August 11, 2007

  • I went to see a friend's band play at a local club this evening. I'd never even heard his group, but being supportive, and the fact that all I had to do was walk down the street to check it out, I went. It was metal night at the First Street Billiards, so yup I was treated to permanent hearing loss.  Honestly I know this guys talents are lost on that scream-fest of a band, but he must enjoy it so whatever.

    But on may walk back from the club I was additionally treated to a plethora of jazz performances, emanating from many clubs and parks.  Its the San Jose Jazz Festival this weekend, and it started today.

    http://www.sanjosejazz.org/festival.html

    I think I may come back tomorrow to see and hear more.

    Jazz fest I can handle, and even enjoy.  Metal night, you can keep it, though you wont keep your hearing.

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  • <LI>Breakfast is the only meal of the day that I tend to view with the same kind of traditionalized reverence that most people associate with Lunch and Dinner. I like to eat breakfast alone, and almost never before noon; anybody with a terminally jangled lifestyle needs at least one psychic anchor every twenty-four hours, and mine is breakfast. In Hong Kong, Dallas or at home — and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chiles, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert…. Right, and there should also be two or three newspapers, all mail and messages, a telephone, a notebook for planning the next twenty-four hours and at least one source of good music…. All of which should be dealt with outside, in the warmth of a hot sun, and preferably stone naked.

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