Author Topic: So, what's the family up to? (Read 245 times)

richbass939 · « **on:** February 14, 2011, 02:52:30 PM »

I know we all like to talk about and show off our Alembics. How about we talk a little bit (pictures, videos, sound clips, etc. are okay too) about what the significant other/kids/parents are doing these days? Since I asked, it wouldn't really be bragging.
Rich

811952 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 14, 2011, 03:07:15 PM »

Nice idea for a thread.

Family's good. Eldest is trolling for college scholarships and is expected to snag a couple. Youngest keeps borrowing my basses. Wife still loves me. No complaints!

John

edwin · « **Reply #2 on:** February 14, 2011, 03:22:12 PM »

Well, my immediate family is just myself and my wife. Aside from gigs and location recording engineering, I'm now half-way through law school, studying environmental law, election law, evidence and working in the Criminal Defense Clinic. I'm also assisting a professor who is doing research into the death penalty, trying to find out why so many are sentenced and so few sentences are actually carried out.
My wife is an artist and perfume designer (www.artscent.com) and was declared perfumer of the year for 2010 by several international blogs, has done projects with the Denver Art Museum, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and is getting ready to further her business in Japan and look into projects in Italy. She's also working on opening a perfume museum here in Boulder, but all of her projects (http://dshnotebook.wordpress.com/) leave her with little time, so that's crawling along. Maybe next summer.
Moving a little further afield, my mom, a sculptor (www.penelopejencks.com) is working on a trio of musically related sculptures commissioned by John Williams. They are going to be busts of Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and Serge Koussivitsky to be displayed at Tanglewood. Copland is scheduled for unveiling in June with the others to follow.
Her brother, Charles Jencks, architect and postmodernist, has been working on a large landscape architecture project in Scotland: http://www.scottishresources.com/Projects/FifeEarth/default.aspx
My dad is working on his etchings and gearing up for some shows next year after having a few last year. Sadly no website yet, despite our best urging.
My brother is also an artist (www.adamhurwitz.com) who has suddenly manifested his long latent talent as a keyboard player is playing gigs with Empire Wasted in the New York City area after quite a while gigging as a DJ.
Oh yeah, I turned 50 today and it's the 20th anniversary of when I proposed to Dawn (and the anniversary of 20 years minus 2 seconds of when she said yes!).

One thing I've learned from my family: Artists never retire!

elwoodblue · « **Reply #3 on:** February 14, 2011, 03:41:00 PM »

Happy Birthday and Anniversary Edwin !
...nice to see all that creativity in your family.

sonicus · « **Reply #4 on:** February 14, 2011, 04:45:15 PM »

Happy Birthday from me too Edwin and a joyous Anniversary as well !
There is much to celebrate for you .

811952 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 14, 2011, 05:50:12 PM »

Fantastic, Edwin! Congratulations!

gregduboc · « **Reply #6 on:** February 14, 2011, 06:17:19 PM »

My father left December 26th with two friends to join a group of motorcyclists that are crossing the world. He is doing the stretch across South America. He left Brazil, met the group in Argentina and is going up all the way to Venezuela. One of his friends is writing a Blog, if any of you guys want to see some pictures...! Some of the stuff is writen in English, the other in Portuguese. If you have any questions regarding translation, let me know (My father is Tadeusz, in case any of you might wonder)!
They usually ride between 400km to 1000km a day, depending on how torturous the roads are on the day's route.

He should be back somewhere in March now, and he will join the group again when they do the stretch across Asia.

Pretty awesome, I say!

Here is a picture of him, somewhere:

Greg

gregduboc · « **Reply #7 on:** February 14, 2011, 06:21:03 PM »

Oh, and happy birthday and happy anniversary too, Edwin!! Good luck to your family, a lot going on!

Greg

edwin · « **Reply #8 on:** February 14, 2011, 06:38:53 PM »

Isn't this a movie? :-)

What a great adventure! Snow! Mudslides! Volcanos! Leaky transmissions! Strip mines! Beautiful women! Large bags of interesting leafy stuff! Some great photos there.

I'd love to do something like that. I had this great conversation with a friend of my grandfather who told me this story of about driving a Model T across the US and into Mexico in the late teens when he was barely out of his teens.

Thanks for all the happys!

811952 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 15, 2011, 05:43:06 AM »

Greg, I love that stuff!

John

lbpesq · « **Reply #10 on:** February 15, 2011, 07:33:40 AM »

Valentine's Day was also my engagement anniversary. I proposed 10 years ago. Our boy will turn 16 on Saturday (I met his mom when he had just turned 4). Wow, are Teenagers something else! Pants hanging down his ass, buzz cut, and the ever present earbuds blasting out rap. We have a continuous dialog - he says I only listen to ancient music and that rap is current music. I claim that rap is an art form - rhythmic poetry, but that a guy talking in rhythm with a drum machine isn't music. I know I sound like my father, but I really believe in fifty years people will still be listening to the Beatles, but no one will remember Eminem.

Edwin: Congrats and keep plugging away at law school. And remember:

The first year they scare you to death.

The second year they work you to death.

The third year they bore you to death.

Enjoy!

Bill, tgo

tubeperson · « **Reply #11 on:** February 15, 2011, 08:05:32 AM »

Yea but a parent's greatest revenge is becoming a
grandparent. First we are smart. Then our kids think we are stupid and know nothing, until they have kids.. then we become geniusses.

My son just had his Bar Mitzvah! He performed so well, temple members we did not know donated a lot of money to our temple in his honor!

He is a competitive figure skater, who is on the National US team. Yes he has Olympic dreams! And he likes girls!!!!!!!! (and I like their very pretty moms).

pauldo · « **Reply #12 on:** February 15, 2011, 08:24:21 AM »

Wow - some amazing people and families here!
My wife is my rock, she is my solace and strength and I love her so.
My daughter and son are in Maryland the former is a nurse, making a positive difference by helping others; the later is a great bass player who appears to be more interested in girls right now. Whenever he visits he makes a beeline to my Distillate and always amazes me.

My father just turned 80 and was asked this weekend by my oldest brother: What advice can you impart to us, your children, that you have learned in 80 years of living? - after a pregnent pause his reply was:
Never pass up the opportunity for a good nap.

-I'm gonna run with that advice! :-)

lbpesq · « **Reply #13 on:** February 15, 2011, 09:03:52 AM »

Ahh, fatherly advice! I well remember the words of advice my late father gave me upon the occasion of my wedding, ten years ago this fall:

If your wife is happy, you have a chance to be happy. If your wife isn't happy, you aren't going to be happy.

Never fight with your wife. But, if you should get in a fight with your wife, for god's sake, don't win!

Bill, tgo

tubeperson · « **Reply #14 on:** February 15, 2011, 09:26:59 AM »

I alllowed myself one victory in a fight with my wife, who is an incredibly nice person. It was when my son was younger, he showed a special talent for skating and wanted to do more of it. I voted yes, my wife was not very keen on it. My bet on him has certainly paid off and he got to skate as much as he wanted to and still wants to, to this day, but I always remind him skating has to be fun first!!! Any other fights with the Mrs., I stand no chance. However, since the wives must always be right, they must make many more decisions as a result. Sometimes that makes them less happy. How can you separate those? LOL