Tuesday night follies
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gurdymonkey1. Why yes, Kanye West IS a jackass.
2. While I offer my congratulations to Eddie Izzard on his achievement in the name of sport and charity, I refuse to let anyone attempt to lay a guilt trip on me about what I do and don't do in the name of my health. I don't run, marathons or otherwise, not after more than 20 years' abuse of my knees in the service of horsemanship and two bad injuries of the same knee over a relatively short period of time, which I take as a Sign That I Really Was Not Intended To Fence.
I do breeze through two fourteen minute miles five days a week on those knees, and do 100 crunches a night. I play damn hard at taiko once a week, but since it is only once a week, I'll even let you say, "Well, that doesn't count." I eat a reasonably healthy diet most of the time, and yet, thanks to the genetic crap shoot, all that discipline still means being potbellied and pear shaped and not being able to get the needle on the scale to budge no matter how carefully I eat. I AM in good shape, even if it doesn't look like it : I can tell by how fast my pulse rate drops after exertion, so if y'all wanna be inspired and run marathons, go right ahead. I, for one, have nothing to prove.
3. Shannon-sensei was not at class tonight, so Sean-sensei ran us through the piece with no name as yet, and "Friday Night Gig" in a high intensity hour that was equal parts exhilaration and ass-kicking. The un-named piece has a wonderful swingy rhythm that I'm really enjoying. "Friday Night Gig" is on slant-stands and I'm having problems with a move in which we twirl the stick in the right hand twice while drumming with the left. I don't have it anywhere near down yet and I managed to smack myself across the forearm, probably because I was thinking too hard about the stick flourish that was coming up and not about the phrase I was drumming at that moment. However, I feel pretty good about the fact that I can play softly when soft is called for. Note to self, design a tee shirt for Cafepress. "There's no crying in taiko: screaming, but no crying," Sure, in my copious spare time....
2. While I offer my congratulations to Eddie Izzard on his achievement in the name of sport and charity, I refuse to let anyone attempt to lay a guilt trip on me about what I do and don't do in the name of my health. I don't run, marathons or otherwise, not after more than 20 years' abuse of my knees in the service of horsemanship and two bad injuries of the same knee over a relatively short period of time, which I take as a Sign That I Really Was Not Intended To Fence.
I do breeze through two fourteen minute miles five days a week on those knees, and do 100 crunches a night. I play damn hard at taiko once a week, but since it is only once a week, I'll even let you say, "Well, that doesn't count." I eat a reasonably healthy diet most of the time, and yet, thanks to the genetic crap shoot, all that discipline still means being potbellied and pear shaped and not being able to get the needle on the scale to budge no matter how carefully I eat. I AM in good shape, even if it doesn't look like it : I can tell by how fast my pulse rate drops after exertion, so if y'all wanna be inspired and run marathons, go right ahead. I, for one, have nothing to prove.
3. Shannon-sensei was not at class tonight, so Sean-sensei ran us through the piece with no name as yet, and "Friday Night Gig" in a high intensity hour that was equal parts exhilaration and ass-kicking. The un-named piece has a wonderful swingy rhythm that I'm really enjoying. "Friday Night Gig" is on slant-stands and I'm having problems with a move in which we twirl the stick in the right hand twice while drumming with the left. I don't have it anywhere near down yet and I managed to smack myself across the forearm, probably because I was thinking too hard about the stick flourish that was coming up and not about the phrase I was drumming at that moment. However, I feel pretty good about the fact that I can play softly when soft is called for. Note to self, design a tee shirt for Cafepress. "There's no crying in taiko: screaming, but no crying," Sure, in my copious spare time....
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Date: 2009-09-16 11:13 pm (UTC)Lets Make Some NOISE!