Nine Stitches
That’s what the drummer for Mute Math got this week from a performance in Seattle, WA.
Speaking of drumming.
I received a call out-of-the blue from Dustin McKamie, who I met last fall when I got roped into playing drums for a production of Godspell. His band had an upcoming gig and their drummer was on hiatus (something about his wife having a baby. Does this happen to a lot of drummers?) and they needed someone right quick – so I jumped in. I met keyboardist Jonathan, his wife (and BGVs) Cassandra, and bass guitarist Dan on thursday night for a couple hours as preparation for three songs at Jacob’s Well yesterday evening. The only real bad thing that happened was that they forgot the bass guitar, so Dan and I drove back to Shawnee Mission to pick it up after sound check. Then, during, the performance, it was not even turned on. But it was good times.
Afterwards I got a call from Julie to show up at the Haney Mansion for a last-minute get together. It turns out that a new Seminary couple were in town, and we were showing them some good-ol’ Southwood hospitality with pizza and guitar hero. I ended up (reluctantly) playing one round of Carry on My Wayward Son, and, according to the XBox, I rock. It made me want to go home and play some bass.
Speaking of which, I tried to find bass tabs for Mute Math’s song Obsolete, to no avail. If anyone stumbles across this, please let me know.
Julie had a baby shower yesterday with her co-workers while I was out a-rockin. To her surprise, she had another baby shower this afternoon over webcam with our families back in Maine. My mom sent all the stuff to my work ahead of time, and they got to watch Julie open it and say “Oh, Cute!” I am sure I heard that about a million times today. It was great to see everyone though, and now, all we need is a baby. Everything else is pretty much in place. And we won’t need to buy clothes for the first 18 months.My sister Sara, in England, joined us for a conference call for a little bit too. Upon request she gave us her best English accent – “There’s a bird in the water.” Apparently that is a popular phrase over there.
I also spent 7 minutes and 19 seconds talking to Dave and Heather this evening. Yesterday was Dave’s Birthday, and I needed to make sure that he remembered.
In conclusion, there are $0.69 soft drinks at QuikTrip again. I highly recommend the Mountain Dew.
i’m sorry this is completely irrelevant to your post, but, do you have a memory stick duo I can have? please respond.
haha.email me. sara.donahue@gmail.com
lovelove
No. I don’t. I don’t have anything Sony – they are like Apple, but less cool.
i don’t like it when you bash things and think that your things are better just because of an experience or two of your and then something you’ve heard! I just got an INCREDIBLE camcorder, and its Sony. I’m now a proud supporter. And my mp3 player is Sony and is amazing.
so there.
i still love you even though you bug me
haha
lovelove
If by “an experience or two” or “something I’ve heard” you mean every product they have ever made, then you are correct.
Here we go.
Sony makes good products, I agree with you there. But they design their products in a “closed” manner so that you are forced into buying more Sony product in order to get more use of it. *Your* example is the Sony Memory Stick. Only Sony makes it, only Sony uses it. They can charge whatever they want, and you are forced to pay it if you want to keep using their good product. And when you buy your next camera, that memory will be useless – unless you keep buying from Sony! Another recent example of this is Blu-Ray disc, which is in competition with HD-DVD as the “next generation” of media (higher quality than DVD).
They are like Apple because Apple has traditionally had a very similar approach, but they are doing better. Apple also has the advantage of the “cool” factor that is not explicitly true with Sony as a brand (even if it may be true on some specific products).
OK?
I love you too.