{"id":1208,"date":"2009-01-10T04:35:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T04:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2009-01-10T04:35:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T04:35:06","slug":"wanting-thing-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"Wanting Thing One"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOn the 29th of November 2008, 2 things happened to me that never happened before.<\/p>\n

Thing One<\/b> – I stepped into Bangkok Jazz<\/b> for the very first time.<\/p>\n


\nSomehow, the place looked less jazzy and uppity than I thought. A real jazz bar with less apparent pretense than Alexis, I’d say.<\/p>\n


\nI was there for Thing One<\/b> (the band) with Zalina Lee<\/b>. Yes that’s not a typo – she’s Zalila Lee<\/b>‘s sister!<\/p>\n


\nZalina was simply a powerful soul singer with lots of range. She even did a cover of Alicia Keys & Jack White – Another Way To Die<\/b>… doing both Alicia’s and Jack’s part!<\/p>\n


\nFaz and Fook reflecting on the grand piano.<\/p>\n


\nI asked Faz if they were going to play Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein<\/b>, since the last time I bumped into her, she said Giant Timeline<\/b> (another band she is in) would play tonight, and that they’d play Frankenstein.<\/p>\n

And so, she granted my request!<\/p>\n

That was Thing Two<\/b>. I have never seen Frankenstein covered. Now the only song I still want to hear a cover of is Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\nNisha on the keys. The expression knob on the far left made the psychedelic sounds of Edgar Winter’s crazy Keytar sound!<\/p>\n


\n“Someday, I’ll be old enough to enter, and I’m going to sing!<\/i>”<\/p>\n


\nBesides alternating between instrumental funk jazz pieces and songs with Zalina Lee, they also called up Najwa (who was to play with Giant Timeline the next week).<\/p>\n


\nAnd there, she is, posing for her brother, who is taking pictures of her.<\/p>\n

All shots with the Sony A900 and Minolta 50mm F1.4 except the last, shot with my Vivitar 24mm F2.0 DIY Tilt-Shift lens. As you can see it’s still difficult to focus a tilt-shift in low light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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