the funny thing about

teaching elementary school is that you often have parents who got a late start on their families. so they may be like 50 and have a 5th grader. sometimes the 5th grader was like the surprize at 40, etc...

so last night i got "hired/invited" to d.j. and play at the 5th grade party (which was at lifetime fitness, pretty awesome). so i'm sticking close to the sound system and talking to parents as they happen to come by. they are telling me how their kids really like my class and everything. now some of these parents are your normal 30 something with 5th graders, and then this lady comes up while i'm talking to my assistant principal and begins asking me like popular music questions. now this lady was probably late 40's early 50's, and i was talking to my ap about amy's school and how amy had brought her friend's guinea pig home and his name was "lil' john" this new lady proceeded to tell me something about lil' john's "crunk" teeth, and how 50 cent was a drug selling "gangsta". i mentioned something about his jewel encrusted goblet, and the conversation went on. if she had said "fo shizzle" i was out of there. that's not to say that older people can't talk like that, but you can't say it if you are true white bread and around people you really don't know. i mean i might say crunk on this board and i may say fo shizzle in a joking way to todd, but i don't walk up in casual conversation and say "YEAH" all lil' johnesque. so please keep your hip hop terminology to yo self.

the party was fun. basically if the girls weren't swimming or dancing, they were chasing the boys. and the boys run. so we had to get on the microphone and say stop running alot. also a first for me last night. seeing kids swim in pants. wearing shorts or swimsuits is against their muslim or hindu religion. i don't know which one, since there are different flavors of both. so that was pretty interesting.

then there was the mom who came up and asked me if i d.j.'d on the side. i said no, that none of this was my gear other than the guitar and amp. she said she had a karaoke rig and wondered how she could get enough cd's to d.j. i asked if she had a laptop. yes. well then go to walmart.com and download the billboard top 100. she said she gets $400 every time she does a karaoke gig so that would be a good investment. then she could add new songs as they came out. i mean isn't that what d.j.ing is now. except for my neighbor who still has records and cd's most guys plug in a computer and go smoke outside the building. i mean you can even put a program on your computer where you can simulate turntables if you are into the "wheels of steel"

then there was the lady from scotland. i was standing right in front of the speakers and couldn't understand much of what she said. i tried to crack my best scottish jokes. ha, ha, ha. not really but truly, "if it's not scottish...it's crrrap".

so there you have it. choral festival was thursday night and one of my students gave me a jimi hendrix t-shirt, so now i am officially cool. it's even the fuzzy kind like from the 70's. everytime i look at it, i think of the commercial with "james hendrix" and the accordian playing "purple haze".

ok eventful week. and i'm sitting home blogging. i'd better do the dishes and start a load of laundry.

have a good one
chuck