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May 25, 1998
re-assemblance
Not much happenin' today, with the exception of my wife and I going out to the movies this evening. We saw "The Gingerbread Man", and it was quite good. Kenneth Brannagh is a superb actor and sported this impeccable southern accent, and you'd never know he is British if you didn't know who he was beforehand. Based on another John Grisham novel, the movie deals with a highly successful lawyer getting involved with a woman who has a psychotic father who keeps threatening her. There are some twists and turns in the movie, which keeps the storyline quite interesting. Darryl Hannah, Robert Downey, Jr., Robert Duvall are also in this motion picture. Actually I take that back, we did go to a Greek cafe and had some Gyros sandwiches earlier in the day around 11:30am. We went to Tower Records but didn't get anything. It's a little hard to shop when you have your 5 year old son running up and down the aisles. That's OK, we don't mind at all, and our little son had a blast going up and down the escalator. We went to CostPlus, a store specializing in imports, coffee and such. Afterwards we went to a furniture store and ended up buying a new king-sized bed (finally). Our old queen-sized bed is ready to go out to pasture! Prior to going out to the movies we ate some Chinese take-out with Orange Peel Chicken, Chow Mein and rice. After the movies we snacked on some California Roll sushi. Later in the evening I was able to get on the computer and work on updating my journal and redid some of the design of the journal. I was pretty much feeling exhausted all day today, obviously from the last couple of days with the band, going to Riverside, Hermosa Beach and back down to San Diego to play at Croce's. I was relieved from the stress of having to play so much in just 2 days, yet I felt emotionally drained. I guess being a performer IS emotionally draining. It's almost as if the performance itself is out of my hands, and is partly dependent on the audience, whether they demand your best performance, or not. I feel that when I perform in front of a large audience, there is definitely a give and take, a form of mystical communication between performer and audience which somehow takes place, and, It can be a pretty magical experience if the right attitude and ambience is present. Well, at this point I need to really practice on the drums even more so, now that the Frank Sinatra Gala at the Vegas Hard Rock Cafe is coming up on the 29th of May. In the last month I had been practicing drums everyday for about 2 to 5 hours, depending on my schedule at home and with the band. I think all that practice has been paying off. I'm also studying (closely) the Buddy Rich videos just to TRY and see exactly what Buddy is doing. I was late getting airline tickets and I'm going to have to rent a car or ride with the other band members if there's enough room in the van they're renting. Tony Bennett and his orchestra (believe it not) is preceding our show. I don't know if I should be worried about that or not. Either way, we as a band have to look very impressive. They say that everyone from Cindy Crawford to Bruce Springsteen is likely to show up at this Sinatra event, and now that Old Blue Eyes has passed on, there could be even more people coming to this event. Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed, and practice my @$$ off in the meantime...
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