Our Portland Trailblazers

My Yahoo pickup game group was pretty unsuccessful this summer. Because of the name, PDXBallers, I usually just get about one porno chick a month looking for "singles in my area."

Luckily, the Blazers have gotten off to a much better start at 15-7 after the first quarter of the season than I did organizing my little Portland-Scrub-Street League.

I'm really looking forward to watching a couple games at the Rose Garden over the break and hoping to make it to either the Mavs game on X-Mas, or Raptors Game on Blazer's Edge Night.

Random Info, here is my list o' stuff to do from a few days ago:

• Compose
• Stay off BEdge
• Study for finals
• Top off antifreeze
• Reschedule Recording Session(s)
• Go Grocery Shopping
• Get CD sleeves
• Bills!
• Ask Santa for a PS3 + HDTV + NBA2k9

art songs

Slowly chipping away at my song cycle, I have a stanza and a half-ish to go in this sonnet i've set for mezzo-soprano and piano. This is the 4th poem I've set; the imagery in this sonnet is the most sexual out of e e cummings poems i've set thus far. Lines like "hips pumping pleasure into hips" don't really leave much to the imagination, but yet I have to use my imagination to paint modal/tonal picture of the text. Imaginaaaaaaation

I have to do some editing before I submit the 3 songs i've completed for grading this term, TERM ALMOST OVER! I'm excited to write the final, 5th song over the winter break so I can move on to writing Owen a solo cello piece next term.

I'm also hatching a plan for next term to write a piece for a couple of my band mates from Clambake that have started a killer new group called Terracoustic with bassist Josh Feinburg. I'm pretty stoked to record Clambake's long belated first album at Ben Blechman's Terracoustic Studios; working and playing gigs with Ben and Tim can only help me when it comes to writing for their Terracoustic group.