Good news: the internet connection was decent enough in my room to allow me to catch the WEEI broadcast of the last half inning of the Red Sox v. Yankees game this morning. Red Sox won 7-3, and this morning someone who out ranks me will get his balls busted each and every time I see him for being a yankees fan (even though he's from NYC and it makes it half acceptable to be a yankees fan) I think being a fan of the yankees is like the equivalent of being a fan of the Dub at this point.
Bad news: the military postal service is now charging us to mail our shit back to ourselves in Germany. When we left Germany last September it was free to mail any packages under 60lbs to yourself, since it was APO address to APO address. Well not any more, and it happens that I've bought a shit load of Books and DVDs since being here in Iraq, so I expect to get some butt lovin in a not so nice way from the postal service here on wonderful COB Speicher.
Still stuck on my composition project, although one of the Iraqi guys that works here on base brought me a couple DVDs and a CD of popular Iraqi music. I also e-mailed an Egyptian friend of mine who works at the UN to ask her if there was anything popular throughout the entire middle east that way I could maybe use part of that for the melodic material. Since I have no faith in the majority of the "musicians" in my unit, I asked my old roommate Greg to do a sequence of the piece for me as a fav. and he's down. So it may not be the same as different people taking solos and stuff like that, but he's really good with that stuff and if nothing else I might be able to use it for composition contests and stuff like that.
Let's hope this works again on the first try like it was last week...oh and check out Hiromi, she's pretty dope and her band is always good.
Bad news: the military postal service is now charging us to mail our shit back to ourselves in Germany. When we left Germany last September it was free to mail any packages under 60lbs to yourself, since it was APO address to APO address. Well not any more, and it happens that I've bought a shit load of Books and DVDs since being here in Iraq, so I expect to get some butt lovin in a not so nice way from the postal service here on wonderful COB Speicher.
Still stuck on my composition project, although one of the Iraqi guys that works here on base brought me a couple DVDs and a CD of popular Iraqi music. I also e-mailed an Egyptian friend of mine who works at the UN to ask her if there was anything popular throughout the entire middle east that way I could maybe use part of that for the melodic material. Since I have no faith in the majority of the "musicians" in my unit, I asked my old roommate Greg to do a sequence of the piece for me as a fav. and he's down. So it may not be the same as different people taking solos and stuff like that, but he's really good with that stuff and if nothing else I might be able to use it for composition contests and stuff like that.
Let's hope this works again on the first try like it was last week...oh and check out Hiromi, she's pretty dope and her band is always good.