Eight Feet Deep

Fri­day. What a concept.

I once lived for Fri­day to arrive. That is when I worked, roughly, five days a week. My record on such a sched­ule was rather spotty up until the last 20 years or so. That is, if you don’t include those four years I spent in col­lege, dur­ing which time I mostly worked full time at a rate of 24 hours on and 48 hours off, which was a 56-hour work week. Now there was a concept!

These days, I no longer work full time. Well, some­times I do and some­times I don’t. When I do it is usu­ally more than a 48-hour work week. I had no illu­sions that work­ing as a writer was going to be easy and, sure enough, it hasn’t been easy. In fact, I tell peo­ple these days that my part-time job “sup­ports my writ­ing habit.” I’m not lying much when I say that.

Still, I remem­ber Fri­days. My friends Rob­bie, Judy, some­times Tonya, Brenda, Delia, Rick, Beth or whomever. Mostly Rob­bie, Judy and I — the Yel­low Dogs. Long story. We’d go one place or the other for a mar­garita. Some­times Judy’s artist hus­band would meet us and he and I would design water tow­ers for small cities which looked like a large mar­garita glass, except it would be lean­ing. Like Pisa. Those were good times. Some­times we didn’t even wait for Fri­day. Some­times it would be a Yel­low Dog Day — a day I’d describe as com­pa­ra­ble to a day you’re sit­ting back watch­ing the evening news and see your name as a cam­era pans down a law­suit. Yikes!

I’m such a ham. I wasn’t going to write about much and already look what you’ve done.

Okay, I will do some good for a change on this blog instead of writ­ing about pol­i­tics or the weather or the crazi­ness that passes for life. I will pro­mote my old buddy Jonathan’s gig in which his trio, the Jonathan San­son Trio will be record­ing a new, live CD. Jonathan just sent me an e-mail about it, albeit a mass e-mail, that’s what you do when you are a famous record­ing star in Fort Worth. Right, old buddy?  Just bust­ing your chops. I was going to buy some chops for din­ner, but I didn’t. So right now, I’ve got no other chops to bust. So you’re it, pal!

The Jonathan San­son Trio, fea­tur­ing Dan Tcheco on drums, Chris Carfa on bass and Jonathan on piano and vocals will be record­ing Sun­day, July 25, at Eddie V’s Lounge in Fort Worth. Too bad they couldn’t wait a week, since I will be head­ing for Den­ton exactly one week later. Hey, can’t you guys post­pone every­thing for one week, just for me? Yeah, and pigs make sched­uled flights between IAH and DFW!

I have heard some of the group’s record­ings and I look for­ward to hear­ing them live some day. Jonathan and I are old high school chums who lived across our family’s field from each other. Later, we hung out dur­ing our mil­i­tary days, he in the Air Force and me a Navy squid.

Jonathan says that every­one attend­ing will get a free copy of the CD the group is to record. The CD will come out, hope­fully JS said, in Sep­tem­ber. The great piano man also reminds every­one of the happy happy hour prices, if you like that sort of thing.

If you men­tion you heard about this on Eight Feet Deep, Jonathan might buy you a drink or he might gar­rote you with a piano wire. That’s his call. So if you are in what my friends from that area call “The Metro Mess” dur­ing that time, check it out.

This all happens:

6–10 p.m.

Sun­day, July 25

EV Museum Place

3100 West 7th Street

Fort Worth, TX 76107