May Day
Another day, another public holiday. May the first, or may day is gone. As the day ends I find myself asking “what exactly is may day all about?”. Well there is an answer, and of course it would be on Wikipedia. I think the answer can be summarised though, that may day has so many holidays associated with it that the government just makes it a public holiday and lets the people celebrate as they please.
So today I had a couple of friends round who wanted to play my drum kit. I don’t think they realised how loud the thing was cause I got the idea that they wanted to get one to play at their house. Problem is they live in a block of flats :-), man will they be popular with the neighbours or what? Then when he sat down at the kit he wanted to tickle it, but he eventually started loosening up and playing a standard 8/4 Rock beat.
If anyone wants to try and learn drums, you can try the course over at http://www.studydrums.com. I have tried the course and it is good, I found it better for my style of learning to go to a real live instructor but I still use the online course to better my knowledge, especially since I haven’t been for lessons now in six months.
I went to the drive in yesterday in pretoria at the Menlyn shopping centre. The movies playing were The Reef and The History boys. Let me give you a short bit of advice on History boys. Don’t go see it. It is that simple, we lasted about 30mins and those 30mins were filled with questions like “Do you get the story here?”. It seems to be a british film, is filled with swearing and taking the Lord’s name in vain.
The Reef was interesting, good for children to just watch the fishies swimming in the sea. It was filled with bright colours and talking fish. The humour though is probably not going to be picked up by your average 10 year old. With references to “Ricky Marlin” and a couple of other gems, it got quite a few chuckles from the two adults in the car. I think it is a good movie to go watch with your kids in the 6-13 range or around those ages. Everyone should find some enjoyment out of the movie.
I have just gotten back from the Emporers palace Amusement Arcade, and let me just say, I was not too amused. A large number of the games were switched off, and about half the rest didn’t work. They either ate your money or refused to reward winners with tickets. All the machines were very badly maintained. For an example they had a drum machine. A song plays and you are supposed to play the beat on the drum pads. Needless to say, some unidentified idiot decided to steal the drum sticks connected to the machine, and the managers didn’t think to go to a music shop and buy a couple of pairs of drum sticks which usually go for about 100 bucks a pair. What the staff there decided to do was tape up the wires that used to hold the sticks and then you must play with that causing damage to the sensors on the machine.
Well it’s now 40mins into the 2nd of May so I am going to get some sleep.
I am JMR and this is My Little Corner.
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