It's time to play Good Thing, Bad Thing!

[devi]

We used to do this on the Fibbers mailing list when I was in college.

Good thing: Thank you, whoever sent the virtual flower on my infopage.

Bad thing: I just discovered Death Cab For Cutie, who I love to tiny bits, are playing the Zodiac! Right here! In Oxford! The weekend after next! But I am in sodding Ireland then. Arse, arse, arse, feck. Feck. *kicks things*

Good Things and Bad Things, anyone?

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[cartographer.livejournal.com]

A sort of a nice one:

Bad thing: I dropped my sax. I forgot to close the zip on the case and it slithered out of my taxi onto the road. It doesn't -look- damaged, but when you look closely, a couple of the pads are bent out of shape. No more Cs or Ds for me until it's repaired. This means a visit to an overly loquacious woodwind-shop guy, lots of waiting and, Pete reckons, about 100 quid. Pete's my teacher.

Good thing: Pete pointed out the damage and explained that it could cost a lot more to repair it, and I (shyly) asked whether it would make sense to buy a new one. I'm playing a student model, you see, and I'd hate him to think I thought I was more competant than I actually am. He was very encouraging, recommended his favourite dealers, offered to ship it home for me once I'd done some browsing, was generally pro- the idea. And this bolstered my confidence enough to mention that I'd always wanted to try out a tenor sax. The tenors are bigger and sexier and I'm a little bit intimidated by their coolness. And, awesome guy that he is, he insisted I borrow his beautiful, tarnished, genuine unlaquered brass one for the week. So now I have a tenor sax sitting on my bed, waiting for it not to be too late in the evening to play. I tried it out in the school and it's just gorgeous -- really deep and mellow and incredibly loud. I'm somewhat in raptures over it.

So that's my bad thing/good thing story. The good thing wins.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oh my. Have fun. I think I know what you mean about the bigger sexier coolness - tjej let me try playing her cello once...