Here's That Rainy Day

I think there's probably only one person who reads this blog (and I'm not even sure if he does) that gets these jazz standard blog titles I use sometimes.

...I like this weather we’re having. I’ve always liked the rain.

The left side of my car stereo stopped working. It’s a bit annoying, hearing only the right side of mixes for all these songs... maybe one of these days I’ll take some time and investigate. I’ve fixed things in my day.

I had a nice little night to myself last night. Took care of some car stuff, then cooked for myself. I concocted a marinade from some of the wine leftover from the wine and cheese party and some random spices in our cabinet and let the chicken I bought sit in that for a while while I spoke to Roberta, who just returned to Rio, on MSN. Mashed some potatoes... made some green beans (a little overcooked)... not too shabby. And now look who has a sweet homemade lunch at work today. Heh. I also spoke to Shara, who is working at a medical clinic in Brazil herself (in a state in the northern part of the country called Para that my Brazilian-Nyack cohorts laugh/shudder at whenever I mention it... suffice to say, not a nice part of the country), via Skype, and on the phone. Technology is pretty amazing.

The Arlene’s Grocery show went well. I couldn’t really hear myself, which was admittedly pretty annoying, but could tell we sounded pretty good to the audience. I think being a keyboardist, people (sound engineers at clubs) assume I’m playing less important parts or something... ?! I dunno. Anyway, we brought a lot of people out: the Nyack/Wasabi crowd, some old Brandeis peeps now relocated to NYC (Lindsay, Jordan, Nate, and my recent apartment-mate Becky)... I think due to a minor scuff with the door girl about money we may not get asked back to that particular venue (heh), but we made a nice contact on the Tuesday night before the gig that will help us get other NYC/Village gigs.

The Wednesday night big-deal-manager-guy showcase went pretty much how I expected it to. This guy works with Panic! at the Disco in some vein (I think business manager), as well as Warren Haynes/Government Mule, so I went into this hoping we could at least get some sound advice out of this guy. And that’s pretty much what happened. We played 4-5 songs and talked for a while afterwards about signing with a label and how it’s smartest to have a decent following/”buzz” before doing so. He talked about playing out more. I mostly nodded... it all made sense to me. If nothing else, it was good to hear these things reaffirmed by someone like him and cool we brought this guy out at all.

...why on this radio station do they play the –entire- Steve Miller Band “Fly Like an Eagle” intro and outro with all its silly drawn-out synthesizers and NOT the entire Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen jam by Santana?! It’s a TRAVESTY

Ahem. Intentionally leaving that without punctuation at the end bothers me. But I’m going to try and let it go.

Tyler called yesterday and told me my old music school in Concord wants our Celtic band to do an alumni concert sometime over winter break... this could be fun.

Our video guy Jonathon is coming down from MA at the end of the month to work on a video with us...

Can you believe they have an energy drink called “Cocaine” on the market?!

Fine, here’s a picture, to change things up a bit... this is Mat, Rob, myself, and Ines at the joint Mat’s birthday/wine-and-cheese party at our apartment last weekend.