Besame mucho.

Where DO we go when? 

It's good to feel like I'm making deliberate decisions. 

You know Dickens?  The best of times, the worst of times?? Yup.  That pretty much sums it up.  I feel privy to a perspective that is generally fleeting... I'm seeing in on the present.  Not quite like hindsight, but more like an out of body experience.  And with this sense of balance, order, entropy and chaos.  No, it's not all perfect.  But I see all of the little offshoots... the ones that could carry me into different worlds, and the eddies that linger before swirling away into the undercurrent.  It's quite an experience... the most interesting part of it, seeing where I'm in control, and where I'm not.

Here we go, Day 121: https://ia600807.us.archive.org/6/items/Improv121311/12_13_117_42Pm.mp3

Le gibet.

And in the city that never sleeps, I find myself in a cloud of excitement, exhaustion, stimulation, and thirst.  And in the last week or two, tenfold.

Second attempt at diligent website redesign.

Here we go, Day 120: https://ia600801.us.archive.org/4/items/Improv121211/12_12_118_03Pm.mp3

No thanks, past self.

I honestly thought I would be thanking my past self for doing my blog post early on in the evening, but alas, it just ended up being premature.

I was lucky enough to be persuaded into an improv with two awesome musicians, who egged me on to play with them.  I won't lie.  I was super, super nervous about it.  But after a drink or two, I was able to do it, and whether I let go or not will be for you all to decide.  It was really fun, and very good for me, and I'm super glad to have done it.  Thanks, guys.  It means a lot.

And now, I present my first actual improv with other people.

Here we go, Day 119, Part 2: https://ia600804.us.archive.org/22/items/Improv2121111/12_11_1110_12Pm.mp3

Thanks, past self.

Today is one of those days when present self is doing something nice for future self.  Because I know I'm not gonna want to do this when I get home later.

Here we go, Day 119: https://ia600804.us.archive.org/19/items/Improv121111/12_11_116_22Pm.mp3

Brew.

I feel a little bit bad that I haven't been writing so much lately.  But I assure you that my thoughts, about life and music and such, are still strongly brewing.  To a respectably meaty 12% or something.  After the fermentation process, we'll all enjoy a hearty toast.  And thoughts will abound on cyber paper, amidst a creamy, lathery, sweet head atop a deliciously effervescent beverage.

Here we go, Day 118: https://ia700708.us.archive.org/28/items/Improv121011/12_10_117_01Pm.mp3

Moon.

When what I wish is to see the lunar eclipse, but then I find myself on the wrong coast... than what?

Here we go, Day 117: https://ia600802.us.archive.org/28/items/Improv12911/12_9_118_06Pm.mp3

Good.

And it was...

Here we go, Day 116: https://ia600804.us.archive.org/13/items/Improv12811/12_8_118_17Pm.mp3