Gone to the beach

Taking off for a week to Kelowna.  There is a good chance of no posting for the week or so but we’ll see.  Not sure of the facilities and I am not a laptop guy.

Little anecdote: for those who worry about the musical tastes of the young, my daughter who is 13 and listens to a lot of music typical of her cohort (I Kissed a Girl, etc..) still gets into some of my stuff. We agree on the the Beatles and Frank Black but the latest little bit is odd.  She refuses my offers of teaching her piano except for the odd tune, so without any background or scales or such, she likes to learn songs.  Though she kind of avoided the piano for a while, when she wants to learn a tune, she is monomaniacal until she has it down. The first one was Pachelbal’s Canon…not so hard.  Then she learned a popular thing I forget the title of but then she was doodling and found a sequence that she thought was familiar but did not know where it was from.  I told her it was a Phillip Glass tune from his piano solos.  And off she went, and now she is working on her second Glass, and here is what really kills me….her friend now has it on her ipod.  Phillip Glass solo piano music is going through the Miley Cyrus crowd.

There is hope.

And then she was singing along to TV on the Radio.  Wow!

I am the happy dad, and happy also because the fellows are coming to town in September.