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The "like" thread
- Thread starter petrus61
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I like my quart of New Hampshire maple syrup.
It's the heroin of the diabetic world.
It's the heroin of the diabetic world.
I like cornbread. Man, I swear, I could eat a skillet if that stuff in a heartbeat. Pat of butter on the crunchy side, mmm 
I can't think of anything useful or thought provoking to say at this moment. Maybe some cornbread and maple syrup would put me in a better mood . I do like chicken though 
I like this coffee. I particularly like the 9 hours sleep that I just recieved. Must be the first time in 30 days I've gotten more than 6.5.
A gift from God.
Normally, by about 19:00 hours a zero dark thirty airport job is texted over to me by one of my slaves...er...contractors.
I shrug, reset the alarm, and go to bed by 20:30.
So, since there's not a happy thread, the like thread will have to do. I feel really really good right now. I just got home from my last high school jazz band concert. My freshman year, we had a director who was an amazing jazz/blues saxophonist, and he was the director of the jazz band. He and I are fairly good friends, and I have infinite respect for the man. He came back to direct jazz band this year, which I was truly ecstatic about. He has told me before that he sees alot of himself in me, which is a great compliment in itself, imo. Tonight, during our cattle call blues jam (we played Sonny Rollins' Tenor Madness, a 12-bar blues) our ensemble took improv solos. When mine came up, I felt comfortable, and it just flowed really well, I thought. For the past couple years, I had thought soloing was about showing off, and always tried to incorporate sixtuplet chromatics or something dumb, but tonight I just played some arpeggios and scales, and it just seemed to fit and was musical, which is the goal right? My mom even cried, but she's a little over-emotional. After the set ended, he shook my hand and said he enjoyed my solo. I took it as simply platonic, and said thanks alot.
Now here's where the ecstatic part comes in. My mother is friends with the head director's wife, and my mother received a text saying that she should have heard the things John and Al (the head and jazz directors) were saying about me. She followed with the following: "Great instincts, knows his theory, he can really tear it up. He just gets it. I'm gonna miss him." I never felt that I craved the approval of these men, but it made me feel lighter than air to know that people from whom I have learned and to whom I look up hold me in high regards, even if I'm just a high school musician. So yeah, maybe this bass thing might work out for me. With college around the corner, I know I won't be able to play as much, but I really hope I can find something that I can be a part of. So if you read all of this, thanks. If not, you didn't miss anything important.
-Chris
Now here's where the ecstatic part comes in. My mother is friends with the head director's wife, and my mother received a text saying that she should have heard the things John and Al (the head and jazz directors) were saying about me. She followed with the following: "Great instincts, knows his theory, he can really tear it up. He just gets it. I'm gonna miss him." I never felt that I craved the approval of these men, but it made me feel lighter than air to know that people from whom I have learned and to whom I look up hold me in high regards, even if I'm just a high school musician. So yeah, maybe this bass thing might work out for me. With college around the corner, I know I won't be able to play as much, but I really hope I can find something that I can be a part of. So if you read all of this, thanks. If not, you didn't miss anything important.
-Chris
