Tuesday 9th of March, 2010
a very large green expanse
Up a bit late, into Walker a bit late too. Ho hum. More work on the hares, mostly on a very large green expanse, which is doing my head in slightly as it can't be any old large green expanse.
Soup at lunchtime - very nice sort of Thai lentil soup. There's lemongrass and coconut in it, anyway.
Home at 19:00, out for some running around and back to the flat for a shower, delicious lamb steaks and a short website alteration session.
Audio treatment, more hiss-mining. There may be gold in there. Not sure.
Monday 8th of March, 2010
precision coincidence
Up early, lots of dithering, some giraffe removal and leopard replacement, not going to an open mic, cooking curry and some audio retouching in the evening, including trying to pull something resembling speech from a sea of hiss. I now have something resembling speech, rather than speech itself, but ho hum.
In the afternoon, I get a message asking whether I can take a package somewhere, which I assent to, only to be told moments later that in fact it's not necessary, and moments after that another completely unrelated message appears asking whether I can take another package.
I watch a documentary about the Hatti (also known as the Hittites, but not the Hittites from the Bible - lost civilisation in ancient Turkey), Google them and get a link to Hattie McDaniel, just as a tweet from Roger Ebert appears on my screen linking to video of Hattie McDaniel accepting her Oscar. That's precision coincidence, I think.
Saturday 6th of March, 2010
without losing my temper or shoplifting anything
Up late, out to get croissants (I go to Sainsbury's and successfully manage to negotiate the automatic tills without losing my temper or shoplifting anything), pick up money, home and have breakfast. H goes out, I change the strings on nylon-string Godin (one of which seems to have spontaneously broken in protest against my not changing the strings in a long time) and dither.
At 16:00 out to Jacek's to the performance of his group. Arrive early and end up waiting on the doorstep until rescued by another audience member. Socialise and chat, then go into the performance, then back again for more socialisation until Chris gives us a lift home.
Get fish and chips and then watch three more episodes of The Wire season four.
Thursday 4th of March, 2010
a perfectly plausible inversion
Oversleep and get into Walker very late. Ho hum. Carry on with the Hares. I'm actually not sure where I am with this.
Home about 19:30, then go for a run around, home, shower, dinner and vagueness, with a little exploration of the melodic minor scale. I find a perfectly plausible inversion of the dominant 7th chord (albeit one with the 7th in the bass), that I must have found and forgotten many times over the last twenty or so years, like a jazzier version of Memento. Also some Johnny Smith chords, which I must get back up to speed on, as if I do them right they surprise people.
Sunday 28th of February, 2010
not-quite-animated
After doing the shopping I find out that croissants don't like to be microwaved for six minutes. I get more croissants.
Then I clean the bathroom.
Rest of the day spent in front of the computer sequencing pictures so they make something that's not-quite-animated. I empathise with that, actually.
In the evening, watch the end of Being Human, then do the toast. The months are coming thick and fast at the moment.
Thursday 25th of February, 2010
leopards in the places where there were once giraffes
Up late on account of H lying in. Breakfast, then I get to work (putting leopards in the places where there were once giraffes) and H goes off to work, which is a different process. No giraffes in Surbiton, for a start.
That done, the day does descend into ditheriness somewhat, and I eat more than I'd like to. Towards the end of the day, the next job appears.
I go up to the Bennett meeting (on the bus as it's raining, and I've forgotten my umbrella), and afterwards walk home (as the rain has stopped). Dinner, and then some audio tweakery. And a few more maths questions. I seem to be confused by fractions, which I never thought I was. And now I go to bed very late.
Hum.
Wednesday 24th of February, 2010
no normal ecosystem
Wake up at three something with a headache and proceed to lie there for several hours - until H has gone to work - hallucinating gently, or dreaming while half-awake anyway.
Get up, sit, breakfast.
In the morning I have to remove giraffes from drawings, so that they can be replaced with leopards later on. That's quite a shift, if you think about it, and there's no normal ecosystem in which the two creatures would be interchangeable. Still.
Complete that, have lunch. The replacement leopards don't appear, so I walk to the hardware shop to get a trip switch for the fuse box, come home, find it doesn't fit and then take it back. Not a terribly productive afternoon, then, really. Possible further job bubbling under, which is nice.
Home, shower, H comes home, and we go off to the gig.
They've refurbished King's Cross tube. I suppose I approve, but there's something inescapeably worrying about King's Cross, no amount of tiling will hide that. Also it's not quite as nice as the Jubilee extension.
Get there early, have drinks and sandwich at Pret A Manger, then go and queue, then finally get in. Meet Sylvain, Mark and Sandra, at least momentarily. Find a place to stand so we can see.
Support is very nice. In fact, i enjoy the niceness as much as anything else. The Humans are a lot of fun - don't see many bands driven by two basses (in fact the last one I can think of is Hugo Largo). Hurrah, then.
Sneak home, get chips and sausages. late to bed.
