Crap — did I really go more than a week without posting? Sorry.

Quite a weekend. On Friday I hung out with Fabian at my favorite cafe, sharing music and working on my Keyworx patches. He’s a great guy; it’s a shame he’s got to head back to Deutscheland this week. More’s the pity, he didn’t make it to SHARE on Sunday. “Whither Fabian?”, said we.

The Neutrino show on Saturday was completely off the hook: just a wild, wild show. I was very happy to shoot Red Bastard, Matt, Pat and Rebekka, and they did not disappoint. Our first scene had Red Bastard knocking Matt off his skateboard and stealing it. Matt chased “Red”, who suddenly turned and lay (enormous) belly down on the board — I don’t think I could forget that image: Red Bastard’s lumpy mass flat on the ground, staring down Matt crouched in front of him. Neutrino: save the tapes and get a screencap of that shot.

Sunday, I did an improv workshop with Dave Pasquesi, a masterful Chicago improviser. As Ashley said, it was a breath of fresh air. He teaches listening above all else and to invite the moment, not seize it. “The scene doesn’t need anything from you; your partner doesn’t need anything from you — you need your partner. Look to them.” Faith: it’s all about faith.

I heard Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot yesterday and I had to get it. The ambience is beautiful. A precise, hard attack in the production is so popular right now as to be almost undetectable. To listen to an album that evades or blurs that axis is very refreshing.

At SHARE, Eric and I did a collaborative Keyworx set with Isabelle (read: networked performance with someone in the Netherlands), which was a good first taste of the slow process of a multi-user collaboration. Some guys who looked about 16 years old* did a featured musical set, showing an impressively broad range of styles. Towards the end, it got pretty heavy on the screaming blips so I took off.

* They’re probably in college but if they are in high school then way to go, them! They’re quite talented.