Monday, Monday...

First, some pics from the recent video shoot weekend…

Mateus and I hucking around the frisbee by the Blankfort’s house

Mateus, first up for filming individual shots

Oh, Dylan…

Jase watches the action, Adam watches the monitor

Dylan’s turn!

The band (minus me) gets ready for the group shot

In other news, I “got” the gig at Wasabi… looks like I’ll be playing there every other week, on Tuesday nights. The trial gig went well; employees and patrons alike paid Doug (the bassist I found on craigslist not days prior) and I some real nice compliments. In hindsight, and according to Rob, Kevin, and Dylan, I probably could have handled the gig on my own, and I just may do that on subsequent Tuesdays, but I also like having a group to play with. I realize it would be less money most likely, but I’d love to have a bassist and drummer in there with me at some point. I would also really like to work up the Radiohead tune “Pyramid Song,” spurred on by Adam suggesting I play some pop/rock tunes, in a “jazz” fashion… but first I have to figure out the damn time signature, ha! It is a complicated tune in that regard…

The Glint NYC show at the Lion’s Den went well. The drive… is a bit annoying. Parking… same thing. But that aside, the show went pretty well… lots of familiar faces, made some new fans too… I particularly enjoyed the Corsairs, one of the bands on before us, who sounded a bit like Jet. Pretty tight. We sounded pretty good… played a new song, “In the Underground,” among other things… yup. More shows to come. Brooklyn is next.

Hm, what else… culinarily (ha!) a pretty good weekend… we made hot mulled cider again on Friday night, and this time spiked it with brandy, a better choice than rum… Sunday Rob and I hit Natraz (Indian food, across the street from us) for the $10 lunch buffet, AMAZING… and that night we decided to make everyone’s favorite, tacos. Rob and I decided to try making some sangria and it came out really well… I think we used merlot, lemon juice, limes and oranges, and some of the leftover brandy… quite good.

Got some shopping done at the Palisades on Saturday, too… not quite as crazy as I expected. The Charlie Brown Christmas album was playing in Barnes and Noble… much appreciated.

Yup!