Practice , links and mangos
California is still it's daily lovely self and practice is pure magic. I have my guitar out here, and limited as I am in playing , for the first time we are really playing music together as a band. There is an old Soul Aslyum song, " Never Really Been " that I have been playing for years, and now that Malena is singing too, has turned into something more than it has ever been. She has such a gift for knowing what to sing where, and I wake up each morning feeling like the luckiest girl in the world, knowing that I am going to spend the day working with her.
Well, not the whole day, I haven't played guitar so much in years. My fingers, poor things , are near to falling off. I tell them , in no un-certain terms, " Party tough or stay home , guys " , and I think I am going to go home with some fairly respectable callouses. Now I have more sympathy with my guitar playing bandmates, Paul from Folkunderground and Emma from the Flash Girls and of course, Adam , our producer. I say to you all, OUCH! Who knew....??????
( Think I just learned to insert a Link or two, we will see if it works and if so, I am going to link the world together from now on! )
Well,I may, due to the fact that sneaky Malena crept around like a mouse this morning and let me sleep half the day away, have finally caught up on my sleep and jet lag. Sneaky girl, I would have done the same to her....We practiced until midnight last night and I am certain I slept thru the last hour. Today we are going for lunch with our friend the lovely Miss Kitty and she is going to help me in my quest for the ultimate Indian place to eat. ( I have found many I love, but one needs to try them all to be sure. Mangos are fine bribes, but if I am ever in your town and you really want to find your way into my heart, go for the Indian food )
The folk music jam with Motley Crue has not yet happened, but this is such a very Magic place out here, that I would not be at all suprised if it did. Some days I feel like anything is possible, anything.
Especially with Malena.
Love and music and mangos,
Lorraine
posted by Anonymous @ 10:03 AM
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4 Comments:
I highly recommend Electric Lotus on Vermont and Franklin in Los Feliz (my hood). It is very very yummy and a lovely environment!
Well done with the linking! I like linking the world together too. One day I'm going to draw a diagram of all the people I've ever linked to and see what directions it goes in (I expect there are some loops where they've linked to each other too).
There's probably a program on the internet that would do it for me, actually.
It's 77 degrees in Edinburgh, and going to get hotter towards the weekend... so I don't know if I envy you in California or not. Maybe you're more used to the heat, but I'm melting here.
I wish we had an Indian food restaurant near us. ::chuckle:: Granted, our five acres of Central Texas is at least 30 minutes from major restaurants, but that beats the 1 - 1 1/2 hours to Round Rock (just north of Austin) to the closest Indian buffet. I love naan and I like my mango pudding with a honeyed fried (rice?)dough ball in it(jamun something). I swear my paternal grandmother's barbeque chicken tasted just like tandoori chicken, and she was raised in Mississippi and Louisiana along the Mississippi River.
If our high temperature were only 77 in June, it would be caused by a freakish cold front coming through. I've actually seen it do that in July within the past 10 years, but not this year. Currently, it's 93 degrees F with the highs forecast to be in the upper 90s by the weekend. Now, if we could just get some rain....
Ariandalen - the hottest I have ever experienced in Britain was 99 degrees, in London, which was considered a heatwave. At that temperature I was entirely non-functional. Perhaps if I ever come to visit where you live, I should do it at some other season!
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