yr2wk28

just me on my own, a little late, i can't remember the last it happened on a sunday, but then it has been christmas week...

x enjoy x i know, a little bit videotastic at the moment, but you got some actual paragraphs in that last post... huh?

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marbles

well, 2nd night back in the smoke and i can't sleep, probably the smoking...

since i posted that marble run video i've taken an interest in these 2 videos that this character has posted of his marble machines, also this marble adding machine...

i'm slightly obsessed with filming again since my folks got me a new camera for christmas, the dawn project videoblog below was shot on it and it's very groovy, it has this thing called stitch assist which shows you the last picture you took just to the left of the picture you're about to take, then a bit of software that will take this series of pictures and turn it into a panarama:



this being where i took some of the 2nd shots this morning (well, yesterday morning) for the dawn project...

given a tripod and a good high place, i could get great results...

balthazara is being lovely, i haven't yet told the story of her coming to this flat but i will, i think she's close to being settled enough to let her outside every now and again, but that could be wishful thinking... it's only been a week and my intention was to leave it 3 weeks, i'm used to dealing with her poo now...

& i've got my eye on a new soundcard fairly soon, a small windfall is allowing that to happen, or will allow it to happen, but my room is the furthest from being ready, the ceiling has yet to be painted let alone the whole room being papered and painted so i'm reluctant to set stuff up, although i can't stop, the weekly improvisation must push on (saturday now for this week's, when i wake up)...

oh well, i think i can feel sleepyness... i'll call this a night, oh but just to say, at some point in the next week my numbers will be @ 7777 and i'll be doing my customary thing with the location of my 7777th visitor x

marble run with felinity

here it is, we had such fun x

Dawn Project videoblog week 42

we came back to london last night to balthazara's delight, she who was licking my fingers earlier on today after i'd had about an hours sleep after the dawn project,

another video brewing, the results of me & felinity's efforts to build a marble run over christmas...

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yr2wk27 moog, rhodes, drums, guitar with D & G

recorded on friday at Hammersmithwork on D's beautiful moog opus3 synth and a rhodes sound, D on drums & G on guitar, the same trio as yr2wk6...

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short on sleep

i've been up since 4 on a crazy escapade that hasn't yet worked, more details once it's done, i've decided to stay awake, even though i only had about 3 hours sleep, i'm gigging tonight and the adrenalin will keep that working then i'll collapse in bed once home and make my early morning thursday work a little easier...

or at least that's the plan x

yr2wk26 piano & voice improvisation

recorded this afternoon with my many aches & pains, having fallen off my bike yesterday on the way to the dawn project, my right elbow and my neck/back on the right, along with some vicious leg cramp my body decided to give me last night in my left calf...

but do you hear me complaining about it...? do you? well not in the improvisation but i am complaining quite a lot in real life...

felinity sick in bed and therefore not over here which is a shame ... i hope she's feeling better soon...

and if i can muster the energy i'm going out to G's show & prove @ the queen elizabeth hall tonight, it's free, you should go too...

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internet at last

and what have i done since the internet arrived this afternoon?

i've played sudoku over on the new scientist website -(where, as soon as i get paid, i'm so going to get a subscription to the magazine) - i've updated the index page on longcat.net showing the correct weekly improvisation, something i might have worked out how to do out there in internet cafe land but it so much easier at home...

i've made a move on chess.com, i've established that the muswell hill odeon is not currently working, sadly, as me & dinah were going to go there tonight...

and that's mostly it, other than watch that video just below this several times... thanks felinity i agree it's marvellous...

i bought a wired router today, which is currently supplying internet to both this PC and dinah's mac, although the mac isn't definitely seeing the internet yet, now, will my email address just work? being as i was with virgin media before the move...?

let's see...

anyway, must get bread & cheese...

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packing up longcat's room

here it is, the photo project made flesh...

when we were packing up the old room (documented here) we went through G's stuff that had been occupying the two top shelves in my room all the 4 years i lived there...

in amongst a few different things was a tin can with (i counted them today) 31 pounds worth of old 50p pieces...

so one of my out of the house tasks today has been to find out just how to convert old money into new... no luck so far, the bank of england are the way it seems, a trip into town therefore... one of those subjects you'd think it would be easy to research on the net but i'm getting nowhere...

last night me & dinah met with felinity and co for a night of karaoke madness... pretty wierd setup but with a certain amount of alcohol it was damn good fun, bohemian rhapsody a surprise hit...

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yr2wk25 rhodes improvisation

friday's improvisation, just the rhodes, taken this long to get online but it's there now, our internet arrives on wednesday and it will all be a lot easier...

i'm also uploading (from this internet cafe) the finished version of the photo project i did in that room in birnam road, on the day of the move i set the camera videoing for about 30 minutes so it's a combination of the stills and the video, to some great music (not mine)... it'll probably be in the next post...

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internet cafe

so here i am in this internet cafe just across from turnpike lane station, uploading the improvisation i recorded yesterday afternoon...

life is proving a touch difficult recently what with the moving, the not sleeping enough, the not having balthazara yet and the continued nonsense from the old housemates about taking her... i find i'm a little more fragile than usual which is not surprising i guess, i might get myself some arnica, carry it around like a i used to...

this week i did two gigs on wednesday and thursday nights, wednesday night was in the poshest flat i've ever seen in my life, over in holland park and it paid pretty well, it was with G & T, G who is one of my search&reflect apprentices and T who me & dinah met while out celebrating G's new baby girl...

we played three sets of 45 minutes each, the same amount of time i used to do with that piano gig back in the summer but much easier because i had bass and sax with me... we also had the maddest cabbie soming back to north london that i've ever had, he deserved more than a sentence so i'll devote a bit more to him in another post...

thursday night T's band played at the 12 bar with a promoter we've played with before who always - without fail - cuts our set short, it's because we don't bring any audience, every time we do a gig for him we say we're never going to play for him again but we've played 3 times for him...

this time we played 4 out of our 10 tunes and he came up and said one more, we played two more, while packing up i asked T if we could never play another gig with him, the promoter was walking behind me as i said it and he definately heard..

i hope we don't do anymore gigs with him but you never know...

ok enough blogging, i'm going to read from the proust book i'm reading until it's uploaded... x

dawn project

just like last week i was enjoying the lastness of almost everything, this week it's all about the 1stness of it all...

so this morning i cycled from our new flat to the dawn project, it took me 12 minutes and it involved more than one up & down... harder work than the old route but i'll get used to it...

i didn't cycle to my hammersmith work afterwords, 40 minutes on the tube gave me time to get back into my book which i found last night from amongst the boxes...

anyway, must teach x

new flat

internet arrives at our new flat next wednesday and i tried to steal some off the neighbours but they're protected...

so this is a brief post from floopy & T's, much documenting of stuff yet too show but it'll be slow arriving...

the builder finally came and plastered the ceiling today (in one of the rooms) half the flat is now carpeted, the considerate carpeters leaving two massive rolls of carpet directly behind our front door yesterday...

hopefully the rest of the flat will be carpeted today, much papering & painting over the next few days...

the box room was absolutely stuffed full of boxes up until last night when i moved more than half of it (including the piano)...

this flat is going to be so fantastic it's almost good that it's so mad to begin with... we appreciate the carpets that are down sooooooo much x

ok laters x