An Unexpected Night Out

This has been a lovely few days in NY…Fall had set in. I was going to drive into the city to drop my daughter off because she was going to the Anime Convention. I was to see a band that Matty Amendola is in. He is an amazing young drummer with lots of talent and an AMAZING head of hair. His father Billy, an associate editor for Modern Drummer, called to tell me the gig was canceled but I said, “let’s get together anyway” since we were both in the city and we hadn’t seen each other to catch up on each others activities. We did and we went out to this bar and I didn’t tell him anything except that I was going to meet a friend. He was game. My friend hadn’t shown up yet as we were early. We sat down and had a drink. As we were talking, my surprise friend showed up…I called out to him…”Julian” who came with a bunch of friends…as we hugged, Billy was surprised to see who it was. We went into the inner sanctum of this place and the rest of the night we all got acquainted with one another. Jules and I talked and did some catching since we last saw each other in June in Liverpool at his WHITE FEATHER, SPIRIT OF LENNON exhibition. I asked if his mum was surprised with his visit to her on her birthday a couple of weeks ago. I know that Cynthia is quite proud of her son. I got home in the early morning hours, the air was so crisp and beautiful as I had the top of the car opened and the music from my CD blasting. This time the drive was easy.