what rhymes with annapurna?

once again, internet access at home has been cut off. this time due to the moving of ellie, our neighbor with whom we shared a wireless signal. so i'm back to cafes and such, clickclacking away with other laptoppers and people who actually come to these places to just eat. crazy.

my cold came and went and kinda kept trying to come back, but all in all my health has returned to mostly-normal and life is humming along like a buzzcut on a wolverine. this past weekend i played percussion at a trance dance at la fonda hotel; about 1/4 of the amount we had last time but 50 people is still ok. it went ok but i feel pretty done with the whole thing. especially the fact that the prerecorded music we have to play along with (!) changes gears too much. i just don't think you can really get a good trancey groove if you don't keep building with music that builds with you. luckily the folks from taos who came down agree and we're going to start doing these things once a month in both towns. not sure how much i'll journey up there, esp. if on weekends, but there's lots of potential down here.

al was with me and is finally warming to an idea i proposed to him last year: an acoustic-esque duo with him on percussion and me on whatever i play. that could be very cool.

if not already mentioned, my old pal from high school, chris mcintyre, is coming to the fe in april. i'll be scoping out some performance venues for him and an ensemble as well. i tried high mayhem and wasnt' surprised at the lukewarm response. too bad for them, though, as chris would be a good person to know and wanted to work with them this past fall. oh well.

i'm booked almost completely solid with my teaching schedule right now. i just can't bring myself to add another day, however. i like my 4 days on/3 days off way too much. i made another video for youtube, but for some reason it uploads as an empty mov file. weirder still is that my file on my desktop is only 156kb, yet it opens as a full three minute thing with sound and everything; something that should at least be a couple MBs or so. i dunno. it came from iMovie. advice?

we got caught in a huge snow storm yesterday after i did a sacreligious (probably) snow dance on our dog walk. not that i'm taking any credit whatsoever, mind you, just kinda funny. it turned out to just be a mountain flurry, however, so nothing to crunch around on in our streets and such. the doggles are doing great, though.

i was reading a story called "push here for tears" in last month's sun magazine and quickly realized how much the author and i have in common, esp. in regards to feelings of intense anger in relation to animal abuse but nothing as intense about child or human. i have a theory why: i'm willing to bet he, like myself, has never had kids. i'm delighted i have kids in my life, but don't see it in the cards...

illin

it's been over five years since my body has succumbed to any sort of stay-put illness, but lo and behold i'm plagued by the common, boring cold. no cool symptoms to brag about, like bleeding eyeballs or pulsing boils. nothin. so i'm holing up at home, trying to catch up on sleep and watching way too many movies.

christmas/new years came and went. more anon.

*cough*