Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Meanwhile at the Office…

Senor Weaselo - February 28, 2024February 28, 2024

Tonight's post is live from the office, because I have to be there for rehearsal during post time, and am spending my time otherwise doing jazz band arrangements for… definitely not enough per page. Like most teaching things, I should be making like double for this. Life of a musician… Okay,

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: They Can’t All Be Winners

Senor Weaselo - February 21, 2024February 21, 2024

Both regarding this being a bit of a Carpenter-job and my Monday night. Some gigs are nice. Easy amount of time, little work, get paid okay. Others are less so. Like playing in a heated tent, but the top's been cut out (in February), and then being under a vent

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Welcome to the Nadir

Senor Weaselo - February 14, 2024February 14, 2024

Believe it or not, we at [Door Flies Open] haven't officially welcomed you to the offseason yet. So, uh, welcome to the offseason! We've got a veritable smorgasbord of things in the horizon, such as: -Better Know a Smarch Smadness region (not including St. John's as they continue their annual 21st

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Mind on the Road

Senor Weaselo - January 31, 2024January 31, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abdAMwgMWPo&themeRefresh=1 I do a lot of driving. Like, a lot. Like, due for a 5,000 mile oil change, and I got the car at the end of October. Like, over 1800 miles in January. Such is the life of a freelance musician, who is also in a medium-distance relationship, and is

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Things We Do For Friends

Senor Weaselo - January 24, 2024January 24, 2024

So, one of my good friends from where I did my Master's is originally from the Buffalo area, so naturally, is a giant Bills fan. So, in the spirit of cheering her up after Sunday night, here are some of the better jokes from everyone's favorite moment Sunday night! (I

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: “Caution: Arranger at Work”

Senor Weaselo - January 17, 2024January 17, 2024

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No crazy stories today, I'm simultaneously working on this and some Great American Songbook scouring (Hey, "Yiddishe Momme" counts… dammit, my cutoff is 1924 and it was written in '25). Y'know, that sort of shit of being the contractor/arranger where if I were getting paid better maybe I'd take an

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Weasel and the Spinning Wheel

Senor Weaselo - January 10, 2024January 10, 2024

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY0eeotSDi8 I promise I did not crash again, either in the Snowmageddonpocalypse that didn't drop any snow on the city (just north, like the snow game we saw in Foxboro) or the intense winds last night. No, this is to make fun of my… pottery skills! Or lack thereof, since I had

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Clinching Scenarios

Senor Weaselo - January 3, 2024January 3, 2024

As we get to the final week of the 2023 season (even though it's 2024), we see that there are a fuck-ton of clinching scenarios in play here in Week 18. In keeping with old traditions, here's the guide to all of them: AFC:The Baltimore Ravens have clinched the top seed

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Dashing Through the Road…

Senor Weaselo - December 27, 2023December 27, 2023

So, as we mentioned last week, Christmas Eve, or Gigsmas. A time to play all the things. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you have multiple all the things to play, which is to say give your local church organist a hug and/or the beverage of their choice (okay, I got my

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Definitive Christmas Carol Rankings

Senor Weaselo - December 20, 2023December 20, 2023

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Good evening. My name is Senor Weaselo, and as some of you know, I play a lot of Jewish events. Weddings, shows, other, you name it. Despite this, as the Lubovitch have found out in disbelief numerous times when they ask if I want to partake in various religious customs and

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Pre-Christmas Filler

Senor Weaselo - December 13, 2023December 13, 2023

God, do I hate doing page layout for scores. Maestro can probably attest to that, and then argue that a jazz band is actually a sandwich. But seriously, figuring out spacing, then seeing your spacing is shit thanks to things above/below the staff, then re-spacing, then figuring out measures—actually that

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Tim Boyle Memorial Thread

Senor Weaselo - December 6, 2023December 6, 2023

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Yes, here we are to remember notable Jets quarterback Tim Boyle, unquestionably one of the quarterbacks of all time. Who can forget that pass, and that thing, and also that Hail Mary? We laughed, we cried, we shook our head in disbelief, I shook my head in total belief because