February 8, 2010
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The Daily News1 Okay, so thanks. TODAY is Frideeeeeeeeee!
2 Our week was so weird that I thought yesterday was Frideeeeeeeeee.
3 Well, clearly I wuz wrong.
4 So...TODAY is Frideeeeeeeeeee.
5 Ah, it's coo! <cute way of saying, "cool".>
6 I did shot clock for our girls' BB game last night, and it was always a pleasure. Out team has one of their best players down with an injury, a senior. They played Piedmont last night, and scored 29 points in the FIRST period! The ref came over to the table and said, "Girls' basketball? 29 points in the first?" I gave him a bit of a wink and a nod. It was far and away the best first period of these guys' year. But still, they were ON, and powerfully fast and amazing as always.
7 They slowed it down in the second half, but still ran away with a decisive victory, and I again am enthralled with the team I've followed for my third straight year at the table.
8 Last year, when they made state playoffs, I attended the games just to support this amazing team. I couldn't do the shot clock, which was annoying bc I thought I could do a better job than those guys they hired, but rules is rules.
9 Last night I worked the clock with me good friend and confidant John Blair, who along with me, is the "A" team for our team.
10 Both John and myself are huge fans of the sport of basketball (although strangely I am not an avid Warriors' fan), so being the best at doing the clocks is a fun thing, however trivial it may seem to others.
11 The fact is, ladies and gents, that I now work at Evergreen Valley High School, and I am liking it more and more not each year, but each minute.
12 The girls fell behind for a brief stint, but rallied back and managed to slip by a very good Piedmont team.
13 I KNOW, I KNOW, I sound like a thousand parents, or like a billion blogs. My only saving grace is that I personally feel that the DN is STILL the world's first blog. I began doing this in 1996 with the first DN, and if you are any sorta DN fan, you realize was a few years ahead of the great "blog" deluge. I'll say no more on that one.
14 But truly. But I digress. Back to the team:
15 I love being a significant part of that team, because they have SO much heart, and many of them are seniors. So I'm going to enjoy the rest of their season.
16 Moving on, Part the First: I went for pho with me old friend and confidant Sparky yesterday, and we finally planned on working on some of the music and songs I've been writing for the past few months. Sparks wants to take the songs I've been writing and putting them on a CD, and adding any musicians we can bring in to make the songs fun!
17 It's small time, and I realize that this isn't really to become famous or anything, but just a great music/art thing that we both want to do, just for fun!
18 We talked about technical things, and things we would need to put it all together, and I'm hoping it will all work. I had been writing several songs a few months ago, but life crashed in like an ocean wave, erasing a lot of the tunes and melodies I had been working on. Some of you have heard a few of the tunes, albeit raw, but we both have vision of making an album, just to see if we could do it.
19 So to Sparks, thanks man. Fun day, to be sure.
20 I'm caught up on much of my grading, and after this week I have another week off to experiment and create some amazing songs.
21 Right now we are thinking of what might be added instrumentally to each tune, and seeing if we could arrange bringing in different instruments, sound effects, and musicians to arrange and harmonize with the music.
22 It will take a LOT of work, and a LOT of fun, but many of the songs already sound fun to play around with, so why not?
23 Sparky has already built some fun recording cords on a cool budget, so the creation is going along in the same mode as any Show we've ever conceived.
24 It may work, and it may not, but right now, we're having a ball re-connecting and planning a strategy, the same way we have always planned for other creative endeavors.
25 So wish me luck.
26 The CD will be called simply Old Hat, and will include around 12 songs.
27 Some of you have already heard a few, and the reviews have been genuinely positive.
28 AnywayZ, that's where I'm headed. Where WE'RE headed.
29 As much as I cherish the past, I honestly have always lived with this credo: Let's live for the memories that lie in store.
30 Love is ongoing.
31 I love you all.
32 Moving on, Part the Second: About the Monk song, above, the day before yesterday I parked in the parking lot near our theater. I was late, and had to pick up my CAHSEE tests in a room in that building, so it was easier to jump and get the materials, etc.
33 Standing outside like a sentinel at a speakeasy was the immortal Steve Barnhill, who informed me that the parking lot was the exclusive parking spot for Performing Arts people, and that I must move my vehicle.
34 I gave a look that could freeze stone, and then smiled. Barnhill then started telling me that I should have the song In Walked Bud by Thelonius Monk as an underscore for my life. It's this song that is about all these musicians playing, when in walks some cat named Bud, and then the entire room rocks.
35 Although I have listened to some Monk, I amazingly had never heard that song, nor of that song in my entire life. I laughed at the concept and moved on.
36 This morning, I went on the New Facebook Order and after orienting myself, goofed on people's stata (haha, is that the plural of "status"?), and scrolled down. I had missed a million postings because of the basketball game, so it was nice to smile and enjoy goofing on Facebook.
37 Suddenly I came upon a post by me old friend and confidant Matt De Leon, far and away the best singer in the history of YB, and a gent to boot. Matt had posted a you tube of...In Walked Bud! Haha, just another in a list of coincidences that laid end-to-end, could very well disappear into space! Of course I LOVED it, just because of the coincidence. It was also the first time ever listening to the tune! Cool, daddyo!
38 Moving on, Part the Third: Enjoy the weekend. Joe Montana is rooting for the Saints, but my feeling is: blowout. Peyton Manning is going to pick New Orleans to pieces. I'll silently root for the Saints too, but I see a blowout on the horizon. 38-21? That'll be my call.
39 So we'll all have to wait and see. Meanwhile, I'm going to practice, and practice, and practice my music. I want to make a CD, and I want to make the best one ever!
40 Love you all.
41 Have an amazing weekend!
42 Peace.
~H~
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