Do You Know How Hard It Is to Play the Piano While Intoxicated?
There’s a really nice, really hot, really strong, and really young guy who works out at my gym. Judging by his weightlifting regime (among other things), I once asked him if he played in any adult sports leagues and he surprised the heck out of me when he told me that he’s not an athlete and in his free time, he plays the piano. We exchanged sheet music and information about piano tuners, and then compared notes about our piano training and repertoire. I told him about a alcohol-related piano performance at a party a couple weeks ago and he jokingly told me that his sober piano playing is probably equivalent to my inebriated playing. Knowing that neither of us really drink, I didn’t think we’d ever get to test that theory. And then there was Friday night…
Being a good girl, I went to the gym after work on Friday and put in a really hard workout. While there, I ran into some people who said they were meeting later at a bar to celebrate the hot piano playing lifter turning 21 two weeks ago. So being less of a good girl, I went to the bar.
After about 2 hours at the bar (and 5 to 8 beers, “I sort of lost track” says the bad girl who “doesn’t really drink”), I decided to call out the gym cutie on the drunken piano playing theory and we headed back to my place to play my newly tuned piano.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to play the piano well, after drinking? Really really hard. I went through a sloppy warm up and attempted much of my repertoire but I knew how poorly I was playing and there wasn’t a whole lot I could do about it. Stone Cold Sober, however, who drank 1 Bud Light, played quite beautifully and I was very impressed. For the record, we both played well enough to put our third friend to sleep on the floor of my conservatory. When I saw Stone Cold at the gym this week, we agreed to have a real concert sometime soon. Yay!
posted by CollaterKal @ 9:35 AM
3 Comments:
you went back to your place to "play the piano??" Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Now I'm wondering about your solo performance at the church.
but I love calling your piano room a conservatory.
(and who celebrates his 21st with ONE bud light??)
After I wrote my original post, I realized that it could be misinterpreted, but decided to leave off the disclaimer. Maybe I should have prefaced it with “in the cleanest sense...” But yeah, all of it is true – the sloppy warm up, the attempt at my full repertoire, even my piano being newly tuned. And did you catch that there was a third person there?
Glad you approve of calling it the conservatory. There has been much debate about that one. I say a music room can be a conservatory because music schools are called conservatories, but Michele says that plant rooms are conservatories, like in the game Clue. I have no plants in my conservatory. The plants are in my living room. But I do have my sewing machine, random musical instruments, and assorted art supplies in the conservatory.
If anyone would approve of celebrating his 21st with one Bud Light, I thought it would be you. Stone Cold insists that he doesn’t like the taste of alcohol (which is fine) but I can’t help but wonder if he’s just worried about it undoing all his hard work at the gym.
It's a conservatory. Rooms filled with plants (and hence filled with sun) are called solariums.
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