Life in the Big City
This kind of day could only happen in a major metropolitan in the United States. Check out my Sunday:
8:15 AM - got up early and headed into the studio to work on an electonica demo.
12:30 PM - go back home to shower and change.
2:00 PM - meet Nicki at "Big Bowl" -- an uptown stir-fry joint where her friend Arik is having his surprise birthday party, thrown by his fiancee, Mary-Kate. Arik is a playwright and a dog-walker. Mary-Kate is a songwriter and a nanny. The party is primarily comprised of musicians, writers, and dog-walking clients. Arik shows up with Mary-Kate's birthday gift on his forearm -- a freshly-inked tattoo. We brought him a bottle of wine. Turns out Arik doesn't drink.
5:30 PM - Nicki drops me by my friends' Rich and Inger's place. I play Rich the demo I finished this morning, and he makes some excellent suggestions. We bundle up, toss their two-year old and head out to dinner. We decide on a sushi restaurant called "Tank". A two-year-old in a sushi restaurant. You can imagine what took place...
7:30 PM - Rich and I jump on the "el" train and ride downtown to the Chicago Theatre to see the Pat Metheny concert.
UNBELIEVABLE. They play their entire new album, and it is absolutely extraordinary. I'm quite positive I didn't understand a note of it, but it is totally incredible.
10:30 PM - hang out at the theatre for a while - Rich has a great contact for backstage passes, so we're waiting to see if his cell phone is gonna ring.
10:50 PM - doesn't appear that Rich's cell phone is gonna ring.
11:30 PM - hop back on the "el", and ride to Nicki's apartment. Her sister Jesse is visiting, so I stop in for a glass of wine and a few rounds of Yahtzee...
8:15 AM - got up early and headed into the studio to work on an electonica demo.
12:30 PM - go back home to shower and change.
2:00 PM - meet Nicki at "Big Bowl" -- an uptown stir-fry joint where her friend Arik is having his surprise birthday party, thrown by his fiancee, Mary-Kate. Arik is a playwright and a dog-walker. Mary-Kate is a songwriter and a nanny. The party is primarily comprised of musicians, writers, and dog-walking clients. Arik shows up with Mary-Kate's birthday gift on his forearm -- a freshly-inked tattoo. We brought him a bottle of wine. Turns out Arik doesn't drink.
5:30 PM - Nicki drops me by my friends' Rich and Inger's place. I play Rich the demo I finished this morning, and he makes some excellent suggestions. We bundle up, toss their two-year old and head out to dinner. We decide on a sushi restaurant called "Tank". A two-year-old in a sushi restaurant. You can imagine what took place...
7:30 PM - Rich and I jump on the "el" train and ride downtown to the Chicago Theatre to see the Pat Metheny concert.
UNBELIEVABLE. They play their entire new album, and it is absolutely extraordinary. I'm quite positive I didn't understand a note of it, but it is totally incredible.
10:30 PM - hang out at the theatre for a while - Rich has a great contact for backstage passes, so we're waiting to see if his cell phone is gonna ring.
10:50 PM - doesn't appear that Rich's cell phone is gonna ring.
11:30 PM - hop back on the "el", and ride to Nicki's apartment. Her sister Jesse is visiting, so I stop in for a glass of wine and a few rounds of Yahtzee...
1 Comments:
now WHERE did you toss the two-year old?
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