The mouse hovers over "Always".
Dammit
I click "Often" and move on.
I finished filling out my application for books-a-million today. I'm excited to try out the whole "UVa on a resume is a surefire win" theory. I also think that it would be a sweet job. Within walking distance, filled with books, coffee shop in the store. Sounds like a win for me.
Phillip wanted me to come in today and I need the hours, but he wanted to trade and I'm not gonna give a weekend up for a Tuesday. That's madness.
Hopefully I'll get a chance to play set today, or at least talk to Dennis about mallet arrangements. I think over the next two years I wanna write a serious arrangement of a combo of Beauty and the Mess and Smoothie Song by Nickel Creek. The percussion ensemble concert only re-affirmed my confidence that it would work really well. Something about "progressive bluegrass" (ugh, every time I see that, let alone say it, I shudder) really carries over with the infamous vibraphone-xylophone combination and with a marimba carrying the bass part I think it should come together nicely.
At our percussion ensemble concert last month, we had a guest artist. One very eccentric Ed Smith. Phenomenal percussionist. Potential creeper on our instructor who was his old student. Anyhoo, he played a solo that was half improv and half arrangement of Blackbird. It was amazing and completely rekindled my faith in the vibraphone. Now I want to at least attempt to do something similar. Ryan will probably be my major go-to-guy for awhile and it may turn out that I'm not capable of writing at that level and won't be for awhile. Whatever. It should be fun.
Behind the melody the words don't mean a thing,
but every tone I play will give whatever I've not said away
Side note: Chris Thile of Nickel Creek uses Jameson to "keep his vocal chords relaxed" in the studio. Respect.
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