YUCK. And fun.
May. 27th, 2002 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdYUCK:
Today, I tore out the tub surround in one of the upstairs bathrooms. Top layer: Grey/blue vinyl of some kind, glued down. Below that: Paint, in two colours. Below that: PANELING. What the HELL? Below that: WALLPAPER, which must be seen to be believed. Again: What the HELL? Below that: more paint! Below that: some sort of waterboard that must have been pretty good because it was in decent shape. Finally, below that: plaster lathe.
Oh, yes, there will be tile. Oh, indeed there will. Tile beyond your human abilities to understand tiling. Yes, there will.
Fun:
Yesterday,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
annathepiper and I went to Folklife at Seattle Centre. Normally five hours or so in a day is plenty but after five and a half, I wasn't really ready to come home at all. I think a lot of that had to do with entering this contest they have called a Band Scramble, where a bunch of people who play instruments sign up and get assigned - randomly - to groups and try to put together a three-song set in about 45 minutes. (In theory, you have an hour. But that's just theory.) Our band had no stringed instruments, which was a serious handicap. And none of the people in my group knew any of the songs I know except Mari Mac, and they were 'way too intimidated to try it. Which is too bad, since really, it's not that hard a song. And, of course, I didn't know most of the songs they knew. That wouldn't have been too bad except they really wanted to put me on lead on something because, well, if I know it, I'm 1) pretty competent and 2) LOUD with the piccolo.
So that didn't happen. I ended up improvising some noises through all three pieces, and they thought that sounded fine. I did do some arrangement on the songs we ended up performing. If we'd had about an extra half hour, I think we could have gotten our act together pretty well - we had an accordion player who was pretty good, even if he had the quietest accordion I've ever heard, and we were the only group who tried to do anything with vocals. But as it was a bunch of stuff didn't really come together on stage. So we ended up pretty much clearly in second (of three), a little ahead of the third group, and about a bazillion points behind the winning group that had the guitar and banjo and two fiddles and the stage presence and talent and stuff.
I did have this one guy try to grab me to dance around in front of the stage for the third (winning) entry. But he seemed kind of creepy and I didn't know what he wanted, so I wouldn't go with him, and he grabbed Anna instead. It actually looked kind of fun, so next time maybe. But it worked out okay.
I told Anna that I wish we'd had a camera so that we could take a couple of shots from different angles and pretend they were photos from our tour. ^_^
Today, I tore out the tub surround in one of the upstairs bathrooms. Top layer: Grey/blue vinyl of some kind, glued down. Below that: Paint, in two colours. Below that: PANELING. What the HELL? Below that: WALLPAPER, which must be seen to be believed. Again: What the HELL? Below that: more paint! Below that: some sort of waterboard that must have been pretty good because it was in decent shape. Finally, below that: plaster lathe.
Oh, yes, there will be tile. Oh, indeed there will. Tile beyond your human abilities to understand tiling. Yes, there will.
Fun:
Yesterday,
annathepiper and I went to Folklife at Seattle Centre. Normally five hours or so in a day is plenty but after five and a half, I wasn't really ready to come home at all. I think a lot of that had to do with entering this contest they have called a Band Scramble, where a bunch of people who play instruments sign up and get assigned - randomly - to groups and try to put together a three-song set in about 45 minutes. (In theory, you have an hour. But that's just theory.) Our band had no stringed instruments, which was a serious handicap. And none of the people in my group knew any of the songs I know except Mari Mac, and they were 'way too intimidated to try it. Which is too bad, since really, it's not that hard a song. And, of course, I didn't know most of the songs they knew. That wouldn't have been too bad except they really wanted to put me on lead on something because, well, if I know it, I'm 1) pretty competent and 2) LOUD with the piccolo.So that didn't happen. I ended up improvising some noises through all three pieces, and they thought that sounded fine. I did do some arrangement on the songs we ended up performing. If we'd had about an extra half hour, I think we could have gotten our act together pretty well - we had an accordion player who was pretty good, even if he had the quietest accordion I've ever heard, and we were the only group who tried to do anything with vocals. But as it was a bunch of stuff didn't really come together on stage. So we ended up pretty much clearly in second (of three), a little ahead of the third group, and about a bazillion points behind the winning group that had the guitar and banjo and two fiddles and the stage presence and talent and stuff.
I did have this one guy try to grab me to dance around in front of the stage for the third (winning) entry. But he seemed kind of creepy and I didn't know what he wanted, so I wouldn't go with him, and he grabbed Anna instead. It actually looked kind of fun, so next time maybe. But it worked out okay.
I told Anna that I wish we'd had a camera so that we could take a couple of shots from different angles and pretend they were photos from our tour. ^_^
