antics

we went to pennies and had to wait for quite a while...

always difficult... sunday before our meal @ pennies...

but it did come and it was mighty...

we often remark to each other how different the world feels, before and after our sunday veggie roast @ pennies...

dinah has been camped out in her intellectual world all day (for much of many days to be honest) working on an essay to be handed in tomorrow, and although i was going to go over to kingston to celebrate the 40th of lovely S, percussionist in kyo back then... he called it off because of illness... so i was free to tackle the trees with W(floopy)shaman...

and tackle them we did... to be honest it was mainly the shaman...

he was leaping about, climbing onto the ladder that i'd precariously carried over on my bike (even more precarious on the way home tonight - a little stoned), which was precariously resting on a tree...

he was in his element... we pulled the branch right in front down, then two trees deeper into the picture we pulled left and right, creating more space in the middle of the image...

spski returned tonight after a way too long absence and he approved off the procedure, no cutting or breaking of branches...

me & the shaman returned to his gaff and we played chess, three games, 1st mine, 2nd his, 3rd a draw... i video'd the 2nd two and it'll appear one of these days on youtube...

as will the footage i shot today mid antic... that'll be subsumed into this weeks dawnproject videoblog...

oh i love how gillian welch & david rawlings sing this townes van zandt tune - pancho & lefty...

just heaven...

anyway, must get on, a couple of marking decisions to be made before bed and then a long old day tomorrow, all paid, all teaching related...

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dinah rocks out

with Wfloopy(shaman) in their 1st youtube featurette...

just put the finishing touches to another of my own youtubing daft things... tomorrow now, oh and i did get up @6:15am for the dawn project...

that was ages ago x

searching

just been to manolis's and i want to find something that he will enjoy reading, he's in a little bit of a low patch, i offered to lend him my book of cavafy that i know he likes but he said if it was in greek... maybe... so now i'm about to search for cavafy poems in greek to print out and bring to manolis... he told me that i was very habitual, and that kant was also habitual... people used to be able to set their clocks by kant...?

also i've been on a strange and so far fruitless search since yesterday when i used some hakim bey spoken word stuff in my improvisation. it struck me that i should be able to identify where i got it from... and indeed what it is... when he was speaking and who he was speaking to...

and i have no idea... it seems to be on the winter solstice some year.. he's speaking as peter lambon wilson, i have no idea where it came from, maybe soulseek, or maybe through deoxy... or then perhaps it came from those grey lodge folk...

reminds me that when i met that iching guy who had had some contact with hakim bey he'd told me that hakim bey was really against the internet... favouring real breast to breast communication... or letters...

going over to W(floopy)shaman's tonight for chess and food... he who has only just gone over to internet chess... we're breast to breast chessing tonight as well as our internet game...

rehearsed with T's band minus the guitarist last night, we're gigging a week on tuesday if you fancy, we were fantastic @ the metro and we'll be a touch better @ leonards...

slow day i've had today, a kind of malaise i'm almost under, not as bad by any means as some days but, what with the next semester so close and the work still to be done for it... it can seem like a day like today is a waste, but i don't see it like that, if i need to spend a day like today - even as it's hard to see what it does for me... i celebrate the day i've had... i love the way i live my life...

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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...

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delayed fireworks

so me & dinah set off to ally pally last night but were let down by the W3 bus... rubbish service...

so we went to W(floopy)shaman's house and he lit a fire and we bought some sparklers... later on we did a zilch... i'd only heard about it before and i'd never seen or heard it...

pretty strange & wonderful...

i video'd it so i won't explain it here, but i'll be uploading that video and it'll make sense then... (it involves toxic gas and plastic bags... and fire)

so we eventually rolled out of there at around 2... a second night of debauchery with floopy...

then today after eating to our smiling faces delight @ the amazon he was round ours, trying to sort out dinah's printer troubles and meanwhile i was in my room, experimenting with a virtual tape delay made by this cat...

based on a roland space echo, it has kept me very happy for much of today, pausing only to accompany dinah out to victoria park to see walk the plank do another show, pretty inferior to last years burning of the houses of parliament but a great tiger and a monster firework display which had us both screaming with glee and even brought tears to my babies eyes...

before we went out to see the fireworks i'd been messing around with my rhodes going through the tape delay, once home from the fireworks i introduced my voice to the tape delay and it has been quite an interesting journey...

1stly having a copy of my voice thrown back at me is very interesting and throws a certain light onto my voice which is both scary and very useful, i intend to practise with the delay therefore until i can get rid of the less tasty aspects that i hear...

but also just experimenting with timing, having the same delay running (a set tempo), but playing in different ways that emphasise different pulses, basically swapping between a 3 and a 4 feel... cookie business and an interesting adjunct to the rhythm tree that i've been teaching along with my apprentice @ college recently...

so strange also that i've been playing around for hours and i go to save my work but i've recorded nothing... just twiddled knobs and sang to the air...

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