Hey, I'm going to see Esperanza Spalding next week!!! Great timing because for three weeks I've been working like a dog, literally.
Esperanza is a jazz singer and she plays contrabass. Somehow her air-like voice blends perfectly with the deep, warm bass notes; I always have this picture of lying on a fuzzy mat sipping hot drink everytime I listen to her (by the way, if you do not own a surrounded sound system, at least use good quality headphones for Esperanza music.) And the greatest thing about Esperanza is that, you know she is truly playing, heart and soul. Think I could be all hippy happy just to look at her.
How fierce, I've always wish I had frizzy hair.
Finally I could take a short rest from assignments and errands. It felt so great that I decided to check out which shows are coming up in town and yet I am torn again. My Brightest Diamond sounds absolutely beautiful and it's a free-seating event and tickets are still available. To go or not go to?
"After the concert I finally dared to ask her what I wanted to ask her that morning, to sing us this lullaby that struck me down. It's Sunday morning, a morning of hangovers. The whole hotel seems suspended in the air. We ask her to get to the bar, to make it sing for her, to sing for her son (for whom she had written this song). We erase ourselves. She, she doesn't. After we're done filming, I cry. She cries too."
Esperanza is a jazz singer and she plays contrabass. Somehow her air-like voice blends perfectly with the deep, warm bass notes; I always have this picture of lying on a fuzzy mat sipping hot drink everytime I listen to her (by the way, if you do not own a surrounded sound system, at least use good quality headphones for Esperanza music.) And the greatest thing about Esperanza is that, you know she is truly playing, heart and soul. Think I could be all hippy happy just to look at her.
How fierce, I've always wish I had frizzy hair.
Finally I could take a short rest from assignments and errands. It felt so great that I decided to check out which shows are coming up in town and yet I am torn again. My Brightest Diamond sounds absolutely beautiful and it's a free-seating event and tickets are still available. To go or not go to?
I think and read a lot on the way to school, or to work. Before it was a sketchbook and doodling, but either I was uncomfortable with people looking at me, or it might be impolite to stare at someone for too long and I didn't dare and didn't feel right to ask that person if I could draw them...so lately I switched to books instead. I don't keep a record but it has to be around 20 books or so, short and long, all read along my way to somewhere. Agree that it's a bit eye-tiring sometimes, in fact I try not to read while walking (but excuse me sometimes for the climaxes yeah?) but...
Everything felt slower yet faster at the same time.
That's it for now. I wish you well.
ting-a-linh
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