“Making Pizza” Cedar Park, 2020
Koa helped with today’s pizza class, and on his pizza he put on plenty of Scotch Bonnet pepper that my mom had sent over to us. It was SPICY!!!! 🔥 But so yummy. 😊
Spicy Pizza Toppings
“Making Pizza” Cedar Park, 2020
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“Making Pizza” Cedar Park, 2020
Sky Snapshot
“Epic Sky” Austin, 2020
We were treated to some beautiful clouds plus nice contrails this evening. They even look good captured with my phone camera. 😀
Watching Paris, Texas
“Nastassja and Harry Dean” Cedar Park, 2020
What a great movie… I can’t believe I haven’t seen Paris, Texas before. Harry Dean Stanton is fantastic in it. What I love about it is that the characters are normal. There’s no gimmick here. I was always on edge that there was going to be some sort of disturbing scene, but that never came. And when I was watching the credits, I was thinking about how amazing it was that a movie can be so engaging without the violence, action, or intense characters that so many of today’s movies rely on.
Movie Afternoon
“Hua Mulan” Cedar Park, 2020
Watching 2009’s Mulan: Rise of a Warrior today… pretty good version of the classic story! If you’d like to learn more, you can check out my movie review. Sitting at the kotatsu with a beer and a ukulele, watching a movie, is a great way to spend the afternoon. 😊
Speaking of Mulan, I’m still slowly working my way through the television drama. It’s turning out to be a multi-year project.
Two New Songs and a New Ukulele
“New Song” Cedar Park, 2020
I mentioned in a recent post that I am working on I Will by The Beatles, but I am also working on a song from 1973 called ひこうき雲 by Yumi Arai which was recently featured in the Miyazaki film The Wind Rises. I am switching back and forth between the two new songs, and seeing if it is more conducive to learning rather than just concentrating on one. At any rate, I think it’s more interesting. 😀
Here’s the trailer for The Wind Rises, with the song. The tune sounds uplifting, but the lyrics are actually kind of tragic, and fit perfectly with the film.
I Will and ひこうき雲 each have one very high note/chord that requires using the 14th fret on the ukulele, which the soprano-sizes don’t have, so I will be practicing that part on my old concert-size ukulele. That concert ukulele is not good quality, and the fret markers are wonky, the upper frets are out of tune, the neck is uncomfortable and glossy (which I don’t like). But guess, what? A beautiful new concert ukulele is on the way, and I’m so excited!
