A few days after X-Mas Zoë got bored. We were at grandma's house, which was sort of a mess. So we decided to go around the house collecting change. Eventually we had about $10 in quarters, dimes and nickels. So we walked together to CVS to see what could be bought for $10. And - lo and behold - the awesome drum set that was originally $20 was marked down 50%. So when Belle and grandma came home, Zoë was proudly bashing the hell out of the drums she bought with her own money! But first there was this tragic scene with Mei-Mei, who fell instantly in love with the drums, didn't want to share them with their actual owner. Mei-Mei loves drums. Every day I walk Zoë to school, I take Mei-Mei. And then I take her into the school's music room. She gets to take down a 'dwum' and beat it for a few minutes before we go home. So here are the pics.
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My god, what a marvelous thing to buy that many migraine headaches for only ten bucks!
I found unschooled drumming a very Zen activity in high school and wished I'd had the opportunity to bang hell out of a drum kit as a young child. But instead I was forced to sublimate that energy into daydreaming about girls and reading science fiction. Some wrong choices have been made. One or two right ones as well.
Posted by: Wax Banks | January 24, 2007 at 08:05 AM
A friend of mine at Chicago had a practice pad that I used to whack at arrhythmically until everyone else on our floor made him not let me anymore. Hitting things with sticks is fun!
Posted by: ben wolfson | January 24, 2007 at 11:59 AM
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i'm not a real doctor
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Posted by: dr. worm | January 24, 2007 at 09:48 PM
Maybe buy them some Evelyn Glennie (percussionist who happens to be deaf) such as Shadow Behind The Iron Sun which is more rockin' than most of her stuff.
Posted by: Jon H | February 01, 2007 at 11:35 AM