yr2wk44 early morning rhodes improvisation

it has been a really mad day, i couldn't sleep last night (i may have had a couple of hours) so i got up & watched "i am legend" which was surprisingly good... then i did this improvisation, upped and went to a rehearsal with M's band, followed by all sorts of drama with a few members of the entourage...

added to which i've been the 999,999th visitor and won an audi a3... several times...

of course this all happens when i've had so little sleep,

i've completely passed through to the other side and after dinner i'm going to sleep like a lamb...

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presleep

about to sleep, up tomorrow morning for a rehearsal with M's band, playing @ the Marquee Club in covent garden tomorrow night, we're headlining, sometimes a dubious pleasure but we'll see...

and it's the last night they're open, we'll be the last band to play on that legendary stage...

and my improvisation is as yet un-edited which drives me a little nuts...

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sleep stories

i've watched ovingdean so many times now i have no idea if it's any good?

so, grabbing a couple of minutes to tell you the sleep stories, 1stly:

some night last week balthazara came into my room while i was asleep and jumped on the bed, demanding stroking...

in my dream i was stroking a cat and i slowly started to realise that the cat i was stroking was just like my own cat and this surprised me... what was balthazara doing in that strange dream place?

the 2nd was just over a week ago, on a friday night, i woke up holding down a chord on my piano, i'd played a few notes, really loudly, and this had woken me up... dinah was saying something like: it's not the time for piano playing now...

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short on sleep

i worked last night instead of tonight and by chance my dad is watching the cricket today so me & felicity are meeting him for dinner tonight... i forgot to remind dinah to record heroes for me last night, and i wonder if she did it anyway?...

2 nights ago i slept badly, worked all day yesterday and then gigged in the evening...

i was pretty fragile by the 2nd set but then i played the opening to gymnopedie no.1 (i can only play the opening so far, but then that's the bit everyone knows - dinah knows it as bom ching... bom ching... from the amount of times i've called it that but claims not to actually know what it is...) and i heard a voice behind me say... oh how lovely - i must get a piano... and as i improvised over those 2 chords (with the leaping left hand) the room gradually quietened and i think i'm right in saying i brought a hushed silence to the room (just for a moment)...

not that anyone clapped or anything, that's not what you get in this kind of gig, i've had it once in the 8 gigs i've done there... after my last tune - which generally is april in paris at the moment...

anyway this revived me and i felt a little less like i was being eaten by flesh eating beetles...

i came home and foolishly fell into watching TV with dinah gradually curling up and sleeping on my shoulder, in the middle of the night i saw that the skulls was just over an hour in and i'd been vaguely wanting to see it for a little while, so i found ITV2 + 1, and watched it, and it was pretty good, it's got that guy from CSI in it as a senator...

then immediately after that the larry sanders show was on over on ITV4 so i couldn't not watch it... it was fantastic...

crept into bed around 3:30... was up @ 8 for the dawn project...

so still very short on sleep...

think i'm going to skip over to a mossbros in muswell hill to book my suit for trave & clementine's wedding...

slow but nice day...