telly domestic goddess

meeting up with a singer for possible future keyboard work didn't quite pan out tonight and it was just as well, dinah was in the kitchen whipping up the most amazing penny manqué which took a little longer to prepare and then quite a bit longer to recover from, in the sense of being able to function in the world..

penny being the owner and manager of the amazon cafe in the locale of where we used to live... it's where me & dinah used to always go on a sunday... purveyors of fine vegetarian roast dinners and lovely smiles... our penny manqué being dinah's version and it was quite the thing ladies and gentlemen...

then tonight i watched alien vs predator on channel 4 +1 which was really great... i'm so ready for the sequel...

digital tv having arrived you see on friday and our lives all the richer for it...

also a real plan is shaping up for the decorating of the flat, floopy & spski being the major players, it really could happen in the very near future, i've just been living with it unfinished for so long i can't quite get my head around it being decorated, this room has hieroglyphics & how could it be any different?

in other news i have 2 piano students starting this week, the shape of some of my future income 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...

x

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...

x

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...

x

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