Happy New Year's

What did everyone do for the holidays? Or in my case...what have I done this past month of not updating my blogger??

School has come and gone, and now I'm on my winter break. I am glad to say that my hard work paid off with a 3.9 GPA for this semester and a 3.98 GPA as my cumulative GPA (Which means...I got a 3.9 this semester and last semester).

The holidays came to fast and went by to fast. The theatre was rocking with spirits for John Edwards, and then with some country christimasy music by Kenny Rogers (just know when to hold 'em...know when to fold 'em....err...don't get me STARTED!!)We finished the year at the theatre with a little of ALY AND AJ (Into the rush...I would NOT mind going into the rush with those two if you know what i mean ^-^) and a little ditty of nastiness with Jim Norton. How much can a girl hear about ass sex and blowjobs in one night?

My christmas was full of musical gifts. I received a guitar foot stand, guitar polish, my Jimi Hendrix springs, and several jazz cds. Yes cds...there are just some albums you NEED to own physically...not digitally.

I got Diz n Bird LIVE! at Carnegie Hall, which is awesome. You can hear Diz and Bird talk and shit, but listening to Bird LIVE, is an amazing thing.

I got Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain...which is another awesome album. It combines the genius of Gil Evans and Miles being backed up by a full orchestra. Along the classical jazz fusion is Bird's Charlie Parker with Strings. Oh man, amazing.

I also got Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool, which I haven't had time to really listen to. I've been excited over the previous 3.

But my christmas isn't christmas without some KELLY CLARKSON. I got her new album, which is pretty cool. I just wish I had the song NEVER AGAIN when my first girlfriend broke up with me....

I was really hoping that I was going to secure a 1B Bach flugelhorn mouthpiece but unfortuately BACH is only producing standard moutpieces...no special orders because of the strike they just settled. I'm going into the city next week for my 20th birthday and I'm going to ask people at Sam Ash what they could recommend if I can't get a Bach mouthpiece, and on the cheap side since Bob Reeves mouthpieces are expensive. I need to get one before I go back to school.

Did I forget to mention I had my first concert in over a year and half in December??

With the jazz band at school, it was pretty sweet...topping any concert I had in high school. Probably because I felt completely at ease, but the line up consisted of "Don't Explain", "Lonely Woman", "Tico Tico", "Our Spanish Love Song", "Night of a Thousand Eyes", "How Deep is the Ocean", and of course... "Watermelon Man". I somehow recruited a few more musicians and we should have a pretty sweet line up next semester.

I'm going to try...keyword try to update as much as possible.

Til next time!

PoJ