Tuesday, March 31, 2009

#36: There Will Never Be Another You

Retirement beckons: I'm heading to the University of Chicago for graduate school in financial mathematics! Look for the new website "Mathematician Dan" in which I will post a new differential equation every day. (Just kidding. Sort of.)

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Today at Nordstrom, a woman asked me the following question:

"Is that canoodling?"

She evidently meant this in some musical sense, but I've never heard it used that way. I pretended to think she was asking if I was playing a song called "Canoodling" (though I know of no such song). Altogether an awkward exchange.

Monday, February 2, 2009

#35: Pennies From Heaven

Not the same version I posted accidentally a few days ago. This is from a wedding I played on January 17th.

Pennies From Heaven

#34: Dindi

We're off to Israel! Back Feb. 16th or thereabouts.

Dindi

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

#33: On The Sunny Side Of The Street

This is humiliating. Not only did I upload the wrong song, but NOBODY NOTICED! Come on, people!

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

#33: On The Sunny Side Of The Street

This song makes me think about eggs.

EDIT: THIS IS ACTUALLY "PENNIES FROM HEAVEN".  SORRY, I'M TAKING IT DOWN.

Monday, January 26, 2009

#32: On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)

For some reason I have it in my head that Colleen knows this song. Is this true?

Saturday, January 24, 2009

#31: Summertime

So, I took a whole week off with the inauguration and a grad school interview. Hope you're still listening!

"Summertime" is certainly my most popular song. I play it almost every day, and get compliments every time. On multiple occasions customers have booked me for a party immediately upon hearing this. Yet my arrangement is exactly the sort of treatment that my own mother often rails against: she believes the song must be played as a lullaby. What do you think?