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Awesomeness Originally uploaded by mattyturner. Today was a big day. The future Mrs Turner graduated from Mills College with an English B.A (emphasis in creative writing, minor in history!) Needless to say everyone was proud of her, lots came round for an open house afterwards where buffet food was eaten, presents given and so on.

Since i’ve been in California a couple of weeks now I thought it was about time to upload some photos. I did this last night, head over to http://flickr.com/photos/mattyturner/ to see Californian stuff, I expect graduation photos will go up tomorrow. As you can see I uploaded some photos of the organ console at Oakland FCC. After some internal deliberation I uploaded a pretty rough performance of some Bach (Prelude No. 5 in G Major, BWV 557 (sans fugue)). This was just from my laptop sitting on top of the organ so it sounds nothing like it did in the Church with the beautiful reverb. Please note – timing unsteady, fingering unsure, feet painfully missing the right pedals and arpeggios clearly missing the right notes. Still, sometime in the week after June the 12th when the future Mrs Turner returns to America I’ll record a better performance complete with the fugue. Here’s the link: http://mtcodex.net/media/prelude-gmajor.mov

Yes, I should point out, the future Mrs Turner will flying back to the UK with me on Tuesday for a few weeks. We’re going to spend quite a bit of time in Winchester I imagine, spend a week in Switzerland, a few days with my brother Martyn near Chester. We’re also going to spend a day in London with two friends neither of us have met in person before Deejay (Sp?) and Helen. And hopefully also some days out at Kew Gardens, Oxford and Alney. Speaking of the future Mrs T, she just got out the shower and completely unexpectedly, I was in my own little world listening to Bach here, handed me a margarita.

Margaritas have led me to the belief that one can acquire a taste for just about anything, with one categorical exception. The first time I tried a margarita I thought “wow, that’s bad” a taste of salt followed by some yucky sour orange lime stuff spiked with tequila. I mean, what’s right about that? Well, with time, a whole lot! Anyway, what’s the categorical exception to acquiring a taste for anything. It’s tacky.. no.. sweet.. no trashy well, things that are easy to like the first time you try them. Like a catchy pop tune or a sweet tasting thing. You think – yeah, I could like this, but pretty soon you’re sick of them. Things worth acquiring a taste for – classical music, great literature, fine art and yep, margaritas too keep tasting good. I don’t think I’m going to get tired of any of the things I just mentioned whereas I can think of plenty of embarrassing things I enjoyed the first time round that I would not want to experience again – Asia (The Band), McDonalds, Maryland chocolate chip cookies. These things are sweet, tacky, shallow and ultimately unsatisfying.

Okay, that’s all for this Saturday. Martyn, hang in there and one day you too can enjoy sea food.