Thursday, August 05, 2004
Retracing the steps...
Wow.... the couple of updates are spaced pretty far out huh? My bad!
Well in retrospect, this entire summer has just completely blown right past me. It felt like I was in the middle of a storm and you don't realize just how far you've been tossed around until the clouds clear and nothing looks familiar anymore. So I figured I'd retrace my steps for the summer and see how much I've accomplished and what I have left to do in these last few weeks before school starts.
SO......
My summer started out great! What's better than a trip to Cali? ( Only a trip to Cali for more than three days...) So I drop my brother off in Bakersfield for the summer (another plus right there {the brother that is}), kick around on the piano for a little bit, visit family, and just take it easy. Absitively beautiful!
So three days later I get back to Fort Lauderdale, (affectionately referred to as Foam Liquordale...don't ask) and of course its back to the grind stone. I work the Jubilate (pronounced yoo-buh-lot-ay) summer music camp in Miami from 9am to 3pm, then haul back to Fort to work in the kitchen from 4pm to 10 pm. All work and no play, you know how that goes... so I figure I work more, I need to have more fun so why not join another band? Matter of fact why not pick up a new instrument while you're at it? So here is the official announcement: I am playing electric bass in a rock group called the Breez. Oh yeah, we practice from 10:30pm till... on Mon., Wed., and Sat. nights.
So for four weeks straight, I'd write and freestyle with this amazing group of kids in the morning. We'd run different exercises for rhyming, and aliteration, parallelism etc. and just have fun expressing. I wrote a lot, liked a little bit, but mostly we freestyled. At some point, I'll probably put something up here (if I'm still feeling it, if not, I'll just have to write something new) But all in all, the camp was awesome. I got to work some really really talented kids, I also got to expose some of my lesser known favorites to them as well. It really helped to sharpen me back up as well, I had really been missing freestyling and God only knows when the last time I wrote a piece of new poetry was.
Work gets a small blurb here: work was work. No complaints, no praises, its all equality.
After work, its time to rock. As soon as I touch down in Ft. Lauderdale from Bakerspatch USA, I check my messages and there's a message from a guy I went to school with, but haven't seen in like a year and a half. He was starting up another rock band and he needed a bass player. Colin had dropped him my name knowing full well that I had no clue how to play the bass (but also knowing that it was something I'd definitely be interested in...). So I called him back went to check out a rehearsal in the warehouse storage and the rest is history in the making.
Okay, not too much at once. But to close out, Night Cello (our Jazz combo) had our first unofficial gig a week and a half ago, playing at a wedding. Mind you, it was not at all a bad gig, we still have a lot of work to do. The breez will hit in North Miami on September 11, stay posted.
Holla back
Well in retrospect, this entire summer has just completely blown right past me. It felt like I was in the middle of a storm and you don't realize just how far you've been tossed around until the clouds clear and nothing looks familiar anymore. So I figured I'd retrace my steps for the summer and see how much I've accomplished and what I have left to do in these last few weeks before school starts.
SO......
My summer started out great! What's better than a trip to Cali? ( Only a trip to Cali for more than three days...) So I drop my brother off in Bakersfield for the summer (another plus right there {the brother that is}), kick around on the piano for a little bit, visit family, and just take it easy. Absitively beautiful!
So three days later I get back to Fort Lauderdale, (affectionately referred to as Foam Liquordale...don't ask) and of course its back to the grind stone. I work the Jubilate (pronounced yoo-buh-lot-ay) summer music camp in Miami from 9am to 3pm, then haul back to Fort to work in the kitchen from 4pm to 10 pm. All work and no play, you know how that goes... so I figure I work more, I need to have more fun so why not join another band? Matter of fact why not pick up a new instrument while you're at it? So here is the official announcement: I am playing electric bass in a rock group called the Breez. Oh yeah, we practice from 10:30pm till... on Mon., Wed., and Sat. nights.
So for four weeks straight, I'd write and freestyle with this amazing group of kids in the morning. We'd run different exercises for rhyming, and aliteration, parallelism etc. and just have fun expressing. I wrote a lot, liked a little bit, but mostly we freestyled. At some point, I'll probably put something up here (if I'm still feeling it, if not, I'll just have to write something new) But all in all, the camp was awesome. I got to work some really really talented kids, I also got to expose some of my lesser known favorites to them as well. It really helped to sharpen me back up as well, I had really been missing freestyling and God only knows when the last time I wrote a piece of new poetry was.
Work gets a small blurb here: work was work. No complaints, no praises, its all equality.
After work, its time to rock. As soon as I touch down in Ft. Lauderdale from Bakerspatch USA, I check my messages and there's a message from a guy I went to school with, but haven't seen in like a year and a half. He was starting up another rock band and he needed a bass player. Colin had dropped him my name knowing full well that I had no clue how to play the bass (but also knowing that it was something I'd definitely be interested in...). So I called him back went to check out a rehearsal in the warehouse storage and the rest is history in the making.
Okay, not too much at once. But to close out, Night Cello (our Jazz combo) had our first unofficial gig a week and a half ago, playing at a wedding. Mind you, it was not at all a bad gig, we still have a lot of work to do. The breez will hit in North Miami on September 11, stay posted.
Holla back
