The Weblog of Daniel Tashian

Woke up and made a fire, then read my brother’s website about teflon, so I ditched my teflon, and actually we went shopping for a new “saute” pan. In the old days this would just be called a frying pan. Getting somewhat food-centric around these parts but what can you do? So. To t.j. max, and instead we found a rug. ($199) and it looks nice in the living room. Then we went to another branch and found a great pot by lecreuset. I realize the trick to shopping is to not go with anything in mind, but instead just find what you need. But now I still don’t have a frying pan.

Jack Silverman, my neighbor and celebrity journalist came by for dinner with his friend Carrie. Leslie made a great chicken Marbella from the silver palate cookbook. Then I made them watch Cesar Milan until they said they had to go. She was appearantly once or is currently Ms. Kentucky(?) . Anyhow, Jack said his next article he was writing was about Nashville’s Kurdish population, and he aksed me if I knew that we had the largest group of Kurds of any American city. I told him no, it hadn’t o- “kurd” to me.
Nobody laughed and that was it! The funniest joke of the day. Week possibly.

We woke up and it was really snowing, so I didn’t go for a walk. Leslie made a huge pile of bacon which I ate the majority of. It was good! Then Warren Pash called and he said did I still want to go to the museum to see Lloyd Green speak, and I said yes, so he came by and brought a sandwich, so we had sandwiches and coffee, then we went downtown to the museum, and we couldn’t park nearby so we had to walk a few blocks and it was cold! Then we sat down and I sat next to Allen Reynolds and he had a golf hat on, like mine!
I thought about what Leslie said about me wanting to be retired before I’m old. Is this what I want? I just dress like a retired person maybe is what she means. Anyway, the lecture was interesting, if a bit slow. At one point I looked over and Warren was asleep. He said later he suffers from terrible insomnia, so he can’t sleep at night, but he gets really tired in lectures and things. Bill Lloyd did a great job and it really is a good idea, the “Nashville Cats” series (interviewing legendary session players). It seemed like Lloyd Green could really still play very well, despite the fact that he’s probably close to 80! Those solo records he made were the soundtrack to my childhood! Then Warren dropped me off and I went for a walk with the dogs and then came back home. Then Leslie took me to Wild Oats where I got an organic chicken ($8), but she wanted to go out for dinner, so we drove to Las Cazuelas ($24) and it was delicious. Then we came home and watched Cesar Milan’s video on “People Training For Dogs”.

Started the day with a walk, then I went to comcast to get an extension cable ($2) then to the bank, and then to get my haircut ($15). The guy I wanted to have cut my hair uses a vaccum so you don’t get little hairs all over you. I noticed that a “face shave” at my barber costs $20!!! You would have to really not want to shave to pay that much everyday! Then I came home and Leslie and I went to Chinatown for lunch ($17). One of the barbers at the barbershop said they had a low health score rating, but when I went in I looked for it, and it was 85. “Not bad.” said Leslie. It’s my favorite restaurant. I was supposed to continue work on the new website with carl, but I never got down to work on it. After I came back with the extension cable and got the TV working in the bedroom, we watched a movie in bed and took a nap. So there went the bulk of the day. John Deaderick called. He told me he got the Michael McDonald gig. This is great news! He’s such a good musician. We went to dinner at Bob & Lynn’s, and Lynn told me her dog jenny was the victim of a electric fence malfunction! Appearantly, the collar, which is only supposed to shock the dog if they go beyond the limits of the fence was just shocking her continuosly for 15 minutes! The dog seemed fine, but the people were shaken up! I said “It’s only a matter of tine before I start making jokes about this!” which i guess is my response to everything, and it probably shouldn’t be. She looked at me like I was crazy and said “I fail to see anything funny about this.”

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Hang in there you 3 people who read my blog etc. because a NEW WEBSITE is coming SOON!
My brother carl and I have been getting it ready and it will be really cool, so check back real soon
(like a week or so) You will be able to download the lovetest, as well as a new e.p. i’ve been working on,
Also there will be videos, a store and lots of other stuff. I’m very excited about this and I am brimming with ideas. Any ideas you have will be welcome!
Lots of Love,
DT