Friday, January 9, 2009

The Big Dreamers get back to dreaming

Hello! I am only writing to inform you that my recording / jam session last night was great! We recorded three songs- one is finished and one will be scrapped, most likely. We also recorded three jams, with Mark playing bass and me on the keyboard. It was so fun! I like that Mark is such a hard worker and we don't waste any time. He doesn't want to just hangout and bullshit, and we don't take breaks. Perhaps my ten years of piano lessons were not for nothing! I can no longer play anything classical, but I know my way around the keyboard. I like it because, unlike singing, I can immediately translate melodic and rhythmic ideas into sound- rather than needing to figure out the words to fit the sounds (which I usually do on my own time). This is what jazz singers do when they scat, but I can't or won't do that in front of people. Bee bop a do bop. My voice has improved so much since I started using the neti pot, cut down to three cigs per day, and quit smoking weed. I can breathe! Singing doesn't feel like such hard work anymore. What's more, yesterday I ran two blocks and I barely got winded! I'm totally getting into better shape. I left Mark's apartment feeling quite optimistic about everything. Of course, when winter break is over and I go back to school, I will have a hard time balancing everything, but I have to make it work. I'm not going to try to figure it all out right now. Everything that's meant to be will be.

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