MartyNeilan wrote:My wife called to say she is bringing home a kitten from work. She just called back again, to say she is bringing home two.
(You still hungry after that 4.14 inches of sandwich, Bloke?)
2 wife-acquired kittens (destroyed furniture, fleas, vet bills, food, flea medicine) = 1 ticket to purchase a 6/4 CC tuba
One of the cats just found a permanent home (other than ours.) So, it is now our 4 yr old male gray tiger cat and this new 3 month black "tortie" female kitten (black tortise shell.) As a cat person, I can handle that, and she does seem to be a sweetie. The territorial "boss of the house" cat is surprisingly tolerant of our new kitten as well, but I will be keeping the kitten in the bathroom tonight to make sure.
I would probably discount the 6/4 CC idea. When I asked for the $21 to order the Blokewashers earlier today, I was surprised at the swiftness of the positive response; usually valve oil is a struggle. I will take what I can get
Thanks, I am sending them out tomorrow. The man who cut my hair really did a great job of making the most out of it and managed to get six pony-tails out of it all.
I believe that the apocalypse is upon us.
I recieved an email (not going to go into details for the sake of those of us involved) in which someone with whom I've had over a yearlong disagreement with finally apologized. I think the world might implode soon.
"We can avoid humanity's mistakes"
"Like the tuba!"
Tuba Guy wrote:I believe that the apocalypse is upon us.
I recieved an email (not going to go into details for the sake of those of us involved) in which someone with whom I've had over a yearlong disagreement with finally apologized. I think the world might implode soon.
It's just global warming. They'll disagree with you again in 2012.
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
I played an interesting gig yesterday with a high school honor string orchestra and jazz violin soloist Christian Howes. He did a neat thing with effects pedals - he would record a chorus of a bass line (on his violin with an octave pedal!), then loop it while recording a "guitar" track, then loop those while soloing over both lines! It got me thinking that someone could probably work this out with a tuba pretty effectively...
Todd S. Malicoate wrote:I played an interesting gig yesterday with a high school honor string orchestra and jazz violin soloist Christian Howes. He did a neat thing with effects pedals - he would record a chorus of a bass line (on his violin with an octave pedal!), then loop it while recording a "guitar" track, then loop those while soloing over both lines! It got me thinking that someone could probably work this out with a tuba pretty effectively...
Cool yes, new no. Check out Les Paul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_paul" target="_blank" target="_blank sometime. I saw him in the late fifties at the Arkansas State Fair with his wife Mary Ford and they multitracked 4 part harmony and two or three guitar parts live. It made quite an impression on this beginning trombone player. I almost switched to guitar.
I am fortunate to have a great job that feeds my family well, but music feeds my soul.
Geology is a fun and interesting subject don't get me wrong but I'd rather play tuba for an hour and a half... and then another two hours on lab days.... I'm in it for the science credit...
"Music is the space between the notes." ~Claude Debussy
I am proud of my 9 yr old boy's taste in music. My wife took him winter clothes shopping this afternoon while I watched the other two, did laundry, and shimmed the storm door to actually keep drafts out. They stopped at a bookstore on the way home, and he picked out 2 CD's from their sale rack. One was the obligatory Halloween anthology featuring Monster Mash, My Friend the WItch Doctor, and similar fun but not very deep tunes. The other was a disc of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong singing jazz standards. When I went to check on him just before, he was sound asleep but Louie was still growling in the background.
P.S. I am still doing laundry. With 5 people in the house and 2 of them in school uniforms (thanks, Nashville!) it takes me forever to do the weekly laundry.
and I really want to go practice tuba...