I know you're busy.

We're all busy. I'm pretty busy, I'm sure you are too. But I'm warning you RIGHT NOW so that you have almost a month's notice. I'm warning you that if I hear from any one of you that you were

_too busy to vote_

on

***October 14th, 2008,***

we're no longer friends.

x
Em "ABC" ma.

Culinary solitude

Shopping for one is hard. Harder than I thought. Something I might never get used to. Things I though could never go bad that, in my magical kitchen, have gone bad, include:

-Pesto. (Moldy in the fridge)

-Peanuts. (Hard as rocks in the cupboard)

-Jam. (Also moldy in the fridge)

-Milk. (Okay. I know that milk goes off. But my milk always go off on EXACTLY the day it says it will. Fine the day before. In solid lumps day of)

-Sugar Crisp. (One giant hard, damp, lump in the cupboard)

-Crackers. Crackers?!

Learning to Love you More

Assignments for anyone who is a little bit sad or a little bit happy. My favorites:

Staying awake

or
Crying art


or
friend's friends


or
Trying to be sad

Try it.

Ever so long awaited

Hey, Everyone! The Cedar's newest, best ever, full-length album is, finally, now, officially:

Available!

Hurrah! From CDbaby or gigs or me or itunes (but I don't recommend itunes because then you don't get the lovely hand-made-out-of-William-Morris-Wallpaper-and-twine case, or all the free gifts that go inside it.)

Free gifts?!

Free gifts!

Oh, and music too.

Extreme viola

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely, 100% love, love, love what I do with the Cedar and the Stringbeans etc. But sometimes, I need to live a bit dangerously to get the viola-adrenaline flowing. Sometimes I play with the Mandibles.

This is dangerous because I don't do it often. Not often enough to actually know the set list, which is constantly growing and changing. Just every now and then the oppurtunity presents itself and I get to go pretend I know what's going on onstage in front of audiences. Including taking solos on tunes I've never heard before. Brilliant! That's my kind of adventure sport.

For those interested, the on-stage process I go through goes as follows:

-Find the tonic (that is to say, what key the piece is in)

-Figure out the harmonic structure (does it just go I-V-I? What's up with the minor section in the middle? etc.)

-Figure out the bass-line

-Watch out for the look from one of the others that means Go! Emma! Make up a solo now!

-Smile.