gregoa's blog

• brain: last weekend I tried to play the four-part piece in two voices (by john renbourn & stefan grossman) by heart for the first time. didn't work of course, but it will. sometime in the future.
• nails: two broken fingernails again; one by itself, the other by carrying parcels. - should I go shopping?

georg asks in his blog why I was writing latin (in the test entries of his blog which I had configured some weeks ago). the answer is quite simple: this "lorem ipsum" stuff is not latin but a well known dummy text ("blindtext") used by typesetters and others - cf. http://www.loremipsum.de/ or http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/.

btw: you could also delete my test articles :-)

one week in berlin without playing guitar for one single minute. although I had all required stuff with me.

shame on me.

added podcasting to the trio infernal website. maybe I should link/syndicate the feeds on our planet, too.

(I used (ruby-)podcast for creating the rss files. Not in debian yet but works nevertheless after some fiddling around.)

update: I added the podcasts to planet trio infernal (as statical links).

I forgot to play guitar today. yes, really. why? - good question.

I just did a little programming, cursed the washing machine (which didn't want to spin any more) [1], had some easy&nice dinner, not much else ...

[1] as for washing machines: washing machine fingers lazy male

¡joder! three broken finger nails in two days. what's next?

norbert tretkowski [dead link removed] is not the only one suffering from the cold while going to work by bike - same here.
and playing the guitar is even more unpleasant, if not impossible with stiff fingers.

• buck rag is a nice little piece
• the girl from ipanema is what it is: beautiful but a little weird to play due to its rhythm & its demands to the fingers
• maybelle sounds a bit like tyrolean folk music. hm.

the daily routine of practice has returned (more than a week ago ...). 'idaho potato' is rather tricky but to my own surprise I can play (not without mistakes though) 'snap a little owl' by heart.

I'm curious to learn the new plans - if any :-) - of chrisu tomorrow.

on saturday we got the ideal spot for playing: via san remo / inizio via delle volte - a crossing of two small streets. thousands of people went by, dozens stopped and listened, our small amps filled to place, and everybody was happy.

we sold almost all of our CDs, and on all days together we earned 95,05 EUR. at 22:30 a thunderstorm made us relocate under a near arch where we played our program the last time for the other people seeking shelter there.

at the end of the day and after some frustrations the 'finale' was reconciling with the Ferrara Buskers Festival 2005.