Sunday 10 November 2002

Picked up the latest Tori Amos album, Scarlet’s Walk. I went the special edition route. While on the subject of Tori Amos, one thing about my (second) cousin Nina whose wedding I attended a few weeks ago. Her first dance with her husband was to a Tori Amos piano piece, a cover of Led Zeppelin. How cool is that? 10:31:09 PM    comment [] The Apple Store at Menlo Park opened yesterday. I looked through it today, having been zonked yesterday. It has a smaller selection of software than both Tice’s Corner and Short Hills, but it has the same amount of hardware on display, or so I note. As with other Apple Stores, it seems to be disproportionately populated by salespeople, which means to me high margins and low pay, but what do I know? Of course within five minutes of walking in I spot three things I. Want. Now. Yet resisted the temptation, but how long can I hold out? 4:45:06 PM    comment [] I heard Joseph Frame at Borders. He played that Castillan tune, Romanza, as arranged by Edgar Cruz with some personal touches of his own. My own rendition suffers horribly by comparison. I was impressed how he worked in some of the ornamentation. The question is, how much more serious with the guitar can I get without more formal instruction and theory? For that matter, how much further can I get without at least some modicum of dedication to it? 4:07:04 PM    comment [] Shoot. I forgot that today was the last day of the run of Burn This, my favorite contemporary play. Er, yesterday. Sigh. I suck. 2:59:57 AM    comment [] Friday, I had managed to change Netscape stations in the lab to Jazz Singers from Classic Rock that the Vietnam vets listen to. Seventies rock is not my strong suit, though I enjoy most of it. I can name many fewer jazz singers, especially male ones, than I can name seventies rockers, but I find the music to be less intrusive material in a work environment. Strangely, I remember hearing a lot of Fitzgerald, but no Holliday. 12:32:30 AM    comment []

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