Practical session II

-catched bus-

Ended up getting home arround 5, wasn't planned for, but fun eitherway.

Some Pictures of the past week:

Otari Tapemachine
















Mr T. from kazakhstan, great accent, shown in 'a picture to impress the girls'. We're still trying to figure out if he's royal of oil. Incredible mixing skills.
















Mr TP, posing in front of soundcraft 1624 (build in 1979, crackling, but still working) at 5.30am, acting as if still able to see straight.

Quote of the day:

" When in doubt, go for it"

Practical session

-imagine yourself having to worry about nothing else but sleeping, eating, going to college-
(and posting packages, picking-up credit cards, having people over..)
Recap on the last three days:

Tuesday, getting up, going to class (3pm), going home (6pm) on 45m busride, making dinner, getting back to college for attending practical session (9.30pm), getting home on early bus after practical session (6am), sleeping 'till noon, getting up, going to class ...

It goes on like that 'till Friday.

After three all-nighters I spend a lot more than the necessary practical hours in the studio, but still, think I'm gonna join another classmate tonight from 0am. Jolly good fun.


I'll sleep on Saturday and Sunday.




People recognising certain Lennon cd's belonging to them, it got lost in my cd-case, I'll try to bring it home with me as soon as possible

-running of to catch bus-

TED

You should try having a conversation about this webcommunity without any nearby listeners getting the wrong ideas..

Benjamin Zander, inspirational.
Remembered this TED-talk because I had my very own 'Benjamin Zander' teaching music theory for the past week. Mat McKinley, yes he's really That good.
Most interesting theory lessons ever.




Should anyone be interested in getting there head screwed, just click, sit back, listen and wonder:

carl_honore_praises_slowness
mark_bittman_on_what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat
dan_gilbert_researches_happiness

Keys to the castle

Mm, a few days without blogging, might happen.
Recap:

Not much worthwhile going on. Trying to keep on top of studying and living in general..
Was planning to take some pictures, but batteries only allow 5 shots after every re-charge, I'm trying to get hold of new ones.

Bought the great "Bob Dylan, no direction home: the soundtrack", recommended!
Bob

Thought I lost the key to my 'castle' yesterday, couldn't find them anywhere (2 minutes before I had to leave, figures). The thing is, if I lose my keys I won't be able to get in for at least an hour (I would probably have to call some accomodation emergency number, even then it would take a while. Service arround here isn't exactly beating any clocks). I would have to cross 2 closed gates, 1 closed hall door, 1 closed flat door, 1 closed room door.. you get the idea.

Note to self: néver lose key.
(Offcourse I found them in an unchecked pocket after some frantic minutes)

Rissotto for four. I'm betting we had our weekly share of vegetables in one day..
(without any vishy things, veggies, there's no point arguing)

Planning..

Yesterday evening we where going to make dinner (pasta offcourse) with some people from downstairs. That was gonna be it.

Instead arround 6 the fire alarm went of (again), in every room (imagine the constant loudness of a train passing by in every room). So we had to stand in the cold for about an hour (!) before the fire department came to shut it down. If there's ever a real fire going on.. actually it's not even funny.

Made pasta for 5 instead of 2/3 people, luckily we have an industrial-sized stash of dry pasta.
Talking 'till 1 am.

So much for doing anything else, but it was worth it.



On another note, these are the posters hanging on the advertising boards in my neighbourhood and all over the city (probably wherever there aren't any tourists).
"This campaign targets the small minority who break the law" - Home Office minister David Hanson
Makes you think.

Re-cap

(Alberto Ruggieri)

So I got another flatmate! (wasn't too happy with previous residents, so decided too move to our flat). That makes three of us.

I was just wondering about. The people that I know arround my accomodation: one with Indian background, one with Chinese background, one with Brazilian background, one with Zambian background, and offcourse some Britisch people. They all have lived in the UK much longer than me though, my English is worst by far.

There should be one more person moving in (doubt that he/she will actually show up).

That will have to be someone russian/arabic.. interesting

On another note, there's no apple-sauce to be found arround here!

Apparently it isn't too hard to make your own.

(kind of forgot about the picture 'till halfway the meal)

(Tom Proost)

Test audio-theory tomorrow!

Laundry day

Now, that's a first..

After revising some DIY notes I loaded two washer loads, two dryer loads followed inevitably.
Cost: £ 6,4 / 2 weeks. That's gonna add, but there's not really much you can do about it can you?

My ironing pieces-per-hour-rate isn't up to standards yet, but we'll cope.

On diversion

Interesting situations while riding the bus:
Here's the thing: my line is suffering from diversions, there are road works going on all over the route. That doesn't seem to be any problem when trying to get downtown, however, when I try to get back to my flat the following happens about every other three times:

(female voice) "-pling- this bus is going on diversion, please listen for further announcements"
(driver) "R....St... Road is going, we pass by ... with ... , make sure to .... fish .... thank you"
(all passengers start looking at each other, nobody éver gets what the driver is saying)
(passenger 1 goes to the driver) "I'm sorry sir do you go to x?"
(driver gets annoyed because he just announced and reacts in a way so that passenger 1 gets annoyed, he/she then starts complaining too other passengers)
(a few passengers wake up from there Ipod and realise the bus is on diversion, this results in panic and further driver annoyance)
(...this goes on...)

Three times out of ten the bus will suddenly circle round in the middle of its traject and start driving the route in the opposite direction.. right.

I managed to get home every time (there are a lot of busses), but it's always kind of an adventure whenever a diversion is announced.




Made tortillas and risotto (with the downstair neigbour).
Most vegetables in a risotto ever. It was very nice.

Acoustic

I was going through some old 2-track recordings.

"De nuttelozen van de nacht" aka "Les paumes du petit matin" aka "the useless of the night (I guess) ".

My (ex) acoustic band from Belgium. Nostalgia, that's for sure.

Have a listen and a laugh, we never took ourselves very serious though.
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