Saturday Fun

This last weekend was a blast, too bad it's only Tuesday now. On Saturday I had a jammed packed day of fun, saw the film Knocked Up, which I highly recommend on account of its wonderful use of dirty language and character development that mirrors real life. That and Katherine Heigl is wonderful to watch for any length of time. After this I got to go see one of my favorite bass players, Les Claypool, rock out Nokia Theater in Times Sq. till 12:30 in the morning. The scene was a throw back to an earlier era, with whiffs of sweet smelling smoke drifting up from the packed theater and beautiful women dance the whole night through, and not the hip hop grinding style either but that joyful Dead/flower child type of dance that flows effortlessly from the music. Les himself was amazing, doing some stuff on a six string fretless bass that I did not think where possible with a bass guitar. He's such a great performer and entertainer; he had the whole crowd eating out of the palm of his hand. After the show let out at my brother and I made are way back to Astoria to attend our friend Renata's "Goodbye to Starbucks" gala, in which she bids a long overdue adieu to the "Magical Land of Coffee". Doyles Corner was fairly packed for a 2:00 on a Saturday night so I and a few others made our way over to Crehans on 31st Ave to enjoy a few beers with out the hindrance to speech that always accompanies Karaoke Night at Doyles. Sunday was lazy and Monday and Friday both saw a fair amount of recording done which is good because Mark and I need to have our demo done by tomorrow. Here's to sleepy Tuesday mornings that allow for too much blogging.