Friday, December 24, 2010

Mera Naam Joker Simi Grewal

Greetings!



We are the last hours delirium
Christmas ... As a new bride I could not resist the temptation to organize a Christmas dinner with us in the new house.

course, the question of mother and mother-in-law "Want a hand?" I promptly replied "No! ".'s reply which I have immediately regretted ...
are the limits for three days of hospitalization in psychiatry, including ravioli and stuff ...
(Please write on the blackboard so pro memoria "If someone for Christmas lunch, whoever he is, offers his help, always answer yes !!").

But everything is under control, more or less ...

But it is a satisfaction to admire the house all decorated!

Well, now I come to the preparations ...
Congratulations to all !!!!!!

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Where Can I Get Threading Done In Calgary

Sanremo Sanremo!


Today I received "The Call". Not the one from 'High, as one might expect, being in the Christmas spirit, but the call waiting from about, let's see ... mhmm 10 months?
Yes, because two years from now, in December begins the "full-San Remo, Italy that if all about who will be the competitors, guests, etc., to me about my presence or not in the 'orchestra.
Yes, every artist or would-be, has a childhood dream, often unspeakable, in his heart he hopes to realize. My dream was to play in the Festival of Sanremo at least once in their life and I did, for two consecutive years. But from year to year there is no certainty that the miracle happen again, so about mid-November we start asking "Will I be there? Not be there?", With exchange of text messages between colleagues equally anxious ...

Well, for Sanremo 2011'll still be in the orchestra. It will be my third festival.

I know, I know, now Sanremo is hackneyed, the stakes are infinite, the singers are always the same ... but what can I do? As a child I used to wait outside by the VIPs' Ariston, how could I pass up the chance to see the crowd of fans on the other side of the glass?

Now, the Festival of Sanremo is certainly a wonderful experience, but it has some aspects that would throw into a panic the safest of music professionals. Aspects that have nothing to do with the songs.
Especially for women, is the San Remo litmus test of self-esteem. Competition is fierce and, between valleys, singers, guests, the temptation to escape is strong and should appeal to all the compliments you received in the last 10 years of life to survive.

So, while it is noted that the San Remo orchestral adventure begins a month earlier, with the test in Rome. Then you move to San Remo for a further 3 weeks. Every single day not only be "presentable" but "telegenic" is virtually impossible, even in the morning because the day begins and ends in the evening and after 10 hours of testing even Britney Spears would be so different from us!
The singers or guest is pretty rested with the tests, with a look bright and alternative, sing and go away leaving behind an aura of mystery and fascination. We already after half a day's leave that alone the only evidence is that of sweat on his shirt ...

As far as I'm concerned, the first problem is the fact that the call comes in Christmas or, worse, a party just passed, when my body is a mix of pounds and pimples on the cake too, impossible to eliminate before the fateful first day of practice. It usually comes down to clumsy attempts at dieting in the last week before the start of the tests, an attempt that is often bankruptcy ... Usually we try to remedy with a trendy haircut and super sexy, or at least that the it is believed ...

Beyond this, needless to say that the Festival is a unique experience. Knowing the songs a month before and already trying to figure out who will win gives a sense of omnipotence inexplicable. About Us is a non exhaustive humming the songs around or talk by phone, we were not even custodians of the fourth secret of Fatima!
The festival makes you live for a month in the glittering world of stars, to see what happens behind the scenes of the Italian event. Ariston come and preview the scenery is really nice and exciting to see the birth of the Festival gradually makes you fond of, presenters, singers, engineers ... and, of course, colleagues with shared joys and pains for a month, 24 hours 24!

And then ... the 5 evenings ... I will always remember the thrill the first time I heard from the initials of Eurovision, then the writing on the monitor "Live from the Teatro Ariston di Sanremo" and then ... us! Heck, we're on TV!

E 'a tour de force, times are impossible and tesion that reigns here is palpable ... yet there is something magical about everything, even in the city of flowers that turns into the capital of Italy for only 5 days, all decorated and full of people ...

When the experience ends and you return home, the void is huge, it takes at least two weeks to recover and return to "normal" life ...
It is already beginning to hope that next year will be called ...
has happened this year, so expect to post "festival-goers in the coming months!

ps: this year, whereas the valleys will Belen and Elizabeth Hurley, I would say that it's better to stay away from panettone from the start, sigh ...

Monday, December 20, 2010

Skate Grinder For Sale

Tuuu ancooor snow come down ...


Yesterday it snowed. Much. And I and my new husband there we were in our new home and watch big snowflakes fall from the sky, the hot decorating the Christmas tree and singing Christmas carols (well, now let's not exaggerate ...)

We say that the best thing in these situations know that they can stay at home, without concert, without commitments, without having to grind km in the car and having to replace Isoradio to my beloved Queen, in the hope that the forecast is not preannuncino the Apocalypse is imminent.

In these moments I can think of a "journey of hope" addressed to me (driving) and two friends, coworkers, F. and A. last year.

day was apparently quiet departure in the afternoon at a time of Ivrea, try up to 23 and return home. Simple no?
Simon, with his irritating foresight, he asks: "Do you have chains on board, right?". I snort, I reply yes, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Even a little 'offense, if you will.
Journey without problems, even if the sky does not bode well ...
About half of the test, I begin to receive calls and messages that warn the relatives concerned that the forecasts predict the snowfall of the century.
During a break on the internet check the weather: no snow on the Liguria.
"exaggerated," we think. And back to try. If only we had eyes on the screen moved a few inches would have seen the gigantic snowflakes that covered the whole of Piedmont!

fact, once political parties, 23, of Alexandria before we begin to see the first flakes, which are transformed gradually into the storm. Ops.
Not a spreader machine, not a car ever, even some trucks that leave the "binaries" in the snow. Only three maidens in the snow.
not exceed the speed of 18/20 K / h without the car swerves dangerously.
And that's where I realize that having the chains is almost useless unless you know the mount. Stopping at a gas groped for the company is ruled out, three girls alone at night have a high probability that the only machine that is to stop a crazy-psycho-maniac. In addition to waste time on the chains could take away precious minutes, as the snow increases every moment more.
course raging calls of parents: "No mother, no snow, quiet." Here lie when they say it for good.
With Simon, however, I can not lie: "Well, actually a bit 'of snow there, but nothing that" during the trip that turns into "We are overwhelmed by the snow! We see nothing and the machine heel. if we do not know that I loved you ...".

The best thing is that, perhaps insane, our mood swings between unjustified euphoria accompanied by hysterical laughter crises and schizophrenia that leads us to sing out loud "Tuuuu ancooor lentaaa snow come down. .. ". All the while risking their lives in an indefinite point of Gravellona-Toce.

Our Voltri nightmare ends in Genoa, where the snow gives way to rain, strong, at that time seems like a paradise!
the Internet had said, no snow on the Liguria.

Arrival time: about 3.
The next day we returned to Ivrea for the concert.
We stopped there to sleep.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

How Do You Clear Out Phlegm In My Baby?

It's never too late?


After 17 years in which we study an instrument, it feels almost compelled to explore other areas, strong experience and desire to discover naturally inclined to play even more.
You are no longer the subject of newbies, so we think that not having the problem of reading music and music theory, the road will be down and learn to play a new instrument will be a breeze.
error.
'm back from my third drum lesson and my self esteem has fallen dismally to peak by the middle of the second.
The first few times you sit in front of a battery, the feeling of loss is overwhelming and you can not help but ask "What can I do with all 'that stuff?". To play a cello are:
1) A cello
2) An arc
and each of these two elements has a clear role and specific (to no one, I believe, would think to hold the bow still and moving cello)
A battery, at best, consists of:

1) Snare
2) Charleston
3) TOM1
4) TOM2
5) Timpano
6) Crash
7) Ride
8) Cash

And this is just a set "base". You wonder how a single able bodied person playing all these things.
Even the nomenclature is there to help, despite the two Tom, especially if taken close together, can give the illusion that we can better target ...
Not to mention the technical terminology. I defy anyone to being asked to make a "fill in the ride" or "a roll on the toms" without a question mark tattooed on your face!
So, while not underestimate the fact that such an instrument must use all four limbs simultaneously, which are completely different things and, if possible, sharp contrast with others. The
already forcing my single neuron to a split personality is not indifferent. As long as it is of the upper limbs, however, we do not deviate too much from a string instrument. The real drama is when the legs come into play. Have you ever thought about the fact that our legs, and especially our feet in our lifetime always do a few simple movements? Try playing the hihat with the left foot for one minute in a row and you will not believe that that part of your body that you have attached to the ankle is the same as that used to walk every day. A memory will be only the throbbing pain in front of the calf muscle, which I do not know the name and of which, before you have aspirations as a drummer, also did not know existed.
Once you overcome the problem of pain scattered 'everywhere, the real drama is the co-ordination. When the teacher tells you what you need to do it all seems very simple, when it's up to you is the most complete anarchy. A little 'as the first driving lessons when you're not able to do hill starts and think simultaneously release the brake, clutch and accelerate the release plan. It turns off the machine. Except that there does not have the worry of the metronome that will resound in the ears.
And also because the battery does not have dual controls?
For the first time in years I understand how they feel about my students when you tell the biggest lie that is told by generations of music students: "If you think about is himself." But when ever?
Having established my sense of inadequacy, we are reading. At least here, I think, I have no rivals, after all these years the Conservatory, tze ...
The teacher, however, puts me in front of a page that, yes, there is a pentagram, but used in a totally improper. 5 lines on such familiar symbols like musical notes are hidden, but which are not known, since there are no indications of key and tonality, mixed with incomprehensible signs such as crosses, squares, dots ...
For a moment I think it's a joke, but then I explain how to decipher hieroglyph:

-written notes at the bottom are the cash-
The notes are the snare drum in the mid-
The crosses are the Charleston-
The squares indicate that I strike with the right hand-I
dots indicate the left hand

then I am going to the local and mind reading.
Think about all these things at once destroys all certainty in 2 minutes, even deceiving rhythmic musical theory worthy of the first week at the Conservatory. Bury stuff instantly.
The teacher decides to give me a bit 'of satisfaction, making you play the classic-cha-cha-tu-tu on of Hoobastank The Reason, magical experience that I have not lifted a little to the morale ... not until I heard in the classroom next to a boy of 10 years even play Cryin 'Aerosmith's doing unbelievable things, surely unpronounceable names ...