This is just a test
take it with love and you will pass
You will be rewarded
if you do your very best
Nothing ever goes as planned
So don’t take anything for granted
If you do the world will kick your ass
Kimya Dawson
So No post yesterday because I got home at 7:30PM. I decided to take a little rest and woke up at 5:30 AM fully clothed. Obviously I needed this.
So today's plans are to try and visit Bob. I have to drop off a letter I wrote to try and help him get an Artist's residency in Peekskill.
I have sessions from 12:00 - 8:00
I plan to go to the Apple Store to buy an ipad for my daughter's birthday. I have a friend that works there and can get me a discount.
Tonight I'm going to The Village Vanguard.
So just a few things about yesterday.
I got the right arm replaced to my eyeglasses. expensive. I also talked to Ray about sunglasses. The one's I really want cost $350 by Maui Jim. A bit much. Now Ray is a genius in his work. I told him I purchased really cheap glasses just to get by. He then told me that If I don't want to buy expensive glasses he said the following. Take a pair of sunglasses and look at the inside of the lenses. Find something to reflect in the lens. Now move the lens and if the reflection changes shape there will be a vision distortion. It it does, not these will provide better vision. In the mean time I picked out a pair of Carrerra's and Ray will try to find the color tint I like.
I did some banking. We have a new ATM machine that allows you to deposit checks without an envelope. You can put in up to 30 checks and then it scans every check and prints out the scan for you. Very cool.
I went to Flushing to work on my new business plan. We also got into a very interesting conversation about my former partner. I found that a lot of the experiences I was having was corroborated.
I started to bring in my first person to the new business. I only need to bring in two.
It's 7:38 AM. Time for a shower, coffee and another cigarette. Then out to start my day.
Visited Bob this morning to drop off the letter. Good conversation.
Next BJ's. Spent more than I expected.
Next the apple store. I bought a 32gig ipad and a case.
One of the other things I have started interested in collecting old RCA 45 RPM record players. They only play 45's. I bought one last week. Today I one a limited edition Pinocchio turntable. It is very cool. The next one I am looking for is the Heckel & Jeckel Turntable. When I was a child i had this record player that came with special Heckel & Jeckel records. On the record label was Heckel & Jeckel all around the outside of the label, It came with this round glass like prism that you would put over the label. When you turned the table on Heckel & Jeckel would run around the label. It was so cool
The show at the Vangaird was Excellent and I got very lucky. I got there at 8:30 thinking that would be enough time to get a good seat. WRONG! The doors open at 8:00 and the place was jammed. I found a seat on the side but there was a poll right in front of me. I then moved down and now it was out of the way. Just before the show started I saw a seat across the club. I asked if it was available and they said yes. So as the guy was walking me to this seat I bumped into Bill Frisell who was getting ready to go onstage. I ended up right at the stage to the point that I was in the stage lights. Paul Motion was sitting two feet from me and I was sitting in the sam position he was so i was very close to sitting right behind the drumset. I watched him very closely. He is a master and he Never plays an idea twice. I was watching and could not figure out what the hell he was doing. but his playing was stunning. I also got exceptional view of Frisell & Lovano. They were about three feet away. Frisell was was facing me directly for the whole show and I could see everything he was doing. I am hard pressed to say that this was just a jazz show. Yes they did a few standards but their material was really etherial and very interesting.
After the set I went back stage to meet Bill & Joe (Paul was not there) Bill was very kind. I asked him about his new guitar. He is using a custom tele with a really strange pickup at the neck. When I asked him about it he said it was custom made and is the equivalent to a Charlie Christian pickup. I then asked if he had retired the Klein. He said he had. I asked if he wanted sell it. He said, " Oh I'm sorry I just sold it last week." He then told me he saw a beautiful Klein in the window at 30th street music and they were not asking crazy money. He said it was really nice with a rosewood neck and when he saw in the the window he thought it was his.
I then talked to Joe and told him that he lived near me. We had a really nice conversation about him and Scofield.
Guess where I am going in the morning?
take it with love and you will pass
You will be rewarded
if you do your very best
Nothing ever goes as planned
So don’t take anything for granted
If you do the world will kick your ass
Kimya Dawson
So No post yesterday because I got home at 7:30PM. I decided to take a little rest and woke up at 5:30 AM fully clothed. Obviously I needed this.
So today's plans are to try and visit Bob. I have to drop off a letter I wrote to try and help him get an Artist's residency in Peekskill.
I have sessions from 12:00 - 8:00
I plan to go to the Apple Store to buy an ipad for my daughter's birthday. I have a friend that works there and can get me a discount.
Tonight I'm going to The Village Vanguard.
So just a few things about yesterday.
I got the right arm replaced to my eyeglasses. expensive. I also talked to Ray about sunglasses. The one's I really want cost $350 by Maui Jim. A bit much. Now Ray is a genius in his work. I told him I purchased really cheap glasses just to get by. He then told me that If I don't want to buy expensive glasses he said the following. Take a pair of sunglasses and look at the inside of the lenses. Find something to reflect in the lens. Now move the lens and if the reflection changes shape there will be a vision distortion. It it does, not these will provide better vision. In the mean time I picked out a pair of Carrerra's and Ray will try to find the color tint I like.
I did some banking. We have a new ATM machine that allows you to deposit checks without an envelope. You can put in up to 30 checks and then it scans every check and prints out the scan for you. Very cool.
I went to Flushing to work on my new business plan. We also got into a very interesting conversation about my former partner. I found that a lot of the experiences I was having was corroborated.
I started to bring in my first person to the new business. I only need to bring in two.
It's 7:38 AM. Time for a shower, coffee and another cigarette. Then out to start my day.
Visited Bob this morning to drop off the letter. Good conversation.
Next BJ's. Spent more than I expected.
Next the apple store. I bought a 32gig ipad and a case.
One of the other things I have started interested in collecting old RCA 45 RPM record players. They only play 45's. I bought one last week. Today I one a limited edition Pinocchio turntable. It is very cool. The next one I am looking for is the Heckel & Jeckel Turntable. When I was a child i had this record player that came with special Heckel & Jeckel records. On the record label was Heckel & Jeckel all around the outside of the label, It came with this round glass like prism that you would put over the label. When you turned the table on Heckel & Jeckel would run around the label. It was so cool
The show at the Vangaird was Excellent and I got very lucky. I got there at 8:30 thinking that would be enough time to get a good seat. WRONG! The doors open at 8:00 and the place was jammed. I found a seat on the side but there was a poll right in front of me. I then moved down and now it was out of the way. Just before the show started I saw a seat across the club. I asked if it was available and they said yes. So as the guy was walking me to this seat I bumped into Bill Frisell who was getting ready to go onstage. I ended up right at the stage to the point that I was in the stage lights. Paul Motion was sitting two feet from me and I was sitting in the sam position he was so i was very close to sitting right behind the drumset. I watched him very closely. He is a master and he Never plays an idea twice. I was watching and could not figure out what the hell he was doing. but his playing was stunning. I also got exceptional view of Frisell & Lovano. They were about three feet away. Frisell was was facing me directly for the whole show and I could see everything he was doing. I am hard pressed to say that this was just a jazz show. Yes they did a few standards but their material was really etherial and very interesting.
After the set I went back stage to meet Bill & Joe (Paul was not there) Bill was very kind. I asked him about his new guitar. He is using a custom tele with a really strange pickup at the neck. When I asked him about it he said it was custom made and is the equivalent to a Charlie Christian pickup. I then asked if he had retired the Klein. He said he had. I asked if he wanted sell it. He said, " Oh I'm sorry I just sold it last week." He then told me he saw a beautiful Klein in the window at 30th street music and they were not asking crazy money. He said it was really nice with a rosewood neck and when he saw in the the window he thought it was his.
I then talked to Joe and told him that he lived near me. We had a really nice conversation about him and Scofield.
Guess where I am going in the morning?
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