so, it appears
Posted: January 20, 2009 Filed under: just because | Tags: the Dakini chronicles 7 CommentsI’ve been tagged in some bizarre Puma equivalent to a chain letter where I have to tell folks 6 random things about myself and then tag six other bloggers to do the same. The easy part is tagging six other bloggers … don’t hate the player folks, hate the game!
So, here’s the easy part first. (Hey, doing the easy things first got me through school, what can I say?)
http://thatsmeontheleft.blogspot.com/
http://spiral-gate.blogspot.com/
http://huntingdonpost.wordpress.com/
http://ladyboomernyc.wordpress.com/
http://annabellep.wordpress.com/
Okay, six random things about me:
1) I wrote a song that Beyounce recorded.
2) I would eat sushi everday if I could afford it.
3) I had a speaking role in a French Movie of the Week that was filmed in New Orleans called Scarlette’s Children. I played a waitress at cafe du monde even though the scene was filmed in the courtyard of a hotel and not cafe du monde.
4) I have a hobby of being a sound engineer … I’ve mic’d Elvis Costello, Joss Stone, Keith Richards (and had a 2o minute conversation with him in which i understood NOT one word, but said, really? and yes? a lot), all of the Nevilles, the ZZ Top dudes, was supposed to but refused to mic Nelly, mic’d Randy Newman several times and a whole bunch of other folks …
5) This is a picture of me playing one of the big steinways at Carnegie Hall a few years a go
6) My favorite movie of all times is Local Hero. I own every single session of Cowboy Bebop. My steinway grand and the front two rooms of my house were used in the imax movie Hurricane on the Bayou as the supposed home of Allan Tousaint. He plays my piano and watches out for Hurricane Katrina. The stupid crew filmed and left my kitchen door open and you get a great view of the kitchen sink area where they stacked a bunch of cans of soda pop, I did actually straighten up for them but cringe every time I see that. They shot most of it from outside my dining room window because my house is really small and the imax cameras are HUGE. As a matter of fact, I’d bet the IMAX screen is about twice the size of the two rooms they used for the set.
Update: here’s a pic of my dining room/piano room with the kitchen door CLOSED.
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Wow. Unsurprisingly impressive. It makes me wonder how many grains of sand you can fit in your hand and whether you ever play a Mark Knopfler song to celebrate your morning coffee on the weekend?
Sharing info like this is delicious, in terms of whetting the appetite, which means it also carries a danger for those who have been sated by your standard fare.
Certainly, this is a case of answers creating more questions, such as “Which Beyounce tune?” or “What was your most fun line in the French film?”, but at what point does legitimate curiousity become rapacious?
Your revelations about the recording, and an earlier post about jazz piano, made me think about the band I formed after quitting my first doctorate (how generic). I searched the internet for old reviews and found that a company has the CD for sale on-line, even though we controlled all aspects of our production and sales. Hmm. I’ve e-mailed my little brother to ask how he thinks we should proceed.
Thanks for the sharing and the thought casting that has unearthed the potentially interesting CD mystery.
Yours,
SM
the beyonce tune wound up on the editing room floor, i’m pretty sure it didn’t get on any later album either, but i still have a copy of it … and love mark knopfler. i still play guitar a lot for solace. piano for clearing the mind.
and my exciting lines were things like, here’s your seat, would you like some coffee, and the lady is over here sir … en francais, naturalment.
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It reached her expression in song, which is impressive in itself. I know how good it felt to be playing my creations and seeing the audience singing along.
Millenia ago, “Going Home” was standard wake up call fare on long weekend, Saturday mornings that were to be continuations of the night before. I supposeone of the reasons Local Hero was dear is because we lived in a place with both oil and the aurora borealis.
That you spoke your lines en Francais suggests that when potential suitors respond to meeting you with the greeting “Enchanted.”, that they are merely foreseeing their fate. 😉
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i had NO idea of your prowess, madame. you’re one talented PUMA. the sushi? i forgive you.
btw, i’ll borrow your chandelier when you’re not using it, k?
🙂
I know it’s corny, but I’m loving this tag game. I’m finding out so many interesting things about all of you impressive PUMA’s 🙂 BTW I love the randomly generated possibly related posts. I’m dying to go see how “God made us sisters, prozac made us friends” is somehow related to your post.
gary: i was wondering about that post too …
oh, and PP: just clean all those silly drippy crystals when you return it!