Sunday 8th of April, 2001
It appears that Sensitive Boy is in fact track of the day at Garageband.com. So. I have been in correspondence with a Christine at Garageband.com about the fact that their system won't allow me to change any of my details (I want to update their reference to this website). After some fiddling around, it has transpired that their system has problems with my name.
Sort of like the problems that residents of Scunthorpe and Penistone have getting online with respectable family companies like AOL and Compuserve. And I don't think you get towns more respectable than Scunthorpe.
Working through Careful in Jim Hall's Exploring Jazz Guitar book, or rather working with the eight-note diminished scale with which it's built (since I have tremendous difficulty converting the dots to anything resembling music without drifting off and doing something else). Despite the fact that he's notated the song very precisely he hasn't given fingerings or positions for playing it. I try various positions to see if there's a knack to it, but none of them are perfect. I'll need to watch teh video again (one of very few instructional videos I possess is a Jim Hall one). The scale's very symmetrical, and not just (cool) jazzy, but I also noticed echoes of Britten and other composers in it.
Gym.
I clear up and vacuum the bedroom (where the computer with the scanner is) ready for when Joe comes round tomorrow. I also vacuum and turn the mattress, when I change the sheet. This is no simple task, since the mattress is six feet off the ground. On a platform, obviously. Not levitating.
It's not an Arabian flying bed.
("I don't care if you are Achmed al Fouad, son of the Sheik al Fouad, Lord of the Desert, Master of the Magic Lamp, Owner of More Camels Than You Could Shake a Fairly Large Stick At. Nor do I care to now that I have eyes like limpid pools of night and breasts like ripe fruit, or even that my beauty is greater than that of the fabled Alhambra. I'm not getting on that thing - it doesn't look safe.")
Aidan M. calls about whether I'm doing the Kamel tonight, and I explain that I'm doing it next week and advise him to call me then about doing a spot.
I discover that I have, on vinyl, a copy of the first League of Crafty Guitarists Live! album. I clear the record player (which, offering a Flat Surface, is covered with Stuff, in accordance with the Third Rule of Clutter) and play it. Very interesting. And if I had written to Claybourne House (address given on the back) in the late 80s when I got it, perhaps I could have learned about Red Lion House and saved myself a lot of trouble. Perhaps not. Who can say?
My Track of the Day status has added precisely no hits to this page. So much for the power of advertising. Perhaps I should add pictures or something. What do you think?