Me and my students

Here's me an my students. Sections of the choreo are open for improvisation.

And here I am with the Saz player, 大平清. I think this is the first stage. I was fairly quiet and a little hesitant with the zills as we'd never worked together before, never even rehearsed with him nor had I ever heard his version of Mastika... and I didn't want to be drowning out his playing.

Old

Today, on a blog, I read the following sentence about Johnny Depp:

It all started when I was just 9 years old, it was 1999 and Sleepy Hollow had been released. There was something about his brooding and mysterious appearance and that (fake, but still delicious) British accent he was putting on that gave me goosebumps and took my breath away.

And I felt old. I mean, yes, I owned a Johnny Depp Sleepy Hollow Action Figure....but I wasn't a CHILD when I bought it. I was at least of an age where dull people look askance at you when they see you buying toys.

Whippersnappers. The lot of them.