saturday

let seth into the yard, then put him in the car with di and i and drove to central street to get chai, and to let him pee up there a bit. drove briefly over by the lake, then home again.

i spent some time preparing pictures of the new posters for the TBM site. diana and i worked on her clarinet part for 'wrapping the lamb', and got where she was really comfortable with it.

drove down to the practice space, arrived at 3:30. we ran through some songs, then hilary, stephanie and anya arrived and we ran through 'wrapping the lamb' a bunch of times. sounded good. we packed up and loaded out down the stairs.

load in, soundcheck with hil, anya, stephanie and diana. sounded out of tune, so we put extra time into tuning before our set.

ate dinner at bite, the service sucked, the food was okay (for me, though everyone else's was bad). 300+ came to the show. quatre tete did well, bear claw pounded, and we played pretty much the best set we've done in a couple years, i think.

the girls played on the first song. sounded perfect from where i was. finished the first art of the song, where there's a rest, and the crowd went nuts, clapping for the clarinets and saxophone. finished the song an landed it perfectly.

the rest of the night was fun & easy.

we loaded out of the club and into jason's house, and i got home just a few minutes before 4am.