Peaceful (and Update)
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So Peaceful An Evening
The children are asleep - they are beautiful.
They are so beautiful
So beautiful are they
Jesu Amour
The night breeze is perfect, the candles aglow; house is in good shape, we enjoy it everyday. The new scheme of things, arrangements, placements. There's never been so much space, yet more comfy and inviting at the same time.
8 yr old Mary was drawing tonight and I taped up her picture in a prominent spot. 'Sign your name, and the year' I said as I always do. She wanted one of us to pose, but everyone was too comfy to move closer to her and she wanted her pose-er to be near. 'I'm learning shading from the manga' she told me.
About 10 days ago she was walking around, art book in hand, marveling out loud about the work, how it made her think, what she was learning from studying it. This I'd never seen her do and was ecstatic she'd glommed onto this illustrator's work. Witnessing her as a young artist being inspired made me so happy, and gives me such a lot to think about.
Update (musical musings)
If they keep what was put down, I've a couple b/u choruses and what not on Mischke's upcoming CD. The call came out of the blue and I was happy indeed to get it. There was a drum kit set up in Jared's studio this time (doh - Lazz I cannot remember for certain, but I wanto say Bill Evans' drummer's kit at one time). That was the first time in many months I'd played and I sounded like a busy little pseudo jazz drummer. Context being, later listening to the sparse, effective guy Mischke's recording's has. Anyway, Jared said, "I didn't know you were a drummer."
This is good, I thought. "Tommy still banging?" I asked. J. didn't know.
It's funny, I told him. The first half of life, no one knows me as a singer, the 2nd half no one knows me as a drummer. I've got best friends who've never heard me play drums.
Jared is Berkely trained, plays more than one instrument, produces, writes, arranges, engineers - and that's only what I know of him in our few brief sessions. Maybe it's the way of providence that I hook up with monster artists. Truly larger than life people outstanding in more than one field (y'all should hear Mischke on his show o' talk - no one is like him). It serves to inspire but also it has un-intimidated me, which is really cool. I see that they can see (and perform) all the way around - and I freak out, I'm right there in beholding.
Mischke out of choice didn't play piano on his last recording Whistlestop. But he'll kick it live and how! I'd wanto play instruments on my stuff, in the studio, unless there was a real problem holding the pocket. I've my own personality, something to say on those drums or whatever and tend to think the strength of personality most important. OTOH, much more can be done, faster, the more competent players involved (at least in theory).
Tommy Mischke I hope will begin playing live - the guy is famous in the Twin Cities for his talk radio show so I'm sure if he wanted to, could have a revolving line up of friend-players, and it wouldn't have to be a big deal. Small venues are fine. He and Loo (this was great) last summer of '07, I's sittin on the patio and turned on the radio which happened to be Keilor's Prarie Home Companion taping live from the MN State Fair. And who's a singing and playing? Mischke and Loonan.
So I sat there in the backyard listening to my music pals on the radio doing the bigtime. It was really quiet. And really quiet how I found out about it. This is how a mother with 7 dwarves gets catched-up in the loop.
-listening to Munmun's The World Has Let It's Children Down, in our peaceful little home
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