March 8th, 2006
He was playing with an army band and he was the guest soloist. And the guys in the band were mad because they never get a chance to solo and they don’t like civilians. So between sound check and the concert, they stole all of Boitos’ reeds. He was really pissed off. He looked out the window and saw a sign that said “Music”. He ran down the street. The guy was just closing shop but he let him in. The guy only had Rico reeds. Boitos was like, God dammit. He bought a box of the hardest ones they got which were 3.5 haha. Then he said at the concert his A’s sounded like you were punishing a squirrel and his D’s sounded like you were to cut off something very important to the squirrel. Hahaha He was really pissed.
March 1st, 2006
(Puts on Jewish music with a crazy clarinet) I always wanted to be a Jew. I went on gigs at churches with my mom and I told her, "mom I want to be a Jew'” Because they have the best music and the best food. And she said "no, you can’t do that."
And then he continues to dance and laugh. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen!
February 24th, 2006
(during Quartet)
#1 Boitos: Whats the different between a gay guy and a choir boy? The way they say A-men!
#2 (He was talking about how we should play our piece to make others happy and to have more energy)
Boitos: Make the pope hard!
I almost died in shock!!
February 15th, 2006
#1 I'm sick so I was sniffing a lot during my lesson and it obviously sounded gross.
Boitos: You sound like you're snorkeling! *makes nasty gargling sounds* Here comes a big wave! *gargle gargle*
# 2 During quartet: Your reed sounds weak, washed up and old! haha It belongs in Los Angles!
February 1st, 2006
#1 Boitos: You want a gum ball?
Me: It has an eyeball on it. Is this from Halloween?
Botios: No, my wife knows I like them so she buys 3 or 4 bags of em' at a time. (chews a few) I'm obsessed with these things! I normally never put less than 4 in my mouth at a time! I don't even want to know what my teeth look like!
#2 I was playing my piece by Bach and it is an eighth note = 60 so I was having a hard time. There is a repeat that basically repeats the entire piece and I asked him if he wanted me to take it and he said sure not knowing how much it repeated.
(after I was done)
Boitos: I didn't realize that the repeat was that long. I wouldn't do any of those repeats. (a few seconds later) Har har har har har har!!! There you are, huffing and puffing away, 18 and in your prime while I'm smoking 5 cigarettes a day and it's a breeze! You will know when you get your chops when you can play the Sarabande and Gigue all the way through without stopping.
January 25th, 2006
[makes this really gross grunting noise] Oh sorry about that. I had this really spicy sandwich this morning.
Me: For breakfast?
Boitos: Yeah, har har har, I guess it was a bad choice.
November 29th, 2005
#1 I hate Thanksgiving but this year was great! I didn't have to go anywhere! Moms** in Colorado, daughters with her own family, and my wife when out of town. You know why I hate thanksgiving? I had to spend 20 years visiting satan's demond's relatives houses all across the world! Ugh! My x-wife was a singer. A soprano. She was a Fasolati. *chuckle* Know what that is? *chuckle* She was really into solfege but she couldn't get past me! Do, re, me, me, me, me, me!! *har har har!!*
#2. When I started, I played clarinet because they never let you start on sax. And I had a metal clarinet and man was that a whore! (<- me) It was loud & ranchy. Man, I would give anything to have that thing back again.
#3. (Todd told me this one) Well whoever pulled that fire alarm should be hung by piano wires!
**: His mom is 95!!! lol He said once he'd still be recording if his mom wasn't still alive. He also said today that he used to practice so much because he wasnt happy. Negative reinforcement. But once he met his current wife, he stopped practicing because he was happy for once. awww
November 15th, 2005
I go crazy around Thanksgiving. I order all of this ham, and beef, and turkey, and roasted ham. Oh, I'm drooling just thinking about it. It's coming in on Thursday in by FedEx. Thats my favorite truck ... because that means food!!
November 1st, 2005
(talking about how I should find and emphasise the one root/main note in each measure)
Look at the tree, not the forest.
October 25th, 2005
(after showing me altissmo notes)
Everyone need to learn to play them because there is a lot of saxophone pieces with altissimo in it. An old friend of mine is an amazing Jappaneese composer that write a lot of altissimo. Actually... were not really friends.. *chuckle* Well, so we were in a Korean bar, and we were totally smashed. Everyone sounded like *some indescribleable noises that kinda sounded like clicking words* and I couldn't understand any of them. So, I was telling my friend that my heath has been bad when he asks me if I have ever drank my own urine. *chuckle* So, I laugh and laugh. Then he tells me "No, I'm in this group (or something), and we believe that drinking a little bit of our urine once a week keeps us in good health". So I'm still laughing, and I say "So, thats why your so yellow!" *chuckle* But apparently he got really offended because when I was at the airport leaving, he was talking to me about what friendship really is. I though he was talking about someone else, but I relized later that he was talking about me. He used to be a really good friend. I havn't talked to him in 20 years, and it is virtually impossible to now fix that relationship because of the distance.
September 20th, 2005
(talking about how I should tap my feet when I play):
You know if you got frostbite and you had to get your foot cut off, you'd just have a stub, you wouldn't be able to walk. Even if you only loose your toes, most people still can't walk right. They have to get prosthetic toes.. or some kind of special shoes. (pause) So tap your foot.
September 13th, 2005
If you play something for a long enough time slow, eventually you'll just be able to play it fast. Its like one day you're a little girl, the next day your wearing deodorant! Weooa!
October 4th, 2005
Boitos was telling me that if I played a hard part in any music for a long enough time I wont have to think about it while playing. He said that if you need to think while your playing a piece, then its not ready. "It should be like walking because you don't think while you walk. But for now it's like your an infant. Little Heather go boom!"
