set up my Skypes today! i am SOOOO excited to SEE you tonight! i may even comb my hair.... good day today. went down to Isaac's and got me a navy blue Kangol, very sharp.
also got to see Joe and Joan for a bit, which you know. Joan is a bit under the weather. allergies mostly, but she's also got a gall bladder issue. surgery in mid-January. we'll let you know how it's going, but can you send her a card? it would mean the world to her.
AND i had the always lovely opportunity to hang out with Will and Carol, at your parents' house. those two are too much. (they send their love!) Will told me i looked like Gil-Scott Heron with this beard. i knew he meant it in the most flattering way possible --even from a guy that likes to bullshit as much as Will-- but at first i was like "that guy's gaunt as hell from years of drug abuse, and he has HIV!" of course we talked a lot about music and Will was genuinely appreciative of the Wax Poetics issue i gave him with the article about Airto. that meant a lot. Carol's cello playing has reached a new level, she says. she finally feels as if she's got an instructor who will not simply supply her with the tools to play, but provide her with the wisdom of how to use those tools and the inspiration to take her wherever she may want to go. exiting stuff!
so now i'm looking through YouTube, trying to find my beard in Gil-Scott Heron videos. (my hair is a lot less, how do you say, curly than his...) there are plenty to choose from but i'm going with this one for several reasons:
A) it's probably the most beard-ly accurate, if only a pixelated drawing
B) cuz it's about Detroit
C) because it's badass and has a ton of familiar samples in it
D) it follows Stravinsky better than "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", or Comment #1.
Gil-Scott Heron: "We Almost Lost Detroit"
and, a last minute addition, because "i got stars in my beard, and i feel real weird, for you"
T. Rex: "Mambo Sun"
LRV, b
No comments:
Post a Comment