Jake’s first grade class joined with a third grade class (there is a mentoring deal between the two years in their school) to put on a performance of a pretty original play based somewhat loosely on the book The Carrot Seed. It was pretty rollicking good fun, I must say. And I had the dubious honor of being asked to help with the music. The kids sing a bunch of songs, mostly reworked classics that thematically fit. Well, sort of.

I was supposed to play some guitar along with his teacher’s husband, but I made up my mind pretty quickly that it would be easier to record the basics and give the kids a CD to practice with…and perform with. So I ended up laying down drum machine, bass and guitar with a few sonic cues built in. I triggered the CD at the performance,  and the husband played along live, a lot of lead-ish bits that helped the kids sing together and in tune.

It was fun and entertaining, and I must say, it was one of the better looking crowds I’ve seen in a while. No big hair, not too many big arms. You ever hear it said that when you’re in a card game you should look for the sucker and if you can’t find him it’s probably you? I was starting to think like that tonight at the play. Like, if you look around and can’t find the person most likely to be reading the liporexall reviews, it’s probably you. So, maybe tonight it was probably me?

I mean, I’m not feeling huge lately or anything, but I haven’t been eating too well what with the construction and the lack of sleep and the incessant need to sneak to the next town and go dancing with Chris Penn and Lori Singer so Reverend Moore played by John Lithgow won’t find out and…wait, that’s Footloose. I’ve been watching a lot of movies to help me fall asleep. I just might need a nap.