Changes at the apartment… two of our guys are moving next door. This will be a good thing.
More antics with the guys from next door… Sunday night Dylan, Rob, and I really wanted to throw the frisbee around but unfortunately said frisbee was nowhere to be found. In desperation, Rob approached me with 10 or so paper plates stacked on top of each other… 5 minutes and some carefully applied duct tape later, we had our very own homemade novelty flying disc that worked so well, none of us believed it. We must have played for 45 minutes. No joke.
Anyways, the Vertigo show Friday went well… what a –crazy- venue! I can see why some residents of Nyack are “scared” of it…it really looks like it was designed by someone on drugs. I am not apt enough with architectural terminology to describe it, but I’ll say this… if Lewis Carroll were to design a restaurant, this is what it would look like. Weird ambiance aside, we sounded pretty good. The stage was wide and not deep, much to Mateus’ dismay, but we managed a decent 4-across setup. There was some –sweet- lighting. And we had a real nice crowd, a lot of people came out, including some old familiar Nyack faces… Michelle V., Tara… even some of Russell Crowe’s(!) “people” showed up (but not Russell himself), since he lives around town, and even partied with us afterwards. Adam had seen them at Wasabi (the Japanese restaurant where he works) earlier that afternoon and invited them to the show.
Raging party afterwards at our place, per usual… 200(!) jell-o shots, among other things… my original plan was to go right to sleep so I could get up at 7:30 to go to Rosh Hashanah services, but I decided to party just for a little while. I’m glad I did, and getting up the next morning proved to be no problem… it was a bit of a trip, walking around in my towel, getting ready for my day while people were still up and partying that early/late, heh…
(There’s currently one jell-o shot left over from the weekend in our fridge… I can’t help but think of the Lorax and truffula trees… “the very last of the jell-o shots…” –sniff-)
Services were really nice. I joined my Uncle Sam and cousin Josh at their temple in Montclair. I was raised going to a reform temple and this was a conservative one, but I was familiar with most of the service. I liked the rabbi… pretty straight-ahead with just enough joking around. The theme of his sermon was “is it possible to love a stranger?” really in reference to American Jews and learning to love and accept the “stranger” land of Israel, using the relationship with his adopted Indian son as a personal example. And the cantor was outstanding. That can really make or break a service and she made it. I did miss the high holiday melodies sung at my temple in Concord though, and harmonizing with dad and Jeff. Anyways, afterwards, uncle, aunt, 3 cousins and Phil all hit brunch, followed by the cousins beating me at ping-pong… again. Apparently there are household rankings, with cousin Ben as the number one seeded player, his brothers and some of his friends beneath him… I was informed I am “unranked.” Heh.
Saturday was a bit of a lost day… Sunday was the most satisfying clean-up day I’ve experienced in a while. The whole damn apartment. Granted, there were jell-o stains everywhere, so something had to be done. Call me a nerd, say what you will, but it just feels so damn good to –clean- like that, have the laundry done, reorganize the room a bit…
Wikipedia… love it. Pointless musing #135… how much does an average Wikipedia browsing “session” look like a Phish setlist? With all the inevitable clicks on links to related articles? For example…
Flat tax, Max Weinberg, Peter Gabriel -> Genesis -> Phil Collins…
(…Wilson, David Bowie, Mike’s Song -> I Am Hydrogen -> Weekapaug Groove…)
…you get the idea. Did you know that the same team of 9 core animators, colloquially referred to by Walt Disney as the “Nine Old Men,” worked on twentysomething animated features in a row? From “Snow White” to “The Rescuers,” spanning almost 40 years?
And last night I discovered you can download sheet music from Amazon.com. I had been wanting to try my classical chops at Chopin’s Nocturne in Eb and had been fooling around with what I could pick out by ear for a while, so I figured, what the hell. $2.75, 6 pages, in .pdf format available for immediate download, printed on neon green paper from Adam’s printer, now sitting on my desk in my room, waiting to be attempted.
Blah blah… bye!
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