? no brain after today... later x
details will be over in the hardly ever updated sleepviolence once i've blogged here...
as the sign says... the 29th weekly improvisation will be taking place tomorrow afternoon, same setup as the online gig, you need ventrilo to hear it, (details)...
i might start doing it online every week you never know, anyway it'll find it's way online sure enough once it's video'd, uploaded... you know the drill...
i've got a piano lesson 1st thing tomorrow too, 1st of many i hope, good for the bank balance...
and that's about all i can say right now, boring huh? no brain after today... later x
Monday, January 08, 2007
i'm back....!
i know you missed me... what can i say?
i woke up on wednesday and the internet had died in this house, spent ages on the phone to our supplier and they booked a visit for today saying if it was more than just us they might fix it sooner...
which they didn't...
recorded the improvisation below on thursday, whilst briefly believing that spski was moving out of this house, and therefore with melancholy in spades...
went round to Wshaman(floopy)'s to upload it but didn't get a chance to post it anywhere...
his almost moving out prompted a house meeting last night which was partly really good and partly really grim (for me) but i really have no wish to inflict it on you...
i've been fairly busy, as well as being really skint, saw felinity in her current abode on wednesday, she who now has a house to move into in february when she'll be living with her fella...
i've been working on music, begun work on the next film, still waiting to do the final touching up of water & improvisation, i've got several new tunes bubbling away, one of which is over there on mypace in it's current form - love is (the answer) -
i got so lost in computerness today - what with the internet being on again and these projects on the go... i completely forgot that i was meant to be rehearsing tonight with T's band... really dumb, partly a result of not eating very much... i was cheerfully chatting to spski when dinah came in and was surprised to see me...
so that was clever...
oh i'm all out of practise with blogging, making not much sense...
later x
i woke up on wednesday and the internet had died in this house, spent ages on the phone to our supplier and they booked a visit for today saying if it was more than just us they might fix it sooner...
which they didn't...
recorded the improvisation below on thursday, whilst briefly believing that spski was moving out of this house, and therefore with melancholy in spades...
went round to Wshaman(floopy)'s to upload it but didn't get a chance to post it anywhere...
his almost moving out prompted a house meeting last night which was partly really good and partly really grim (for me) but i really have no wish to inflict it on you...
i've been fairly busy, as well as being really skint, saw felinity in her current abode on wednesday, she who now has a house to move into in february when she'll be living with her fella...
i've been working on music, begun work on the next film, still waiting to do the final touching up of water & improvisation, i've got several new tunes bubbling away, one of which is over there on mypace in it's current form - love is (the answer) -
i got so lost in computerness today - what with the internet being on again and these projects on the go... i completely forgot that i was meant to be rehearsing tonight with T's band... really dumb, partly a result of not eating very much... i was cheerfully chatting to spski when dinah came in and was surprised to see me...
so that was clever...
oh i'm all out of practise with blogging, making not much sense...
later x
Monday, January 01, 2007
new years
spent with dinah down in brighton where we still are, we stayed in josiah's flat while josiah was out at a party, we're going over to see her & grace in a little while...
we were going to get a hotel but decided against it and were very pleased when josiah offered her place, we brought down our fancy clothes, wanting to dress elegantly even though noone would see us...
but josiah ran out of gas around 10ish so we huddled under a duvet and saw in the new year sipping cava and laughing... watching jools holland's hootenany on the telly, my first... i was just marvelling that they had all those people there at that moment when dinah told me they film it earlier in the year and it's not live...
burst my bubble...
it was very funny being with my boobelah even in the cold... the cold and the fact that we couldn't get the seinfeld DVD to play on this laptop just made it all much funnier and we continued to drink cava, which we started on the train down...
dinah is bathing now while i watch superman and do the dishes...
we're going to dress up and float down to see josiah in elegance in a little while...
x
we were going to get a hotel but decided against it and were very pleased when josiah offered her place, we brought down our fancy clothes, wanting to dress elegantly even though noone would see us...
but josiah ran out of gas around 10ish so we huddled under a duvet and saw in the new year sipping cava and laughing... watching jools holland's hootenany on the telly, my first... i was just marvelling that they had all those people there at that moment when dinah told me they film it earlier in the year and it's not live...
burst my bubble...
it was very funny being with my boobelah even in the cold... the cold and the fact that we couldn't get the seinfeld DVD to play on this laptop just made it all much funnier and we continued to drink cava, which we started on the train down...
dinah is bathing now while i watch superman and do the dishes...
we're going to dress up and float down to see josiah in elegance in a little while...
x
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