i’m curious, what do you dread drawing? like fabric folds, hands, etc.
love anything organic because you can just fudge it, dont really Dread anything but im really bad at large quantities of buildings in one pic, can never get the perspective straight
public libraries are incredible. i borrowed a violin from mine. i can't read music and have never even held a violin before in my life but sometimes when i listen to music i imagine that i am a virtuoso violinist performing for a crowd of thousands and now i have the chance to actually try one out. FOR FREE. i can renew it up to three times, that's NINE WEEKS of free violin. i just walked up to the desk and asked if i could borrow a violin and the librarian asked to see my card and then i walked away with a violin. support your local libraries, kids.
it's catch-up day everyday 🙃 or at least it feels that way. somehow being "just on time" feels like being behind. i'm noticing that i feel like this whenever i'm super uncomfortable with the workload.
learning:
mol bio section 8 + 18 slides from section 1 of new module ✅ (i was also supposed to review the lecture but that didn't happen... 😔)
watch mol bio overview ✅ (gotta go back to review the beginning bc i missed that part)
psyc ch 1 of 4 + watch overview ✅
biochem section 3 (i just made an outline to help organize bc it's a big section, so it's kind of overwhelming. on one hand, i am so ready and relieved to finally end the day, but i also really really wish i could finish this without going way past my bedtime... just one of the many, many things left for some point in the future 🙃 in this case, tmr. it cannot wait longer than that.)
self-care:
physio exercises x5 ✅
meditate ✅ (it was really hard today. i wasn't feeling very good physically and mentally and didn't want to journal about it for fear i would end up feeling worse, so that was very distracting. 🥺😖😣)
bike ✅ (i felt like nothing could make my day better, but i biked for a bit and to my surprise, that was the best i felt today...grateful that the endorphins did their thing 💪🏻)
🎶 andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante, op. 22 - chopin (ah, when peace turns to anger, and a sense of duty masks sadness... 🥺😔 @zzzzzestforlife expected commentary to go with this song when i said i'd show it to her. so as not to distract from the sound of the music as it plays, here it is in brief 🙂 i hope you enjoy the cathartic ~thunderous bass reverberating through your bones~ as much as i did ☺️)
DAYTRIPPIN’: Let’s address the reputation Paul McCartney had at the time for treating members of Wings like “sidemen,” a charge that was leveled by other Wings members and played up quite a bit in the 1970s.
JUBER: A sideman is typically a musician that is hired to play a role on stage and/or in the studio. For me specifically, to deliver a guitar solo, some groove and texture, a cool rhythm guitar part or whatever was appropriate. For example during the Back to the Egg period, as well as playing the obvious lead guitar stuff, I played bass guitar on “Love Awake,” slide acoustic on “After the Ball,” the Flamenco lead acoustic solo on “Goodnight Tonight.”
So yes, I was a sideman, but the job assignment very much included considering myself a part of the band. I’m a bit of a chameleon stylistically and I think that I got the gig because I could play the bluesy lead stuff, but also other styles like the jazzy intro on “Baby’s Request.” What’s on the recordings represents the creative opportunities that Paul afforded me and he gave me a lot of leeway. The only times he ever told me what to specifically play was when he had a particular lick, like on “Daytime Nighttime Suffering.”
Addressing the question in financial terms it was still a ‘work for hire’ and a reasonable improvement from what I was making as a studio musician. I’ve never had any complaints about the financial end of the arrangement. Early on, Paul had a bit of a reputation for not paying his bandmates well. This really goes back to when Wings first started and Paul had limited cash flow. There were financial issues because of the way the Beatles broke up and it took a while for those to be solved. Part of it was also Paul’s idea of creating Wings essentially from scratch. When the band first started, Paul told me that he [basically only] had an office and a phone, and got to work. I think he wanted to know the basic functions of the business end before he would hand it over to someone else. So basically the attitude was, “This is a small band and we’re going to get in a bus and go to a college and play at lunch time and share whatever money goes into the hat.” It’s a nice utopian kind of vision, but it became hard on the other guys as time wore on and didn’t quite fit with the fact that Paul was a still a megastar. By the time I joined the band things had changed, although the ‘esprit de corps’ was still there.
In all its incarnations Wings sounded like a band, not like a solo McCartney project and I think that reflects well not only on Paul’s ability to share in the creative process, but also on the importance of Denny and Linda’s contributions, too. The other players brought their own personalities to the scene.
[—from “Exclusive: Ex-Wings guitarist, Laurence Juber, talks about having Paul McCartney as a boss” in Daytrippin’ Beatles Magazine (October 15, 2010)]