Last night the illegal night club operated as normal. I knew it was back in operation when the people running the thing came in, and one guy had two young gals, zonked out of their minds on something and barely able to walk, with one of his arms around the shoulders/throat of each one, one on each side of him, and herded them into the place. They didn't want to go in and had to be pushed in.
The cops didn't show up until 4AM and of course ran most of the people out of there. Then something interesting happened. One of the cops stayed back, parked in one of the parking spaces, and appeared to be protecting a workman who was replacing the door, or lock, or something, one one of the two doorways of the place.
It's a good thing the cop was there to protect the guy, too, because as soon as the guy was done and he and the cop left, some of the nightclub operators came around and went in and out and in general, were around the place.
Meanwhile I was listing things on Ebay, threw out some scrap, and once the night club clients were mostly gone, used a few buckets of water to wash down the urine in front of my door.
By the time I was done working and keeping an eye on all of this, I was too tired to practice but at least I watched a video of Emmanual Pahud, arguably the best flutist alive, do a sort of clinic on YouTube. Great stuff! Due to angles, I was not able to tell if he uses a "Rockstro" hold, but in his case it doesn't matter; he uses what works for him.
The most interesting thing Pahud said was that to put feeling into the music and do vibrato the proper way, he imagines the air coming up from his lungs and doing a sort of loop up into his head, then coming out his mouth. He says that's what keep his throat open, and that you have to have the feeling like when you have some wasabi that's nice and strong and you have your throat open to try to breathe out the vapors from it.
He also said that you should practice to make music, not just chug through exercises. He said something like "If you practice to play stupid, you will play stupid". He went on a bit about always being musical. This aligns with my own idea about the "Song Method" where if I'm playing an actual song, I'd do better, play higher, keep time better, etc. because I wasn't thinking about those things so much but about the song.
I slept in until about 3 in the afternoon, and had some things packed already and had plenty more to pack, and left here at 5 to take them to FedEx. Even small things can go by FedEx, who hands them off to the post office, for a little higher cost. The thing is that it will be pouring rain tomorrow and that small extra cost will get the post office things to the post office dry.
I noticed as I rode by the illegal night club that one of the two doors looks brand new. The other one looks new also but I'm not sure if it is, as it's got big marks on it like someone was kicking it. So I don't know what's going on there. Maybe both are new, and re-keyed also, and the kick and scuff marks are from the illegal night club operators being unhappy at not being able to go in.
If the cops are going ahead with forfeiture of the building since it's being used for illegal purposes, maybe the owners of that building have decided they really don't want to the building and be prosecuted as accessories, so they've stepped up and are shutting down the illegal night club. Who knows?
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