Foggy Tuesday
I really do hope the sun shines soon, I don’t like gloomy weather, it really gets to me. I need the Sun to survive.
Yesterday was cool, I got to walk around in the city a bit more, I found a little electronic store and bought me tiny portable (no batteries needed) speakers, and put them to use in my room at night. I also went to the Berkeley Bowl and bought some fruit, and something called Kefir (its a milk/yogurt drink) and it tastes AWESOME!.
Later that evening John and I drove up to San Fran for an open mic, SO many people were there, I was number 27, and John was 52. They do this “draw the name from a hat” type of deal to get you on the list. I personally don’t think its fair, we were there early enough to “choose” our spot. John however disagrees and thinks its a well thought out system, so he shouldn’t be too upset at the fact that we left before he got to play.
We got to meet a cool Cameroonian man, his name is Gishlan, and he only speaks french. While I was playing my song “guilt & empathy” he actually went and got his dumbek and got up on stage with me and played. I later found out that his lady friend Karen encouraged him to do so. She asked John if I would mind and he said “not at all”, and I’m so glad they did that, because now he is going to come and play percussion for me at our Nov 11th gig.
Karen had been in Cameroon for a couple of years, and the two of them had just came back to San Fran 2 weeks ago (this is Gishlan’s first time here), and he has been looking for people to play with. He is so excited to have made musical friends to play with, this is going to be very cool. Karen says that she has friends in Berkeley and will ask them to come out to the show. Sweet.
We got back home around midnight or so, John decided that he will go over to Bennet’s and hang out for a bit. I on the other hand had to go to bed, because of work today. But I gave John the cash for Bennet’s T.V. So I woke up this morning with a nice little flat screen TV on my chair. I looked it over and it seems that I have all the cables needed to turn it into my entertainment system (using my Laptop). So once I get home tonight, I will start plugging things in and get this thing running.
We will be at the Starry Plough open mic tonight, which is 2 blocks away from The Muse.
Our housemate Shiela leaves today, I got to say buy to her before I headed for work, I saw Eliza moving her things yesterday, so there is a chance that John might get her room sooner than expected, which would be awesome.
Well. That’s the latest update so far.
Hope you are all doing well over there.
Take care.
Salaam.
