Now I want to talk about a clothes hanger

So somewhere along the line we found this clothes hanger, probably when we lived in the U. District. Now, we of course have a lot of clothes hangers - I bought a bunch of wooden ones in boxes of 50 at Target for very reasonable cost, and those are the ones I mostly use. I kept this one because it was plastic and thick, so you could hang-dry clothes on it. Beyond that, it's just an old plastic hanger - nothing noteworthy about it. Or so I thought, until one day, I looked a little closer.

This suit hanger was some engineer's baby. It was some company's pride. It was a hanger a company cared enough about not just to throw into a box, not even just to brand, but to give a model. To, in fact, name. And not just any name, even; they wanted to give it a name with drama; one that implied intrigue. They wanted a name a man would remember, a model for which he'd ask. They wanted a name that he'd see and think, You know, I bet James Bond uses this hanger. I should, too.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Falcon 17:


Falcon 17


Not Even Joking

tonight at soul food

I'm doing the Soul Food Books open-mic tonight! That starts at 7pm. Notes to self:
1. Remember: don't sing to the microphone, sing to the audience while hanging out with the microphone. 2. Breathe a lot, new technique requires more air. 3. Go over those fucking "When You Leave" lyrics again because mix-and-matching verses doesn't fucking work. AGH

Show starts at 7pm; I don't know when it'll be my turn. Each person only gets two songs, which is frustrating, but, well, I take what I can get.

haven't listened to the recording yet

I don't think anybody from here was there, but if you were, hey! Sorry I missed you. Hopefully I wasn't too bad. I haven't listened to the recording yet; I know I had trouble doing the new voice techniques in performance. Know for 100% sure. Very frustrating. I also continue to have trouble relating to dynamic microphones. Also very frustrating. I could solve part of this by getting a pickup for my mandolin, because I'm having to deal with relating to two microphones at once, and relating to only one at a time would be a hell of a lot easier. But those cost dollars.

Another performer did ask me to do back him up for one of his songs on mandolin, just making up a counterpoint part to his three-chord song, though, and I did, and that actually worked pretty well. Sound guy in particular liked it. When I'm second banana on stage I'm a lot calmer; I just watched the guy for his changes and made stuff up as I went along, and that was easy and apparently popular. He videos his performances and has a myspace page, so I'll post a pointer when he sends it to me. (Assuming he does. He said he would.)

And now lo I am wiped.

eta: Decided to listen to the recording before going to bed anyway. 1. Pitch control much better. The a cappella opening to "Thought You Knew" still isn't quite hitting, but was better. 2. Tone control extremely spotty... tho' I don't sound as entirely bad as I'd expected I'd might, for once. Some quite bad spots, others not so bad. Clearly need much more work at getting a grip on that; I can tell that while I was occasionally not cutting off my sinuses, most of the time I was, and that's fail. 3. Too damn fast. Again. Mandolin work sounded better than I'd expected it would, and would probably have been okay if I hadn't been too damn fast.