A night of relaxation

Last night I got to spend some time with Christy. I also got to meet her new interest so I didn't get to spend too much time with her.

I would have to say I am surprised because I think this one might stay around for a while. She is quite taken with this one. I am happy she has found someone she enjoys spending time with and compliments many of her attributes. I should have taken a pic of him, but I forgot... And the pics later on are not the greatest because I took them with my smaller camera that has some issues...

We stopped by Javier's to get some grub. It was fun because I got to talk to people in Spanish. I always enjoy that.

We then went to Weber State and I was prepared to have some fun, but I guess that was earlier in the day. But even better I got a nice surprise. We went in to the Browning Center and John Schmidt was playing in concert! I love his music, I love playing it and I love the little notes he puts in as you are playing.

As you play his music, he will write quirky stuff when notes may not sounds right, but they really are. He sets the tone by writting a small excerpt into why the song is the way it is and why you should play it a certain way. But after seening him in concert, I can put everything together. It would be such a riot to live in his house.

There is a song I am off in hunt of today at lunch time that he played. I have no clue what the name of it is, but I want to find it. The song it about the sweetness of being with someone you truely care about. In his case, it was sitting down at night reading a story to his five-year-old son before bedtime; and having him fall asleep in your arms and trying to sneak out without waking him up.

John then asked for someone in the audience who knew how to play the Jazz Scale in the key of C. Christy looked at me and I told her no way. Besides we were up in the balcony. Me play in front of 1,000-plus people? Get real. I had a hard enough time when I had to speak in front of a packed auditorium at graduation.

Anyhow, Jaron finally got up there. The kid is amazing! He served on the Art & Humanities Council with me last year. He is going to be a music teacher and therefore gets to learn every instrument. But I didn't know he was so amazing on the piano! He started by playing the simple scale and then he and John began to feed off of each other. Holy amazing! It was like they had been playing together for years. Jaron got in some head bangs and elbow jams on the high octives. It was amazing to see the two take something so simple and make it so beautiful and fun.

It was also funny to see how humble John was after playing with Jeron. He was amazed and had a few "moments" after that. So at this point was a good time to play the dumb song. He created this song off of the Bumble Bee Tuna commercial of the early 80s. The first time he played it for his buddies, they said he had to play it at the assembly at Highland High. John did and the crowd was crazy for it. But along with the song comes this outrageous Muppet-looking wig (he said he wears it to pad his head against head bangs on the piano...). It is such a fun song with so much life!

I would love to see him in concert again. It was so much fun!

Afterward, we went and watched Nacho Libre at the Duck Pond. It was fun to hang out on the grass and relax. I also saw Mario. He is from Argentina and I see him every-now-and-again in random places. He is always fun to talk to because I give him crap about his acent and he gives me crap about my 'various' accents. So it is always fun.

Christy and I didn't find too much trouble, but I am sure there is some in the near future.

(my phone takes better pics...)