With work seeming like more of a chore than usual at the moment, bring on the weekend please so that I can:
1. Watch my boy Happy Jack playing two gigs. Charly Brown on Friday night and a farewell Little Big Band set at the Hob in Forest Hill on Saturday afternoon. Jack has been playing with them for a few years now, and along with fab drummer Elliott (also of Charly Brown fame), bows out this weekend to allow younger (and smaller) boys and girls to take to the stage. He has learnt a massive amount from band leader and Muso Supremo Suliman, so a big thank you to him for being an inspirational teacher to all the little rascals.
2. Visit one of my favourite local pubs with my favourite local people to watch England put on an inevitably disappointing performance against (European? I think not) Israel. A masochistic activity I know, but somehow we're always there....
3. Console ourselves, after the above performance, with a yumalicious meal at a top local restaurant - but which to choose?
4. Practice my alto sax scales. Two weeks in and I am loving it - lessons with our 'personal music teacher' Suliman - and although not quite up to Lisa Simpson's standards yet, I am hopeful of a rendition of the Pink Panther theme tune some time soon.
5. Finally finish my Katy (half a sleeve to go!) so that I can wear it before the weather realises it needs to fast forward back to spring.
NaBloPoMo 29:
9 years ago
1 comment:
dude. i played alto sax for a few years in high school when we moved to a new place and i was actually the BEST flautist (flutist?), but they arranged by seniority so even suckass players got to sit higher than me b/c they were juniors & seniors. so i said fuck that and played first chair alto sax instead (the fingerings are mostly the same as flute so if you can handle the embouchure, you're in like flynn).
it's a lot of fun, you can really jazz out on that baby!
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