Sunday, August 26, 2007
Thanks, Now Please Give Deni a Hand
It's been very gratifying to read so many kind comments on the song I posted on MySpace last week. The consensus seems to be that I should perform some of my songs to background tracks from my CD and leave others that would sound find unaccompanied by bass, drums and other instruments. Last night I tried out most of that material without the tracks at a coffee house gig.
After having listened to the studio roughs for two weeks, it was hard to get my head around not having a band behind me. I kept waiting for the nifty little piano and Deni Bonet violin fills. It was a bit distracting and I fumbled through some of it but I'll get used to it.Deni is going to have her second chance eye surgery Tuesday. She asked on her blog if anybody had recommendations for audio books she could listen to while she recovers. If you have some ideas, please get over there and let her know about it.
Been hearing from a lot of former students who are going back to college or high school this week. While I have adult conversations with them, I still picture them as eleven year olds. The recent pics they post don't help. I'd still never recognize them on the street. But I'm visually challenged that way. The last class I ever taught is entering their junior year in HS. It's about this time of their lives when they start talking to adults again. Sweet. I missed them over the past couple of years.
My daughter is starting a new job teaching Life Sciences (Bio) in the middle school she attended, in the same school district I taught in for most of my career. She's now a colleague to my former colleagues, some of whom I actually taught. She'll be teaching siblings of kids I taught. Kids I knew as babies brought to parent conferences and bounced on a knee while I chatted with their parents.
All this makes me miss my granddaughter, Stella, enormously. West coast girl that she is, I don't get to see her much. But I'll get to spend a little time with her at a wedding in about 21 days. She won't know who the hell I am but I'll pretend she does. We'll have a long conversation that she'll pretend to understand and answer me in a language only she is clear on. She'll remind me that I owe her and her daddy a song. I'll assure her, I've been working on it for a long time. These things are slow to develop.
I did get to spend a few hours with Patrik, my godson, on Friday night. He came for dinner. Brought his parents too. He was quietly but intensely amused by my guitar florescent light. He weighs almost as much now as the weights his mother Jitka, my personal trainer, makes me manipulate while balancing on large rubber balls. I think she's been working him out too. Cathy and I are considering going to Prague for the christening. But they'll accept my witness in absentia if I can find my Baptismal certificate. I think I kept it even though I ditched my comic book collection years ago.
posted by Bud @ 7:54 AM
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I had to play to a drum backing track the other night. It was nerve-wracking to realise I was going to have to keep time. And thus I learned the true value of the metronome...
i convinced myself that zori will remember every second i held her.
the fact she can't remember her hand every time she sees it doesn't deter me from this illusion.
the fact she can't remember her hand every time she sees it doesn't deter me from this illusion.
I love the Portable Professor series from Barnes and Noble.
Best of luck to your friend. Hope she heals quickly.
Cool blue violin.
Best of luck to your friend. Hope she heals quickly.
Cool blue violin.
Oh yayyy!! - It always does my heart so good to read your lil updates! =)
The part about your daughter teaching at the same school and kids of kids you taught, etc., just reminds me of the wheel of life. Around & around... and a beautiful thing.
Speaking of beautiful... AWESOME pic of the b'fly on Cathy's finger on the next post down!
That needs to be blown up and framed; it's great!
The part about your daughter teaching at the same school and kids of kids you taught, etc., just reminds me of the wheel of life. Around & around... and a beautiful thing.
Speaking of beautiful... AWESOME pic of the b'fly on Cathy's finger on the next post down!
That needs to be blown up and framed; it's great!
I too think your daughter teaching in the same school district that you did is an awesome thing. I think my dad, on the other hand, is very glad I've not yet followed in his footsteps and opened a bar : ).
how awesome to think your daughter will be making her mark in the same arena you did Bud! You must feel so proud. Nice seeing you again darling, really!
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