A good week?

Hello again,
I know I said I’d try to make these daily, but I’ve been a little busy lately. I’ve recently been practicing for combo, mainly and for my improv class. How does this relate to the title? Well, I HATE improv class. However, we only meet one every other week. We’ve met once, and the next class, tomorrow is apparantly cancelled. That’s another 2 weeks of not worrying that much about the class! This makes it a good week. Tonight I have a bass lesson, I have to start my English essay soon, since I just got the topics today…actually, they aren’t really topics, it’s like a high school test. Pick one of the following 2 poems and analyze it. This paper is the only thing that goes into our mid term mark. So, you must be thinking “Gee, it’s really gotta count then! Make it long and big and full of meaning!”. Well, that’s what I thought. But it’s not like that. It’s 3 pages. Double Spaced. That’s like, a page and a half. Awesome. Less time spent on English, more on music, please. I have a new song to start for combo, called Yesterdays. We played Out of Nowhere today for our teacher, he pointed things out. It was cool, I spose. I took a solo, got a little carried away at the end with where I was, but since it was actually the first solo I’ve taken with this particular set of people, I’m happy. However, this happiness is somewhat bittersweet, because we have a new member of the combo, a pianist. Not that that’s bad, but now we have too many people, and we’ll have to split up into 2 groups of four or five. To be honest, I’d really like to stay at the size we’re at. But apparantly Eight people is too many.
“EIGHT PEOPLE!?!? THAT’S INSANE! PURE INSANITY! I CAN’T FUCKING COMPREHEND THAT!! WTF! GGHEFUYHGASRDGZUDHGZIFDJHGZR”…… this isn’t what I think… this is just that mocking voice that I think (I hope) everyone has inside their mind that talks in place of other people from time to time.
Like, holy shit, if bands who go out and make real livings from music can pull off eight people at once, I don’t see how 8 people in just a school setting is going to make hell freeze over. I also find that almost all of the bands out there that make good money, or all musicians and individuals who make a good living with music do it EITHER by playing in a huge orchestra of like a hundred people, OR they’re in a band of  four or five people. No medium, no midpoint. I don’t know why exactly I’m picking this single aspect apart, but this really isn’t about making a living, I feel that it’s about learning and making music sound good to us. Not to be able to step out of university and play the next greatest thing to ever hit the radio. Fuck.

Anyways, My agenda now consists of; Practicing Yesterdays, Practicing for Improv class, listening to some tunes for jazz history, and doing an English paper.

That’s my bit about my life for this blog. Now onto something that’s sort of been bugging me for a while…
Why must we always mentally conform to the ideals of everything in this world? What tells us that something is right or wrong? Is it really engrained in us, telling us that we’re doing what’s right or wrong? Or is it just the past thousands of years of doing everything one way irking us all the time, making decisions of right and wrong an automatic reflux?

That’s all I have for this blog, but I’ll leave you with a song! Yay songs!
The world is spinning too fast
I’m buying lead Nike shoes
To keep myself tethered
To the days I try to lose

My mama said to slow down
You must make your shoes
Stop dancing to the music
Of Gorillaz in a happy mood

Keep a mild groove on

There you go!
Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine!
Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine!
Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine!
Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine!

There’s a monkey in the jungle
Watching a vapour trail
Caught up in the conflict
Between his brain and his tail

And if time’s elimination
Then we got nothing to lose
Please repeat the message
It’s the music that we choose
Keep a mild groove on

OK bring it down yeah we’ll come back out
Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine!
Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine!
Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine!
Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine!

Ah Ah Ah Ah

Day doo de bop

19-2000 by Gorillaz

~ by The Tone Bank Jungle on September 30, 2009.