A flower?

Summer's here, finally. Wisconsin actually had a reasonable Spring this year. The weather has been great, and the rampant hormonal race of Spring is beginning to ebb. Mother Nature is kicking in with her flora 'n' fauna hugely.

Ahh, 6 days straight attending to the maintenance requirements of the bar are now behind me.

Isthmus Jazz Festival happening, Saturday is a rare concert on UW campus with Joan Wildman. Hopefully we won't be stuck with the Rathskellar as a venue for the free offerings. It's not a room for music, for most groups.
Drummer Roy Haynes (who is 92!) is playing the big theater, but I cannot attend cuz it's pricey.

Brother Hal is passing through town on Monday and we will 'do lunch'. He's between tours, finishing a week with Moody Blues Sunday. Next up is Tom Waits merchandising! He seems very excited too, going to Europe and many shows have multiple dates in the same city, time off to hearseesmelltouchtaste the sights.

Things have been quite interesting around work lately. What else is new?
A personal goal: trying to slack off from the drinking until the wee hours and not being physically and mentally drained the next day. And there's plenty of work, business is OK, for summer. So I am a lucky guy then, he typed with no irony intended.

Otherwise, life is good. The weather is finally allowing the car to be left at home. Biking around almost exclusively. I love biking, always.

Starting up a project with pal Jack helping him tame technology, or at least watching his struggles, eventually to write and perform some of his very sharp music yet this year. A slow cooker to be sure, but I am learning some things I want to dig into (latest Mac stuff for playing samples, with that *old school* MIDI). We'll get there. My trio of yore with Jack and Jon rehearsed for sumpin like a year before playing out.

And thank god for Mother Fools, or I'd seldom get to play drums in public. That's par for the course when it's the 'difficult listening hour' kind of stuff. I told Nicole the other night 'I don't want to play experimental music (anymore). I want to play successful music.' Time to leave the avant guard to others and rock out or something.


Listen:
Adrian Belew - Side One
Ouija Radio - OH, NO... YES! YES!
The Bears
Gateway Trio live 1982
Joni - Night Ride Home
Nels Cline Singers
The Mic 92.1 Madison
WORT-FM

Read:
Sound on Sound mag (thanks Greg!)
National Geographic
J.G. Bennett - Energies
Tape Op

View:
A Scanner Darkly
lots of PBS