Good Times

What a weekend of music! On Thursday I had my Club Soda then Offbeat, both were great. The intern even brought a playlist for Offbeat! Also on Thursday we watched The Wire in class, and listened to A Love Supreme in class. So really what more can you ask for? That's basically the perfect day. On Friday I DJed for Dan's DEES group party, small shindig of 20 or so people but it was very fun! Met some nice people and had some nice conversations.  Also I used the mixer from KCR for it and felt very professional. It was a blast. This morning I watched the 1st episode of the new Daredevil netflix show and was very impressed! I look forward to binge watching it. Tomorrow (sunday, today since it's 4am) will be lots of tv, with Game of Thrones coming back and new John Oliver. Good times!
Tonight I played at Postcrypt for the first and sadly probably last time. I wish I'd known about it earlier in my tenure here at Columbia, though I wouldn't have known all the people who I went to it with tonight so maybe it wouldn't have been the same. It was a very fun and thrilling experience, like a microcosm of what I imagine it's like to be a gigging club musician. It was fun. Super fun. We played the Cat Power version of "New York, New York" and Simon & Garfunkel's "The Last Living Boy in New York". We being me on conga, Dan on guitar/vocals and Bella on backup vocal. The other musicians playing were mostly very good too! Later in the night there was open spots for extra songs so me and Dan played Van Morrison's "Crazy Love" though there were some forgotten chords and lyrics but we made it work. Ultimately I think it played well. Later one of the Postcrypt runners asked me and Dan to play "Chameleon" with him, so we did and it was a fun jam session to end the set, though it went on maybe a bit too long. It was cool though because it was very very improvised so it was a jazz/folk blend. I had fun anyway.
After that I went to Prentis for the first time and played around with the equipment there while Emilie finished recording her EP. Sadly the Moog they had and their synthesizers weren't working, but we had fun times with drum pads and ableton/logic. Although Logic is actually extremely grating and difficult to figure out and annoying to record in, but we had fun anyway. We're going record her song for real soon hopefully, and maybe even one of mine. A step up from my soundcloud jams! Though I like messing with beats on Ableton, I'll do it live at a party sometime soon. If it doesn't crash. We'll see.
I've been lucky enough to see the Alabama Shakes live set at Coachella via stream, but I heard this artist Charles Bradley was great and have since loved his music. I missed his Coachella set but hope to see it if it's recorded,which it should be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6slbqEMiKsI
Charles Bradley, Lovin' You Baby, live on KEXP.