It's been a while...

I don't know why blogs seem like such a commitment... I mean, it isn't like there's someone that is going to mad at me if I don't post something at least once a month, but at the same time there's an awkward kind of "uhhh--so yeah it's been a while--how are things?" feeling to the whole ordeal.

Uhhh.

So yeah it's been a while.

How are things?

Everyone has heard of YouTube and Video Google and MySpace videos, but MAN! I never get over the fact that we (the universal "we"... users of the Internet and protectors of all that is good) have such amazing access to each other and to, well, free clips of cats doing silly things and entire episodes of The Boondocks.

And here's another full episode in which Huey attempts to save a man from death row and Uncle Ruckus converts people to love White Jesus. That show is amazing.

On with my point. I'm taking a course called The Birth of the Cool, named after the Miles Davis album (of the same name, duh). So we've been studying a lot of Miles, Dizzy, and Coltrane and the likes... The class is terrific. It is because of this new online video fad that I stumbled on this video of the John Coltrane Quartet playing Afro Blues live. Do me a favor and watch it -- watch McCoy Tyner's face as he plays his solo (the pianist). Also, they don't have a microphone on Elvin Jones but his drumming on the 1963 Coltrane Live at Birdland album version of "Afro Blues" is so freaking amazing. It's energetic and perfect. Shoot me a message on AIM if you want to hear it; my screen name is Toothpaste Capp.

Kind of funny how I'm telling my readers (okay maybe I don't have any readers but a man can dream) to check this out. I'm probably feeling guilty because I trashed Coltrane in a paper for my class just recently. I said Coltrane was never actually cool like Davis always is, and at one point I even claimed that he attempts to copy Davis' famous pauses but fails miserably. Coltrane is awesome, but he's not "cool." I stick by that claim.

Think I'm done.

PS - Yeah, I'm still in Jupiter for the Summer A session of classes. I'll be up in Pensacola in early July. I've missed home for about 6 months now... I'm really looking forward to seeing my family.

Bye, lover.