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QuotesThe new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these. |
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Tuesday, April 7, 1998
I'm really happy with one of the CDs I bought at Half Price Books on Saturday. It's "Village Vanguard Live Sessions" with the Thad Jones Mel Lewis Big Band, recorded in 1970.
This was a band made up of New York studio musicians and jazz players, that played on Monday nights only, at the Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village. Their arrangements were hot! and the soloists are so tasty!
Listening to these tunes, I realize now that either my college jazz band director obtained these charts from somewhere (possible, since he was a jazz player and composer himself) or copied them from the record. The numbers "Don't Git Sassy" and "Little Pixie" are engraved into my brain cells, I played them so many times. I was in the second-level jazz band because we didn't have a jazz band at my high school, so I was completely inexperienced in that area when I entered college. I loved it, though, even if I never did become a notable soloist. I could play my part with the correct styling.
These live sessions with the original band are great! The crowd response adds a lot.
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I'm expecting to meet a visiting fireman, er, I mean an online journaler from out of town, this weekend. Darren Holloway was one of the earliest journalers to get started on the net, and he has kept up very consistently. I wonder if he's getting tired of it now? He's still writing, but his TOC is way out of date!
He is notable for being another online journaler who digs dancing. He's more into the ballroom scene, but somehow we'll find the common area in the Venn diagram of our dance knowledge and have some fun this Friday. Maybe he'll come to the Cacophony event on Sunday, too!
When I reviewed the Lifelog for the diary-crit-l mailing list late last summer (and I think I read all of the two years worth!), I snipped some bits that I especially liked. I think this was what gave Darren the idea for running a contest where people sent him quotes from his journal.
I was already counted as entered for this contest, and coincidentally, I won! Darren drew lots among the entrants.
And I do think that this is very funny!
"Salzburg is really a very nice town, but it's nothing like The Sound of Music. Notably, I never met a single cute, young singing nun. But then again, the Nazis never came either, so I guess I didn't really want it to be like the movie."
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I left work a half hour early and went to the Bellevue Square Mall. I was in the mood to buy! I bought more of those bras I like, and would have bought some dancing clothes, but there were none to suit me. For once, I actually had things to say to the sales workers at Lane Bryant: "I have this outfit in navy blue, and I'd buy it in any other colors you have, but not that olive green!" "Do you have any skirts cut the same as this short denim one? I have it already and like that style." Normally all I say is "Just looking!"
I need some shoes suitable for dancing, too. I went from one end of the mall to the other, including that shoe mecca, Nordstroms, but I didn't even see any that tempted me to try them on. Current fashions in shoes are ugly enough to make me shudder! I am thinking about getting some black leather Keds, though, just for kicking around in. The mall seemed to be oversupplied with jewelry stores, but there weren't that many shoe stores.
So this is a quiet evening at home. A date last night, and dance class coming up. I'll recharge my batteries tonight!
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