It's not how it looks!!

Well, on good friday I went to see Grindhouse (the new Quinten Tarentino/Robert Rodriguez filum) with Sammeh. They wouldn't let me in, so Sammeh went over to the pre-pay machine thing, and it's not like it scans your retinas to determine your age or anything. So that got me in.
I knew that it was 2 movies in 1, but I didn't know they would both be feature-length. The first one, Planet Terror, was a very, very over-the-top zombie movie. There were some extremely gory bits (to the point where I lost my appetite for chips), but of course, the fight scenes were highly comical. There were fake movie trailers before and between the two movies, for things like Werewolf Women of the S.S. and Hobo With a Shotgun. The second one, Deathproof, was completely hilarious but took a little while to get going. Anyway, it's a good thing they're in that order.

I'm listening to Eric Dolphy's rendition of Melodius Thunk's Epistrophy on bass clarinet. It has the best intro ever. I've been practicing all twelve keys on the saxophone. It's getting easier for sure. Hopefully I'll soon (within a month or two) be able to whip through them all in under two minutes. After each of my sax lessons, Colin usually plays something while I'm packing up. Yesterday he started playing a song that I hear frickin all the time, but I never knew the name of it because I don't have a recording. It was Ornithology by Charlie Porker. So now that I knew the name, I could learn it. And I did. So, my Porker repertoire at the moment is: Blues for Alice, Segment, My little suede shoes, Yardbird suite, and Ornithology. I'm also learning Steeplechase. The only non-Bird song I've learned is the aforementioned Epistrophy, but that came from an unreliable source. I haven't practiced it much.

I've been listening to live Smiths bootlegs on the interweb. They're at www.akiraware.com but the quality is low. I don't mind, but anyone unfamiliar with it would just hear hiss for the most part. Robert Pollard's new album, Silverfish Trivia is coming out on tuesday the 17th. A song from it is currently available on his website.

We didn't have enuhthing planned for esther, but I received a gift nonetheless. A pez dispenser!

Anyways, ideas are amassing, and I should be composing some stuff soon. If it doesn't appear here it will of course appear on glissando, which by the way is getting rave reviews. Liam says, "Nice stuff, someone walking by my door said it sounded cool as well". Helen says, "Some bits are too delicious for words". Bailey and Stella say it could be soundtrack music. Fab says, "Why are we so awesome?".