Best performance I have ever seen, bwah!

Though I won't call it the best possible or best ever. The amount of talent concentrated into Diana Krall, her bassist, drummer & guitar player was just ridiculous. There were solos like you wouldn't believe, and ones like I wouldn't believe. There were all sorts of grooves in a wide range of cover songs. The guitar player did a terrific solo/interpretation of the intro to "Girl in the Other Room." Diana herself played an unaccompanied piano/voice of "the Sunny Side of the Street" though during the intro I could've sworn it was "On the Street Where you Live" ... similar chord progressions? The bassist kicked out some nimble-fingered solos as well & even played with a bow for one song. And of course the drummer, who played traditional-style the whole time (with sticks or brushes)--except when he played with one stick & his bare hand--went insane for an 'extended' solo to end off the last before the encore.

My seat kicked ass view-wise. The audio was excellent. It was not raining; we were inside. The only thing that could have made it closer to perfect would have been a live rendition of "Departure Bay" (well, & temptation, but not necessary). Neither "Dept. Bay" nor "I've Changed My Address" from The Girl in the Other Room were played, though the 3 other originals from that album were.

On the weekend, I went to choir practise & then to practise with Fabio's band on Saturday. On Sunday was the "choir event" which basically entailed going to the "Taipei Children's Recreation Park" which is indeed for children... basically a toned-down amusement park. One of the most amusing parts was when this bass from our choir was crushing on a girl from 北一女 (bei yi nü Taipei 1st Girl's School), and was going to go talk her up, but then wussed out. And just stood there, by the bumper cars, for a long time. Bumper cars was fun as well... we all lined up together and the choir took up the whole thing--I made sure to ram lots of people, like the tenors, our teacher, and the leader of the basses, who annoys me often.

After that we went to a restaurant near ZXFX. The food was good... I found a kind of tea/flavour I like plus 'chocolate coffee.' This was probably why I couldn't sleep well that night, haha. So today I was tired & drank more coffee, because I'm smart :p Anyway, at the end we played cards which was fun and, to top it off, I got a hug. They sustain me. Friends would be nice, but this little bit of human interaction will do nicely. Been feeling shuai recently [24 minutes] K out